Thank a Mod.
The italics were meant to signal sarcasm. That sounds like a job from hell in every way. The day to day work has to be horrible, and i wouldn’t trust my employer to use my labor to actually make the place better.
like Your friendly neighborhood journeymod
Should be similar to Facebook moderation.
It’s probably even worse. Because i think Facebook is actually trying to keep the place kinda civil, so their mods may feel they are actually performing a useful service, even if it’s a very unpleasant one. Whereas i would have no faith that X even cared.
You guys are great, by the way. Nothing like the morass that is Facebook. Or (shudder) X.
But even on placid little chat sites there is occasionally something horrible. I moderate an even smaller site, and we once got a guy who made credible threats to commit mass murder. We deleted it, of course, and the admin was able to trace a lot of personal info of the user and contact the local-to-him authorities. It was someone with prior violent run-ins with the law, and his post violated his parole or something. It was a while ago, and it forget the details. But it was kinda scary.
If I want to make peer to peer payments, I’m going to go with one of the multitude of existing services instead of giving my banking or cc info to a company that continually thumbs their nose at the concept of trust and security.
THIS. The whole “everything app” concept makes me think of the generic-looking banking app that used to be on non-Google Android devices (I first saw it on a Samsung). Apparently loads of people used the thing though, because the inevitable data breach made the news.
I’d have added an ellipsis at the end, to give it that “trailing off” feeling. Or maybe thrown in ol’ :roll_eyes: (which gives you 
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Twitter is going to carry somewhat different election campaigning:
It’s not propaganda if you agree with it and they’re paying you enough to carry it on your channel.
Musk is just getting rid of the riffraff: liberals, etc.
That leaves a lot more room for the bots and trolls. It’s all unfolding exactly according to my plan, Smithers.
Here are some of the tweets that got attention in the hours after the collapse: Paul Szypula, a MAGA influencer with more than 100,000 followers on X, tweeted “Synergy Marine Group [the company that owned the ship in question] promotes DEI in their company. Did anti-white business practices cause this disaster?” alongside a screenshot of a page on the company’s website that discussed the existence of a diversity and inclusion policy.
That tweet got more than 600,000 views. Another far-right influencer speculated that there was some connection between the collapse and, I guess, Barack Obama? I don’t know. The tweet got 5 million views as of mid-day Wednesday.
If Twitter ever was a place to get the news faster, it no longer is. Now there is a LLM AI Chatbot called Grok, owned and developed by Elon Musk himself, and it makes news up, puts them in a “newly updated Explorer page” (that is, as I understand it, the new name for the trending news section curated by Twitter) and heralds those made up news as true. Yesterday Grok claimed that Iran had started bombarding Tel Aviv with missiles. Heavy Missiles, to be precise:
In view of the great success of Grok Linda Yaccarino anounced that Grok will be enabled for all premium subscribers:
I wonder whether Twitter (or X, or whatever it is called) could be sued for damages if such made up news moves the markets in a significant way. Which seems totally possible to me. Even if an investor does not act on the made up news, because they have read the small print:
“Grok is an early feature and can make mistakes,” reads the tiny note from X underneath the written context provided on the Explore page. “Verify its outputs.”
damage could result if others don’t read the fine print and act foolishly.
Here is the opinion:
Good decision.
I’d hope that X & Soundcloud would increase their moderation after discovering this kind of activity.
Now that Musk has bought Twitter he is using the plattform to praise the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, and attack the judge that is investigating Bolsonaro’s actions, including his involvement in a coup attempt, some corruption, a bit of influence buying and selling… the usual accusations of a witch hunt.
“This judge [whom Musk calls Brazil’s Darth Vader - Pardel_Lux] has brazenly and repeatedly betrayed the constitution and people of Brazil. He should resign or be impeached,” Musk tweeted.
[…]
“Elon Musk has been an essential guy for us. God has used this man to expose the dictatorship that has taken hold in Brazil to the whole word. He is a crucial tool.”
[…]
“This is a message to the world,” Gayer bellowed. “Look at what is happening here in Brazil today. What you see here are freedom-loving people who are fighting for democracy.”
Minutes later, Bolsonaro continued the tributes, declaring: “[Musk] is a man who truly cares about the freedom of all of us.”
Finally, people love him.
Man, in the old days all the witches did to get hunted was talk to animals and hex people. Think if they’d really tried!
You’re saying that the witches are not the ones doing the hunting in a witch hunt yet? Bummer!