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Least necessary subplot of 2022.
Most necessary was probably the dart mission asteroid rocket punch. That’s at least one real problem under control.
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As J. Peterman said to Elaine, “thank you Eloine, for a job… done.”
The urban sombrero of tech M&As
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I honestly think he’ll just screw around for a bit, blow up shit for a while to show who’s boss, then lose interest and either divest or hand off. Twitter doesn’t match his leadership talents so he’ll be bad at it, but won’t admit it. Time will give him a face-saving way out. twitter.com/suzyanalyst1/s
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I don’t think there’s a meaningful way to port the Tao of twitter out of the body of twitter 🤔
It’s like trying to be the “next Silicon Valley.” If he reshapes it unrecognizably, you can choose between new twitter and new something-else. If not, just stay. twitter.com/suzyanalyst1/s
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He’s taking it private right? He doesn’t have to be accountable like with a public company. His rich buddies probably don’t care too much. His debt financing guys are going to make the best of a deal that looked much better when this started before everything went south.
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The post blow-shit-up valuation for a divestment would be such a staggering loss...how can a capitalist like Elon justify that to anyone (other investors he brought in or his own balance sheet?)
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The flouncing I think will be minor. But due to power-law effects of 10% “heavy posters” like the recent data, if even a small core of anti-Elon lefties flounce, the tone will likely shift noticeably. Looks like several of my more leftie friends are already out.
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Old hot take now cold. Still basically my position, but I care much less now. The drawn out tediousness of the Elon affair has made me apathetic. If my corner of twitter stays basically the same, I’ll stay. If the emperor ruins it, I’ll wander off. Low chances of improvement.
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Football stadium is a better metaphor for twitter than public square. It’s just that the field itself is shrunken to nothing and the spectator sport is watching the stands across from you.
National Sousveillance League.
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It already has I think. Tesla value loss in response this misadventure has already made this a bad deal, and Elon a bad bet until he repairs reputation.
Remember, this is in not a win. He overbid, market crashed, he tried to back out, caved when it was clear he’d lose in court. twitter.com/MattAlhonte/st
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If you apply “first-principles thinking” to any sufficiently large social system you should expect a regression to the human mean. Twitter is no better or worse than any large group of humans. If you have a problem with that, you’re basically trying to “improve” humanity.
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I might be in the rare group that’s completely happy with twitter as is. As an official mediocrity stan I don’t expect better from humanity, or myself.
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I agree that Twitter’s users are no better or worse than other groups, but a peculiar thing about this app is that it convinces lots of its users that they are *definitely* part of the group that knows how to make things better.
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People still talking about bots like that’s a serious priority problem Elon will fix. 🧐
Were they not actually following the story? He was just bs’ing about bots in the hope it would get him out of the deal. There is no serious bot problem to solve. His bet is ‘X app’ working.
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Based on past you should take his casual long-term plans literally. He’ll take a swing at making a WeChat out of this. Probably pivot to crypto along the way. Jack will try to help pull off a tbd decentralized thing. We’ll see how all that goes.
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