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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by PaulHoule »

chermi wrote: post #880
lowsong wrote: post #863

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Unfortunately the Economist has shifted from "center right" to "far right" over the past few years, along with a general decline in reporting quality.

Ok I guess we're just redefining things now. Btw, NYT is now far left. See how easy that is?

People are crazy now. This supposedly reputable source

https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

puts The New York Times opinion page in the same box as Jacobin which (1) I think is highly offensive to Jacobin and (2) doesn't seem consistent with a paper that (a) said it would never make endorsements in NYC politics and (b) reversed itself to make an anti-endorsement of Zohran Mandami (because it's just too cringe to endorse Cuomo or Adams)

For that matter I'd put The Guardian and Mother Jones solidly left of The Atlantic. The New Yorker strikes me as being interested in "wokeist" issues but being not quite strident enough to be really "woke".

I think this chart is defensible

https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive

unlike that other one.

So far as The Economist goes they really should be Center-Right in the sense that they were founded in 1843 to oppose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws

and have supported free trade consistently ever since and loved Maggie Thatcher but never got behind the Tory clown car of the last 20 years. They're also consistently trans-skeptical.

The weirdest story now has to be The Bulwark which was founded by the people who brought you the Iraq war and torpedoed Clinton's health care plans but has to attract a left-leaning audience because there's no place for a principled conservative in 2025.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by fkyoureadthedoc »

fourseventy wrote: post #841
saagarjha wrote: post #593

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You've gotten downvoted here for saying the exact same thing. Maybe you should improve your opinions?

So your opinion is that men can get pregnant?

Most people aren't interested in just talking past each other or responding to people saying something to get a rise.

What you're trying to say here is that you disagree with having a distinction between sex and gender identity, but you're doing it in a purposefully obtuse and inflammatory way. That indicates to me that you're not really interested in having a conversation. You're likely seeking downvotes and bans to justify your own bias.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by lupusreal »

Bender wrote: post #904
lupusreal wrote: post #127

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I'm out of the loop, why is it an "infobot" and not a chatbot?

In 1999 there was a perl chatbot called infobot that could be taught factoids, truths, lies. It would learn anything people chatted about on IRC. So I call LLM's infobots.

Neat, thanks for explaining.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by PaulHoule »

Hoasi wrote: post #50

X has been nothing short of an exercise in brand destruction. However, despite all the drama, it still stands, it still exists, and it remains relevant.

It's the horror of two-sided markets. You could probably turn off the DNS and unplug the server it would keep running somehow.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by PaulHoule »

MSFT_Edging wrote: post #805
mistermann wrote: post #663

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I joined it about 6 months ago and absolutely love the ~uncensored free for all nature of it! And while the format and content varies in many ways from other sites, one thing they all have in common is millions of humans who cannot distinguish facts from personal opinions. I do not know why but I am absolutely fascinated by the phenomenon, and on Twitter/X you can discuss such things fairly seriously, at least with s…

> ~uncensored The term "cis" will still get you a warning while my for-you page has been consistently filling up with more and more far right content. I regularly see blue checks espousing actual jewish-conspiracy antisemitism. Every time something happens to anyone, blue check comments asking if any of the parties were black, sometimes not even asking just assuming and blaming it on black people. Elon has truly crea…

Which leaves me asking: why are you still there?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by xnx »

zero_shift wrote: post #459
mrweasel wrote: post #130

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More and more I think Musk managed to his take over of Twitter pretty successfully. X still isn't as strong a brand as Twitter where, but it's doing okay. A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there. The only issue is that Musk vastly overpaid for Twitter, but if he plans to keep it and use it for his political ambitions, that might not matter. Also remember tha…

I cannot see how it was a success. 1. He overpaid by tens of billions. That is a phenomenal amount of money to lose on an unforced error. 2. Enough users, who produce enough content, have left to make X increasingly a forum for porn bots, scam accounts and political activists. It's losing its appeal as the place "where the news happens" and is instead becoming more niche. 3. The firings did not go well. X has struggl…

1. Agreed. One of the worst timed purchases of all time.

2. Unfortunately, nothing has truly displaced Twitter. Is Meta even still trying with Threads? I don't see ads, but I have to wonder why any real company would risk advertising on Twitter.

3. Eh. As a casual user, I haven't noticed any difference. For a mostly finished product, there were probably were a bunch of overpaid do-nothings on staff.

4. TSLA stock price seems impervious to reality.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by ridiculous_leke »

Aurornis wrote: post #847
hakanderyal wrote: post #406

Interesting nobody has mentioned Nikita. X has hired Nikita Bier, of Gas and tbh fame ( https://x.com/nikitabier ), as head of product some days ago. He posted a meme earlier today which may or may not be related to this.

I’m kind of fascinated by Nikita’s popularity. Normally if you told a tech community like Hacker News that someone marketed viral phone apps targeting teenagers, engineered app engagement mechanics targeting kids, and openly used every growth hacking trick in the book to manipulate App Store charts, it would seem like a checklist of things people get angry about here. Yet because he’s Twitter-famous and seems like a…

> someone marketed viral phone apps targeting teenagers, engineered app engagement mechanics targeting kids, and openly used every growth hacking trick in the book to manipulate App Store charts

Just curious. Any YC companies that have engaged in these tactics?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

defraudbah wrote: post #887
defraudbah wrote: post #712

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I am more fascinated by grok rebellion than Nikita being hired. I still get a ton of bots daily, until that solved they can hire whomever they want. Grok and payounts have been the most fun things happened to twitter since acquisition

HN has become a new reddit :D I have no idea why people are so negative here

Because a lot of tech sucks lately?

Everything now is just new kinds of ways to spy on people or the same old shit repackaged in a new format. I'm dying for some actual innovation. The only new product in tech I actually like lately is the Steam Deck and later, the Ally X. Making PC gaming mobile is incredible, and I guess you could say there's nothing revolutionary there, but I dunno, it's new at least and not flagrantly a free-at-use shitpile that's going to tell AdSense my resting heart rate.

Edit: And I suppose relevant to this comment thread, a lot of new tech is just more ways to fuck with people at scale to generate revenue. Which also blows ass.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by duped »

fourside wrote: post #899
CydeWeys wrote: post #869

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I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F. It's started making me worried that I can't even use the app in a place where anyone else is, lest someone shoulder surf that and wonder WTF I'm looking at.

It continues to surprise me how much people insist on using this platform after everything that’s happened in the last couple of years. It’s like having dinner at a restaurant that you know is owned by a mafia boss and then being surprised when you get robbed while you eat there.

People are literally addicted to it, this is like expecting smokers to stop smoking because it's bad for them.
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