Re: Social media
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 10:02 am
Old and busted: literacy tests
New hotness: testosterone tests
New hotness: testosterone tests
I enjoy seeing people use the Grok AI to generate images making fun of Elon.
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Re: Social media
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 10:37 am
Re: Social media
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 12:15 pm
Musk buys Twitter, bankrolled partly by the Saudis and Russia, and this is what they get for their investment.
Re: Social media
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2024 5:50 am
Elon is such a weird gross creepo at times. I heard people saying that he has too much divorced dad energy and this is a great example of that.
Re: Social media
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2024 12:45 pm
Re: Social media
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2024 1:50 pm
Well, it's too bad. He sometimes makes perfectly normal tweets, even interesting, even sometimes funny. He tweets about interesting things his companies are doing, like a SpaceX launch or a new Tesla car or feature. But then he'll immediately follow it up with absolute garbage like offering to impregnate Taylor Swift or moronic racist conspiracy theory BS. Oh well.
Re: Social media
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2024 1:51 pm
Interesting thread about Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, and various conflicts of interest.
Re: Social media
Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2024 5:43 pm
When it's going great.
Re: Social media
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:20 am
Does he really think the Dems want to arrest him and shut his site down?
Re: Social media
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:02 am
Iron Man 2 vibes...Shield needs to put Agent Coulson on him to babysit him
Re: Social media
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:25 am
Musk is more of a Justin Hammer than Tony Stark... imovirtual9mm wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:02 amIron Man 2 vibes...Shield needs to put Agent Coulson on him to babysit him
Re: Social media
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:48 am
Re: Social media
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 12:05 pm
Elon made the Twitter engineers put a special flag in their code to specifically boost his own tweets to make him feel better about his engagement numbers.
Re: Social media
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 6:50 am
I've heard some people praise Elon Musk for managing to run Twitter despite laying off around 80% of its workforce. And while there's something there about efficiency and bloated hiring, I do think it's fair to say that the company is being run worse now with Elon there and with so many of their talented people gone. Their active users have dropped noticeably in the past year.
Re: Social media
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:02 am
I wonder how many of these "users" are just the blue checkmark AI bots that are constantly rewording th tweets they quote. I'd guess the human uses have dropped by even more than this is listing.
Re: Social media
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:15 am
Twitter still has a very useful role in distributing information quickly to a mass audience and letting them discuss it. But I really hate the way it has changed over the past 1-2 years. It's much more of a right-wing cesspool now. The "verified" badge means nothing, and almost every thread gets overrun with trolls, bots, porn, spam, crypto, and ads for Trump / MAGA. You try to click on a video to watch it, and then when the video is done, it immediately jumps and auto-plays some pro-Trump video by somebody you don't even follow. And Elon's own tweets get force-fed into your timeline even if you don't follow him or interact with any of his content. The good content is still there, but increasingly the bad / shitty stuff gets in the way of it. I may jump to another network if it gets much worse / if the others keep improving. Maybe Threads is a good alternative, though I haven't used that yet.
Re: Social media
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:58 am
Can Threads posts be embedded here like Tweets?Mori Chu wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2024 10:15 amTwitter still has a very useful role in distributing information quickly to a mass audience and letting them discuss it. But I really hate the way it has changed over the past 1-2 years. It's much more of a right-wing cesspool now. The "verified" badge means nothing, and almost every thread gets overrun with trolls, bots, porn, spam, crypto, and ads for Trump / MAGA. You try to click on a video to watch it, and then when the video is done, it immediately jumps and auto-plays some pro-Trump video by somebody you don't even follow. And Elon's own tweets get force-fed into your timeline even if you don't follow him or interact with any of his content. The good content is still there, but increasingly the bad / shitty stuff gets in the way of it. I may jump to another network if it gets much worse / if the others keep improving. Maybe Threads is a good alternative, though I haven't used that yet.
Re: Social media
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:19 pm
I don't know if they can yet. Probably not. When I get some downtime I'll investigate whether it is doable.
Re: Social media
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:20 pm
Oh great, Twitter is about to change their block button so that it doesn't actually block the person. Of course this is the type of decision you would get if you have a company leader who wants to force everybody to see his posts no matter what.
Re: Social media
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2024 5:15 am
I guess it’s a big deal if you use it…. Outside of this sites I have zero engagement with Twitter and could care less, nor am I surprised since I knew this idiot was going to run things into the ground since changing the name.
There will come a point where he won’t own it and it will be restored to a more neutral, less vitriolic ownership.
There will come a point where he won’t own it and it will be restored to a more neutral, less vitriolic ownership.