I doubt he thought he'd get any help for free, given I don't think you can run this code there isn't a meaningful way to contribute. It's just about transparency or PR, take your pick.
He literally tweeted: "No doubt, many embarrassing issues will be discovered, but we will fix them fast!"
People noticing stuff is free work but it’s still different than getting PRs and actual solutions like a real OSS project. And that’s fine, people are doing it because they care or like the attention or outrage and all the other personal/social motivations.
This is what it means to let another country own your social media. Their ideas and memes unconsciously get preferential treatment. This is maybe not a good thing, but it is what it is.
> Their ideas and memes unconsciously get preferential treatment. I think as this repo shows it's conciously, rather than unconsciously, getting preferential treatment.
It’s omission. They built for Americans because they were Americans. No one building this said “let’s ignore Canadian politics” or any other country, they just didn’t think about them at all, because like most Americans they don’t really care about the insidious Québécois plots to annex Prince Edward Island or whatever actual issues are happening in Canada.
Inaccurate. Musk stated that people you follow will continue to show up. I only use the 'for you' feed when I'm bored and want stupid dopamine hits, I leave it on Following almost all the time. But that's on desktop, my understanding it that it keeps resetting itself for mobile users (of whom I am not one).
He only said that later; he seems to be working on a "say we'll do feature and then change it all after people yell at him for weeks" process.
Sounds like moving fast and adjusting to user feedback, usually something commendable in tech, right?
I clicked downvote before reading the whole comment. At first I thought you were talking about the red team when you started with "mass riots and violence..." Then I read the rest of your comment and still felt just as good about my downvote. This isn't a constructive comment no matter what "side" you're on.
“Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution- -not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.” JFK
Seems dumb of them. Cost is trivial and their competition that isn’t so politically motivated will have a much further reach. The smart move would be silent on the policy change, pay, and support rival platforms as they can. Instead they will eventually pay and look like they lost.
For the NYT to verify their official accounts plus those of their reporters (using the Twitter Blue Affiliations feature) would be $1m annually. This, for a budget line item that has heretofore been $0. In this economy, that's a reach. I don't think the NYT is worried about "reach."
Doesn't necessarily mean he didn't want it there in the first place. Why else would it be there?
There are millions of lines of code existent. There are thousands added. Your prior for it being Elon's addition should be something like 10,000/1,000,000 or roughly 1/100. The prior that it wasn't Elon's change is going to be something like 99/100. When you add the additional information that Elon wants the code removed, but existing Twitter engineers think it appropriate to keep this actually increases the probabil…
Why is lines of code the appropriate input here? Here's a different computation that is at least as plausible:
There are hundreds of millions of users. Let's say 300M. Only a single one is special-cased in this code: the narcisistic CEO who reportedly went ballistic when his engagement metrics went down. The prior that it's a change done in response to his demands is 299999999/300000000.
(But of course it was added by existing Twitter engineers. The odds of Musk being able to actually commit code to their repository are zero. Even if he had the permissions, the man simply does not have the technical acumen to make even a trivial change.)
Also how about.... everyone else in the world who is not an American voter?
Only anecdotally. But ever since Musk took over the amount of US political content has significantly increased in particular from the right despite me not living in the US. It's hard to tell whether previously political content was weighted less and Musk has removed those controls or whether they are now weighted higher.
I live in the US in "Trump country" and don't see any political content. Maybe its just related to the people you follow and the content you look at?