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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Change a few words and this describes every social platform including this one. Your comment is evidence, and so is this one.

There are no followers on HN, unless I've totally missed something about the platform.

The dopamine hook on HN is karma.

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I cannot see how it was a success. 1. He overpaid by tens of billions. That is a phenomenal amount of money to lose on an unforced error. 2. Enough users, who produce enough content, have left to make X increasingly a forum for porn bots, scam accounts and political activists. It's losing its appeal as the place "where the news happens" and is instead becoming more niche. 3. The firings did not go well. X has struggl…

I don't think DOGE would have happened without it. Maybe not even Trump winning the election. It wasn't good for the company but allowed Musk huge influence in politics and likely making it out with some really juicy data.

I give a lot more weight to the $250M Elon spent on the campaign.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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There's a subreddit for everything. Reddit as a whole has plenty of users that represent any opinion you can imagine. Fairly conservative subreddits hit r/all regularly, but not as much as less conservative ones. I think what you're trying to say is that on default subs, or some popular ones, that you can't post/comment some things without it getting removed, and possibly banned from those subs. Which is absolutely t…

Your subreddit gets banned immediately if you don't agree with the redditeurs. You don't see this an as issue because you share their opinions

Weird how you can find both trump worshipping subreddits and anti-trump ones... or pro catholic and anti-catholic, or pro child porn and anti child porn, and so on and so forth.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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What, specifically, did you say that was “in opposition to the core hive mind” that led you to being blocked?

Sorry, maybe i wasn't clear. I posted on the ReformUK subreddit in opposition to something that was being touted there. The context of the post doesn't matter, posting on that sub is enough to get you blanked banned from many other placed. Getting banned from a default sub you've never posted in because you told a racist boomer somewhere else they might be falling for propaganda is bloody weird.

So your argument is that reddit is, what, bad at free speech because subreddits aren't forced to let you in?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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> How? He was banned after the election. By suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election.

It's a stretch to say this would have made a major impact. Biden won fairly comfortably. COVID was Trump's bad luck.

Bad luck? Covid was the definition of an easy layup. It's like bush and 9/11, should be a trivial re-election.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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What legacy? She's not a well known public figure. She ran the ad department at NBC. Is now very rich and at age 61, close enough to retirement age.

Do you not think someone who ran the ad department at NBC has a reputation? "Legacy" doesn't mean "guy-on-the-street's perception of you."

That's exactly what it does mean. If you're not famous, you have no legacy.

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deranged. "far left" is anything you don't agree with. also, almost none of the people from before musk are actually gone, the only difference is a dramatic increase in antisocial nazi bots and the groypers being more bold.

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I really wonder what prompts people to lie like this. Paid trolls has always seemed rather far fetched, but what's the alternative?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Do you not think someone who ran the ad department at NBC has a reputation? "Legacy" doesn't mean "guy-on-the-street's perception of you."

That's exactly what it does mean. If you're not famous, you have no legacy.

Legacy means having a lasting impact on society or culture. As another example, the average Joe Schmoe has no clue that Fabrice Bellard even exists, yet Bellard inarguably has one helluva legacy.

On the other hand, there are many people who are famous, but will probably leave no legacy.

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This ChatGPT? https://futurism.com/chatgpt-encouraged-murder-sam-altman

Not to say there aren’t problems with ChatGPT, but it generally steers clear of controversial subjects unless coaxed into it. Grok actively leans into racism and nazism.

It seems that there is tremendous incentive for people like yourself (I see you're very active in these comments) to claim that. But I see you've presented no quantitative evidence. Given the politicization of the systems and individuals involved, without evidence, it all reads like partisan mud slinging.

Any LLM can be convinced to say just about anything. Pliny has shown that time and time again.

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