There’s a picture of Musk smoking that often shows up when people are criticizing him - and for the longest time, I thought it was a picture of the well-known smoker/comedian Doug Benson (who looks a little like Musk). Imagine my surprise when I learned it was actually Musk!
I like Doug Benson, that’s an insult to Doug Benson!
Sorry! I mean no disrespect to Doug - he was great on @midnight
Doug’s really funny though, he sometimes does guest spots on a local radio station around here too.
I get the comparison, but that really was Elmo. It was the first time I personally recall thinking he might have a screw loose. I don’t actually think that anymore, I think the only thing he suffers from is too much money and too little accountability.
Yeah, I guess the resemblance isn’t as close as I thought
What about this guy?
The caption writers have done that funny thing whereby they intentionally mix up who’s who. Elon Musk’s the guy on the right and the lookalike’s on the left.
Where do you get that? Only the left one really looks like Musk.
I was assuming it was some weird joke. Obviously, the guy on the left is Musk. The guy on the right. I mean, kinda sorta Musk. I’m surprised people are saying he’s that similar. Maybe if you’re face blind (which is fine–I get confused sometimes, too, but not in this instance.)
He’s like a cross between Elon Musk and Seth Macfarlane.
Ironically, Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, looks a bit like Mark Zuckerberg:
Mark Zuckerberg:
Alex Spiro:
What the drunken fuck are you on about?
Elon Musk:
Musk Rat:
lmao!
Nice. I snorted and scared the dog.
Agile Threads Ad 
Confirmation that Twitter has been blowing off its severance obligations (like it’s been blowing off all its obligations).
Agile payroll.
That sounds impressive, but after my initial attempts to check it out I’m of the opinion that Threads blew its chance to take over Twitter’s niche by being overly aggressive (even by social media standards) at having its algorithms show you the stuff it thinks you might be interested in rather than just displaying the stuff you told it you actually are interested in. That’s the sort of thing that creates an instant and indelible “this is a useless piece of crap” impression.
You turn a profit by taking in more than you pay out. Therefore, if you pay out nothing… Genius!
By ‘tanking’, I think they mean a 5% drop in users. Given that Musk cut costs by 70%, that might be an acceptable tradeoff. Twitter was bleeding money before Musk took over.
I don’t use threads because I don’t have an instagram account and don’t plan to make one. It seems to me that one of the problems they’ll have competing with twitter is that they have very different types of users. Instagram users are more about social sharing with each other, while Twitter’s model is more of a bunch of influential people doing a lot of posting and everyone else just reading them. 70% of active Twitter users have never tweeted, and the vast majority of content is posted by a small fraction of the users.
That could also be Twitter’s weakness. There is very little ‘lock in’, because people aren’t dependent on conmecting to a larger social graph to get value from it. In contrast to facebook, where the value is being connected to friends and family, so you can’t leave unless they do, and they can’t leave unless their own friends and family do…