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• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 12:34am

  It’s really only “fun” if you were actually succeeding in what you claim to do.

  I mean, of course I do.

  and I’m not sure anyone else would be capable of sparing the effort to empathize with you for fear of herniating themselves

  Please recognize that didn’t make sense.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 12:30am

  Not at all sure that’s true but it definitely invalidates whining aboht a (very) slightly saucy meme.

• On the post: Techdirt Podcast Episode 343: Congress v. Twitter

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 12:25am

  Masnick, personally, basically only covers Twitter/Musk anymore. Sometimes he covers politics in general while pretending it’s related to tech, cuz frankly he’s just become a hateful liberal

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 12:09am

  SURE you did.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 12:07am

  Apparently, per Platformer, this change came about specifically because Biden outperformed Musk.

  I don't think there's any particular reason to believe that nor has that trash site really given anyone a reason to.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2023 @ 12:06am

  Sex is not gender

  Yes, it is, actually. I have no problem with you pretending to be whatever sex you want to be, but you are in fact pretending.

  “Black people” are reported by police forces who spend nearly all their patrol time in black neighborhoods

  Y'know how the murder rate in many cities is up 100, 200% the last couple years? It's cuz of dumbshit ideas like this. Statistics can't be racist, and you can't just wish away statistics you don't like. No, violent crime rates are not manufactured by the attention of police. Cops should spend their time where the crime is, and if you want to subvert that in the interest of some narrative you prefer, you are making policing less effective in the interest of your racism, in fact.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:59pm

  Do you know what a "dog whistle" is? It's when you really have no fucking excuse to call someone racist, but cuz you're a liberal and that's the only argument you got, you're gonna go ahead and do it anyway.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:56pm

  Those two clauses are mutually exclusive.

  You realize how fucking dumb that is to say, right? Like, I know you want to pretend that they're made up, but it's like hundreds of pages of emails and screenshots and interviews. "Here's some evidence" Masnick and his syscophants: "No it's not". Yeah well shit doesn't work like that.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:53pm

  What the FUCK are you talking about? Not only do I go and do other things for HOURS at a time, but there's like several dozen of you fucking idiots, and you say a lot of dumb stuff, at some point it isn't even worth responding to it all. Fuck, I honestly should respond to it less, most of you just aren't that interesting.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:50pm

  I don't even know what you think you're arguing anymore.

  several Twitter execs absolutely perjured themselves before congress

  Prove it.

  just cuz you call it “visibility filtering” doesn’t make it not shadow-banning

  So what?

  I literally just did. You get those are related, right? It's perjury, cuz they were shadow-banning, but said they weren't. Fucking damn, man.

  Then why aren’t all those people bitching about Truth Social and Gab and Parler all banning leftists and leftist speech

  I haven't even heard any accusations that that's the case. Do you have a citation you'd like to share? The rest of what you wrote was basically gibberish not worth responding to.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:43pm

  You’re using the word “hate” as if it means a quite different thing to reality.

  What really annoys me here is you probably felt smart when you wrote that. Like, you aren't smart enough to know how dumb you are, you get me? No, of course you don't.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:40pm

  Not even what I said (I stopped reading as Masnick got dumber and more liberal) but fuck man, sometimes people just tell the truth without worrying what your dumb ass will think about it.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:39pm

  This wasn't funny or insightful the first time, it's not the 500th.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:38pm

  Yeah, they're without issue, in the relative sense, since lives are on the line. Everything could always be better but they all work pretty great, considering. Point of the matter is that they are real important systems that lives depend on and they work pretty damn well, better than basically anything that has come before. And you dumbasses want to pretend extra Musk tweets in the feed is some huge issue and shows Musk can't manage software....no, it shows this doesn't fucking matter. Pretending this is a big deal is the epitome of "pearl-clutching" and here's a definition so you can STFU next time you want to correct someone on something you don't understand yourself: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pearl-clutching

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:32pm

  except it is. Literally how dumb and vapid do you have to be to think this matters, at all? Old Twitter's suppression of dissent and real information matters quite a lot. This on the other hand is totally meaningless and that you want to make a big deal of it shows what a shallow person you are.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:30pm

  I mean, the laptop showed actual bribery by the president of the United States (then former Vice President), but sure, make it about dick picks, you worthless piece of shit.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:29pm

  This isn't an argument, this is literally just the gibbering of a monkey.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:28pm

  The twitter files, all the censorship, you fucking moron.

• On the post: Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:25pm

  This is not an argument. It is NEVER an argument.

• On the post: FCC Nominee Sohn Faces Third Hearing As Democrats Dawdle, The GOP Obstructs, And A Sleazy Telecom Industry Smear Campaign Continues

  

  Matt Bennett ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2023 @ 11:24pm

  You're gonna call your opinions "facts" and then call me stupid. Hilarious.

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