The irony. Musk bought Twitter to stop this madness. He bought it because he didn't like that a small group of PC extremists were able to control what nearly three-hundred-and-fifty-million people were saying/doing. And here is Apple, raising their hands like... hey, look at us! We're in that group too!
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Apple Pausing Advertising on X Following Latest Elon Musk Controversy
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Disney and Warner have joined the "pause."
And now Elmo is fulminating about thermonuclear lawsuits against the group that showed Apple and Disney ads cheek-by-jowl with the Hitler-wasn't-so-bad postings. His argument is "well, yes, it happened, but it didn't happen very much." Which is of course another way of saying, yep, they're right, it happened.
And now Elmo is fulminating about thermonuclear lawsuits against the group that showed Apple and Disney ads cheek-by-jowl with the Hitler-wasn't-so-bad postings. His argument is "well, yes, it happened, but it didn't happen very much." Which is of course another way of saying, yep, they're right, it happened.
And then he drove it straight into a tree at warp speed, because it turns out grown-ups aren't willing to subsidize his vision of 4chan-with-posh-ads. A smarter guy would have seen that coming.
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Yeah, I keep hearing from those ten people online that X is dying or dead, or in flames, or ruined, or whatever... and it keeps doing just fine.
You can take the Afrikaner out of South Africa but you can’t take the racism out of the Afrikaner.
It's not necessary to "fully" disinvest from China. 50% would get the job done.
IF....if the jobs were all brought back to the USA. In fact, none of those jobs are being brought back here. They're being moved to India and Vietnam.
THAT is why President Trump is a big thing. That and only that.
If by "fine" you mean "lost half its value in a year and has just compounded the problem by excruciatingly stupidly driving away its biggest-ticket advertisers in a very high-profile case of fiduciary self-harm, reinforcing the fact that Elmo cannot solve the problem because Elmo *is* the problem."
Is a “thermonuclear lawsuit” bigger or smaller than “releasing the kraken”?
These legal terms confuse me.🤪
It becomes obvious when one steps back from participation-in and observes the milieu that there is "a lot of money to be made" and "political careers to be had" by feeding into grievance culture mentality. I've often wondered how, had he lived, would Steve Jobs have addressed the use of his "bicycles for the mind" creativity tools being used, instead, to foment "bludgeons to own" antipathy and, not just, non-creativity but anti-creativity. To borrow the Ondine movie quote, "Misery is easy, Syracuse, it's happiness you have to work at."
I love that everyone's prior liberal hero who is left of center has common sense on his platform and shines the light on far left (and right) absurdity and now he's "right wing". Exposin all y'all.
Finally a screenshot of an Elon post that we can read and comment on. 15 pages to get a screenshot.
I'm looking forward to this. We've all been aware of this type of activity going on at Twitter and other places. Facebook was like this from the very beginning. Facebook invented "Ghost Banning". Twitter was a true free speech platform for about the first ten years of its existence.
He's going King Lear:
No, you unnatural hags,
I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall—I will do such things,—
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. You think I’ll weep
No, I’ll not weep:
And, of course, he says all this even as he's visibly going to pieces.
I've never joined Twitter/X so I have no dog in this fight.
But if he ever offers you a ride on his rocket…
But if he ever offers you a ride on his rocket…
I have never used Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram or anything other than WhatsApp for connecting with my family when I am travelling.
The man seems like he is as mad as a box of frogs from what I read in the news.
How do you all stay sane using social media?
The man seems like he is as mad as a box of frogs from what I read in the news.
How do you all stay sane using social media?
Losing nearly all its revenue, and taking on $1.5 billion in annual debt payments is "doing just fine?"
Got a mirror? You've literally described all the brainwashed far right GQP and MAGA who do exactly the same thing.
Was it a slow day on "X" and you thought you'd wander over here and troll for a few hours?
You curate a list of people who aren't blithering dingdongs, follow them, interact with them, and ignore the rest.
Until you see that the site moderation has gone from fighting antisemitism albeit imperfectly to, once Elmo comes on board, not fighting antisemitism, and this week moving to *actively encouraging* antisemitism.
Then you bail to watch the disaster from a distance, which is what I did when I deleted my account yesterday.
You see this all over Silicon Valley. Not just with Mush, but with people like Jason Calicanis. Bet right on a startup, nail the timing with a good amount of dumb luck, and suddenly you're richer than you've ever imagined. And because our society values wealth and affluence above all things, suddenly you feel like you're an authority on EVERYTHING. And that your opinions and perspectives carry inherent validity because, you know, you're super rich.
I work in the medical AI space. I am a medical professional with 30 years of expertise. And I am constantly stunned at the hubris at Tech Bros. They tend to always think they know more than everyone else because they put together a KILLER 10-slide deck and convinced some fund to invest. It's actually hilarious.
Yes, I'll bet most businesses would sell their grandkids for front-page headlines like
he tried to back out. he bought it because he was forced to buy it.
Who gave Musk the leeway to rename the app into a single letter when the app store rule was against it?
About time Apple take a stand from this crap show.
About time Apple take a stand from this crap show.
i’d be careful if i were you:
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