Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[Legbiter]

Twitter offices last month vs. now?
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Twitter in general - seems true today

Zack Bornstein
@ZackBornstein
pre-elon twitter: pls free me from this hellsite

post-elon twitter: Everyday with you all has been a gift. I owe my career, my friendships, and my marriage to this community. I've fostered compassion and activism each and everyday with you all, fighting the good fight (1/40)

Interesting experiment Musk is doing. Can you run a social media company with just one crazy CEO, a dozen code monkeys in a human veal pen somewhere and nothing but a skeleton crew in the front office? 

We'll know pretty soon I think.

[Darth Wagtaros]

So now it seems that this is all part of the Plan. Musk is purposely doing this to get rid of all the lazy snowflakes and piss off the libtard Californians. Then once he has purged the company of the impure element he'll move the headquarters to Texas or Florida where the governors like him and are pro-business and pro-America.

While it is true he could do all of that without the drama and such, the fact that he is doing it this way is proof that he is a badass.

[Jacob]

Posted this in the wrong thread...

Twitter HQ last night, apparently: https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1593432939127361542

[Jacob]

So now it seems that this is all part of the Plan. Musk is purposely doing this to get rid of all the lazy snowflakes and piss off the libtard Californians. Then once he has purged the company of the impure element he'll move the headquarters to Texas or Florida where the governors like him and are pro-business and pro-America.

While it is true he could do all of that without the drama and such, the fact that he is doing it this way is proof that he is a badass.

He definitely loves his drama.

We'll see how it goes, and how much the drama pays out for him.

[Barrister]

It's complicated, but I've had a ringside seat to this shitshow from the beginning.  I will definitely post something today or tomorrow on this.

Appreciate it if you can.

[PJL]

Always nice to see a view from

It's complicated, but I've had a ringside seat to this shitshow from the beginning.  I will definitely post something today or tomorrow on this.

Appreciate it if you can.

Me too - always nice to see the view from the coalface. Though with Twitter, I guess you saw the canary dying as soon as the deal was done.

[alfred russel]

I'm not really sure what your brain is producing here. Are you suggesting that because Twitter isn't serving error 404 a few days after a bunch of people quit that...90% of people at most companies could just disappear with no impact?

That seems like an incredibly ill-supported line of thought.

Of course I'm not suggesting that. But if it gets through the foreseeable future without such a problem, it is indicating such at least for twitter, and it doesn't take much to see that if that is the case for twitter it probably isn't the only company to have been so overstaffed.

[Josquius]

Posted this in the wrong thread...

Twitter HQ last night, apparently: https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1593432939127361542

Deleted. What was it?

[Jacob]

Posted this in the wrong thread...

Twitter HQ last night, apparently: https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1593432939127361542

Deleted. What was it?

Works for me... try this one: https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1593429063317626880

It's the scrolling lightboard on Twitter HQ calling Elmo all kinds of names.

[Josquius]

Oddly it seems to be blocked in the UK and works with a Canadian vpn server.

That's cool.

[garbon]

Oddly it seems to be blocked in the UK and works with a Canadian vpn server.

That's cool.

Something is strange with it as I can click on it and it works but then if I click again it won't show the tweet.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah that's really weird - I can see it in a quote tweet by the same guy:
https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1593706542960111616?s=20&t=W5pC-bgFz0gEiDoVW-hYag

Very odd

[grumbler]

More seriously, though, there are of course strong correlations between parents and kids. I think the more interesting question is to what degree that correlation is down to genetics vs various social conditions - including nurturing of the parents, the effects of wealth, the effects of social class and peers etc).

Studies on identical twins raised separately still show a strong correlation of IQ with their birth parents.  However, theer are caveats:  first, the number of genes associated with intelligence is very large, and no individual gene appears to be dominant in research to date, and secondly that intellectual achievement (as opposed to just IQ results) is highly correlated with socio-economic status and parental involvement in the child's intellectually-stimulating activities.

[Razgovory]

I've never found a high IQ to be very useful.

[viper37]

Musk emails remaining Twitter staff to find "anyone who actually writes software"

After laying off half of Twitter's employees and issuing a stay-or-leave ultimatum to the rest, Elon Musk sent an email to the remaining staff today seeking responses from "anyone who actually writes software."

"Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 pm today. Before doing so, please email a bullet point summary of what your code commands have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code," Musk wrote in the first of three emails reportedly sent around midnight PT Friday.

Musk's emails were published in full by Business Insider and also reported by Fortune, CNBC, and Reuters. His emails requested in-person meetings with coders despite Twitter informing staff that it was closing all office buildings and disabling employee badge access until Monday.

"If you're working remotely, please email the request below nonetheless and I will try to speak [to] you via video. Only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ or have a family emergency are excused," Musk wrote in a second email. "These will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack."

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He might have started with that...