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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by satvikpendem »

CydeWeys wrote: post #867
Dwolb wrote: post #862

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His work may be unsavory, but he's good at his craft. Frank Abagnale committed financial crimes and had a wildly popular movie made from his story.

Ironically, most of his stories were blowing smoke. He wasn't actually nearly as successful at any of that as he was at making up stories and convincing everyone how successful he had been at it. When dealing with a con artist, rule number one is believe nothing they say, certainly not about what they've done!

What's the source on the making up stories part?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by davidw »

isolli wrote: post #910
davidw wrote: post #638

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> I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people that stuck to it. I thought more people would see a guy doing ... that salute, or things like the antisemitism in Grok in the past few days and say "no", but a huge number of people seem to be able to rationalize things away. I'm with Wil Wheaton https://bsky.app/profile/wilwheaton.net/post/3ltkjyzjb4k2p

Bluesky is not better (see for instance [0]). I think no one has cracked how to properly run a microblogging website. [0] https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/did-i-publish-the-private...

Blue Sky has a lot of left leaning folks, but the ownership isn't putting their thumb on the scales for that; it occurred naturally.

And I find that there are some thoughtful conservatives who do ok there. I follow some of them.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by satvikpendem »

Apfel wrote: post #631
danpalmer wrote: post #558

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Reading his timeline is somewhat rage-inducing. He's just another edgelord who can't decide if he believes the terrible things he's posting or is just ironically posting them. It's all just attention seeking, there's no value in the posts, no product insight, no teaching like I see from true industry leaders.

Twitter only showing a sample of posts for non-logged-in users allowed me to see just how weirdly hung up on "Europeans" that guy is.

"The European mind cannot comprehend this" is a meme [0], it's more a joke than anything serious.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-european-mind-cannot-comp...

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

scottLobster wrote: post #924
spjt wrote: post #920

If you're looking for someone to fill a do-nothing CEO job for $6M/year, I'm available.

I'll do it for $5.5M/year Seriously, Elon should put the position up for auction and see how low he can drive the price. Would be hilarious PR

You'd probably find people willing to PAY to be the CEO of Twitter just because it'd look really good on a resume.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by satvikpendem »

danpalmer wrote: post #558
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.

Reading his timeline is somewhat rage-inducing. He's just another edgelord who can't decide if he believes the terrible things he's posting or is just ironically posting them. It's all just attention seeking, there's no value in the posts, no product insight, no teaching like I see from true industry leaders.

It's Twitter, what did you expect? He has insights sometimes but not so many that he can post them daily, it is his personal account, not an education account. If you want growth hacking tips, follow something like this [0].

[0] https://x.com/Siron93

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by some-guy »

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.

Dumpster fires are unfortunately entertaining.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by nlitened »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #824
nlitened wrote: post #799

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Sir, I've seen whom you _elected_, let's be humble here about preferred choices

I'm wildly offended that you called me an american.

Now I’m curious to know whom you’ve elected in your home country

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by jhp123 »

irusensei wrote: post #882
davidw wrote: post #638

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> I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people that stuck to it. I thought more people would see a guy doing ... that salute, or things like the antisemitism in Grok in the past few days and say "no", but a huge number of people seem to be able to rationalize things away. I'm with Wil Wheaton https://bsky.app/profile/wilwheaton.net/post/3ltkjyzjb4k2p

> I thought more people would see a guy doing ... that salute I don't think that gesture was a nazi salute and was grossly taken out of context by everyone who hates the guy. I don't like Elon Musk either but stressing over something like that exacerbates the appearance that the accuser has a biased opinion. It also made the media who covered this for weeks desperate and very shallow.

I watched the video with surrounding context and it looked like a Nazi salute. Did he ever deny it was a Nazi salute?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by driverdan »

ridiculous_leke wrote: post #917
Aurornis wrote: post #847

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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?

Most of them.
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