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Elon & Twitter
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If it’s about some deck your neighbor put up by himself with no permits, no.
If someone says “I am no engineer but the Burj Dubai is too tall, it’s an affront to Moses who said do not build more that six cubits” yes.
Norbert
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Ideally an engineer would have enough time to look at that (and the employer enough money to pay them for doing so), but especially with a structure like that of Twitter, it will quickly lead to information overload. Twitter lacks a meaningful filter for information, especially for such a purpose.
You have that in open source software projects and their bug reporting, for example, but this is possible due to the specific niche character of specific motivation, and even so is often troubled by the amount of invalid, unspecific or repetitive reports.
A problem with Twitter is the tendency to throw everything in one big pot (unless you just follow specific persons), and to encourage spur of the moment postings. On the other hand, that may also be some of its attraction for those who like that. But it appears to affect the quality of opinion forming especially regarding emotional political content. Some of it resulting in valid (or at least interesting) questions, but these questions are not asked in a way that those who could answer them would have the time and money to answer them (except maybe select few), especially given the risk of mentioning details that are then misinterpreted, misquoted and misrepresented, and then having to correct that (or not be able to do so).
There would have to be an intermediate or filter, and that is (or has been) the media. But in so far as the media is now "fake news", there is no substitute either, other than small echo chamber outlets who at some point give up on significant fact checking and start pushing their "common sense" which is specific to their small audience under the pressure of making an interesting statement that gets heard, sometimes like their audience has hearing problems (which may be the case).
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JRP3
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I will say that there can be value with informed lay people asking legitimate questions and challenging the status quo, and even at times from uninformed people thinking outside of the box they don't know exists. The problem is wading through all the noise to find actual value.
Especially when there is a strong current of “why should I listen to someone who has spent their entire technical career working on this when I heard from my mom’s friend / random dude with an internet show / my dogwalker’s assistant that the government is hiding the TRUTH they don't want you to see.”
Just saw this news...yes, I am not keeping up.>>
keeping our M3..dumping Musk.
Elon Musk asks to 'free' QAnon Shaman of Jan. 6 Capitol riot
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/elon-musk-asks-free-qanon-shaman-jan-6keeping our M3..dumping Musk.
I had not heard this about Twitter's operational performance.
Is this just a made up a story to hit on Elon, or has Twitter's performance really gotten worse ? Article claims this is the 6th major outage in 2023 versus 9 all of 2022.
Is this just a made up a story to hit on Elon, or has Twitter's performance really gotten worse ? Article claims this is the 6th major outage in 2023 versus 9 all of 2022.
also in Yahoo....https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-called-release-qanon-102630776.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANBLDBbLf29B9KTnWjhIa6fKotdlxPnputBhiYWbR3fz4-ffj61oTfjpASsFTtkr2c64KL06X7WOOLYof2YQrMdaO5Nce_05D9RtTDEGWx8P4BIFVF7he50IfHhxrzmfIDKasySvqpwTzcKlI5fwoPlBgOGEZdeEaGEAq0caNF0W
and Forbes....https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/03/11/elon-musk-joins-right-wing-support-for-qanon-shaman-claiming-jan-6-footage-misleading/?sh=3b8e9e029c79
true?
and Forbes....https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/03/11/elon-musk-joins-right-wing-support-for-qanon-shaman-claiming-jan-6-footage-misleading/?sh=3b8e9e029c79
true?
TSLA is the only stock on my watchlist still negative. Maybe it hs to do with Elon saying he would be open to buying another failing company. Makes sense since the Twitter deal has gone so well.
Yes, from what I’ve heard from local friends who previously worked there, they are in a break fix operational mode and not a pre-emptive get ahead of a problem operational mode. They’ve also moved down two tiers with S3, so as demand spikes they don’t have the same elasticity of cloud compute that they once had.
Very concerning. If Elon were truly a man of conviction then he would offer to take the Shaman's place in jail.
And everyone thinks they can do that wading. But they can’t/don’t and just cherry-pick whatever they see that reinforces their tribal views.
Then they tend to get belligerent and ever-less-civil about it.
Elon Musk says he's 'open to the idea' of buying Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse — but is he really serious? Here are 3 other ways to bet alongside the billionaire
Elon's juiciest Silicon Valley opportunity yet?
Wow that man sure knows how to set cash on fire.
philw1776
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How many tens of billions or millions are you worth? How many tens of thousands of jobs that feed families have you created, Internet Critic?Elon Musk says he's 'open to the idea' of buying Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse — but is he really serious? Here are 3 other ways to bet alongside the billionaire
Elon's juiciest Silicon Valley opportunity yet?finance.yahoo.com
Wow that man sure knows how to set cash on fire.
Well, statistically my net worth is almost certainly much greater than yours. So by your logic I reject your criticism.
Good thread on the role social media, including twitter, played in SVB's downfall. Just another reason why control of twitter is strategically important.
I use twitter pretty much daily since 2020, haven't seen any sign that its performance is getting worse. In fact after Musk took over they fixed a bug that's preventing me from using official twitter app on my iPad, very help since I hate 3rd party twitter apps.
Right, he's so good at setting cash on fire that he's currently 2nd richest man on Earth...Elon Musk says he's 'open to the idea' of buying Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse — but is he really serious? Here are 3 other ways to bet alongside the billionaire
Elon's juiciest Silicon Valley opportunity yet?
Wow that man sure knows how to set cash on fire.
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