“What began as an apology over antisemitic tweets turned into a meandering conversation about childhood trauma, aliens, cellphones in people’s heads and using X in the bathroom. A good portion of the room walked out before the discussion officially wrapped.”
Ehh, I don’t know if telling advertisers to go fuck themselves will have an appreciable effect on Twitter’s bottom line. They’ll only see the money they can still make there and will continue to do business; I don’t think the panic tipping point has been reached yet.
Glad you speak Musk as I don’t any longer. In my younger years I had a couple tweaker associates (started off as friends) and got fairly fluent but it’s been long enough that I’ve lost that language. Does Duolingo have a module so I can brush up like I do with Spanish?
“Here at X we believe self-love can take many forms. Our aggressive approach to pursuing ad revenue is generating record impressions, up 68.8% from last year, including…”
Elmo is philosemitic in the same way Trump is - he believes Jews control the economy and world politics and are all very rich and powerful behind the scenes, and he admires them for it because he wishes he had that kind of sway.
But in that sort of pre-pubescent teenaged boy way. See, if he negs them hard enough, they’ll realize he’s the manly, masculine fella who they all secretly love but can’t/won’t say
For fun I typed this into Google, and it assumes you are referring to Medusa, with images like this:
I then got sidetracked trying to see what AI image generators would do, but none of them are really interesting enough to show. The only thing I’ll note is that none of them looked anything like Medusa.
Unfortunately (because really any normal company should expect to take an economic beating for unhinged remarks like that), I worry that you are correct. Awful lot of inertia baked into Xitter. I’ve given up on it, but I was only a very, very casual and occasional user at best. Losing folks like me do not damage the bottom line and the deeply invested seem to have a hard time migrating to alternatives.
Dunno why tweets aren’t embedding all of a sudden. Maybe Elmo tripped over the power cable to that server and unplugged it while he was trying to impregnate a Blu-Ray drive.
One has to wonder how much longer this can go on. I’m not optimistic enough to think Twitter is going to fold but how much longer can shareholders, investors, etc., in his various companies allow this to continue?
Migration is hard because the alternatives aren’t as good. I’ve tried joining Mastodon, Blue Sky, Spoutible, and Post, and none of them work as well, or have the richness of content that Xitter still has – as long as one avoids the political stuff and mostly wallows in cats, dogs, and innocuous stuff like that. The few politically oriented tweeters I follow regularly get inundated with blue check crap, alas.
