Twitter

[Beany]

I don't want him to step down - and this is clearly way of him claiming 'vox populi' to save face, of course - the people said I should leave, not "I'm fucking everything up, I should quite because I literally can't do this" because that would ruin his business genius reputation that he somehow still has with some people.

Watching him tank everything he's touched in his life, in real time, through nothing more than his own grating personality is fucking hilarious.

[Jobbo]

So he’ll ban the ~56% of people voting for him to stand down, right?

[Sundayjumper]

This made me chuckle.

[DaveE]

I bet the people, banks etc that invested billions with him in his buyout of Twitter are thrilled that the man-baby is throwing his toys out of the pram and threatening to rage-quit because he's not got a clue what he's doing and is going off in the huff

[Jobbo]

What are the investors going to do if Musk stands down? I don't think he will, so it may be a moot point.

[DaveE]

What are the investors going to do if Musk stands down? I don't think he will, so it may be a moot point.

I did wonder if there would be something contractually in the funding agreements (about him remaining CEO, or something like that)?

The investors are investing in him (rather than the thing he's buying) - if he goes, then what?

I've seen there's been a bit of a rally in Tesla stock on the rumour he may step down from Twitter...

[ZedLeg]

Folk were speculating whether his funny poll was based on getting pressure from the Tesla board for tanking the share price.

[Jobbo]

[Brannen]

The poll finished with 57.5% in favour of him going. Wonder if he's going to step aside now, or just pull strings from the shadows. It's all just been a bit weird.

[Beany]

Saw an interesting tall tale that while he was in Qatar some of the middle Eastern investors collared him at the world cup and twisted his arm over this.

The source is a musk investor who claimed to have literally overheard it, so very much 'trust me bro' hence it being a bit much even for me to quote/embed.

I'd imagine stocks tanking, advertisers grumbling etc wouldn't exactly please some of those big ticket investors from countries where bone saws are considered interrogation/encouragement tools, though

[Beany]

Also a slightly deeper look at that incident earlier in the week that kicked this whole thing off.

Archived (aka free) Washington Post article.

https://archive.vn/20221219022623/https ... -incident/

[Beany]

More fun dunking on Elon.

George Hotz (yes, that one - the PS3 hacker who's rapidly learning that development and hacking are two very different things) hosted a space on twitters technical architecture.

Musk says they're considering a ground up rewrite to gain velocity because the current twitter stack is 'crazy'.

Someone pipes up and asks Musk to explain what's crazy about it.

Musk can't answer, asks who the fuck this guy is, and Hotz carries water for him (despite being the one who gave the guy the mic)



The guy? Just Ian Brown, Twitters former head of engineering currently doing very well for himself at Netflix.



Good times!

[Simon]

Yeah I saw that earlier. This really is the peak unravelling of the guy isn't it?

Musk sycophants have been claiming for years about him 'oh he's an engineer, he's a programmer', yada yada yada. He's none of those things. He's just a petulant big mouth.

[Beany]

You love to see it.

Edit: Also, search for pwnsdx in twitter. See how the profile for the person who posted that recording doesn't show up?

Free speech absolutionist Elon Musk, kids!

[tim]

Edit: Also, search for pwnsdx in twitter. See how the profile for the person who posted that recording doesn't show up?

does for me.

[drcarlos]

More fun dunking on Elon.

George Hotz (yes, that one - the PS3 hacker who's rapidly learning that development and hacking are two very different things) hosted a space on twitters technical architecture.

Musk says they're considering a ground up rewrite to gain velocity because the current twitter stack is 'crazy'.

Someone pipes up and asks Musk to explain what's crazy about it.

Musk can't answer, asks who the fuck this guy is, and Hotz carries water for him (despite being the one who gave the guy the mic)



The guy? Just Ian Brown, Twitters former head of engineering currently doing very well for himself at Netflix.



Good times!

He probably can't answer publicly because it will jeopardise the fundamental security of the platform.

[Alex88]

Nah, I think if that was the case, he could have just said.

The way he immediately went in to 'who TF are you to even question me!?' mode makes me think he was hoping to do his usual talking nonsense without getting challenged/unravelled.

The pwnsdx isn't showing for me on Twatter.

[Jobbo]

I hadn't realised Elon had added a views counter to tweets. But it's probably not a good thing for big businesses:

[DaveE]

He probably can't answer publicly because it will jeopardise the fundamental security of the platform.

I think you credit him with far too much common sense

The only reason he now owns Twitter is because he Tweeted he would buy it, seemingly without any forethought

I see he's now said he won't sell any more Tesla stock for the next two years

Even though 10 years ago he said his was the first money in and would be the last out (before going on to sell what is now tens of billions of dollars' worth of stock)

So basically, I don't believe a single word he spouts

[Beany]

Long thread re an investor call (not an official one, an informal Spaces one, I believe) for Tesla.
Where he claims that his twitter account is critical for tesla, then claims his political views are irrelevant to investors (after he spends a good long while defending his transphobia to someone with a trans kid), that the economy is in deflation (I guess he means a depression) which is why Tesla stock is tanking, etc. Basically, sounds like something of a shitshow.

And lo and behold, the thread posters name doesn't turn up in search results. No, the default 'go to @burningtirefire' that it'll show for literally any string you enter isn't a search result - it showing that persons profile as a search result would be.

So either twitter search is fucking broken - so Twitter isn't running as well as it was, or he's trying to hide critical threads about him, in which case, free speech absolutionism is bullshit.

He is, again, a fucking moron.



Also, no, there's no valid security reason, nor any reason for him not to justify the ground up rewrite of a platform at a high level, when asked, on an engineering biased call - he couldn't even say 'well look at search, it's tied into dozens of legacy systems that aren't performant, to address that a large subsection of the code would need to be rebuilt to be more responsive, at that stage you might as well eval the rest of the stack' - that's what someone who has a grasp of the platform would say.

What actually happened was he said something controversial to get attention, and when someone rightly called him out on it - we're not talking about changing a blog from Wordpress to Drupal here - he had nothing but abuse for the person asking.

He is, again, a fucking moron.

He's had about two dozen Ratners moments and it amazes me that people still think he's playing 5D chess and I'm laughing my arse off at it