Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

As Elon himself says:

"If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!"

"And authenticate all real humans"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215066550116354 & https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215736606957573

If Elon erodes privacy even more than at present, won't everyone else follow suit?

No one here seems to have a problem with this. For as much as the tech community generally despises generational-wealth families like the Waltons, or foreign oligarchs, or Saudi royalty who get free unlimited money and power from the ground, we're all perfectly comfortable with an executive amassing ever-increasing power like a giant Katamari ball.

A democracy can vote out a leader who grows corrupt or ineffective. But the power of Elon (and Zuck, and the other modern mega-billionaires) is effectively unstoppable. Bill Gates, e.g., still sits at the top of the money-power pile, even though his own success peaked 25 years ago.

I wish we had an open forum on HN to call out all the times engineers have been fucked over in so many situations of acqui-hire-BS that has occurred.

I know I am not alone in having companies build entire revenue streams around my efforts and contributions and fucked me over in the end after I set them on the right trajectory with my efforts.

Its funny this came up, as while I was on my morning ride, I was lamenting about this very issue ;

I was calling back a memory from a few years ago while I was building the Salesforce offices throughout the US...

I had regular meetings with my CEO discussing my bonus. Which was to be about $30,000 for the completion of 50 Fremont in SF.

They used a tool to track contribution to the efforts, and I had a pretty little graph showing my bonus payout based on what I was doing...

(we were the technology designers for all their offices, I was the TPM who did the actual design, implementation, consultant and construction management of the LV/AV/IT/Sec/Facilities etc.. vendors et al - installed and configured every piece of networking equipment, maintained the IT project plan and etc....

I made this company millions.

After completing the Chicago office - I was told that the project was closing and that I would be laid off ( I did the work of a team )

and that my bonus was $2,000.

that "Salesforce hasn't paid us yet"

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This company, was denigrated all over the bay area, and I was literally hired to clean up their mess at multiple locations. Hospitals, tech companies, etc...

They have a slimy sales and CEO, and while they seem all professional and moral etc.. they are not.

David and Ken, bless your heart, for helping keep psychopath archetypes alive and well.

Now, stop being redundant.

-- The Department of Redundancy Department.