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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by toss1 »

pembrook wrote: post #29

It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…

Yup, when just a simple trivial response would do.

Either no reply & cc:HR, or "Yup, HR should get on this".

With that kind of money and power, the #1 or #2 richest person in the world, you can afford to be extremely gracious and self-effacing. And it is good for your wealth.

Instead, Elon chooses to make a public show of being a smug, petty, abusive, asshat. What an impoverished emotional weakling is on display here. Almost sad and pitiful, except for his abuse of others.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by Pxtl »

starik36 wrote: post #86
darth_avocado wrote: post #30

Anyone surprised at this and changing their opinion about Elon now because of Halli, should know that this is how every single employee has been treated at Twitter since the acquisition. Doesn’t matter what your political beliefs are. Doesn’t matter if you’re resentful at employees at Twitter for apparent coasting at high salaries. Worker mistreatment at Twitter is some of the worst in the modern workplace.

You mean people being let go? There have been layoffs in ton of SV companies, complete with fake "I take full responsibility". I am not sure what to do, other than let go people, if the company is hemorrhaging money with not much to show for it.

This is not just somebody being let go. Publicly grilling your employee with the mocking "what would you say you do here" on Twitter is ludicrously unprofessional, following up with trash-talking him about using his disability as an excuse for not producing.

I honestly question Musk's sobriety at this point.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by mschuster91 »

mustacheemperor wrote: post #79
bmitc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were front page posts on this earlier today, but both were flagged and buried by Hacker News. Thread on person of the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35056098 Thread on Twitter saga: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055839

Disappointing to see they were flagged, but moreso to see the apparent ratio between downvotes and negative comments on those threads. Apparently a large subset of the community felt those posts should be removed from the front page, but didn’t feel obliged to explain why. It’s like Elon is becoming a radioactive element for this community’s health too. Edit: This submission also briefly showed as flagged sometime in…

People are sick and tired about constant news about Musk's latest crap antics, just like with Trump - basically, at least here in Europe, you can't go to bed and wake up without yet another newsflash of either a large Twitter outage or Elon Musk shitposting again.

I get why people are exhausted, but the desensitization is dangerous on its own - when there are no consequences, people escalate their behavior... and Musk already has intervened to make Starlink less usable for Ukraine. I don't want that to continue.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by colin_jack »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #12
CydeWeys wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way Elon is handling it on Twitter is uniquely bad, and could be opening Twitter up to massive discrimination liability. I would say this does actually make a top ten list.

That's a good point. [UPDATED] > But as I told HR (I'm assuming that's the confidential health information you are sharing) I can't work as a hands on designer for the reasons outlined above. > Or even small companies, like Twitter today. That's gonna leave a mark.

Yeah its disgraceful behavior from Musk.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by nemo44x »

asddubs wrote: post #96
jklinger410 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. I didn't know being paralyzed made you immune to criticism.

I chuckled at the weirdly heavy emphasis on that part too, but I think what they're getting at is that elon accused someone who's in a wheelchair of faking their disability. this isn't just carpal tunnel where it's effectively invisible and you just have to take someones word for it (which to be clear, I'm not saying is fair game to just publicly accuse people of faking on a whim)

I guess Musk was asking why he claims he can't type due to his disability but yet manages to tweet all day. That's probably a lot different than claiming someone is faking a disability.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by 93po »

fabian2k wrote: post #104
nonethewiser wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What part constitutes mocking his disability?

Calling the disability "an excuse" for someone with muscular dystrophy that sits in a wheel chair could arguably meet that description.

How does reconcile that against Halli clearly tweeting a lot? If he can type to tweet, surely he can type to work? And if he can't type to work, and his job requires typing, why would he stayed employed?

I know someone who can literally only move her eyes and her neck a little, and she still manages to use software to type.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by danso »

colin_jack wrote: post #144
nonethewiser wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Looking at the beautiful "coming soon" homepage [0] he presumably built for his restaurant (which is named after his mom [1]), I can see why he was well-respected in the field Its literally just a pink background for me. Not sure if I'm missing something or if that's the joke. I'm not familiar with him and assume he's a great designer. I dont understand the reference here though.

It was super slow to load for me.

I wonder if it’s significantly faster if you’re connecting to it from Iceland

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by 93po »

toss1 wrote: post #151
pembrook wrote: post #29

It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…

Yup, when just a simple trivial response would do. Either no reply & cc:HR, or "Yup, HR should get on this". With that kind of money and power, the #1 or #2 richest person in the world, you can afford to be extremely gracious and self-effacing. And it is good for your wealth. Instead, Elon chooses to make a public show of being a smug, petty, abusive, asshat. What an impoverished emotional weakling is on display here…

Elon didn't make this public, the (independently very wealthy) employee did that.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by wpietri »

1-more wrote: post #57
zht wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yea unfortunately what I've seen on twitter are people saying "well if he's not working why is elon paying him" for these groups of people Elon is tied to their identity and he can do no wrong

I cannot understand the Stan culture for Elon. I get it for the military guys who tell you to lift and make your bed. I get it for Joe Rogan. I get it for the MMA masculinity influencers. I get it for Trump and DeSantis. I do not get it for Elon.

I have a theory! Totally unevidenced, but maybe you'll find it useful.

A narcissist has two important parts. One is a desperate hunger for status. The other is a grandiose false self that they see as sufficient to justify their importance. Narcissists put amazing time and energy into constructing and performing the false self. If you've ever met one in person, they can be amazingly compelling.

But what if somebody has the same deep emotional hunger but lacks the ability to construct the false self? One path is developing a realistic sense of self and balanced emotions. But what if they don't?

My theory is that they are prone to attaching their identity to an existing narcissist. They become fans, even superfans. They adopt their opinions. They buy their products. They identify with the narcissist's public false self.

So I think Elon's stans are the ones who, if they were big boy narcissists, would have a false self like "Elon the billionaire playboy technoking". They see themselves as brilliant first-principles thinkers who can sweep into a room and by the sheer power of their genius make vast improvements over whatever the petty mortals previously present were doing.

There but for the grace of god go I, honestly.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by 93po »

JeremyNT wrote: post #108
starik36 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean people being let go? There have been layoffs in ton of SV companies, complete with fake "I take full responsibility". I am not sure what to do, other than let go people, if the company is hemorrhaging money with not much to show for it.

There's a "right" way and a "wrong" way to go about reducing headcount. I'm not exactly sure what the "right" way is, but I'm pretty sure that Elon's way ain't it.

You mean by providing several months of severance? And not doing it wave after wave like other big tech companies are doing?
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