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Re: Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn

Postby Les Bain » November 21st, 2022, 9:33 am

^^^Nice for the incels to finally find love, but I holding out hope for replicas of Rosie Jetson and Giant Robo.

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Postby timelapse » November 21st, 2022, 7:28 pm

https://youtu.be/g-voQsFY6SE
Too soon,but accurate

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Postby redmanjp » November 21st, 2022, 9:30 pm

you should see what elon post today- kinda nsfw although there is a twitter logo blocking it

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Postby Dizzy28 » November 25th, 2022, 11:25 am

Dizzy28 wrote:Twitter layoffs need to be placed in context around the general environment of Silicon Valley right now. Layoffs have been announced in the past few weeks at -
1. Stripe - 14% cut
2. Lyft - 13% of non-driver employees
3. Chime - 13% cut
3. Meta (Facebook) (Number not yet announced but it is expected to be in the thousands)
https://gizmodo.com/meta-facebook-lay-o ... 1849750784
Going back to earlier in 2022 layoffs were done at Spotify, Netflix, Coinbase and Shopify.

Amazon has also announced a hiring freeze last Tursday
https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/ne ... 19225.html https://fortune.com/2022/11/03/tech-com ... nal-apple-
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/chime-c ... yoffs.html



Alphabet (Google) to lay off 10,000

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/goog ... 31056.html

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Postby SuperiorMan » November 25th, 2022, 12:01 pm

is the golden age of software development/programming coming to an end?

lots of tech layoffs recently.

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Postby timelapse » November 25th, 2022, 12:14 pm

SuperiorMan wrote:is the golden age of software development/programming coming to an end?

lots of tech layoffs recently.
Those ain't software development or programmers.Those are woft time staff.Trinidad public service needs Elon

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Postby redmanjp » December 3rd, 2022, 11:56 am

Hmm no one posted about the 'Twitter Files' yet.

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Postby ed360123 » December 3rd, 2022, 12:51 pm

redmanjp wrote:Hmm no one posted about the 'Twitter Files' yet.
Because there really isn't anything in there that wasn't known and public already.

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Postby redmanjp » December 3rd, 2022, 1:02 pm

Except u getting it from the horses mouth no longer speculation about that Hunter Biden story being censored for 'hacking' before a major election. Twitter didn't do it alone, they received instructions to do it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11498015/Musk-says-Twitter-acting-orders-government-suppress-Hunter-Biden-laptop-story.html
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Postby ed360123 » December 3rd, 2022, 2:14 pm

redmanjp wrote:Except u getting it from the horses mouth no longer speculation about that Hunter Biden story being censored for 'hacking' before a major election. Twitter didn't do it alone, they received instructions to do it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11498015/Musk-says-Twitter-acting-orders-government-suppress-Hunter-Biden-laptop-story.html
Let me ask you a question. Instructions from who?

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Postby The_Honourable » December 3rd, 2022, 2:39 pm

It's Hunter Biden, not Donald Trump Jr that's why you're not seeing it all over mainstream. Joe Biden already win the presidency so no big deal.

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ed360123 wrote:
redmanjp wrote:Except u getting it from the horses mouth no longer speculation about that Hunter Biden story being censored for 'hacking' before a major election. Twitter didn't do it alone, they received instructions to do it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11498015/Musk-says-Twitter-acting-orders-government-suppress-Hunter-Biden-laptop-story.html
Let me ask you a question. Instructions from who?


The 'Biden Team'. Read the article I posted. Also go on Twitter and read what Musk has been posting/retweeting since last night. Twitter has had back channels to politicans for a while now.

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Postby ed360123 » December 3rd, 2022, 3:18 pm

redmanjp wrote:
ed360123 wrote:
redmanjp wrote:Except u getting it from the horses mouth no longer speculation about that Hunter Biden story being censored for 'hacking' before a major election. Twitter didn't do it alone, they received instructions to do it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11498015/Musk-says-Twitter-acting-orders-government-suppress-Hunter-Biden-laptop-story.html
Let me ask you a question. Instructions from who?


The 'Biden Team'. Read the article I posted. Also go on Twitter and read what Musk has been posting/retweeting since last night. Twitter has had back channels to politicans for a while now.
And did you see what some of the removed tweets were?

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Postby SuperiorMan » December 4th, 2022, 9:57 am

Musk did good to fire this evil bit.ch.

Hinduphobic Indian-American Vijaya Gadde, fired by Musk as Twitter legal head, had suppressed a damaging story about Biden’s son before US elections

The Indian-American fired by Elon Musk as the head of Twitter’s legal affairs is at the centre of a censorship controversy following the disclosure of emails and internal communications showing her role in blocking on the social media outlet reports about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion last month and promptly fired Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde from her $17 million job, provided copies of the communications to journalist Matt Taibbi, who broke the story in a long series of tweets on Friday.

Based on the communications, Taibbi also made the disturbing disclosure that politicians from both parties could get Twitter to censor tweets.

Indian-American member of the House of Representatives Ro Khanna emerges as a hero of freedom of expression as he is shown to have advised Gadde against the censorship of the news reports by Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post saying that while he was a “total partisan of Bidena he saw the action as a violation of the constitutional principle of free speech”.

He warned that the move “will invite more backlash than do good”.

Musk, who says he is for freedom of expression, had criticised Twitter alleging it was partisan and said that he would release the communications on the Post censorship.

He handed them over to Taibbi, an iconoclastic journalist who takes on both the left and the right and writes for Rolling Stones and has a podcast.

Musk reinstated former President Donald Trump’s account that had been blocked.

The episode showed how a small group of executives at a social media outlet with outsize power over political discourse can try to influence elections and politics.

Days before the 2020 elections, the Post had obtained through then-President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani the contents of a computer that Biden’s son Hunter had abandoned at a repair shop and published stories based on its contents.

Some of the pictures in it showed Biden in lewd postures and what appeared to be involvement with drugs.

But more seriously, it also contained emails about Hunter Biden’s controversial business dealings in China and Ukraine that also raised questions if his father knew about them and if he had met some of those involved.

According to Taibbi, Gadde took the lead along with a small group of executives to censor the Post story and ban the Post from Twitter.

The executives, who operated without the knowledge of Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter at that time, also banned White House Spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany from Twitter for tweeting about the story.

They took extraordinary action to block any mention of the story in posts or direct messages — restrictions which were similar to those against child pornography, Taibbi wrote.

While many media outlets had raised questions about the authenticity of the contents of the hard drive from Hunter Biden’s computer and Democrats suggested that it may have been a Russian plant to sway the elections, long after the polls The New York Times, Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post and CBS authenticated large portions of the contents with the help of neutral computer forensics experts.

Taibbi wrote in his post called the “Twitter Files” that the censorship decision was “made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role”.

Dorsey later admitted in a tweet that the decision was “unacceptable”.

“Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM (direct message) with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptablea, his tweet said.

Internal communications quoted by Taibbi show that some executives and employees within the company had questioned the decision.

Taibbi wrote, “Khanna was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern” over the censorship.

Khanna’s email to Gadde, which he did not want shared, pushed back against the notion that Twitter was censoring it because the material in thePost story may have been hacked.

“A journalist should not be held accountable for the illegal action of the source unless they aided the hack,” he wrote.

“To restrict the distribution of that material, especially regarding a Presidential candidate seems not in keeping with the principle of NYT vs Sullivan,” he wrote citing a landmark Supreme Court decision in favour of the New York Times.

It has formed the bedrock of press freedom in the US upholding media rights to publish even false statements about public figures as long as it was not done with malice.

The First Amendment rights do not apply to private companies like Twitter or Meta in strict legal terms, but the principles behind them and the Supreme Court decision are often invoked generally given the overwhelming influence of social media.

Khanna, who belongs to the progressive left-wing of the Democratic Party, added, “I say this as a total Biden partisan and convinced he didn’t do anything wrong. But the story now has become about censorship than relatively innocuous emails and it’s become a bigger deal than it would have been.”

In a disturbing disclosure, Taibbi confirms what has been long suspected writing that tools for combatting spam and financial fraud morphed into political instruments to ban free speech.

“Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the behest of a political party” and “both parties had access to these tools”, he wrote.

“For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honoured,” according to Taibbi.

But he added, “This system wasn’t balanced. It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right.”

Gadde, who has said she was against hate speech, has been controversial in India after a photograph of Dorsey showed him holding a poster that said, “Smash Brahminical patriarchy”, with her and activists in India in 2018.

Gadde later disowned the poster and apologised.

(The story has been published via a syndicated feed with a modified headline.)

https://hindupost.in/world/hinduphobic- ... elections/

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Postby Dizzy28 » December 4th, 2022, 10:52 am

Pretty funny seeing reporters simp for Gadde as some sort of oppressed person. Bish pulled down 8 figure salaries in her last few years at the Bird app

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Postby The_Honourable » December 9th, 2022, 1:17 am

Twitter Files Part Two: Social media giant secretly used blacklists to censor ‘disfavoured’ accounts and trends

https://www.skynews.com.au/business/tec ... 1999f05d49

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The_Honourable wrote:Twitter Files Part Two: Social media giant secretly used blacklists to censor ‘disfavoured’ accounts and trends

https://www.skynews.com.au/business/tec ... 1999f05d49
Isn't that the same thing Elon said he wanted to do?
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Postby The_Honourable » December 12th, 2022, 5:14 pm

Twitter Files Reveal Deep FBI Involvement


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Postby ed360123 » December 12th, 2022, 6:24 pm

Time to change that title:
"Elon Musk is no longer the richest person in the world"
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1602411494892765185

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Congratulates Argentina but not France.
Musk is cool.

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Postby adnj » December 16th, 2022, 10:54 am

Free *cough* Speech *cough*

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adnj wrote:Free *cough* Speech *cough*

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Postby The_Honourable » December 16th, 2022, 11:32 am

Obviously, context is missing here about this temporary ban

Elon Musk defends banning of journalists: ‘You dox, you get suspended’

Twitter CEO Elon Musk defended his decision to ban several prominent technology reporters from the platform on Thursday night, claiming they violated Twitter’s policies on “doxxing.”

“You dox, you get suspended,” Musk said on a Twitter Spaces conversation with journalists. “End of story.”

Doxxing is the act of sharing information like addresses, phone numbers and emails online in an attempt to allow others to harass the individuals.

The billionaire abruptly suspended the accounts of reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and other outlets on Thursday night who had covered Musk’s recent dispute with Jack Sweeney, the creator of @elonjet.

Sweeney, who created the Twitter account that tracked the movements of Musk’s private jet, had his account suspended on Wednesday, despite previous assurances from Musk that he would not be banned.

Musk’s suspension spree on Thursday included the Times’s Ryan Mac, the Post’s Drew Harwell, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The Intercept’s Micah Lee, Mashable’s Matt Binder and independent journalists Aaron Rupar and Tony Webster. Political commentator Keith Olbermann also had his account suspended.

“Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else,” Musk said said in a tweet on Thursday night, later adding, “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not.”

More: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3 ... suspended/

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Postby Dizzy28 » December 16th, 2022, 2:10 pm

Funniest thing in all this is that the free speech advocates now were the same ones saying Twitter is a private company and could do as it pleases pre-Musk ownership

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Postby adnj » December 16th, 2022, 3:22 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:Funniest thing in all this is that the free speech advocates now were the same ones saying Twitter is a private company and could do as it pleases pre-Musk ownership
Twitter is a private company. Free speech as written in the US Constitution has no import on a private company.

The salient point is that people follow content to web apps. One of Twitter’s largest providers of content is its subscribers that are professional journalists. Twitter was projected to lose about half of its users within the next 24 months before the rule change and suspensions. The rule change aside, the suspensions took place the day after tge rule change was posted. That action will not likely serve to reverse the trend of user disengagement at Twitter.

Meanwhile, Mastodon has grown eight-fold in the time since Musk took the helm at Twitter.

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Postby Dizzy28 » December 16th, 2022, 3:33 pm

Professional journalist???
Rupar??

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