Agreed and thank you. FTR, I’m one of your many followers over there. 
Twitter communities are incredibly informative and I don’t know how we will replace them. I belong to a somewhat disparate set of these communities including neurology, disabled activism, fashion history, books, and RPGs. I am saddened that in all likelihood I will not be able to connect with all of these people again.
He won’t return to Twitter until it is absolutely, positively not going to fail. He believes that he WAS Twitter. It would reflect poorly on him if he came back and did not save it. He’s not going to take that chance. Right now he’ll just take pot shots at Elon and declare that Elon is begging him to come back. If Twitter fails, he will rejoice. If it ever gets back to normal, then he will return and claim to have saved it.
Trump’s overwhelming priority is to be elected to the Presidency again. So he is going to do anything he can to achieve that goal. Twitter provides substantial additional reach so he will use it–no matter whether or not it has a negative effect on Truth Social and whether or not Twitter eventually fails.
Apparently people are posting full movies on Twitter now as the moderation team is gone and the automatic system appears to not be working. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t not enforcing copyright strikes a legal liability for Twitter/Musk?
I don’t know how hard copyright owners fight piracy anymore. There are pirate sites (not just torrent links, full copies of the media) that have been operating for years without being taken down. Even sites that don’t have secret owners and servers hidden in lax countries. Archive.org, for example, has vast amounts of straight-up pirated books, movies, TV shows, comics, etc that have been there for years. Copyright lawsuits are probably among Musk’s lesser worries.
It depends heavily on the copyright owner. Archive.org tends to get by with it being older stuff. And, of course, they have that extra argument that they’re just an archive and deserve the archive exception. (As you pointed out, it probably wouldn’t survive in court if pressed, but most don’t want to.) I also still don’t see current movies hosted much on American sites that would be easy to take down. But I also am not big in the scene anymore, and always torrented when I was.
My suspicion is that Twitter could get in trouble with something sufficiently modern from the right studio who wants to make an example.
So really fast gossip, in other words. That’s useful.
It is, indeed. And gossip is very useful to the journalist. That’s how it turns into researched and fleshed-out stories.
Trump is not a big picture kind of guy. For him, it’s always personal. If he returns, yes he gets more eyeballs and that’s good for him but also good for Elon. It’s a win/win. And Trump doesn’t do win/win. It’s not his style. Especially if he thinks you betrayed him (Elon has said he is backing DeSantis) then Trump will never do anything to help you, even if it hurts him. He can very easily convince himself that he doesn’t need the failing loser Twitter.
A lot of posts here. Not sure if this headline has been posted yet, but it certainly made me laugh:
For the most recent material, they have the “you can sign this out for an hour” approach, to argue that they’re an e-library, loaning out an e-version of a book.
Elon is now just posting memes about wanting Trump to fuck him (very NSFW;)
Imagine being the world’s richest man and simping this hard for a failed wannabe dictator.
That is the “official” stuff that staff has posted (which in itself isn’t up there with permission of the copyright holders). But there are also the copies posted by individual users, which have no restrictions at all. For instance, there is an archive of the first 14 omnibus edition volumes of the English language translation of the manga Urusei Yatsura currently being published by Viz. That archive has been there since July 2021.
Substance abuse comes to mind at this point.
(Reformatted the headline to a smaller font.)
That’s almost as funny as Yoel Roth, head of Trust and Integrity at Twitter, tweeting that the vast majority of content moderators were still on board. And then, suddenly, Roth himself was gone!
I can think of three possible reasons that the employees who failed to agree to Musk’s ultimatum still have access to internal systems, and none of them portend well for Twitter:
Musk has once again changed his mind because of the sheer number of additional employees leaving.
As per speculation, the staff responsible for processing the sackings have been sacked, which has only happened before in a Monty Python movie.
Just sheer chaos, where no actions have been taken because no one – including Musk – has any plan or any idea what’s going on.
tweet is gone … what did it say (paraphrasing)?
It’s still showing for me, but if you can’t see it, here’s a description.
The text is “And lead us not into temptation”, accompanied by a drawing of a Franciscan monk standing in front of a schoolgirl who is bent over with her skirt hiked up, showing that she is not wearing underwear. The monk is captioned “Donald Trump” and the Twitter blue bird logo is obscuring the schoolgirl’s genitals.
Is he suggesting that Trump is fucking him over by not returning to Twitter?
Ye is back and I blocked him.
Seems to me the implication is that Trump isn’t fucking him, and that makes him sad.
This morning a bunch of tweets from some people with “anti-woke” views are being promoted on my feed. That’s new.