The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

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BowdonUK said:
The deposition was part of the court case.

If you go to the first link in my links post and scroll about half way down it shows the video.

He/Microsoft really thought they could block other browsers being installed on Windows.
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I remember it well (ish, been a while), just thought for a minute i'd forgotten he actually turned up in court. Not arguing that it wasn't naughty and stupid of Microsoft though, as it was, incredibly :)

The attention in the room moves to someone else for one minute -
dowie said:
So just to get this straight, there were complaints that I'd...
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dowie said:
So just to get this straight, there were complaints that I'd ignored some point re: whether Elon was a board member or not and a demand that I address it.

I addressed the point, some people were still in denial so I showed more evidence... then when it's clear I was right the complaint changed from me having ignored the point to me having focused too much on that point instead of some other dumb point.

Now the thread seems to be some nonsense about Bill Gates.
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Are you still on about that. No we're not coming into the hole with you, you made it, you sit in it.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Are you still on about that. No we're not coming into the hole with you, you made it, you sit in it.
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Eh? No, I'm commenting on the irony of the Bill Gates stuff rather than your inability to read and digest simple information or accept basic facts when they're presented to you.

imtoooldforthis said:

Reddit - Dive into anything

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Yup, Elon being a bit of a **** again, though to be fair that's not some protest over Ukraine AFAIK. Elon/SpaceX did do something rather valuable/practical re: their dontaion of equipment to Ukraine and did take on risk in doing so.
 
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dowie said:
Yup, Elon being a bit of a **** again, though to be fair that's not some protest over Ukraine AFAIK. Elon/SpaceX did do something rather valuable/practical re: their dontaion of equipment to Ukraine and did take on risk in doing so.
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It wasn't a donation, you keep getting confused.
 
Tony Edwards said:
The worst thing is this is the guy who wants to buy Twitter. This **** that keeps acting like a little child brat.
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I don't think it's the worst thing tbh... yes he's being a bit of a **** in that exchange and his/SpaceX's 8 figure donation of Starlink gear doesn't absolve him of a rather bad take re: Crimea and UN referendums but he's just thinking out loud on Twitter, he's not a politician and he's clearly supportive of Ukraine but he's looking for solutions, even if they're seemingly bad or unpopular at the moment.

If he ruins twitter's value then that's on him and the loss is his and that of his creditors, he's got a pretty good track record though and I doubt he's going to turn it into 4Chan overnight rather you'll probably see small iterative changes to moderation policy, increased monetisation and a push to add additional features and expand the scope of the app.
 
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dowie said:
...his/SpaceX's 8 figure donation of Starlink gear...
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Some were partly funded by the US government (https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...nk-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/) but no idea if the US has thrown in more cash since for terminals.
A few people are also at odds at the $80m Musk has quoted as the figures don't appear to stack up with the number of terminals sent, so who knows if that is true (https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-was-elon-musks-ukraine-starlink-funded-biden-white-house-1749103).

dowie said:
...but he's just thinking out loud on Twitter...
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Shear number of followers and fans means that his "thinking" on Twitter tends to have sway and physical effect, eg - shifting markets like Bitcoin etc, and that's one of the problems with Musk.
Although i'm not entirely sure why he is looking for "solutions" in issues that he has little control over, plenty of other billionaires are keeping out of it.
 
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visibleman said:
Some were partly funded by the US government (https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...nk-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/) but no idea if the US has thrown in more cash since for terminals.
A few people are also at odds at the $80m Musk has quoted as the figures don't appear to stack up with the number of terminals sent, so who knows if that is true (https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-was-elon-musks-ukraine-starlink-funded-biden-white-house-1749103).
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Well, Musk probably does... I'd presume the total costs including a few months of support, data etc.. add up to more than just the cost of the individual terminals. Regardless, it's an 8 figure donation that involved some risk and made his company a target.

I don't quite get the objection re: USAID funding. People on Twitter etc.. read that USAID funded *some* terminals and then make the mistake of assuming this means Elon/SpaceX didn't donate anything when in fact they donated even more. (Sort of like people mistaking announcements that he was due to be appointed to the Twitter board with an announcement that he was already on it! ;) )

That USAID donated just over 1300-ish terminals doesn't take away from the fact that Elon/SpaceX donated nearly 3700.

You can see his brief response to the Washington Post piece here:

 
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well the WaPo article did quote spacex “I don’t think the U.S. has given us any money to give terminals to the Ukraine.”

how much time do people spend following one another/him on twitter ... that was one good point Truss made deprecating twitter use, not sure she mentioned children & digital harms though.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Very true but this fool is going to own it soon and god knows how he is going to influence it and what the algorithm pushes considering how much of a man child he can be when it doesn't go his way.
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Everyone with blue ticks can influence twitter users. I think it's a dangerous platform.

I'm not on it. nor Facebook, nor Instagram, nor linkedin.
 
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