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The Thread about [Twitter] where we aren’t calling this shit goddamn “X”
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Here be the twitter thread, the thread where we discuss the continued degradation and rot of everyone’s… favorite(???) bird themed social media platform after it became privately owned by everyone’s (least) favorite apartheid emerald failson.
The dipshit’s latest foible was this past weekend where, as best anyone can tell, he refused to pay google approximately one billion dollars owed for the continuing use of their Google Cloud service, leaving others at twitter to try and scramble to either get the fee paid in time and/or pull off as much of Twitter from there and register as possible. This resulted in constants Rate Limiting issues rendering the service practically unusable for most users through the weekend, with Musk making the excuse it was being purposefully done to combat web scraping that was supposedly degrading service. But he’s a known liar and charlatan so you can be sure that was almost assuredly complete bullshit.
Then, within the last couple of days, Musk’s stupidity and chintziness has come back to haunt him as fellow Silicon Valley Asshole, vanguard of national political destabilization and resident creepy Caesar fanboy Mark Zuckerberg and Meta launched their twitter competitor, Threads, designed and helmed by many of the former twitter workers whom Musk fired nearly one year ago. He is very mad about this, and while Threads sucks he can blow it out his ass because, again, he created this problem for himself by being a bastard and an asshole.
It’s also where we talk about national and global events of some import, because sharing is caring in our rapidly escalating hellscape and it’s better to let that shit out than fester like a tiny weevil of nihilistic desperation caged within the soul without escape.
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A man so desperate to get fucked he runs back at the people who handed him his ass on a platter a year ago
Me: [chanting] tweets, tweets-
Other patients: tweets, TWEETS
Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TWEETS, TWEETS, TWEETS
He withdrew and gave up! It didn't go to court! What standing could he possibly have?
I still can't believe that shit existed
I can let you know, but once you do you can't un-know
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-played-slave-tetris-kids-20150904-htmlstory.html
David Simon writing directly and clearly in favor of mercy and compassion, in trying to interrupt cycles of tragedy instead of worsening them. It is a terrible thing, losing a friend, and I find this to be a truly beautiful way of trying to honor the spirit of one lost. Recommended read, if bittersweet.
Anyways, I'm gonna go get drunk and disassociate.
We’ve reached the portion of the evening where Elon strongly considers sending Moms for Liberty after Zuck.
Every new thread is a new chance!
And the odds get better with each one!
Not the funniest thing Elon has ever done. (That would be getting in bed with DeSantis, failing misrabally, removing view counts from posts to hide how poorly it did, but not doing it on android, possibly because you fired the android developers.) but pretty damn funny.
Never his fault, is it? "They should have STOPPED me from buying Twitter, how dare they make me do what I agreed to do!"
Just a reminder, the Robodebt scheme was a program run under the former Liberal Party government that clawed back welfare payments by (mistakenly) auditing receivers and sending notices that they owed sometimes tens of thousands of dollars in overclaimed Centrelink payments for having earned more than they were allowed to qualify for payments.
If a participant was on Centrelink for 3 months of a year before finding a job, they would average the income from the 9 months across the entire 12 month period and say they owed the payments for those 3 months back.
This led to multiple suicides and in the case of people who received the letter and pushed back too hard through the department, politicians or media they had their private details kept by the government leaked to friendly conservative media outlets in order to slander and discredit them in the eyes of the public as whiners.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/robo-debt-report-recommends-criminal-and-civil-prosecutions-20230706-p5dm71.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-07/robodebt-royal-commission-findings-revealed/102531450
My opinion on the life/death of twitter counts musk as a part of it, but the more important part is all the nazis he unbanned and the priority responses for musk-reply-guys, that matters more
tragically this means that much of the dog and pony show musk puts on, where people go "what's going wrong with twitter NOW", actively keeps it alive
This is one of those things where it's never too late to practice as we are all gaining daily experience with language and communication throughout our lives, but even if you lack a steady compositional flair, you may have an edge in finding meaningful and earnest words to convey intense and profound thoughts in situations of crisis or deep contemplation.
If you've ever had a beautiful or passionate thought surging from within you that feels special and true, it becomes your responsibility to plant that idea on paper, cultivating it with the best prose you can find to do service to your original experience. The stronger or more abundant the intention and inspiration, the less inadequacies of form cause your heartfelt communication to fail.
To be able to do this professionally requires a lifetime of training , but if the conditions are right and you can get to the right headspace, you can do justice to the handful of moments in your life where your skill in expression is called upon and perform in a manner that would surprise the current you.
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.
Conversely, the ability to write patronizing screeds from a position of unearned authority can be attained with barely any training at all.
That's the beauty of inner confidence.
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.
“listen have you considered that social progression is a White Person thing and that it might be driving off the democrats minority base? I’m Jonathan Chait and I’m very smart and telling you that you need to slow down.”
I knew this turn was coming but god it so fucking sucks to watch them build consent for it in real time.
This made me crack up when he goes "I'll tell you then."
Sadly it's a video and I don't know how to get that out of the tweet.
LIQUID!
Blame this on the misfortune of your birth, Shinzo.
[salutes]
After everything is said and done, that's the part of it that's gonna stick with me the longest.
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