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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by officeplant »

datameta wrote: post #335
toomuchtodo wrote: post #33

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> How the fuck does Elon do it then? The mf has like four concurrent organizations under his helm. Tesla = primary concern | SpaceX = Gwynne Shotwell (Prez & COO) | Boring Company/Neuralink ["Labs" projects] = funsies

Every company he starts/runs is to enable viable Mars civilization. SpaceX = get us there. Tesla = cash cow for SpaceX + Mars ground transportation. SolarCity = energy infra for a Mars colony. Boring = radiation protection for Mars habitats. Neuralink = moonshot cash cow, advancement of neural medicine for Mars colony. Trying to advance/safeguard humanity is the most funsies thing one can do.

I'll take two of whatever you're smoking because I want on this ride.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

root_axis wrote: post #495
Tijdreiziger wrote: post #306

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HN is a social medium.

If every website with a comment section can be described as "social media" then you're diluting the meaning of the term to the point of being useless.

Nothing is published on HN, it's just a content aggregator. Importantly, the content that appears on HN is submitted by the same users who leave the comments. That makes it markedly different from, say, someone's blog with a comment section.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by ryzvonusef »

jon_richards wrote: post #266
ryzvonusef wrote: post #58

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YES! You don't leak it to a reporter like it's the latest variant of the iPhone. There should have an announcement from the board, a LONG time before markets were to start (ideally end of markets on friday) clearly explaining WHAT is happening and WHY (even if it's a bullshit reason, there should be a reason). It would have allowed markets to absorb the news instead of the NYSE having to halt trading amid the uncerta…

Serious question: What does making an announcement while the market is closed actually do? Are you not just throwing money to the people willing to trade after hours?

equal access to information. (no "insider" benefit)

people trading off market are taking their own risks willingly, the market itself tries to be fair w.r.t. reported

if you are listed, you effectively agree to release info on certain terms, so that off-market don't get a better advantage also

When I had posted this, there had been no tweet, just a leak from a CNBC reporter with three lines : breaking news, Jack is rumored to be leaving, stay tuned for more info.

there was a massive info asymmetry, so NYSE had to halt trading until it deems news has percolated enough, I guess.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by stepanhruda »

sdfghderwg wrote: post #118
afavour wrote: post #7

I have no particular beef with Dorsey but I think this would make sense. He's been CEO of both Square and Twitter for years now and no matter what time you wake up in the morning or however many specials diets you undertake you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is. I think the bigger issue is who gets to replace him: will it be someone with smart ideas or someone to serve as a puppet of activist in…

> He's been CEO of both Square and Twitter for years now and no matter what time you wake up in the morning or however many specials diets you undertake you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is. Elon Musk

I remember him saying he plans to step down as Tesla CEO eventually

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by nfrankel »

63 wrote: post #620
ChuckMcM wrote: post #259

It will be interesting to see how Twitter changes as a result. Twitter with selective following and setting your timeline to 'time order' creates a pretty good environment for me. It feels like the equivalent of living in only a few chosen 'subreddits' rather than getting the full frontal reddit experience.

The difference for me has always beem that Twitter is organized by person rather than by topic. In some ways that's good if I'm following someone because I care about them personally, but usually I follow people because I'm interested in a particular aspect of their work like art or announcements. In those cases, I don't want to hear about their political opinions or what their child did that week. I know you can fol…

I've found the solution a while ago: unfollow. I only follow people who tweet about themes that interest me.

If somebody wants to tell the world their private life, good for them, but without me.

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Post by chasd00 »

sporkland wrote: post #80
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #31

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> you're not going to be able to give the focus a solo CEO is. I agree. As much as he tried to justify the dual CEO roles, it never made any sense. It was also maddening to watch him shift to a 3rd focus of promoting cryptocurrency and his own cryptocurrency investments. Hanging on to the CEO role of both Twitter and Square put him in a great position to push both companies toward more cryptocurrency integration, but…

Would you critique Musk in a similar way? Honest question, because it's eerie how you could swap Dorsey for Musk and the statements would still apply but seem much less true.

I'm a big fan of SpaceX but sometimes i wonder why Musk gets such a pass on timelines. I understand things happen and change but when the CEO gives a date for some event then it needs to happen on that date or the CEO should be hat-in-hands sorry describing in detail why the date was missed.

I think even the Musk superfans eyeroll whenever he gives a date for some new advancement. For example, didn't Musk say the test orbital launch for Starship was goign to be last July or something?

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Post by spamfilter247 »

lucasverra wrote: post #610
localhost wrote: post #574

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I use tweetdeck and only follow specific users, i.e., all my columns are "user" columns. It's kind of like a micro-blog RSS feed of sorts. It's wonderful if you're careful about who you follow.

i've been using tweetdeck the last 2 weeks and its a dream. is there something better?

Check out “Fenix” (3rd party client on Apple platforms) - it mimics the multi-column view, but is more flexible; a list can be a Twitter list, a search query etc.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by jokethrowaway »

duxup wrote: post #431
jrsj wrote: post #303

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Censorship and more algo driven content discovery to push ads and approved narratives. Dorsey was probably the biggest advocate for free speech amongst the CEOs of any major company & Twitter is significantly less toxic than Facebook partly because of him. I fully expect his removal to lead the company in a more dystopian direction.

I don't know what anyone means exactly by censorship anymore. Like someone regularly posting obvious lies and bs? I feel like I need an exact example from every person when the topic comes up, and that's not really easy to do.

What about blocking an article about Hunter Biden's laptop?

What's bs to you, may not be to someone else. Speech is way larger than just facts. I wouldn't want to live in a society where opinions are not allowed.

Free speech is important and it's already not including violence (eg. Screaming fire in a crowded place is a crime and not covered by free speech). We don't need tech politicised censors on their platforms-not-platforms and we don't need hate speech restrictions.

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