Thatâs just a dead cat anyway, I bet.
ETA: just realised that this is a British term, so I should probably add this: Dead cat strategy - Wikipedia
It comes from Lynton Crosby, whoâs Australian
OK. Non-US-American term, then.
BREAKING: Elon Muskâs Neuralink aims to start putting its coin-sized brain implant into human patients within six months
I feel like I know where that is goingâŠ
Yes, it appears to be a perfect storm of Elon fanbois flagging anyone they disagree with, and no more moderators at HQ to correct it, nor any desire by the head Twit himself to reinstate anyone banned he doesnât like anyway.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-alt-right-shows-whos-boss/sharetoken/nWnhla0KivE3
"He [Loder] doesnât think Musk or one of his deputies is banning left-leaning accounts. He thinks these accounts are falling victim to mass reporting campaigns from the right. Those kinds of campaigns arenât new. They are actually a standby of far right online activism. But theyâre interacting in a specific way with the hollowed out staffing situation at Twitter.
Twitter and other social networks have systems in place which can automatically suspend an account if theyâre suddenly the target of numerous complaints about abusive behavior. The idea is that you freeze the situation until a human can review it and figure out whether the reports are valid and what to do. The problem is those humans arenât there anymore."
That might not be completely true. From the Intercept article, CrimethInc:
The collective also explained that, on the morning of the suspension, it received an email from Twitter saying the company had âreceived a complaint regarding your account,â but had âinvestigated the reported content and have found that it is not subject to removal under the Twitter Rules.â
The group said it had received no further emails from Twitter to explain or justify the ban. âThis suggests that the decision to ban our account shortly thereafter was dictated by Musk himself, without regard for the Twitter Rules or any other protocol other than his own apparent allegiance to the far right.â
Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.
Right. My initial impression was that the email could be auto-generated, but who knows.
The failure of the system there could just be part of the strategy, so no ultimately difference.
This part:
Today he is trying to make sure the search engines give you Bloombergâs free PR instead of this.
His other thing is implying his genius is being held back by âthe regulators.â
These poor animals are being subjected to butchery, plain and simple. Itâs just ridiculous to think we have even an inkling of understand sufficient to be making direct BCIs at this point in history. We can barely understand how neurons work, how they store information and relay it with any degree of predictability, and so forth but this failson some how thinks he can whip up such devices without the necessary leg work of decades of painfully slow, painfully careful study of willing human subjects.
Musk thinks that he can whip up anything without any leg work and do it better than the dullard experts who really have been working on it for decades.
Whatâs worse is that we have non-invasive means to get folks to use devices in a seamless manner. Itâs just that it doesnât sound as cool as having a coin-sized metal device shoved in your brain with a thousand tiny threads. Haptic feedback on touch devices, indexed keyboards, even just using frigginâ ski equipment effectively is your brain making them limbs in your body map (yay, indirect cybernetics) are all examples of it. The future version of such things will probably be more abstract like sending sonic or electrical pulses at a specific frequency to induce sensation from tools and prosthetics are likely (in fact, arenât some prosthetics doing this now?).
But - then how would he try and control people?
No mention of being reported in the screenshot, but perhaps there were reports against The Daily Beast?
I think we know which mind virus heâs infected with.
