would love to know which galaxy brain exec thought that murdering the free, unlimited user-generated marketing campaign would be a good idea
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There is an enormous demonstration going on at Hospital right now carried out by staff, who are protesting the decision by higher ups to give vaccines to some administrators and physicians who are at home and not in contact with patients INSTEAD of frontline workers.
me at 23 on two hours of sleep: “whew the ol internship is going to suck today!”
me at 36 on 2 hrs sleep: “i need to go to the hospital”
currently an emergency twitter all-hands going on with Elon Musk answering employee Q's
Elon was asked: "How are you going to deal with the expected attrition and align everyone on a shared vision?"
Elon Answer: "I don't know....we all need to be more hardcore."
so Elon spent six months in court saying Twitter was riddled with bots, was forced to buy the company, said he was going to create a moderation council for all content decisions, and has thrown all that out of the window for a "vox populi" poll that could be easily gamed
this is the funniest quote ever
“To be clear — we also have garbage”
the guy who handles US nukes got took by an aol-era instagram chainmeme
if i have one consumer electronics recommendation it is to never buy a new tv again
new TVs serve you ads and require software updates and talk at you
my 2009 flatscreen had two ports and no internet and never broke and it ruled
love to work at my job signing my name in the middle of a blank sheet of paper
do not sleep on the violence that unmarked, unidentified authorities are raining down on portland civilians right now.
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My friend just sent me this pic that’s across the Portland Bureau of Transportation. Wonder what it’s for.
no amount of college Baudrilliard reading could have ever prepared me for “sovereign nation sh*tposts through full-scale invasion”
in a Q&A with employees, Mark Zuckerberg is expressing frustration about past leaks from company Q&As.
someone taught me the “put a wooden spoon over boiling pot and pasta wont boil over” trick and it is the most life changing kitchen hack ive ever learned
Saturday Night News: Musk fired the company’s entire senior staff “for cause,” an attempt to avoid paying out tens of millions of dollars in severance packages to the former CEO, CFO, GC and head of legal
nytimes.com/2022/10/29/tec
praying for this googler who now has to work from home during these trying times
BREAKING: Reddit bans "The_Donald" forum in a sweeping overhaul of its hate speech and harassment policies
“we refuse to risk even one juggalo life by hosting a gathering during these troubling times”
—insane clown posse, who are showing more urgent concern for public safety than many sitting politicians
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they whooped peoples asses on bl**sky yesterday so hard that the team was compelled to ship a blocking feature in like a day
weird how this isn’t getting the same amount of traction among the “SF is lawless” crowd as the previous stories
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EXCLUSIVE: Defense attorneys for the man accused of attacking former SF Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani say the person shown in this video bear spraying a homeless person in the face appears to be Carmignani.
The video, taken in November 2021, is part of a trove of new evidence… Show more
so my understanding is at twitter HQ, the folks running things in the “war room” are Musk, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis (VCs/Elon pals) Sriram Krishnan (exTwitter/current a16z), Elon’s legal and finance head guys (Spiro, Birchall) and a fleet of Tesla/BoringCo engineers
we are so deeply screwed
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this is a complete mistranslation of what’s occurring inside right now, warped to fit a brazenly careerist and self-serving narrative.
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The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.)
anyone else been having insanely fucked up dreams for the past two months
all the blu*ch*ck replies at the top of any viral tweet are guaranteed to be detached from reality or deeply unfunny
it’s as if low quality tweets that were previously algorithmically hidden are now being used to repel me personally
thirty six years on this earth and it was only today i realized that the “Sherlock” in Sherlock Holmes is a name, not his title
tom cotton spending the rest of his career trying to imprison an infected bat
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Sen. Tom Cotton release this morning: "We will emerge stronger from this challenge, we will hold accountable those who inflicted it on the world." What does that mean?
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BREAKING: Facebook blocking the President from posting for 24 hours.
FB spokesman:
“We've assessed two policy violations against President Trump's Page which will result in a 24-hour feature block, meaning he will lose the ability to post on the platform during that time.”
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i think it's safe to say it will be difficult to expect consistency from here on out
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every thought leader in the valley is a libertarian until they need a government bailout of their startup bank
the most boss move of all time
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the first winner of a million dollars was the best winner of a million dollars — all-time favorite ‘Millionaire’ clip
“free speech maximalist”
(this was the Elon jet guy’s personal account)
what does it say about a platform that it must take down long-running features to make it less immediately harmful?
and conversely, when the election is over, why is it okay to turn the harmful feature back on?
Facebook employees are now openly resigning in protest of Mark Zuckerberg's policies on Trump, and posting the evidence to LinkedIn, Twitter et. al.
linkedin.com/posts/timothy-
it is truly breathtaking that they’ve managed to incite many of the most famous or highly followed accounts into tweeting anti-endorsements for twitter’s newest revenue stream
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Please note: I have NOT subscribed to Twitter Blue, though for some mysterious reason, my check mark is showing again
i occasionally wonder if C-suite training in biz school is just learning how to professionally infantilize a workforce
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zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself
Readers added context
Andi Owen received $1.29 million in bonuses in 2022 and $1.12 million in 2021. Furthermore, the fiscal year for her company isn’t over yet and bonuses have not been determined or handed out yet, including hers.
vice.com/en/article/g5y…
imagine paying a quarter of a million dollars to get covid
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Trump donors paid up to $250,000 to have a *buffet lunch* with him in the middle of the pandemic.
That evening, he disclosed that he had COVID-19. There are conflicting reports regarding whether he knew about the diagnosis at the time of the fundraiser. abcnews.go.com/Politics/day-t
pretty clear that Zuckerberg won this fight without ever having thrown a punch.
the last three months have been a rehab of his image in a way that hasnt happened in maybe ten years.
all because he had a foil that spent the past two years making a lot of people very mad
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airbnb has created a mechanism in which you can....donate money to landlords....many of whom have overextended themselves by leveraging multiple properties which they rented out pre-covid, and are now going empty
it's like the mortgage-backed securities of the sharing economy? twitter.com/olenskae/statu
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Facebook employees are staging an internal walkout in protest of Mark zuckerberg’s decision to keep the President’s inflammatory posts up, despite the company’s policies on incitement to violence and voter suppression.
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this is a big story with excellent internal sources
once a company gets to this level of leaking it is in trouble, because it means the executives have lost the confidence of the rank and file
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NEW: We have reporting inside Twitter that explains why Jack hasn't "banned the Nazis:" Treating white supremacy like ISIS would mean autobanning some Republican politicians motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/
Rep. + his office using video of a disabled activist with ALS who can’t speak, altering it and literally putting different words in his mouth to try and drag Democrats
full blown embrace of misinformation from the state just weeks before an election
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.@SteveScalise,
These are not my words.
I have lost my ability to speak, but not my agency or my thoughts.
You and your team have doctored my words for your own political gain.
Please remove this video immediately. You owe the entire disability community an apology. twitter.com/SteveScalise/s…
what are the odds this tweet winds up in the discovery process
the problem with antagonizing your biggest advertisers in a series of tweets is that the lions share of ad budgets spent on twitter are minuscule compared to other platforms (GOOG, FB)
not a huge deal for them to walk from their smallest ad spend platform to avoid controversy
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on the call, Musk was also asked about the company's financial runway and how it was doing in terms of the business
Musk mentioned that TWTR had "net negative cash flow of several billion dollars" and that he recently sold a bunch of Tesla stock in order to "save the company"
NAACP Derrick Johnson calls for total advertising boycott on Twitter after meeting with Elon Musk. Statement below:
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Airbnb lobbyists: “our platform has a negligible effect of driving up rental prices in cities”
Reality: twitter.com/IamShaneMorris
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i want to launch all the campaign email subject line writers into space
kind of weird that a Facebook employee's unencrypted laptop with payroll information and SSN's for 19,000+ workers was stolen and compromised last week and it barely registered as a story
insane to me that the megarich choose to melt down on twitter
instead of like, hang out at bohemian grove or fly jet packs or hunt the most dangerous game (man) or literally anything else twitter.com/TGrayWrites/st
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my dog does this thing now where if i am awake and on the couch past HER bedtime she cries until i make myself get in bed so that she can go to sleep
prisoner in my own home
im sure this person is very nice but not hiring someone bc they didnt send a thank you note is some Patrick Bateman shit
businessinsider.com/how-to-write-t
Twitter securing that rarified "Taliban member endorsement" over meta's threads is the stuff marketing campaigns are made of
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Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms.
The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn't have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.
Twitter and Facebook have the same basic policies around voter suppression and incitement to violence, and trump posted the same stuff to both platforms.
Some FB employees are beginning to wonder what line must be crossed for the company to act.
the “yaaaaas qweeen-ification” of meme-on-meme cyberwarfare between nation states is giving me a brain bleed
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it's this clip. employees are sharing this on the Zuckerberg all-hands Q&A stream in protest.
it is not going well
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"If anyone, including a politician, is saying things that can cause, that is calling for violence or could risk imminent physical harm.... we will take that content down."
Zuckerberg told @AOC a few months ago.
cnn.com/2020/05/29/tec
you float this when you want people to quit in droves instead of having to pay severance
BREAKING: FTC + 48 States attorneys sue Facebook, alleging the company illegally crushes smaller rivals and competition — They're calling for the SPIN-OFF of Instagram and WhatsApp, a move that Zuckerberg has called "existential" for FB
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work email greetings are so fucked up now
“i hope this finds you safe”
“May this find you well, considering”
it’s like wartime correspondence but with zoom meeting requests
forget his politics
this tweet should disqualify him from guest editing anything, ever
sf dept of public works has deployed hand washing stations around the city for the homeless (good!) and some mystery man keeps filling one of them in my neighborhood with shrimp
funny how the only time Fox News and Hannity arent willing to spin baseless, unhinged narratives to the public is when theyre under oath in federal court
news.yahoo.com/fox-paid-seven
holy shit. notes app screen shot to shut down a company. not even a period at the end of the sentence
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i still cant believe i play a game in which i have a fake mortgage for fun
this is extremely funny because what the hell is Elon going to do with direct access to the firehose
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New: Twitter’s board plans to comply with @elonmusk's demands for internal data by offering access to its full “firehose,” the massive stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day, an inside source tells @lizzadwoskin. washingtonpost.com/technology/202
the only two types of posts in my TL are people screaming the republic is burning and then someone saying like "here is a wombat drinking from a flower petal (sound ON)"
day three
in a fight with a facebook friend i haven’t seen or spoken to in 11 years who decided to play “devils advocate” in my mentions
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a lot of the time im like “hey ill never get old and lame!!!” then i scroll past headlines like this and know that i have already lost
