Elon Musk: Officially a fraud and piece of shit. Official or unofficial war criminal?

[Brisketexan 105139]

Ok. Trust me, y’all are more worried about Twitter than me. It’s been working fine. I haven’t seen any changes.  

Being that virtually none of the story or recent events is about Twitter’s core functionality….fantastic deflection. It’s like being on a plane plummeting to the ground and observing that your seat still reclines just fine.

[GenXer 2877]

8 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

Ok. Trust me, y’all are more worried about Twitter than me. It’s been working fine. I haven’t seen any changes.  

The board of Eli Lilly sure has. That carries a bit of weight.

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31 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Being that virtually none of the story or recent events is about Twitter’s core functionality….fantastic deflection. It’s like being on a plane plummeting to the ground and observing that your seat still reclines just fine.

Please forgive the tangent, but this reminds me of a story I would like to share via an oilfield acquaintance of mine (i.e. it's probably made up).

Apparently the main character of the story was in a chopper that ditched offshore.  It wasn't a major calamity as the chopper auto-rotated safely to the water's surface and was floating upright with no issues.  Main character gets out of his seat and starts heading to the door to GTFO.  Pilot turns around and yells at him to sit his ass back down because his movement could send the currently stable chopper listing causing it to sink.  Pilot says "Stay calm, this bird is designed to float."  Main character responds, "Yeah, you also said it was designed to fucking fly and how did that work out?"

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5 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Some kid in his basement fires off a troll tweet that wipes out billions. What a world we live in.

Meanwhile, I, a middled-aged guy to living in his parents basement, fires out a tweet that ends up with a restraining order.

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9 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Imagine spending $44 BILLION DOLLARS on a business without having an actual plan on how to run the business. THEN, absent an actual plan, you decide the best course of action is to blow the entire thing up.

What in the actual fuck is he thinking?

Imagine that back in 2014, you successfully invaded a neighboring country and took a big and desirable peninsula, along with a few other areas.

Now imagine that it's February of 2022, and you've decided to take the entire country and your generals plan out an invasion that everybody thinks will capture the neighboring country's capital in three days.

Now imagine that it's November of 2022, and you're building a shitty version of the Maginot Line just to try and keep that peninsula you took back in 2014.

That's a preview of Elon's purchase of Twitter.

As is this video.

 

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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Meanwhile, I, a middled-aged guy not living in his parents basement, fires out a tweet that ends up with a restraining order.

to is not not, fucking auto-correct.  Probably Elon's fault.

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1 hour ago, Humble Beast said:

 It seems to me that he’s A/B testing a lot of things rapidly so it’s pretty herky jerky right now. 

You don't do that on a live system with 450 million active users a month.  It's the dumbest fucking thing out of everything Elon is doing. We can't be too far off from somebody implementing one of Elon's directives and breaking the live site.

 

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13585]

Why do you people hate success and want to punish those who are smarter than you and work harder than you by compounded orders of magnitudes beyond your comprehension when you should be thanking your lucky stars you were born in the same time window as these prosperity geniuses showering their magic upon your existence?

[Covri 6249]

3 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Why do you people hate success and want to punish those who are smarter than you and work harder than you by compounded orders of magnitudes beyond your comprehension when you should be thanking your lucky stars you were born in the same time window as these prosperity geniuses showering their magic upon your existence?

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1 hour ago, Humble Beast said:

I just think it’s a funny that a bunch of know it alls on this site are rooting so hard against him for…reasons.

If anybody reading this thread happens to find themselves near a pasture containing a bull with "twitter users" written on the side of it, and there's another bull with "advertisers" written on the side of it, and then yet another with "FTC" written on the side of it, and some idiot shouts out that he's going to hop the fence, go and fuck with the bulls, and then outrun the bulls, 99% of us are going to be rooting for the bulls.

Who the idiot is really isn't important, although if he's the world's fastest man, we are going to be even more entertained when he loses that race.

[Humble Beast 258]

47 minutes ago, GenXer said:

The board of Eli Lilly sure has. That carries a bit of weight.

Ok I’m just catching up. So some fake verified account tweeted something obviously false and the stock tanked 5%? To levels not seen since 10 days ago? Oh, the horror. I mean relax. This was obviously some hedge fund or something placing a bet ahead of doing this. I wish I had thought of it.  Y’all are so naive, just like the n-word explosion the day Elon bought Twitter. You’ll buy anything.  
 

Look back in a few weeks and it won’t even be a thing. 

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Mental gymnastics going on here.

He's had a lot of practice with those recently.

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

16 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

Look back in a few weeks and it won’t even be a thing. 

You're right. Fast forward a few weeks and Elon will have done dozens of other inconceivably dumb shit that will have made us forget all about his Twitter blue fuck up. 

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

You don't do that on a live system with 450 million active users a month.  It's the dumbest fucking thing out of everything Elon is doing. We can't be too far off from somebody implementing one of Elon's directives and breaking the live site.

 

I am pretty sure GRUHorns career involves lower level bureaucratic management at SAMMC based on his posts. He is ironically, a government employee that doesn't know fuck about fuck about the Tech industry.

 

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9 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

He’s fundamentally wrong on one of the issues I care about most. (He’s a shitcoiner vs bitcoin).

Jesus this explains a lot.

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[Humble Beast 258]

8 hours ago, F250 said:

I am pretty sure GRUHorns career involves lower level bureaucratic management at SAMMC based on his posts. He is ironically, a government employee that doesn't know fuck about fuck about the Tech industry.

 

A Russian troll has now managed to infiltrate the VA system? 
 

You’re right. I don’t know shit about the tech industry. Just an observer here. 
 

10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

You don't do that on a live system with 450 million active users a month.  It's the dumbest fucking thing out of everything Elon is doing. We can't be too far off from somebody implementing one of Elon's directives and breaking the live site.

 

Well then it’s surely all going to come crashing down. Maybe I’ll just check back in once a week to see if Twitter is still up. 
 

Take Elon claims with a grain of salt. 
 

 

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20 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

A Russian troll has now managed to infiltrate the VA system? 
 

You’re right. I don’t know shit about the tech industry. Just an observer here. 
 

Well then it’s surely all going to come crashing down. Maybe I’ll just check back in once a week to see if Twitter is still up. 
 

Take Elon claims with a grain of salt. 
 

 

 

 

Its already degrading from functionality standpoint.

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24 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

Take Elon claims with a grain of salt. 

If you stop removing bots and spam accounts (or lay off the people that do or they leave), then I would expect activity to increase substantially.

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10 minutes ago, G650 said:

Its already degrading from functionality standpoint.

I’ve already seen the like/notification issues being mentioned but figured it was just them fucking with the feed to the iOS client.

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[Incredulity 11671]

On 11/9/2022 at 1:30 PM, NoName said:

i have an almost 25 year old twitter account

Are you a time traveler? You have to tell us if you are.

[cactusflinthead 27598]

12 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

Ok. Trust me, y’all are more worried about Twitter than me. It’s been working fine. I haven’t seen any changes.  

So why wouldn't they talk about Twitter on Twitter? 

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https://www.context.news/big-tech/how-musks-twitter-takeover-could-endanger-vulnerable-users

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LOS ANGELES - Elon Musk's mass layoffs at Twitter are putting government critics and opposition figures around the world at risk, digital rights activists and groups warn, as the company slashes staff including human rights experts and workers in regional hubs.

Experts fear that changing priorities and a loss of experienced workers may mean Twitter falls in line with more requests from officials worldwide to curb critical speech and hand over data on users.

"Twitter is cutting the very teams that were supposed to focus on making the platform safer for its users," said Allie Funk, research director for technology and democracy at Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit focused on rights and democracy.   

Twitter fired about half its 7,500 staff last week, following a $44 billion buyout by Musk.

Musk has said "Twitter's strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged".

Last week, its head of safety Yoel Roth said the platform's ability to manage harassment and hate speech was not materially impacted by the staff changes. Roth has since left Twitter.

However, rights experts have raised concerns over the loss of specialist rights and ethics teams, and media reports of heavy cuts in regional headquarters including in Asia and Africa.

There are also fears of a rise in misinformation and harassment with the loss of staff with knowledge of local contexts and languages outside of the United States.

"The risk is especially acute for users based in the Global Majority (people of color and those in the Global South) and in conflict zones," said Marlena Wisniak, a lawyer who worked at Twitter on human rights and governance issues until August. 

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

The impact of staff cuts is already being felt, said Nighat Dad, a Pakistani digital rights activist who runs a helpline for women facing harassment on social media.

When female political dissidents, journalists, or activists in Pakistan are impersonated online or experience targeted harassment such as false accusations of blasphemy that could put their lives at risk, Dad's group has a direct line to Twitter.

But since Musk took over, Twitter has not been as responsive to her requests for urgent takedowns of such high-risk content, said Dad, who also sits on Twitter's Trust and Safety Council of  independent rights advisors.

"I see Elon's tweets and I think he just wants Twitter to be a place for the U.S. audience, and not something safe for the rest of the world," she said.

Censorship risks

As Musk reshapes Twitter, he faces tough questions over how to handle takedown demands from authorities - especially in countries where officials have demanded the removal of content by journalists and activists voicing criticism.

Musk wrote on Twitter in May that his preference would be to "hew close to the laws of countries in which Twitter operates" when deciding whether to comply.

Twitter's latest transparency report said in the second half of 2021, it received a record of nearly 50,000 legal takedown demands to remove content or block it from being viewed within a requester's country.

Many targeted illegal content such as child abuse or scams but others aimed to repress legitimate criticism, said the report, which noted a "steady increase" in demands against journalists and news outlets. 

It said it ignored almost half of demands, as the tweets were not found to have breached Twitter's rules.

Last week, its head of safety Yoel Roth said the platform's ability to manage harassment and hate speech was not materially impacted by the staff changes. Roth has since left Twitter.

However, rights experts have raised concerns over the loss of specialist rights and ethics teams, and media reports of heavy cuts in regional headquarters including in Asia and Africa.

There are also fears of a rise in misinformation and harassment with the loss of staff with knowledge of local contexts and languages outside of the United States.

"The risk is especially acute for users based in the Global Majority (people of color and those in the Global South) and in conflict zones," said Marlena Wisniak, a lawyer who worked at Twitter on human rights and governance issues until August. 

Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

The impact of staff cuts is already being felt, said Nighat Dad, a Pakistani digital rights activist who runs a helpline for women facing harassment on social media.

When female political dissidents, journalists, or activists in Pakistan are impersonated online or experience targeted harassment such as false accusations of blasphemy that could put their lives at risk, Dad's group has a direct line to Twitter.

But since Musk took over, Twitter has not been as responsive to her requests for urgent takedowns of such high-risk content, said Dad, who also sits on Twitter's Trust and Safety Council of  independent rights advisors.

"I see Elon's tweets and I think he just wants Twitter to be a place for the U.S. audience, and not something safe for the rest of the world," she said.

Censorship risks

As Musk reshapes Twitter, he faces tough questions over how to handle takedown demands from authorities - especially in countries where officials have demanded the removal of content by journalists and activists voicing criticism.

Musk wrote on Twitter in May that his preference would be to "hew close to the laws of countries in which Twitter operates" when deciding whether to comply.

Twitter's latest transparency report said in the second half of 2021, it received a record of nearly 50,000 legal takedown demands to remove content or block it from being viewed within a requester's country.

Many targeted illegal content such as child abuse or scams but others aimed to repress legitimate criticism, said the report, which noted a "steady increase" in demands against journalists and news outlets. 

It said it ignored almost half of demands, as the tweets were not found to have breached Twitter's rules.The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake

 

Digital rights campaigners said they feared the gutting of specialist rights and regional staff might lead to the platform agreeing to a larger number of takedowns.

"Complying with local laws doesn't always end up respecting human rights," said Peter Micek, general counsel for the digital rights group Access Now. "To make these tough calls you need local contexts, you need eyes on the ground."

Experts were closely watching whether Musk will continue to pursue a high profile legal challenge Twitter launched last July, challenging the Indian government over orders to take down content.

Twitter users on the receiving end of takedown demands are nervous.

Yaman Akdeniz, a Turkish academic and digital rights activist who the country's courts have several times attempted to silence through takedown demands, said Twitter had previously ignored a large number of such orders.

"My concern is that, in the absence of a specialized human rights team, that may change," he said.

Surveillance concerns

The change of leadership and lay-offs also sparked fears over surveillance in places where Twitter has been a key tool for activists and civil society to mobilize.

Social media platforms can be required to hand over private user data by a subpoena, court order, or other legal processes.

Twitter has said it will push back on requests that are "incomplete or improper", with its latest transparency report showing it refused or narrowed the scope of more than half of account information demands in the second half of 2021.  

Concerns are acute in Nigeria, where activists organized a 2020 campaign against police brutality using the Twitter hashtag #EndSARS, referring to the force's much-criticized and now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

Now users may think twice about using the platform, said Adeboro Odunlami, a Nigerian digital rights lawyer.

"Can the government obtain data from Twitter about me?" she asked.

"Can I rely on Twitter to build my civic campaign?"

Election violence

Twitter teams outside the United States have suffered heavy cuts, with media reports saying that 90% of employees in India were sacked along with most staff in Mexico and almost all of the firm's sole African office in Ghana.

That has raised fears over online misinformation and hate speech around upcoming elections in Tunisia in December, Nigeria in February, and Turkey in July - all of which have seen deaths related to elections or protests.

Up to 39 people were killed in election violence in Nigeria's 2019 presidential elections, civil society groups said.

Hiring content moderators that speak local languages "is not cheap ... but it can help you from not contributing to genocide," said Micek, referring to online hate speech that activists said led to violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar and ethnic minorities in Ethiopia.

Platforms say they have invested heavily in moderation and fact-checking.

Kofi Yeboah, a digital rights researcher based in Accra, Ghana, said sacked Twitter employees told him the firm's entire African content moderation team had been laid off.

"Content moderation was a problem before and so now one of the main concerns is the upcoming elections in countries like Nigeria," said Yeboah.

"We are going to have a big problem with handling hate speech, misinformation and disinformation."

(Reporting by Avi Asher-Schapiro; Additional reporting by Nita Bhalla in Nairobi; Editing by Sonia Elks.)

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Edited November 12, 2022 by Chopper

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Two particularly great moments on twitter stand out for me. The first was when some random IT dude working late at night in Abbottabad, Pakistan unknowingly live tweeted the US Navy attack on UBL's compound, and a couple hours later President Obama was announcing the operation and death of UBL on live tv.

The second best twitter moment is a bit tougher call but I'm going with this one, some imbecile in PA who ran for Congress, on its 2 year anniversary.

 

Edited November 12, 2022 by Chopper

[Brisketexan 105139]

 
https://www.context.news/big-tech/how-musks-twitter-takeover-could-endanger-vulnerable-users
Spoiler

LOS ANGELES - Elon Musk's mass layoffs at Twitter are putting government critics and opposition figures around the world at risk, digital rights activists and groups warn, as the company slashes staff including human rights experts and workers in regional hubs.
Experts fear that changing priorities and a loss of experienced workers may mean Twitter falls in line with more requests from officials worldwide to curb critical speech and hand over data on users.
"Twitter is cutting the very teams that were supposed to focus on making the platform safer for its users," said Allie Funk, research director for technology and democracy at Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit focused on rights and democracy.   
Twitter fired about half its 7,500 staff last week, following a $44 billion buyout by Musk.
Musk has said "Twitter's strong commitment to content moderation remains absolutely unchanged".
Last week, its head of safety Yoel Roth said the platform's ability to manage harassment and hate speech was not materially impacted by the staff changes. Roth has since left Twitter.
However, rights experts have raised concerns over the loss of specialist rights and ethics teams, and media reports of heavy cuts in regional headquarters including in Asia and Africa.
There are also fears of a rise in misinformation and harassment with the loss of staff with knowledge of local contexts and languages outside of the United States.
"The risk is especially acute for users based in the Global Majority (people of color and those in the Global South) and in conflict zones," said Marlena Wisniak, a lawyer who worked at Twitter on human rights and governance issues until August. 
Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.
The impact of staff cuts is already being felt, said Nighat Dad, a Pakistani digital rights activist who runs a helpline for women facing harassment on social media.
When female political dissidents, journalists, or activists in Pakistan are impersonated online or experience targeted harassment such as false accusations of blasphemy that could put their lives at risk, Dad's group has a direct line to Twitter.
But since Musk took over, Twitter has not been as responsive to her requests for urgent takedowns of such high-risk content, said Dad, who also sits on Twitter's Trust and Safety Council of  independent rights advisors.
"I see Elon's tweets and I think he just wants Twitter to be a place for the U.S. audience, and not something safe for the rest of the world," she said.

Censorship risks

As Musk reshapes Twitter, he faces tough questions over how to handle takedown demands from authorities - especially in countries where officials have demanded the removal of content by journalists and activists voicing criticism.
Musk wrote on Twitter in May that his preference would be to "hew close to the laws of countries in which Twitter operates" when deciding whether to comply.
Twitter's latest transparency report said in the second half of 2021, it received a record of nearly 50,000 legal takedown demands to remove content or block it from being viewed within a requester's country.
Many targeted illegal content such as child abuse or scams but others aimed to repress legitimate criticism, said the report, which noted a "steady increase" in demands against journalists and news outlets. 
It said it ignored almost half of demands, as the tweets were not found to have breached Twitter's rules.
Last week, its head of safety Yoel Roth said the platform's ability to manage harassment and hate speech was not materially impacted by the staff changes. Roth has since left Twitter.
However, rights experts have raised concerns over the loss of specialist rights and ethics teams, and media reports of heavy cuts in regional headquarters including in Asia and Africa.
There are also fears of a rise in misinformation and harassment with the loss of staff with knowledge of local contexts and languages outside of the United States.
"The risk is especially acute for users based in the Global Majority (people of color and those in the Global South) and in conflict zones," said Marlena Wisniak, a lawyer who worked at Twitter on human rights and governance issues until August. 
Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.
The impact of staff cuts is already being felt, said Nighat Dad, a Pakistani digital rights activist who runs a helpline for women facing harassment on social media.
When female political dissidents, journalists, or activists in Pakistan are impersonated online or experience targeted harassment such as false accusations of blasphemy that could put their lives at risk, Dad's group has a direct line to Twitter.
But since Musk took over, Twitter has not been as responsive to her requests for urgent takedowns of such high-risk content, said Dad, who also sits on Twitter's Trust and Safety Council of  independent rights advisors.
"I see Elon's tweets and I think he just wants Twitter to be a place for the U.S. audience, and not something safe for the rest of the world," she said.

Censorship risks

As Musk reshapes Twitter, he faces tough questions over how to handle takedown demands from authorities - especially in countries where officials have demanded the removal of content by journalists and activists voicing criticism.
Musk wrote on Twitter in May that his preference would be to "hew close to the laws of countries in which Twitter operates" when deciding whether to comply.
Twitter's latest transparency report said in the second half of 2021, it received a record of nearly 50,000 legal takedown demands to remove content or block it from being viewed within a requester's country.
Many targeted illegal content such as child abuse or scams but others aimed to repress legitimate criticism, said the report, which noted a "steady increase" in demands against journalists and news outlets. 
It said it ignored almost half of demands, as the tweets were not found to have breached Twitter's rules.The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake

 
Digital rights campaigners said they feared the gutting of specialist rights and regional staff might lead to the platform agreeing to a larger number of takedowns.
"Complying with local laws doesn't always end up respecting human rights," said Peter Micek, general counsel for the digital rights group Access Now. "To make these tough calls you need local contexts, you need eyes on the ground."
Experts were closely watching whether Musk will continue to pursue a high profile legal challenge Twitter launched last July, challenging the Indian government over orders to take down content.
Twitter users on the receiving end of takedown demands are nervous.
Yaman Akdeniz, a Turkish academic and digital rights activist who the country's courts have several times attempted to silence through takedown demands, said Twitter had previously ignored a large number of such orders.
"My concern is that, in the absence of a specialized human rights team, that may change," he said.

Surveillance concerns

The change of leadership and lay-offs also sparked fears over surveillance in places where Twitter has been a key tool for activists and civil society to mobilize.
Social media platforms can be required to hand over private user data by a subpoena, court order, or other legal processes.
Twitter has said it will push back on requests that are "incomplete or improper", with its latest transparency report showing it refused or narrowed the scope of more than half of account information demands in the second half of 2021.  
Concerns are acute in Nigeria, where activists organized a 2020 campaign against police brutality using the Twitter hashtag #EndSARS, referring to the force's much-criticized and now disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
Now users may think twice about using the platform, said Adeboro Odunlami, a Nigerian digital rights lawyer.
"Can the government obtain data from Twitter about me?" she asked.
"Can I rely on Twitter to build my civic campaign?"

Election violence

Twitter teams outside the United States have suffered heavy cuts, with media reports saying that 90% of employees in India were sacked along with most staff in Mexico and almost all of the firm's sole African office in Ghana.
That has raised fears over online misinformation and hate speech around upcoming elections in Tunisia in December, Nigeria in February, and Turkey in July - all of which have seen deaths related to elections or protests.
Up to 39 people were killed in election violence in Nigeria's 2019 presidential elections, civil society groups said.
Hiring content moderators that speak local languages "is not cheap ... but it can help you from not contributing to genocide," said Micek, referring to online hate speech that activists said led to violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar and ethnic minorities in Ethiopia.
Platforms say they have invested heavily in moderation and fact-checking.
Kofi Yeboah, a digital rights researcher based in Accra, Ghana, said sacked Twitter employees told him the firm's entire African content moderation team had been laid off.
"Content moderation was a problem before and so now one of the main concerns is the upcoming elections in countries like Nigeria," said Yeboah.
"We are going to have a big problem with handling hate speech, misinformation and disinformation."
(Reporting by Avi Asher-Schapiro; Additional reporting by Nita Bhalla in Nairobi; Editing by Sonia Elks.)

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Getting dissidents silenced and worse by authoritarian governments isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of the Elonverse.

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[Chopper 17235]

14 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

Ok I’m just catching up. So some fake verified account tweeted something obviously false and the stock tanked 5%? To levels not seen since 10 days ago? Oh, the horror. I mean relax. This was obviously some hedge fund or something placing a bet ahead of doing this. I wish I had thought of it.  Y’all are so naive, just like the n-word explosion the day Elon bought Twitter. You’ll buy anything.  
 

Look back in a few weeks and it won’t even be a thing. 

If you're going to claim "it won't even be a thing" I'd love to see a reasonably plausible explanation for how elon's going to cover $100M per month in new debt service. He had months to plan for the moment he's now facing and he's rapidly fucked it up with a speed that's well beyond the worst-case scenarios. He's at the point where things have gotten so bad that he's angered major Tesla backers because he's selling large chunks of tesla stock to cover shortfalls at twitter, and driving down the stock price.

New products, withdrawn products, losing most major advertisers...Sure, "not a thing" LOL. Only 140,000 accounts have signed up for their shit twitter blue product, most of those probably just to clown on elo. That's a bit over $1M in revenue, one percent of what he needs. To cover the new debt service he needs 15,000,000 new twitter blue subscribers. 

 

[CooterBrown 18012]

[Chopper 17235]

source

 

[GenXer 2877]

14 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

Ok I’m just catching up. So some fake verified account tweeted something obviously false and the stock tanked 5%? To levels not seen since 10 days ago? Oh, the horror. I mean relax. This was obviously some hedge fund or something placing a bet ahead of doing this. I wish I had thought of it.  Y’all are so naive, just like the n-word explosion the day Elon bought Twitter. You’ll buy anything.  
 

Look back in a few weeks and it won’t even be a thing. 

There’s 1.45 million type 1 diabetics in the US. Doctors prescribe the modern (analog) insulin as they don’t want to run the risk of malpractice. Using my prescription as a baseline (lispro for short acting and levemir for long acting), that’s $400 per month of revenue between the manufacturer and retailer. For all type 1’s that comes to $580 million per month.

 Eli Lilly and its board wants to protect that revenue. Any threat is treated seriously.

There are a lot of people ignorant of the insulin money grab. Twitter has nearly 400 million users. Musk has a large fanbase as well. Insulin manufacturers want to continue flying under the radar and keep getting that sweet revenue stream.

Not to CR this thread but theres federal and state legislation that can threaten the revenue stream.  Attention brought to that is a threat.

Eli Lilly is doing damage control on twitter; they had to apologize as a result of a decision by Musk. 

Eli Lilly’s board is paying attention.

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12 minutes ago, GenXer said:

There are a lot of people ignorant of the insulin money grab. Twitter has nearly 400 million users. Musk has a large fanbase as well. Insulin manufacturers want to continue flying under the radar and keep getting that sweet revenue stream.

Yep, saw this with a relative,

And I was banging this gal whose husband is diabetic, and she would swap his insulin for the cheap, short-acting stuff from Walmart, and it’d cause a hypoglycemic episode, which meant he was out of it and  she would have to call 911 and the paramedics would come and get him out of it.  She’d give him the cheap stuff, he passes out or whatever, she’d call me and I’d come over, we’d do our thing, and then she’d call 911 and have them deal with her husband after I left.

It was creepy as fuck to be banging her, with her husband passed out next to us in bed, I always wondered if he was kind of awake or aware of what was going on.

on a side not, I’ve got a lot more bots in my feeds as of late..

 

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36 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yep, saw this with a relative,

And I was banging this gal whose husband is diabetic, and she would swap his insulin for the cheap, short-acting stuff from Walmart, and it’d cause a hypoglycemic episode, which meant he was out of it and  she would have to call 911 and the paramedics would come and get him out of it.  She’d give him the cheap stuff, he passes out or whatever, she’d call me and I’d come over, we’d do our thing, and then she’d call 911 and have them deal with her husband after I left.

It was creepy as fuck to be banging her, with her husband passed out next to us in bed, I always wondered if he was kind of awake or aware of what was going on.

on a side not, I’ve got a lot more bots in my feeds as of late..

 

 

He's a nihilist

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5 hours ago, Humble Beast said:

A Russian troll has now managed to infiltrate the VA system? 
 

You’re right. I don’t know shit about the tech industry. Just an observer here.

 

I never claimed that you are a Russian troll like others have claimed, I am confident that you are just a goober from San Antonio.

 

[mdmost 43001]

38 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

He's a nihilist

[Humble Beast 258]

2 hours ago, Chopper said:

If you're going to claim "it won't even be a thing" I'd love to see a reasonably plausible explanation for how elon's going to cover $100M per month in new debt service. He had months to plan for the moment he's now facing and he's rapidly fucked it up with a speed that's well beyond the worst-case scenarios. He's at the point where things have gotten so bad that he's angered major Tesla backers because he's selling large chunks of tesla stock to cover shortfalls at twitter, and driving down the stock price.

New products, withdrawn products, losing most major advertisers...Sure, "not a thing" LOL. Only 140,000 accounts have signed up for their shit twitter blue product, most of those probably just to clown on elo. That's a bit over $1M in revenue, one percent of what he needs. To cover the new debt service he needs 15,000,000 new twitter blue subscribers. 

 

I was talking about the Eli Lilly thing, not Twitter as a whole. 
 

 

[Chopper 17235]

9 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

I was talking about the Eli Lilly thing, not Twitter as a whole. 
 

 

I mistakenly quoted the wrong post by you.

"Ok. Trust me, y’all are more worried about Twitter than me. It’s been working fine. I haven’t seen any changes. "

[GenXer 2877]

3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yep, saw this with a relative,

And I was banging this gal whose husband is diabetic, and she would swap his insulin for the cheap, short-acting stuff from Walmart, and it’d cause a hypoglycemic episode, which meant he was out of it and  she would have to call 911 and the paramedics would come and get him out of it.  She’d give him the cheap stuff, he passes out or whatever, she’d call me and I’d come over, we’d do our thing, and then she’d call 911 and have them deal with her husband after I left.

It was creepy as fuck to be banging her, with her husband passed out next to us in bed, I always wondered if he was kind of awake or aware of what was going on.

on a side not, I’ve got a lot more bots in my feeds as of late..

 

 

Wait. What?

[chainsaw 9868]

10 minutes ago, GenXer said:

Wait. What?

Woman would use bad insulin on her husband so that she could cheat on him with @atomheartbevo.

[GenXer 2877]

10 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Woman would use bad insulin on her husband so that she could cheat on him with @atomheartbevo.

[Buzzrock 14920]

See? Twitter is better now. Much more entertaining.

[Chopper 17235]

It's really incredible that he still doesn't understand how basic shit works. I mean, my god, twitter = pinterest in the category he's citing, and he's out there bragging fake shit.

 

Edited November 13, 2022 by Chopper

[Chopper 17235]

On another note, my wife has been out of the country on business for 5 weeks (so we haven't talked about bs like twitter or politics), and before the game last night she was telling me about so-and-so, who we know, who was high up in twitter's legal department but who had exited to another company before the sale to elo went through, has been helping current and ex-twitter employees deal with their legal issues, and he's had a ton of emps and ex-emps reach out to him. And then she said, "You know when I met musk at a business function (~5 years ago) he was shockingly rude and unprofessional, and you could tell he's somewhere on the spectrum." She's a leader in her field and a consultant, and is incredibly perceptive and knowledgeable about people in business so there's that. I didn't know she met musk.

Edited November 13, 2022 by Chopper

[Firemans4Horn 18049]

 

former world’s wealthiest man now world’s dumbest man?

[Celery Man 20949]

55 minutes ago, Chopper said:

It's really incredible that he still doesn't understand how basic shit works. I mean, my god, twitter = pinterest in the category he's citing, and he's out there bragging fake shit.

 

I remember when Twitter added the “don’t you want to click this fucking link and look at what it says before you retweet it?” feature 

22 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

former world’s wealthiest man now world’s dumbest man?

This response to a verified account spoofing a sitting US Senator is unacceptable by any reasonable standard.

Edited November 13, 2022 by Celery Man