Elon Musk now owns Twitter, apparently trying to run it into the ground

[SwimOdin]

Rest in pepperonis 

[matrixman124]

So Twitter is updating its Terms of Service next week.

Take a look at this. It indicates they can use all of our Twitter content (this seems to also include DMs) as content for sale and for AI training. 😬

[Jman]

Using Twitter to train an AI will result in said AI trying to kill all humans by the end of the week.

[matrixman124]

7 minutes ago, Jman said:

Using Twitter to train an AI will result in said AI trying to kill all humans by the end of the week.

Probably

[Seight]

12 hours ago, matrixman124 said:

So Twitter is updating its Terms of Service next week.

Take a look at this. It indicates they can use all of our Twitter content (this seems to also include DMs) as content for sale and for AI training. 😬

So by the end of next month every Twitter ad will be a repurposed Dril tweet, got it.

Edited September 23, 2023 by Seight

[discolé monade]

On 9/22/2023 at 10:01 AM, Jman said:

Using Twitter to train an AI will result in said AI trying to kill all humans by the end of the week.

[matrixman124]

Elon: "we don't need headlines for links"

Twitter:

[Icarus27k]

Twitter (X or whatever) is the worst I've ever seen it right now. The new war in Israel-Palestine broke it. There's a TON of fake information about the event being thrown at you. Amateur "news" accounts just making stuff up. Randos sharing years-old videos and saying it's from the current war. And respectable accounts getting fooled by it and spreading it. 

Now would be the time to ditch that website if you haven't done so already. I would advise not believing ANYTHING you read on it. You may think it's from an official source, but that doesn't mean it's real. 

Edited October 9, 2023 by Icarus27k

[DragonSinger]

14 hours ago, Icarus27k said:

Twitter (X or whatever) is the worst I've ever seen it right now. The new war in Israel-Palestine broke it. There's a TON of fake information about the event being thrown at you. Amateur "news" accounts just making stuff up. Randos sharing years-old videos and saying it's from the current war. And respectable accounts getting fooled by it and spreading it. 

Now would be the time to ditch that website if you haven't done so already. I would advise not believing ANYTHING you read on it. You may think it's from an official source, but that doesn't mean it's real. 

I saw the writing on the wall and bookmarked some trustworthy accounts months ago, so I wouldn't have to dig through garbage for bits of news when it predictably got worse.

[Icarus27k]

This encapsulates well what Twitter is like now.

[matrixman124]

Looks like Twitter is actively flagging NSFW content and keeping it off the For You feed. Lots of artists and SWers are talking about jumping ship a la Tumblr.

[Jman]

Oh lovely.  The sensitive content filter wasn’t enough, have to appease the Puritan sponsors, half of which consider X radioactive.

[Seight]

3 hours ago, matrixman124 said:

Looks like Twitter is actively flagging NSFW content and keeping it off the For You feed. Lots of artists and SWers are talking about jumping ship a la Tumblr.

Those who fail to learn from Tumblr history are doomed to repeat it.

[discolé monade]

corporate welfare queen.

[katt_goddess]

He got my bill. 

Unevenedge gonna be rolling in dough now.  

[discolé monade]

again, i know this thread is about twitter, but, i really don't know that this schmuck warrants another thread. 

how cool is it to own a tesla?

[Jman]

This is why I refuse to get a Tesla or suggest it to others.  Especially now that the big car manufacturers are making their own electric vehicles.  (Give me the Dodge muscle EV now dammit!)

[scoobdog]

2 hours ago, Jman said:

This is why I refuse to get a Tesla or suggest it to others.  Especially now that the big car manufacturers are making their own electric vehicles.  (Give me the Dodge muscle EV now dammit!)

You're likely to get a bill like this with any fully electric car because the batteries themselves are often that expensive and are usually sealed.

[discolé monade]

3 minutes ago, scoobdog said:

You're likely to get a bill like this with any fully electric car because the batteries themselves are often that expensive and are usually sealed.

yes, however, the battery shouldn't have been available TOO the elements, in the case, rain. the vehicle is poorly designed. imo, as is that ridiculous 'truck'. 

is there a disclaimer, 'do not drive in the rain'? 

[scoobdog]

6 minutes ago, discolé monade said:

yes, however, the battery shouldn't have been available TOO the elements, in the case, rain. the vehicle is poorly designed. imo, as is that ridiculous 'truck'. 

is there a disclaimer, 'do not drive in the rain'? 

Yeah, these cars have too many design flaws for the price they demand.  Who knows if that truck will ever see the light of day?

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

23 hours ago, discolé monade said:

again, i know this thread is about twitter, but, i really don't know that this schmuck warrants another thread. 

how cool is it to own a tesla?

Well, that's enough to turn me away from Tesla for the rest of my life. The article continues to say the 8 year warranty doesn't cover that problem.

[Raptorpat]

https://twitter.com/support/status/1714429406192582896

[matrixman124]

That's it. It's over.

[SwimOdin]

Why would anyone pay to use Twitter?

[naraku360]

6 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

Why would anyone pay to use Twitter?

Why would anyone use Twitter?

[SwimOdin]

2 hours ago, naraku360 said:

Why would anyone use Twitter?

Pre-Elon, it was a mess, but a tolerable mess.

[1pooh4u]

People are going to pay the dollar and then within a few months it will be $4.99 and people will pay that too. The solution was simple. Don’t use Twitter. There are now other options, but for whatever reason those options aren’t good enough. Popular accounts with many thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of followers (yes millions too) are the most guilty, and that doesn’t make sense to me cuz they can go anywhere. Their followers will go wherever they go. I don’t get why anyone is putting up with Musk’s bullshit. At this point I gotta think it’s cuz they like it. 

[rpgamer]

I mean... aside from the growing paywall, is it really all that different than all of us that refuse to let this place go? Once you've got an internet home to squat in, most are reluctant to pack up and find a new one, and sometimes just never really connect with anywhere else as "home page."

[PenguinBoss]

4 hours ago, naraku360 said:

Why would anyone use Twitter?

Like I'm supposed to get my shitposting needs fulfilled here?

[1pooh4u]

23 minutes ago, rpgamer said:

I mean... aside from the growing paywall, is it really all that different than all of us that refuse to let this place go? Once you've got an internet home to squat in, most are reluctant to pack up and find a new one, and sometimes just never really connect with anywhere else as "home page."

Yes it’s different because this place isn’t actively trying to fuck over its own users

[Raptorpat]

just passively

[naraku360]

1 hour ago, PenguinBoss said:

Like I'm supposed to get my shitposting needs fulfilled here?

Shitposts aren't exclusive to here and Twitter. 😐

[matrixman124]

26 minutes ago, naraku360 said:

Shitposts aren't exclusive to here and Twitter. 😐

Indeed. I'm on Bluesky and there are many more platforms out there 

[matrixman124]

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-considering-taking-twitter-x-out-of-europe-dsa-2023-10?r=US&IR=T

Edited October 18, 2023 by matrixman124

[Raptorpat]

but also this is the best place to shitpost

 

 

 

obviously 

[katt_goddess]

7 hours ago, naraku360 said:

Why would anyone use Twitter?

Japanese dessert recipes.

Publicly shaming local politicians. 

[naraku360]

48 minutes ago, katt_goddess said:

Publicly shaming local politicians.

I thought Elon was cracking down on porn made by consenting adults.

[Seight]

3 hours ago, Raptorpat said:

just passively

Spoiler

In Minecraft.

 

[SwimOdin]

1 hour ago, matrixman124 said:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-considering-taking-twitter-x-out-of-europe-dsa-2023-10?r=US&IR=T

I swear is this man using Twitter to fucking launder money? What a brilliant businessman.

[katt_goddess]

1 hour ago, naraku360 said:

I thought Elon was cracking down on porn made by consenting adults.

Only if it causes him to feel funny in his no-no region while looking at a dog, sports mascot or the Hamburglar. 

[matrixman124]

17 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

I swear is this man using Twitter to fucking launder money? What a brilliant businessman.

Really shows how underregulated things are elsewhere.

But damn, he's really willing to cut the entire European userbase loose. It's almost like he forgot TruthSocial exists as a mostly US right wing Twitter platform

[naraku360]

18 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

I swear is this man using Twitter to fucking launder money? What a brilliant businessman.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/elon-musk-sued-258-billion-over-alleged-dogecoin-pyramid-scheme-2022-06-16/

[Icarus27k]

What X/Twitter is like today:

"Israel could have stopped after driving Hamas back into Gaza. No need for them to invade Gaza."

"Genocide supporter! I hope you burn in hell!"

 

Elon: soon to be released new Premium+. Robert E. Lee wasn't that bad.

[matrixman124]

"we can't erase Confederate history" says the guy whose family profited from South Africa apartheid

[Sieg67]

It kills me that some of the people who defend confederate monuments citing the importance of history are the same ones attacking the teaching of our historical inequality and injustices as being 'Woke."

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, Sieg67 said:

It kills me that some of the people who defend confederate monuments citing the importance of history are the same ones attacking the teaching of our historical inequality and injustices as being 'Woke."

They dgaf about history.  when they hear the suggestion of placing those statues in museums with more historical context, they freak out. 

[matrixman124]

"We built the cybertruck to be something impenetrable to arrows. I think Bladerunner would drive it"

[katt_goddess]

12 minutes ago, matrixman124 said:

"We built the cybertruck to be something impenetrable to arrows. I think Bladerunner would drive it"

Pretty sure the frame of my Huffy is also impenetrable to arrows. 

I kinda wanna see Bladerunner on a Huffy now. 

[André Toulon]

Rolling that Musky snowball...starting with ad fee subs

https://m.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-770991

[Seight]

2 hours ago, André Toulon said:

Rolling that Musky snowball...starting with ad fee subs

https://m.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-770991

Making people pay in an effort to meet Europe's advertising standards, that is AMAZING