A long but interesting newsletter article about all the ways Musk is currently burning money with Twitter:
https://wheresyoured.at/p/elons-gordian-knot
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 20:12 (nine months ago) link
i like that guy on bsky/twitter, but tbh i find his long form writing unreadable
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 20:38 (nine months ago) link
still kinda weird to me that as a weird twitter OG he went on to become some sort of internet investigative reporter? and presumably has a profitable substack?
― é¾, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:14 (nine months ago) link
lol I don't know him outside of seeing his name on Twitter, I assumed he was a The Nation columnist I'd never heard of based on the people who quoted/retweeted him.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:21 (nine months ago) link
he owns a small marketing agency iirc
― lagān, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:35 (nine months ago) link
he certainly doesnāt have an editor
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:36 (nine months ago) link
i think he does have an editor lol
― lagān, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:36 (nine months ago) link
idk why those facts about the poster in question are available to me but your welcome
― lagān, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 00:52 (nine months ago) link
Duh, youāre the editor.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:00 (nine months ago) link
oh siht
― lagān, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:04 (nine months ago) link
āā¦youāve *always* been the editor.ā
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:06 (nine months ago) link
I . . . corrected them.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:11 (nine months ago) link
https://defector.com/looking-good-elon-feeling-good-trashcan-man?fbclid=IwAR1iPE7Zeoq9qRDdbzo06y_xDGGHyxZu61BZV2rFoycJO7pHdFoS_uJnDlM
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:16 (nine months ago) link
https://i.insider.com/656a5a5d58e7c0c29a28f706?width=2000&format=jpeg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 01:18 (nine months ago) link
IwAR1iPE7Zeoq9qRDdbzo06y_xDGGHyxZu61BZV2rFoycJO7pHdFoS_uJnDlMnew Musk offspring just dropped
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 02:48 (nine months ago) link
Pretty sure that's his twitter password.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 03:01 (nine months ago) link
have we heard anything about his kids through all of this? some of them are teenagers now, they gotta be feeling nothing but embarrassment
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 03:07 (nine months ago) link
Why, yes.
Elon Musk: Billionaire's daughter cuts ties with her father
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61880709
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 03:10 (nine months ago) link
Are we to understand that no CEO is calling for Musk to be removed from the Twitter board, because that would be a better top story rn than his deranged attacks on Iger who is also bad.
― nashwan, Friday, 8 December 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
The CEO has taken some pretty firm public positions this week tbf
Welcome to the world Grok ā the ultimate ride or die.— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 7, 2023
Over 40 million people per day use X in Japan ā today Iām one of them!! pic.twitter.com/eRGRZq0LxN— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 5, 2023
.@RockstarGames ā gaming is one of our most popular topics. Drop that trailer here ā give the people on @X what they want!! https://t.co/sU3hHk9pgQ— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 5, 2023
And itās not done yet- see you for the bowl games! Oh andā¦ā¦really?? GO NOLES! https://t.co/GYxDO8FiJ3— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 4, 2023
People in Japan spend over 1.5 billion minutes on X each day. The most popular topic? Gaming š®— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) December 4, 2023
Today @elonmusk gave a wide ranging and candid interview at @dealbook 2023. He also offered an apology, an explanation and an explicit point of view about our position. X is enabling an information independence that's uncomfortable for some people. We're a platform that allowsā¦ https://t.co/PSmSKRkJSq— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 30, 2023
Video views for the @NBA are up +39% year over year on the platform. It all happens on X.— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023
Now this is how @X celebrates Small Business Saturday! ššŖ https://t.co/jLi2tVpNW9— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023
Users like posts a *million times a minute*. Thatās a lotta loveāand it all happens on X.— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) November 25, 2023
― bae (sic), Friday, 8 December 2023 16:30 (nine months ago) link
If I had that job, I would be making those tweets, but I would be sobbing in self-loathing anguish every time I hit send
― the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 8 December 2023 17:48 (nine months ago) link
Frantically trying to make "It all happens on X!" into the next "Things go better with Coke!" when your entire marketing budget is your own CEO salary must be exhausting.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:19 (nine months ago) link
I heard it on the X
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:21 (nine months ago) link
That's a lotta love--and it all happens on X (NSFW)
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 8 December 2023 18:29 (nine months ago) link
ai bots, crypto scammers, nazis, it all happens on x
― lagān, Friday, 8 December 2023 18:59 (nine months ago) link
I would be sobbing in self-loathing anguish every time I hit send
For that job, it helps to have an inability to feel any semblance of emotion, especially empathy
― octobeard, Friday, 8 December 2023 19:37 (nine months ago) link
tfw grok is woke:
https://i.imgur.com/fD9zfU8.png
― mark s, Saturday, 9 December 2023 13:40 (nine months ago) link
sir, weve lost grok
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 14:58 (nine months ago) link
the woke has broken containment
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lp2rekq4quhdq5fe2bkxigns/bafkreicwitjfbx7sqtha7mycdoifp4z2wbom5wshmwaons5436onfhbmdu@jpeg
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:18 (nine months ago) link
its pretty funny they think that 1 this computer program is on the verge of sentience 2 it has betrayed them
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:24 (nine months ago) link
i like how when they try to reason with it its just all im a computer i have no idea what any of this means, and theyre like tragically the intelligent machine has gone woke
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:52 (nine months ago) link
Good bit on the lameness of Grokās alleged humor
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/8/23992489/xai-musk-grok-humor-chatbot
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:54 (nine months ago) link
lol iirc this was the genius level question that inspired building grok in the first place
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:izpllsvcyml7mcwanxfzdgkf/bafkreigl2anxnw6eoukaufqzn4kueckjwtml7sufaou4zrl3g33sfx4ot4@jpeg
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:09 (nine months ago) link
i wonder what they used to build this thing, maybe some open source stuff that already had the woke built in, or maybe even elon realized that making a racist chatbot just isnt going to go over well
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:11 (nine months ago) link
wonder if that response is hardcoded
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:14 (nine months ago) link
an AI that tortures everyone who did not directly contribute to the advancement of this joke: woko's basilisk
― mark s, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:16 (nine months ago) link
ahh lol theyre just using chatgpt and training the voice a lil
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kyhug2d25ipcy4rscu3hdlhz/bafkreiaqj4berwsj75c5no4k2q47truu4gqtxn755teadzhost5x7osbxe@jpeg
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:17 (nine months ago) link
that makes a lot of sense as they got this thing off the ground real fast
― lagān, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:18 (nine months ago) link
time to deploy the jemblificator
― mark s, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:18 (nine months ago) link
Yaccarino make a post without using an exclamation point challenge
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:25 (nine months ago) link
funnily enough I think asking an AI bot to keep answering that question will actually make it dig in deeper, it's not going to change it's answer
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:48 (nine months ago) link
It's probably finetuned on one of the many open source datasets out there for assistants, most of which get their data from GPT-4 outputs. You see it happen a lot on smaller OSS models too.
― carson dial, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:55 (nine months ago) link
interesting
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GA6X9iJaoAA0TOh?format=png&name=900x900
― lagān, Sunday, 10 December 2023 15:54 (nine months ago) link
lol
Musk is going to kill Grok before the year is done pic.twitter.com/FUyBht3xnT— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) December 9, 2023
― groovypanda, Sunday, 10 December 2023 17:11 (nine months ago) link
Musk is hosting a "Spaces" chat with a group including Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, Vivek Ramaswamy, Matt Gaetz, and Jack Posobiec. Whee.
This will bring the advertisers back. pic.twitter.com/NbUJreuyeG— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 10, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 December 2023 21:17 (nine months ago) link
jfc
― lagān, Sunday, 10 December 2023 22:15 (nine months ago) link
The first virtual space to actually produce fumes.
― nashwan, Sunday, 10 December 2023 22:33 (nine months ago) link
The Travelling Will-Roofies
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 11 December 2023 02:24 (nine months ago) link
Scandinavian labour unions cucking foreign Capitalists one solidarity strike at a time. 1) Postal service says fuck off in solidarity with auto industry strikes2) Pension fund pulls investment in solidarity3) Workers from different Swedish industries, Denmark's largest tradeā¦ pic.twitter.com/iC5LOzLnaM— Yugopnik šµšø (@yugopnik) December 11, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 December 2023 15:54 (nine months ago) link
its funny that its all over a couple hundred machinists who he couldve easily just given what they wanted
― lagān, Monday, 11 December 2023 15:59 (nine months ago) link