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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by jiveturkey »

j-bos wrote: post #138

For those interested in buying but not in SF, you'll need to arrange your own pickup, craigslist style: "Buyers may either pick up Goods at the designated auction site themselves or can contract with a third party agent to manage the removal process for them."

these type of commercial auctions always offer a captive/partner transporter if you want that. i haven’t looked at the auction but presumably some of the items are large are require rigging and you’d generally use their partner.

> Additional Information Regarding Removal Procedures and Logistics Will Be Provided in January, 2023

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Post by mcluck »

stiltzkin wrote: post #287
joshstrange wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Employee uses employee perks... what is there to see here other than not-so-thinly-veiled sexism?

So much perks for so little work.

You have absolutely zero evidence for how hard this person works. They were showing off the perks of the office. At a previous job, I had the majority of these things available to me and I still worked 9 hour days.

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

staindk wrote: post #37
QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #29

A useful comparison for discussion:reddit has 700 employees and twitter had 7000.

Yeah I think general consensus is that twitter was bloated and I'm guessing a lot of people were skimming by not doing much (or stuck doing things that amounted to not much). Elon's methodology isn't the best way forward though. Ugh idk.

> Elon's methodology isn't the best way forward though. Ugh idk.

People keep saying this, but I'm yet to see the fire the smoke implies.

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

nr2x wrote: post #280
INTPenis wrote: post #125

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I'm not one of Elon's fans, trust me on that. But I do enjoy different perspectives to things. And this sure seems like Elon doesn't give a f*ck about people, he's honestly trying to assemble the smallest team necessary to keep Twitter going, in whatever direction he wants it to go. So yeah he's gotten a lot of criticism but I believe there's a different perspective here of a ruthless businessman just doing anything…

He's "assembled" a team of H1Bs who can't quit, but he comes from apartheid money so it's just the old family business model redux.

> He's "assembled" a team of H1Bs who can't quit

So the (still after weeks) unsubstantiated rumours say...

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

gonzo41 wrote: post #19
pavlov wrote: post #11

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Apparently he’s looking to replace some of the expensive debt with new margin loans backed by his TSLA shares: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/musk-bank... IMO this Twitter deal has been nothing but bad news for Tesla shareholders. The CEO is completely distracted and forced to sell his shares, and the company has been dragged into stupid culture wars. Tesla brand perception has crashed among Democ…

I work with scientists. Everyone who got a tesla feels a bit off about owning it now. Many jokes are had about being a musketeer, and the rise of twitler etc. It's all jokes, but then at the end of the day, everyone else drives home in some other car and they don't know what the CEO said about "tweet of the day" etc. Yet Musk is all in everyones face all the time. It doesn't seem to be a winning strategy at the momen…

Sounds like a poor reflection of your companies culture.

Your phone, clothes, the mug you're sipping from were all likely made from if not child labour, at best abusive and unfair labour.

Worrying about the what moderately disagreeable thing the CEO of the company who made your car may have said on social media seems an incredible view.

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Post by zimpenfish »

nailer wrote: post #295
zimpenfish wrote: post #239

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> Trust and Safety leadership enforcing moderation based on political views I assume you're referring to the "Twitter Files" revelations* there? Because that showed nothing of the sort, did it?

Not exclusively. We knew political based moderation was going on far before that. But yes also including the recent revelations about how it was handled internally. If you consider interfering with an election to be non political, I’m not going to bother arguing with you.

> But yes also including the recent revelations about how it was handled internally.

Can you point to some examples where one side (I'm assuming you mean Democrats) were handled favourably and the other not favourably? Outside of ToS violations, obviously.

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Post by zimpenfish »

Ferrotin wrote: post #282
zimpenfish wrote: post #258

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Can you point to some examples? Note that they have to be examples which only apply to one side (I'm going to assume you mean conservatives) and aren't standard violations of ToS.

They suppressed Trump’s account before the election…

> They suppressed Trump’s account before the election…

If by "suppressed" you mean "suspended for repeated violations of ToS even though they'd protected him for months by saying he was POTUS and therefore newsworthy and should be granted much more leeway than other accounts", sure.

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Post by zimpenfish »

infotogivenm wrote: post #293
Ferrotin wrote: post #290

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This was not public knowledge, it was publicly denied.

Please be specific. They have publicly denied shadowbanning but under a very specific and narrow definition.

> but under a very specific and narrow definition.

Which I think is the standard definition - suggesting Twitter have made up their own is a bit snarky?

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Post by arkitaip »

Denvercoder9 wrote: post #78
arkitaip wrote: post #30

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Musk doesn't seem to believe in this version of Twitter and therefore has no issues dismantling it. There's still lots of damage done to Twitter the employer but I don't think it matters in the long run: there are always suckers who are willing to work for despotic leaders.

Or people on H-1B visas that can't take the risk of leaving.

Apologies I forgot about those people, who really are in a vulnerable position.

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Post by slimebot80 »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #265
bloopernova wrote: post #164

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Society treated twitter as something more, and twitter adapted as it grew. Despite the recent disruptive events, society still treats twitter as a public square. Politicians, celebrities, charities, and governments all make announcements there. So many updates on the russian invasion of Ukraine have been put on twitter but not facebook or instagram. My personal opinion is that twitter is a public square. I don't know…

>Society treated twitter as something more No, journalists did. Society at large doesn’t even use Twitter. Their own stats prove this.

Well Elon is very, very serious about "journalists" on his site.

So this argument gets weird really, really quick.

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