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Building rockets, moon bases, making fossil fuels less critical… yes, I agree

Literal moon shots, while he contributes meaningfully to worsening conditions on Earth. His dismantling of USAID will have a more consequential effect than 90% of his fever dreams ever will.

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Republicans control all three branches the government.

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Next time the party in power should consider not burning its reconciliation power on handing tens of billions to create a new secret police.

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These don't exist.

They did say building , not built . Starship R&D work is… tough to deny.

Musk constantly promises to build things that never get built. He's 99% vaporware. Unless it actually exists, it's safe to assume that it never will.

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I find it so sad that Twitter still gets traffic at all. Even if we put aside the super shady content on this platform (free speech, lol), the app, either on the web or mobile, has a sub-par user experience. I wish all the devs that I respect were using another platform.

The algorithm is a mirror: it show more of what you interact with. You see “shady content” because you pay attention to it. But you can also follow people and read only what they write, reply to them, and write yourself.

A whole lot of machine learning practitioners use X. Makes it difficult to avoid if you're interested in the news. It's definitely a network effect issue.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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I find it so sad that Twitter still gets traffic at all. Even if we put aside the super shady content on this platform (free speech, lol), the app, either on the web or mobile, has a sub-par user experience. I wish all the devs that I respect were using another platform.

There was a real attempt earlier this year to move to BlueSky, but it's become even worse than Twitter for different reasons.

BlueSky's definitely gotten a lot of the technical side of things right (as compared to the fediverse, the complexity of which blocks mainstream adoption). Unfortunately, it's also now an incredibly unpleasant place to be unless you want to swim in constant political ragebait. Twitter also has a mountain of awful shit, but for whatever reason I've been able to curate my feed enough that I don't usually see it.

They're both mostly unpleasant, and we'd all probably be better off not using either, but I still find myself going back to Twitter because there's nothing better. Same way I feel about Reddit, honestly.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

#127

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They did say building , not built . Starship R&D work is… tough to deny.

Musk constantly promises to build things that never get built. He's 99% vaporware. Unless it actually exists, it's safe to assume that it never will.

I'm very much in the Musk hater category, but it really takes some doing to dismiss SpaceX as vaporware.

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post #98
post #81

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Building rockets, moon bases, making fossil fuels less critical… yes, I agree

Literal moon shots, while he contributes meaningfully to worsening conditions on Earth. His dismantling of USAID will have a more consequential effect than 90% of his fever dreams ever will.

Not only that, but his @grok bot is now completely unhinged too (the public version) spewing an even more polarized version of his exact views without any ability to consider new information:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45632336

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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post #94

I find it so sad that Twitter still gets traffic at all. Even if we put aside the super shady content on this platform (free speech, lol), the app, either on the web or mobile, has a sub-par user experience. I wish all the devs that I respect were using another platform.

It's good people like you who consider free speech some laughing matter don't lead the conversation. I don't even want to think how dim the situation would be without him having taken over.

If you think that true "free speech" is possible on any platform with an algorithmic feed, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Not sure why it's so bad what the person wrote.

There are studies showing how objectively bad Facebook and Instagram are for people, leading them to depression and so on. Isn't this hitting the fabric of our society? Our youth has severe issues also because of Zuckeberg, probably even more than due to Musk.

Or is the fabric of our society only what's convenient to pick, such as whatever you guys dislike about Elon?

Social media the way these companies run it is s** from all point of views.

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