According to internal records viewed by CNBC, employees from Musk’s other companies are now authorized to work at Twitter, including more than 50 from Tesla, two from the Boring Company (which is building underground tunnels) and one from Neuralink (which is developing a brain-computer interface).
Several Twitter employees told CNBC over the weekend that Tesla employees now at Twitter have been involved in code review at the social network, even though their skills from working on Autopilot and other Tesla software and hardware do not directly overlap with the languages and systems used to build and maintain the social network. These employees asked not to be named because they’re not authorized to talk to the press about internal matters, and feared retaliation.
For example, most engineers in automotive companies, even the tech-forward Tesla, do not have experience designing and operating search engines and platforms that are broadly accessible to the public.
Twitter has multiple code bases with millions of lines of code in each, and myriad 10 million or even 100 million or more queries per second (QPS) systems underpinning it. At Tesla, Python is one of the preferred scripting languages, and at Twitter programmers have used Scala extensively.
programming is programming, right?
if you know how to program a tesla, you obviously can program a twitter
that's how it works because musk is v smart
You have to wonder if the one guy is either happy or sad that he's not torturing apes anymore.
I'm assuming it's his relative Andrew Musk that was reported to join him from Neuralink
I apparently met Bean Dad at a party and didn't realize he was Bean Dad.
This was, as I understand it, pre-Crisis, and thus the only thing I remember about him is that he was somehow less funny than the guy who kept drunkenly shouting "For me to poop on!" at random intervals as he eavesdropped on other peoples' conversations.
Saying it was Pre-Crisis makes it sound like comics and OH MY GOD ELON MUSK IS STUPID LEX LUTHOR
I apparently met Bean Dad at a party and didn't realize he was Bean Dad.
This was, as I understand it, pre-Crisis, and thus the only thing I remember about him is that he was somehow less funny than the guy who kept drunkenly shouting "For me to poop on!" at random intervals as he eavesdropped on other peoples' conversations.
Saying it was Pre-Crisis makes it sound like comics and OH MY GOD ELON MUSK IS STUPID LEX LUTHOR
Elon Musk paid over 40 billion dollars for Twitter. Forty billion dollars!
Reddit is the kind of thing where, I'll dip into hobby-specific subreddits on rare occasions, but I actively keep myself from getting invested in the platform
The whole thing just has a weird and bad vibe even on a good day
I browse reddit for various games and shit reugalry, but i actively dont have an account and refuse to - it's a useful way to keep a pulse on some things, and the local NZ/Wellington subreddits are actually pretty good/useful, but other than that? NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
They were just hanging out, swimming in the river near the beaver dam.
were they doin' the town and doin' it right
In the evenin', it's pretty pleasin'
Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug
Out in the muskrat land
And they shimmy
Sam is so skinny
And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Singin' and jinglin' a jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
Looks like muskrat love
This is actually exemplary of one of the struggles I have with Twitter
On the one hand? I love drama. I love it. There's a level on which my brain is like hoo boy everyone is dragging Candy Mom can you believe someone so bad exists
But on the other, like, do I really benefit in any way in knowing that this main character exists, or experiencing that brief bit of outrage that someone can so proudly be a shitty parent? Do I really need that mixed endorphin rush of being mad and then seeing people reply in ways that dig in on 'em? And as fun as like, one instance of this is, this happens every day on there, taking advantage of that emotional reaction to the person who has fucked up in such a big way that the Eye of Twitter descends upon 'em
It just feels eventually like algorithmic emotional manipulation and I end up realizing I've delved too greedily and too deep into the replies and 20 minutes have gone by where I could have watched my hockey team lose at sports or cleaned my house or something
I can't remember where I heard it from (I think it was a hockey youtuber of all things) but his response to someone asking "can you believe someone said <some awful bullshit> online?" was basically "yes, as a matter of fact I can, people say the dumbest shit online all the time this isn't surprising or noteworthy" and that's stuck with me
people are awful on the internet all the goddamn time, and I've been trying to remind myself that I don't need to care about the vast majority of it
I think depriving the general public of the overflowing spigot of easy targets might be a good thing
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… and that kinda works? Has generational wealth, surrounded by sniffits, a great thinker that would propose boiling a cake because eating it is too complicated.
If you had "one week" in the "When will Twitter under new management pivot to porn?" deadpool, collect your prize:
Twitter is working on a new feature dubbed “Paywalled Video,” which would allow users to charge money for access to videos, according to a new report from the Washington Post. And while the Post waits eight paragraphs to state the obvious, using the kind of euphemisms you’d expect in a respectable newspaper, Gizmodo can afford to be more blunt. It’s for porn. People on Twitter are going to charge for porn.
You're right, it's a corporate behemoth designed to drive small boutique toy stores out of business by selling a huge array of plastic crap under one roof. It's the Barnes and Nobles of toy stores.
We got a toysRUs in town when I was in my late teens and I went in once and it was soulless, depressing, and unpleasantly gendered. Like being in a gender segregated Walmart.
You're right, it's a corporate behemoth designed to drive small boutique toy stores out of business by selling a huge array of plastic crap under one roof. It's the Barnes and Nobles of toy stores.
that corporate juggernaut that crushed its competition into paste was a beloved part of many people's childhoods, tynic
it represents innocence and purity and plastic crap
and oh god the kids of today are going to feel the same way about amazon aren't they
in like 2054 they're going to re-open the nostalgic old amazon website for a special week-long event, and you won't even be able to jack into it with your neurolink, you'll have to find an old screen and type into it the way your grandpa used to
Spoiled for bad egg take so you only have to lose brain cells if you want to
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I only recently started cooking dinners on my days off. Never cooked before this year, and I'm 38. I only cook the packaged meals from Home Chef, one of those subscription things my wife has. It's all pretty basic stuff and easy, but the other day something called for me to cook something on like medium or maybe medium-high heat, then in a later step said to bring it to a boil. I had to ask my wife if it meant to just leave it at the temp it was and it'd reach a boil, or if I needed to crank the temp up. I literally don't know how anything works, I am one of the idiots being made fun of (and rightfully so).
My and a friend decided it would be funny to have a turtleshell sandbox on our patio and treat it like a beer cooler, so we went and bought one. Various clerks throughout the purchase process tried to make us buy sand along with it, with responses ranging from "confusion" to "irritation" when we kept declining it.
Spoiled for bad egg take so you only have to lose brain cells if you want to
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I only recently started cooking dinners on my days off. Never cooked before this year, and I'm 38. I only cook the packaged meals from Home Chef, one of those subscription things my wife has. It's all pretty basic stuff and easy, but the other day something called for me to cook something on like medium or maybe medium-high heat, then in a later step said to bring it to a boil. I had to ask my wife if it meant to just leave it at the temp it was and it'd reach a boil, or if I needed to crank the temp up. I literally don't know how anything works, I am one of the idiots being made fun of (and rightfully so).
look at mr. moneybags over here, eating eggs instead of rocks
Nothing beats a good rock soup, got my soup stone right here in the pot. Can ya just smell that flavor? Hey you've got some potatoes right? How about adding them to the mix, make the soup even better. And you with the chicken, interested in punching up this dish? And you good sir, those veggies would go great with the stock don't you think?
Heh. First thing that came to mind when reading about eating rocks was that old story of the man and his magic soup stone as an allegory for community sharing.
look at mr. moneybags over here, eating eggs instead of rocks
Nothing beats a good rock soup, got my soup stone right here in the pot. Can ya just smell that flavor? Hey you've got some potatoes right? How about adding them to the mix, make the soup even better. And you with the chicken, interested in punching up this dish? And you good sir, those veggies would go great with the stock don't you think?
Heh. First thing that came to mind when reading about eating rocks was that old story of the man and his magic soup stone as an allegory for community sharing.
everyone also got herpes at the end of that story so
There was a Discourse Cycle a little ways back about how cast iron pans are a symbol of bourgeoise decadence
There's this weird trend on certain strains of Twitter towards self-infantilization/martyrdom, where people would very much like attention for being unwilling to manage simple facets of human life that people have been figuring out how to handle for thousands of years, and that view any pushback on their god-given right to incompetence as an immoral, borderline evil attack. It's so fuckin' weird.
It's like a desire to be praised for an inability to function, a desire to be hailed as brave for saying "It's actually really hard for ace people to tie their shoes and it's classist to think otherwise" or whatever. Strangest fuckin' thing.
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I'm assuming it's his relative Andrew Musk that was reported to join him from Neuralink
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23430008/elon-musk-twitter-homepage-subscriptions-changes
So he probably doesn't have any feelings about it at all aside from wanting to continue to be rich
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Saying it was Pre-Crisis makes it sound like comics and OH MY GOD ELON MUSK IS STUPID LEX LUTHOR
Elon Musk paid over 40 billion dollars for Twitter. Forty billion dollars!
That's as many as forty thousand million dollars!
And that's terrible.
But enough about Tesla!
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I browse reddit for various games and shit reugalry, but i actively dont have an account and refuse to - it's a useful way to keep a pulse on some things, and the local NZ/Wellington subreddits are actually pretty good/useful, but other than that? NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
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They were just hanging out, swimming in the river near the beaver dam.
were they doin' the town and doin' it right
In the evenin', it's pretty pleasin'
Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug
Out in the muskrat land
And they shimmy
Sam is so skinny
And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Singin' and jinglin' a jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
Looks like muskrat love
I can't remember where I heard it from (I think it was a hockey youtuber of all things) but his response to someone asking "can you believe someone said <some awful bullshit> online?" was basically "yes, as a matter of fact I can, people say the dumbest shit online all the time this isn't surprising or noteworthy" and that's stuck with me
people are awful on the internet all the goddamn time, and I've been trying to remind myself that I don't need to care about the vast majority of it
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Yeah, I think Elon Musk is more of a stupid booster gold.
Satans..... hints.....
don't you dare insult booster gold like that
I stand by it.
Satans..... hints.....
… and that kinda works? Has generational wealth, surrounded by sniffits, a great thinker that would propose boiling a cake because eating it is too complicated.
Chip Zdarsky writes comics.
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Excuse me?
At one point I found these hilarious and now I just stare at it and it makes me tired, so very tired.
You can only absorb so many bad takes before what little mote of soul left to each of us is snuffed out.
spoken like a true egg-boiler-knower
And now musk will fail to identify all the regulatory problems for twitter that come with monetizing porn
You're right, it's a corporate behemoth designed to drive small boutique toy stores out of business by selling a huge array of plastic crap under one roof. It's the Barnes and Nobles of toy stores.
If he blows twitter up because he wants to allow porn on it I will laugh and laugh
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that corporate juggernaut that crushed its competition into paste was a beloved part of many people's childhoods, tynic
it represents innocence and purity and plastic crap
and oh god the kids of today are going to feel the same way about amazon aren't they
in like 2054 they're going to re-open the nostalgic old amazon website for a special week-long event, and you won't even be able to jack into it with your neurolink, you'll have to find an old screen and type into it the way your grandpa used to
I only recently started cooking dinners on my days off. Never cooked before this year, and I'm 38. I only cook the packaged meals from Home Chef, one of those subscription things my wife has. It's all pretty basic stuff and easy, but the other day something called for me to cook something on like medium or maybe medium-high heat, then in a later step said to bring it to a boil. I had to ask my wife if it meant to just leave it at the temp it was and it'd reach a boil, or if I needed to crank the temp up. I literally don't know how anything works, I am one of the idiots being made fun of (and rightfully so).
Also, I don't remember what my wife told me lol
My and a friend decided it would be funny to have a turtleshell sandbox on our patio and treat it like a beer cooler, so we went and bought one. Various clerks throughout the purchase process tried to make us buy sand along with it, with responses ranging from "confusion" to "irritation" when we kept declining it.
It was odd.
i'm calling the police
Nothing beats a good rock soup, got my soup stone right here in the pot. Can ya just smell that flavor? Hey you've got some potatoes right? How about adding them to the mix, make the soup even better. And you with the chicken, interested in punching up this dish? And you good sir, those veggies would go great with the stock don't you think?
Heh. First thing that came to mind when reading about eating rocks was that old story of the man and his magic soup stone as an allegory for community sharing.
everyone also got herpes at the end of that story so
There's this weird trend on certain strains of Twitter towards self-infantilization/martyrdom, where people would very much like attention for being unwilling to manage simple facets of human life that people have been figuring out how to handle for thousands of years, and that view any pushback on their god-given right to incompetence as an immoral, borderline evil attack. It's so fuckin' weird.
It's like a desire to be praised for an inability to function, a desire to be hailed as brave for saying "It's actually really hard for ace people to tie their shoes and it's classist to think otherwise" or whatever. Strangest fuckin' thing.