Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter
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Sort of related to the post earlier about "engineers," is the observation that, despite all the doom and gloom from late last week, Twitter is still functioning exactly as it has in the past. At least for the end-user.
Some snarky comment was made about how it's working with more than 75% of the people gone, and how that should be applied to the US government.
As an aside, all the people complaining about how they're going to leave Twitter because of the new leadership and new rules...where are they going? Has anyone built a social network platform that comes even close to what Twitter is. Look at how Truth Social, Parler and their ilk have fared.
wrote on 21 Nov 2022, 11:44 last edited by Doctor Phibes@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Look at how Truth Social, Parler and their ilk have fared.
Maybe there's a connection between really bad at writing software and being right wing?
Horace, Ax, Klaus - care to comment?
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@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Look at how Truth Social, Parler and their ilk have fared.
Maybe there's a connection between really bad at writing software and being right wing?
Horace, Ax, Klaus - care to comment?
wrote on 21 Nov 2022, 11:48 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Look at how Truth Social, Parler and their ilk have fared.
Maybe there's a connection between really bad at writing software and being right wing?
Horace, Ax, Klaus - care to comment?
I'm not sure whether there is any meaningful correlation between political leanings and programmer ability, but I think the more important influence here is that if you are a good programmer, you would hesitate to work at places like Parler because it damages your career.
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@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Look at how Truth Social, Parler and their ilk have fared.
Maybe there's a connection between really bad at writing software and being right wing?
Horace, Ax, Klaus - care to comment?
wrote on 21 Nov 2022, 13:19 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Maybe there's a connection between really bad at writing software and being right wing?
I can assure you that it is exactly the opposite.
No question
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I have divorced my job duties as much as possible from writing good code. To this day I write zero unit tests and nobody complains about it. Win. Being a good programmer is utterly tedious.
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@Jolly said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Stay woke, stay broke...
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wrote on 28 Nov 2022, 19:09 last edited by Horace
That sucks. Misstep for Apple to be making those noises IMO.
In an unrelated note, Sam Harris’ Twitter account seems to be gone. Maybe just a glitch. He’s been asking “tough questions” similar to the Milo question.
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wrote on 28 Nov 2022, 19:11 last edited by
Apple hates App Developers
Really Hates them
I have no idea why, the developers make them a fortune.
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That sucks. Misstep for Apple to be making those noises IMO.
In an unrelated note, Sam Harris’ Twitter account seems to be gone. Maybe just a glitch. He’s been asking “tough questions” similar to the Milo question.
wrote on 28 Nov 2022, 19:23 last edited by@Horace said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
In an unrelated note, Sam Harris’ Twitter account seems to be gone. Maybe just a glitch. He’s been asking “tough questions” similar to the Milo question.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sam-harris-quits-twitter-following-trump-reinstatement/
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@Horace said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
In an unrelated note, Sam Harris’ Twitter account seems to be gone. Maybe just a glitch. He’s been asking “tough questions” similar to the Milo question.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sam-harris-quits-twitter-following-trump-reinstatement/
wrote on 28 Nov 2022, 19:25 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
@Horace said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
In an unrelated note, Sam Harris’ Twitter account seems to be gone. Maybe just a glitch. He’s been asking “tough questions” similar to the Milo question.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sam-harris-quits-twitter-following-trump-reinstatement/
That’s not the reason. He just didn’t like the way Twitter and its negativity was affecting his perception of people.
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First 20m of his podcast he discusses Twitter and why he left.
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@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
First 20m of his podcast he discusses Twitter and why he left.
In which he admits his disgust reflex overwhelms his reason, even as he understands rationally that it shouldn't. That's how I've always described the psychologies of TDS sufferers, as Sam is. I guess it's inevitable that humans will respect their own disgust reflex, rather than question it. It's our "full stop" emotion.