The awesome Taylor Lorenz reports this on Mastadon. Highly recommend to follow her if you like these updates about what’s going on.
I’m sure Musk is personally responsibly those things. I also heard he failed to clean bathrooms in this building.
I’m getting not liking him, but this blind brainless hate it’s ridiculous.
A bad CEO/Company owner trickles down to everything under them in the company. They pass major decisions or budgets (or lack thereof) that work their way down to everything if not immediately then over time. Toilets not getting cleaned probably comes down to people either not getting paid or being fired to avoid having to pay them, resulting in either no custodial staff or insufficient staff. There’s no way to defend him about this.
That man is repeatedly showing the world how stupid he actually is and how little he actually understands about running a company. He has never been in a situation like this where he wasn’t surrounded by a bunch of people playing babysitter and doing all the leg work to try to actually get his shit ideas to work. IIRC I saw somewhere this morning that he hadn’t even figured out what to call tweets and retweets, he really hadn’t thought any further than changing the logo and repeating the same lame idea he had 30 years ago.
ABAM (All Billionaires Are Morons)
ABAM (All Billionaires Are Morons)
Bill Gates is actually a very smart, and nowadays even pleasant, man.
He has not always been pleasant. Don’t fall for the post-retirement PR spin
He is the best billionaire. That may not be a high bar, but it’s something. If Elon Musk decided to retire and cure Malaria like Bill did (or maybe even just get back to space exploration or autonomous driving as he was doing before his Twitter craze, hopefully without fucking other people over?) I wouldn’t mind him as much
“Nowadays even pleasant” clearly implies he wasn’t always pleasant though.
You do realise it was Bill Gates who made the creators of the Oxford Astra Zeneca Vaccine make it paid and keep the methods of producing it hidden? Their original plan was to make the methods of production public, so that Governments could set up their own labs to produce more of it and save lives. There were many deaths that could have been prevented if it wasn’t for this terrible human being.
I think we need to read between the lines here.
I honestly think he’s intentionally driving Twitter into the ground. Thing is he can’t just fire everyone and shut down the servers or he won’t get the tax write-off. He’s burying Twitter in a way that maintains tax status. So in a way that’s smart, but also stupid he spent what he did only out of spite.
What he’s doing to Twitter is like a jumbo jet pilot that commits suicide by crashing the plane (that’s actually happened). Why do you need to take all those innocent people with you. Just go jump off a building, same end without killing a bunch of innocents.
Really his destruction of the platform is about control, he has some kind of personal beef with Twitter so he used his power and money to kill the whole thing. He’s taking his bat and ball and going home.
Or all billionaires are scum who have written the laws and ensured that the fine for this is no more than an annoyance and removing the sign without a permit was a worthwhile risk and the right call to make.
This guy gets it.
I think “all billionaires are scum” is perhaps too harsh, but it’s far closer to the truth than the views of society at large.
This is actually hilarious. It didn’t occur to me that rebranding should also concern stuff like “tweets”, mostly because I’ve never used twitter, but I’m really looking forward to what he will come up with for those terms.
“X’s”
IIRC I saw somewhere this morning that he hadn’t even figured out what to call tweets and retweets
Obviously Tweet -> Xeet 💩
He has pretty much always been almost a caricature of a horrible boss.
You need to have permits to change signs on your own building?
It’s the heavy machinery required to do it that’s the problem. This is also not Elon Musk’s building, but a building Twitter rents. The building management company were the ones who called the police.
Companions like this very rarely own property. They rent space from the property management companies that bought the land and constructed the buildings.
Most of those IT platform companies only rent their premises as it helps improve the balance sheet and quarterly results by moving “capital expenses” into “operational costs”
The way I heard it elsewhere (Google should help), Twitter/Elon actually had the necessary and correct permits (for using heavy machinery on the street/sidewalk and redirecting traffic around it).
Unfortunately, that detail was not correctly communicated to building security, who called the police believing there was no permit.
By the time the misunderstanding could be cleared up, the workers & heavy machinery had… “vacated premises” already, leaving the work in its half-finished state.
10 cars were broken into and 5 people were robbed while the police attended this matter. What a great deployment!
Seems like a good place to remind people that the police do not prevent break-ins, robberies, or muggings. They just show up after-the-fact and do little to nothing to get people’s stuff back.
The only thing you can count on a cop doing after a robbery is trying to convince the victim there’s no point in filing a report.
Because they know they won’t solve it, and if there’s no report there officially isn’t a case to count against them as unsolved.
Yeah, if I have to choose who is worse between Musk and Taylor Lorenz, 100% Taylor Lorenz takes the cake.
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I do recall Lorenz being caught in a lie and trying to cover it with stealth-edits. She has definitely had her (and her publisher’s) agenda take precedent over facts back when she was covering the Depp/Heard trial.
However, while I do try to verify her reporting from other sources, I would not classify her anywhere near the imploding egomaniac billionaire. She’s way better than any billionaire, because there’s no way anyone can amass that amount of resources and not be selfish, problematic, and too far removed from ordinary people to relate to them.
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