[News] The Internet Was a Mistake

A thread for updates on the various ways the internet is destroying everything and the undying hellsites of social media. Let's all laugh at the abyss.

Is that what they use mud rooms for now?

I leave mine in the fridge.

hey if some stranger wants to use my phone or laptop camera to see me naked, that’s my gift to them.

Mixolyde wrote:

I leave mine in the fridge.

Wow, you must have a gigantic refrigerator to fit a mud room in it!

Ranger Rick wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

I leave mine in the fridge.

Wow, you must have a gigantic refrigerator to fit a mud room in it!

Of course not! That's just where I keep my mud so it stays fresh for an extra week.

ruhk wrote:

hey if some stranger wants to use my phone or laptop camera to see me naked, that’s my gift to curse upon them.

Agree, but made a change to reflect my personal sentiment.

He's only looking for a figurehead, not an actual replacement. He'll still be the one making the decisions, he'll just have someone else be the one announcing them.

What clown would actually demean themselves to be a mouthpiece for all of Elmo’s stupid ideas and decisions.

TheGameguru wrote:

What clown would actually demean themselves to be a mouthpiece for all of Elmo’s stupid ideas and decisions.

I think the list is so long it could be seen from space.

Heck start with the entire trump administration (including trump himself), then MAGA asshats (Greene, Gaetz, Boebert) etc, then follow up with every white boy who feels the world is against him.

Yeah, you wanna see the kind of people who are likely in line to replace him, check the people he's replying to on Twitter.

It'll be some VC crypto dude, not unlike the one who apparently called him "our philosopher King" on a spaces recently.

TheGameguru wrote:

What clown would actually demean themselves to be a mouthpiece for all of Elmo’s stupid ideas and decisions.

*shrug*

if Elon wants to pay a few million a year for someone to stand up in public and say easily disprovable lies out loud, my Steam account is in my signature, he can PM me there.

My understanding is that he doesn’t pay very well though. He’s one of those dudes that thinks he can do everything so he never wants to pay for quality people.

Get a cushy salary and spend six months or a year playing go-between conveying Musk's batsh*t crazy proclamations to the poor saps who have to try to implement them, then throwing them under the bus when explaining to him why it didn't happen, until you're not enough of a buffer between reality and his ego and he fires you?

I'm sure there are plenty of people who would do that. And if they're smart they'll make sure as little of their compensation as possible is in Twitter stock.

Edit: Multi-hauser'd!

Prederick wrote:

Yeah, you wanna see the kind of people who are likely in line to replace him, check the people he's replying to on Twitter.

It'll be some VC crypto dude, not unlike the one who apparently called him "our philosopher King" on a spaces recently.

True. Didn’t think of some Crypto Bro. That would be for sure someone that would demean themselves.

He could even pay them in doge coin

I love the idea of, "Come run my company. I'll be a direct report to you with day-to-day responsibility for two of our major company functions. I'm still majority owner. I will never undermine you and you will have complete autonomy to steer the ship."

Business. Genius.

“Come run my company, if I see a post making fun of me go viral I’m going to wake you up at 3am and keep calling every 5 minutes until it’s taken down and the person is banned.”

ruhk wrote:

“Come run my company, if I see a post making fun of me go viral I’m going to wake you up at 3am and keep calling every 5 minutes until it’s taken down and the person is banned.”

Which do you think would be more work?

Option A.) Actually policing Twitter so that no one can make fun of Beloved Leader the way Musk has been trying to, or,

Option B.) Create a dummy Twitter that only Musk sees, which is filtered through an intern on about a five-minute time delay, manually forwarding every tweet from everyone Musk follows from real!Twitter to dummy!Twitter, so that anything critical of him can be censored and he thinks everyone loves him?

'Cause gaslighting one Twitter user sounds a lot more cost-effective than thought-policing the other ~240 million.

Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point

Whether Mastodon stays a nice, utopian “early Twitter” or becomes a ubiquitous, messy social network is yet to be seen. But it’s growing in its potential to replicate some of what Twitter does, with politicians, celebrities, and journalists signing up. Twitter profiles now often bear Mastodon usernames, as social groups make the move to the other app. But there’s a schism: Some new users want Mastodon to be Twitter, and some Mastodon users are there because they’re over Twitter.

And with that growing number of users comes more responsibility—not just for Mastodon itself, but for volunteer administrators, whose hobbies running servers have become second jobs.

“There are a lot of people who really don’t realize what they’re getting themselves into,” says Corey Silverstein, an attorney who specializes in internet law. “If you’re running these [instances], you have to run it like you’re the owner of Twitter. What people don’t understand is how complicated it is to run a platform like this and how expensive it is.”

Because Mastodon is decentralized, it relies on various server administrators instead of one central hub to stay online. These admins aren’t just glorified users; they become more like internet service providers themselves, says Silverstein, and thereby responsible for keeping their servers compliant with copyright and privacy laws. If they fail, they could be on the hook for lawsuits. And they must follow complex legal frameworks around the world.

It'll be hilarious if Musk hires Jason Calacannis as CEO. That idiot would certainly do anything Musk tells him to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVDU...

Recording of his recent appearance on Spaces.

The man has no idea how a modern global technology business works.
He has no idea what advertisers expect in 2022 from a platform and tells someone who is patiently explaining this to him to shut up.
"You add 1 thing and 17 other things break" - Welcome to Software Engineering Elon.

Ugh!!

Geohot resigns from Twitter

George Hotz, known for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone and jailbreaking the PS3, both under his hacker alias “geohot,” has resigned from his Twitter internship, he announced Tuesday evening on Twitter.

“Appreciate the opportunity, but didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there,” he wrote. He also said it was “sad” to see his GitHub “withering.”

He was there a month.

Prederick wrote:

Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point

“There are a lot of people who really don’t realize what they’re getting themselves into,” says Corey Silverstein, an attorney who specializes in internet law. “If you’re running these [instances], you have to run it like you’re the owner of Twitter.”

Please don't run anything like the owner of Twitter.

hbi2k wrote:
ruhk wrote:

“Come run my company, if I see a post making fun of me go viral I’m going to wake you up at 3am and keep calling every 5 minutes until it’s taken down and the person is banned.”

Which do you think would be more work?

Option A.) Actually policing Twitter so that no one can make fun of Beloved Leader the way Musk has been trying to, or,

Option B.) Create a dummy Twitter that only Musk sees, which is filtered through an intern on about a five-minute time delay, manually forwarding every tweet from everyone Musk follows from real!Twitter to dummy!Twitter, so that anything critical of him can be censored and he thinks everyone loves him?

'Cause gaslighting one Twitter user sounds a lot more cost-effective than thought-policing the other ~240 million.

This sort of sounds like what I hear goes on at SpaceX. The staff has learned how to distract Musk with trivial sh*t so they can get their work done.

Watching Elon these days has just become awfully grim.

the entire point of the space was people who love tesla all but begging him to return his focus to the company that actually makes him his money instead of spending 18 hours a day replying ‘interesting’ to right wing conspiracies

and he just wouldn’t budge, he all but admitted that going back to tesla would be too much hard work and he simply prefers tweeting all day and ‘directing’ efforts at twitter

when he started ‘explaining’ the pronoun thing was just insane, not even he knows why he hates pronouns

and the conclusion of this video if it’s between tesla’s stock price or tweeting about pronouns he would rather keep tweeting about pronouns

It does seem insane, but honestly, it makes sense if you take him at his word and accept that he genuinely, honestly believes that the "Woke Mind Virus" is a civilizational threat.

Why he thinks that I think we've already discussed.

I listened to that clip of his rambling, and I think saying that not even he knows why he hates pronouns is an incredibly generous read of it. It sounded to me he was restraining himself from publicly stating the real reason because he knows it won't go over well for him.

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Emad Mostaque, the hedge fund boss behind OpenAI.

I'm just stunned at how willfully he misunderstands the critique being made, and how he's revealing he fundamentally does not understand art.

By this logic, Jacob Collier has created a privileged monopoly on playing the piano, Tony Hawk is gatekeeping skateboarding and Mariah Carey is an elite preventing the masses from singing.

EDIT: The Collier/Carey part, I think is best because it's absolutely going to be the argument RE: AI generated music. Someone is genuinely going to argue that, like, Elton John and Thundercat are "skill segregationists" gatekeeping making music when the inevitable lawsuit happens.

EDIT v2: Also, let us not ignore how fantastic "skill segregation" is as a phrase. Mostly because these dudes absolutely think of themselves as equivalent to the Little Rock Nine.

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I'd ask someone to put "AI ARTISTS" on Elizabeth Eckford and "TRADITIONAL ARTISTS" on the crowd, but they'd unironically start passing it around as if they had made a smart point.

Bruce wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVDU...

Recording of his recent appearance on Spaces.

The man has no idea how a modern global technology business works.
He has no idea what advertisers expect in 2022 from a platform and tells someone who is patiently explaining this to him to shut up.
"You add 1 thing and 17 other things break" - Welcome to Software Engineering Elon.

Ugh!!

Here's a write-up summarizing one of the funnier parts.

Yahoo News story

So that's it. The Tesla execs found the ultimate distraction to keep Elon out of their hair so they can do their jobs.
Very clever aside from the society destroying implications