Elon Musk as Dr Zoidberg, “A four chambered heart, a big *and* small intestine, look at Mr Fancy over here!”
I remember years ago a friend accidentally pushed code onto the live servers instead of a test server and broke a large chunk of youtube for a few minutes. It’s pretty hilarious watching Musk do it on purpose and get a Computer Engineering for dummies class, in public, for $44b.
if you're lamenting that twitter's current situation might limit your ability to read posts by weirdos i have good news. reddit is still going strong pic.twitter.com/OZSMZvPAiv
Apart from the too-obviously evil running over kids thing, I mostly went by keywords or phrasing style. Musk talks about Mars, Burns about America. Also I doubt Elon has ever referred to a reporter as a friend.
The firings were jarring in part because they represented such a sharp departure from the Twitter of old. Under Jack Dorsey’s leadership, Twitter tolerated criticism to a fault — at times paralyzing the company.
Goddamn it Musk. Next thing you know you will be cutting the fat from NASA style management and making rockets that cost 2% of what NASA would have spent, and that work most of the time.
Twitter - where woke goes to die
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Unlike Twitter’s full-time employees, who at least got the courtesy of an email informing them that layoffs were coming a night before, contractors received nothing. Neither did their managers, who discovered one by one over the weekend that people they had been counting on to perform critical tasks had suddenly disappeared from the company’s systems.
“One of my contractors just got deactivated without notice in the middle of making critical changes to our child safety workflows," one manager noted in the company’s Slack channels. This is particularly worrisome because Twitter has for years struggled to adequately police child sexual exploitation material on the platform, as we previously reported.
Over the course of the day, similar messages trickled in on Blind, an app for coworkers to anonymously discuss their workplaces, and on external Slacks that employees have established to have more candid discussions.
Several workers said they had learned about their employment status after seeing our tweets, attempting to log in to Gmail and Slack, and finding that they no longer had access.
“Found out through your tweet and just happened to check,” one person who worked on content moderation told us. “What a lovely Saturday night.”
Said another, who worked in recruiting: “If I didn’t see your tweet just now, I wouldn’t have even known.”
It’s funny, I wrote and either didn’t finish or deleted comments about how Musk and Grimes were a High School relationship and that Musk is clearly playing out High School fantasies but with the control being an adult with a few billion dollars gives him.
I think I didn’t finish it because I felt I was being a bit too disingenuous to people that I don’t actually know, but that’s softened quite a bit. Musk is forever in High School, twitter is like totally that party at the beach house that’s going to make him a school legend, if only like everyone else could pick up their weight and do as much work as he is doing. Duude, let’s just do it and be legends!
When I want to know what Elon is thinking and doing, I read Twitter post from complete nobodies ...
said no one ever
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The replies under every engineer tweeting they've just been fired from Twitter are filled with newly verified and incredibly divorced men gloating the engineer will never work again, and tech leads from giant companies offering them jobs.
It shocks me that, as vm pointed out upthread, the South African welfare billionaire who bought a car company and segregated black workers into areas dubbed "porch monkey stations" wants those lazy Twitter engineers to do "extremely hardcore" work. Of course, we can safely translate the quoted term as "twice the hours for substantially less pay."
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