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• On the post: The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2023 @ 05:10pm

  And no country that called its system communism was actually communism. Instead they were Marxism, highly modified communism that led to the problems the Soviet Union so aptly displayed. That's not to say I think communism would work, just that there's not been any large scale experiment with it yet.

• On the post: Hey Elon: The ADL Convincing Advertisers To Run Away From Your Site Is Part Of The Free Speech You Pretend To Support

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 05 Sep, 2023 @ 03:21pm

  He's going to really lose it once he rolls them out and they tank. He'll blame everyone but himself, of course.

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:42pm

  He's also forgetting that news media did that with Facebook, then Facebook fucked them over. They aren't going to make the same mistake again, especially not for a Nazi bar website.

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:40pm

  Even as stupid as Musk is, I'm shocked he thought it was a good idea to announce to the world he's 300lbs+. The only way that'd be anything close to a weight to be proud of was if he was 7'8" tall, and even then it'd just barely squeaking into the normal weight BMI category.

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:34pm

  Well, except most people are used to the old system and won't know that the image is a link to click on. Hard to phish someone if they don't click on the link, and even harder when they don't notice the link in the first place.

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:33pm

  Succinct headlines should be the goal for news media and used to be, they've gotten lazy in the Internet era. So that's one teeny-tiny good thing this change might cause: forcing publishers to start having actually succinct headlines again, instead of long click-baity ones. (Do note: this is not an endorsement of the change. It's still dumb as hell and shouldn't be done. And it probably won't actually get them to change anyway.)

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:29pm

  It also doesn't make the tweet much shorter in height, so even if that was Musk's goal, he failed. (Yet again.)

• On the post: Today In ‘Here’s How Elon Is Making ExTwitter Worse,’ He’s Going To Get Rid Of Headlines & Snippets For News

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2023 @ 02:28pm

  If that was the goal, removing them for users in France, Australia, Canada etc. that want money for them would make sense. Killing them for everyone is just dumb. Besides, even if that's the goal, something needs to be done to make it clear the image is a link to an article. That's clearly not happening.

• On the post: Yes, In Theory, Elon Could Be Cooking Up Something Better Than Blocks, But In Reality…

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2023 @ 08:58pm

  Block works that way because stalkers and harassers can continue to stalk and harass people if they can still read and reply to their tweets. For example, asking others to relay their message to the person they blocked. Totally innocent people can read it, be duped into thinking the block was a mistake, and then tweet/DM the victim to let them know what the reply said. That keeps the harassment going, instead of it stopping. Mute will not solve this problem. You need those types to not know if their target is even tweeting any more, so they can't do anything to harass them further. You also don't want stalkers being able to see their target's tweets, because they may be able to use those to track them down in the real world. (Which can result in attacks, even murders.) Sure, a person can set their profile so that only people they follow can see their tweets, but then they're sacrificing communicating with others just to keep a stalker away. That's further victimization and something we can avoid by having blocking available to victims. Blocking's not about shutting down discussion and never has been, it's about shutting down harassment and abuse.

• On the post: Are People More Upset About ExTwitter Allowing A ‘Verified Pro-Hitler’ Account, Or That Big Company Ads Are Appearing Next To That Account?

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2023 @ 07:11pm

  From what I've read about the video he posted a screenshot from, it's not just sexual abuse, she's also being tortured. If so, I guess Elmo's also cool with torturing small children.

• On the post: Are People More Upset About ExTwitter Allowing A ‘Verified Pro-Hitler’ Account, Or That Big Company Ads Are Appearing Next To That Account?

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2023 @ 07:09pm

  I'm hoping that once exTwitter finally goes bankrupt, the bankruptcy court doesn't allow the golden parachute she negotiated to be paid out. That'd leave her with very little to show for sucking up to the world's largest snowflake for months. And she'll probably have destroyed her relationship with all the major advertisers by then, making her unemployable in marketing.

• On the post: Are People More Upset About ExTwitter Allowing A ‘Verified Pro-Hitler’ Account, Or That Big Company Ads Are Appearing Next To That Account?

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2023 @ 07:03pm

  They do need to advertise. The only way they can profit is if the line keeps going up. That requires new, naive people investing in crypto. Then the earlier people can cash out and leave the naive people holding the bag. (See also: Ponzi scheme) There's a lot of crypto ads looking for new suckers.

• On the post: Elon Musk, Once Again, Tries To Throttle Links To Sites He Dislikes

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 05:12pm

  While the FBI would happily stoop that low, they don't need to. They prefer to use confidential informants and tips and reports from websites/users that come across child porn. Why put in more effort than necessary when that kind of info drops into their laps for free on a daily basis? The odds are they are absolutely investigating that guy, and once they get a search warrant for his devices, will find loads of child porn. The video that screenshot was from isn't something people run across by accident. It takes effort to obtain, usually by creating and trading new child porn for it. I wonder what bankrupt-me-elmo will say when that happens?

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Hides Effective Political Ad That Calls Out GOP

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2023 @ 01:53pm

  Was big enough. I doubt he'll get anyone to invest billions in any of his ventures in the future after burning $44 billion with Twitter.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Hides Effective Political Ad That Calls Out GOP

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2023 @ 01:52pm

  Musk has always succeeded in spite of himself. He almost destroyed Paypal pushing for his whole X thing, as well as moving it to Microsoft servers. (At that time, MS server products could not scale to the level Paypal required.) The only reason Paypal succeeded and Musk made a fortune from it was because they did a coup and removed him as CEO. Tesla wasn't perfect, but was okay-ish before Musk started taking more hands-on control in recent years. He's removed all the sensors from the cars except cameras, insisting that's all that's needed to achieve Full Self Driving. (It's not, and is a big part of why they keep running into stopped vehicles with Autopilot on.) He even used a firmware update to disable the other sensors on existing Teslas that had them. As a result Teslas were made less safe and more dangerous to others on the road. He's destroying that company, just more slowly than Twitter. And the only reason SpaceX is so successful is because he put a competent CEO in charge and let her run things with minimal interference. If he started meddling with it, he'd undoubtedly ruin it as well.

• On the post: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Hides Effective Political Ad That Calls Out GOP

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 04 Aug, 2023 @ 01:43pm

  Linked to CSAM? Oh hell no, they posted a screenshot from a video that's reportedly the most vile CSAM video floating around out there. (See the comments by rahaeli on this post. They saw the post and work in Trust and Safety, so they've seen the video it's from.) Musk reinstated an account that posted CSAM. Not linked to it, posted it directly. That seems like an explicit endorsement of sexually abusing children to me.

• On the post: Legal Subreddit Bans All Ex-Twitter Links Due To Safety Risk

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2023 @ 06:43pm

  I'll reply to you, because I'm not going to reply to Matthew, but this part:

  Otherwise I could make you guilty of kiddie porn by emailing you some. Leave a thumb drive on your front porch, etc.

  Indeed, you can. Possession of child porn is a crime, regardless of how you came into possession of it. If the police are interested in scoring easy "we're doing something about child porn points!", they can arrest and charge you for it and not bother investigating to find who sent it to you. And you can end up in jail for it. So yes Matthew, you could indeed do that and ruin someone's life by being an amoral, sociopathic asshole.

• On the post: Legal Subreddit Bans All Ex-Twitter Links Due To Safety Risk

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2023 @ 06:36pm

  Yep, the way the laws are written simple possession of child porn is illegal and it doesn't matter how you came in possession of it. I've always thought that deters reporting. After all, the police could arrest and charge you for possession of it, since you had to have a copy to report it, thanks to how web browsers work. It'll be in the browser's cache and most people don't know how to clear that. Plus if you have a platter hard drive, clearing the cache won't delete the file. It'll still be recoverable from the slack space.

• On the post: Ex-Twitter Resorts To Threatening Companies It Will Take Away Their Verification If They Don’t Start Buying More Ads

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 28 Jul, 2023 @ 03:57pm

  Turns out Musk really is a genius, only it's at fucking things up and making the wrong decisions. He should manage to make a right decision 50% of the time by sheer chance, but he's got a 100% wrong decision streak going. That takes talent.

• On the post: Techdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGo

  

  Manabi ( profile ), 27 Jul, 2023 @ 01:36pm

  Not for search engine indexing issues.

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