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What's Elon Musk up to today…
- Thread starter Mr T.
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well, there's this:
‘It’s given a voice to many’: chaos at Twitter sparks real fears for free speech in south-east Asia
Social media has been crucial to pro-democracy protests across the region, from Myanmar to the Milk Tea Alliance in Thailand and Hong Kong
btw, I've never had a twitter account, but it seems it can be useful to some
Twitter is (or has been) great. Love(d) it.
Musk is the classic rich guy that is (possibly) good at one thing, so automatically thinks he is good at everything. There are some great twitter threads on his history of bankruptcies and near bankruptcies.
Musk is the classic rich guy that is (possibly) good at one thing, so automatically thinks he is good at everything. There are some great twitter threads on his history of bankruptcies and near bankruptcies.
Inside the Twitter meltdown
Elon is speaking. VPs are resigning. Is bankruptcy next?
www.platformer.news
For all the extra capabilities social media has given society. Overall I still see it as a net negative.
Who thought it a good idea to put every village idiot in the world within instant contact of every other village idiot in the world, is what always comes to my mind.
Deliberately never had Twitter, or Instagram. Got Linkedin through peer pressure at work, only to never login. Facebook I've used, but recently deactivated.
South Park has some brilliant material satirising the social media phenomenon in a couple of episodes.
Skank Hunt - Wikipedia
Let Go, Let Gov - Wikipedia
You’re not forced to engage with the village idiots though.For all the extra capabilities social media has given society. Overall I still see it as a net negative.
Who thought it a good idea to put every village idiot in the world within instant contact of every other village idiot in the world, is what always comes to my mind.
Deliberately never had Twitter, or Instagram. Got Linkedin through peer pressure at work, only to never login. Facebook I've used, but recently deactivated.
South Park has some brilliant material satirising the social media phenomenon in a couple of episodes.
Skank Hunt - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Let Go, Let Gov - Wikipedia
I only have FB. Private account, 30-40 Facebook friends, don’t follow any “celebrities” or news sites etc.
Good way to keep in touch with extended family overseas.
I’m not forced to jump into the cesspool of fake news, influencers, morons on footy fan sites.
Although I log in very rarely these days as the unwanted ads seem to have increased a lot
Social media has it uses if you use it / set it up correctly
Net negative for overall society is what I meant. Hence the effect of collective social neurosis driven partly by every village idiot being within instant contact with every other village idiot.
I particularly liked Matt Stone and Trey Parker's satirisation of Twitter as, "Shitter."
I think he's in full panic mode upon the realisation that he paid waay too much money for something that's not really worth anything without users.
44 billion dollars for software that's available elsewhere is absolute madness.
All his "free speech" bluster is melting away as he realises users and advertisers don't want a site where they can be abused with impunity.
Right now it's a case of how quick can he lose the 44B.
Musk has already made billions out of Twitter. I will now accept Bitcoin for my vehicles. Price goes up. I will now accept Dodgecoin for my vehicles price goes up. This person is a disgrace with zero ethics and has made billions out of his followers all over the world.
So for me I’m reaching for the popcorn.
China literally has a Tik tok for itself which shows pieces on science, education, self improvement and propaganda and a different one for the rest of the world which makes it dumb. Stackman just one more victim.
Twitter massively influences which stories mainstream news media runs which drives a massive political race to the bottom of the brain cell to monopolise your attention.
Unfortunately as Kane Cornes demonstrates - outrage drives clicks and attention. Plenty written about him on PRE.
Without massive regulation (don’t think we are getting state controlled content moderation) social media will continue to do mass harm.
As usual, quality satire from Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Sums up the Social Media phenomenon so concisely.
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