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Post by insane_dreamer »

cedws wrote: post #640
insane_dreamer wrote: post #632

> Top executives regularly come and go at Mr. Musk’s various companies. One exception is Gwynne Shotwell, the president of SpaceX, who joined Mr. Musk’s rocket company shortly after its founding in 2002. That's an amazingly long tenure under Musk. And considering SpaceX's success, she must be an exceptional leader.

I wonder what people like her who were around Musk in the early days think of him now. It’s striking how much he’s changed. When I see videos of him speaking 20, even 10 years ago, he seems much more grounded, inspired, maybe even intellectual. Something has happened to him I feel. Maybe drugs brought out the storm inside that was always there.

history shows that becoming extremely wealthy and powerful often changes people in bad ways

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by tonymet »

righthand wrote: post #340
tonymet wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you drill into "everyone is here"? Prior to twitterfiles, Twitter felt overly corporate . I agree it's pivoted into another community. A lot of the mainstream and left leaning contributors have been downranked or moved to other platforms. But Twitter hasn't felt like raw, egalitarian conversation since 2009

I think the “everyone is here” feeling is because the media outlets use it quite a bit. So even though mostly everyone is not on Twitter it felt like anyone who is anyone was on Twitter. I don’t really miss the FOMO that was intended to produce but I imagine if you played along it validated the FOMO some how.

i see your perspective. Until Musk , it included the scope of publishers that were 1-3 degrees removed from mainstream media and Hollywood.

Post-musk it’s been rebooted into engagement farms and quasi-right-wing influencers.

For the first few months it felt refreshing because all of the once censored (or downranked) spicy content now received visibility.

Now it’s pretty repetitive and lame in its own way.

Every time I open my mute list I resent using the app.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by qchris »

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.

I totally get the point you're trying to make (and don't even disagree) but I think the analogy isn't quite right.

I'd actually be surprised if I got robbed at a mobbed-up restaurant; my naive understanding was that they actual put a lot of effort into keeping places like that above-board so they have legit businesses to attach their name/revenue/employees to, while still retaining muscle in case a rival tries something. It's arguably one of the last places I'd expected to get robbed outright.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by rtkwe »

pstuart wrote: post #560
rejekt wrote: post #552

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Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon for his son for any crimes during a 10 year period 2014-2024. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dx9n3m9y2o He later pardoned other family members and political allies.

That was disappointing but understandable, considering who was following him into office. The Hunter Biden corruption story was true in the sense it was old school genteel corruption that virtually everybody in politics does: trade on their connections with promise of getting deals done and/or a veneer of legitimacy. It's a problem worthy of scrutiny but only if it is done across party lines. But this misses the enti…

There was also AFAIK never any real evidence Hunter actually succeeded in doing anything of actual value for his clients. He was definitely going around representing that he could influence or get people meetings with his dad but there was never an actual tat from the Joe Biden side.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mildzebrataste »

qchris wrote: post #943
fourside wrote: post #899

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I totally get the point you're trying to make (and don't even disagree) but I think the analogy isn't quite right. I'd actually be surprised if I got robbed at a mobbed-up restaurant; my naive understanding was that they actual put a lot of effort into keeping places like that above-board so they have legit businesses to attach their name/revenue/employees to, while still retaining muscle in case a rival tries someth…

It’s like when you’re having dinner at a restaurant owned by the mob and act surprised when the owner pays for your meal because “you look like such nice girls.”

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Post by gjm11 »

throwpoaster wrote: post #764
the_why_of_y wrote: post #470

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https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referre...

> The fact that, much later on, many elements of the laptops history and provenance were confirmed as legitimate (with some open questions) is important “The story was true but…” Stopped reading here.

More fool you.

There are two separate "the story"s. One is a story about Hunter Biden's laptop. One is a story about political interference and/or bias at Twitter.

At least some of the story about Hunter Biden's laptop was true. That doesn't tell us anything about whether the story about political interference and/or bias at Twitter was true.

The linked article argues that (1) there wasn't in fact political interference at Twitter, (2) although Twitter employees (like employees of many many many tech companies) lean left, there was no sign that anything in the company's treatment of the H.B. laptop story was politically motivated, and (3) the fact that Twitter nerfed links to the NY Post's story about H.B.'s laptop for one day (a) more likely increased than decreased interest in that story and (b) had no impact to speak of on the presidential election anyway.

Of course it might be wrong about any or all of those things, but whether the NY Post's story about the laptop was actually true or not has nothing to do with any of them.

(The assertion being made upthread here is that Twitter's handling of the story was a deliberate attempt to "suppress" Donald Trump and that it handed the election to Joe Biden. It's all about the second story, not the first one.)

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Post by [deleted] »

shkkmo wrote: post #622
lostlogin wrote: post #338

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Even if the valuation is the same (seems unlikely), a fairly small rate of inflation on that sum of money is likely to be a number that matters.

"lost money due to inflation" (or even "lost money compared to an equivalent investment is a basket of similar stocks" is very different claim than "lost 80% of value". Currently the stock is down less than 10% from the purchase price (41 billion vs 44 billion). Down 10% vs 80% is the kind of egregious factual "error" that gets made so frequently around Musk, that it is hard to take any criticism at face value. You d…

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Post by lostlogin »

shkkmo wrote: post #622
lostlogin wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if the valuation is the same (seems unlikely), a fairly small rate of inflation on that sum of money is likely to be a number that matters.

"lost money due to inflation" (or even "lost money compared to an equivalent investment is a basket of similar stocks" is very different claim than "lost 80% of value". Currently the stock is down less than 10% from the purchase price (41 billion vs 44 billion). Down 10% vs 80% is the kind of egregious factual "error" that gets made so frequently around Musk, that it is hard to take any criticism at face value. You d…

A breathless defence against points never made.

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Post by NoGravitas »

emodendroket wrote: post #859

It is perhaps just a coincidence that this happened the day after “Mecha-Hitler” Grok going on racist screeds and going into lurid sexual fantasies about her in particular for the whole world to see. But it does look bad.

I really would not be surprised if "being sexually harassed by MechaHitler" was the last straw.
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