Tech Thread

[zeke]

@hockeylover you get my first invite when I get it.

 

[CH1]

First invite would be WellPlayed if you cared at all about free speech

 

[zeke]

yeah we have liftoff I think.

 

[zeke]

 

[zeke]

Follow and ask for a code quick:

 

[WellPlayed]

Dorsey must be a big Musk fan. Imagine getting to replace the thing that already made you a billionaire with...the same thing.

 

[axlsalinger]

 

[zeke]

Hmm maybe you're out of luck HL

 

[worm]

That is amazing

 

[Montana]

Elon was on Bill Maher -- man does Elon so badly want to be seen as a comedian. I want to say his jokes were bad but I couldn't hear them as he mostly mumbled....it was one of the most uncomfortable interviews I've seen in a long time, even though Bill fawningly lobbed him softball after softball.

I tried watching it, and had to bail halfway through it….the second hand embarassment was too much to handle.

It’s also wild just how dumb he comes across…his autism clearly benefits his intellect in some ways, but his internal logic for constructing convincing arguments is at a grade school level. It’s bizarre af.

…..side note: it’s pretty funny watching clips of Maher’s “Club Random” and hearing just how dumb he is, when he‘s (a) stoned, but mainly (b) doesn’t have his opinions researched and written out for him by his staff. Left alone on the pod, the second any conversation delves any further than the surface layer, and he’s flailing like a fish….he also has “aha” moments of some genius point he thinks he’s making….that his guest said nearly verbatim 5 minutes earlier. It can be a riveting train wreck.

 

[zeke]

 

[Montana]

It’s been surreal seeing Twitter go to shit as quickly as it has…..so hopefully something equally as surreal….bluesky taking off and becoming the new de facto resource for trustworthy breaking news…because that would be goddamn amazing.

 

[axlsalinger]

i don't think even the most ardent elon haters could have predicted what a total clusterfuck this has been.

i do hope Bluesky does become the de facto, rather than everyone going off into their own individual info silos which could go really bad in the long run.

 

[MindzEye]

i don't think even the most ardent elon haters could have predicted what a total clusterfuck this has been.

*cough*

 

[zeke]

i don't think even the most ardent elon haters could have predicted what a total clusterfuck this has been.

eh

 

[Montana]

I can’t respect believing he’d fuck it up….but the sheer velocity he’s done it at, with so many blatant unforced errors, has been pretty astonishing.

 

[axlsalinger]

yeah, that. lots of people predicted it would go poorly but not that he would turn out to be an imbecile hellbent on destroying his life's work in a few months.

 

[MindzEye]

I can’t respect believing he’d fuck it up….but the sheer velocity he’s done it at, with so many blatant unforced errors, has been pretty astonishing.

Astonishing, but I'm not surprised. I did some napkin math around the time of the purchase and predicted big big problems for twitter's finances by summer 2023 and predicted increasingly bizarre decisions from Elon in response,

 

[MindzEye]

yeah, that. lots of people predicted it would go poorly but not that he would turn out to be an imbecile hellbent on destroying his life's work in a few months.

*cough*

 

[Montana]

Astonishing, but I'm not surprised. I did some napkin math around the time of the purchase and predicted big big problems for twitter's finances by summer 2023 and predicted increasingly bizarre decisions from Elon in response,

yeah the interest payments alone pointed to him having some massive issues pretty quickly for sure, especially with how his potential to turn off advertisers…..but fucking around with the verification system that’s the backbone of it being the hub for breaking news is so far beyond what I could imagine he’d do.