Stupid World

[Berries]

People photograph a meal that they purchased at the game and give the price.

Yeah, figured it was full of the important stuff.

[TheDemonLord]

Life can be tough in the US tech sector. Apparently Musk is making good on his promise to trim the staff at Twitter. How the affected staff find out is when they go to log in to their work lap top they see they’ve been locked out. Brutal.

Not as brutal as you think. If someone is fired on bad terms, the first thing you do is immediately lock out any and all access that they have.

That's to limit:

1: The damage a pissed off staff member could potentially do
2: The Liability for them to be blamed for something

[TheDemonLord]

It would seem Musk doesn't "get" the concept of free speech. Nor, it seems, does he understand Twitter. One of his own tweets had an advisory attached. (Shown below.)

If advertisers stop advertising on Twitter that's them actually operating a form of free speech. It's nothing to do with activists as he claims. The free speech he advocates for, will too often be hate speech. Use of the N word reportedly jumped 500% the day Musk took over as the knuckle dragging element on Twitter exercised their new freedom. Most advertisers will not want their ads placed next to hate speech.

No, that is called 'The Hecklers Veto':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%27s_veto

Freedom of speech, on campuses and elsewhere, is rendered meaningless if speakers can be shouted down by those who disagree. The law is well established that the government can act to prevent a heckler’s veto -- to prevent the reaction of the audience from silencing the speaker. There is simply no 1st Amendment right to go into an auditorium and prevent a speaker from being heard, no matter who the speaker is or how strongly one disagrees with his or her message.

Musk supporters say that checkmark accounts should just pay the $8.00 and shut up. They pay Netflix don't they? When you pay Netflix you are paying for the content Netflix created. On Twitter it's the users who create the content. Big difference.

Checkmark status currently is 'reserved' for high profile account, All of whom could easily afford $8. So why the complaint from Multi-Millionaires about an $8 charge?

Because the regular person can also afford $8 and when the regular people no longer have the same status as the 'elites' with their special marks, noting them for their prominence, they will loose their status symbol.

"When everyone is special, no one is"

I'd say that's a far more likely reason than saying someone who earned $500K a year, can't afford $8 a month.

Be interesting to see, as the dust from the mass layoffs settles, if he kept enough of the right staff to keep the place running smoothly. Some states (and countries?) have laws covering redundancies. Legal actions are already kicking off.

Please pass the popcorn.

We will indeed see.

[sugilite:Me]

Elon the thinskinned has banned a comedian for impersonating him, even though her handle was still showing.
if she had impersonated say a certain cave rescue expert, she probably would of earned a cheeky Elon response. As she impersonated him, banned!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/entertai...-elon-musk.amp

"Despite her handle showing her own @kathygriffin name, the moniker by her blue checkmark said "Elon Musk" "

[TheDemonLord]

Elon the thinskinned has banned a comedian for impersonating him, even though her handle was still showing.
if she had impersonated say a certain cave rescue expert, she probably would of earned a cheeky Elon response. As she impersonated him, banned!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/entertai...-elon-musk.amp

"Despite her handle showing her own @kathygriffin name, the moniker by her blue checkmark said "Elon Musk" "

I'll admit, I'm conflicted on this one - on the one hand, the policy is completely reasonable - if you have a Blue Check mark and change your name, people will be mislead (and Kathy Griffin isn't funny)

However, after the hilarity that was Justice Dankula and when he impersonated a British Peer, I will kinda miss it...

[sugilite:Me]

I think he is in training to become a politician.

[R650R]

The $8 fee is to weed out bots and fake accounts as will be too hard if they need seperate credit card numbers. It’s well known that click farms staffed by peasant salve labour in India sell likes and followers. From memory you could buy 1000 Facebook/Twitter “likes/followers” for about $80.
I seen it in real time with a photographer dude who went overnight from about 7 followers (mum, dad, auntie couple mates etc) that is usual for a new account overnight to 10,007 followers where it stagnated and never grew much from.
The left (and prob right) has routinely used these facilities to make certain agendas look like issue of the day....

[mashman]

Elon the thinskinned has banned a comedian for impersonating him, even though her handle was still showing.
if she had impersonated say a certain cave rescue expert, she probably would of earned a cheeky Elon response. As she impersonated him, banned!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/entertai...-elon-musk.amp

"Despite her handle showing her own @kathygriffin name, the moniker by her blue checkmark said "Elon Musk" "

"Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended," he wrote Sunday night.

"Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue."

Perhaps people will think twice about trying to change their name to test the rule in future. It's an easy task to automate. Click save and the rule triggers a ban. Company policy completely depersonalised lol. People pointing the finger at any individual need their head read... or an IT course or something.

[husaberg]

"Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended," he wrote Sunday night.

"Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue."

Perhaps people will think twice about trying to change their name to test the rule in future. It's an easy task to automate. Click save and the rule triggers a ban. Company policy completely depersonalised lol. People pointing the finger at any individual need their head read... or an IT course or something.

Really Mashy the individual that got their panties in knot was the one parodied. they were the one that instigated the ban that's why they also made sure to let the public know why it happened. that why it says "GOING FORWARD"
But it maters not he owns the platform he can do a he wishes (within the laws)
But rest assured people if they don't like his platform will vote with their feet as will the advertisers.

Musk had to buy twitter as she couldn't back out. it was before the courts


its losing over 4 us million dollars a day or over 3 billion a year and he paid 44 billion for it that he needs to pay back.
on top of all of this he's alienated a lot of people that pay to advertise on the platform.
on top of this hes secured the deal borrowing directly against his tesla stock which has plummeted losing him 30 billion dollars and counting

Even after the SEC fined Musk $20 million for posting an allegedly misleading tweet about his plan to take Tesla private, Musk continued to push the limits of his settlement by posting unauthorized tweets — a risk the world’s richest man could afford to take.

So when Musk changed his mind about buying Twitter, many believed he would somehow get out of it, even if his legal justification seemed flimsy. But this time, Musk didn’t get out of it. That’s because, in large part, of the Delaware Court of Chancery, the business court overseeing Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk.

On October 3, Musk's legal team informed Twitter that Musk had changed his mind and decided to move forward with his proposed acquisition at the originally agreed-upon price of $54.20 per share, on the condition that Twitter drop its lawsuit.The reason for this reversal was attributed to concerns from Musk's team that they would not be able to prove that there was a material adverse effect justifying a break from contract

if he had the world would have seen more of his texts to his mates
https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...dorsey/671619/

[mashman]

FTX: Cryptocurrency giant Binance walks away from bailout

lollies... coz crypto is gonna produce a financial system that works. We're doooooooooomed, doooooooooomed I tell ye.

[R650R]

[mashman]

Bankman-Fried Warns: Some Crypto Exchanges Already “Secretly Insolvent” (back in June)

"But, despite the generous bailouts, not even Bankman-Fried is able, or willing, to throw good money after bad in perpetuity. “There are companies that are basically too far gone and it's not practical to backstop them for reasons like a substantial hole in the balance sheet, regulatory issues, or that there is not much of a business left to be saved,” says Bankman-Fried, who declined to name any specific crypto exchanges."

"Despite the carnage, Bankman-Fried tells Forbes that FTX remains profitable and has been for the past 10 quarters. FTX’s biggest rival Coinbase lost $432 million in the first quarter of 2022 and its stock is down almost 90% from its all-time high."

Oh the Lol-lies that people tell themselves and the papers and so on. Suddenly his surname takes on a whole new meaning.

[pritch]

Elon Musk has realised he is destroying Twitter and that its demise is imminent. He is looking for a new CEO to run the company. He will need to find one who hasn't read what it's like to work with him. Things like getting an angry call at 3.00AM, "I'm at the office, where are you?"

That has the ring of truth since his immediate solution to the problems he has caused at Twitter is to sleep in the office so he can cause problems 24/7.
https://www.techspot.com/news/96653-...OILB9tGF_-uB5A

[onearmedbandit]

Well as much as I think Elon's an idiot at times it's hardly surprising that one of the most driven individuals has high expectations of those around him and employed by him...

[TheDemonLord]

Well as much as I think Elon's an idiot at times it's hardly surprising that one of the most driven individuals has high expectations of those around him and employed by him...

My thoughts as well, Steve Jobs springs to mind as well.