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This is apt.
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scrolling twitter today and then coming over here is like walking out of a burning building and then walking into the calm remains of a building that burnt down 5 years ago and has been reclaimed by nature.
This is apt.

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political schill of the day.
This is absolutely hilarious. So, turns out post.news is not trying to learn from the mistakes of twitter, itâs just trying to add âfinancializationâ on top of it.
I was wondering why Kara was schilling and now we know - sheâs an âadvisorâ and now thereâs an entire podcast that delves into Âľ-payments for posting.
I am not going to complain. This is a good thing. If the journalists congregate into a place like post.news and the right-wingers congregate on to twitter, gab and truth social, life isnât too bad.
Mythic Quest, Ravenâs Banquet (Season 1) got this bit right: gotta draw them out and put them into an echo chamber together. This will create some key echo chambers that most people can safely avoid.
Iâd now love for a way to google to index mastodon as well so that I can finally stop going to these sites and if relevant, it can just pop up in my search.
Elon: running around naked sucking white pride dick
Elon simps: Iâm going naked too. He built an EV and landed rockets back. Naked is clearly it. Woke mind virus clothing is for leftist cucks
Andreessen: time to build naked
Crypto bros: naked to the moon
AGM: entrepreneurial capital nakedness is the only true form of nakedness. Itâs defenestrating professional managerial nakedness.
Sacks: Iâve been butt naked forever. And AGM wrote the best take of it all
All In: letâs steelman the naked argument.
Kevin Roose: a latecomerâs guide to being naked
India's banking regulator has declined a payment aggregator licence for the One 97 Communications Ltd unit that owns the popular Paytm brand
Oh boy. I definitely donât want to come across as someone lauding random government regulation. However, this is such a slap in the face of PayTM after brown-nosing Modi. Itâs hilarious.

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So, itâs finally coming out that the white billionaire edgelordsâ takeaway from Putinâs oligarchy was: weâd like some of that and mix it with some white pride.
So they just wrested away a platform and under the aegis of âfree speechâ and âcentrismâ bullshit just decided to own the media.
Meanwhile everyone (including me) is still engaging with them in the platform than just let it be the circlejerk echo chamber it should be. We really need to learn to control ourselves.
The mistake they are making is they believe âtheyâ can control the fascism and racism by money. This is going to blow back so bad. Again, ignore the trolls people. Ignore them. Twitter has left the station and is not worth saving back from them. Much like nobody is going to try and wrest truth social from the alt right.
In the spirit of ignoring the trolls, any such replies will be deleted. I can moderate my own space. K thanks bye!
So, itâs finally coming out that the white billionaire edgelordsâ takeaway from Putinâs oligarchy was: weâd like some of that and mix it with some white pride.
So they just wrested away a platform and under the aegis of âfree speechâ and âcentrismâ bullshit just decided to own the media.
Meanwhile everyone (including me) is still engaging with them in the platform than just let it be the circlejerk echo chamber it should be. We really need to learn to control ourselves.
The mistake they are making is they believe âtheyâ can control the fascism and racism by money. This is going to blow back so bad. Again, ignore the trolls people. Ignore them. Twitter has left the station and is not worth saving back from them. Much like nobody is going to try and wrest truth social from the alt right.
Trolls
Elonâs not a poster. The closest he can be is a troll. Heâs a good troll because he trolls in the open and heâs one of the richest people in the world.
The best way to deal with trolls is to ignore them.
The best way to deal with Musk is to just gtfo out of twitter and stop using the service.
One must not let oneâs addiction to twitter serve as a canvas for Elonâs trolling. As long as itâs filled with people posting but not responding to Elon or the trolls, youâve got an edge.
Appleâs ad business is growing fast. It tracks you in its apps and uses that data to sell ads despite its privacy claims.
Appleâs strategy bonus is now quickly becoming a strategy tax. What Apple does is exactly what Google and Facebook also do. Targeted advertising fundamentally is about anonymized, aggregated data. And ads arenât targeted to âyouâ - $person, itâs always targeted to some attribute that you fall into.
Anyway, good luck to Apple who now will try to explain away their massive data collection operations while chopping the knees of their competition. Meanwhile, Googleâs starting to look quite the champion whoâs chosen to make sure that all services it collects data on are free and not something that you have to pay $ for unlike Apple.
yikes. So true.

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Twitter, failure modes, and your favorite bar
So Iâve been seeing arguments for why, no, you should really stay on Twitter, because of the problems with anything vying to replace it. Most circle around what tech people might dub failure modes in terms of both engineering and policy.
Make no mistake, many of these are solid arguments. Twitter has, as much as we like to pretend otherwise, gotten many things right. Theyâve got fast onboarding. They provide a good experience on both mobile and desktop. (Please donât @ me with your objections to ads and algorithms and whatever; Iâm not saying the UX design on Twitter is perfect or free of dark patterns, Iâm saying that itâs been developed by UX professionals over a 15-year period and it shows.) They understand the importance of making a service like theirs accessible. They understand the importance of well-designed terms of service that limit their legal liability without taking draconian stances toward users and their content. These are all failure modes that other, newer, smaller services have done little or nothing to address.
But for many people, the real issue isnât whatâs wrong with the other places. Itâs that they love this place. Twitter, for all its faults, for all the love/hate relationship you have with itâitâs your favorite bar. This is what most indie creators are feeling, I think. None of the other services have the audience reach; itâs unrealistic to expect us to be on a half-dozen new sites when we could just stay put; and, hey, the likelihood of Twitter really exploding is pretty low. All of those are true, too.
The problem, though, is that just because Twitterâs failure mode isnât likely to be âclosing up shopâ doesnât mean it doesnât have other failure modes. You might have noticed I didnât mention harassment and toxic behavior as a failure modeâthe things a Trust and Safety Team handlesâbut it is. As Nilay Patel observedâ), the product of a social network is content moderation.
To be clear, this is something all the Not-Twitters are going to have to come to grips with in ways they havenât yet. Cohost, Hive, and OoobyBloobly (which I just made up, or did I, youâre not sure, are you) look good by comparison because they are a fraction of a fraction of Twitterâs scale. Your favorite Mastodon instance this week is even smaller. With Twitterâs two hundred million users, trying to regulate bad behavior is a 24/7 rearguard action.
Well, guess what? Twitterâs Trust and Safety Team is now gone. By deliberate design. Itâs not coming back, at least not in any recognizable form, not any time soon.
You think Iâm going to mention Musk restoring Trumpâs Twitter account. I am. But the canary in the coal mine isnât the who as much as itâs the how. Musk claimed in October that heâd set up a new âcouncilâ for moderation, and that âno major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before the council convenes.â That was a blatant lie. He polled his followersâhardly a statistically unbiased groupâabout restoring Trumpâs account, and has restored others just on his own. Tech journalist Casey Newton:
At the risk of stating the obvious, this sort of ad hoc approach to content moderation and community standards is completely unsustainable. It does not scale beyond a handful of the most prominent accounts on the service. And, most worryingly, it is not based on any clear principles: Musk is leading trust and safety at Twitter the same way he is leading product and hiringâby whim.
And this is Twitterâs failure mode. All those tweets youâve seen bitching about how a big problem with Mastodon is that you might choose an âinstanceâ that ends up being run by an anti-woke edgelord tinpot dictator? Thatâs Twitter now.
Oh, you say the need for advertisers will help reign in their worst impulses, because no sensible advertiser wants to have their âpromoted tweetsâ running in line with alt-right propaganda? Good luck with that: a Twitter thatâs only ten or fifteen percent of its original size requires a lot less money to run, and Muskâs been clear he aims to reduce the companyâs dependency on advertising income.
And those remaining thousand employees or so arenât going to push back the way we saw happen in some tech companies a year or two ago. The shakeout isnât just in progress, itâs almost over. The ones left either canât afford to leave or subscribe to Muskâs worldview. Anyone who joins Twitter under his leadership will have done so knowing what that worldview is.
The âliberal bias of big techâ has always been a phantasm. Silicon Valley has always had a strong libertarian bent to it, from the right-of-center Hoover think tank at Stanford University to the military/aerospace roots that long predate the 1990s dotcom boom. While many SV libertarians are socially liberal, not all are, and a few of the most prominent conservatives came out of the âPayPal Mafiaâ: Musk, the openly anti-democratic Peter Thiel, and VC David Sacks, who co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth with Thiel a couple of decades ago. Along with professional idiot Jason Calacanis, Sacks now advises Musk on how to run Twitter, and the circumstantial evidence suggests theyâve encouraged the performative cruelty Muskâs exhibited in how heâs run things so far.
So hereâs the thing. What conservative culture warriors always say they want is the absence of political bias, but time and time again what they mean is bias that explicitly favors them. Everything else, you see, has an innate liberal biasâitâs them against the world, fighting the good fight. They want fairness and balance the way Fox News does. They donât want an unbiased social media site; what they want is a site with Gab and Parlerâs slant, but Twitterâs reach. Now they have it. The product of a social network is content moderation, and Twitterâs new content moderators will be hand-picked by Musk. Itâs going to be full of people who wonât object to racism, homophobia, and transphobia as much as object to fighting it, because âfree speechâ.
If you do believe in the Fox News kind of balance, that Iâm wrong about Silicon Valleyâs political biases and especially wrong about Twitterâs, this isnât a failure mode. Itâs what you want, or at least what you think you want. Itâs clearly what Elon Musk thinks he wants. But for Twitter as we knew it, this is a catastrophic failure. Itâs a terminal condition, an unrecoverable crash.
New Twitter will be hostile to anyone queer, or non-white, or slightly to the left of Ronald Reagan. You may be a creator who wants to stay on Twitter to reach your audience, but the audience there will inevitably tilt toward the anti-woke, All Lives Matter, gender critical, Just Asking Questions crowd. If theyâre your audience, congratulations, I guess. If theyâre not, you have a problem.
I get that, right now, itâs still easy to rationalize staying on Twitter. The alternatives are too confusing, or have questionable terms of service, or donât have a registered DMCA agent, or have a crappy official app, or have a crappy web interface, or just seem like theyâre run out of a college dorm room. We can go down the list and acknowledge most or all of those are great points.
But your favorite bar is under new management, and whether you want to admit it or not, you know damn well what kind of bar theyâre making it into. You need to think long and hard about whether youâre okay with that.
I get that, right now, itâs still easy to rationalize staying on Twitter. The alternatives are too confusing, or have questionable terms of service, or donât have a registered DMCA agent, or have a crappy official app, or have a crappy web interface, or just seem like theyâre run out of a college dorm room. We can go down the list and acknowledge most or all of those are great points.
But your favorite bar is under new management, and whether you want to admit it or not, you know damn well what kind of bar theyâre making it into. You need to think long and hard about whether youâre okay with that.
this cannot be something that we hide behind though. I am ashamed that I idolized the likes of Dixon, Andreesen, Krishnan, Srinivasan and Musk. Over the past couple weeks, theyâve shown that their only motive right now is to now claim âcultureâ now that theyâve claimed their access to wealth.
Nothing ruined Silicon Valley culture than these VCs trying to be influencers, circle jerking each other with their first principles.
Fascinated by how "woke", already a nebulous, all-encompassing nothing word in the hands of the people mad at the word "woke", has now become the central motivation of everything to those people. Every story has to be seen in terms of "woke" or "anti-woke", it's now the only framing they have to relate to the world
Like, when Disney fired their CEO, they quickly decided it was all over how Bob Chapek was the "woke" one and they went back to the "non-woke" one Bob Iger and no other reason. Twitter is about Elon Musk rooting out "woke" employees. A thing happens, that crowd draws imaginary battle lines. Every minor business move, cultural decision, everything is, to people in a particular filter bubble another skirmish in a grand war over a vaguely defined concept that means literally nothing to anyone outside the bubble
Itâs always about an âotherâ and how they are ânot.â At its core itâs tribalism and always has been. Let me connect it to crypto - when something inherently isnât valuable or doesnât think it holds value, then youâve gotta make it all relative.
The latest âgo woke, go brokeâ is particularly hilarious from the capitalist only class who believe they somehow have a monopoly on culture because they of their well timed fortunes. Truth is - theyâll never be the ones setting culture.
So Iâve been seeing arguments for why, no, you should really stay on Twitter, because of the problems with anything vying to replace it. Mos
If you do believe in the Fox News kind of balance, that Iâm wrong about Silicon Valleyâs political biases and especially wrong about Twitterâs, this isnât a failure mode. Itâs what you want, or at least what you think you want. Itâs clearly what Elon Musk thinks he wants. But for Twitter as we knew it, this is a catastrophic failure. Itâs a terminal condition, an unrecoverable crash.
I get that, right now, itâs still easy to rationalize staying on Twitter. The alternatives are too confusing, or have questionable terms of service, or donât have a registered DMCA agent, or have a crappy official app, or have a crappy web interface, or just seem like theyâre run out of a college dorm room. We can go down the list and acknowledge most or all of those are great points.
But your favorite bar is under new management, and whether you want to admit it or not, you know damn well what kind of bar theyâre making it into. You need to think long and hard about whether youâre okay with that.
Such a well written piece.
Elon wyd
I genuinely wish I could see inside Muskâs head or at least get an explanation for how he was thinking his plans would work out.
Like itâs clear now he is fantastically out of touch with reality but I still really wanna know like, to what degree. Did he think people would accept his ultimatum? Did he genuinely think it would only take like 300 people to keep Twitter running?
I was an intern at SpaceX years ago, back it when it was a much smaller company â after Elon got hair plugs, but before his cult of personality was in full swing. I have some insight to offer here.
Back when I was at SpaceX, Elon was basically a child king. He was an important figurehead who provided the company with the money, power, and PR, but he didnât have the knowledge or (frankly) maturity to handle day-to-day decision making and everyone knew that. He was surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to manipulate him into making good decisions.
This is incredible. I have no idea if the story is true, but you know what, given the child king antics at display here, you bet that most people will believe this.

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not sure if i should appreciate the shit post that got me, lean in and explain this shit or if it's mildly racist
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