Maybe this will kill Twitter? I read that Justin Trudeau was trying to kill YouTube. So it's hopefully become an ethos.
Hasn't he already started to walk it back? This seems like one of his usual plays for attention/stock manipulation.
I haven't tweeted in a long time. Sometimes Twitter makes it impossible to read much twitter without logging in, but sometimes they don't and then I tend to start reading a few people. Now I don't really read it except for things linked here and, sometimes, Ginny Hogan's twitter.
I still haven't tweeted, but I've been reading it a lot lately, especially when the Ukraine war started and it was the best source for detailed information.
I just invented a new theory to explain the internet/recent elections. The rate of only children is going up, so fewer kids have siblings. The "come home when the street lights go on" level of supervision is also vanishing. Without that vital time around siblings and friends, leaving kids spending so much time alone together that they are bored out of their minds*, kids today didn't learn to ignore attention-seeking assholes, so more people keep trying to be attention-seeking assholes and those that do enjoy more success.
* Theory 2.0 will have iPads worded in too.
This is all truly too stupid for words. I tried typing some words and I've had to delete them. I really think the anagrams were my best critical strategy.
As an update to the story, it appears that Vanguard has bought more shares of Twitter and is now the largest shareholder, as of a few hours ago. I don't actually know if Musk is pursuing any kind of strategic goal here, or multiple strategic goals? How much political power (at least in the U.S. where Musk resides; alternatively, in other countries too) would owning Twitter actually confer on someone, under various scenarios? Maybe that's more interesting to discuss?
Oh, fuck. That's where my retirement is.
It's either a pump and dump or an exceptionally stupid stunt, or both.
My theory about why he has so many online sycophants is that in addition to his obscene wealth he randomly engages with people. Since $10k is literally less than a rounding error in his worth I think a lot of people are convinced they're going to win some kind of Elon lottery where he drops pocket change on some idiot defending him on Twitter. The only cost to enter is your dignity and self-respect.
12: this is also, by a fortunate disposition of Providence, why he has so many obsessive haters compared to, idk, the Sacklers or Koch or Rupert Murdoch. It was fascinating, when Tesla began building a factory outside Berlin, to watch the German media/political complex respond outside the context of anglospheric culture war content.
I have obsessively hated Murdoch for half a century, and so have most people I know IRL.
Nobody would miss twitter, but if YouTube goes to the wall, where are the people who make an innocent living from cat videos and historical recipe interpretations going to go?
You can certainly be indignant about Murdoch but there's neither a Murdoch fandom or a Murdoch anti-fandom. Nobody has that kind of parasocial crush on him, largely because he doesn't engage with the public at all.
Nobody would miss twitter
I wish this were true, but it's my main source of information these days. (follow light-posting experts, not arguers, and never read arguments)
This tweet captures my sense of Elon Musk
Let's go to Mars no wait let's go to Texas and let's dig train tunnels that t wait let's cure poverty and then let's buy Twitter no I know let's be jet planes zoom zoom zoom
15: Yes, I would miss Twitter too, although I suppose I could quickly find some other way to remain moderately informed and semi-entertained.
But more significantly, there are many people that use for Twitter for good -- for example, my friend that uses Twitter to let people know about dogs that need to be fostered or adopted.
Whatever happened to Mastodon? Did it just become more niche after the initial flurry?
This is the first I ever heard of it.
follow light-posting experts
And comedians.
Isn't Trump's thing a Mastodon fork?
Isn't Trump's thing a Mastodon fork?
If it is, Trump's people added a fuckton of errors and bugs.
Belatedly see I set up an Ice Age gag which no one bit on.
18/22: Mastodon's doing fine. There are some friends from inside the computer there, they chat. None of the nodes I'm on seem to have federated with Trump's thing, so I never see anything from it. I don't really follow anyone famous. Bit of an unfogged vibe.
I hang out a little on Mastodon, it's very low key (in my neighborhood) and pleasant. Less conversation than here or Metafilter, *way* less crap than Facebook.
There clearly are segments with a lot more chatter, mostly about being horny-'n-socialist, but it's not hard to tune them out.
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Putting this link to Twitter in the Twitter thread, I guess:
A Soviet cartoon where a submarine "Neptune" finds a sank military ship marked with the letter Z. A boy says: Oh, that's a fascist ship. Fascists mark their warships that way. Today Russian Soyuzmultfilm deleted this cartoon from their library
The clip is beautiful!
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Since this is the social media thread, did we ever get closure on Nicki Minaj's Cousin's friend's balls?
It turned out that the cousin's friend was Tucker Carlson.
He got his name because of how he kept his balls from interfering with the line of his pants, but it's just not healthy to do that for too long.