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Post by Kye » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 11:30 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #82

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I doubt he ever sells. He made the purchase because of his ego. As long as he still owns it, he can pretend that there is some future in which the company has value. Selling it for $1b locks in the valuation and confirms the deal was a huge mistake. I don't think he needs that $1b enough for him to be willing to take that hit to his ego.

> He made the purchase because of his ego. He made the purchase because he was forced to. He didn't want to buy it at all. He was doing his usual trolling thing and got trapped by his own nonsense.

Post by dragonwriter » Fri, Oct 06, 2023, 11:43 PM UTC

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I think there's a lot to critique about traditional media, but their ethical standards are head and shoulders above random posters and grifters on social media. If traditional media is a cesspool, social media is a sewer. Edit: If you want a concrete example, look at how rampant plagiarism is on social media/Youtube[1]. Traditional media journalists regularly got fired [2] for doing shit like this. [1] https://www.yo…

How many people were fired from the NYT for reporting about Iraq having WMD? How many competitors to the NYT reported there were no WMD and why were they all smeared and discredited? The fact that some information might be plagiarized is hardly of any consequence compared to the million or so people that died because of the legacy media reported Saddam had WMDs. When the institutions completely fail to get all of the…

Post by moritzwarhier » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 12:00 AM UTC

lhnz wrote: post #64

threeseed wrote: post #14

Pretty sure the company is going to be sold to a private equity firm once it reaches $1b in valuation. There's just no way Musk is going to want to stick around the way things are trending. Premium tiers are not going to come close to replacing the lost revenue to declining ad spend. Especially when it's in a death spiral with increasingly spammier ads causing a flight of higher quality advertisers. And there isn't t…

Despite continuously making very unpopular moves, I can't see how Twitter loses its users. In fact, I think it will exist long after usage on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok falters -- because, it is less replaceable and less age-demographic dependent. I also think that advertisers will return when budgets increase again. There aren't that many other good options. In the long term, I think it goes nowhere an…

Post by ceejayoz » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 1:04 AM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #114

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #73

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> His program uses public data sources including the Federal Aviation Administration, OpenSky Network, and Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sweeney#Creation_of_fligh...

so if I go dig up your house in public real estate records and put it on blast to thousands of people, you won’t mind?

Post by infamouscow » Sat, Oct 07, 2023, 3:12 AM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #113

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How many people were fired from the NYT for reporting about Iraq having WMD? How many competitors to the NYT reported there were no WMD and why were they all smeared and discredited? The fact that some information might be plagiarized is hardly of any consequence compared to the million or so people that died because of the legacy media reported Saddam had WMDs. When the institutions completely fail to get all of the…

> How many competitors to the NYT reported there were no WMD Lots, including major papers with receipts on not only that the US claims that the Times was hyping were false, but the fact that US and UK governments because, e.g., the so-called “Winnebagos of Mass Destruction” were not mobile weapons labs and the UK government knew this ab initio because they were sold to Iraq by the UK government. > why were they all s…