X apparently added 5-second delay for links to sites Musk doesn’t like
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Excellent! I needed a companion piece for my copy of On The Firing Line: My 500 Days At Apple by Gil Amelio, it was getting lonely.
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It's been said before, and no doubt it'll be said again, but, Christ, what an asshole.
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I haven't kept count but it feels like we've gone beyond 10 steps a long time ago. Perhaps there's enough material for a sequel: "How to ensure the damage is permanent in 10 easier steps".
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Musk: "I'm a gun rights absolutist, and don't believe in restrictions on guns that go far beyond the law. Therefore, I'm totally ok with the very strict gun controls in the UK, NZ, and other similar jurisdictions because they don't go far beyond the law."
What an absolutely moronic argument. It's the exemplar of the term "weasel words". In other words, he's basically saying, "I'm for free speech, until I have to actually stand up for them and face a truly authoritarian government that actually does have laws to enforce censorship like Russia, Saudi Arabia, or China". What a comfortable ethical position to hold.
Yes, that's his stated view. That is NOT how we have actually seen him clamp down on speech he disagrees with, however. In other words, he's a lying hypocrite, which is WORSE than being intentionally vague about where you stand.
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I think a better title would be "How to lose friends and alienate people".
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My favorite is that people have started leaving the name of the brand off all together now. I've heard multiple times that so-and-so posted on social media. What social media it is isn't said, but it's twitter where it is posted. This trend is the worst possible one for a company brand, but X is now reaping what they have sown.
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He has a rival although his rival only pretends to have money.
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Which is probably: not to say something legally actionable based purely on speculation.
It sucks, but it is what it is.
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No, they've been gazing into the View from Nowhere for so long that the View from Nowhere gazes also into them.
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I actually read that exact same book and thought it was insightful for all the Be/Gassee and Next/Return of Steve drama
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Can't wait for Musk's tell-all book "If I Did It: How I would censor NYT if I were to engage in censorship".
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Given that both Substack and Threads are competitors, and are smaller than Twitter, at what point can those companies sue Twitter for abusing their position? Especially, given that Twitter forces the links to go through t.co.
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He's taking the "my dad can beat up your dad" approach he did to Zuck to his users.
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Yaccarino probably order the change without consulting Elon, and Elon didn't know that they made the change.
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Why does anyone still work for this guy? If I was asked to work on a feature like that, I'd just quit.
Making your app waste people's time for no reason or even worse for bad reasons is just plan terrible.
Making your app waste people's time for no reason or even worse for bad reasons is just plan terrible.
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This gets brought up all the time. The H1B programme is not meant to be a path to citizenship or permanent residency. It's a temporary work visa. Regardless of the fact that you ended up working for a human-shaped shitstain, people working under an H1B need to have a plan for when their visa will expire anyway, which it WILL do eventually. If you planned to stay in the US permanently, you should have applied for a different kind of visa.
And honestly, India is not a bad country to make a living as a software engineer, especially if you have Twitter on your resume. You're gonna live like a king because the cost of living is so low compared to the US, and all the FAANG companies have large presences there. People in the socioeconomic class of software engineers in that part of the world often have a chauffeur, live-in maid service, and housing expenses are often subsidized by your employer, so I'm not gonna really cry for someone who is forced to move back earlier than expected because Elon Musk decided to be an asshole.
And if you are an Indian national with American work experience, somewhere like Dubai is always an option, where the standard of living is really high, they pay boatloads of money for Western experience/training in IT, and has a personal income tax rate of 0%.
As an aside, it's funny that none of these hard hitting investigative journalism articles about the poor H1B workers stranded at Twitter never interview an actual H1B visa-holder. The article you linked interviewed a PhD student whose doing his thesis on the H1B programme, but no actual direct quotation from a visa holder. The PhD student Vice interviewed claims that some of these workers have mortgages to pay, but buying a house on credit with a typically 25-30 year amortization period isn't the wisest decision when an H1B only lasts 3 years, and can only be extended to a maximum of 6 years. The first 3 years of a mortgage, well over 50% of what you are paying is interest.
Your article doesn't pass the sniff test.
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Musk is like Alex Jones or Rush Limbaugh; they are incredibly obnoxious and disgusting on the surface, just obviously utterly terrible, but millions (hundreds of thousands?) of people love them. Takes all kinds to make a world etc. but damn.
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Or use his groundbreaking AI system to train individual models on specific users' post histories, then shoot off the occasional generated xeet looking like those users wrote them, for some damage and lolz. (I actually wouldn't put it past the X "management".)
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"Roman Ten" is how your pronounce the social media site name, and posts on it are called "Tenners".
It is decided.
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It was before Trump upended everything in 2016. He proved that the more effective strategy is to simply continue to generate new, more outrageous controversies over and over.
The goal is not to look good, it's to retain attention and drive engagement. As evidenced by this very article, the strategy works. The only solution I can think of would be for news media to simply ignore Musk's actions, but the media benefits from the engagement just as much as he does, so I don't see that happening any time soon.
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Except that they now effectively lock out anyone who does not have a login and severely limit nonpaid users. Even for those who habitually use X/Twtter Elon now excludes those who don't register. Elon thought that blocking users and limitng the number of posts viewed for nonpaid uses would get them to register or pay for a blue check. But, I just don't bother and barely use the site now.
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Oh yeah, I'm old enough to remember. And yeah, that's the thing. You have to say "Brand X". Say something like "We tested this against X", and our brains are conditioned to think of that as a placeholder (blame algebra). Any time I see that someone has written about X without qualifying what they're talking about, I default to thinking that someone forgot to update their article before they published.
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Why are Elon's employees so willing to do this crap and is there a line they will not cross if he asks them to?
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It's pretty safe to assume it was either Musk or another child who came up with the names:
Model S
Model 3
Model X
Model Y
"S3XY"
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And Ford owns the rights to "Model E". Musk tried to buy the rights to it, but they wouldn't do it.
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Wasn't that the one in which Amelio delusionally claimed that he, not Steve Jobs or Tim Cook, was the true architect of Apple's current success? It's been a while and maybe I'm recalling an article and not the book; but I seem to recall claims that Jobs and Cook had only charisma and the "cool factor" to offer, but didn't actually know what they were doing or how to run the company; and that all they ever did was merely build upon his own actions and initiatives.
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