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Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

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Re: Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

#11

Post by JohnnyHerz »

Only read if you are like minded and crave an echo chamber.

The few salient points in this critique of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter are completely lost in the overt biases of the author and publication.

Acting as if pre-Elon Twitter wasn't already doing "unconscionable" things to choke off free speech - while claiming Elon Twitter is Satan incarnate in that regard is laughably partisan.

The critique of Elon's public musings and actions based on a specific idealogy could just as easily be turned back on the author.

dreaming of unbiased journalism...

Re: Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

#13

Post by JohnnyHerz »

JohnnyHerz wrote: post #11

Only read if you are like minded and crave an echo chamber. The few salient points in this critique of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter are completely lost in the overt biases of the author and publication. Acting as if pre-Elon Twitter wasn't already doing "unconscionable" things to choke off free speech - while claiming Elon Twitter is Satan incarnate in that regard is laughably partisan. The critique of Elon's publ…

LMAO negative 1 point for me. -methinks the author is sensitive to critique

Re: Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

#14

Post by readonthegoapp »

i wasn't gonna read it but i wanted a little junkfood reading.

a few fun parts:

  She launched into a technical explanation of the ­company’s data-center efficiency, curious to see if he would follow along. Instead, he interrupted. “I was writing C programs in the ’90s,” he said dismissively. “I understand how ­computers work.”
strong flex.

  Shevat thought Sacks seemed bored — he spent most of the meeting checking his phone. “He didn’t want to understand anything,” Shevat says. It made him want to cry, especially since he had actually been eager to work with Musk. “I would have worked really hard for him,” he says.
leopards. face.

  She had printed out a few lines of Python rather than her actual code repository. (“Python is more at Musk’s level,” she says.)
ouch. and, python takin strays.

my take: seems like an accurate review of all the sordid details, including musk's stochastic terrorism, round eleventy.

Re: Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

#15

Post by Apocryphon »

JohnnyHerz wrote: post #11

Only read if you are like minded and crave an echo chamber. The few salient points in this critique of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter are completely lost in the overt biases of the author and publication. Acting as if pre-Elon Twitter wasn't already doing "unconscionable" things to choke off free speech - while claiming Elon Twitter is Satan incarnate in that regard is laughably partisan. The critique of Elon's publ…

This passage certainly does portray Musk as inherently apolitical or amoral, disregarding ideology-

> Twitter might have had a reputation as a left-leaning workforce, but there had always been a faction that disapproved of its progressive ideals. On Slack, some of these workers had formed a channel called #i-dissent, where they asked questions like why deadnaming a trans colleague was considered “bad.” When Musk announced he was buying the company, one of the more active i-­dissenters was thrilled. “Elon’s my new boss and I’m stoked!” he wrote on Linked­In. “I decided to send him a slack message. I figured you miss 100% of the shots you don’t make ”

> This employee was cut during the first round of layoffs. Soon, all the prominent members of the #i-dissent Slack channel would be gone. The channel itself was archived, while bigger social channels like #social-watercooler were abandoned.

Re: Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

#16

Post by Apocryphon »

dang wrote: post #9
kutenai wrote: post #6

[flagged]

Ok, but please don't just call names or fulminate in HN comments. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . Better options are either to explain neutrally what's wrong about an article, and hopefully add more correct information; or simply to chalk it up to the internet/media/whatever being wrong about everything, and move on to something more interesting.

Looks like this thread can be merged with this one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34419306

Re: Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

#17

Post by JohnnyHerz »

JohnnyHerz wrote: post #13
JohnnyHerz wrote: post #11

Only read if you are like minded and crave an echo chamber. The few salient points in this critique of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter are completely lost in the overt biases of the author and publication. Acting as if pre-Elon Twitter wasn't already doing "unconscionable" things to choke off free speech - while claiming Elon Twitter is Satan incarnate in that regard is laughably partisan. The critique of Elon's publ…

LMAO negative 1 point for me. -methinks the author is sensitive to critique

make that negative 2 points for me and counting...

Seems there are a couple snowflakes floating around SMH

Re: Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

#18

Post by dang »

Apocryphon wrote: post #16
dang wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, but please don't just call names or fulminate in HN comments. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . Better options are either to explain neutrally what's wrong about an article, and hopefully add more correct information; or simply to chalk it up to the internet/media/whatever being wrong about everything, and move on to something more interesting.

Looks like this thread can be merged with this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34419306

Ok, I've done that.

Re: Elon Musk’s “extremely hardcore” Twitter

#19

Post by labrador »

The last line really hit me. It just drips with contempt. I just finished watching Malcolm McDowell play a psychopath in the film "Gangster No. 1" and the mindset seems very similar. I'm not calling Musk a criminal, it's the contempt for other human beings that seems similar.
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