Elon Musk bought Twitter.

[Ymx]

Also, for a dude who is CEO of 3 different companies he seems to spend a lot of time tweeting and not working long hours at high intensity.

Makes his 'no remote working' stance more than a little hypocritical too.

This ridiculous thing about sleeping at the work place too

[JM2K6]

Whatever that site is, it triggered malwarebytes...

[fishfoodie]

Also, for a dude who is CEO of 3 different companies he seems to spend a lot of time tweeting and not working long hours at high intensity.

Makes his 'no remote working' stance more than a little hypocritical too.

This ridiculous thing about sleeping at the work place too

I think this might be the least suspenseful version of a Mexican standoff, I've ever seen !

On the one side; there's a saddo holding a rotten banana; & on the other; there's dozens of gun slingers, that he himself has just declared to be the best in the business; & he's telling them, that if they don't sign up for 16 hr days, he'll ...... eh ....... ????

WORST HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION EVER !!!

You can be sure there's a whatsapp group going between dozens of people who are in the, "critical engineering" group, & there's now an unofficial union in operation, & they're working out how much they're worth, & how they can ride him like a two dollar whore.

[Lobby]

Makes his 'no remote working' stance more than a little hypocritical too.

This ridiculous thing about sleeping at the work place too

I think this might be the least suspenseful version of a Mexican standoff, I've ever seen !

On the one side; there's a saddo holding a rotten banana; & on the other; there's dozens of gun slingers, that he himself has just declared to be the best in the business; & he's telling them, that if they don't sign up for 16 hr days, he'll ...... eh ....... ????

WORST HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION EVER !!!

You can be sure there's a whatsapp group going between dozens of people who are in the, "critical engineering" group, & there's now an unofficial union in operation, & they're working out how much they're worth, & how they can ride him like a two dollar whore.

“The crisis at Twitter reached new heights on Friday as hundreds of employees were reported to have rejected Elon Musk’s ultimatum to keep working for the business, threatening its ability to keep operating.…

The departures include many engineers responsible for fixing bugs and preventing service outages, raising questions about the stability of the platform amid the loss of employees and prompting hurried debates among managers over who should be asked to return, current and former employees said.“

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... signations

[Insane_Homer]

Dumbarse man baby...

"I expected everyone to work from the office immediately,

Also I will be locking you out of the offices..."

[Uncle fester]

"Space Karen"

[Uncle fester]

So where do we go before twatter crashes?
Mastodon?

[sockwithaticket]

I gather from a few headlines that Musk's stupid ultimatum has resulted in far more resignations than he'd anticipated and Twitter's officers are to all intents and purposes currently shut with all badge access suspended.

[Blake]

I gather from a few headlines that Musk's stupid ultimatum has resulted in far more resignations than he'd anticipated and Twitter's officers are to all intents and purposes currently shut with all badge access suspended.

It's a real pity that this happened to Twitter since it's a useful journalism and activist tool.

But I also love that it cost Elon and his idiot backers $44 billion and put a massive dent in his reputation.
He'll still have his Musketeers prostrating themselves for their god emperor online, but at least more and more people are seeing now that this emperor has no clothes.

Thank fuck, because it took forever.

[sockwithaticket]

I gather from a few headlines that Musk's stupid ultimatum has resulted in far more resignations than he'd anticipated and Twitter's officers are to all intents and purposes currently shut with all badge access suspended.

It's a real pity that this happened to Twitter since it's a useful journalism and activist tool.

But I also love that it cost Elon and his idiot backers $44 billion and put a massive dent in his reputation.
He'll still have his Musketeers prostrating themselves for their god emperor online, but at least more and more people are seeing now that this emperor has no clothes.

Thank fuck, because it took forever.

Yeah, for all that it can get pretty toxic, Twitter has elements to it that are very beneficial and it would be a shame to lose those.

I only really became aware of Musk back when he accused a bloke trying to rescue that football team of Thai boys trapped by flooding of being a pedo because the guy had the temerity to discount Elon's galaxy-brain idea that no one was going for, so I've never had a good opinion of him.

Anything that brings others round and maybe topples one of these shitheel billionaires is good in my book.

[yermum]

The world without facebook twitter et al would be a much better and more civilised place

[Biffer]

So thousands basically took the offer of severance by not responding to the 'work for me under shitty conditions on an I'll defined project for nebulous or no reward' ultimatum. However they all still have access to their mail and other systems because the team that would shut down their access have also all quit.

[TB63]

[Dinsdale Piranha]

So thousands basically took the offer of severance by not responding to the 'work for me under shitty conditions on an I'll defined project for nebulous or no reward' ultimatum. However they all still have access to their mail and other systems because the team that would shut down their access have also all quit.

Is that true? It's very, very funny if it is

[sockwithaticket]

Just saw this one


(Parodying Aeon Flux for those who don't know a huge amount about middling 00s action sci-fi films.)

[laurent]

PS have a semi active mastodon account...

[Uncle fester]

So tell us about this Mastodon thing. Seems a bit complicated.

[laurent]

So tell us about this Mastodon thing. Seems a bit complicated.

It's decentralised so you choose a local instance and register.
you get 2 thread one local (your server) and one general (server your server is following).

you can follow any one for your own thread. (unless blocked by your instance)

you can create lists you can parameter the threads and list to show replies and shares

no adds and no algorythms...

[Ymx]

Trumps account has been unblocked.

I doubt he will post, but Musk really is a stirrer.

[Jethro]

So where do we go before twatter crashes?
Mastodon?

I would put it under the "getting a life" category, yes I get the irony as I post this.

[I like neeps]

Trumps account has been unblocked.

I doubt he will post, but Musk really is a stirrer.

I used to think he was autistic but he isn't. He is, much like Trump, just straight up NPD or something along those lines. He is too manipulative to be autistic.

Musk also desperately wants to increase users on the platform and Trump is a draw for a number of people. Unfortunately for Musk it really seems Trump is yesterday's man and DeSanctimonious will win the battle for the Reps soul.

[Kiwias]

He had the same goofy grin as a wee kid that he has now.

[Uncle fester]

Twatter hasn't crashed yet.
Any chance we're hysterical ninnys and the Musk is going to brazen it out?

[inactionman]

Twatter hasn't crashed yet.
Any chance we're hysterical ninnys and the Musk is going to brazen it out?

The banks have too much sunk into it/him to let it/him fail.

[JM2K6]

Twatter hasn't crashed yet.
Any chance we're hysterical ninnys and the Musk is going to brazen it out?

If you've got a spare half hour, this is a great thread on the dangers facing Twitter with a skeleton team:

It's genuinely fascinating. So much stuff that can go wrong, some of it things no-one else bar Facebook or similar sized social meeja companies would need to worry about.


Anyway, Musk has unbanned more far-right figures and a bunch of anti-fascists have been nuked from the site. Musk is also starting to make more statements in favour of the right wing. Elon Mask-Off. He's been buzzing around replying to every far right and alt-right arsehole he can find to reassure them about the future of the site.

[dpedin]

Twatter hasn't crashed yet.
Any chance we're hysterical ninnys and the Musk is going to brazen it out?

If you've got a spare half hour, this is a great thread on the dangers facing Twitter with a skeleton team:

It's genuinely fascinating. So much stuff that can go wrong, some of it things no-one else bar Facebook or similar sized social meeja companies would need to worry about.


Anyway, Musk has unbanned more far-right figures and a bunch of anti-fascists have been nuked from the site. Musk is also starting to make more statements in favour of the right wing. Elon Mask-Off. He's been buzzing around replying to every far right and alt-right arsehole he can find to reassure them about the future of the site.

If it crashes then Elon is shitting himself about the Saudi contract on him!

[JM2K6]

I was an intern at SpaceX years ago, back it when it was a much smaller company — after Elon got hair plugs, but before his cult of personality was in full swing. I have some insight to offer here.

Back when I was at SpaceX, Elon was basically a child king. He was an important figurehead who provided the company with the money, power, and PR, but he didn’t have the knowledge or (frankly) maturity to handle day-to-day decision making and everyone knew that. He was surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to manipulate him into making good decisions.

Managing Elon was a huge part of the company culture. Even I, as a lowly intern, would hear people talking about it openly in meetings. People knew how to present ideas in a way that would resonate with him, they knew how to creatively reinterpret (or ignore) his many insane demands, and they even knew how to “stage manage” parts of the physical office space so that it would appeal to Elon.

The funniest example of “stage management” I can remember is this dude on the IT security team. He had a script running in a terminal on one of his monitors that would output random garbage, Matrix-style, so that it always looked like he was doing Important Computer Things to anyone who walked by his desk. Second funniest was all the people I saw playing WoW at their desks after ~5pm, who did it in the office just to give the appearance that they were working late.

People were willing to do that at SpaceX because Elon was giving them the money (and hype) to get into outer space, a mission people cared deeply about. The company also grew with and around Elon. There were layers of management between individual employees and Elon, and those managers were experienced managers of Elon. Again, I cannot stress enough how much of the company culture was oriented around managing this one guy.

Twitter has neither of those things going for it. There is no company culture or internal structure around the problem of managing Elon Musk, and I think for the first time we’re seeing what happens when people actually take that man seriously and at face value. Worse, they’re doing this little experiment after this man has had decades of success at companies that dedicate significant resources to protecting themselves from him, and he’s too narcissistic to realize it.

This post is long so I’ll leave you with my favorite Elon story. One day at work, I got an all hands email telling me that it was Elon’s birthday and there was going to be a mandatory surprise party for him in the cafeteria. Presumably Elon also got this email, but whatever. We all marched down into the cafeteria, dimmed the lights, and waited. Elon was led out by his secretary (who he hadn’t fired yet) and made a big show of being fake surprised and touched that we were there. Then they wheeled out the cake.

OK, so, I want you to imagine the biggest penis cake you’ve ever seen. Like the king of novelty sex cakes. Only it’s frosted white, and the balls have been frosted to look like fire and smoke. This was Elon’s birthday “rocket” cake.

For as long as I live, I will never forget the look on everyone’s face — in that dark room of mostly-male engineers — when he made a wish and cut into the tip.

[Uncle fester]

Twatter hasn't crashed yet.
Any chance we're hysterical ninnys and the Musk is going to brazen it out?

If you've got a spare half hour, this is a great thread on the dangers facing Twitter with a skeleton team:

It's genuinely fascinating. So much stuff that can go wrong, some of it things no-one else bar Facebook or similar sized social meeja companies would need to worry about.


Anyway, Musk has unbanned more far-right figures and a bunch of anti-fascists have been nuked from the site. Musk is also starting to make more statements in favour of the right wing. Elon Mask-Off. He's been buzzing around replying to every far right and alt-right arsehole he can find to reassure them about the future of the site.

Thanks. That's what I was looking for.
Sometimes people genuinely are "just asking questions".

[tabascoboy]

[JM2K6]

He's an absolute psychopath, but it should not be ignored that the insane state of the USA allows him to do shit like this. And the Tories are salivating over this.

[Hal Jordan]

Earlier today, "MILF Manor" was trending. Bring a charitable soul, I checked it out do you don't have to. There is a new Love Island style show with ladies of a certain demographic as the contestants. Given the staggering amount of bongo vids devoted to this topic which are freely available from the internet website of your choice, one wonders why you would bother with this.

In other news, Musk has now burned through US$40bn in Tesla share sales to fund his new hobby of banning anyone he doesn't like in the name of free speech.

He's going full Howard Hughes at this rate.

[tabascoboy]

[Guy Smiley]

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tesla-buyers- ... rst-troll/

Twitter is no longer a publicly traded company, but Tesla is. And investors there appear unhappy. 

Tesla's shares have plummeted more than 33% since the deal was finalized Oct. 27, with Musk reportedly pulling engineers from projects at the carmaker to help keep the lights on at Twitter after he unceremoniously fired half of Twitter's employees a week into his takeover. Big name advertisers, who account for nearly 90% of Twitter's sales, have bailed. Those who've spoken publicly say his corrosive behavior, in addition to poorly planned changes to the site that led to a proliferation of fake accounts, are too much. 

On Monday, Oppenheimer was among the first major analyst firms to issue a downgrade for Tesla's stock, CNBC reported, rating it at "perform" from "outperform" before.

The South African entrepreneur has sold nearly $40 billion worth of his Tesla shares to help fund Twitter, even as an estimated $1.2 billion interest payment comes due over the next year. His personal fortune has dropped by about half, to $156 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, which tracks real-time net worth of the world's richest people. 

Tesla owners aren't the only people upset about Musk's behavior. A chorus of analysts and investors on Wall Street have been raising alarms since Musk announced his plans to take over Twitter last April.

Tesla's third-largest individual shareholder, Indonesian billionaire KoGuan Leo, tweeted last week that he believed Musk had abandoned the electric car company. "Tesla needs and deserves to have working full time CEO," he wrote, comparing Musk to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who's helped build the iPhone maker into the titan of industry it is today. "An executioner, Tim Cook-like is needed, not Elon."

When Tesla investor and Motley Fool writer Brian Feroldi tweeted at Musk that shareholders were "concerned that Twitter is consuming too much of your time," Musk defended himself saying he'd "literally just finished" a meeting about Tesla production progress in Texas. 

Many investors were not convinced. Tesla's stock has fallen more than 60% so far this year, with the biggest dips coming after Musk announced his Twitter takeover plans and again when he became CEO. And though Musk himself publicly said in April that he didn't plan to sell any more Tesla share sales, he did just that throughout the year, netting near $40 billion. That includes another quiet share sale in mid-December of about $3.6 billion, according to financial filings.

[Hal Jordan]

Tesla has bemused me for years. I remember posting a long time ago you never saw a tesla in Ireland and here he was touted as one of the richest men in the world. Granted you do see them now but they are a tiny number. I read earlier in the year they had passed 2000 total ever sales in the country. We are a small market but the sums have never added up to me. To be fair makey uppey investment wealth is like that and he has nakedly pulled the levers

That's because you're all driving on filched red diesel.

[inactionman]

Red diesel is actually better for the environment than flowers and bunnies

You're not supposed to burn those.

[Uncle fester]

Compilation of Elon bringing attention to crackpot right wing conspiracy theories while maintaining a veneer of deniability

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=fro ... ery&f=live

[Uncle fester]

Was getting annoyed with the amount of trash on my twatter feed and I discovered that my account was set to view "top tweets". Click the icon up the top to change it back to "latest tweets" and it gets rid of 95% of the culture war crap that you're not following.

[Torquemada 1420]

Tesla has bemused me for years. I remember posting a long time ago you never saw a tesla in Ireland and here he was touted as one of the richest men in the world. Granted you do see them now but they are a tiny number. I read earlier in the year they had passed 2000 total ever sales in the country. We are a small market but the sums have never added up to me. To be fair makey uppey investment wealth is like that and he has nakedly pulled the levers

Ditto. Have commented for years that I could not see how Tesla was a sustainable business model. It's the car equivalent of the worst of .COM stocks. Seems the chickens have awoken and margin calls are the next order of the day.

[Guy Smiley]

Tesla has bemused me for years. I remember posting a long time ago you never saw a tesla in Ireland and here he was touted as one of the richest men in the world. Granted you do see them now but they are a tiny number. I read earlier in the year they had passed 2000 total ever sales in the country. We are a small market but the sums have never added up to me. To be fair makey uppey investment wealth is like that and he has nakedly pulled the levers

Ditto. Have commented for years that I could not see how Tesla was a sustainable business model. It's the car equivalent of the worst of .COM stocks. Seems the chickens have awoken and margin calls are the next order of the day.

Tesla was always going to get shown up as other car makers entered the same niche market. Now, that niche is on the verge of becoming THE substantial sector within the industry... and Tesla is going to get burnt in the rush.

[laurent]

Was getting annoyed with the amount of trash on my twatter feed and I discovered that my account was set to view "top tweets". Click the icon up the top to change it back to "latest tweets" and it gets rid of 95% of the culture war crap that you're not following.

Did that and giving a go at mastodon. (it's fine technically) there is a smaller crowd though.