The Internet Almanac

This looks like they are spray painted white, and then painted with contrast color. Very beginner Friendly

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The Atlantic discovers some humans have what is called ‘empathy’.

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It’s not like Uber has done anything incredibly shady before. But that’s all under the last ceo, right?

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The far-left lunatics of the Financial Times are calling for an election.

Seems like a reasonable request.

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And on that theme, from the Verge

These Elon/twitter articles (and others I’m seeing) are all sort of making the same mistake: assuming Elon even remotely cares about rational things. He doesn’t. The twitter buy is status and publicity for him. How he uses and runs it it will shift with his mood. The medium is the massage.

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The thing is, it really doesn’t matter why he bought it. Rational business decision, whim, ego trip, drug haze - makes no odds, the problems come with the purchase.

It might be that he’s prepared to burn down the whole $44Bn value - well, let’s not confuse the price he paid with the actual value of Twitter - but it’s not all his money, and various entities with deep pockets for litigation are going to be unhappy if he trashes their investment.

My guess is that he simply thinks he knows better how a social network can be run and followed his own belief. This worked for him in space flight and electric cars, not so much in tunnelling, and made him staggeringly rich, and he thinks the Midas touch will carry on working. Given that Tesla shares are way down and have further to go, given Musk is actively destroying their first mover advantage, and Gwyneth Shotwell is the person who made SpaceX into a viable company, I am more sceptical.

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Musk’s purchase of Twitter was clearly a mistake; I don’t just mean ‘it will go wrong for him’, because of course it will, I mean ‘he never meant to purchase Twitter, he just meant to throw his weight around, and the SEC got sick of him, and it was buy Twitter or catch an actual conviction’.

He’s a fucking idiot. The fact he’s actively malicious has to be factored in, but he’s a fucking idiot first.

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the infinite conversation
est reading time 2 minutes

Something doesn’t add up here

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Each word takes half the time the previous word took. Honestly, that first one-word minute is kind of slow.

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The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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The last days of Twitter are glorious.

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