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This thread is a doozy, but the first few seconds of the second clip got a massive guffaw out of me 

 

 

Elon, at length, is no more than a fantastically lucky bullshit artist lol

 

 

 

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Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay
Mr. Musk, Twitter’s new owner, had given employees a Thursday deadline to decide whether to leave or stay “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html

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Hours before a Thursday deadline that Elon Musk had given Twitter employees to decide whether to stay or leave their jobs, the social media company appeared to be in disarray.

Mr. Musk and his advisers held meetings with some Twitter workers whom they deemed “critical” to stop them from leaving, four people with knowledge of the conversations said. He sent out confusing messages about the company’s remote work policy, appearing to soften his stance on not allowing people to work from home before warning their managers, according to those people and internal emails viewed by The New York Times.

All the while, two people said, resignations started to roll in. By the deadline, 5 p.m. Eastern time, hundreds of Twitter employees appeared to have decided to depart with three months of severance pay, the people said.

Their exits added to the turmoil at Twitter since Mr. Musk, 51, completed his $44 billion takeover last month. The billionaire has laid off half of Twitter’s 7,500 full-time workers, fired dissenters and told employees that they need to be “extremely hard core” to make the company a success.

On Wednesday, Mr. Musk gave Twitter’s remaining employees just under 36 hours to leave or commit to building “a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.” Those who departed would get the three months of severance pay, he said. He positioned the move as a way to make the company the most competitive it could be, though the action also provided an opportunity to further cut costs and purge the firm of disaffected workers.

The shedding of so many employees in such a compressed period has raised questions about how Twitter will keep operating effectively. While Mr. Musk has brought in some engineers and managers from his other companies, such as the electric automaker Tesla, many of them are just coming up to speed on how the social media service works, five people said.

Mr. Musk and Twitter, which no longer has a communications department, did not respond to requests for comment.

Twitter faces not just internal challenges with Mr. Musk’s ownership. On Thursday, seven Democratic senators called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether the company had violated a consumer privacy agreement with the agency since Mr. Musk took over. The letter followed the resignations of Twitter’s security executives last week after Mr. Musk appeared to change some of the company’s data security practices.

Those “reported changes to internal reviews and data security practices” at Twitter have put consumers “at risk,” the lawmakers wrote. They included Senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey.A spokesman for the F.T.C. declined to comment. The agency previously said it was “tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern.” Mr. Musk has said he plans to abide by the privacy agreement. ....;

 

 

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12 minutes ago, Zorral said:

Well, they had Persians to fight. :cheers:

 

And each other. Also serious colonizers those Greeks. They were eclipsed of course as everything eventually is, but despite their many faults that was one hell of a fucking civilization, competing leagues and city-states.   

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12 minutes ago, DMC said:

Love the "extremely hardcore" line.  Apparently Musk wants to run Twitter like ECW.  Except it took years for Paul Heyman to run that into the ground.

Did a Hardy Boy ever miss a table by ten feet?

Or more directly, did Elon even climb the ladder before it fell? This shit is next level. You cannot keep giving your workforce one days notice if they want to keep their jobs. You really can't do it when a lot of those same people are well off and/or super desirable talent. Elon certainly made some other tech companies much better off.

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Some people did a lot of work to write a paper telling us whether social media has been good or bad for democracy. I am sure you will all be shocked to know that the answer is: it's both.

About 13:30 if you don't want to watch the whole video. But why would you not want to watch the whole video?

18 minutes ago, DMC said:

Love the "extremely hardcore" line.  Apparently Musk wants to run Twitter like ECW.  Except it took years for Paul Heyman to run that into the ground.

Sounds like that Euro punk you have to deal with in Disco Elysium. Full. On. Hardcore. Hard. Full. Hardcore. Yeah! Or something like that.

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