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  • AxtremusA Offline
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    Axtremus
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    #410

    GM temporarily halts paid advertising on Twitter
    https://www.reuters.com/technology/gm-temporarily-halts-paid-advertising-twitter-2022-10-28/

    Racist tweets quickly surface after Musk closes Twitter deal
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/28/musk-twitter-racist-posts/

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    • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

      @Jolly said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

      Without cause?

      Musk owns the company. He can fire or hire who he chooses...

      Sorry - it wasn't very clear what I was trying to say. I was trying to say that a lot of executive contracts have a "golden parachute". If you are let for "for cause", you don't get the parachute. However, if you were let go "without cause", you still get your parachute.

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      @taiwan_girl said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

      @Jolly said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

      Without cause?

      Musk owns the company. He can fire or hire who he chooses...

      Sorry - it wasn't very clear what I was trying to say. I was trying to say that a lot of executive contracts have a "golden parachute". If you are let for "for cause", you don't get the parachute. However, if you were let go "without cause", you still get your parachute.

      (https://www.reuters.com/technology/golden-parachutes-3-fired-twitter-executives-worth-122-mln-equilar-2022-10-28/)

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      • George KG Offline
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        George K
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        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • George KG Offline
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          George K
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          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          • MikM Offline
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            Mik
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            #414

            And here comes Bezos trying to hurt Musk.

            https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/you-ve-decided-to-quit-twitter-here-s-what-you-can-use-to-replace-it/ar-AA13vObT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3f7d32e297b54bce8c896657a7863171

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • MikM Mik

              And here comes Bezos trying to hurt Musk.

              https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/you-ve-decided-to-quit-twitter-here-s-what-you-can-use-to-replace-it/ar-AA13vObT?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3f7d32e297b54bce8c896657a7863171

              George KG Offline
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              George K
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              @Mik apparently the irony of a billionaire who owns a media enterprise complaining about a billionaire owning a media enterprise is lost on Mr.(I make tourist rockets) Bezos.

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • MikM Offline
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                #416

                H/T Ivorythumper

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                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                • HoraceH Online
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                  #417

                  We'll see how many people actually do end up voting against Twitter with their eyeballs and clicks. My suspicion is that not many will. Because actually the politically directional moderation didn't make the place more attractive, and the lack of it (to whatever extent a change will even be noticeable) won't make it less attractive.

                  That won't stop the left from writing op-eds about how the place has become a cesspool of hate, replete with references to troll tweets that could just as easily have been culled from Twitter before the Musk takeover. Ax is dutifully reporting such stories to TNCR as we speak.

                  Education is extremely important.

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                  • LuFins DadL Offline
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                    LuFins Dad
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                    LOL, the number of people that I have seen posting on Facebook that they are leaving Twitter is HILARIOUS. I’ve just opened a Twitter account.

                    The Brad

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                    • HoraceH Online
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                      #419

                      It’ll become a guilty pleasure. If any mainstreamer talks about being on Twitter now, they will be extra careful to provide the scaffolding about being careful who they follow and that their feed is sane and sensible.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                      • MikM Offline
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                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                        • George KG Offline
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                          George K
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #421

                          Read the replies.

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                            George K
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                            https://amp.tmz.com/2022/10/28/twitter-layoffs-hoax-pranksters-trick-media-outlets-pose-fired-employees-elon-musk/

                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              #423

                              https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

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                                I think that Elon Musk has kind of "jump the shark". He seemed to used to have quite a bit of respect for his business thinking and "out of the box" thinking.

                                But to my unsophisticated mind, he seems to have lost that respect. He is Starting to seem like a "caricature ".

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                                • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                  I think that Elon Musk has kind of "jump the shark". He seemed to used to have quite a bit of respect for his business thinking and "out of the box" thinking.

                                  But to my unsophisticated mind, he seems to have lost that respect. He is Starting to seem like a "caricature ".

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                                  Horace
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #425

                                  @taiwan_girl said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                  I think that Elon Musk has kind of "jump the shark". He seemed to used to have quite a bit of respect for his business thinking and "out of the box" thinking.

                                  But to my unsophisticated mind, he seems to have lost that respect. He is Starting to seem like a "caricature ".

                                  That's because Musk has verged into having opinions that go against the pop cultural grain. The lack of respect you feel, is entirely due to the disrespectful messaging you're being fed, by the cultural forces who feel threatened by Musk. You might want to reflect on what you know about Musk, and how you know it. My guess is that you couldn't name a single specific thing Mr Musk believes, which you would find worthy of disrespect.

                                  The reason the messaging has become disrespectful, is because Mr Musk is demonstrably not an indoctrinated left-leaning culture soldier, and as such is unreliable in his political and cultural opinions. This scares the leftist establishment, so they pull the levers to make the masses feel about Musk as they would like the masses to feel about Musk.

                                  Education is extremely important.

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                                    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

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                                    jon-nycJ Online
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                                    jon-nyc
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                                    @Copper said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

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                                    Musk is probably just helping the GOP in the midterms.

                                    Only non-witches get due process.

                                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                    • George KG Offline
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                                      LOL

                                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                        😄😄😄😄

                                        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                          No parachutes?

                                          Mr. Musk also appears unlikely to pay the golden parachutes that the fired top executives of Twitter were set to receive. Under the merger agreement, those executives — including Parag Agrawal, the chief executive — had been set to receive compensation of $20 million to $60 million if they were fired. But Mr. Musk terminated the executives “for cause,” meaning he did it because he alleged he had justification, which may void that agreement, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
                                          Those executives, who also include the former chief financial officer Ned Segal, the former general counsel Sean Edgett, and the former top policy and legal executive Vijaya Gadde, are deliberating their next steps, one person said.
                                          Mr. Musk may also be testing Twitter’s engineers. He and his team have assigned some of them projects to complete, three people with knowledge of the matter said. One project involved changes to Twitter’s login screen, they said. Some engineers worked late into the night on Friday to complete the assignments, they said.

                                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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