He’s shown up on other boards I’ve been on. No “probably”.
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Some of their employees weren’t even capable of working on Wednesday, and might be much less effective for now.
In this as in so many other things, Twitter hasn’t paid its Slack bill. But that’s not why Slack went down: someone at Twitter manually shut off access, we’re told. Platformer was not able to learn the reason prior to publication, though the move suggests Musk may have turned against the communication app — or at least wants to see if Twitter can run without Slack and the expenses associated with it. (Musk’s Tesla uses a Slack competitor called Mattermost for in-house collaboration, and Microsoft Outlook and Teams for email and meetings.)
On Blind, the anonymous workplace chat app, the disappearance of such critical tools was met with a mixture of disbelief, frustration, and (to a lesser extent) glee.
“We didn’t pay our Slack bill,” one employee wrote. “Now everyone is barely working. Penny wise, pound foolish.”
Another worker called the disappearance of Slack the “proverbial final straw.”
“Oddly enough, it’s the Slack deactivation that has pushed me to finally start applying to get out,” they wrote.
For Twitter employees, Slack is more than a way to message colleagues: it’s also a store of institutional memory, preserved in documents that workers have had to rely on more and more since Musk purged thousands of employees since taking over.
“After everyone was gone, I had no one to ask questions when stuck,” an employee who stayed on past the first round of layoffs wrote in Blind. “I used to search for the error [messages] on Slack and got help 99 percent of the time.”
Slack remained down at the company on Thursday. While some employees communicated over email, others essentially took a second day off.
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I remember having ants in my pants last October waiting for Twitter to crash. Here we are and it just dawned on me a slight adjustment to this old chestnut works really well:
Some say the worldBird will end in fire
Some say in ice
From what I have tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire
But I if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And will suffice
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and this is the reason to hate slack. you had to interrupt other people to ask a question when you could have found the answer yourself, and that easily? 
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I found a good summary of some recent (2015) assholery at Popehat (He can be right about Star Citizen being a scam and still be an asshole - especially when he himself has a three decade history of over promising and under delivering).
He has been doing shit like this since '96 when he was largely responsible for one of, if not the, longest and largest flamewars in history - 7 years and tens of thousands of posts across Usenet, AOL and anywhere else he was criticized. He would show up where ever he or his game was criticized and start posting responses - many of them threatening critical reviews of Battlecruiser3000 (which was not a good game when released and never got to the point of being playable after patching) with lawsuits or making personal attacks on posters (pretty sure at some point I was told that I was too stupid to play his game).
He does claim to be a multi-millionaire and frequently states so when making threats of legal action to intimidate people into retracting criticism (I note that the old archive at werewolves dot org [don’t try to go there - redirects to some broken site on another domain that does/contains God knows what] about the stuff in the 90s is gone from the internet and scrubbed from the way back machine 
)
He also claims to have a PhD, though no one can find evidence of it and he refuses to say what it is in or where it’s from.
This too from his own blog:
"For the record:
I am neither pro- nor anti- GamerGate. As explained in this SPJAirplay update, I am, and always have been a neutral party because I tend not to take sides in issues related to gamers because I feel that doing so, goes against the very unified and eclectic culture that is gaming."
If he sees this post, well, it’s been nice knowing you
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I don’t think the Twitter employee was even talking about interrupting anyone.
While I have not used it, I am pretty sure that Slack keeps a history of all channels and allows users to search across them, which is what this person is talking about doing.
So by getting rid of slack Elon is actually forcing this person to go bother someone rather than looking it up themselves. Assuming anyone is left that has the information…
If so, then Elon has basically killed a huge repository of organizational knowledge, after firing the people that knew the stuff.
But, like I said I haven’t used it, and the quote is kinda awkwardly worded so I don’t know when “used to” exactly refers to, so I might be wrong
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I remember BC3K. It was a game so terrible I quit reviewing games for a magazine because they did not let me give it a bad score. I still did my review on a local radio station, where 14-something years later, they still let me say whatever I want 
And yes, Derek Smart is a class-A category self-absorbed pain. So no wonders he connects with space karen.
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In a lot of ways they have very similar online personas! Maybe Derek is jealous that Elon stole his bit (like he steals everything else)
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my interpretation was, three different times: now, completely blocked from work; the time since musk fired everyone and now: used slack’s search history to find answers; originally: used slack to ask new questions of people rather than using slack’s search history
ive use slack at some jobs, and it’s basically a corporate irc ( instant messaging with topic channels ), and it often becomes a sort of defacto documentation.
imo, it’s polite to search for prior conversations first before interrupting people to start new ones: but people tend to overvalue their own time and it’s easier to ask than search
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It isn’t clear to me whether the Twitter employee was searching conversations or documents. I took it to be the former latter, as I had an employer who pushed for people to start making documentation available through Slack after they started using it.
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someday i will work at a place where there’s a person who’s job it is to document and catalog. every tech company needs a librarian i think 
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Various places of a certain size have departments for this sort of thing. Institutional knowledge needs to be elevated past oral tradition. (And Slack is great, until it goes down. Boring wiki and version-controlled repos ftw.)
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ETA: I missed this earlier.
https://fedified.com/@DataDrivenMD/109923097847500651
https://fedified.com/@DataDrivenMD/109923273926165357
Nobody dedicated to it, just something we were expected to do when we weren’t responding to alarms, work orders, or the rest of the job. So, yeah, documentation was behind.
Another department had a wiki article which tried to explain our department. When I found it, that one was also quite out of date, but I’m pretty sure my access was read-only.
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CEO Elon Musk wants out of Tesla tweet jail. Lol, no, says SEC
Having been found not liable for securities fraud stemming from a 2018 tweet saying he had funding to take Tesla private, Elon Musk is trying yet again to get out of his “Twitter sitter” consent decree. America’s financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission, is having none of it.
[…]
The SEC didn’t mince words in its response [PDF] to Musk’s lawyers, saying “the verdict has no bearing” on the legitimacy of the consent decree, nor does it say anything “about the continuing public interest in a negotiated settlement term that does not preclude Musk from tweeting accurately about Tesla or other topics.”
Beyond that, the SEC claimed that Musk doesn’t have a leg to stand on, since he waived his right to challenge the consent agreement when he voluntarily agreed to it – twice.
[…]
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I know that a “Not Guilty” verdict in a criminal case does not shield you from civil cases stemming from it, so I am assuming that being found not liable in a civil case (especially the one that he won, which was specifically about harm to investors) has *nothing to do with anything here.
If you commit fraud and don’t make any money you still committed fraud and the SECs concern here is that he is making it difficult for investors to read the market by spreading false information that definitely violates regulations.
But he knows that. He’s just an entitled asshole
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Someone else came up with at least one of those.
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Oh my god…
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What.the.actual.fucking.fuck?
LMLAO
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If it’s not clear, that is the parody posted above it, pulled out so we can see it w/o clicking.
Speaking of which - Hey! Mastodon! Your embeds suck and it makes people less likely to follow them and want to join you! Do better!
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