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But Musk is trashing his own PR machine, you say? Why would he do that?
Because it's his to destroy. Does that hurt him, in the end? Yes. But the ego threat it represents when independent is too much for him to cope with. And he is ultimately insulated from any material harms -- he's still rich, and now you have no Twitter.
The billionaires have to live on earth too, you say? They would rather destroy it for everyone else rather than cede control, even to people better qualified or equipped.
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@hu_logic@mastodon.social Worse, the system is currently still running because of those engineers and he is slapping himself on the back for it not failing outright when they left... as if they were literally running on little hamster wheels to route the packets themselves or something. Idk, the guy is a deeply stupid grifter.
I'm mad about him destroying a community and some cool tech because he is so deeply insecure.
A lot of us screamed this for a decade+, and now it's too late.
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@hu_logic@mastodon.social jfc somewhere, someone's carefully designed and rehearsed DR plan* just quietly went into effect and failed over successfully and he doesn't even realize what happened. 🤦
*Assuming it isn't blue/green or continual deployment bouncing between locations on every push already.
@nobodyzhome@toad.social @rodhilton@mastodon.social
So I, uh, am sorry for my absence. I realized I'd dropped off the face of the world when a bunch of lovely people reached out for proof of life. I realized I should say something, lest people think I fell down our cliff like some heroine in a gothic novel.
I deleted social media(s), and kind of ... stopped. It is nice?! Isolating, but good. Weird. After decades being Very Online I find I'm really enjoying being Less Online. So.
I'll be back, eventually... But for now: yep, still alive.
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@hu_logic@mastodon.social none of this will matter soon anyway because he is definitely not paying his bills -- either on-prem or cloud. Can't fail over if there's nowhere to fail over to! *clever-temple-tap.jpg*
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@nobodyzhome@toad.social It's a distributed systems design interview question, meant to be solved at a high level, in the abstract. I think he literally thinks the implementation is therefore that easy.... 😂🤷 @hu_logic@mastodon.social @rodhilton@mastodon.social
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@MGoCoder@mstdn.social I mean, where would he have? For real making cars is all low-latency on-prem automation and MechEng, a lot of factories are deeply bad at BI data and observability, even newer ones. Same with rocketry.
He also hasn't had people at Twitter whose job it was to explain this shit to him and steer him away from the worst ideas (or just ignore him/lie to him and do what should be done despite him), like in his other companies.
@hu_logic@mastodon.social @nparikh@federate.social @nobodyzhome@toad.social @rodhilton@mastodon.social
I can tell that Elon Musk, Duke of the Manchildren and Ghost of Terrible Product Decisions has done something hilarious again because a bunch of my year-old toots about his incompetence are getting fav'd.
What was it this time? Is he requiring implantable trackers in your brain to tweet (sorry, uh, "X") with? Has he implemented Free Speech Filters that delete users who criticize him? Or is it just the usual enshittificafion terribleness?
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@JoePajak@toot.community finally a variant name that feels apropos, a big FU to this whole situation indeed
@kelidanovus@hachyderm.io my favourite wtf story is an API that used "behavior" and I, a Canadian, spelled it "behaviour." It was totally invisible to my eyes as wrong and spellcheck in my IDE was set to 🇨🇦 too
Three hours later...
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@glowrocks@mastodon.social I'm sure that's part of it. Another part might be "affects me l doesn't affect me." A lot of resistance to the pandemic is kneejerk contratianism, so if it doesn't hurt them then it doesn't matter. @k_theory@toot.community
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@cloudhopper@mastodon.social this is delightful!! I'm hesitant to RT this because apparently there are very diligent wikipedia editors who hate fun who would immediately rules-lawyer this small joy out of the world. Sigh.
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@Tedspence@indieweb.social This one, and that scene from 30 Rock. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5QRlnqPTV6g
30 Rock - Ridiculous Gets His Nose Stolen By Kenneth
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@Sheril every time I see handwringing about STEM pipeline and how women "just aren't interested in science or they'd have been there by now" I get infuriated all over again. Just because you didn't see us doesn't mean we weren't there.
@therobburgessshow@newsie.social my guess is they are all just shitposting IRL
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@Beiz@mastodon.social We came so close to society realizing that it could organize itself around more mixed-density small, walkable hubs and save the roads for mass transpo, trades, and shipping and I--
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@seldo@alpaca.gold --ok actually bad analogy, it's more like the Rosetta Stone than the Holy Grail.
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@adamhotep@infosec.exchange if this be my immortalization on the internet, I'm glad no noses were harmed in its making 😂
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@theorytoe Organizing as in unionizing, not as in "getting everyone set up to work remote."
@josh
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@trisweb I have two reactions to this:
- I wish orgs had been more upfront about this fact, but ofc why would they want to be? No incentive not to greenwash
- Wellll actually... 5% of an enormous number is still a pretty big number.
@peachfront@toot.community Or maybe not? The US Right has yanked the Overton window over and over by proposing appalling things and then said "j/k let's compromise on something slightly less heinous!!" and somehow get seen as being reasonable and open to bipartisanship. Why NOT get everyone pissed off that the Left is coming for their guns and then propose a sane compromise that makes that look moderate?
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@mctowelie@mastodon.social This is not a state of things that we have to accept as a fait accompli. Billionaires are a policy failure.
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@ministerofimpediments@mastodon.social All I really took away from your toot was "if they are shooting" which, uh @Popehat@mastodon.social