Elon Musk officially took control of Twitter on Thursday evening.
Immediately after taking ownership, Mr. Musk fired Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Ned Segal, and the Head of Legal Policy, Vijaya Gadde, the person who took responsibility for banning former President Donald Trump from the social media platform. According to The Washington Post, Sean Edgett, the company’s general counsel was also given the boot.
The CEO, CFO and top legal officers all immediately removed. Nice start. Immediately after the top brass cleaning, Musk Tweeted “the bird is freed.”
According to financial reports, the S&P 500 is exiting Twitter (TWTR) from its stock market index effective November 1st as Musk takes the company private and promises to open source the background code to the public.
While there are many people waiting to see exactly what the changes mean to the user engagement aspects of the intelligence community engaged platform, this is easily the biggest change in the public information space in many years.
(The Washington Post) […] Musk’s moves late Thursday signal his intentions to put his stamp firmly one of the world’s most influential social media companies. Musk has publicly criticized Twitter’s outgoing management over product decisions and content moderation, as well as saying he would restore former president Donald Trump‘s account.
[…] The closure of the deal ended a months-long roller coaster saga in which the billionaire — the world’s richest person — conducted a hostile takeover to buy the company at an inflated price, only to renege on the deal and then enter into a bitter legal battle with the social network.
But in recent days, Musk appeared resigned, and even enthusiastic, about his impending ownership. He showed up at the company’s offices unexpectedly on Wednesday, carrying a sink to suggest that the message that he would become owner needed to “sink in,” according to a photo he posted to his more than 100 million Twitter followers.
He plans to hold a companywide town hall on Friday. (read more)
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Let’s just keep watching….
Tea Leaves: Vijaya Gadde did not unilaterally ban President Trump. Other governmental paycheck actors eventually will be named.
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The suspicions surrounding Jack’s Magic Coffee shop are not new. {Go Deep} Indeed, the recent whistleblower claims of data insecurity seem to align with the overall theme that U.S. government interest are more than a little deeply involved in the domestic surveillance system known as Twitter specifically, and big social media in general.
In the most recent datapoint assembly, a solid dive by MintPressNews into the number of former FBI officials working at Twitter, shows just how enmeshed the federal police are with the social media platform. The scale is really quite remarkable. [SEE HERE]
Big picture – the number of FBI officials working for Twitter indicates some strong connective tissue behind both enterprises.
[MintPressNews] – […] The FBI is generally known as a domestic security and intelligence force. However, it has recently expanded its remit into cyberspace. “The FBI’s investigative authority is the broadest of all federal law enforcement agencies,” the “About” section of its website informs readers. “The FBI has divided its investigations into a number of programs, such as domestic and international terrorism, foreign counterintelligence [and] cyber crime,” it adds. (read more)
How would it damage the U.S. government if claims about the Chinese government having access to all user data on TikTok, are shown to be identical to the U.S. government having access to all user data on Twitter?
Let that question settle in for a few moments, because that is exactly what I have been alleging since, well, 2011, when the U.S. State Dept first collaborated with Twitter in a joint public-private partnership to use the platform as a communication tool exploiting the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, Libya and beyond.
The issue of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop is an issue of financial viability. The business model of Twitter just doesn’t exist as a free social media discussion platform while running the ultra-expensive data processing system needed for millions of simultaneous users. A global chat that requires exponential database responses as an outcome of simultaneous users is just ridiculously expensive. {Go Deep} However, if the computing system and massive database were being subsidized by the U.S. government, then the viability of the ‘free coffee‘ business model makes sense.
“Cloud computing is one of the core components of the strategy to help the IC discover, access and share critical information in an era of seemingly infinite data.” … “A test scenario described by GAO in its June 2013 bid protest opinion suggests the CIA sought to compare how the solutions presented by IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) could crunch massive data sets, commonly referred to as big data.” … “Solutions had to provide a “hosting environment for applications which process vast amounts of information in parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware” using a platform called MapReduce. Through MapReduce, clusters were provisioned for computation and segmentation. Test runs assumed clusters were large enough to process 100 terabytes of raw input data. AWS’ solution received superior marks from CIA procurement officials”… (MORE)
The integration between Twitter and the United States Intelligence Community has been hiding in plain sight:
July 26, 2021, (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (more)
A shared hashing protocol is a form of data system integration.
The databases of the identified social media platforms appear to be integrated with the U.S. intelligence system. This relationship makes the U.S government a stakeholder in the financial sustainability of the enterprise(s). Thus, a collaborative effort to subsidize the underlying data processing fits the mutual benefit scenario.
Against this demonstrably evident context, Elon Musk taking ownership of the platform becomes an interesting dynamic.
I took the sink to mean he was there to clean house …… I like this better.
I took it as throwing everything out, (cleaning house), including the kitchen sink!
Easier than bringing a baby and bath water.
More like Twitter has “everything but the kitchen sink” and now Elon brings it the kitchen sink.
A toilet would have been more appropriate.
Yeah, but toilets are bulky and awkward to carry for any distance.
Maybe Elon’s sink is his double entendre that means the first thing he does as the Bird’s new private owner is to take a really big shave,… to clean up the look at Twatter and rid it of it’s See Ah Aye dirty Beard.
If so, I hope he makes it a really close shave.
porcelain bird bath. twitter need to take bath.
and elon is putting the sink in place for the bird to take it’s long awaited bath.
God Bless America
noting: elon launched a tesla car on a space x rocket…with a dummy on board. Most people thought it was a silly stunt. What most people don’t understand about elon is his sense of humor. His “stunts” are ironic promotions that contain 100 percent truth about his intentions.
Yes, elon dreams of sending human beings into space in electric sleds. You laugh…we all do. But there is it …the mind of a genius joker who has the capability to deliver. but without the galloping futility of a gossamer goose.
God Bless America
The sink
-to be plumbed
Or throwing everything out except the kitchen sink, and SOB, what do you know, look who’s holding the sink! Take that you C-Suiters!
maybe it was symbolic when the employees looked they would see themselves circling the drain
It is/was a well played double entendre.
elon does not believe in memes, pranks, or even satire/trolling.
when he “performs” the art is the reality.
this is why he is feared among the left radicals and the USG.
he is miles ahead of what they can imagine.
this is both a talent, but also a curse.
one day, in the future, elon will be condemned.
it happens to all men of genius.
I just hope before that time comes, he will have established iconic accomplishments that cannot be dimissed as mere folly.
elon: you know what you can do. this is the time to do just that.
God Bless America
A garbage can might have been more understandable to some, and most likely much easier to carry. At least on the way in.
Followed by dumpster, after dumpster, after dumpster, until all the trash is gone.
I tweeted ( I know dont hate me ) that “Bots dont bathe, toilets are next” I think I got some likes.
First job is done. Second thing he needs to do is remove all the blue check marks and make subscribers earn them through a non-negotiable SM credit score that Musk controls.
In the Lex Fridman interview of Michael Saylor (available on YouTube or any podcast platform), Saylor talks about the process of getting a blue check mark and how ridiculous it is (there’s a more elegant term that encompasses it better but I just can’t think of it).
To get a blue check mark you have to be referenced in other articles/papers (a “public” figure) and it takes quite sometime. Saylor suggested everyone should be able to post a bond (a one time payment of $5 or $10 dollars) to get an orange check mark. If you did “bot” activity Twitter could take the bond money and split it with the person who reported it/getting spammed on their feed.
Imagine trying to write a script to create 10,000 bots to create a narrative when each bit would cost you $5 or $10 each! That’s the friction the internet needs.
Only a “cryptocurrency” (there’s way more to the premise than I’m glancing over here, listening to the interview) would allow you to have a $5 bond to be used as “safe passage” through the internet. Credit card fees would eat up the $5 in no time.
The idea with the orange check is that on your Twitter feed you could only allow orange check marks to engage, theoretically “real”/verified persons, not bots trying to drive the narrative or do the next scam for money.
Just yesterday a whistleblower in Florida told us that the democrats are paying $10 for a vote there. The staff of some nursing homes are being investigated.
Snellville Bob: Keep a watch on the nursing homes in your area. Notice, particularly
if you happen to see any school buses pulled up to them around election time.
My area has numerous nursing homes ( Tucker). Chased a school bus into an industrial
park years ago when they were trying to load up the residents to make sure a bond
referendum was passed.
It’s a time honored voter fraud practive in the People’s Banana Republic of Orleans Parish (NOLA) and the passengers that get on board the Dim’s Orleans Parish public school buses to travel to many different voting precincts to vote get free beer and Popeye’s chicken. The menu is indicative of their socio/econ background.
DaPicayune:
Aw, memories.
Back when people actually READ the local newsrag.
They had just passed the “Motor voter ” laws and the Atlanta Urinal Constipation
had a big ‘ol picture of “Reverend ” Joseph Lowery, sitting in front of the “Motor
Voter Bus” with and insidious, s- eating grin. AJC also used to like to point out
the absolute voting theft in metro Atlanta. Rubbing it in our faces by making jokes
about “walking around money”.
But election fraud doesn’t exist.
Yep, first level of indians were fired yesterday. Today 1000s of H1B1 commies will be canned and sent back to their 3rd world shltholes! These commies will all get what they dished out a million fold.
Well, the fired top executives don’t have to worry. I mean, if we were in a recession, it might be different. But it would be disinformation to say such a thing about the economy. Or is it misinformation? Anyhow, they know everything is hunky-dorey with Mr. Biden’s economy. So they’ll do fine.
If twitter’s business model makes no sense, financially and can only “work” if the Fed gov is underwriting it,…
WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
The fbi arrest musk, blaming him for encouraging and disseminating misinformation causing the democrats to lose the election.
Can’t the world’s richest man attract people who will root out and banish the twitter crooks and spies?
With the rotten fish heads being gone, their sycophants cannot be far behind. I would be very suspicious of those who are now lower department heads and their groupies.
Imagine how many FIB moles infest Twitter. Has Musk put an X on his forehead? I think not. Dems want to confiscate Starlink to control the future of the internet. Imagine how many trillions it is worth. And so, bet your house that charges are being drawn up as we speak to indict him on disseminating misinformation.
Musk should ask the government to pay more!
So did Twitter fes up to Musk how many twitter accounts are bots?
Sorry, above question wasn’t meant to be a reply to your post 1530.
I’m waiting for that one too. I’m hoping for total transparency regarding the bots.
The parody accounts are gonna be epically funny.
Elon Musk‘s own data scientists failed to find a lot of “bots” on Twitter, and certainly well below the billionaire’s public estimates, according to lawyers for the social media company.
The day before Musk sent his first letter to Twitter executives terminating his agreement to acquire the company for $44 billion, two firms he hired to analyze massive Twitter user data reported their own estimates of bots on Twitter. The firm Cyabra told Musk it estimated Twitter to possibly have 11% bots or fake accounts. The other firm CounterAction said its analysis turned up 5.3% bots, lawyers for Twitter said during a hearing on Tuesday.That’s very different from Musk’s estimates. He said in May on Twitter that fake or spam accounts on the platform could be “much” higher than 20%. In his termination letter, Musk said he was backing out of the deal because bots on the platform were “wildly higher” than the 5% estimate Twitter has disclosed publicly. Twitter has sued to force him to complete the acquisition and the case is heading to court in Delaware in October.
Both findings by Musk’s chosen firms are “very much in line with Twitter’s claims,” a lawyer for the company said. “None of these analyses remotely supported what Mr. Musk told the Twitter parties and told the world in the termination letter he served up on July 8.”
Company claims company’s product was audited and found to be totally awesome, thanks to private reports not releasable to the public. Trust us, it’s not propaganda.
I don’t think you are understanding the post, but I will help you- Musk’s own data scientists could find th bots….
” according to lawyers for the social media company.”
Lots of credibility there……..
One more time – Musk’s own data scientist that he hired could not find the bots…
You can have low percentages of bots, but they can still do maximum damage.
It’s just where the bots happen to be amassed in absurdly high numbers. If they
wanted to do a true study, check how many bots were in response to Trump, for
starters. Then you might pick out any other conservatives that faced an absurd
instant pile on.
Read the comments on You Tube under anything with Marjorie Taylor Green in
it. Masses and masses and masses of comments, almost uniformly negative.
Knowing here real popularity, I think there’s a fair chance that bots are a go go
on her videos. Exact same thing ( on steroids ) with Trump. The twins that
always got first dibs on slamming Trump, the insane Dentist that was always
in the top numbers, the failed asian intern, Alyssa Milano……
I once started blocking all the bots attacking prominent conservatives one night, hoping to erase them from view forever. I had blocked close to 100 when Twitter locked me out of my account. Apparently they invest big money in their bots & paid trolls and frown on anyone decreasing their visibility. It will be interesting to see if this changes now that Elon is in.
Again, Musk’s own data scientists could find the bots.
That is what Twitter staff said. We don’t really know what Musk’s data scientists found out because we have not heard directly from them… but we do know that Twitter staff said that Musk’s own scientists said that they found a very low number of bots. I’m no Musk fan but I certainly would not trust anything Twitter said.
In related credibility news Pfizer scientists say that their Covid 19 vaccines are safe and effective. Pfizer scientists say that other scientists who doubt Pfizer Covid 19 vaccines safety and efficacy are small in number.
See how easy that is.
The bots swarmed Trump’s account. Half the images were computer generated 3D icons of people.
I read that as how many twitter accounts are “boughts!”
Those former executives have several top government officials on speed dial. Many lobbyist outfits will be offering top dollar for that level of access.
The real question is, who purchased who first?
Fascism vs communism, did you get corporations running government, or government running corporations.
Mussolini called Fascism the marriage of state and corporate. Better understood as the enslavement of Capitalism to serve the state. Mussolini hated Capitalism but considered capitalist useful.
The three fired executives walked away with 37 million, 25 million and 14 million.
It’s great that he removed the top management, but did Musk take the final step of banning them from Twitter?
That’s the point, no one gets banned…smh
Go back to India and cry there….
I mean, these people hate climate change right? and if people in general are the problem… well? I think the deposed CEO’s homeland is responsible for damn near 2 billion climate offenders. Maybe he can get his own house in order before messing with mine.
Caste society. The way of the world.
America is the only place that’s close to an exception were it not for coastal and institutional imperials and their contempt for the untouchable caste populating flyover country.
And yet, they are rapidly trying to create their version of a caste society where a person cannot innovate, work, create, develop, and use capitalism to get out of the hole that they were born into. Their utopia is the Elites ruling over the serfs. They may allow a few “middle level” people but just enough and they are sent home when their work is done.
Dont rush to conclusions just yet. Get Trump appears to be the true motivation. Truth Social is similar to Twitter with the main difference being made up of True people with true opinions. Trying to salvage this sinking ship is something the government would do. Never mind all the other red flags.
WTF is that photo supposed to tell us, other than dude’s head is HUGE!?
WTF have you been? Its still a MAGIC F’n Coffee Shop Jack!
Musk replaces Jack…who knows from there…
Jack owned less than 4% of the stock so it is obvious the lost interest possibly because of a guilty conscience. Musk builds cars that are subsidized by the US Government. He launches payloads into space paid for by the US Government and now he runs Twitter which depends on servers built and owned by the US Government.
During Watergate, Hillary Clinton stole documents from the US Archives to prevent Nixon from having a lawyer during his trial in Congress. As she carried her box of personal possessions out the door of the law office, she shouted over her shoulder that she would be back because she has just met a man in Arkansas who would become president.
That statement continues to make the hairs on the back of my neck rise.
Bingo!
They needed one of their own to step in and control the mess. This is a multi-billion dollar clean up on aisle three.
Elom Musk is just stepping in to keep the veneer on this Intelligence Operation intact. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
Like so many of his real estate ventures, Donald Trump built a better mouse trap with Truth Social requiring those who control Twitter to react.
We will never see the Twitter algorithms or find out how many bots there are. That would blow up the whole “power and control operation”. And we just can’t have that.
This whole thing about the govt needing access to the database to head off any terrorist attacks is a ruse. What We The People are realizing is the pyromaniac lives and works at the firehouse.
When the Republican conservatives are internally declared to be insurrectionist “domestic terrorists”, then sharing private communications with government “counterintelligence” is allowed, nae even their DUTY. Otherwise, the terrorists will win.
Yes, now you understand how the game is played.
Problem – Reaction – Solution
We have terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 – we need to stop it – let’s enact this thing called the Patriot Act that just happened to be ready for release right after 9/11. (A ruse allowing them to spy on We the People to maintain power and control).
We have nuts out there shooting up schools and public places – we need to stop it – let’s tighten up gun laws. (A ruse allowing them to disarm We the People to maintain power and control).
We have a pandemic – it’s unsafe to go outside – let’s unconstitutionally change voting rules under emergency powers to allow mail in voting/fraud. (A ruse allowing them to control elections to maintain power and control).
We have a pandemic that came completely out of nature, not from one of our many biolabs where we study gain of function on these very pathogens – it’s unsafe to go outside – everyone must wear a mask and subject themselves to an unproven EUA experimental gene therapy in order to participate in society. (A ruse allowing them to restrict, control and track citizens to maintain power and control).
The globe is warming – we need to stop it – give us more of your money and you must use less fuel. (A ruse allowing them to restrict and control We The People to maintain power and control, from their energy guzzling private jets or energy guzzling beachfront mansions that apparently immune to forecasted sea level rise).
We invented this thing called the internet – citizens are communicating freely on it and exposing the truth about us, we can’t have that – call all of it hate speech and ban it. (A ruse allowing them to control, track and suppress citizens to maintain power and control).
We The People are starting to get the feeling that some of this may not be organic. That it’s all part of a connected power and control scheme.
Strange business. We’ll see what happens.
The globe is warming- we must stop it (except in 3rd world countries where the labor
is insanely cheap). In those instances, we forget to enforce the rules that are imposed on
everybody else. Save the big boys from having to deal with unions, regulations, wages.
Prices the first tier countries out of the mix. By design. Graft, personified, at a global level.
Thanks!
Definitely gonna use that!
There was news circulating on Twitter last night that Musk’s Tesla Engineers had locked the Twitter engineers out of their computers. Were they capturing the incriminating forensic evidence or erasing it? We shall see. Musk inherits a lot of liability with his acquisition of this company given their shady shenanigans. It would seem foolish for him to not preserve evidence of what existed before he took over.
Looks like a case of photoshop psychosis to me.
always the critical thinker
sarc
Dude needs to drop the ego trip.
Twitter is like the FBI – it will take more than a few firings to clean out that cesspool.
Wonder if Elon will ever tell us the truth about what made this coffee shop so magical.
Lots of FBI Officials Work at Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/27/lots-of-fbi-officials-work-at-jacks-magic-coffee-shop/
If the earlier reports are true, then 75% of the total staff would be a good start.
Given how deeply Musk I’d connected to government, he’s almost certainly an intelligence asset himself. Once more this is theater designed to convince the proles that “hey look, there’s totally no spying or media manipulation here at this totally not government funded service, no siree!”
It remains under the control of the same shadowy jagoffs with a new face on the label and slightly fewer useless eater blue haired lesbians on the payroll. Under the hood I doubt there will be any meaningful difference.
Great points Diogenes, I was kind of wondering the same myself.
Jagoff….yinzer;-).
Good point you make.
Diogenes, your analysis of Musk’s Twitter acquisition is the most likely scenario. Musk is so dependent on the Federal government, and Twitter is so intimately tied into the Federal government via the intelligence agencies, that it will be impossible for Musk to make any real changes in the Twitter censoring and information control operations.
Perhaps you are right. More than likely you are correct. But I will wait and see because I have faith that God’s wrath is going to reign down upon these Satanists. Maybe it will happen in my lifetime.
“Paging Howard Hughes!”
I think I’m going to like this. This might just be the turning point in digital communications that we have been waiting for.
Go get’em Elon, let freedom ring!
Releasing the twitter bird reminds me of the song from the late 60’s called White Bird by the band called It’s A Beautiful Day on youtube.
This could end up being a really beautiful day for freedom of speech.
What a nice reminder of a beautiful song. Thanks!
His company wide Townhall tommorrow should be interesting.
I really do wish him all the best in this newest “adventure ” of his.
Kudos for terminating the “top guys”…
👏
Interesting! Yes, let’s keep watching…. Happy on my branch.
The sink could be referencing so many things…
Watching, holding the line & applying liberal sand where we may 🙂
God bless.
After reading ^, got curious of hash protocol. My own rabbit hole.
Not a wise business decision. He should have simply demoted them to assistant janitor. Humiliate them and force them to quit thus they loose any and all said perks from being fired like immediate stock option vestment.
Sounds good in theory but demoting the CEO to assistant janitor would be considered “constructive dismal” under employment law. He did the right thing to fire them immediately and have them escorted out of the office.
The ‘mobile sink’ that Elon Musk carried into Twitter HQ was a computer geek inner joke – Mobile Sink is a computer system:
PatriQt TnTGau Replying to @BrianCates on Truth Social:
“Mobile sink is proposed to save sensor energy for multihop communication in transferring data to a base station (sink) in wireless sensor networks . This computing article is a stub. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink_(co.”
h/t – Lady Penquin
I took it as a word play joke like “I just conquered Twitter HQ …let that sink in” which he Twit while literally carrying a sink inside. Elon sense of humor. I found it very funny.
Christmas has come early! This is a dream that has come true!
Fire her now
She wants to scratch his eyes out.
Bitchy resting face
And think! We give these foreign turds authority over us. No other country. . . .
A guy from Africa kicks out the top Twitter Indians, never thought I’d see that happen in my life.
Rumor is, the distinguished Senator from Mumbai, Mike Lee, was last seen repeatedly running face first into a wall mumbling to himself, “this can’t be happening, this can’t be happening …”.
I wonder why Mark Levin never confronts Lee on his H1-B visa escapades.
Because he probably has stock in some Asian Coding headhunter service.
You guys are so funny. Musk who is not US intel is US Intel and Levin is a Mossad hangout but he is just a journalist and pumped about muh Constitution. And along with that supports H1-B visas over Americans holding the job.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it.
This is a concern insofar as sharing images like the spreadsheet of bellwether counties that went around after the twenty 20 erection. That image can be tracked as a hash. It is hard to find now and sometimes marked hazardous by Microsoft browser. Forgive me for not knowing the technical terms. Other images can be likewise hashed. Seems to me a wise strategy is to substantially change the image before sharing it again. Write something on it or paste on a LGBTQ flag etc.
Idea is to avoid the censors searching for the specific hash. Or parts of speech.
I pray my concerns are groundless.
On looking further – I think Musk’s carrying the sink into Twitter HQ was computer geek joke was a play on words and refers to ‘MobileSync’ – https://www.couchbase.com/blog/why-mobile-sync/
Bet he’s got a whole new system that will coordinate, combine and simplify the social media world.
Can’t stop grinning 😀 that last Fox pic is soooo funneeeee!!!
Suspicious Fox enters the arena
I agree with Sundance – let’s keep watching. Remembering, that nothing is as it seems.
My hunch is that Elon is a wolfe in sheep’s clothing in many ways.
He embraces the globalist worldview, even though he speaks of freedom and free speech.
He’s a proponent of transhumanism, universal basic income which is required if you give the jobs to robots, and looks forward to populating Mars, etc etc etc. Taking advantage of a Starlink service, in my humble opinion, only hooks one deeper into the surveillance net.
And honestly, I could care less about social media. The Feds raised rates again. Our government declared, as Sundance outlined recently, that the economy is doing great while they sell of our remaining assets in order to make the bottom line look good for political purposes. Biden gets up and makes one stupid announcement after another, driving Americans into the dirt.
Who boy am I irritable. Time to turn it all off and focus on what’s real and in front of me.
Love you Sundance! Keep the Faith and keep on truckin’.
He reminds me a lot of another gubt asset. Patrick Byrne.
Yah. The guy who tied to warn Trump of the clownage aligned against him right next to him is intel. Got it. Who comes up with these plot twists? Fire them.
He ain’t no sheep. I suspect his mind set is way beyond most folks here to fathom. Mostly the same crew attempting to sound all wise when they spouted he would never buy it. Gossipmongering. Americas fave pastime.
Parachuting out the agents with a nice going away gift as Branch 4 enters a new phase. Suspicious cat is still suspicious.
I’ve noticed this m.o. throughout the treasonous coup. Nobody is ever prosecuted or even detained. They simply disappear, retire or wander off into the sunset on our dime.
And we’re supposed to forget all about them after they dash off into the catacombs, like that ‘So long farewell’ scene from Sound of Music.
Out of sight, out of mind..
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Heres hoping. May all the Main Slime Media now implode
Gosh I LOVE Elon Musk
I predict though he is going to have an uphill battle against the Left
It will be interesting to find out how Deep State, Twitter really is.
Will Musk find the rats when he shines the light or are they so embedded internally that they will sabatage Musk and the company like what was done to Trump.
First line of business, close the ”Perch”, the gaming and yoga rooms. Move the coding to the Tesla HQ. Disclose how many ”Bots” there really are and the relationship with the government, side deals and secret contracts.
I wonder why Musk didn’t offer one of the CEO’s a deal for exposing where all of the rat holes are. Surely they know all of the ways the FBI got in and who and how many are working there.
Everyone has a price. There must be a few internals who will narc on their company and show where the bodies are buried…..an offer they can not refuse. Then again liberals are evil and never turn on their own….we shall see.
Who do you think wrote all those racist tweets on Day 1?
“…promises to open source the background code to the public.” Similar to Linux? community developed… this enabled me to eliminate Microsoft from my life…what ever could this mean for social media?
Yeah. Now everybody keep twittering about him being deep state intel. Because this is precisely the opposite of a DS move.
Now we know who the first to be fired, heh. Early christmas.
Smart maneuver to lock them out. I was wondering about that myself, although I’m pretty certain that a lot of ‘wiping, like with a cloth or something?’ has already been done. Hopefully there’s archives that can be restored and forensically investigated. Musk has the money to pay for it, but does he have the will to do it? This is the acid test we need to watch for.
This is delicious!!!! I can almost taste the tears of the woke and it tastes like freedom!
When you rebuild a house, you must first remove the old dirt.
The biggest danger for Elon Musk is that Biden’s Deep State will block Twitter because of fictitious accusations, such as a threat to the state from right-wing radicals, and that Google and Apple will remove the Twitter app from their offerings.
I hope Elon Musk will launch his own Tessla phone ,with its own app store and search engine.
That would be the end of Google’s and Zuckerberg’s terror against freedom of expression.
No, the biggest danger is what is lurking in the deep of the company.
And as a network engineer, it’s not enough to simply lock twat employees out of the room, there are likely a lot of back doors of various types that Tesla engineers may or may not find immediately.
I wish him all the best if he can truly clean up the angry bird’s nest.
YOu are right lots of nasty pervasive stuff in there.
This is why my broken record is open source and open standards. A major effort to do that properly will force Twitter to compete – maintaining surveillance software, databases and security are big ticket budget items.
We will see.
“Let that sink in.” Sundance go deep Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop
Yeah! Now do Zoom, that other newer Magic Coffee Shop.
Zoom management team and BoD.
https://explore.zoom.us/en/team
Two separate thoughts that could be related:
1) Interesting timing right before an election.
2) Elon is South African, correct? As in bricS?
Mr Agrawal and Mr Segal were reportedly in the building when the deal closed and were “escorted from the building”.
Head of legal policy, trust and safety Vijaya Gadde, the woman who made the decision to suspend Donald Trump permanently from Twitter, was also reportedly fired.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/elon-musk-completes-44b-twitter-takeover-begins-firing-execs/news-story/9f349f2b11385da479eacbfd59bbd54b
excerpt:
The firing of Ms Gadde is being seen as significant because of Musk’s plans to bolster freedom of speech on the platform — a move that some believe could see the former US president’s account reinstated.
Her role included handling issues such as harassment, misinformation, and harmful speech. She is known for her involvement in decisions and policies taken by Twitter, such as the approach taken to issues such as harassment and harmful speech, and high profile decisions made by Twitter.
The tech giant blocked Trump’s Twitter handles for the first time in January last year, finally escalating its crackdown on his social media posts that they believe encouraged and supported rioters at the US Capitol.
Ms Gadde, the company’s head of Legal, Policy and Trust and Safety issues, took to Twitter and said “The account of @realDonaldTrump has been permanently suspended from Twitter due to the risk of further violence. We’ve also published our policy enforcement analysis —you can read more about our decision here.”
WHAT ABOUT BLM and ANTIFA??
They caused more violence than any of Pres Trump’s tweets
I took it to mean
“I’m here: Let that sink in.”
How would it damage the U.S. government if claims about the Chinese government having access to all user data on TikTok, are shown to be identical to the U.S. government having access to all user data on Twitter?
Unfortunately, too many just accept it as the new normal.
Yup. Back in 2001 when the Patriot Act was rammed down our throats to fight “terrorists,” they all shrugged, saying “I’VE got nothing to hide.”
So how well did that thought hold up? We’ve lost our Constitutional rights of free speech and expression, freedom to assemble, freedom from search and seizure and the peaceful transition of power via fair elections.
We lost it all, and without a whimper.
And those who expose their tyranny and treason are now labeled domestic terrorists? How convenient.
Every “kid” I know just shrugs and says nothing online is private and they have no expectations of such.
Sad that they have no, zero, understanding of the 4th Amendment and its history.
And Zoom – the Chinese see and hear (archieve) everything.
Musk take over and clean those socialism then I may back Twitter account,
Boy Genius paid $44 Billion for Twitter – a dumpster fire of snowflakes and $12 billion in debt and has never never made any money. Not a dime.
And the 3 people mentioned above left the company with millions in their pockets. Millions.
Good luck on fixing the dumpster fire Twitter and get it to make money.
He has Starlink and Twitter and you will be able to sell to anybody on the planet. His ad selling will go thru the roof with nobody being kicked off anymore.
Twitter has never been revenue driven. It is a front.
Much of the national/multinational corporate advertising money sent to Twitter was simply money laundering to cover the massive operating losses from running a massive surveillance and propaganda machine.
Twitter has about $4 billion in long term debt and over $7 billion in shareholders’ equity. Read their balance sheet before making assertions. They have $14 billion in assets, and have rapidly growing revenue, and your claim about their profits is *false*. Please go to Sec.gov and read their latest 10K.
I’ve read and reread Musk’s public letter explaining why he bought Twitter. He states that “… I didn’t do it to make more money, I did it because I love humanity.” No where in his statement does he mention love for his country. Love for “America.” Has he told the FBI to leave the building yet?
Wondering …
Oh my Lord. He loves humanity and not just that special child America. Do you understand how that sound to the rest of the world?
The FBI does not appear to love humanity. They appear to love inhumanity.
Transhumanism does not love humanity. It in fact destroys humanity. It is a desolate world of post-human robot slaves.
This could be very entertaining, but will they allow it to be – that’s the question. Most people have very little clue about there being a curtain with an Intelligence ‘Community’ err, I mean, wizard behind it over at Twitter. Maybe I’ll sign back up and start posting vaccine stats for excess deaths to test the waters…
This is why the open sourcing of key software components, and, the creation of an open standard for message interchange is the litmus test.
If those two things are done with sincere intent stop the monopolistic power provided by the “wizards”, then Twitter is of no use to the tyrants
When Google starts warning about ‘Malicious Content Ahead’ for Twitter.com, then we’ll know.
“promises to open source the background code to the public.”
Very significant!
Now, to avoid the sleight of hand Google uses to retain control of its open source
Next up: open standards for messaging interchange – OASIS is the place to start
The next obvious act will be significant downsizing. I don’t think the 75% number is far off.
I’m still banned. I submitted another appeal so we will see. But I’m not hopeful. Uttering the phrase “stop the steal” was apparently too much.
That’s pretty soft.
I called out Ali Watkins as a news slut.
They didn’t like that
This is so satisfying.
People who thought they were safe, untouchable, unceremoniously shown the door…brutal.
Now let’s do November 8!!
He’d better do the deep-cleaning that wasn’t done by President Trump or he’ll be experiencing the same thing.
I took to mean..” I own the whole house, including the kitchen sink”..
A heads up to disgruntled employees and twits who don’t like that he bought Twitter.
There are financial stories out about Meta/Facebook and Amazon/Bezos being on the ropes.
Worth watching with a very cautious eye.
Things are never as they seem on the surface.
Social media was fashioned to exploit and influence people. When we see through them and stop listening, it is no longer useful to them. It is no longer a valuable weapon in their communist arsenal.
The “Sink”
Twitter’s new crying towel.
PDJT should do this on day one of his second term esp. warmongers, professional criminals, cheaters, liers, etc.
It is far more important that one day soon, a Twitter user is able to “follow” President Trump’s TruthSocial account, than President Trump’s Twitter account being reinstated.
The mechanisms of the great social media monopolies must be busted up.
Too bad President Trump didn’t (or couldn’t) clean house after the inauguration. That I think was a failure and the other being his choices in the covid fauxdemic.
It will be very interesting to see what this does to Facebook – which posted disappointing results and watched its stock price fall very sharply. I think that Musk’s ownership will expose what these companies have actually been doing. Have been doing for a very long time. Advertisers and participants alike simply “took their numbers at face value,” when the opportunity and the motivation for fraud was plain for all to see. They never seemed to ask the questions that they should have.
Personally, I have never used any of these platforms and never will. I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Never did. 🤷♂️
I quit FB right after the 2020 election. I only stayed on it that long because I wanted to see what people were saying about the campaigns. But the place had gotten boring. They didn’t send my posts to all my “friends”, and they didn’t put all my “friends” posts in my newsfeed. I get that they were trying to keep it from getting too crowded and mostly showing me things that some algorithm thought I’d be interested in, but maybe let me be the judge of that.
Anyway, they always managed to find space in my newsfeed for ads. Funny the algorithm didn’t figure out I don’t like unsolicited ads of any kind. I don’t miss it at all.
Regardless of the real-world consequences, and whether or not Musk can actually restore Twitter as a free-speech forum with PDT and the Babylon Bee et al, this is a symbolic defeat for the Fourth Branch. And symbolic or not, MAGA has sadly had no victories AT ALL since March 2020, only let-downs and lawsuits. So at least this is something.
Millennials….The Downfall of America…The Rise of the Borgs….glasses on backwards….will not listen., too busy talking