I think it's important not to belittle what Elon is doing to Twitter and the damage he's causing to people and their livelihoods. It isn't seperate from the labor crisis sweeping this country, driven by oligarchs with contempt for working folk and a desire to exploit them.
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The great futurist and innovator who hates the future and the plebs who live there.
Silicon Valley's very own Prigozhin
He is destroying the strength in numbers aspect that twitter provided for many marginalised people.
For those of us who are housebound for whatever reason (knowing full & damned well how privileged we are to have a house) it provided both social contacts & professional networking.
He’s a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of two mockeries of a sham
They don’t necessarily have the benefit of some new, rarefied community to hang out in.
Analogous to people thinking trump made the country suddenly racist. Nah, you were just privileged enough to not notice it before.
I just hope this app doesn’t start censoring SWers unnecessarily. I like the customizable filter options, and that should be enough.
people having free, reliable, non-manipulated sources of instantly accessible information are a threat to billionaire oligarchs.
he’d prefer we believe his cars are safe, desirable status symbols, for instance.
if tanking twitter was deliberate (it arguably could be read that way so far) it’s probably part of a larger agenda that isnt clear yet.
there were reports he was ‘encouraged’ by Peter Thiel to buy it, which could mean anything.
rich folks gonna monetise stuff 🤷🏼♂️
but people constantly screenshot his tweets in my feed anyway.
his infantile crap is unavoidable.
Please include the National emergency needs to find a way to reach a lot of people.
Qlona abasically destroyed Government capacity to instantly tell people what is going on and to what need to do.
(I refuse to write his name)