Twitter likely to take idiots offer to buy them for $43 billion

[TomC]

Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns?

The Simpsons character and the guy ruining Twitter often sound a lot alike.

newrepublic.com

75%.

92%
I do know my psychopath!

I'm not sure I'd brag about that. "Takes one to know one", that sort of thing.

I got 50%. I've been a Simpsons watcher for years. Musk I barely noticed before Twitter.

Maybe, if Fox checks with their lawyers and properly purchased scotus representatives, they could do a Burns v Musk death match episode. It would be just like them.

"Who owns Mars? And who is given permission to escape Earth?"

It could be done.
Tom

 

[Elixir]

I'm not sure I'd brag about that

i bet you would if you could.

. "Takes one to know one", that sort of thing.

The important thing is, I know them when I see them.

 

[TomC]

I've never watched The Simpsons so I can't play.

Easily remedied; watch The Simpsons.

To the best of my knowledge,
The first I ever heard of Trump was a Simpson episode. Lisa Simpson was elected President to clean up the mess left behind by President Trump.
Her first words in the Oval Office were, "We can't really be bankrupt!?!"

Tom

 

[TomC]

The important thing is, I know them when I see them.

Lucky for you,
back in 1972 you didn't post "Jeffrey Dahmer is homosexual serial killer who likes to eat young boys after they die. He loves his mom."

The important thing is that you know them when you see them, but don't tell anyone important.

Tom

 

[ZiprHead]

I've never watched The Simpsons so I can't play.

Easily remedied; watch The Simpsons.

No, thank you.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Birds tweet.

Sexy birds near my location, according to my spam folder.

I'm not getting much of that stuff these days. I looked through the undeleted spam, found half a dozen dating site ads, only one of which had anything about nearby. Far more trolling lawyers.

 

[TomC]

I've never watched The Simpsons so I can't play.

Easily remedied; watch The Simpsons.

No, thank you.

You might find it worthwhile.
It's the most viciously satirical program I know about on American TV.

I AM BART.

Tom

 

[Elixir]

It's the most viciously satirical program I know about on American TV.

Well, there's South Park...

 

[TomC]

I've never watched The Simpsons so I can't play.

Easily remedied; watch The Simpsons.

No, thank you.

You might find it worthwhile.
It's the most viciously satirical program I know about on American TV.

I AM BART.

Tom

Also, South Park.

The episode where the Trumpy redneck, Cartman, tried to build Trump's Wall was epic! Because Cartman was trying to keep Mexicans from leaving with a Wall. Cheap labor leaving would bring down the whole American economy!
THEN THE WORLD!

It was Hillaryous.
Tom

 

[TomC]

It's the most viciously satirical program I know about on American TV.

Well, there's South Park...

Yeah, that occurred to me a few minutes later.

American satirical cartoons RULE!
Tom

 

[bilby]

It's the most viciously satirical program I know about on American TV.

Well, there's South Park...

Simpsons already did it.

 

[Elixir]

It's the most viciously satirical program I know about on American TV.

Well, there's South Park...

Simpsons already did it.

So precious!

 

[lpetrich]

A Look At Bluesky, The Jack Dorsey-Led Decentralised Social Network That Could Rival Twitter

Bluesky was commissioned by Jack Dorsey when he was still the CEO of Twitter. And with more than 30,000 signups for its waitlist in less than two days, the project is quickly being touted as an alternative and perhaps even a replacement for the Musk-owned Twitter.

Bluesky - "We‘re building the AT Protocol, a new foundation for social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience."
Noting
The AT Protocol
I've also found
 Bluesky (protocol)
and
bluesky-social at Github

Not a lot of details on how it will work.

 

[Gospel]

It's the most viciously satirical program I know about on American TV.

Well, there's South Park...

Yeah, that occurred to me a few minutes later.

American satirical cartoons RULE!
Tom

The trifecta is Boondocks, South Park & The Simpsons (in that order) for me. All three are the best at the genre while the rest either use too many jokes at once like Family Guy or are slow and boring like King of the Hill.

 

[TomC]

The trifecta is Boondocks, South Park & The Simpsons (in that order) for me. All three are the best at the genre while the rest either use too many jokes at once like Family Guy or are slow and boring like King of the Hill.

Boondocks was a great comic strip, but it didn't translate well to TV. Then MacGruder apparently melted down under the pressure. Unfortunate.
(maybe he just didn't get the right genes? )

I like Family Guy a lot. It's not so much political satire as cultural satire.

Then there's the dumbass knock offs. American Dad. King of the Hill.
Yawn...

Tom

 

[lpetrich]

What Employees Does Twitter Need, Anyway? - The New York Times - "The many departures have set off a wave of hand-wringing about whether the site can continue to operate well."

Twitter is unlikely to experience a sudden crash, many tech experts said. But the company could start to experience more outages, slow uploads and hacks.

“The site may run just fine for a while, kind of like you can drive a car with the check-engine light for thousands of miles,” said David Thiel, the chief technologist for the Stanford Internet Observatory and a former security official at Meta. “Except in this case, people who knew what that light meant and how to service this particular model are gone.”

Then about what various jobs involve.

Platform Engineers

...
Many are software engineers whose job is to make sure the site loads reliably and is stable enough to add features and users. Twitter has had a “blob storage” team, which helps manage the storage of all videos, photos and other content. A “caching” request team makes sure that saved content can load quickly. A “graph” team tracks and maintains databases on whom users follow. Those teams have been drastically reduced in size.

There are also employees who manage the physical plants, including data centers that each house hundreds of thousands of servers. These engineers are on the ground in the data center in Sacramento, for example, deal with any disruptions such as a server outage and are expected to quickly fix any other problems that can slow the site.

Also, rapid response, security trust & safety, advertising sales

 

[lpetrich]

What Elon Musk Is Doing to Twitter Is What He Did at Tesla and SpaceX - The New York Times

Firing people. Talking of bankruptcy. Telling workers to be “hard core.” Mr. Musk has repeatedly used those tactics at many of his companies.

Elon Musk was sleeping at the office. He dismissed employees and executives at will. And he lamented his company was on the verge of bankruptcy.

That was back in 2018 and the company was Tesla, as Mr. Musk’s electric automaker struggled to build its mass-market vehicle, the Model 3.

“It was excruciating,” he told The New York Times at the time. “There were times when I didn’t leave the factory for three or four days — days when I didn’t go outside.”

... Over the years, Mr. Musk has developed a playbook for managing his companies — including Tesla and the rocket manufacturer SpaceX — through periods of pain, employing shock treatment and alarmism and pushing his workers and himself to put aside their families and friends to spend all their energy on his mission.

 

[Shadowy Man]

What Elon Musk Is Doing to Twitter Is What He Did at Tesla and SpaceX - The New York Times

Firing people. Talking of bankruptcy. Telling workers to be “hard core.” Mr. Musk has repeatedly used those tactics at many of his companies.

Elon Musk was sleeping at the office. He dismissed employees and executives at will. And he lamented his company was on the verge of bankruptcy.

That was back in 2018 and the company was Tesla, as Mr. Musk’s electric automaker struggled to build its mass-market vehicle, the Model 3.

“It was excruciating,” he told The New York Times at the time. “There were times when I didn’t leave the factory for three or four days — days when I didn’t go outside.”

... Over the years, Mr. Musk has developed a playbook for managing his companies — including Tesla and the rocket manufacturer SpaceX — through periods of pain, employing shock treatment and alarmism and pushing his workers and himself to put aside their families and friends to spend all their energy on his mission.

Right. Because clearly any human endeavor worth doing is worth neglecting your humanity to achieve.

 

[lpetrich]

As Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Twitter, Some Bills Are Going Unpaid - The New York Times - "Mr. Musk and his advisers are examining all types of expenses at Twitter. Some of the social media company’s vendors have gotten stiffed."

But once Mr. Musk took over the company, he refused to reimburse travel vendors for those bills, current and former Twitter employees said. Mr. Musk’s staff said the services were authorized by the company’s former management and not by him. His staff have since avoided the calls of the travel vendors, the people said.

From Twitter to Mastodon: What Happens When Journalists Flock Platforms - The New York Times

Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative

Journa.host promises to be a new “reliable home for journalists.” What happens when they move in?

...
“Come on in, the water’s confusing but fine — and more swimmable,” the journalist Virginia Heffernan wrote on journa.host on Nov. 6.

On Nov. 7 the MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan posted: “I feel like a new kid in a new school.”

It's part of the Mastodon network.

Journa.host users are figuring out almost everything about Mastodon on the fly, including, for starters, what to call Twitter. For many, it’s “the bird site.” For others, it’s “the bird app” or “the Bad Place.” For years, the Mastodon equivalent of “tweets” were “toots,” as from a trunk. On Nov. 14, as part of a software update, the service replaced “toot” with “publish.”

Using journa.host feels a little like crossing the border to a kinder, more rule-bound, less dynamic country. Susanne Althoff, a user and former magazine editor, compared journa.host to zine culture.

“The conversation is still very much a low murmur,” Mr. Weiss said.

Toot -> publish? I like "toot" - very short, like "tweet".

Indeed, at times, journa.host looks a lot like Twitter, just without all the non-journalists and most of the nastiness.

Frequent topics on journa.host include the deficiencies of Twitter (hate-filled, attention-addled, ruled by an impulsive billionaire), the deficiencies of Mastodon (hard to use, lacking a quote-retweet function, boring), and journalists’ ambivalence about the transition.

“I am having a hard time letting go of the birdsite but I was raised by an alcoholic so I understand what a trauma bond is,” the political journalist Ana Marie Cox wrote on journa.host on Nov. 20.

Mr. Davidson said that he had become concerned in recent years about what he called the “extreme emotional engagement” encouraged by Twitter. The slower pace and calmer rhythms of Mastodon have made him appreciate how a platform’s algorithms and options for, say, retweeting, shape the way its users interact, he said.

“I’m not sure the versions of me on these different platforms would like each other,” he said.

 

[marc]

Some legal issue with the dumpster fire