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(DIR) Post #AoFSoKhQeVLK90ERJA by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-02T22:13:42Z
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LOL. Unclear if wheels falling off or my shitposting pissed someone off
(DIR) Post #AoFSoLx3zrRY1mYRJg by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T01:24:41Z
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So I guess this will be the continuation of the birdsite implosion / musk mocking thread. In hindsight, chronicling the implosion of the birdsite on that self same birdsite may not have been an optimal strategy. Our story begins in April 2022 https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1518642986602561537
(DIR) Post #AoFSoNGb6ifA6ehYP2 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T01:29:08Z
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An amusing bit of wheels-falling-off, while the suspension notice says my account is read-only, the "following" feed only shows the notice and the occasional "Show X tweets" button. The shitty algorithmic "for you" still populates though
(DIR) Post #AoFSoOErUerv7YtgKu by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T01:32:37Z
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The "request your archive" page also fails ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AoFSoOworE1xJtSmqu by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T04:36:00Z
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Wheels falling off watch: If you follow a direct link to a tweet, not logged in, it prompts you to turn on notifications 🥴
(DIR) Post #AoFSoPWci6fd6wDNey by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T04:43:32Z
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Wait, it gets better. You can access the settings screen while not logged in, and even download "your" (eh whose?) data… #Bugs #Twitter (edit: maybe not a bug, see below)
(DIR) Post #AoFSoQ5McwSYqgT7oG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T04:46:11Z
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If you click the link, you get a 1.4 KB PDF (?!) which looks like this 🥴
(DIR) Post #AoFSoQsHh3ajIPMC3s by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T04:51:25Z
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OK maybe not wheels falling off but an intentional feature for managing privacy ad targeting stuff when not logged in? 🤨 "These settings apply to this browser or device while you’re logged out. They don’t have any effect when you’re logged in."
(DIR) Post #AoFSoR8aiQdS6yzDTk by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T07:30:30Z
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Shot: Account restored, no explanationChaser: Rate limited¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AoFSoS07VPSAn01xui by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T23:27:50Z
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Predictably (and indeed, as predicted https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1625244324979146752) they're gonna try to make up for cratering ad revenue by putting popular functionality behind the blue paywall https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1675990712297443330
(DIR) Post #AoFSoSDahKEFSmKiuW by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T23:40:27Z
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Say what you will about Elon, but he's definitely gone above and beyond to bust the myth of the silicon valley startup wunderkind https://twitter.com/dancow/status/1675594069471383553
(DIR) Post #AoFSoT2zcDLU2CNm1w by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T23:52:38Z
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An interesting thing about the "scraping" / rate limit saga is, while Elon's story is almost certainly BS, we haven't seen a clear story of what's actually happening. The google cloud thing seems to be outside speculation and was supposedly resolved, and the journos who tend to get insider dirt don't seem to have published much yet (may be a function of the US holiday weekend) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-annoys-twitter-users-by-capping-number-of-tweets-they-can-view-each-day/
(DIR) Post #AoFSoTbNYMqpkqTEcy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-04T06:32:12Z
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O_o
(DIR) Post #AoFSoU4nmyO3E6EjUO by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-04T20:36:38Z
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So, days after limiting tweets to logged in users and the rate limiting fiasco, twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino finally weighs in with some content-free execspeak (https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1676278773757485064), and links to vague, uninformative technobabble (https://business.twitter.com/en/blog/update-on-twitters-limited-usage.html).But marketing types love execspeak and technobabble, so possibly the target audience will be reassured?
(DIR) Post #AoFSoUVkAnwCZeqFU0 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-04T20:54:17Z
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Post claims:1) This was all part of some elaborate plan stop bots and AI scrapersDoesn't really square with Elon's tweets which implied it was an emergency reaction. References to AI seems gratuitous, a scraper is a scraper2) Restrictions affect a small percentage of usersSpecifically, the active ones, I guess?3) Impact on advertisers was minimalSeems quite unlikely that eliminating non-logged in traffic and locking out large sections of the user base had minimal impact on ad views!
(DIR) Post #AoFSoV34AuaoF0QrQG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-04T20:58:30Z
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That said, some kind bot purge attempt gone awry might explain my otherwise unexplained suspension and reinstatement. Not a particularly competent one though, I only use the web and iOS clients
(DIR) Post #AoFSoVTIbNZnYMhoJM by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-04T21:05:12Z
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Also, if they're doing a bot purge they've still got some work to do, picked up a handful in minutes with an extremely obvious honeypot tweet
(DIR) Post #AoFSoW2kTZvtKJI7ZA by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-04T22:18:05Z
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Wheels falling off watch: The "add more tweets" in the report interface… doesn't exist, and takes you to the generic search page if you click the button (and no, the account had not been deleted)
(DIR) Post #AoFSoWWWgrkgofDtyq by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-05T21:09:20Z
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Newish (to me at least) twitter spam technique: Add people to a list with the spam in the list description. Account that adds you is innocuous and has no posts to report. You can report lists, but there's no category for spam or scamsAll the ones I've seen are virtually identical crpto scams
(DIR) Post #AoFSoWzwvTHuHuzOqG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-06T07:15:18Z
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Amazing. By refusing to pay the fees required by it's own mandatory arbitration agreement, Twitter may wind up fighting hundreds of ex-employees in big boy court… I'm no Business Genius™, but somehow I doubt that's gonna come out cheaper than the JAMS fees https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/twitter-refuses-to-pay-for-arbitration-it-forced-on-891-ex-employees-suit-says/
(DIR) Post #AoFSoXkO8oR0bwiUE4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-11T18:59:27Z
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Verge suggests twitter is limiting threads links in search results, as some of us predicted (https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1676737786123292673)Not *entirely* clear whether is deliberate or just general wheels falling off, but my test link does not appear in search results, while other recent posts with URLs dohttps://www.theverge.com/2023/7/11/23790834/twitter-search-for-threads-urls-broken-zero-results
(DIR) Post #AoFSoYDSOjge46JhXE by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-11T19:06:58Z
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Meanwhile, the report interface is still broken after a week, but they found the time to add a paywalled "highlights" tab
(DIR) Post #AoFSoYl8NWcpkY4b1k by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-11T21:31:03Z
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"Conspiracy Theorists (and Elon Musk) Falsely Accuse Student of Being ‘Fed’ Posing as Neo-Nazi"https://www.vice.com/en/article/93k34e/conspiracy-theorists-and-elon-musk-falsely-accuse-student-of-being-fed-posing-as-neo-nazi
(DIR) Post #AoFSoZHkQGiHNhKdrU by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-12T21:04:05Z
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Clickbait / trolling / ragebait about to get a big boost https://twitter.com/TitterDaily/status/1679195875833151499
(DIR) Post #AoFSoZtKAYlrGEueQq by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-12T23:20:51Z
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"Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance"Unclear whether this escapes the arbitration clause, but notably filed by Courtney McMillian "who oversaw Twitter's employee benefits programs" 👀 https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-owes-ex-employees-500-mln-severance-lawsuit-claims-2023-07-12/
(DIR) Post #AoFSoaOAJtROntLHVI by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-12T23:25:21Z
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Docket https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67601438/mcmillian-v-musk/
(DIR) Post #AoFSoaoOkMQO7FcEOO by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-12T23:30:59Z
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Complaint alleges "Mr. Musk is personally liable for these violations as a fiduciary and also based on the unity of interest and ownership that exists between Mr. Musk and Twitter. Mr. Musk has substantially comingled his own assets and other businesses with Twitter…Mr. Musk routinely uses his personal Twitter account to propose and announce changes in company policy, including hiring and firing decisions, and has described “Twitter 2.0” as “an Elon company” in official communications."
(DIR) Post #AoFSobFh6sG7TuO1wG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-12T23:47:06Z
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"By directing employees to podcasts and Twitter accounts instead of providing information about the Plan, Defendants failed in their fiduciary duties to disclose information" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AoFSobmJ9cLZ73e4m0 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-13T21:48:49Z
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So this aged poorly. He actually paid noticeable amounts, retroactively https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1670262612179980288
(DIR) Post #AoFSocGRLaRwcVk8jw by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-13T21:55:21Z
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If they keep paying at that rate, some people are going to make quite decent money, particularly Very Online RW trolls.And yeah, about that pandora's box thing, there's gonna be a whole bunch of grifters trying to goose their numbers in a whole bunch of ways, from trolling to copyright infringement to bot farms
(DIR) Post #AoFSockZXYYK7xqChs by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-13T22:00:31Z
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It also makes an interaction with big accounts like Musk quite valuable
(DIR) Post #AoFSodG7eFn1hobOsq by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-13T22:14:02Z
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Meanwhile, twitter seems to have broken reply indicators again
(DIR) Post #AoFSodpZWS97TlBi8e by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T00:00:43Z
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OK so he paid, but the the "payouts to generate buzz" part of this take (https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1670268086891716609) seems to be aging just fine (via https://mastodon.social/@dandrezner@mastodon.sdf.org/110718123029209720)Also note the weasel wording, notification says you "could have been eligible", not that you would have actually gotten paid. One supposes the payout for a typical blue subscriber will be << $8/mo
(DIR) Post #AoFSodx14m6Jqqfek4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T00:23:00Z
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There's a screenshot going around claiming "revenue sharing" is actually limited to an unspecified "select group" but I have doubts about the reliability of the source (a very faschy troll. Edit: to be clear, lporiginalg not the Dr).Telling people they "could" get payouts when Elon is actually just paying an arbitrary group of his pals would seem like legally sketchy territory (though that certainly hasn't stopped Elon in the past!) https://twitter.com/doug_doctor/status/1680026479244001280
(DIR) Post #AoFSoefgOhpW5NZKMa by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T00:35:56Z
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Meanwhile, dude cut 80% of his workforce, stiffed thousands of severance, closed a data center, got sued and evicted over back rent and is still cash flow negative, but is giving select trolls 6 figure payments for posting. Business Genius™
(DIR) Post #AoFSofGYBdJvviolpQ by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T02:01:13Z
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TBH the broken thread indicators on twitter web make everyday stuff seem deep and existential (here @mcnees complaining about list spam bots)
(DIR) Post #AoFSofoa96XhdGjwsC by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T05:17:01Z
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So after the rate limit fiasco, Musk has sued four "data scrapers" identified by IP address (complaint https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/elonmuskdallaslawsuit.pdf)The four IPs all appear to belong to linode (now part of akamai). Complaint contains no real specifics, but assuming these IPs were doing something that affected Twitter infrastructure, you'd expect akamai's abuse team to be pretty responsivehttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-sues-data-scrapers-blames-them-for-twitters-impaired-user-experience/
(DIR) Post #AoFSogJQIRDFAvAZwe by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T05:19:26Z
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Suit might be needed to get akamai to identify the customer, but more targeted mitigation than rate limiting every single user should have been possible
(DIR) Post #AoFSogssAdZKwrktCS by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T05:53:21Z
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Possible it was a much wider campaign and these were just ones in a convenient jurisdiction. OTOH, possible he fired all the people who tracked this kind of thing and had high level contacts with major providers, turning what had been a background annoyance into A Problem
(DIR) Post #AoFSoh2Rb3E1QYEX7Q by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-21T22:50:41Z
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#twitter creeping paywallification of basic functionality continues. I could see limit of hundreds being fine regular users while annoying certain high volume spammers, but the fact they encourage you to sign up without specifying the limit suggests it's mostly about driving subshttps://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1682501248334061572
(DIR) Post #AoFSohid4Cy9XNyDs8 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-23T22:02:28Z
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Clearly, the most important thing to do after paying $44 billion for a brand is to rename it to something generic. Which is why Business Genius™ is crowd-sourcing a logo late on Saturday night, backed up by a sycophantic thread of CEO-speak from the definitely for reals in charge CEO
(DIR) Post #AoFSoiPsTPZ1hWClHc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-24T21:39:44Z
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Business Genius™ 😍 "Welp, @twitter name so coming off the building right now but @elonmusk didn’t get permit for the equipment on the street so @SFPD is shutting it down."https://twitter.com/waynesutton/status/1683563753898668032
(DIR) Post #AoFSoiWy33Ee3VWQKm by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-25T02:13:43Z
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Threadfluencer "web3 entrepreneur" bro, claiming to give you the scoop on X: "Easy scam reporting … abuse will be heavily punished"Meanwhile "add more tweets" part of the existing report interface has been completely broken since at least July 4 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AoFSoj5hxt1ZnFmAU4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-25T05:46:16Z
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Elon: "Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. That's our mission"Twitter: Let's give an $8 blue check to a guy *currently in prison for death threats against a congressmen and wire fraud* (https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/pennsylvania-man-sentenced-prison-threatening-kill-united-states-congressman-and)
(DIR) Post #AoFSojZUBAqNHbhwtk by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-26T01:15:31Z
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People say the X logo is just a unicode Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X, but if you look closely you can see it's actually a highly stylized representation of a dick being slammed in a doorhttps://techcrunch.com/2023/07/25/owner-of-x-twitter-handle-says-no-one-reached-out-ahead-of-twitters-rebranding-to-x/
(DIR) Post #AoFSok8a4gut2S7ybI by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-26T03:54:28Z
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Putting this up on the rack to age, should pair nicely with chapter 11(also I'm the last person on earth who should mock typos, but is it a typo, or does he not know the expression is "mark my words"?)
(DIR) Post #AoFSokQJ0n5vvQQ8EC by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-27T06:49:37Z
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LOL, not only did Elon take over the X handle, he also grabbed XAI. What a sad little man https://twitter.com/nobi/status/1684228120784797697
(DIR) Post #AoFSokvV8o33UB12qu by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-28T05:57:21Z
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Xcellent design!
(DIR) Post #AoFSolSp8uhf9WbenA by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-28T06:27:56Z
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LOLRyan Mac writes:"If you want to know how Twitter/X Creator Subscriptions are going, Elon Musk sent an email out to SpaceX employees last week saying they could subscribe to any creators on the platform as a "company-paid perk."So SpaceX is basically helping to boost Twitter's numbers."
(DIR) Post #AoFSolznAL4gnm1zBA by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-31T01:16:44Z
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Big "Graphic design is my passion" energy
(DIR) Post #AoFSombitJPqhPmHIm by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-31T23:48:25Z
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Area free speech absolutist has his lawyer send a SLAPP threat to Center for Countering Digital Hate#GiftArticle https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html?unlocked_article_code=eSK00dT8U-VYiAvEGaK7BHtdc3CYz_-lc88jqgNHK5MmR3gUmAIX0dv1PbP9GysPacjdBtYO5D08nkmSoMsuDRDO4R4vkDFjtHsm-QW2h3cnVBzO-tEDNiyeAOczf2q0ueybKzdJlSXwp7X3w1iMJvQ_IjV_IAcaEo5BBHGYqF_BvX3bL0YqwQ8JrW3-C48Juj1pu33-e9MuxZ2151ZDmyoijjaMAzs1FRdZ-JWKPA_-8F5tSU7g_4fRshDilKz3h4Ie3QrSRNx6-FdVgA_ISXQKffOezHIVRKAOU8PzjG_D5wb5_6oTqcICGxlTf0FT35eYQGs-eA5Ym_0f9ZaTTrBhsr0AYdEZbBlFvzgyX_idwTiW2T9oCxM&smid=url-share
(DIR) Post #AoFSon6D3xnoDy2coy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-07-31T23:49:51Z
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CCDH responds "We write in response to the ridiculous letter you sent our clients on behalf of X Corp., which operates the Twitter (or the new “X”) platform" https://counterhate.com/blog/letters-from-the-lawyers-musk-threatens-ccdh-with-brazen-attempt-to-silence-honest-criticism/
(DIR) Post #AoFSonjYhfHIC0S39c by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-01T00:00:42Z
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Meanwhile, the permitless X sign is now apparently an ex-X sign https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1686115479306326017
(DIR) Post #AoFSoo0Dhibb1gFM7k by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-01T16:47:05Z
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Area Twit and erstwhile free speech absolutist on a mission to gain first-hand experience with California Code of Civil Procedure § 425.16 #Slapp https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/tech/twitter-sues-center-for-countering-digital-hate/index.html(complaint https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.416212/gov.uscourts.cand.416212.1.0_1.pdf)
(DIR) Post #AoFSoob5Ue60s1Unaa by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-02T07:23:52Z
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Twit's latest plan to goose ad revenue appears to be: Make ads look more like organic tweets. Now just a tiny "Ad" label on the top right (and missing posted time indicator, as before), rather that "Promoted" with an icon on a line by itself. OTOH, if scrolling down the feed the old system required you to scroll past the content to see the ad indicator ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AoFSop5ZfITyOZl96m by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-02T22:40:29Z
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Business Genius™ - When the $8 perk you sold people as a status symbol is so great… "Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks" https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23816924/twitter-x-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-check-option
(DIR) Post #AoFSopYdvDjbqjMMPw by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-02T22:48:41Z
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This actually makes sense in a round about way: Paying for features you want is a lot more reasonable than paying for a symbol identifying you as having $8 and a phone number… but that's sure not how they pitched it
(DIR) Post #AoFSoq8Rm6NHdm6xE0 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-03T02:05:22Z
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Sadly, sounds like CA anti-SLAPP law will not apply to the SLAPP against CCDH https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/01/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-files-obvious-slapp-suit-against-non-profit-critic/
(DIR) Post #AoFSoqbA3LLL4pXsyu by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-05T07:49:24Z
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LOL "We need a bit more time to review everything for the next payout and aim to get all eligible accounts paid as soon as possible"Wonder if they found people trying to game the system, or the first payments were just ad-hoc and they're having trouble making the numbers workhttps://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820859/x-twitter-ad-sharing-payment-unpaid-delay-elon-musk
(DIR) Post #AoFSor4EJGayWz96I4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-05T08:06:23Z
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Program notably has zero information on how the payout is calculated, but does go out of its way to say they can change it any time for any reason https://web.archive.org/web/20230805044414/https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/creator-ads-revenue-sharing
(DIR) Post #AoFSorbYJNFaCKjiEK by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-06T04:18:58Z
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Dude who laid off 80% of his employees, is being sued for not paying severance and millions in back rent… claims to offer unlimited pro bono legal aid for anyone whose posts get them in trouble with their boss
(DIR) Post #AoFSosAIED2Vw4zSNc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-06T04:23:17Z
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TBD (lol, not really) whether this offer applies to people he fired for posting
(DIR) Post #AoFSosplk0DU0iOa1o by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-06T04:28:23Z
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Anyway, donning my tinfoil hat, I might suggest this is actually legal defense fund for his fashy pals, paid with funds that will otherwise most likely go to creditors in bankruptcy or settlement of various lawsuits
(DIR) Post #AoFSot1T2VZeazrvGK by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-06T04:40:20Z
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Also notable, he just says "please let us know" (presumably by replying to the tweet?) without offering any sort of formal application. Even if it were offered in good faith to anyone (LOL), it would still be a crapshoot heavily skewed to his superfans
(DIR) Post #AoFSotiiRiAWl86Sfo by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-09T21:59:18Z
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An irony of Musk's "legal aid for people who get fired for bad tweets" is pre-Musk twitter's legal team often did go above and beyond to protect users, fighting subpoenas and takedowns.Probably would have fought the gag order on the Trump warrant too, but I bet they would have avoided contempt https://apnews.com/article/twitter-trump-account-capitol-riot-jack-smith-9e66943fd7ebdae0038838c144b57d4f
(DIR) Post #AoFSouM45Pe0jAVt0S by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-09T22:04:43Z
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Wait, talk about burying the lede: "X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, sent an automated reply to a request for comment, *saying it would respond soon*"They fired the 💩 bot?!
(DIR) Post #AoFSouYTLHZLLeJnLU by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T00:27:09Z
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I was joking, but also, not really (https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110884451153021381, https://mastodon.social/@w7voa@journa.host/110889425653873007)
(DIR) Post #AoFSovMSLRYFqfhiFs by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T00:41:15Z
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[sleazy upsell intensifies]Twitter knows which accounts would meet their criteria, and that mine is nowhere close, but presumably FOMO sells
(DIR) Post #AoFSovWNkXUWLSLdj6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T19:45:22Z
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LOL. Does indeed appear twitter is adding a 5 second delay to t . co links to certain destinations. Confirmed myself on a link to threads . net, though NYT does not currently seem affected for me.#GiftArticle https://wapo.st/45vCZtS
(DIR) Post #AoFSowKijNl0rZtqBk by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-15T19:56:37Z
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Of course it's hard to be completely certain the apparent malice isn't actually some incredibly advanced form of incompetence, but it sure looks sus
(DIR) Post #AoFSox0CFAvywDIxpw by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T01:26:14Z
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So a transcript of one of the hearings over the search warrant for Trump's twitter account was unsealed, and boy were there some failures to communicate. Govt asked for something like "all communications related to Trump's account" when they actually wanted communications from Trump or his team regarding his account. As one might imagine, twitter had a lot of communications related to that account…https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/23sc31%20Attachment%20A%20-%20Documents%20unsealed%20with%20redactions.pdf
(DIR) Post #AoFSoxWSJEjqYGOj7Q by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T01:39:18Z
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Slightly more sympathy for twitter, but still their fault for not clearing it up before they were in a sanctions hearing front of a federal judge… who is not a twitter user but appears to recognize when the parties are talking past each other
(DIR) Post #AoFSoy4UGhxcFoJuAC by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T01:52:20Z
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And yeah, suspect that right there is why they got sanctioned
(DIR) Post #AoFSoycWEBBNxMF5Cy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-16T02:31:14Z
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👀 Govt: If the former President had notice of these covert investigative steps, there would be actual harm and concern for the investigation, for the witnesses going forwardJudge (paraphrased): For this case specifically, not just because Mueller showed he's an obstructive scumbag?Govt: 💯
(DIR) Post #AoFSozBc7hFtiCf6uW by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-18T17:03:18Z
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LOL. Blocking will always be kinda weird on a public website where anyone can sign up unlimited sock accounts, but, yeah, I'm sure this is gonna go GREAT…
(DIR) Post #AoFSozrnar01p2OnfE by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-18T19:51:13Z
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This analysis of Musk's followers is somewhat interesting, but IMO would be a lot more interesting if it compared to other mega-follower accounts. My impression bot/spam/inauthentic accounts often follow names https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-follower-data
(DIR) Post #AoFSp01izwwIJp2j8S by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-18T22:35:16Z
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Hah. I'd forgotten about that (Policy by internet poll would be an absolutely idiotic way to run a social media platform, but, yeah he did say it and do it a couple times)https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1692579665959961028
(DIR) Post #AoFSp0yZTA0jGKZirI by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-19T23:05:00Z
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Wheels falling off watch: Apparently much, but not all media on tweets from 2014 and earlier is broken https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1693017197491126376
(DIR) Post #AoFSp1lUXH8ti3Sn6u by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-20T02:49:39Z
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On my tweets, attached images seem to have broken between Nov 9 and Nov 11 2014From an twitter archive, the images attached to the Nov 9 tweet are still present at the full pbs.twimg.com "media_url" URL, but neither the pic.twitter.com "display_url" nor the t.co link work(https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/531670933702864896, https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/532449390296702976)
(DIR) Post #AoFSp2CQv6h33c4J6W by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-20T02:53:23Z
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Someone suggested it was related to the old t.co links being http rather than https, but in the tweet archive, the working one is http as well, and worksAnyway, I'm thinking this one looks more like incompetence than malice, since the underlying images still exist…
(DIR) Post #AoFSp2eREz5wSTAfku by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-08-22T03:37:23Z
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Shot / Chaser https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1693785959526236484(Also, he knows if they make cards image-only in the preview, people are just gonna slap text on the images, right?)
(DIR) Post #AoFSp39zLgKe2Jvrvs by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-05T00:10:34Z
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Elon: Gonna file a defamation SLAPP against ADL because they accused my site of promoting antisemitismAlso Elon: *responds approvingly to account quoting Alex Jones calling ADL pro-hitler, blames ADL for antisemitism*
(DIR) Post #AoFSp3kr8bp3sfBJOi by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-05T00:14:38Z
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People he interacts with on there file: Recently outed white supremacist Richard Hanania
(DIR) Post #AoFSp4Jb3RbzcPR3Y0 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-07T22:01:07Z
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Business Genius™ - Stiffing so many vendors they start a class action suit. Not sure how well that's gonna fly given they have different contracts and Twitter can claim different reasons for non-payment, but potentially some recourse for the smaller ones that can't afford to go it alone or where the cost of standalone litigation would exceed what they're owedhttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-unpaid-bills-dozens-of-lawsuits-try-to-force-twitter-aka-x-to-pay-up/
(DIR) Post #AoFSp4p9A8qhCGCFiy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-07T22:18:53Z
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The number of voluntary dismissals strongly certainly makes it look like a deliberate strategy: Stop paying everyone, if they sue, try to settle before it gets too expensive, anyone who doesn't sue eats the loss… just what you'd expect from a hero of the Personal Responsibility party!
(DIR) Post #AoFSp5JHM6x4hiIJgu by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-09T20:00:10Z
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Twitter may have legitimate complaints about #AB587, but it's pretty hilarious they're suing to prevent "controversial disclosures about how X Corp. moderates content on its platform" after the months-long twitter files "transparency" hypefest https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/x-sues-calif-to-avoid-revealing-how-it-makes-controversial-content-decisions/
(DIR) Post #AoFSp5oTU7uCGStEJc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-10T21:45:10Z
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Hard to imagine Musk's comment here not being a straight up lie (they're presumably euthanized when things go bad, so *technically* the implant didn't kill them, but yeah, no)
(DIR) Post #AoFSp6IFhPizkop0jI by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-10T22:11:35Z
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Reuters reported in 2022: "In all, the company has killed about 1,500 animals, including more than 280 sheep, pigs and monkeys, following experiments since 2018" https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05/
(DIR) Post #AoFSp6m1uhXnFAkn8y by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-12T00:39:44Z
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"The servers had user data on them, and James did not initially realize that, for privacy reasons, they were supposed to be wiped clean before being moved… Elon recommended that they lock the trucks and track them"Business Genius™ approach for a company already under an FTC consent decree for previously failing to safeguard users privacyhttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself-in-the-night-new-biography-details-his-maniacal-sense-of-urgency.html
(DIR) Post #AoFSp7EODGEGf81RLc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-13T05:30:42Z
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LOL, called it "The filing then described a December 2022 incident in which Musk directed that Twitter servers be moved from one data center to another" Edit: also, LOL "The type of data on the relocated servers was apparently so sensitive that it could not be described in the US court filing, which redacts the sentence that describes what the servers contained"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/us-government-slams-musk-in-court-filing-describing-chaotic-environment-at-x/
(DIR) Post #AoFSp7m4C3ASLZmKq8 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-13T21:11:50Z
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Free speech absolutism update: Musk, who has at various times insisted "free speech" is more important than twitter profits, also reportedly said "that Twitter would indeed have to be careful about the words it used regarding China, because Tesla's business could be threatened" and "China's repression of the Uyghurs … had two sides"https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1701968224001081480
(DIR) Post #AoFSp8Ma0INIAorUki by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-17T22:06:52Z
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Yeah, definitely the ADL spooking advertisers, couldn't possibly be anything else…(and this is only a tiny sampling of recent interactions with absolute garbage in his timeline)
(DIR) Post #AoFSp8WrO4b8ghfhmC by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-20T23:03:16Z
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Oh, who could have predicted (me, for one https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/111043039092314883) "The documents include veterinary records, first made public last year, that contain gruesome portrayals of suffering reportedly endured by as many as a dozen of Neuralink’s primate subjects, all of whom needed to be euthanized"https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/
(DIR) Post #AoFSp97NCJnyVwkrgm by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-20T23:04:56Z
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'Shown a copy of Musk’s remarks on X about Neuralink’s animal subjects being “close to death already,” a former Neuralink employee alleges to WIRED that the claim is “ridiculous,” if not a “straight fabrication.” “We had these monkeys for a year or so before any surgery was performed”'¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AoFSp9ddGNbq7zqcyG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-21T02:17:51Z
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This Yoel Roth piece is mostly about the bigger picture of coordinated pressure/harassment shaping social media companies policies, but this on Musk is extremely on point "His recent targeting of the Anti-Defamation League has shown that he views personal retaliation as an appropriate consequence for any criticism of him or his business interests"#GiftArticle https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=VyeG_pWngaMiwmlOgJR4nd_Ne6LqLLzXRmE7s5kKluTO0uI06Gfe4N2jf1N40CkcRPROuYkJVq4ZDaRKV0NPeE-ny8LaiW8QgsWHxafhN21VZ8OQDLYvBGm-D9ppKR6aeXJvYdP09pAQxvteT2IK1MzCr1yIcQ1VLB7zNh-HBTzedYTitdwRHTAnOLjAk_QXmSMPbEmlYAO_8E5u_pW0Lkf6801fyR9tV0RWNezqh5lNF_Ciugz9RvGSviE4GSq7nI1rAi-A4sA0zB4UXv5VWEnKG5F4X_fnOD3uX5fYMMabzOTdpNlUZO6BvJW8wxVR8N1Ru2u400lagvvLA_Uoqmg&smid=url-share
(DIR) Post #AoFSpAJojXLyEpaJiy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-21T21:39:17Z
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Area twit's mission to stop the bots continues to go great
(DIR) Post #AoFSpB148jwqOxor8S by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-27T01:21:40Z
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Hardcore engineering / wheels falling off watch:(I'm too lazy to make a video but if you scroll to the end of the "show more replies" it keeps adding more)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpBZS4tSC7buJjU by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-29T04:13:03Z
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@dandrezner asks "Is there anyone who believed ex ante that Musk would improve Twitter that continues to believe it ex post and is not on Musk’s payroll?"I mean, a bunch of trolls who are getting paid to post… oh right, NOT on Musk's payroll. Hmm. https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-from-reading-about
(DIR) Post #AoFSpCHPRScEJwTQFU by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-09-29T04:15:07Z
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In other news, a certain twit retains his title as the man with the world's thinnest skin: "Elon can’t now publicly admit that he fired Rodericks for like a tweet calling him a fucking dipshit, so he’s now trying to retcon in some fucking nonsense that Rodericks was undermining election integrity" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/28/elon-fires-half-of-extwitters-election-integrity-team-because-a-manager-liked-a-tweet-calling-him-a-fucking-dipshit/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpCszBkfoCU3Qoq by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-02T01:59:37Z
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A thing a lot of mainstream reporters would benefit from recognizing: "The thing you learn after a while on the Musk beat is that his most self-aggrandizing statements usually bear the least resemblance to reality. Musk says a lot of stuff! Some of it is exaggeration, and some isn’t true at all" https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-biography-musk-review
(DIR) Post #AoFSpDQJBrKPrpe2l6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-02T02:04:47Z
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Ironically, not being on the war / Ukraine beat, Lopatto *also* rather muddles the USV / Starlink story. They're surface vessels, not subs, and they were reported washing up mysteriously in Crimea around Sept 21, 2022 with apparent Starlink antennas. How they ended up there was a mystery at the time https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/09/ukraines-new-weapon-to-strike-russian-navy-in-sevastopol/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpE2EupfZlTOKsi by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-04T22:39:46Z
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Business Genius™ update: Turns out that stiffing executives over legal costs you clearly owed them gets you… more legal costs https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/musk-cant-dodge-payments-to-ex-twitter-execs-he-fired-judge-rules/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpEesbAZthJTC6q by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-04T22:56:26Z
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Cool, cool
(DIR) Post #AoFSpEpVxd5KEIRgga by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-04T23:11:14Z
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Business Genius™ update, supplemental: https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-ad-revenue-musks-x-declined-each-month-since-takeover-data-2023-10-04/?taid=651dee80ce2bfe00013a2fbc&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
(DIR) Post #AoFSpFOFsSsFy2hQps by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-04T23:30:48Z
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Subjectively, ads on the site have taken a distinct turn to far right propaganda and questionable adult products (personalization turned off, to the extent possible)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpFurvCxhbBxTfc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-04T23:34:07Z
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Though I have to admit, the fact that ads can get community noted is pretty cool (and one supposes, going to be "fixed" when some valued customer complains)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpGlKm8vgDuVNRo by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-05T00:03:10Z
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The Business Genius™ has also followed through on his plan to remove text from link previews, now just shows the host name and preview image… which seems like a huge step backwards for a site frequently used to share links, but I am not the Business Genius™
(DIR) Post #AoFSpHNGV7Gq7YFfZQ by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-05T01:24:56Z
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In April 2022, "the SOFR or floating rate [added to the base rate of Musk's loans] stood at just 0.28%. Incredibly, by the time of the closing in late October, SOFR had leapt to 3.05%. And it kept chugging upwards, hitting 5.3% in late September" but the agreement included (not publicly disclosed) caps, which were presumably absurdly high at the time, but may have saved his bacon https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-13-billion-whip-171340881.html
(DIR) Post #AoFSpHb5fiKUoQii7U by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-05T20:48:37Z
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Slate's Alex Kirshner suggests the twitter link preview change is "to discourage people from clicking on links so that they stay within X’s walls" which, I dunno, the people scrolling for news presumably tend to come back for more. But maybe the idea is to make it less valuable to people who make off-site content, pushing them to ads or native contenthttps://slate.com/technology/2023/10/elon-musk-x-twitter-news-links-headlines-why.html
(DIR) Post #AoFSpIUOM6Z7ZwasJk by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-05T20:56:29Z
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Musk previously claimed it "Will greatly improve the esthetics" [sic] which seems pretty stupid but given the last year of flailing it's not clear that says much about whether it's true or nothttps://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110931177842106763
(DIR) Post #AoFSpJ7O17l1Wsq168 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-05T20:59:16Z
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A fun thing about that change is the t dot co links make it so you can't even hover the URL to get an idea where it's going, so it's significantly worse than a preview-less raw URL. OTOH, links without an image specified still seem to get a text snippet, for now at least
(DIR) Post #AoFSpJMd6Rx0I9yBrE by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-05T22:06:39Z
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Today's Business Genius™ tip: SEC subpoenas are optional! https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-sec-twitter-x-99593e3c350c0a5d6dcd2458b3449aaa
(DIR) Post #AoFSpK1OesYoKb2kOu by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-06T20:59:51Z
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Twitter reportedly going full taboola / outbrain chumbox. I haven't seen these yet, but there's a ton of bottom of the barrel native adsAlso if you still need to follow stuff over there, for the moment a private list still gives you a chronological feed with no ads in it (though they still show up if you click through to see replies) https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format
(DIR) Post #AoFSpKdgMXBYFKxK4m by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-07T03:50:20Z
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Ads are going great
(DIR) Post #AoFSpLVD9W0GvM04Vk by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-08T00:15:14Z
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Shot: https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1710708819309863305Chaser: https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/17107095367916383622nd chaser: https://twitter.com/BenjaminGoggin/status/17107599372430175413rd chaser: https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1710766017918456053
(DIR) Post #AoFSpM510OdwiOkfJo by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-10T04:37:44Z
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What reminded of that Mavexar case was Elon's lawyers apparently just telling the SEC to pound sand "The SEC staff offered to conduct Musk's testimony at the SEC's Fort Worth, Texas office (the closest SEC office to Musk's current personal residence) or any other of the Commission's offices, and proposed multiple dates in October and November 2023. These good faith efforts were met with Musk's blanket refusal to appear for testimony" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/sec-sues-musk-saying-he-refuses-to-testify-in-twitter-stock-investigation/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpMKG5ipvTfsq4u by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-17T03:42:41Z
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Big part of dude's pitch was he was gonna solve the bot problem, and instead he f-d up so hard he spawned a whole new industry of scammers pretending to be airlines https://www.fastcompany.com/90966960/airline-scam-fake-accounts-twitter-x-jetblue
(DIR) Post #AoFSpMz1e9RjW6xOca by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-18T00:13:19Z
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LOL, effective immediately, new twitter accounts signing up on web in New Zealand and the Philippines will have to pay ~$1 USD/year to post.Not specified what happens on mobilehttps://help.twitter.com/en/using-x/not-a-bot
(DIR) Post #AoFSpNEGjTdiHO5ZNg by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-18T00:15:55Z
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The money quote, as they say "When you subscribe to the Program you expressly agree that you are authorizing recurring payments, and that payments will be made by the payment method you have selected until the applicable subscription is canceled by you or by X. Your payment information will be automatically processed at the start of each subscription period" Dude may or may not believe this will help solve the spam problem, but he definitely wants your payment infohttps://legal.twitter.com/en/not-a-bot-terms.html
(DIR) Post #AoFSpNvs7MWAScUOLQ by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-19T02:32:52Z
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Business Genius™ tip: If your ad revenue is cratering and your platform is awash in harmful content, consider abandoning one of your largest, wealthiest markets https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-considers-removing-x-platform-europe-over-eu-law-insider-2023-10-18/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpOA3GdrPAb7iRk by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-19T02:41:57Z
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Would be hilarious if meta times their threads EU launch to match
(DIR) Post #AoFSpP43uOfByJKRkW by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-19T23:16:46Z
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How great is advertising going on the ex birdsite? Verified accounts appear to be running ads for crypto scams that pretend to be associated with the site and have Elon's face on them
(DIR) Post #AoFSpPJIzirAjaScVc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-20T01:34:22Z
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I mean, it's *possible* there's some explanation other than power tripping forum mod dick syndrome, but I sure wouldn't bet much on it (#GiftArticle of that @drewharwell piece)https://wapo.st/48XACCL
(DIR) Post #AoFSpQOIycRy5No7wO by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-21T03:20:17Z
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"Citizen Journalism", Musk style: One of seven identified highly influential accounts "a 10-month-old account that before pivoting to the Israel-Hamas war primarily posted in support of the misogynist internet influencer Andrew Tate" (and NBC probably should have noted that Tate has been charged with rape, human trafficking and other crimes)https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/7-accounts-warp-israel-hamas-war-news-x-musk-rcna121465
(DIR) Post #AoFSpQXWQLp4Xy7UJ6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-22T00:03:43Z
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Wheels falling off watch: Twitter's streamlined reporting system no longer allows reporting an account as hacked.Anyway, Nate Silver has a great deal on MacBooks for sale on his now locked account ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AoFSpRFTmuz6kIgap6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-27T01:26:44Z
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Citizen Journalism™ update: "Accounts Musk recommended on X belong to a teenager and a U.S. soldierBoth gained thousands of followers after Musk cited them at the start of the Israel-Hamas war: One posts antisemitism, the other, Russian propaganda"https://wapo.st/3s9JZ1E#GiftArticle
(DIR) Post #AoFSpS4sho6LJijdwW by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-27T03:40:40Z
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"What if bank, but also full of spam, scammers, racists and people screaming at each other?" - That's Business Genius™ https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934216/x-twitter-bank-elon-musk-2024
(DIR) Post #AoFSpSDOCAuHk6iRCi by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-27T04:54:59Z
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Remember that time that guy's account got hacked by some dumb SIM swapping kids?Same Business Genius™ who wants you to use the same service for your "entire financial life"https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/three-charged-in-july-15-twitter-compromise/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpSzbIvTI9dGwLo by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-27T20:27:53Z
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"largest boost for your replies (vs other Premium tiers or unverified users)" - Logical endpoint of this is replies just become a special case of ads, with the highest bidder getting the top spot 😜 I've noticed there's already a trend of paid accounts jumping into replies of high-engagement posts with stuff that seems just aimed at boosting their own view numbershttps://twitter.com/premium/status/1717977644996644948
(DIR) Post #AoFSpTUnQwQPiNrqyW by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-28T07:52:18Z
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One year ago today. Musk didn't tank twitter quite that abruptly but the vibe still checks out https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1585862561945116672
(DIR) Post #AoFSpUFwbe8g4bvVSq by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-29T21:25:17Z
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In a shocking development, it turns out that paying people for clicks incentivizes clickbait. Not even a Business Genius™ could have predicted that!
(DIR) Post #AoFSpUPs0k4wZOZQw4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-30T19:23:25Z
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In just one year, this man changed the value of his company by $25 billion. That's Business Genius™ https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23938969/x-twitter-valuation-19-billion-employee-shares
(DIR) Post #AoFSpVBNA84mwinMye by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-30T20:46:31Z
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Spot the account trying to goose their monetization in the replies (previously https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/111308863803713833)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpVOqM2qrcV67yS by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-31T05:10:38Z
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"What if bank, but also full of spam, scammers, racists and people screaming at each other, AND ALSO A DATING SITE?" - That's Business Genius™https://www.mediaite.com/tech/elon-musk-declares-x-will-be-a-fully-fledged-dating-site-within-the-year-report/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpVwAM9VTHqgjui by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-01T00:27:12Z
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"I think the fundamental thing that’s missing that would be incredibly useful is a single application that encompasses everything"Is it possible he just doesn't know the app-switching shortcut on his phone? 🤔 https://www.theverge.com/23940924/elon-musk-x-twitter-all-hands-linda-yaccarino-super-app
(DIR) Post #AoFSpWR0VUB0pV7MzA by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-10-29T21:30:10Z
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This will create a new set of perverse incentives around the notes system (which is already struggling with its own manipulation and disinfo problems), but on the whole it seems like a positive move
(DIR) Post #AoFSpWVcELrZ3nH3AW by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-07T21:08:33Z
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As predicted (https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110931177842106763) adaptation to Business Genius™ removing text from article previews is… putting text on the image
(DIR) Post #AoFSpXNV00xrkuU59k by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-08T00:53:17Z
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Wheels falling off watch (HT @georgewherbert)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpXwwsDJxWr4OPY by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-16T01:01:50Z
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Turns out the much hyped "assassination coordinates" are more likely to be used by your ex serving you in a lawsuit: "Grimes resorted to tracking Elon Musk's private jets in attempt to serve him with custody papers"https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-tracked-elon-musk-private-jet-to-serve-custody-papers-2023-11
(DIR) Post #AoFSpY8IC2OY62NS5o by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-16T01:54:03Z
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Not really news at this point, but basically straight up stormfront shit
(DIR) Post #AoFSpYio0HbNvHSc0O by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-16T18:31:46Z
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One man's quest to solve the bot problem on the platform he paid $44 billion for proceeds apace
(DIR) Post #AoFSpZGpxkp9cpNn3A by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-21T22:34:20Z
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Free Speech Absolutist update: File an obvious SLAPP in which you admit the core of the statement you're complaining about was true https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/elon-musk-sues-media-matters-despite-admitting-x-paired-ads-with-nazi-content/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpZQlMqlQ7c1iWO by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-23T02:43:16Z
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LOL, who could have predicted having contextless images in link previews would be a bad user experience? (aside from just about everyone, including me https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110931177842106763)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpaA8e93mOLFxFQ by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-28T01:46:35Z
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Liz Dye (AKA 5DollarFeminist) ditches birdsite with a retrospective on one Free Speech Absolutist™'s SLAPP habithttps://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ughhhh-okay-its-time-to-leave-twitter
(DIR) Post #AoFSpafgkqITyC19QO by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-29T23:20:55Z
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Business Genius™ https://mastodon.social/@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social/111496330431648946
(DIR) Post #AoFSpbBErXXBY2mLbM by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-30T00:02:39Z
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Business Genius™, video editionhttps://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1729996181756129724
(DIR) Post #AoFSpbiCsxuDCICfzM by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-11-30T00:07:58Z
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Dude has always been an awkward speaker, but he's giving a real stoned out of his gourd vibe there
(DIR) Post #AoFSpcDkzf8um8xsAK by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-02T00:39:26Z
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"First off, advertisers choosing not to advertise on your platforms is not “blackmail.” It’s actually their free speech right of association not to associate with you and your nonsense" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/30/elon-after-personally-driving-away-advertisers-tells-them-to-go-fuck-themselves-repeatedly-and-says-earth-will-judge-them-for-killing-extwitter/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpcssWm2IpgCiGG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-02T01:32:39Z
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Normal people: "That was a deranged rant from a guy who seems intoxicated or unwell"Linda Yaccarino: "He shared an unmatched and completely unvarnished perspective and vision for the future. If you haven't watched it, please take the time to absorb the magnitude and importance of what we're all a part of"https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/xs-yaccarino-calls-musk-candid-and-profound-after-go-f-yourself-tirade/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpdLao10MGjde1A by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-07T05:59:11Z
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Business Genius™ strategy of forcing ex-employees into arbitration and then failing to pay arbitration fees nets another lawsuit https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/ex-twitter-exec-sues-musk-says-he-was-fired-for-objecting-to-budget-cuts/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpdpizz6jmBjhz6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-09T18:55:55Z
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Shot / Chaser
(DIR) Post #AoFSpeNOym2vSdUbTc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-10T22:52:11Z
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Uh oh, toady fight(also, David doesn't understand the fallacy. Saying a person's argument is wrong because they hang out with shitty people would be a fallacy; concluding they're a piece of shit for doing so is most certainly not)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpf0kcTWPQfu1oG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-14T00:07:09Z
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"not much we can do if advertisers boycott or reduce spend on our platform" says area Business Genius™ who recently told advertisers to go fuck themselveshttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/stop-comparing-xs-dismal-ad-sales-to-twitters-past-success-x-exec-says/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpffs9aPnUD8ruC by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-20T22:43:59Z
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How one Business Genius™ quest to create "by far the most accurate source of information about the world" is going, in one chart(for those not familiar, Hinkle is one of the absolute dumbest garbage clout chasing propagandists on the site)https://www.propublica.org/article/x-verified-accounts-misinformation-israel-hamas-conflict
(DIR) Post #AoFSpgCqB0mp8SZCIC by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-21T06:29:05Z
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Wheels falling off watch(widely reported, just adding to thread for posterity)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpgj6F4agkVexZg by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2023-12-31T19:17:53Z
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A year of Business Genius™ "Fidelity believes that X is worth 71.5% less than at the time of purchase" https://www.axios.com/2023/12/31/elon-musks-x-fidelity-valuation-cut
(DIR) Post #AoFSphB6Ywza9MlKE4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-02T20:52:59Z
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As promised (https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/111457559913237469) Business Genius™ re-added headlines to twitter cards, further improving the "esthetics"
(DIR) Post #AoFSphuTqFHwQ5zYx6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-03T22:21:42Z
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Lotta people say, yeah Musk is a dick, but Shotwell is great. This one's for you https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-illegally-fired-employees-who-criticized-elon-musk-nlrb-alleges/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpibNGlbEZ83ooK by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-04T03:43:17Z
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"His politics are just so hard to figure out!!!!11111"
(DIR) Post #AoFSpikEjogl0cCtcm by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-04T05:39:15Z
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LOL, twitter now offers discount $200/mo gold checks. Somehow I doubt it's gonna move the numbers much https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/2/24022953/maybe-1000-per-month-was-too-expensive
(DIR) Post #AoFSpjIGhHuWiA84fY by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-07T19:28:12Z
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Twitter "community notes" has a thing where notes are automatically added to tweets that have media which has been noted in other tweets… leading to this delicious bit of recursion:@bellingcat's Eliot Higgins posts a tweet noting a video of a supposed Bellingcat investigation is fake. Later, someone (correctly) uses the tweet as the source in a note on a different tweet containing the video. Higgens' tweet then gets the note, linking to itself
(DIR) Post #AoFSpk3lqfuN5UM0i8 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T23:28:16Z
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People he interacts with file, feature a notorious holocaust denying troll (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/katie-hopkins-holocaust-denier_uk_596e0e4ee4b010d77673cb92)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpkdDisGSrQwJxw by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-09T21:52:33Z
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Time for another round of our favorite X game: "Incompetence or malice" https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d948x/x-purges-prominent-journalists-leftists-with-no-explanation
(DIR) Post #AoFSplDNYRBifZrCKG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-20T23:30:18Z
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Over on the ex birdsite, dude's plan to solve the bot problem is going great (from the "likes" of another sketchy account I suspected was part of a bot network)
(DIR) Post #AoFSplntMgOYUowMEq by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-01-23T19:23:51Z
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Not even a Business Genius™ could have predicted that paying people to post would encourage automated posting!(and yeah, those accounts other replies are mostly vacuous, #LLM-ish garbage. Though in fairness to twitter, the view numbers seem pretty low so it's not clear this is actually a profitable approach)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpmaoQnWiwXpQUS by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-02-02T01:29:33Z
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"In 2017, Musk tweeted that he had “verbal govt approval” for a Hyperloop that would connect Washington, D.C., to New York City and could be traveled in 29 minutes"Ah yes, "verbal govt approval" is definitely a very real thing for real infrastructure megaprojects spanning multiple local, state and federal jurisdictions… the article does go on to note "No such project has taken shape" but strangely leaves the "because it was obviously bullshit" unsaidhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/01/elon-musk-wealth-net-worth-companies/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpmkNrDBPQEJ4PQ by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-02-02T23:01:33Z
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Perfect ad placement, no notes (reference satirical article https://hard-drive.net/hd/ian-miles-cheong-first-recipient-of-neuralink-thanks-to-inherently-low-risk-of-damaging-intellect/ )Also pretty sure someone's using Starlink to goose their ad sales numbers or something
(DIR) Post #AoFSpnO5TawTPMsmIK by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-02-25T23:55:22Z
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Business Genius™: If we just charge a nominal fee, we'll have their payment information and that will Solve the Bot Problem!Everyone else: Dude, you know stolen cards are a thing, right?"The problem is that the flood of ad spam, as insiders refer to it, has coincided with a surge in credit card firms asking X for refunds on unauthorized transactions"https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-x-is-flooded-with-ad-spam-stolen-credit-cards-may-be-key
(DIR) Post #AoFSpo1R7IPxNPICcy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-01T18:05:39Z
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Judge: "You could've brought a defamation case; you didn't bring a defamation case, and that's significant"(one reason they didn't bring a defamation case appears to have been to try to get around CAs SLAPP law, but it looks like CCDH got their anti-SLAPP motion heard anyway. Also that whole pesky 1st amendment thing…)https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/judge-mocks-x-for-vapid-argument-in-musks-hate-speech-lawsuit/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpoFGHtTc4HlFB2 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-05T00:37:45Z
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Took a bit longer than I expected (https://twitter.com/reedmideke/status/1586558061765742592), but yeah, the ex-Twitter execs aren't buying Business Genius™ 'cause I say so definition of "for cause" and would like their golden parachutes, thank you very muchhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/04/former-twitter-execs-sue-elon-musk-severance
(DIR) Post #AoFSpp1pNKKCUuU1sO by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-06T06:56:38Z
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Explanation for the delay: They had to exhaust the administrative process defined in their termination agreements before they could sue, and Musk cronies controlled that process. But even wilder, the "gross negligence" is… that they paid the firm that successfully sued Musk into closing the deal https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/elon-musk-sued-by-former-twitter-ceo-over-refusal-to-pay-57m-severance/
(DIR) Post #AoFSppXjShqU5rPVbc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-06T07:12:06Z
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Unless the plaintiffs are wildly misrepresenting something, I suspect that ain't gonna fly. Also, these things move slowly, but I predict at some point judges in these cases are going start taking notice of patterns of behavior across the other cases and that will not be good news for Musk
(DIR) Post #AoFSpqDYxBJ2Bayuo4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-07T19:44:53Z
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twitter ad placement continues to be on point
(DIR) Post #AoFSpquSNhcKKd3AfI by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-20T18:26:06Z
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Free Speech Absolutism™ update: Researchers identify neonazi cartoonist "Stonetoss" as Texan Hans Kristian Graebener. Twitter bans the researchers and blocks links to their researchhttps://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-blocked-journalists-researchers-neo-nazi-cartoonist/
(DIR) Post #AoFSprZDw8E8N47jCy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-25T16:52:05Z
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Free Speech Absolutism™ update: Twit's #SLAPP against CCDH dismissed "Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose. Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose. This case represents the latter circumstance. This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech" https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67654013/x-corp-v-center-for-countering-digital-hate-inc/#entry-75
(DIR) Post #AoFSprsMmxXVKR512u by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-25T17:01:52Z
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Despite far more knowledgeable commentators than I predicting Musk's effort to dress up a SLAPP as a breach of contract might work, this turns out to have aged rather well indeed (+/-appeal, I guess) https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110815374571273456
(DIR) Post #AoFSpsVMRyjPHNK9pI by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-25T17:09:08Z
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Also, probably not a good sign when the judge cites your tweets about a different, still-pending #SLAPP in the course of dismissing this one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #AoFSpt46MoWL17Ztya by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-25T21:02:39Z
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Business Genius™, in one chart https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer-people-using-elon-musks-x-struggles-keep-users-rcna144115
(DIR) Post #AoFSptfg76Zutf9uXw by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-26T00:44:04Z
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Whoopsie "It is impossible to read the complaint and not conclude that X Corp. is far more concerned about CCDH’s speech than it is its data collection methods…It is apparent to the Court that X Corp. wishes to have it both ways— to be spared the burdens of pleading a defamation claim, while bemoaning the harm to its reputation, and seeking punishing damages based on reputational harm…For the purposes of the anti-SLAPP motion, what X Corp. calls its claims is not actually important"
(DIR) Post #AoFSptr1QveVSqSyEC by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-26T22:34:28Z
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One man's quest to create "by far the most accurate source of information about the world" continues apace(community notes citing The Daily Mail is the chef kiss on the turd sandwich)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpub6faW1lm1m3k by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-03-27T03:50:32Z
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Free Speech Absolutism™ update: Encouraging the state to investigate critics for speech you don't like https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/missouri-ag-sues-media-matters-in-lawsuit-echoing-elon-musks-complaints/
(DIR) Post #AoFSpvAYXms7Xic5JY by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-03T23:53:06Z
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Business Genius™: The perverse incentives will continue until the bot problem is solved!(given the number of blue check spam accounts I've seen, it's likely someone already has a botnet big enough to wipe out their sub fees just by mutually following each other)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpvhWZDF9By2PhY by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-04T17:31:15Z
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Hmm, do people "verified" this way get revenue sharing? Presumably they're eligible, but need to connect payment info to get money. "You have $$ waiting, just enter your bank info" is probably an effective way to get people over that hurdle
(DIR) Post #AoFSpwP7x67bNCREfI by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-04T17:37:51Z
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or, they might be able to spend within the system, so if Elon ever implements "everything app" functionality, he'd have a pool of influencers who get free credits to use the features 🤔
(DIR) Post #AoFSpx4bStIZRpqMJU by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-08T23:41:53Z
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One man's quest to solve the bot problem continues apace https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/1777395236337058058
(DIR) Post #AoFSpxmuo8kBfGZkNk by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-10T03:43:27Z
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To paraphrase an old Austin Lounge Lizards song, regex is hard, but it's hardest when you're Business Genius™ https://mashable.com/article/twitter-dot-com-posts-change-to-x-dot-com-ios
(DIR) Post #AoFSpyH306qZAifoLg by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-10T04:04:17Z
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I've been expecting something like this, though once again underestimated how hilariously wrong it would go. We know he hates the "twitter" branding and is obsessed with X, and… it's one URL, how hard can be, right?(spoiler: pretty hard when you're twitter scale)
(DIR) Post #AoFSpyp4xa4KsGazOS by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-10T04:15:49Z
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I have no information on what happened, but I imagine a conversation something like this: "It's been 8 months, how come you haven't changed the URL?""Look it's complicated we need to assign some engineers to do analysis and…""Just change it everywhere. It's literally search/replace, how can it be complicated?""things will break unless…""Just do it or you're fired!""…OK, fine"
(DIR) Post #AoFSpz0QHP8vRRu34i by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-11T23:02:38Z
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"Typing x.com into your browser also redirects you to twitter.com because the Twitter-to-X transition is woefully incomplete"This is one of the reasons It's Complicated, because if you aren't careful you create redirect loops. They seem to have avoided the most catastrophic one at least…https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/elon-musks-x-botched-an-attempt-to-replace-twitter-com-links-with-x-com/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
(DIR) Post #AoFSpzT8Ye6ysVKypc by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-11T23:11:34Z
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Web trivia tangent: When you do a 301 redirect, how long can a browser simply send later requests to the new location without touching the old? Well, it "permanent" so… unless otherwise specified by cache / expires headers, *forever*A lot of web software by default doesn't set any of those headers on a 301. So if you redirect x.example to y.example, and then *months later* decide to use x.example for something, people who saw the redirect may just go y.example
(DIR) Post #AoFSpzxyhymWQ9lbu4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-11T23:14:56Z
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You can't undo this, because the affected people were never see x.example, and nothing you can do on y.example can tell the browser to forget the redirect it saw on x.example.If you redirected y.example back to x the browser just sits in a loop until it gives up, but in that case, you can break out by making y redirect to a unique url, with a query string or whatever
(DIR) Post #AoFSq0WMe8Hs8nr4V6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-11T23:19:54Z
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Moral of the story, you should never, ever use a 301 without explicitly controlling caching, but vast chunks of the web don't do this (including many registrars "redirect this domain to another site" functionality 😱 ). Anyway, good news for X/twitter is they have not made that particular mistake with x.com
(DIR) Post #AoFSq0eAB8WeWzVIem by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-11T23:33:25Z
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Meanwhile Business Genius™ really really wants the blue check mean something other than "sucker who has $8 and credit card" again https://www.engadget.com/x-wont-let-users-hide-their-blue-checks-anymore-222938703.html
(DIR) Post #AoFSq1JdgvhcbcuQIy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-15T19:59:55Z
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Business Genius™, Business Genius™-ing(I suspect this is more about getting people to enter their payment info)
(DIR) Post #AoFSq1xhHzkGbrePk8 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-04-20T02:12:25Z
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Business Genius™ who optimized their entire platform around engagement farming shocked to discover engagement farming on their platform… but never fear, they have a foolproof solution: Outsource moderation to spicy autocomplete
(DIR) Post #AoFSq2TFOgyyBiPbv6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-05-06T22:44:03Z
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Today's Business Genius™ exhibit is an extremely low rent engagement farmThey reply to high engagement posts with innocuous emoji. Seem to only average a hundred or so views, but that (2x speed) scrollback is 700-ish and only got to May 3 before search gave up (and they do a lot of other replies too). cc @conspirator0
(DIR) Post #AoFSq2zVSkmpnlVNCa by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-05-31T03:40:51Z
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Business Genius™ not always appreciated from the federal bench: "Under Musk’s theory of reasonableness, the SEC must wait to depose a percipient witness until it has first gathered all relevant documents … But the law does not support that theory. Nor does common sense. In an investigation, the initial depositions can help an agency identify what documents are relevant and need to be requested in the first place" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/judge-rejects-elon-musks-claim-that-sec-subpoena-is-abuse/
(DIR) Post #AoFSq3WTUB9rS0vhaa by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-06-01T20:01:24Z
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Wheels falling off watch:1) Twitter advanced search2) Twitter archive tweets.js in vim
(DIR) Post #AoFSq3ztimh4vGhCS0 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-06-13T01:57:05Z
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Presumably to avoid the periodic scandals involving controversial likes, but AFAIK people whose posts you like still get the notification. So probably only a matter of time before a Christian Values politician likes some content from a creator who doesn't appreciate the hypocrisyAlso, who wants to bet they forgot some corner of the various APIs that includes likes?
(DIR) Post #AoFSq4f1FtaSynw2Xw by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-06-13T02:33:38Z
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WaPo were apparently so pleased with their lede they didn't read the post describing the change, despite linking it
(DIR) Post #AoFSq5Ft2p4sp9BU0m by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-06-20T02:46:21Z
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What could be better than having your troll, spam and scam infested shouty ex-bird app be a bank? All of the that, with a part-time CISO https://archive.ph/M3aMT#selection-1839.310-1839.518
(DIR) Post #AoFSq5viXIXQusktDE by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-06-22T00:28:08Z
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Not even a Business Genius™ could have predicted that telling the people responsible for 90% of your revenue to go fuck themselves might negatively impact future revenue https://futurism.com/elon-musk-begs-advertisers-return-twitter-revenue
(DIR) Post #AoFSq65zv4lHQlZ6Ei by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-07-06T21:04:02Z
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Business Genius™ suggests in court filing the idea he "engaged in intentional securities fraud in order to save $200 million" is illogical "in light of Musk’s eventual $44 billion purchase of Twitter"On a completely unrelated note, the same Business Genius™ has been sued a bunch of times for stiffing vendors and employees over significantly smaller amounts https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-denies-tweets-misled-twitter-investors-ahead-of-purchase/
(DIR) Post #AoFSq6nFKHM9atndeC by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-07-09T21:16:38Z
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New round of everyone's favorite X game: "Incompetence or Malice"Apparently @Bellingcat's analysis of Russia's cruise missile attack on the Okhmatdyt children's hospital (https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07/09/russian-missile-identified-in-kyiv-childrens-hospital-attack/) is "unsafe"
(DIR) Post #AoFSq7PX1vytVdiDK4 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-07-11T22:34:06Z
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Free Speech Absolutism™ update: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/
(DIR) Post #AoFSq7j1rRZqU6pmiG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T04:32:05Z
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Ah yes, the Trump administration, stacked with family members, wildly unqualified sycophantic suckups and big money donors. A paragon of meritocracy
(DIR) Post #AoFSq8cgWW63GisESm by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-07-28T07:31:23Z
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Business Genius™ "documents obtained by The New York Times show that, in the second quarter of this year, X earned $114 million in revenue in the United States, a 25 percent decline from the first quarter and a 53 percent decline from the previous year"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-ceo-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U0.SWSm.EgB1JxfdnLyr&smid=#GiftArticle #GiftLink
(DIR) Post #AoFSq8tLWZQM6OfXQu by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-07-31T19:07:44Z
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Free Speech Absolutism™ update - Incompetence to malice ratio unclear, but pretty safe bet there will be no Twitter Files (X Files? 🤔 ) airing of internal communications to find out! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/30/white-dudes-harris-suspended-x-twitter/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzIyMzEyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzIzNjk0Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjIzMTIwMDAsImp0aSI6IjU5OTM0MmVhLTlkYzAtNGE1Ny05YjBiLWQ1ZjkyOTYzZjcwYyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjQvMDcvMzAvd2hpdGUtZHVkZXMtaGFycmlzLXN1c3BlbmRlZC14LXR3aXR0ZXIvIn0.cWe0jwql8I6h06KSd2FGzP1C99fsKs9IAfOFqCBCpPA
(DIR) Post #AoFSq9T9NS41tRQ8Ey by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-01T23:24:15Z
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This would be a 🚩 in any case, but especially from a guy who was *at that very moment* being sued by a bunch of people for breaching real, written contracts: 'Lemon did not sign a contract cementing the agreement … Musk told him during a phone call that there was no need to “fill out paperwork” and reassured Mr. Lemon that X would financially support the show even if he did not like the views Mr. Lemon espoused'https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/technology/don-lemon-elon-musk-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k0.Kpic.sb-Nm4flcOAL&smid=url-share#GiftArticle #GiftLink
(DIR) Post #AoFSqAEeWq3sGle4HY by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-05T02:55:35Z
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There was a time when I thought the "Apartheid Clyde" thing was a cheap shot… but that sure is a thing for a white South African to say
(DIR) Post #AoFSqAS7ikpwwXwpHM by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-07T16:32:50Z
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Well this puts a different twist on the whole "occupy Mars" thing
(DIR) Post #AoFSqBIaZgnvZGUj3Y by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-13T00:34:54Z
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Ah yes, hackers are so sneaky these days, DOSing you by convincing you to fire 90% of your infra and SRE folks(maybe they're actually getting DDOSed, but I'm gonna need to see evidence before assuming it isn't the other thing)
(DIR) Post #AoFSqBo8gO2d97FvEW by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-13T01:03:23Z
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LOL, I wonder how much the campaign paid to promote it? (if he got a bro deal, that should show up as a campaign contribution eventually, right?)
(DIR) Post #AoFSqCKkj884mGVy4G by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-13T01:52:54Z
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Who could possibly have predicted? 'a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack' https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes
(DIR) Post #AoFSqCrMlsDWPPm0u0 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-13T21:11:10Z
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Not even a Business Genius™ could have predicted that European courts would not look kindly on the "click yes to be hardcore or you've resigned" email, but some of us did*https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/elon-musk-loses-fight-with-ex-twitter-staffer-must-pay-600k/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social* https://x.com/reedmideke/status/1596272423405752320
(DIR) Post #AoFSqDXYF1xeWFVhei by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-16T01:13:18Z
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Business Genius™ "According to this report, X booked $114 million worth of revenue in the U.S., its largest market by far. This represented a 25% drop over the preceding three months and a 53% drop over the year-ago period"https://fortune.com/2024/08/15/elon-musk-tesla-stock-sale-twitter-x-advertiser-boycott-finances-bradford-ferguson/ (paywalled and it would be wrong of me to suggest removing the paywallActive CSS class, so I definitely won't do that)
(DIR) Post #AoFSqDfLm2CQuR9voO by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-16T02:07:38Z
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WaPo looks into "promoted trend" ad I noted earlier* and finds it does not obviously appear the political ad stats X publishes, but it's not clear how it should be classifiedhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/15/trumps-mysterious-x-promos-show-limits-digital-ad-transparency/* https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/112952017121590447
(DIR) Post #AoFSqECJnSZSYgaGCO by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-23T05:40:52Z
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Business Genius™ "a vocal figurehead who's made himself synonymous with the brand while also alienating potential buyers" https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-08-22/tesla-reputation-falling-as-elon-musk-alienates-ev-buyers/104229840
(DIR) Post #AoFSqEm7eLD8LjKr0S by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-08-28T23:23:40Z
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What happens when you report an ad for illegal content on twitter these days? It tries to upsell you, of course! And also of course they went with the obnoxious "maybe later" instead of "no"
(DIR) Post #AoFSqEw33R9OqVymTg by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-09-02T03:23:22Z
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Business Genius™ "[Musk] and his partners’ overall stake has shed $24 billion in value — a vaporization of wealth that has little parallel outside the realm of economic or industry-specific crashes, or devastating corporate scandals" https://wapo.st/3Mt1EIg#GiftArticle #GiftLink
(DIR) Post #AoFSqFhuBVQpEwN04W by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-09-02T19:38:28Z
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Some enterprising reporter should ask Gwynne Shotwell and Linda Yaccarino what they think of this "interesting observation"
(DIR) Post #AoFSqFq3hBxBeEBVmS by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-09-05T03:01:23Z
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Business Genius™ "In 2022, global revenues dropped to $4.14bn. Since the world’s richest man took over the site at the end of that year, they have more than halved, with annual revenue forecast to fall to $1.9bn by the end of this year"https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/sep/05/advertiser-exodus-x-survey-2025-elon-musk
(DIR) Post #AoFSqHISH6GKAaThgG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-09-17T06:44:43Z
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"Concerning"
(DIR) Post #AoFSqIfBC62APM7Mjw by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-09-20T18:05:27Z
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"Musk … boosted content from creators and accounts tied to Tenet Media at least 60 times… Tenet Media appeared to seek out Musk’s attention, posting about Musk or tagging his account more than 50 times since the media company’s launch last November"(correlation is not causation, Elon was already a fan of dipshits like Pool, Rubin and Johnson before Tenet existed, but clearly Tenet saw value in cultivating the relationship)https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-shared-tenet-content-thought-part-russian-plot-rcna171520
(DIR) Post #AoFSqJeVW55fTYoLKa by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-09-21T02:12:42Z
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"…an unavoidable emergency arose in the early morning hours of September 10, when Mr. Musk’s presence was required in Cape Canaveral, Florida, to oversee and approve the launch of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn" - 🤥 Seems to me if the feds wanted to be dicks about this, they could subpoena a bunch of SpaceX people and documents to confirm whether dude is *really* operationally required to be present, and that SpaceX has no backup plan in case he is unavailable https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/20/elon-musk-threatened-with-sec-sanctions-for-failing-to-appear-in-court/
(DIR) Post #AoFSqJqCoaRq3qHgZ6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-09-21T02:19:16Z
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"Whenever there is an issue with a launch, Mr. Musk makes the final decision about whether or not to proceed. As such, Mr. Musk needed to be in Cape Canaveral in person to effectively communicate with and lead the launch team"Is this true for DoD and NASA launches?(I may have a followup about weed, ketamine, and also a thing commonly referred to as "bus insurance")
(DIR) Post #AoFSqKMorKXHgzXjOq by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-09-29T22:24:08Z
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Typical Elon these days, but still gets me how obviously stupid and disconnected from reality the whole "explanation" is. This guy is a naturalized citizen, surely he has some idea how long and involved the process is, if not how much easier it is for a white English speaking dude. Leaving aside the lies about "fast tracking" and flying asylum seekers to swing states, it all rests on assuming immigrants vote D in perpetuity
(DIR) Post #AoFSqKqF5w4VAFJEGG by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T20:24:21Z
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Business Genius™ "X tried to persuade Australian Judge Michael Wheelahan that X had no obligation to comply with an Online Safety Act notice issued to Twitter because Twitter "ceased to exist" a few weeks after receiving the notice—when Musk merged the app into his company X Corp"Wheelahan, in a move which might not come as a surprise to people familiar with the general concept of a "successor in interest", did not buy ithttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/x-loses-appeal-of-400k-australia-child-safety-fine-now-faces-more-fines/
(DIR) Post #AoFSqLWmXm6DIBDCZE by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T20:54:18Z
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Amazing, while the dispute was ongoing, X / Twitter's aussie law firm sent a letter to the eSafety Commissioner, essentially saying "yeah, we're X now, carry on"(also amazing: Aussie federal courts apparently publish decisions in *html* on a *website*, not PDFs behind a PACER paywall)https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2024/2024fca1159
(DIR) Post #AoFSqMMtQ1mbtnaonA by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-04T22:01:29Z
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Wheelahan points out that the merger agreement might seem to undermine the "new company, who dis?" argument (but the decision ultimately turns on an Australian interpretation of Nevada law 🥴 )
(DIR) Post #AoFSqMxPEGzRj2fyhk by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-05T21:35:37Z
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Shot, chaser, chaser…
(DIR) Post #AoFSqNkKIO7cAlZ2xM by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-05T21:43:19Z
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Also not clear how his PAC got the America handle, up to at least Dec 22 it seems to have been a low effort (and likely racist, judging from the location) parody account registered in 2010, new one was registered this month
(DIR) Post #AoFSqOQrkE9KIhT1GK by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-07T05:29:59Z
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Musk "donated more than $50 million in 2022 for campaign advertisements by Citizens for Sanity, a group connected to former Trump aide Stephen Miller and his non-profit America First Legal" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/elon-musk-wsj-trump-stephen-miller-donations/
(DIR) Post #AoFSqOythhN60FOCJ6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-07T06:52:39Z
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LOL, Matt Binder tracked down that American handle, and yeah, it appears to have gone pretty much exactly as you'd expect (though he doesn't appear to have contacted the owner so possible it was given or sold voluntarily) https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musk-takes-america-x-handle
(DIR) Post #AoFSqPVrj7k7eUoWh6 by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-07T22:35:34Z
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Musk dumping millions into Stephen Miller's propaganda op back as far as 2022 kinda suggests Twitter getting themselves sanctioned for contempt over this may have been more malice than incompetence https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/elon-musks-x-loses-battle-over-federal-request-for-trumps-dms/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
(DIR) Post #AoFSqQ7RTPnhX2OXGS by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-08T05:16:22Z
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Community notes leaderboard https://community-notes-leaderboard.com/ featuring a whole lot of exactly who you'd expect(via https://meidasnews.com/news/fake-news-the-top-100-community-noted-twitter-accounts)
(DIR) Post #AoFSqQiJGLI7NNdyjI by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-11T04:40:08Z
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Business Genius™ has apparently decided that what his social media site needs is to be even more of an engagement farming circle jerk(not being a Business Genius™, the economics of this elude me, but if one wanted to give cash to fashy friends whose posts advertisers don't want to associated with, it might accomplish that)
(DIR) Post #AoFSqQteaAMhwYx2PY by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-20T20:22:38Z
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World's richest man, who has been sued for stiffing thousands of his own former employees over much smaller amounts is giving away millions to (possibly illegally) buy votes for his preferred candidate, a self-proclaimed billionaire who *promises* to protect regular working folks from the corrupt eliteshttps://www.theverge.com/2024/10/20/24274971/elon-musk-1-million-prize-america-pac-petition-voting-presidential-election
(DIR) Post #AoFSqRYQ8ayVz01axE by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-24T01:30:57Z
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"The Justice Department warned Elon Musk’s America PAC in recent days that his $1 million sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/elon-musk-justice-department-letter/index.html
(DIR) Post #AoFSqS2uJFMTVYHwTQ by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-29T19:59:00Z
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Hard to see how anything could go wrong here, from a medical, privacy or regulatory perspective
(DIR) Post #AoFSqSVcaUKWwbisEK by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-30T19:45:25Z
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"BBC identified networks of dozens of accounts that re-share each other's content multiple times a day - including a mix of true, unfounded, false and faked material - to boost their reach, and therefore, revenue on the site … They also say they coordinate sharing each other’s posts on forums and group chats" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2dpj485nnoWho could have predicted this? (me, for one https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/113286945720405428)
(DIR) Post #AoFSqSygqPaAOlK5XU by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-10-30T20:01:48Z
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That @drewharwell piece on right wing accounts getting more engagement noted they couldn't determine why (likely no coincidence that Musk has made it much harder for third parties to analyze) but it does seem like the blue check grifters skewing right could be a big part of it, even with an algorithm that's nominally neutral. Paid accounts get a boost, and the people willing to pay Musk certainly seem more likely to engage with RW contenthttps://wapo.st/4hnPXAJ#GiftArticle #GiftLink
(DIR) Post #AoFSqTfwFcB2YtYcwy by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-11-04T19:10:19Z
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IANAL, but I'm not convinced "no it's not an illegal lottery, we actually just deceived the public into thinking it was random" is going to end up being a great defensePresumably, the strategy is mainly to run out the clock with any eventual fines just being another cost for the PAC to cover, but it seems like they're inviting Krasner to pile on some kind of fraud or deceptive practices allegation https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-weighs-challenge-elon-musks-1-million-voter-giveaway-2024-11-04/
(DIR) Post #AoFSqTp9hLY91TrzJg by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-11-13T02:42:16Z
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Just gonna here this here to age in light of jackass' recent appointment
(DIR) Post #AoFSqUnQ5Hku2O47FY by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-11-13T02:51:30Z
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Branded "a 'Manhattan Project’ for cutting spending and regulation" which I dunno guys, the Manhattan Project was many things, but being a model of efficient, limited government and free enterprise would not be on the top of my list
(DIR) Post #AoFSqUvDcHzgQZiLPE by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-11-18T03:31:15Z
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As noted by Matt McDermott (https://x.com/mattmfm/status/1858321528061829365) Elon's pretend department DOGE account is labeled as a verified government agency, despite you know, not being officially created by any government yet
(DIR) Post #AoFSqVb36lSEWJHkbg by reedmideke@mastodon.social
2024-11-20T20:25:17Z
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Whole twitter files thing was obviously garbage at the time, but @mmasnick's contrast with where things stand now is particularly brutal"Before, we were told that White House officials’ merely reaching out to social media companies about election misinformation was a democracy-ending threat. Now, the world’s richest man has openly used his platform to boost one candidate, ridden that campaign’s success into the White House himself, and … crickets"https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-musk-partnership-x-twitter-files-rcna180427