Twitter, or heX as I call it, is a digital caste system.
Regarding Elon’s engineering capability, he sits on the shoulders of technically capable people. He made his money from our tax dollars which lead to his stock wealth. Engineers at Tesla remarked that they were uncertain how to handle the large steel coils in their production environments, it was a challenge they needed to solve. Well the retarded Big 3 and other auto manufacturers have know that “secret” for decades.
We want a Tony Stark, Elon has been made into a Tony Stark. Yeah, snatching a rocket landing in air is a really cool achievement, but when the leader of Free Speech fumbles with basic concepts you have to ask questions. When the world’s smartest man has fallen for the CO2 nonsense, when it’s less than 1% of the atmosphere, demonstrates how little he understands of science, but how much he understands manipulation.
Jan 2024 he released a video about the need for a carbon tax, sounded exactly like John Kerry. MAGA ignored that. In fact, many hadn’t seen that on his timeline. Talking to people about it on Spaces, you got peeping critics.
Yes, he was pivotal to Trump winning, but will Trump keep his agenda if you have such an ego maniac on the inside?
Twitter and X always felt like a digital psych ward to me and I could never get into it. It’s basically a pecking order of shit posters and who can get the most retweeted “zinger” of a safe, low hanging fruit “edgy” partisan talking point. I feel dumber after I look at it.
I appreciate this article & there’s something I wish people would understand about all of these so-called leaders but especially Elon Musk:
First off he is a fraud and didn’t actually invent anything. Second, he was on the roster of the world economic forum’s Young global leaders beginning in 2008. Third, he has spoken publicly about putting chips into people’s brains and has mentioned doing it for the purpose of both extracting and implanting data (thoughts) and has been doing this for nearly a decade.
The other thing is, the CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, was quoted in 2023 saying “freedom of speech does not equal freedom of reach”.
As soon as any platform partners with big money it is no longer a free speech platform. No tech is immune from exploitation, it was designed for it.
I think Substacks days are numbered as well (given their recent partnership announcement). We have to start using the tools of technology as tools to organize and meet in real life while we still have the ability. I’ll message you about this bc this comment is too long lol
Ya think? Being a super billionaire allows you to do anything without a shred of responsibility, accountability or morality. Just ask the retarded gates fellow.
Unfortunately, you are correct. I have twice given it my best go. Interestingly the aesthetic bedrock of Western Civilization is life drawing, drawings of the nude--its automatically flagged (without my being aware of it, it appears from my end as being normal). I ran a test for X ban, and got back that my account does not exist in the public domain. A few people tried it without signing in, and confirmed it. Promotion wise that is nasty for them to do. For me to have "freedom of reach" would be to not share my artwork. Consequently, I deleted everything, including accounts I followed. Now I use it as a political news agency and muted Musk so I don't have see every other post being his. I think it will be a much better use of my time with the focus on here, FB, and my main site. Disappointed.
Agreed. This is giving me a lot to think about because I’m on that platform as well, thinking it would give me reach. But that’s been a disappointment.
I had my paid account on X suspended for referencing the 90s Pace Picante commercial in a thread specifically about that ad.
Someone quoted the iconic line, “New York City!?!” and I replied with the commercial’s punchline, “Get a rope.” The platform claimed my response was encouraging suicide.
I appealed the decision twice and even filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau—no luck.
If Elon Musk genuinely cared about making X an open platform, he’d ensure these moderation decisions were transparent. The fact that he doesn’t suggests that free speech isn’t really his goal.
The truth is, there are no true free speech platforms. Unless you own the servers and control the data connection, you’re always at the mercy of someone else’s rules.
Ironically, BlueSky was supposed to solve this very problem. But if you think X has its issues, BlueSky is exponentially worse.
Free speech, by its nature, is often offensive. But preserving offensive speech is precisely what makes free speech worth defending.
Btw I like the term Schitter rather than X. (Xitter)
So far… Substack has been pretty good for Free Speech. We’ll see how long that lasts, though. As it grows and gets new partners, things could go haywire.
Really good summary of X, and explains my limited experience. The only traction I ever got was reposting a Babylon Bee post … in a year and a half.
I knew after Elon’s feud with Matt Tiabbi, that there was trouble on the horizon. It didn’t make any sense to me as I sensed the platforms should be complimentary, not competitive. Notes was and is a different feed being long-form discussion to support writing, at least that’s how I see it. And here’s the Irony of that feud: it was revenue from Substack subscriptions that financed the time and effort for the investigative reporting that revealed in the Twitter files revelations.
And in the 2 years since the Twitter files, Tiabbi’s reach on X hasn’t grown either. Indeed, how are upstarts going to build a following if top independent journalists are throttled down? At what point are the Jimmy Dore’s going to be censored? I guess we now have our answer: the minute the piss off Musk by going against his narrative.
Musk seeing Substack as a threat, just shows he’s just another Silicon Valley tech bro narcissist CEO that believes his own Bullsh*t. Musk and his sidekick shaming American engineers just proves the point even further. But maybe there’s something deeper going on.
This is me riffing, but the natural evolution from the massive social changes we’re witnessing, all Emperors are now shown with out clothes. It’s Musk’s turn to become irrelevant . This also tells me social media like twitter is coming to an end. Really, it’s become like cable news, broadcasting emotionally charged headlines, interspersed with cat videos and weaned weather reports. This kind of platform served its purpose and something else will supplant it. I believe that something is more like Substack. X, BlueSky, TikTok are useless at presenting any in-depth analysis and discussion. They’re all clickbait platforms. And if we as a society are going to evolve with the changes, this means disconnecting with tech that doesn’t serve. See a burb on X or TikTok and then f/u with research on Wikipedia (or AI), will yield and answer bent to the prevailing narrative. These platforms have been thoroughly corrupted. Any in-depth research, reporting and discussion are go to be on platforms like Substack, or something have yet to see.
The more "pure" social network dynamic seems to be coming to an end. By that, I mean, as in, the way we have thought of social networking for the last decade.
Meant to restack this yesterday. Bone and I were discussing these events as they unfolded on X, and I have to say... watching it in real time was surreal.
Appreciate your thoughts as always - great perspective on the mess!
I've been warning about Elon since day one when he bought X. He promised us "Twitter Amnesty" and many of our accounts never were unsuspended. Shame how many people became fooled, just because he no longer made it bannable to say a few slurs.
A lop-sided "No Shit" smirk from those of us who were not twits and did not tweet, who never looked in the Xhitter for news.
Musk is a guy with some good ideas whose "success" is more about stealing wages from the people who make his ideas work than it about being today's version of Edison-- ditto all the tech bros back to Gates.
Elon's shilling for CCP was obvious to many of us engaged with China issues. Never changed. His willingness to _flirt_ with CCP makes him suspect.
The fact he won't acknowledge that his temper tantrum of a few days ago was strategically curious considering he could have elected to throw the same temper tantrum during his hat-in-hand groveling for votes in Pennsylvania. We'd be in a very different place today.
Musk is a liar. He said he'd reinstate banned accounts but he was quite selective. For example, I was banned for telling a known honeypot account "pedophilia is dangerous".
Twitter, or heX as I call it, is a digital caste system.
Regarding Elon’s engineering capability, he sits on the shoulders of technically capable people. He made his money from our tax dollars which lead to his stock wealth. Engineers at Tesla remarked that they were uncertain how to handle the large steel coils in their production environments, it was a challenge they needed to solve. Well the retarded Big 3 and other auto manufacturers have know that “secret” for decades.
We want a Tony Stark, Elon has been made into a Tony Stark. Yeah, snatching a rocket landing in air is a really cool achievement, but when the leader of Free Speech fumbles with basic concepts you have to ask questions. When the world’s smartest man has fallen for the CO2 nonsense, when it’s less than 1% of the atmosphere, demonstrates how little he understands of science, but how much he understands manipulation.
Jan 2024 he released a video about the need for a carbon tax, sounded exactly like John Kerry. MAGA ignored that. In fact, many hadn’t seen that on his timeline. Talking to people about it on Spaces, you got peeping critics.
Yes, he was pivotal to Trump winning, but will Trump keep his agenda if you have such an ego maniac on the inside?
Twitter and X always felt like a digital psych ward to me and I could never get into it. It’s basically a pecking order of shit posters and who can get the most retweeted “zinger” of a safe, low hanging fruit “edgy” partisan talking point. I feel dumber after I look at it.
I appreciate this article & there’s something I wish people would understand about all of these so-called leaders but especially Elon Musk:
First off he is a fraud and didn’t actually invent anything. Second, he was on the roster of the world economic forum’s Young global leaders beginning in 2008. Third, he has spoken publicly about putting chips into people’s brains and has mentioned doing it for the purpose of both extracting and implanting data (thoughts) and has been doing this for nearly a decade.
The other thing is, the CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, was quoted in 2023 saying “freedom of speech does not equal freedom of reach”.
As soon as any platform partners with big money it is no longer a free speech platform. No tech is immune from exploitation, it was designed for it.
I think Substacks days are numbered as well (given their recent partnership announcement). We have to start using the tools of technology as tools to organize and meet in real life while we still have the ability. I’ll message you about this bc this comment is too long lol
Ya think? Being a super billionaire allows you to do anything without a shred of responsibility, accountability or morality. Just ask the retarded gates fellow.
Unfortunately, you are correct. I have twice given it my best go. Interestingly the aesthetic bedrock of Western Civilization is life drawing, drawings of the nude--its automatically flagged (without my being aware of it, it appears from my end as being normal). I ran a test for X ban, and got back that my account does not exist in the public domain. A few people tried it without signing in, and confirmed it. Promotion wise that is nasty for them to do. For me to have "freedom of reach" would be to not share my artwork. Consequently, I deleted everything, including accounts I followed. Now I use it as a political news agency and muted Musk so I don't have see every other post being his. I think it will be a much better use of my time with the focus on here, FB, and my main site. Disappointed.
Agreed. This is giving me a lot to think about because I’m on that platform as well, thinking it would give me reach. But that’s been a disappointment.
I had my paid account on X suspended for referencing the 90s Pace Picante commercial in a thread specifically about that ad.
Someone quoted the iconic line, “New York City!?!” and I replied with the commercial’s punchline, “Get a rope.” The platform claimed my response was encouraging suicide.
I appealed the decision twice and even filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau—no luck.
If Elon Musk genuinely cared about making X an open platform, he’d ensure these moderation decisions were transparent. The fact that he doesn’t suggests that free speech isn’t really his goal.
The truth is, there are no true free speech platforms. Unless you own the servers and control the data connection, you’re always at the mercy of someone else’s rules.
Ironically, BlueSky was supposed to solve this very problem. But if you think X has its issues, BlueSky is exponentially worse.
Free speech, by its nature, is often offensive. But preserving offensive speech is precisely what makes free speech worth defending.
Btw I like the term Schitter rather than X. (Xitter)
So far… Substack has been pretty good for Free Speech. We’ll see how long that lasts, though. As it grows and gets new partners, things could go haywire.
Really good summary of X, and explains my limited experience. The only traction I ever got was reposting a Babylon Bee post … in a year and a half.
I knew after Elon’s feud with Matt Tiabbi, that there was trouble on the horizon. It didn’t make any sense to me as I sensed the platforms should be complimentary, not competitive. Notes was and is a different feed being long-form discussion to support writing, at least that’s how I see it. And here’s the Irony of that feud: it was revenue from Substack subscriptions that financed the time and effort for the investigative reporting that revealed in the Twitter files revelations.
And in the 2 years since the Twitter files, Tiabbi’s reach on X hasn’t grown either. Indeed, how are upstarts going to build a following if top independent journalists are throttled down? At what point are the Jimmy Dore’s going to be censored? I guess we now have our answer: the minute the piss off Musk by going against his narrative.
Musk seeing Substack as a threat, just shows he’s just another Silicon Valley tech bro narcissist CEO that believes his own Bullsh*t. Musk and his sidekick shaming American engineers just proves the point even further. But maybe there’s something deeper going on.
This is me riffing, but the natural evolution from the massive social changes we’re witnessing, all Emperors are now shown with out clothes. It’s Musk’s turn to become irrelevant . This also tells me social media like twitter is coming to an end. Really, it’s become like cable news, broadcasting emotionally charged headlines, interspersed with cat videos and weaned weather reports. This kind of platform served its purpose and something else will supplant it. I believe that something is more like Substack. X, BlueSky, TikTok are useless at presenting any in-depth analysis and discussion. They’re all clickbait platforms. And if we as a society are going to evolve with the changes, this means disconnecting with tech that doesn’t serve. See a burb on X or TikTok and then f/u with research on Wikipedia (or AI), will yield and answer bent to the prevailing narrative. These platforms have been thoroughly corrupted. Any in-depth research, reporting and discussion are go to be on platforms like Substack, or something have yet to see.
The more "pure" social network dynamic seems to be coming to an end. By that, I mean, as in, the way we have thought of social networking for the last decade.
good advice : stay off Twitter and facebook
Meant to restack this yesterday. Bone and I were discussing these events as they unfolded on X, and I have to say... watching it in real time was surreal.
Appreciate your thoughts as always - great perspective on the mess!
Well, I do not find this surprising in 2008 and I do not find it surprising in 2024.
I've been warning about Elon since day one when he bought X. He promised us "Twitter Amnesty" and many of our accounts never were unsuspended. Shame how many people became fooled, just because he no longer made it bannable to say a few slurs.
A lop-sided "No Shit" smirk from those of us who were not twits and did not tweet, who never looked in the Xhitter for news.
Musk is a guy with some good ideas whose "success" is more about stealing wages from the people who make his ideas work than it about being today's version of Edison-- ditto all the tech bros back to Gates.
Welcome back from la la land.
Elon's shilling for CCP was obvious to many of us engaged with China issues. Never changed. His willingness to _flirt_ with CCP makes him suspect.
The fact he won't acknowledge that his temper tantrum of a few days ago was strategically curious considering he could have elected to throw the same temper tantrum during his hat-in-hand groveling for votes in Pennsylvania. We'd be in a very different place today.
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That is inaccurate to what Elon said.
No it is not.
Go look at his posts. Understand context. Learn to read.
Musk is a liar. He said he'd reinstate banned accounts but he was quite selective. For example, I was banned for telling a known honeypot account "pedophilia is dangerous".
Well won’t be reading any more from you, since I am too illiterate for your tastes.
Adios!!!