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Post by plastiquebeech »

nailer wrote: post #213
duxup wrote: post #209

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It is shocking how entirely unnecessary it all has been. There’s no reason for the whole situation. The company is in a bad spot now.

I think it’s because the company wasn’t very profitable and has low growth.

They were barely keeping their heads above water, but the interest payments on their new loans was like tying cinder blocks to their feet.

It amazes me that the world's richest man was able to buy this company with a bunch of borrowed money, and saddle the company with the debt rather than himself. If he actually cared about Twitter's financial health, you have to figure he would have bought it outright. He has the money.

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Post by ksrm »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #86
lapcat wrote: post #49

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Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

Anyone know why those unpaid mods do what they do? It's like a cult.

extremely hacker news comment

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Post by infotogivenm »

Ferrotin wrote: post #290
ithkuil wrote: post #285

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> They suppressed Trump’s account before the election… That fact was public knowledge. Did the twitter files reveal anything more specific about why they suppressed Trump's account? It seems to me that merely calling them "Twitter files" is very effective at evoking and implying possibly more than what they actually contain.

This was not public knowledge, it was publicly denied.

Please be specific. They have publicly denied shadowbanning but under a very specific and narrow definition.

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Post by nailer »

zimpenfish wrote: post #239
nailer wrote: post #216

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It seems fairly clear that Twitter had at least some employees that were adding very little. Trust and Safety leadership enforcing moderation based on political views while ignoring staff concerns about child sexual abuse (per this morning’s news) seems like one example.

> Trust and Safety leadership enforcing moderation based on political views I assume you're referring to the "Twitter Files" revelations* there? Because that showed nothing of the sort, did it?

Not exclusively. We knew political based moderation was going on far before that. But yes also including the recent revelations about how it was handled internally.

If you consider interfering with an election to be non political, I’m not going to bother arguing with you.

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Post by xyzelement »

lalaland1125 wrote: post #281
bgentry wrote: post #92

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Subletting commercial space in San Francisco is not a simple endeavor at this time: https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/sf-office-vacancy-...

We really should be turning that space into housing

"we"

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Post by xyzelement »

ransom1538 wrote: post #179
SilverBirch wrote: post #13

This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or…

Can they let the homeless stay in the unused floors? Surely they can find a spot in their heart to help out people down on their luck during Christmas.

Just curious - do you house the homeless in the spare spaces in your dwelling? If not, how can you comment on what others ought to be doing and their hearts?

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Post by joshstrange »

yucky wrote: post #298
joshstrange wrote: post #269

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Employee uses employee perks... what is there to see here other than not-so-thinly-veiled sexism?

What sexism?

It’s a tweet that says “Wonder Why” while posting a video of a female who worked at Twitter showing off all the perks. It’s in response to a tweet:

> JUST IN: Elon Musk's Twitter has been sued for "disproportionately" firing female employees.

The person who posted video is very clearly saying “See, they weren’t fired because they were women, they were fired because they didn’t do any work” but the video doesn’t show/prove that at all. Just because someone uses the perks doesn’t mean they don’t work but people are jumping to that conclusion and this is all in the context of the first tweet (women being disproportionately laid off) so it’s pretty clear that sexism is at play in this thread (especially if you read the replies).

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Post by jiveturkey »

astrange wrote: post #242
ncr100 wrote: post #226

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This is the sad truth. I used to live nearby Twitter HQ and that description is unfortunately accurate to my experience, of the majority of the homeless who spent time at Van Ness and Market Street SF. HOUSING is what is needed, for sure though. Just be serious about it, and not "diamond-mine trust-fund hyper vigilant ego-abusive maniac" about it.

Elon is rich because PayPal investors paid him to go away. Nothing that happened in his life before that matters at all or gave him any extra starting privilege, diamond mine or no.

Simply being white gave him extra starting privilege. I’m sure you meant, vs other cis white males coming from a middle class (at least) family though.
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