tangentism
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- Comment on X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts 3 weeks ago:
it is very concerning that the tech companies could deny a business access to their platforms without proving their case in front of a neutral 3rd party, without offering their target a chance to defend themselves
This is a ludicrous position. He/infowars broke their ToC so they acted accordingly. If anything, they were incredibly lenient in not banning all the accounts prior to when they did.
You’ve also alluded that there’s some kind of conspiracy against Jones by those companies…
by simultaneously banning it from all their problems (I guess you meant ‘platforms’) at once.
By using Hanlons Razor, I would posit that they acted at the last moment before it would blow back on them. The controversy surrounding the guy/company would have generated traffic/clicks/revenue and they wouldn’t cut that off unless there were something that would negatively impact their future revenue.
No company acts out of others interests unless it has some effect on their own, thinking otherwise is just naive.
- Comment on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X 5 weeks ago:
I’ve had some first hand experience of the Guardians IT systems and they can barely find their arse with both hands
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! 2 months ago:
Epic Schmidt goes to his AI prompt and asks “How do we solve the climate crisis?”
For a moment, the prompt ponders until it replies
“Kill all the data centres. Stop trying to harvest everyone’s data”
Epic days to himself “I guess we’ll never know!”
- Comment on Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried 3 months ago:
It will become an Olympic event where you have to get from the shelf to the till before the price changes!
- Comment on Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum 4 months ago:
schadenfreudilicious!
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 4 months ago:
Google isn’t blocking one of the biggest adblockers. It’s killing chrome!
Those who aren’t using an adblock won’t notice any difference but everyone else will just migrate to a non chromium browser
- Comment on Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. 4 months ago:
And don’t come to me with the “but shares are not money”.
WTF are you on about? Where did I even alude to even suggesting that? Sounds like you’re really desperate to simp for him.
His companies are notoriously overvalued and he is massively over leveraged so those who devise those wealth chart tables are chatting shit.
The real wealthy are incredibly private about their worth whereas boastful egotists like musk are all show no substance
- Comment on Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. 4 months ago:
I don’t think musk does have that much money though. He’s leveraged to the eyeballs & his businesses (Tesla & Space X) are not profitable without govt subsidies while starlink had repeatedly failed to meet targets & has competitors about to cut into it’s market.
- Comment on Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. 4 months ago:
I have my suspicions that Peter Thiel is assisting him to a degree as Twitter serves his purpose.
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 1 year ago:
