yes hello linda this is the thucydidian patriot 69 and my question for you is if you love free speech so much then why won’t you say the n word https://t.co/pSFsEbZFB8
— kilgore trout, blue check blocker (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 12, 2023
Also I'll believe it when I see it
— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) May 11, 2023
From immediate reports, Linda Yaccarino seems to be a bog-standard corner-office MBA-approved AdPro, basically conservative, someone who’s “publicly praised Musk“ and “been seen as angling” for the job:
… While Musk may soon no longer be CEO, he still owns the company, which he has renamed “X.” It seems unlikely that giving someone else one specific title will make Twitter any less of a wild ride. Musk became “Chief Twit” last October, when he closed his acquisition of the company, followed by the immediate firing of large portions of its executive staff and thousands of other employees.
As Musk has reshaped Twitter policy, seemingly to match his own whims, speculation has only increased about how long his tenure would last — and how big of an effect it’s having on his other companies. The Musk era has also included changes that upset Twitter’s relationships with users, public safety officials, and others.
Musk’s Twitter takeover even affected the platform’s advertising business. Several major advertisers paused spending on Twitter over concerns that Musk’s views on free speech could damage their reputation, and the wave of fake verified accounts that appeared on the platform following the initial launch of Musk’s revamped Twitter Blue didn’t help, either…
Musk previewed the CEO change with a December poll asking followers if he should “step down as head of Twitter,” promising to abide by the wishes of the crowd (and likely bots).
The vote appeared after Musk implemented a widely criticized policy change that seemingly banned sharing links to other social network sites. Musk later clarified and then rolled back the rule, promising that there would be a vote for major policy changes going forward — not the first time he promised decisions at Twitter would be made by committee. A few minutes later, he tweeted the poll about stepping down, which received around 17.5 million responses, with 57.5 percent indicating that he should no longer be CEO of Twitter…
Assuming Musk’s major creditors (*cough* MBS *cough*) have made it clear to him: The advertisers must be placated. Meanwhile, Yaccarino’s worth millions of dollars, has probably reached the pinnacle of her achievements with Comcast/NBCUniversal/WhateverItsCalledNextWeek, and presumably figures she can afford to take the risk of going over the Glass Cliff in return for the potential glory of being The Big Swinging Achievement-Haver Who Turned Twitter into English-Language WeChat.
choosing a WEF exec is kinda proof positive that elon isn't really one of the chuds, he's something much worse: a desperate loser, a hanger on, who thinks the chuds are the cool kids and so badly wants their approval. but he doesn't really understand them.
— Michael (@_FleerUltra) May 12, 2023
i also wonder what all of his unpaid creditors are currently thinking, because there's no way she came cheap as an exec at NBCuniversal.
— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) May 12, 2023
And yet… MR. MUSK, THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS!
Catturd2 has turned on Elon Musk https://t.co/9sqXrHDiBe
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) May 12, 2023
did i say 4 months i said 4 days https://t.co/T9mA5wxdBJ
— lauren (@NotABigJerk) May 12, 2023
this type of transphobia has to be studied pic.twitter.com/gnt4VL93r2
— pudding person (@JUNlPER) May 12, 2023
The best thing about the new Twitter CEO is you can tell he tried to hire someone to please the right while also being semi-respectable to the ads industry, yet pissed off the right and I doubt the ads industry is impressed at all. The business conductor's symphony
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) May 12, 2023
Fortuitously, I just got delivery on several boxes of my favorite microwave popcorn…
War for Ukraine Day 443: Friday Night Update
Baud
I assume her severance package is out of this world.
sab
I have understood and mocked the concept of glass ceiling for decades, but I didn’t know there was a label for it.
Struggling big corporation finally hired a woman. Investors head for the hills because company was therefore sicker than we thought.
ETA Mocked the concept because there are a lot of talented women out there who could run a company, but boards of directors only hire them when it is too late, and the best women talent, like all the men talent, say they will pass on this dumpster fire.
Baud
I wonder what she’ll do when Elon rigs Twitter next year to help the GOP.
karen marie
@Baud: I wouldn’t assume that. She can’t be especially bright given she took the job. Her previous employment doesn’t speak well of her judgment either.
bbleh
This is starting to remind me of a really bad soap opera with lots of bizarre plot twists that … nobody cares about.
different-church-lady
I give it a month before she reacts the way John Kelly did with Trump.
sab
@bbleh: I think it is sad that another woman threw herself into this mess.
Another Scott
Forbes.com (from March 7):
AFAIK, all the issues with Twitter / X / Bqhatevwr in the EU still remain. And she won’t be able to fix them with Melon second guessing everything.
I wouldn’t even trust that she’s going to get a big payout for being the fall-gal. AFAIK, Melon broke all the agreements about paying severance for Twitter employees when he bought the joint. He thinks that none of the rules apply to him…
Cheers,
Scott.
satby
@different-church-lady: Well, it only took a couple of days before a lot of the (now former) Twitter employees started calling Elmo an idiot
Baud
@Another Scott:
He wouldn’t have been forced to honor his agreement to buy Twitter if none of the rules applied to him.
Ohio Mom
I was only half paying attention when I first heard Elon was hiring help. I thought Good! There’s hope, the new person may be able to fix things, if we are all lucky.
Then I heard the help was a woman and I thought, Oh, this is a joke, someone is making this up. It’s some sort of parody attempt.
Apparently, I was wrong twice. Oh well. I iike the mix of twitter accounts I check in on every day and I will miss them when it all finally implodes.
Baud
@bbleh:
As The Turd Turns
Another Scott
@Baud: Exceptions prove the rule.
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Poe Larity
If twitter is a public commons under the 1st Amendment, can we nationalize it?
zhena gogolia
@bbleh: Me too. When does the evil twin appear?
bbleh
@zhena gogolia: wait … you mean we haven’t seen the evil one yet?!
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Of course, the first reaction from Musk fanboys to his hiring a woman CEO was vile misogyny. So on brand.
Frankensteinbeck
Someone in a previous thread said Musk is planning on putting mute/block behind the 8$ paywall. If that happens, the mass exodus will be insane. It directly affects so many people, especially people whose presence on Twitter draws others.
Steeplejack
Golly, is there any indication of what her political leanings might be? 🤔
kindness
Twitter under Elon can’t help itself. It wants to be 4Chan but also wants all the ad money.
Frankensteinbeck
@Steeplejack:
Musk really, really loves him some transphobia. I wonder how much his buying Twitter was motivated by him hating trans women specifically? It’s what all those ‘comedy is back’ comments are about. Twitter banned people for misgendering and deadnaming then going “Just a joke!” Those were the first bans he reversed.
Sanjeevs
@Another Scott:
FB, Google etc have their European HQs in Ireland and have large numbers of employees there.
Twitter have almost no presence in Ireland so Helen Dixon has every incentive to make an example of them.
No One You Know
@Baud: She’ll be on the next rocket!
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
And more. (Couldn’t find this a while ago.)
Chetan Murthy
@Another Scott:
Senator Playgirl Centerfold represent!
Amir Khalid
Who is this Ian Miles Cheong person?
Poe Larity
Glass Ceiling or Glass Cliff?
We need to talk about casting for this biopic coming to NBC next year.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
He is a
far-right agitator and shitposter“social media influencer” who gained prominence by being retweeted by Musk.mrmoshpotato
Baby lemur
TriassicSands
Ever since Musk bought Twitter there has been an endless stream of predictions guaranteeing the end of Twitter. But most of the people who were supposed to have abandoned it, don’t seem to have gone anywhere and it keeps chugging along.
I pay as little attention to Twitter as I reasonably can, but for an entity that was supposed to “implode” long ago, it still seems to be very much present.
When exactly is the inevitable demise of Twitter going to take place?
“Enquiring minds want to know.”
NotMax
FYI.
George Takei appearing on Ali Velshi’s MSNBC show Saturday at 10 a.m. Eastern time.
Origuy
Here in northern California it’s Bing cherry season. It usually lasts 5-6 weeks until they’re gone. I just had a taste and they are really sweet. The Rainier cherries will show up in a couple of weeks. There’s a truck down the street selling them along with strawberries.
Adam L Silverman
Just a quick point on the being transgender accusation, which doesn’t seem to be the case and, if it was, shouldn’t make a damn bit of difference, a lot of the whackjobs that think Musk was going to save them are in ideological circles that include and/or overlap a really niche conspiracy theory that everyone is trans. This is a long and detailed explainer video by Mia Mulder. Ms Mulder is a Swedish politician.
piratedan
@TriassicSands: well, there are lots of facets to twitter that have accommodated a LOT of niche interests and circles that have been built. People are loathe to start over, especially journos that have cultivated a huge media following by pushing their content and insights on the birdsite….
those folks apparently don’t have fondness for learning something new/starting over and the birdsite 3rd party apps made twitter a manageable place. None of that is in place elsewhere, with the possible exception of bluesky, brought to you by the same folks that sold off Twitter to begin with, but as of yet, no idea if all of that 3rd party apparatus will work with it or not… Also, inertia is a thing.
so while political content creators have not moved en masse as of yet, users are finding alternatives and rebuilding networks again all without the political twitter inducement.
If those folks value their “Twitter” numbers more than moving off the narcissist platform, well then… that’s a shitty call on their part.
Frankensteinbeck
@TriassicSands:
It’s been an interesting question. People really, really, really do not want to leave Twitter. So far, other than a serious increase in bugs and outages, it hasn’t directly affected many people, or has only affected them as a minor nuisance. A lot of the people who have stayed have said that they do because they can mute/block the increased number of trolls, and anyone remotely public and liberal gets farms and farms of trolls. The liberals who do not get trolls stay for the stated reason of seeing the content of the more public ones who do. So, this may hit them where they hurt.
The thing is, this has happened before, to other services. There’s a huge inertia, but at some point it hits a line where, en masse, people decide they’ve had enough and the service dies.
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: He’s a late 40s/early 50s dude from Malaysia who made something of a name for himself doing YouTube gamer videos. He then parlayed that, via Twitter, into becoming a revanchist reply guy on Twitter to every notable American extremist. He regularly comments about American politics, society, culture, and religion, despite the fact he’s never been to the US. He often works in tandem on Twitter with Andy Ngo.
HumboldtBlue
My maternal grandfather was a stern formidable and intimidating figure to a little boy like me, what with his jet-white hair and stiff bristling mustache that tickled when you gave him a kiss, yellowed by the smoke from the eternal cigarette somewhere nearby whether he was on his mower cutting the grass or drinking his high ball or seated at the post-dinner card table teamed with grandma against mom and dad in the summer vacation bridge games they played.
He didn’t sound a lick like this fella, at least not in timbre or tenor nor twang, but that look, the demeanor, well, that could be his twin.
lgerard
LOL
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1656841088726908936
Steeplejack
@TriassicSands:
Twitter is not like a refrigerator that’s getting flaky and then one day it suddenly dies. Think of it more as the capital city of an empire in decline. Conditions aren’t as good as they once were, the emperor is kind of a crazy nut, and maybe you can see the eventual collapse, but it’s a long way off. Things mostly still work, more or less, and it’s hard to rouse yourself to emigrate to parts unknown right now. Maybe wait awhile and see what happens. Inertia.
Sanjeevs
@Adam L Silverman: I also saw a lot of attacks on her for relating to the WEF conspiracy
TriassicSands
@Frankensteinbeck:
I’ll believe it when it happens. People whine a lot, but taking action isn’t nearly as common in the US as whining. Inertia is undoubtedly at work, but I really wonder if the time will ever come when there is a mass exodus.
Americans are not good at change. Change, taking action, requires energy and I don’t doubt that most Twitter users will resist leaving unless and until it becomes absolutely untenable to stay. Right now, I wouldn’t bet a penny that day will ever come. But I’m not paying enough attention to have an informed opinion beyond expecting more of the same.
Two things that would put a smile on my face:
1. Waking up to the news that Twitter is dead.
2. Waking up to TFG’s obituary. (Note: A lot more than a smile.)
Lots of shitty calls made by Americans every day. I’d say it’s the norm.
But, damn it guys, I wanted a date! Sheesh, it’s not like I was asking for the exact time of day.
TriassicSands
@Steeplejack:
Fortunately, I don’t have any stake in Twitter. So, it can continue or not and it shouldn’t affect my life. But there has been so much talk about the imminent demise of Twitter, and it really doesn’t seem to me like that is very likely. In order to avoid the effort it will take to make a change, my guess would be the people who are committed to Twitter will put up with an almost endless amount of disappointment rather than abandon it and start over on another platform.
Others know a lot more about this than I do, but my guess would be that until and unless there is one obvious alternative platform to migrate to, the vast majority of dedicated users will stick it out more or less forever. Does that make sense?
Another Scott
@TriassicSands: It looks like Melon made the 2nd interest payment (Bloomberg story from May 3):
So, presumably he’ll be making another payment in September or so. Maybe he’ll decide to dump the company before the end of the year (to have a big loss for his taxes) and someone else will try to resurrect it. I figure eventually he’s going to declare victory and cut his losses. Who knows…
Cheers,
Scott.
RaflW
@TriassicSands: I admit I believed the folks who said the back end tech would fall apart faster than it has. But a few thoughts:
The EU isn’t quite as toothless as US consumer or business regulators. If Twitter really thinks it can bluster and stall those folks on data privacy issues, Musk may be surprised.
In terms of user engagement, there’s certainly self-reported dissatisfaction among writers and other creatives that they aren’t getting the engagement, nor getting traffic driven to their sites that they did, say 6-12 months ago, despite – so far, they say – putting about the same into content on the site as before.
If that continues, they may not leave, but they won’t produce as much product for Musk (or the new ‘ceo’ — in scare quotes because I don’t believe Musk will be able to let her really be chief. He’ll hover and second guess and override her. Seems inevitable).
He still doesn’t seem to get that how the site worked was, people produced free content (!), advertisers paid Twitter for the speed and frequency of eyeballs, and the free content creators at least got traffic and maybe sales or at least ancillary ad action when people clicked thru. He’s screwed that, and seen his own ad rates drop as well.
It’s why he keeps trying to find ways to induce people to pay to be content providers ($8 for the ability to block? F.U., elmo). It may not implode. But it may very well MySpace.
Or just be so toxic that it motors along for a rabid user base of $8 moron-fascist at about 1/10th its peak size.
Steeplejack
@TriassicSands:
Are you vehemently agreeing with me? You’re the one who seems to want a date for the “imminent demise of Twitter.” I don’t think there is one. Can you give us a date certain for the end of the Roman empire?
Ken
@Adam L Silverman: Good lord, how do the writers of the DSM keep up?
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Glad I never left MySpace
Ken
I would have thought he needed to spend more time with the rocket company. After all, the FAA is not going to let that thing launch again until the weight of the paperwork exceeds the weight of the rocket.
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
I have spent some time in America: no more than six days at a time, about a month in total, all of it when Bill Clinton was POTUS and The X-Files ruled the airwaves. I know a bit more about the USA than the average Malaysian, but I wouldn’t try to pontificate about the place.
TriassicSands
@Steeplejack:
A date? No, I was just kidding. Of course, no one can give a date or even guarantee Twitter’s demise. I was joking about that.
Chetan Murthy
@RaflW:
He said he’ll remain CTO, in charge of all technology. That means the new CEO is in charge of one thing: “hey buddy, sell what’s on the truck”. That’s it. She’s in charge of advertising.
Noskilz
I’m assuming that Musk just wants someone else supposedly at the wheel when Twitter croaks.
Considering how he’s treated his underlings, even the ones who go out of their way to suck up to him, I hope she insisted on an awful lot of money up front and has lawyers ready to enforce whatever contract she has when he tries to stiff her after the collapse.
Frankensteinbeck
@Chetan Murthy:
So she’s a scapegoat.
TriassicSands
@Ken:
But the launch and explosion were a huge success. Elon told us that.
The media covered it like the Starship had to blow up. There was no way forward without it exploding.
The early days of the US space program were rife with spectacular failures, but how many Saturn Vs exploded? I don’t think any did. Given the rudimentary state of technology in the 60s, and the magnitude of the project, Gemini and Apollo were remarkably successful. We know so much more now, some of the mistakes of the past shouldn’t happen again.
Musk saying he expected it to blow up didn’t strike me as a very appropriate attitude. It seems pretty clear that the explosion was considerably more destructive than Space X expected it to be, which may point to Musk assuming he has a blank check and failures don’t really matter, so underestimating the impact of an explosion was acceptable. It shouldn’t be.
Chetan Murthy
@Frankensteinbeck: hard agree.
Steeplejack
@Frankensteinbeck:
Also, Musk times “big” announcements to deflect attention. I think Tesla just recalled 1.1 million cars in China.
eldorado
none of these excuses for why people remain engaged on twitter explain why this blog has to constantly promote it too
Mai Naem mobile
Elon will fire her and excuse not paying her golden parachute with some BS. She figures she’ll get a $$$ book deal out of it. Maybe even movie rights from the book. The book will be written with the help of a ghost writer. All this for for putting up with a few months of drama. What’s she got to lose?
Chetan Murthy
@Mai Naem mobile: I know that execs at that level bargain hard. Surely she’ll insist that her termination payment be put in escrow. I mean, she’s giving up a very stable job for this.
Mai Naem mobile
@Chetan Murthy: Elon comes across as the kind of guy who would promise you crazy riches if you meet xyz goals and then fires your ass when you’ve met xy goals and close to achieving goal z, so that he can get out of the deal he made with you. I am also wondering since its Elon if he’s got her sucked in like he did the executive at Starlink who IIRC was pregnant with Elon’s kid the same time as Grimes was pregnant. I don’t understand these people but I feel sorry for the kids who I have to believe are screwed up from these situations.
Chetan Murthy
@Mai Naem mobile: the neural link executive is quoted as saying that musk is the person she admires most. She’s also 36. Yuccarino is 59; point I would hope by this point she can’t be snowed like that.
Mai Naem mobile
Anybody see this: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-throws-ex-cuomo-aides-bribery-conviction-rcna68456. Its almost like the Roberts Court wants all public officials no matter which party to get away with corruption so that their corruption doesn’t look so bad. I also read that a Mass appeals court overturned some of the convictions in the rich-parents-buying- their-kids-into-elite schools case. Apparently the Staples executive’s kids were qualified to attend Stanford and Harvard and so there was so the bribing didn’t count. Since when did qualify guarantee that you got into an elite school? The guy paid $1M to get his twins into Harvard and a smaller amount to Stanford for his other kid.
Frankensteinbeck
@Mai Naem mobile:
The Roberts court has a consistent history of defining bribery as explicit quid pro quo and nothing else. The smallest deniability and it’s not corruption. It would make sense if they were defining their own actions as acceptable.
Odie Hugh Manatee
I wonder if Catturd calls himself that because as a child the cats tried to bury him every time he played in the sandbox.
Child-Emperor Elon hired a woman so he could have someone to blame when all of the chickens from his actions come home to roost. Him as CTO is a laugh as you know he’ll be running everything and taking credit for her successes (if any) while blaming her for the failures.
That and he gets to fuck with his fanbois because he views the world as his personal Colosseum and its inhabitants are his playthings to do with as he wishes.
NotMax
@Mai Naem mobile
$1 million? A veritable bargain compared to the traditional route of endowing a new library, other educational building or residence hall.
NotMax
@Odie Hugh Manatee
She’s actually a canny choice to, at least in the short term, project an air of stability and attempt to mollify and stanch the bleeding of the lifeblood of the joint — deep-pocketed advertisers (who have extensive history with her). The unknown is by how long or short a leash she’s restricted.
Shalimar
@Frankensteinbeck: Shhhhh. Elon doesn’t know she’s a scapegoat yet. He’s a bullshit artist. His bullshit hasn’t worked on advertisers so far, so he figures hiring an expert bullshit artist in that field will solve the problem. She only becomes a scapegoat when he refuses to rein in the nazis and advertisers refuse to come back.
Shalimar
@NotMax: She’s a great choice, but no amount of advertising genius is getting around Elon’s egotastic goal of providing free speech for horrible people. And he isn’t changing that.
Mai Naem mobile
@Frankensteinbeck: i have a friend who does regulatory state inspections. At one point, he told me, he wasn’t allowed to accept a bottle of water if he was offered some during an inspection. He could accept tap water in a glass but not a bottle of water. Pre-covid you could pick up generic bottles of water for 10c a bottle. But these judges can accept $500000 vacations and free rent for their relatives? WTF? I find this unfuckingbelievable.
Mai Naem mobile
@NotMax: maybe so but the marketing person who was at Twitter before was supposed be a superstar. She was even kissing Elon’s ass and while she was one of the last ones fired, he still did can her. I don’t think Elon knows how to make money without those sweet sweet gubmint subsidies.
NotMax
@Shalimar
It’s the old parable decked out in new digital duds.
“It’s the darn dogs, JB. They just won’t eat it.”
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
I’ve decided to get another camera, a full spectrum converted used Sony A7R. I’ve already got a clip in filter(it goes in the camera body) to make this an Astro-mode camera
Gvg
@TriassicSands: no body has died from any SpaceX anything that I know of. The US program had some spectacular deaths and most of them were bad management decisions that were whitewashed to the public with lies about it to follow. Frankly, SpaceX is doing good so far. Don’t know how, guess it’s robotics make it possible but be very grateful.
PS my dad worked on the space program. He is proud, but when I became an adult taught me the dark side of it too. The space program always thought it would be shut down if it had failures. Politics. It had ardent support but also factions who hated it and thought it was dangerous and wasteful. So they always covered things up, were never honest, exaggerated.
Maybe private funding escaped they microscope of political tug of war. I still don’t approve, and despise Musk, but SpaceX’s safety record is admirable, as far as I know, and the space programs WAS NOT really. We had some serious failures.
Matt McIrvin
@Gvg: SpaceX hasn’t been good to its neighbors. This is a particularly interesting case: the inexcusable thing is their decision to avoid any kind of system on the launch pad to control flame and vibration, which led to the rocket exhaust digging a big hole into the ground and spreading debris far and wide. It may have even caused the failure by taking out several of the rocket’s engines on launch. But even if the rocket didn’t fail, it’d have been an environmental disaster.
The idea of leaving off those pad systems feels like an Elon decision to me, though I could be wrong. It reminds me of his insistence that Tesla should be able to do self-driving without radar. I’ve wondered for a while if Starship is currently the program they use to keep Elon Musk busy while they work on other things that pay the bills. But the Artemis lander is supposed to be Starship-derived, so now it’s impinging on their government business.
BellyCat
@Gvg: Very interesting. This has genuine explanatory value for the Challenger explosion resulting from the known o-ring problems at cold temps not being reported up the management chain.
Matt McIrvin
@BellyCat: In the Shuttle program it seemed like there was a tendency to make backwards assumptions that a system was incapable of failure just because it had to be incapable of failure. Richard Feynman talked about it after the Challenger investigation, if I recall.
Another Scott
@Gvg: My understanding is that the early, Navy, pre-NASA, failures were caused by pressure to get things done quickly. People were working too hard, too little sleep, etc, to try make arbitrary deadlines and beat the other guys.
Similarly with arbitrary deadlines with the Challenger explosion.
Similarly with the Starship explosion.
Disasters happen when managers push to meet deadlines at the expense of safety and getting it right.
Melon doesn’t have any secret sauce.
Cheers,
Scott.
Chris Johnson
@Baud: Next year?
Another Scott
@Matt McIrvin: IIRC, there were detailed calculations of the loss-of-vehicle failure rate for the shuttle and it was something like 1/135 launches. It was known to be a dangerous system – even before the booster O-ring issues were widely known.
I still remember reading AW&ST magazine articles about the booster O-rings and the pathology of the explanations from Morton-Thiokol managers that since they were only halfway burned through that it showed that there was a 2x safety margin so everything was fine. It was clear that it was a disaster waiting to happen…
Grr…,
Scott.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
From Yaccarino’s point of view Twitter CEO would be a sweet gig; since Emo shit canned most of the staff and still has his mitts on the parts that count, all she will have to do is talk to the occasional advertiser. Basically semi retirement and the possibility of a serious pay out when Musk’s finical backers finally force Musk to sell his toy. Then afterwards during full retirement Yaccarino can get speaking gigs about how to work for a Chaos Goblins.
Miss Bianca
@Amir Khalid:
You’re amazingly circumspect compared to some folks I could mention.
Bill Arnold
@Baud:
Will be interesting. Musk has been normalizing real-time boosting/deboosting of accounts, which effectively makes him a publisher. And gross deboosting is easily detected; shadowbans in particular are easy to detect using a few accounts.
Plus, any engineer or executive with access to the weights vector (matrix?), even if with read-only access, will be a potential leaker. And hacking target.
(Just musing for a moment out loud.)
Tenar Arha
@Matt McIrvin: Yep, it was his decision. He tweeted about it…about 3 years ago when they were building the launch pad.
Daoud bin Daoud
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
The world is Elmo’s litter box.
BruceJ
@Steeplejack: Oh god…that makes BirdChan the dark reboot of Ankh-Morpork….
VOR
@Another Scott: In 2003 the shuttle Columbia burned up on re-entry after a loose piece of insulating foam damaged the protective heat tiles during launch. A presentation explaining the situation to NASA leaders is known as “Death by Powerpoint“.
The engineers thought they were saying “The real-world impact was 600x bigger than our tests, this is a big problem. ” Management heard “we did tests and the tile survived being hit by the foam”.
Communications expert Professor Edward Tufte reviewed the presentation and identified many failings.
Other MJS
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parrotTwitter!