From the The New Yorker article:
I’m sure it must upset poor Elmo and his efforts to deescalate the war by any possible means, but for the rest of us here on planet Earth the good news is from satellite images it looks like both ships hit in Sevastopol drydock last night are constructive total losses, the loss of the submarine Rostov-on-Don means one less launching platform to fire Kalibr cruise missiles at grain depots.
Speaking of Starlink, perhaps it’d behoove him to not shut off customers’ accounts…
Walks like a chump:
Putin praises his useful idiot:
Musk becomes China’s useful idiot too:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/14/business/elon-musk-taiwan-china-comments-intl-hnk/index.html
Paid users can now hide their likes, presumably because Elmo is getting tired of getting called out when he likes posts by TERFs and Nazis.
What’s the point of a hidden like?
Elmo’s treason post had a million views and 1.8k likes. Guess most of the others were hidden.
I like how they are advertising this as a feature to show it off, and not being ashamed of it as they should be.
“Spicy likes.” Jesus fucking wept.
It’s a feature for people paying to use Twitter and displaying it to the entire world with their blue checkmark. Almost by definition they have no shame.
The like will get added to the total, but now it will be anonymous who liked.
This way you can like abhorrent posts consequence free.
You have to realize that Musk and the vast majority of conservatives think all White men deep down know that Black people, women, trans folks, etc need to oppressed for the good of humanity, but “our woke society” is keeping them from admitting it. This is his way to show the " hard truth".
“Only in darkness can we see the truth.” That’s how it goes, right?
In the words of Lord John Whorfin:
History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
It’s been almost 2 months since Elmo announced that Twitter was now called X, and I still see, almost in every story, “X, formerly known as Twitter.”
You can still block people too.
There are, amazingly, a lot of people unaware of the great Twitter wars. As such, I don’t see newspapers just calling it X for a very long time.
I don’t think I’m understanding the technology. Can’t I already do that just by liking them in my head? Won’t that be exactly the same thing? If I want to click a like button but have it do nothing, couldn’t I just draw a thumbs-up in crayon on a Taco Bell receipt that I tape to my laptop, and mash that, and have exactly the same effect as a “hidden like”?
What’s the difference?
It doesn’t actually do nothing. The number of likes on that post will go up by one. It’s just that if someone were to look at who liked the post, your name wouldn’t show up in the list of people who liked it.
The system gauges the popularity of a post by the number of interactions it has, one of which is the number of likes. The more likes, the more the post is promoted to other members. If you want the ideas in that post to reach as many people as possible, you could add a like to help encourage that. And the system will use your own personal interactions as part of the algorithm to determine what posts it shows you. If you like posts of a certain nature, you’ll see more posts like that.
Back when I was on Facebook, I would have liked having the anonymous like feature. Not so I could like questionable content, but so I could avoid the drama from certain people who complained about why I liked someone else’s post but not theirs. I solved that issue by deleting my Facebook profile.
Basically, just asking for botnet circle-jerks without admitting it?
I guess scads of bot accounts are fine if they bump the numbers