matrixman124

Okay so get this. Linda Yaccarino is pretty right wing. Follows a lot of the alt right loonies that Elon does. But because she's connected to American corporate culture - she was the chair of the World Economic Forum - which means that the conspiracy nuts who follow Elon think she's a Illuminati globalist. They are now threatening to stop paying for their checkmarks if she stays on as CEO. This is so fucking hilarious.

If we don't allow free speech, we may as well be Hitler, a known national SOCIALIST.

Elon thinks he's making a smart business decision. Just remember that.

Aaand Twitter is now hosting Tucker Carlson's new show. Twitter is dead.

Very creepy when you think about him being in that photo with Ghislaine Maxwell

The wait-list for Bluesky is 1.9 million people

Oh cool Jay did respond. They did use a boiler plate ToS and are going to revise it. People on Twitter need to chill until this thing is actually out of beta.

I mean it's still on a private beta and has one central server and provider for now. The protocol it's all built on will be able to support both new providers and servers. Nobody owns the AT protocol. And there are other problems. They banned nudity from the What's Hot tab which is a very hostile move to folks who depend on sex work. The block feature was added specifically to block a trans woman who threatened to beat Matt Yglesias to death with a hammer. The first 3 bans were trans people including hammer girl. The other two bans have since been reversed. Again, this is all private beta shit and Jack is completely hands off. Bluesky is being run by Jay Graber and Jack is more of a silent partner. One of the lead developers Paul Frazee has been incredibly transparent on how the app works. So it's not like they're trying to scam everyone. The efforts seem genuine.

I have a writer friend who gave me a code. I haven't gotten any codes myself. Highlights from today include the Alf Who Fucks taking over the What's Hot tab. I have been on something called a Hellthread since Friday which is basically a thread that has so many people replying to each other that it breaks notifications so that you get one every time someone replies to the thread. It's fucking chaos and I've been loving it.

*sigh* Jesus fucking Christ

I'm tempted to make a thread to talk about Bluesky...

"It won't happen to me!" Is very prevalent in corporate America

It won't if they think they need the business. It's some good ol' pragmatic thinking.

Yeah but he gets eyeballs. It's tempting. I'm not sure where he'll end up. But I wouldn't rule out CNN.

CNN changed hands after he left for Fox fyi

CNN is owned by a right winger so it could happen legit.

A rich guy who wants to control the news. Bezos bought the Wash Post. Elon bought Twitter (a platform that hosts news). There are plenty of billionaires with money to burn.

Apparently the discovery for the Dominion case included some very bad stuff linked to him. Bad enough to tank a sale I think

No that seriously could be the case. If something legally could be pinned on Tucker, it would be a good idea to cut him loose before his presence soured the sale.

What's really weird is that Don Lemon allegedly got fired for his behavior in an interview with the same exact guy that Tucker was going to interview tonight. Kinda crazy.

Nah he's not smart. He wasted 44 billion on a website because of his hurt feelings.

yoooooo

Elon gave an org badge to a fake Disney Kids UK account.

I actually got an invite from a writer friend. I'll distribute some codes if they come this way. Blue Sky is the platform btw