White Fragility in action: the Elon Musk story

Hacksaw

Personally I'm betting on the lettuce.

Sweeney Tom

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593399683086327808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1593399683086327808%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

Preacher

Britain's current PM, whoever that is

I mean the real answer is the billionares money, but man my heart wanted lettuce to win.

Captain Inertia

Britain's current PM, whoever that is

“You cannot run Twitter without this team” says tweet about said team resigning

TheySlashThem

A head of lettuce

voting with my heart and not my head, all in on the lettuce baby

Houk the Namebringer

Twitter

Re: the tweet about closing offices - it's pretty funny they're doing this out of fear of sabotage considering no other employee could sabotage Twitter as much as he already has and will continue to do

Couscous

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593399683086327808

Entire teams quitting is how you know you fucked up

RMS Oceanic

While Rishi Sunak has inherited a dicey political situation which there are no good responses to in his ideological wheelhouse, he probably won't upend the Tories before he's required to hold an election in January 2025, so I think Twitter will look very different by then.

Sleep

Holy shit locking out your entire staff because you can’t trust them, because they haven’t shown you absolute deference is some wild shit. I have a like contact paranoia high right now.

Preacher

Britain's current PM, whoever that is

Houk the Namebringer wrote: »

Re: the tweet about closing offices - it's pretty funny they're doing this out of fear of sabotage considering no other employee could sabotage Twitter as much as he already has and will continue to do

Yeah like they just trapped the sabotager in the building.

I needed anime to post.

Elon Musk's financial solvency

i broadly think twitter will last longer than most people do, but it sure is going to have some impressive downtime over the coming months

Couscous

https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/1593399704636620800

Recent departures have left multiple critical systems down to two, one or even zero engineers, according to a former employee who was familiar with the situation and spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.

“I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," the former employee said. "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”

Resignations and departures were already taking a toll on Twitter’s service, employees said. “Breakages are already happening slowly and accumulating,” one said. “If you want to export your tweets, do it now.”

Hate speech and other abuse was also likely to spike, employees said. Most of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, consisting of up to 40 people, was expected to resign.

Twitter employees: Twitter is fucked

Olivaw

Elon Musk's financial solvency

Elon's a billionaire

You and I have no idea how much money that is, and how much it would take to actually reduce him to the level of merely someone with nine hundred million dollars

But doing a "fun" little thought experiment: based on the net worth I can get for him by googling (a fake number I am sure but purely for the sake of argument) he could lose one million dollars every single day, and at that rate it would take 544 years for him to lose all his money. And this assumes he is not still using his money to make more money even through the most conservative investments possible, which would likely still outpace this loss, or at least forestall it by another century or so

If Twitter died tomorrow and he wrote the whole thing off, he would lose (based on that fake google number) about one quarter of his wealth

That's still three quarters left! Plenty to fuck around and find out with

Maybe he can buy Yahoo next

Jedoc

"There was once a great city here," the elder solemnly posts. "Before the end of all things. The ancients called it Twi-t'ter, and it was a place of signs and wonders."

Lanz

“Hey, where’s this Musk?!”

“I am Elon Musk, sir, and I am prepared to make a full report. These users are consummate trolls, they use their clout to cause social strife; people think they’re not woke enough, and they listen to these bozos who conveniently deliver hot takes with fake electronic bots!”

“Everything was fine with our system until our infrastructure was shut off by Can’t-post over here.”

“They impersonate celebrities and brands!”

“Is this true?”

“Yes, it’s true. This man can not post.”

Captain Inertia

Britain's current PM, whoever that is

Found the top holiday gift for Twitter folks

Alexandier

A head of lettuce

Everything about this, every post it just continues to be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j45x9ranFH0

Gilgaron

Olivaw wrote: »

Elon's a billionaire

You and I have no idea how much money that is, and how much it would take to actually reduce him to the level of merely someone with nine hundred million dollars

But doing a "fun" little thought experiment: based on the net worth I can get for him by googling (a fake number I am sure but purely for the sake of argument) he could lose one million dollars every single day, and at that rate it would take 544 years for him to lose all his money. And this assumes he is not still using his money to make more money even through the most conservative investments possible, which would likely still outpace this loss, or at least forestall it by another century or so

If Twitter died tomorrow and he wrote the whole thing off, he would lose (based on that fake google number) about one quarter of his wealth

That's still three quarters left! Plenty to fuck around and find out with

Maybe he can buy Yahoo next

But most of that isn't hard assets, though, right? I thought it was mostly Tesla stock. Ford is crowing about how EVs cost 40% less labor to make, they're going to eat all that right up.

KalTorak

Kissinger will bury us all.

RMS Oceanic

Did you know that when HMHS Britannic was sinking, the signal to abandon ship was two long blasts on the whistBWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM

Odin

A head of lettuce

Houk the Namebringer wrote: »

Re: the tweet about closing offices - it's pretty funny they're doing this out of fear of sabotage considering no other employee could sabotage Twitter as much as he already has and will continue to do

The sabotage is coming from inside the house!

Couscous

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593385611632594944

*shits pants*
*people point and laugh*
haha, all attention is good!

Captain Inertia

Britain's current PM, whoever that is

KalTorak wrote: »

Kissinger will bury us all.

I am fucking sad that we will likely be unable to tweet through his death

Commander Zoom

Couscous wrote: »

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593385611632594944

*shits pants*
*people point and laugh*
haha, all attention is good!

https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561

Elon Musk wrote:

The media constantly writing about Twitter is driving usage to all-time highs, so it’s fine by me!

dril wrote:

"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

I needed anime to post.

Elon Musk's financial solvency

like basically, i reckon there is a website twitter dot com this time next year. the question in my mind is how bad the outages are. if it just goes down for a few hours even daily, it survives. that's enough that people will keep checking in and piddling along. if the outages last long enough to regularly break those habits, that's when it starts beefing it

Couscous

Commander Zoom wrote: »

Couscous wrote: »

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593385611632594944

*shits pants*
*people point and laugh*
haha, all attention is good!

https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561

Elon Musk wrote:

The media constantly writing about Twitter is driving usage to all-time highs, so it’s fine by me!

dril wrote:

"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

https://twitter.com/dril/status/900592164589248513

"i truly believe that i will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity when i get every single post on hthis fucking website deleted by 2022"

Inquisitor

A head of lettuce

Yeah, like, Twitter will likely exist for decades. Like, it’s not hard to keep a low traffic website on life support forever.

The real question is “Will Twitter cease to be one of the big sites of the internet?” And right now I am thinking, yeah, it probably goes the way of MySpace and Digg and Yahoo where they still exist but they are not the global internet touchstone they once were (but may still have some specific regions where they have a footprint).

Undead Scottsman

Elon Musk's financial solvency

It's been 3 weeks.

THREE WEEKS!

RMS Oceanic

MySpace is Byzantium under the early Palaiologos dynasty. A massive and traumatic contraction from its staggering heights, but mostly stable for now.

Twitter is Byzantium if Phocas ruled for 50 years.

RMS Oceanic

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442?t=NVrfhWn5mxLB_BzchGetSA&s=19

Alexandier

A head of lettuce

Please let that be true and please let that person let them whither on the vine.

Styrofoam Sammich

Elon Musk frantically searching StackOverflow right now

RMS Oceanic

Alexandier wrote: »

Please let that be true and please let that person let them whither on the vine.

If he gets a six figure contractor bung out of it I wouldn't begrudge him.

Mill

A head of lettuce

Sure there will be a twitter.com in the future, least into next year. Usually, you get a husk for many sites that implode or finally wither, but will there be anything there other than a single page with some error message or stating the site is defunct?

Couscous

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593415171149791232

Musk wrote:

How do you make a small fortune in social media?

Start out with a large one.

I believe he can reach unheard of levels of not mad

Alexandier

A head of lettuce

I mean, if you're going to cash out to secure your family's future sure. But if they wont grantee that, hey, /em keithdavid welcome to hell finding out mother fuckerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gr0pKI-eeg

Commander Zoom

alas, I'm hearing "alex cohen" is a parody account.
(hard to tell, there are so many these days, all with those lovely blue checks.)

BahamutZERO

Couscous wrote: »

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593385611632594944

*shits pants*
*people point and laugh*
haha, all attention is good!

https://twitter.com/dril/status/134787490526658561

oh zoom got it already, thanks cmdr.

Daypigeon

A head of lettuce

honestly i've always preferred this one

https://twitter.com/dril/status/460673146451161088

ChicoBlue

Is dril a parody account how am I supposed to tell?

BahamutZERO

no dril is the only one that's real

https://twitter.com/dasharez0ne/status/1593414635776245760

also dasharez0ne