(12-07-2022, 12:31 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:
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https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1600262626256486401

Quote:...we’re very much viewing 2018 as just kind of a dress rehearsal for the big show in 2020.

And I think we expect that this is going to become a phenomenon we’re going to have to contend with, with a lot more than just Russia.

Quote:Elon Musk, Chairman, CTO & Founder

Elon published his first computer program at age 12 and four years later achieved the highest possible grade in the IBM aptitude test for engineers. Elon went on to work for Pinnacle Research, Rocket Science and Microsoft. He developed the original business concept and initial technology for Zip2 and is now Chief Technology Officer for the company. Elon graduated with a degree in finance from the Wharton School, a degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and deferred graduate studies in energy physics at Stanford to co-found Zip2.
The Zip2 Management Team

(12-14-2022, 04:13 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: The Zip2 archive page shows that Elon Musk worked for MICROSOFT before Zip2.

This is from his own company page in 1997:

Quote:Elon Musk, Chairman, CTO & Founder

Elon published his first computer program at age 12 and four years later achieved the highest possible grade in the IBM aptitude test for engineers. Elon went on to work for Pinnacle Research, Rocket Science and Microsoft. He developed the original business concept and initial technology for Zip2 and is now Chief Technology Officer for the company. Elon graduated with a degree in finance from the Wharton School, a degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and deferred graduate studies in energy physics at Stanford to co-found Zip2.
The Zip2 Management Team

You know who else went to the Wharton school?

Donald Trump & Donald Trump Jr. & Ivanka Trump.

(12-12-2022, 12:37 AM)Senona Wrote:

(12-07-2022, 12:31 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:

This here, when I read this, I was like you have got to be kidding me?!?

Like, seriously?

By the way, like how they put Catturd's pic in there with Trump & Musk. HAHA
I happen to be a follower of him/them -- whatever

Quote:"There's A New Sheriff In Town": Twitter Nukes Liberal Pundits From Platform

Twitter on Thursday evening began purging reporters from major media outlets, just one day after new owner Elon Musk changed the platform's "anti-doxxing" policy in response to a "crazy stalker" who climbed on the hood of a car carrying his two-year-old son.



Those kicked off the platform include:

• Keith Olbermann of MSNBC
  
• Ryan Mac of the NY Times
  
• Anthony Webster of Bellingcat
  
• Donnie O'Sullivan of CNN
  
• Micah F. Lee of The Intercept
  
• Matt Binder of Mashable
  
• Drew Harwell of the Washington Post
  
• Aaron Rupar of his mom's basement
  

Also booted was the official account for Twitter competitor Mastadon, which earlier in the day posted a link to track Musk's private jet.

Quote:Twitter pulls its Spaces group audio feature after Musk run-in with banned journalists

Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation that included journalists that had been banned from the platform.

The latest drama comes after Twitter suspended several prominent journalists who had covered an earlier story about the Elon Jet Twitter account that was banned for using publicly-available data to track Elon Musk’s private jet.

As it turns out, Twitter seemingly has a quirk that allows banned users to still participate in Twitter Spaces and converse with other members, and some of those who had been banned did just that. BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos started a group chat yesterday evening, and was joined by a number of journalists whose accounts had been suspended by Twitter, including the Washington Post’s Drew Harwell and Mashable’s Matt Binder, as well as Jack Sweeney, the creator of the Elon Jet Twitter account who had his own personal account suspended too.

Elon Musk joined the conversation, where he continued to criticize those who not only shared real-time location data of his private jet, but those who reported on the story. The exchange is available in various places online, including YouTube here:



After being pressed by journalists over some of his inconsistencies, Musk abruptly left the conversation, and shortly after the entire Spaces feature itself started playing up.

At the time of writing, it’s not possible to start a new Spaces conversation or join an existing one, certainly based on the various tests TechCrunch has done internally. In response to one Twitter user wondering what was going on with Spaces, Musk replied that it was “fixing a legacy bug,” and that it should be working again tomorrow.

Whether Spaces returns tomorrow or not, Twitter’s recent grand proclamations around Twitter 2.0 and its “continued commitment to the public conversation” could not seem any less sincere when juxtaposed with the events of the past 24 hours.

Quote:Twitter condemned by UN and EU over reporters’ ban


Neutral, the watchword of the BBC.

'The United Nations has joined the European Union in condemning Twitter's decision to suspend some
journalists who cover the social media firm. Reporters for the New York Times, CNN and the Washington
Post were among those locked out of their accounts.

The UN tweeted that media freedom is "not a toy" while the EU has threatened Twitter with sanctions.
A Twitter spokesman told a US tech news website the bans were related to the live sharing of location data.

Melissa Fleming, the UN's under secretary general for global communications, said she was "deeply disturbed"
by reports that journalists were being "arbitrarily" suspended from Twitter. "Media freedom is not a toy," she said.
"A free press is the cornerstone of democratic societies and a key tool in the fight against harmful disinformation."

Earlier on Friday, EU commissioner Vera Jourova threatened Twitter with sanctions under Europe's new Digital
Services Act which she said requires "the respect of media freedom and fundament rights".
"Elon Musk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon," she added.

Mr Musk has not commented directly on the suspensions, but said in a tweet that "criticising me all day long is
totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not". He also tweeted that accounts
which he claimed engaged in doxxing - a term to describe to the release of private information online about
individuals - receive a temporary seven-day suspension.

"Same doxxing rules apply to 'journalists' as to everyone else," he added.
A spokesman for the New York Times called the suspensions "questionable and unfortunate". The suspensions
come after Mr Musk vowed to sue the owner of a profile that tracks his private jet.
He said a "crazy stalker" had used live location sharing to find and accost a vehicle carrying his children in Los
Angeles.

But following the suspensions, the German Foreign Office warned Twitter that "press freedom cannot be switched
on and off on a whim"...'

'...Twitter's head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, told The Verge website that bans are related to a new rule introduced
on Wednesday that prohibits "live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to
3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes".

"Without commenting on any specific accounts, I can confirm that we will suspend any accounts that violate our
privacy policies and put other users at risk," Mrs Irwin told the outlet.
"We don't make exceptions to this policy for journalists or any other accounts."...'

(12-16-2022, 06:15 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: ETA: I was looking at some old photo's of inside the house I grew up in and noted on a bookshelf was one of those books called "The Yellow Pages"...that image later dawned on me there was once a time where they’d send a big yellow book to everyone’s house listing yours and everyone else’s assassination coordinates. I think there was even a story/movie or police report called the phone book murders...reminiscent of the first Terminator movie.

(12-18-2022, 02:41 AM)Ninurta Wrote:

(12-16-2022, 06:15 PM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: ETA: I was looking at some old photo's of inside the house I grew up in and noted on a bookshelf was one of those books called "The Yellow Pages"...that image later dawned on me there was once a time where they’d send a big yellow book to everyone’s house listing yours and everyone else’s assassination coordinates. I think there was even a story/movie or police report called the phone book murders...reminiscent of the first Terminator movie.

I used to get two of those books a year - one, the Yellow Pages, was a listing of businesses, and the other, the White Pages, listed individuals. The Yellow Pages listed the assassination coordinates of businesses, and it was only the White Pages that listed the assassination coordinates of individuals.

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Quote:My qualifications:

Twitter could do worse, and always has

Occasionally create content that people who otherwise hate each other both enjoy

Keen ability to recognize and curate my TL of accounts that step over the worthless asshole line, regardless of politics
My demands:

$125/hour + time & a half overtime*
Cadillac health care package & 401k
I work 100% remote from my trailer in Austin, I ain't flying into SFO every other goddamn week

*Yeah, I realize that's big money, but I'm the manager of this Walmart not a cashier

My business plan:

Day 1: open up targeted ad placement on individual account timelines. Account can set ad price and has approval power over any ad. Twitter gets 50% cut. People who create appealing content here deserve to make a few bucks.
My TOS:

1. No officials or functionaries of any government that bans/ filters twitter. GFY Ayatollahs & CCP, I'm not spending a dime on coders to implement country-specific content filters while hosting your stupid bullshit

2. No elected US politicians. Log off and get back to work you shitbags, use your stupid franking privilege to snail mail your deep thoughts to constituents so we can throw them into the trash like we used to

3. Any backchannel communique from a government official or agency requesting some kind of action be taken against a domestic US account will not be ignored. It will be laughed at, then I will personally post it for everybody to see.

4. The normal ban rules apply: no racist / antisemite / N-word enthusiasts, spammers, doxxers, account imposters, kiddie diddlers, etc., and will be enforced in a bipartisan way.

5. And no fomenting violence. I mean the "hey gang, let's meet here tomorrow night to burn down this thing" actual fomenting of violence, not the "this person who made fun of me is engaging in stochastic terrorism" crap

6. The only bot allowed is @iowahawkbot

7. Otherwise I reserve the right to ban any account for any reason at any time. I have a wide bipartisan tolerance for speech, but step over my worthless asshole line and *poof* you're gone. I may not be able to define "worthless asshole" but I know one when I see one.

8. In order to placate remaining concerns about the very existence of accounts with which you disagree, I will note that there is a BLOCK BUTTON you whiney baby. In fact I will SUPERSIZE the block button so you can block everybody who follows the account, or the account follows.

9. Disinformation policy: I will place a large disclaimer on login page stating "Twitter often contains erroneous information. In fact, 98% of Twitter is complete bullshit, and only a total idiot would believe any of it." Then you must read and acknowledge to continue.

10. Feel free to track my private jet. Because I don't have one you dipshits, I travel by analog 1930s cars

That's it, that's my platform.

In the spirit of the times I will of course take the voice of the people into full consideration. Me for Twitter CEO?