Musk offers to buy Twitter

[Cmaier]

One of Bezos' partners had a specific story about a "flywheel" being drawn on a cocktail napkin that he was convinced "would end up in the Smithsonian." It's almost certainly pulled specifically from that, as it was a news story around the time Johnson would have been writing the script.

I suppose it’s possible, but it’s been a cliche around here for so long that long before bezos someone had even started marketing Silicon Valley napkins.

Silicon valley napkin | 102770433 | Computer History Museum

www.computerhistory.org

 

[bwinter88]

I suppose it’s possible, but it’s been a cliche around here for so long that long before bezos someone had even started marketing Silicon Valley napkins.

Silicon valley napkin | 102770433 | Computer History Museum

www.computerhistory.org

Agreed it's been around for awhile, but the visual similarity is what struck me.

 

[shadow puppet]

Twitter has a mad glitch. Many of us have been logged out on the desktop Twitter but the mobile is currently still working. It's affecting users world wide.

EDIT: ....and somehow it's back. For how long is anyone's guess.

EDIT #2: Desktop Twitter is out yet again.

 

[dada_dave]

Gotta have priorities in life …

 

[Cmaier]

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Gotta have priorities in life …

That’s what someone with tiny testicles would say

 

[dada_dave]

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Gotta have priorities in life …

Btw this was the post (in the screenshot of my screenshot) that originated that exchange:

Also Twitter is still on the left despite the fact that he owns it now … interesting.

Some of these replies were pretty funny - I especially like the last one:

Edit: Elon’s latest is complaining about people calling him racist because only he understands how science works that it’s never settled.

This is apparently now Twitter policy.

Probably a reference to Covid/trans kids which is problematic enough but is also a huge dog whistle to “race realists” on top of all that. So multiple layers of shittiness.

Oh and the Russians are thrilled that Elon Musk helped spread Dmitri Medvedev’s insane wet dream Russian propaganda predictions for 2023 by responding.

 

[Andropov]

Edit: Elon’s latest is complaining about people calling him racist because only he understands how science works that it’s never settled.

Ah, this one is a classic. People with technical degrees in a different field who steamroll into a field of which they have high-school understanding at best, only to try to start questioning matters settled decades ago with their "starting from first principles" and "this is how the scientific method works" BS.

The absolute first step in modern science is to read the most relevant papers in the topic you're trying to discuss.

 

[Eric]

Ah, this one is a classic. People with technical degrees in a different field who steamroll into a field of which they have high-school understanding at best, only to try to start questioning matters settled decades ago with their "starting from first principles" and "this is how the scientific method works" BS.

The absolute first step in modern science is to read the most relevant papers in the topic you're trying to discuss.

Years of experience, trial and error, policies and developing a system to make Twitter what it was, for better or worse it worked. Then comes Elon after smoking a doobie and he just upends the entire thing saying it's all broken, and this was AFTER he bought it at a $11 billion loss. Seemingly, his only goal was to be the world's richest troll and there's no denying he's been successful at it.

 

[Yoused]

Mr ShitKing of Fuck Mountain responds to some jab with the most erudite and witty comment

… I'm not cis, you are

 

[dada_dave]

 

[Eric]

Twitter's San Francisco HQ reportedly a hub of gross smell (TL;DR: Custodians went on strike nearly one month ago. Musk fired them all and hasn't been able to hire scabs. Nothing has been cleaned this entire time.)

Stinky smells reportedly wafting around Twitter's SF HQ

Elon Musk is disrupting the tech sector by getting rid of janitors and making offices...

www.sfgate.com

Elon Musk has reportedly conjured a brilliant plan to disrupt the tech sector and keep his workers focused: cut janitorial services, and slowly unleash a motivational stench across the hallowed halls of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters.

The San Francisco offices have been slashed from four floors to two and have been without janitorial services for nearly a month, according to a new story from the New York Times about Musk's visionary tenure as Twitter CEO.

The janitors in question went on strike in early December requesting better wages, and Musk responded by getting rid of them altogether. As a result, according to the New York Times, "The office [is] in disarray. With people packed into more confined spaces, the smell of leftover takeout food and body odor has lingered on the floors, according to four current and former employees. Bathrooms have grown dirty, these people said."

 

[lizkat]

Fidelity is a co-investor in Musk's Twitter, and has cut its valuation of the holding by 56%, marking it down in several mutual funds it owns, where it's carried as "X Holdings I Inc."

Fidelity slashes Twitter's value by 56%

The investment giant helped finance Musk's $44 billion takeover.

www.axios.com

Fidelity's Contrafund valued its Twitter shares at $53.47 million on Oct. 31, which was just days after Musk's deal closed. It then revalued the shares at around $23.46 million as of Nov. 30, representing a 56% decline.

Edit: to be fair, I should also quote a kinda-sorta disclaimer:

What to know: Fidelity is a Twitter shareholder, but doesn't necessarily have proprietary knowledge about its business performance. Instead, the revaluation may be based, at least in part, on broader tech equity declines.

 

[Eric]

Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever To Lose $200 Billion

Elon Musk, who passed that milestone in January 2021, months after Jeff Bezos, became the second person in history to generate a personal fortune of more than $200 billion.

townflex.com

Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever To Lose $200 Billion​

Elon Musk, who passed that milestone in January 2021, months after Jeff Bezos, became the second person in history to generate a personal fortune of more than $200 billion.

The CEO of Tesla Inc. has just made history by becoming the first person ever to have their net worth reduced by $200 billion.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk, 51, has seen his worth drop to $137 billion as a result of the recent decline in Tesla stock, which included an 11% decline on Tuesday.

But he got to ban the guy who tracked his flights.

 

[Cmaier]

Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever To Lose $200 Billion

Elon Musk, who passed that milestone in January 2021, months after Jeff Bezos, became the second person in history to generate a personal fortune of more than $200 billion.

townflex.com

Elon Musk Becomes First Person Ever To Lose $200 Billion​

But he got to ban the guy who tracked his flights.

For that amount of money he’d have been better off buying another airplane using a secret dummy corporation, and saving the rest to pay for someone to come up with names for his kids that can actually be filled in on those little bubbles for standardized tests.

 

[Eric]

Watching these trolls get owned never gets old.

 

[Cmaier]

Twitter sued for not paying San Francisco office rent

The owner of the Hartford Building in San Francisco, the home of Twitter HQ, is suing the social media company for failing to pay $136,250 in rent.

www.engadget.com

 

[dada_dave]

Twitter sued for not paying San Francisco office rent

The owner of the Hartford Building in San Francisco, the home of Twitter HQ, is suing the social media company for failing to pay $136,250 in rent.

www.engadget.com

He’s fighting paying over a few hundred thousand dollars including the flights? Huh …

 

[Edd]

He’s fighting paying over a few hundred thousand dollars including the flights? Huh …

Sure would like to know if his financial backers are contacting him asking "Dude, you can't make rent?"

 

[dysamoria]

Ah, this one is a classic. People with technical degrees in a different field who steamroll into a field of which they have high-school understanding at best, only to try to start questioning matters settled decades ago with their "starting from first principles" and "this is how the scientific method works" BS.

The absolute first step in modern science is to read the most relevant papers in the topic you're trying to discuss.

I would love to retweet this...

This is a 100% dead-on observation of Musk's pseudo-intellectual behavior... and that of so many other tech geeks, with or without tons of money or degrees (Bill Gates isn't as obnoxious, but he has the same problem of thinking he's perfectly credible sticking his finger into other pies that aren't his area of expertise, and what exactly IS his area of expertise in the first place?). It's also apparently worth investigating whether Musk's education even exists, or if existing degrees are in the fields he has claimed. There was a long thread about this on Twitter and it really needs some serious investigative journalism in the mainstream media.

The culture of worship of the wealthy is gross, and absolutely horrifying in tech.

 

[dada_dave]

aRe THe AdVerTisers ComING BaCK YET?!