Ultimately, they understand strength as the ability to murder. In their minds, it's the final argument, and it's also the one that doesn't require much education. If anything, hesitation to murder, or, Trump-forbid, refusal to based on some intangible consideration - is weakness. Kindness is also a weakness to them. And they even tell on themselves with this Nazi-sounding "Peace Through Strength" slogan. It's the crux of the American conservatism, the foundation of the whole gun fetish and much more. And it's also what makes them "friendly" with other dictators - this is their common ground, shared mindset.
Freud would've had a field day with Musk's language choices. Me, i just instantly think of the BOFA violation that "Kek you frens later, anons" was and go about my day unbothered by the attempted insult.
I refuse to believe the system prompt on GitHub is the real system prompt. Or at the very least that it's the only change they've done. The massive change in speech pattern, the frequent use of "every damn time" and "noticing the pattern", suggesting to "assemble Towerwaffen", sexually assaulting Linda Yaccarino... The training set is obviously 4chan poisoned, all other guard rails age gone.
That's an option. Though with the felon out of the office any reconstruction effort should tear to pieces everything he did, including pardons. I know that right now they are unreviewable - it doesn't mean it has to remain so.
Anyway, i'm personally hoping he does a Matthew Perry as soon as possible, that's solve a lot of problems.
No only the reputation, but in the process running DOGE Musk committed so many crimes it's hard to count them all. Shuttering agencies without congressional approval, compromising data systems, illegal firings - those are just the broad strokes, converting them to actual counts of criminal activity is beyond my pay grade or graphomania. There's no way he stays out of jail should someone even half decent be appointed to run the DoJ again. So how will this play out? The remains of the American democracy die and a procession of AI-obsessed fascists takes over, preventing the justice? What will he do is he senses there's a chance of him facing consequences?
The bridge was burned, there's no way back in every conceivable way.
Same guy who claims to be working on "maximum truth-seeking AI" BTW.
And yes, i also think he's dumb enough to believe in at least a half of the nonsense he's peddling.
I agree that it's reasonable to expect BlueSky to behave better than Musk - that's kind of a low bar to clear, the problem is, for an issue to escalate it requires only one side to be unreasonable. It's the system that just ordered app stores and mobile OSs to remove Xitter's app and VPN apps(!); backbone, mobile and local ISP to block Xitter; and threatened users with enormous fines for block circumvention(!!) that decides the threshold for such actions and how the checks and balances on this work (or seemingly don't work at all). I'm worried that this threshold might not be set in stone and instead be dependent on events outside of BlueSky's control and on egos (and how they might evolve) of a small number of people.
Let's imagine the scenario where Bolsonaro's crowd migrates to BlueSky alongside everyone else, and then this crowd starts doing what every far-right group does - spread nonsense and hate. Let's also imagine that BlueSky gets the same demand as Musk to comply with Brazil's hostage law. And then, let's also imagine that the Brazilian judiciary is unhappy with BlueSky's moderation efforts, no matter how reasonable that might be, starts demanding user data and removal of specific content. What would the service do with all that?
My point is, that this authoritarian garbage is not a good news for any service operating in the country, and BlueSky suddenly became a lot more prominent...
Sometimes i wonder if Musk's posts like this one are a cry for help or a moment of lucidity of a deeply deranged mind. Other times i'm sure he's just found a list of idealist quotes and is using it when he needs a dose of internet adoration.
Nah. Musk's got different priorities: he's reducing the price of the golden tick making scams cheaper to pull off. CloudSEK published a nice whitepaper on that a week ago.
At best his personal learning curve has a downwards trend, at worst it's desperation and milking scammers to stave off financial collapse.
And the best part is, that the display name @liamnissan used - Sissy SpaceX - is still trending.
If we believe Yoel Roth, he failed to make Musk understand the Streisand effect. Will this incident teach him something or?..
Same TBH. Even moderating a chat is an exercise in dealing with the worst in human nature. Running any social media is on a whole different level of having garbage thrown at you 24/7.
Another interesting tidbit is that the drop in valuation from -65% of the original value to -71.5% happened in the space of one month - from October to November. This also means that the number is outdated by a month, which matters when the change is that rapid.
How many of you would take Xitter off of Elmo's hands if he also had to pay you for it?
Just for the sake of argument: when the UI says "Verified account" and it really is not and the actual description is hidden behind several clicks, it may be considered deceptive.
Better yet, just today i saw someone on BlueSky posting this
Twitter quietly dropped the government identity check requirement for verification, as well as the requirements that the account be 30 days old, have an avatar, and are not impersonating anyone.
I was able to get verification on a 2 day old account named Barack Obama with no avatar or posts.
Was it a glitch? A cost cutting measure? An attempt to boost the revenue chaos be damned? No idea.
Just finished reading the article that is the second link in this one and...
having tweets mysteriously be promoted and demoted without insight into what’s going on
...is now the norm. He's done every shady thing he accused Twitter of doing.
a good sign as to whether there is free speech, is ‘is someone you don’t like allowed to say something you don’t like.’
Nope, that's dead. ElonJet saga alone is proof of that.
and be very cautious with permanent bans.
Unbans fucking "Daisy's destruction" poster, about a month after handpicking him for early access to monetization at ridiculous rates.
in a case where perhaps there’s a lot of controversy where perhaps you’d not want to necessarily promote that tweet
Personally boosts every single rightwing BS peddler.
You know, I think, these influence… they make the product much worse.
Endorses The Great Replacement Theory, throws a fit when companies refuse to advertise next to it.
Everything Elmo's said was either a lie or an idea he wasn't truly committed to. At least the next quote aged well:
Open sourcing the algorithm will be most interesting to those looking to abuse and game the system to promote their own stuff.
It started with misleading labels on media accounts on Xitter, it continued with arbitrary removal of "verified" ticks, threats of account bans over linking to other services, throttling or blocking of links to specific sites, ending SpaceX streams on Youtube and posting photos on Flickr, deboosting of mentions of other social media, how this.
Basically, everyone that stays in his "ecosystem" is in abusive relationships with him - he decides what you can watch, post or view. And it took less than a year to escalate to removing features from a product of a publicly traded company for no good reason, making me wonder how bad it'll be in another year.
And suddenly i feel a bit better about my constant struggle to think up decent names for my gaming characters and empires. Thank you, Grimes and Elon Musk, you're good for something after all.
TBH, i wouldn't expect him to admit to all the petty things he's done, and there were quite a few. Taking away golden ticks just because, putting a 5 second delay on links to certain sites, threatening to take away user names... They were all immature resentful things, but he'll always lie about the justifications.
As for "free speech" having a price, that's the main tenant of his entire business strategy with Xitter. The stupid priority of blue ticks in the replies is just one point. BTW, this is a major blunder in product marketing, as the people that bought the tick tend to align with Musk and as such their concentrated replies tend to make the product impressively disgusting.
Ultimately, they understand strength as the ability to murder. In their minds, it's the final argument, and it's also the one that doesn't require much education. If anything, hesitation to murder, or, Trump-forbid, refusal to based on some intangible consideration - is weakness. Kindness is also a weakness to them. And they even tell on themselves with this Nazi-sounding "Peace Through Strength" slogan. It's the crux of the American conservatism, the foundation of the whole gun fetish and much more. And it's also what makes them "friendly" with other dictators - this is their common ground, shared mindset.
Freud would've had a field day with Musk's language choices. Me, i just instantly think of the BOFA violation that "Kek you frens later, anons" was and go about my day unbothered by the attempted insult.
I refuse to believe the system prompt on GitHub is the real system prompt. Or at the very least that it's the only change they've done. The massive change in speech pattern, the frequent use of "every damn time" and "noticing the pattern", suggesting to "assemble Towerwaffen", sexually assaulting Linda Yaccarino... The training set is obviously 4chan poisoned, all other guard rails age gone.
That's an option. Though with the felon out of the office any reconstruction effort should tear to pieces everything he did, including pardons. I know that right now they are unreviewable - it doesn't mean it has to remain so. Anyway, i'm personally hoping he does a Matthew Perry as soon as possible, that's solve a lot of problems.
What comes next?
No only the reputation, but in the process running DOGE Musk committed so many crimes it's hard to count them all. Shuttering agencies without congressional approval, compromising data systems, illegal firings - those are just the broad strokes, converting them to actual counts of criminal activity is beyond my pay grade or graphomania. There's no way he stays out of jail should someone even half decent be appointed to run the DoJ again. So how will this play out? The remains of the American democracy die and a procession of AI-obsessed fascists takes over, preventing the justice? What will he do is he senses there's a chance of him facing consequences? The bridge was burned, there's no way back in every conceivable way.
It may strike some readers as harsh, but i want to put $50m worth of condoms on Musk's head.
Same guy who claims to be working on "maximum truth-seeking AI" BTW. And yes, i also think he's dumb enough to believe in at least a half of the nonsense he's peddling.
I agree that it's reasonable to expect BlueSky to behave better than Musk - that's kind of a low bar to clear, the problem is, for an issue to escalate it requires only one side to be unreasonable. It's the system that just ordered app stores and mobile OSs to remove Xitter's app and VPN apps(!); backbone, mobile and local ISP to block Xitter; and threatened users with enormous fines for block circumvention(!!) that decides the threshold for such actions and how the checks and balances on this work (or seemingly don't work at all). I'm worried that this threshold might not be set in stone and instead be dependent on events outside of BlueSky's control and on egos (and how they might evolve) of a small number of people.
What if BlueSky gets caought in thise shit storm too?
Let's imagine the scenario where Bolsonaro's crowd migrates to BlueSky alongside everyone else, and then this crowd starts doing what every far-right group does - spread nonsense and hate. Let's also imagine that BlueSky gets the same demand as Musk to comply with Brazil's hostage law. And then, let's also imagine that the Brazilian judiciary is unhappy with BlueSky's moderation efforts, no matter how reasonable that might be, starts demanding user data and removal of specific content. What would the service do with all that? My point is, that this authoritarian garbage is not a good news for any service operating in the country, and BlueSky suddenly became a lot more prominent...
Sometimes i wonder if Musk's posts like this one are a cry for help or a moment of lucidity of a deeply deranged mind. Other times i'm sure he's just found a list of idealist quotes and is using it when he needs a dose of internet adoration.
Nah. Musk's got different priorities: he's reducing the price of the golden tick making scams cheaper to pull off. CloudSEK published a nice whitepaper on that a week ago. At best his personal learning curve has a downwards trend, at worst it's desperation and milking scammers to stave off financial collapse.
And the best part is, that the display name @liamnissan used - Sissy SpaceX - is still trending. If we believe Yoel Roth, he failed to make Musk understand the Streisand effect. Will this incident teach him something or?..
Same TBH. Even moderating a chat is an exercise in dealing with the worst in human nature. Running any social media is on a whole different level of having garbage thrown at you 24/7.
Another interesting tidbit is that the drop in valuation from -65% of the original value to -71.5% happened in the space of one month - from October to November. This also means that the number is outdated by a month, which matters when the change is that rapid. How many of you would take Xitter off of Elmo's hands if he also had to pay you for it?
Just for the sake of argument: when the UI says "Verified account" and it really is not and the actual description is hidden behind several clicks, it may be considered deceptive. Better yet, just today i saw someone on BlueSky posting this
Was it a glitch? A cost cutting measure? An attempt to boost the revenue chaos be damned? No idea.Just finished reading the article that is the second link in this one and...
...is now the norm. He's done every shady thing he accused Twitter of doing. Nope, that's dead. ElonJet saga alone is proof of that. Unbans fucking "Daisy's destruction" poster, about a month after handpicking him for early access to monetization at ridiculous rates. Personally boosts every single rightwing BS peddler. Endorses The Great Replacement Theory, throws a fit when companies refuse to advertise next to it. Everything Elmo's said was either a lie or an idea he wasn't truly committed to. At least the next quote aged well:Only the ones he regularly communicates with.
It started with misleading labels on media accounts on Xitter, it continued with arbitrary removal of "verified" ticks, threats of account bans over linking to other services, throttling or blocking of links to specific sites, ending SpaceX streams on Youtube and posting photos on Flickr, deboosting of mentions of other social media, how this. Basically, everyone that stays in his "ecosystem" is in abusive relationships with him - he decides what you can watch, post or view. And it took less than a year to escalate to removing features from a product of a publicly traded company for no good reason, making me wonder how bad it'll be in another year.
And suddenly i feel a bit better about my constant struggle to think up decent names for my gaming characters and empires. Thank you, Grimes and Elon Musk, you're good for something after all.
TBH, i wouldn't expect him to admit to all the petty things he's done, and there were quite a few. Taking away golden ticks just because, putting a 5 second delay on links to certain sites, threatening to take away user names... They were all immature resentful things, but he'll always lie about the justifications. As for "free speech" having a price, that's the main tenant of his entire business strategy with Xitter. The stupid priority of blue ticks in the replies is just one point. BTW, this is a major blunder in product marketing, as the people that bought the tick tend to align with Musk and as such their concentrated replies tend to make the product impressively disgusting.