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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

fake-name wrote: post #684
danpalmer wrote: post #558

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading his timeline is somewhat rage-inducing. He's just another edgelord who can't decide if he believes the terrible things he's posting or is just ironically posting them. It's all just attention seeking, there's no value in the posts, no product insight, no teaching like I see from true industry leaders.

> if he believes the terrible things he's posting or is just ironically posting them. The thing is, as I get older, I realize more and more that this is a distinction without a difference. If you "ironically" stab someone, does it matter what your motivation? The same is true for edgelord stuff. Whether you believe it internally is irrelevant, the active act of the posting is the only part that matters. If you post f…

> If you "ironically" stab someone, does it matter what your motivation?

...well, the legal system does take intent into account.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by knorker »

mihaic wrote: post #690

Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God". Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.

The worst part, in my opinion, is that people fell for it. Instead of hearing a split second two syllable "twitter", we now keep hearing "X, formerly known as twitter".

That's 8 syllables. You just gave 4x free advertisement for absolutely no good reason. You're the sucker.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by dzhiurgis »

frankzinger wrote: post #625
dzhiurgis wrote: post #554

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The owner of Twitter sieg heiled twice in front of millions of viewers. There is no need for anybody else to prove anything.

Those attacks happened way before. If you don’t see that someone is trying to build a narrative here - I’m sorry for you.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by kandesbunzler »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #542
baobun wrote: post #496

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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.

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by WatchDog »

petemc_ wrote: post #699

Unrelated to the article, and I can't seem to reply to the comment, but clicking on the archive.today link while I'm on holiday in Italy gives me a warning that it contains child pornography. https://imgur.com/a/PXNY7vp

I'm not sure if it's related, but the operator of archive.today has done odd things with DNS in the past, such as blocking DNS requests from cloudflare because they don't forward edns information.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by rwmj »

creatonez wrote: post #693
rwmj wrote: post #82

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Rule #0 is you don't disparage the company on the way out. She may even have a contractual obligation not to.

So Rule #0 is be silent about the absolute shitshow you are running away from, even when that shitshow is about to ruin many more lives? I think that reflects more poorly on someone than a break in pro-corporate decorum.

Yes, it's exactly that. Most likely as she was a senior executive she'll have signed an NDA containing a "non-disparagement clause". That's the deal with the devil that you make in return for being paid $millions each year.

Edit: A few examples of these clauses: https://contracts.justia.com/contract-clauses/non-disparagem...

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Post by mihaic »

azangru wrote: post #696
mihaic wrote: post #690

Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God". Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.

> While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits To me it's the other way around. If the platform had been named X from the start, then a language would have developed around it, including what its messages are called, or what verb is used to refer to posting a message. We, the public, wouldn't have known any better. With Twitter, we do know bet…

> If the platform had been named X from the start, then a language would have developed around it, including what its messages are called, or what verb is used to refer to posting a message.

I'm not really sure. Some things don't compound, that's why I think a preposition for instance would make a bad name. But even if you may be right, I still want to put up a fight against corporate entities trying to take over basic concepts (X, the unknown, the letter that marks the spot, etc.). I don't want to be forced to use your name if your name is an absurdity, the same way I can't make a brand called "Trump is an idiot" (even if it's true).

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Post by pyrale »

mihaic wrote: post #690

Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God". Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.

I used to Find the renaming a bit ridiculous, but in light of the sweeping platform changes, I find that making the distinction between twitter, the somewhat reasonable microblog platform and x, the far-right psyops operation is useful.

Also there is some honesty in making the logo a half-drawn swastika.

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Post by lenkite »

lenkite wrote: post #144
josefresco wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both things can be true: Valuation did drop during her tenure, AND she was not to blame. Therefore the praise is weird, because she seemingly neither helped nor hurt the business.

> Valuation did drop during her tenure Valuation also bounced back during her tenure.

No idea why the truth is being downvoted so heavily ? X is valued at $44 billion by the financial times as of March 2025.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by lmm »

petemc_ wrote: post #699

Unrelated to the article, and I can't seem to reply to the comment, but clicking on the archive.today link while I'm on holiday in Italy gives me a warning that it contains child pornography. https://imgur.com/a/PXNY7vp

It's an archiving site. Probably someone archived some child pornography there, and the Italian authorities decided the sensible thing was to block the whole domain.
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