Fuck Elon Musk (Part 1)

[KathyPartdeux]

THE MOST SALIENT LINES OF CODE

[ghostbloke]

@anon53189944

The other side is marginalized communities that were not originally on Mastodon. The fediverse does have its own culture and customs, and I’ve seen a fair amount of criticism about the newcomers not respecting the culture in place. Which is fair, it was built by the people there now. But some of that is at odds with the culture of these groups coming from twitter, and while they can build their own culture over time, whether within the fediverse itself or on their own instances (which takes resources many don’t have) the reaction has caused many to feel unwelcome.

At least some of it is privilege, rather than stated purpose of the instance.
https://twitter.com/GWillowWilson/status/1590820129444859904

[bluehenbear]

He probably just decided to fire everybody minus 1 person (himself) and just start hiring from scratch. He probably doesn’t even know who was fired or decided to take severance.

[mr_raccoon]

hasanabi

Which is one of the main things the right wing complained about with regards to twitter lol

[Nightflyer]

TheLastUprising - Real Climate Action Now.

Here it is in handy gif form:

[mr_raccoon]

The first good idea of his in a while

Right-Wing Flips Over Elon Musk Refusing to Reinstate Alex Jones

[gatto]

‘Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the “most salient lines of code” from Twitter engin…’

oh i know!

++i

without that one statement, code would never exit, and the whole process of retrieving data would break. there’s no more important piece of code out there(*)

is there any chance of severance if ive never worked at twitter? it would save me a lot of time.

( * and don’t tell me it’s ‘i++’, heathens. )

both statements add 1 to a number, and ‘i’ is a commonly used name for a temporary value. it’s a dumb joke. ignore me…

[anon52120741]

@KathyPartdeux

I do think a lot of the “woke backlash” in our elite periodicals comes precisely from that

It is that, but I think there is more to it than just that. It was eye opening to see the private comments by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried saying that all of the woke stuff is something that you say so people will like you. He can’t conceive of actually being a person that cares about others and when he acts like he does it is a thing that he does for selfish reasons.

This made me realize that for a lot of the…less empathetic…people out there they see “wokeness” as fake because they can’t imagine actual empathy - and they feel it’s a burden being placed on them.

ETA: note that I am not talking here about the political, wealthy class that is cynically driving the “war on wokeness” as a wedge, but about the people that they are trying to appeal to

[KathyPartdeux]

What else would a conman say? You’re either a grifter or a mark to him.

[KarlS]

@KathyPartdeux

But who’s going to play Elon?

It’s a shame that he is German, but other than that Lars Eidinger who plays totally-not-Fritz-Thyssen on Babylon Berlin would be perfect.

[mr_raccoon]

Bloomberg

[Brainspore]

@anon52120741

Sam Bankman-Fried saying that all of the woke stuff is something that you say so people will like you. He can’t conceive of actually being a person that cares about others and when he acts like he does it is a thing that he does for selfish reasons.

Even if we take SBF at his word on his support for social issues the whole concept behind “Effective Altruism” (i.e., the best way to help society is by allowing a handful of people to amass ridiculous levels of personal wealth so they can donate it to the causes they care about) is steeped in hubris.

It’s never been anything but a way to rationalize how the record-high wealth gap between the richest and poorest Americans is actually a good thing because that way we can have Rational Smart People™ come to the rescue instead of dealing with the bureaucracy that a more equitable distribution of wealth and power tends to bring.

[KathyPartdeux]

And we should wait to improve people’s situations until that guy gets rich enough. And only if he finds your kind worthy.

[jerwin]

[RickMycroft]

@Brainspore

but Reubens is still far too likable overall.

Mystery Men (5/10) Movie CLIP - Silent and Deadly (1999) HD

[sqlrob]

This line is more important:

}

Code doesn’t even work without it.

[chenille]

// Really the code that seems most salient to me tends to be comments
// They don’t do anything but it helps to read them first anyway

[catsidhe]

Take special note of the comment that says

/* I don't know why this works, but everything fails if you change anything in this block. */

[mr_raccoon]

Twitter loses payroll department, other financial employees as part of mass...

[KarlS]

Honestly I am surprised that it is still running.