Just don’t let him in the airlock in the first place.
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The plot of Alien was that Ripley knew not to, but the corporate guy did anyway. Seems appropriate. 
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Elon offers a million dollars (in Dogecoin. Because, I assume, he does not have any actual money) to anyone that can prove his family owned an emerald mine
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-offers-1-million-to-prove-him-wrong
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That’ll end well.
I think I blocked them from my phone newsfeed. It was all Elno fanclub articles.
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(Reuters reprint)
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Web traffic to Twitter’s ad portal, a website that lets customers set up and purchase ads on Twitter, declined 18.7% in March from the same time last year, said research firm Similarweb, which analyzes traffic to the ad-buying websites of social media platforms.
I’m surprised Musk allows that data out.
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(Another reprint on Yahoo)
“It’s a shame, because much of what he has tried to do over his career — even if some of it is still an aspiration — has been bold and inspirational, especially compared with most of the more anodyne techies for whom a better online dating service is the peak of innovation,” Swisher wrote. “But under Musk’s erratic rule, Twitter has become a nonstop grievance tantrum we must all endure, and he wastes far too much of his time fiddling on his toxic violin while it burns. What’s the opposite of progress? Elon Musk 2023.”
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That just makes me think that when his father (and he) talked about it in the past the entire operation was utterly fucking sus and they had some kind of hands off no tax money laundering arrangement to get rich.
@mr_raccoon I mean he’s hugely influential in the last year. He has influenced capital and advertising to flee social media. That’s a pretty big deal.
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guess now that their users can post their hate on twitter, it’s no longer a viable business. bye bye parler, can’t say you’ll be missed
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Now we just need Twitter to shut down, and I say that as someone who until Musky Wusky bought it, was completely addicted to it. I even met my 2 partners there, but now it’s just not worth the hate I get from being trans on there.
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By refocusing on the cloud and IT infrastructure space George Farmer has done an exceptional job at successfully leading Parlement into a critically important industry where it has already begun to excel.
Those are English words, but have no meaning when assembled.
Ah yes, that George Farmer! (I guess Rebekah Mercer unloaded her chunk?)
The grassroots nature of TPUK also falls apart as soon as you give it a closer look. The group is headed by George Farmer (who is also the fiancee of Candance Owens, another member of TPUSA). Farmer’s father is a millionaire Conservative Party donor who also financed his son’s initiation into the Bullingdon Club, an elite Oxford University pseudo-fraternity whose past members include former Prime Minister David Cameron and Conservative MP Boris Johnson.
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Oh God! There was one I saw yesterday from them that was a complete handjob about how brilliantly he handled the BBC interview…as opposed to a real article about how the BBC really kind of fucked up that interview. If I run across it again I will have to post it It’s…something
I hope they are getting a lot of ponies
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I have a few trumpy co-workers who think that Musk was brilliant in that interview. Especially when the interviewer “couldn’t come up with any examples of Twitter hate against LGBTQ people”.
Ugggggh.
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Well, it’s that important, why can’t they pay the fee to use API? /s
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The subscription feature was formerly known as Super Follows and it provided the exact same service. It officially launched all the way back in September 2021.
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By February 2022, Twitter took in a total of approximately $530,000 over the course of Super Follows existence…
Never heard about that one. It looks like even last July that was still being called a beta (Internet Archive). Eligibility also depended upon having 2FA enabled. This bit also seems unlikely, now.
If we detect that your account may be compromised, we will disable monetization features temporarily until your account is restored.
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Author Exclusions, as Twitter calls them, let advertisers choose as many as 1,000 handles that they want their ads kept away from, in addition to keywords and topics. “Brands need to consider the source and what a person stands for,” said Jason Lee, brand safety officer at Horizon Media, a leading US media agency.
“The irony, of course,” said another media buyer from a large agency, is “the No. 1 or No. 2 account that we’re going to look to avoid is the owner of the company.”
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