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Post by kapildev »

themitigating wrote: post #432
jasode wrote: post #372

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>"To illustrate the extent to which Rupert Murdoch used to micro-manage his newspapers,..." The 2011 article you linked emphasizes his activity with tabloid newspapers. I'm unfamiliar with those. From what I've read, he doesn't meddle with his "prestige" newspaper like WSJ. Maybe that's why the WSJ didn't censor itself on negative Theranos stories even though he invested $125 million in it and Elizabeth Holmes asked…

Even though I don't agree with the WSJ I trust their reporting to the extent that if someone used it as a source I would accept it without debate. Rupert Murdoch on the other hand is quite possibly the biggest piece of shit in the entire world outsides of dictators, the tailban , etc. You should read how he meddled in UK politics and played king maker https://www.businessinsider.com/gordon-brown-rupert-murdoch-... I…

As someone who reads Washington Post, NYTimes and WSJ daily, I too find their (WSJ's) reports trust worthy and accept the facts presented without too much fact-cheking. However, the editorial board and the opinion section are where Murdoch's influences reflect. The facts presented there are mostly murky and sometimes half-truths. I even found some "facts" that were out-right wrong and intentionally so.

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Post by lossolo »

jasode wrote: post #226

It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…

> scientific first principles type of thinking

Twitter CEO Elon Musk blasts Rep. Adam Schiff in deleted tweet: 'Your brain is too small'[1]

1. https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/twitter-ceo-elon-musk-b...

EDIT: Another example of scientific first principles

https://twitter.com/badlin/status/1604689299701911552/photo/...

Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by braingenious »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #219
woodruffw wrote: post #208

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And, on a historical level: the thing that Lowtax created laid the cultural groundwork for Twitter's success. Weird Twitter didn't appear spontaneously; many of them came from SA and similar communities.

Specifically fyad

SA was built on DPPH and FYAD reaped the cultural benefits of the influx of fresh blood.

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Post by skinnymuch »

actionfromafar wrote: post #241
jasode wrote: post #226

It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…

But we don't have endless front page articles about those other people because those are other people . Musk knows in his heart of hearts that he is the most interesting and newsworthy person on the planet, so it makes sense the front page articles are about him.

Calling him the most interesting is incredibly subjective. I don’t think he knows any such thing. He seems wildly insecure. Even more than me

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Post by hristov »

exodust wrote: post #565
hristov wrote: post #276

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Of course he knows what the results will be. He owns twitter. He has all the admin passwords to the server that runs the poll. The admins that run the server answer to him. The result of this poll will be whatever Elon Musk wants it to be.

Implausible conspiracy. Email to the admins: "Hey guys I'd like the results of the poll to be the following..." No chance. Interesting side note: Here in Australia this morning on the ABC public broadcaster's national News channel, one of the presenters said "if you hate Elon Musk, vote yes"... encouraging the mostly left-leaning ABC viewers to log on and vote Musk out. The poll will get swamped by this politically d…

Doesn't have to be an email. He can tell them in person. I am sure after all the layoffs he has found some engineers that are obedient/scared enough.

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Post by skinnymuch »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #530
theGnuMe wrote: post #443

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You could be neutral now but be called leftist if you won't publish disinformation.

True. I couldn't find the original of the cartoon in this piece. This problem cuts both ways though. https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/elon-musk-says-woke-progressiv...

He is not on speaking terms with his trans daughter and writes stuff about his pronouns and other silly stuff. He obviously isn’t liberal in the way he and the article are using liberal.

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Post by skinnymuch »

xigoi wrote: post #590
p1necone wrote: post #389

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Well yeah, duh. Of course people can do what they want. Criticizing Musk's (or anybodies) actions is not tantamount to trying to say he shouldn't be allowed to do them (except for the stuff he actually shouldn't be allowed to do, and hopefully gets prosecuted for - mostly violating employment law). I'm not really sure what you're trying to say here? People should vote with their wallets/service usage but never ever d…

I just find it ironic how the sides have swapped. Previously when Twitter was censoring right-wing opinions, leftists went “it's a private company, they can do whatever they want and you're not allowed to criticize them”. Now that Musk has taken over, it seems to be the opposite.

What leftist did that? Leftists don’t believe in private for profit corporations. It’d be weird for them to care about capital ownership all of a sudden.

When was Twitter censoring “right wing opinion”. Do you mean bigotry?

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Post by intended »

jasode wrote: post #226

It's instructive to contrast what other billionaires did with media properties they owned: - Jeff Bezos personally bought Washington Post but he left it alone and let the editors run it. What Jeff did do was invest some money into the IT department to modernize the workflow tools (metrics dashboards, etc) for journalists. He stayed out of the decisions of what stories get run on the front page. - Rupert Murdoch owns…

Murdoch has been near single handedly the force that moved western news media and set us on the path we see today.

Many would happily dance on his grave, and raise a toast to his departure from this realm.

To say that he has a hands off approach to his editorial board, because of his handling of Theranos, is an unkindness to the harm he has caused to the fabric of decent society.

If any lesson is to be learned from Murdoch’s, it would be on silencing detractors, and holding the levers of political power.

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Post by exodust »

mcphage wrote: post #563
exodust wrote: post #554

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> "and when the outcome wasn't what he wanted instead of following the majority vote" Not true, he changed the poll well before its conclusion. Then he abided by the majority vote and unbanned those users. But you're not happy, and need to make stuff up about what he did or didn't do. His latest poll deciding his own fate reveals the bold transparency approach. People can't handle transparency it seems. Almost like t…

> The outrage and temper tantrums sparked in entitled over-sensitive Twitter users and commentators, is quality popcorn material. Must the curtain close? I do mostly agree with you—Musk's outrage and temper tantrums have been pretty funny. This is probably been the funniest time Twitter has, just weeks of everyone dunking on him and watching him flail in rage. But honestly, it's getting kind of tiresome. Every time t…

Actual outrage from users, including celebrity meltdowns and viral whinging. The amount of users threatening to leave, linking to their tumble-weed infested Mastodons is hilarious.

All Musk did was rattle cages with a few truth bombs and mild trolling. Entertaining stuff. Anyone voting "yes" takes life way too seriously.

Not to mention devaluing the insights of Twitter Files and FBI-tweaked moderation processes and staffer ideology influence. It's good to see all that exposed in the light. Musk did the dirty work that was needed.

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Post by isoprophlex »

sytelus wrote: post #274
MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #196

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Maybe he's got a stimulant (or other psychoactive) prescription that renews around this time of the month and we're witnessing a periodic, chemically induced mania?

This is actually a very good guess. A vast majority of these ultra-rich population are now on simulants and psychoactive drugs.

Don't forget blood transfusions from 18 year olds, if you really want to go torture yourself with thoughts of "is this a conspiracy theory or just really fucked up reality"

https://www.science.org/content/article/young-blood-antiagin...

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