Octopus Overlords

LordMortis wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:30 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 3:26 am

malchior wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 1:22 am

Kraken wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 1:07 am Da hell is a co-sister-in-law?

A brother-in-law's wife.

Oh. Never heard that one. Since it's the same number of syllables and I suspect that you made it up, Imma stick with "BIL's wife."

If I needed to clarify that's what I would say. Otherwise I'd just say sister-in-law.

LordMortis wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:03 pm He says read Matt T.... That guy has used all of my reading time for a lifetime and expended all of his credibility already, so Musk got a click from me to get to the thread plus your embedding and that's all he gets.

Children and teens in Utah would lose access to social media apps such as TikTok if they don’t have parental consent and face other restrictions under a first-in-the-nation law designed to shield young people from the addictive platforms.

Two laws signed by Republican Gov. Spencer Cox Thursday prohibit kids under 18 from using social media between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m., require age verification for anyone who wants to use social media in the state and open the door to lawsuits on behalf of children claiming social media harmed them. Collectively, they seek to prevent children from being lured to apps by addictive features and from having ads promoted to them.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk poked fun at the New York Times on Sunday, calling the publication “unreadable” after it lost its blue verification badge on his social media platform.

“The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn’t even interesting,” Musk wrote in a tweet.

“Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It’s unreadable,” Musk added. “They would have far more real followers if they only posted their top articles. Same applies to all publications.”

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:09 am So, Utah is first out of the gate with a bill that will prohibit kids from accessing social media during a specific time period (10:30pm to 6:30am) and require age verification for anyone seeking to use social media at all.

Blackhawk wrote:And why is Twitter not a ghost town?

It's like a bar where they fired all but one server, the owner is pretending to be the bartender, encourages the regulars to mug people in the bathroom, and anybody whose haircut he doesn't like gets their drink spit in.

And yet, despite the town being full of good bars, every professional in town holds their meetings there.

YellowKing wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:23 pmThe fact he hasn’t run everyone off of the platform only speaks to how ingrained people were in using it, and the fact there are no serious competitors that do quite what it does.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 5:28 pm The Hill

Twitter CEO Elon Musk poked fun at the New York Times on Sunday, calling the publication “unreadable” after it lost its blue verification badge on his social media platform.

“The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn’t even interesting,” Musk wrote in a tweet.

“Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It’s unreadable,” Musk added. “They would have far more real followers if they only posted their top articles. Same applies to all publications.”

malchior wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 2:34 pm

Soros reminds me of Magneto

malchior wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 10:28 pm I wonder what the connection is?

malchior wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 6:22 am What's getting hard to ignore is that the larger media players have largely avoided talking about how a fellow media oligarch has been tap dancing with antisemitism and racism.

malchior wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 9:49 am At least we have some idea how the OG car guy Henry Ford got away with it. No one cares how shitty you are as long as you can make them a car apparently.

Kurth wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 11:20 am Perhaps a dumb question, but is Musk an antisemite?

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 11:37 am First, criticism of Soros is almost entirely based on his ethnicity. It's "Jews control the banks" type racism.

Musk says racist things pretty regularly. Here he's speaking to his right wing supporters, who are assumed to know where the criticism of Soros comes from. I.e. If someone says "Soros sucks" everyone already understands that it actually means "Soros sucks because he's part of the Jewish cabal".

It's idiotic of course, but this is the world at present.

And this criticism of Soros is pure garbage. He hates humanity and wants to destroy civilization? Come on. It's straight from the drumpf book.

I know you are a lawyer and believe facts not in evidence aren't facts, but here it's pretty clear what Musk is saying, and why he is saying it. I *might* consider giving him the benefit of the doubt if he had anything substantive to say in his criticism, but no. Soros is bad because "assign random negative motivations to him".

Again, Soros is regularly targeted as a Jewish cabal member, and Musk knows this. Is Musk a racist or just using racists? Who cares?

Max Peck wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 12:29 pm I have no idea whether Musk is genuinely anti-Semitic or is just pandering to his right-wing fanboys. Either way, he's a dirtbag.

Kurth wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 11:59 am But Soros really is a billionaire funder of liberal, progressive causes, right? So Musk could rail against Soros for prominent reasons other than antisemitism.

hepcat wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 12:10 pm

Musk is just a troll. He knows full well he's making an antisemitic remark to get views. I might give someone else the benefit of the doubt, but Musk has burnt that bridge.

ImLawBoy wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 12:30 pm

Max Peck wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 12:29 pm I have no idea whether Musk is genuinely anti-Semitic or is just pandering to his right-wing fanboys. Either way, he's a dirtbag.

To expand on this, I don't think it matters whether Musk is an anti-Semite in his heart of hearts. Calling out Soros this way is a clear anti-Semitic dog whistle.

Kurth wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 11:59 am

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 11:37 am First, criticism of Soros is almost entirely based on his ethnicity. It's "Jews control the banks" type racism.

Musk says racist things pretty regularly. Here he's speaking to his right wing supporters, who are assumed to know where the criticism of Soros comes from. I.e. If someone says "Soros sucks" everyone already understands that it actually means "Soros sucks because he's part of the Jewish cabal".

It's idiotic of course, but this is the world at present.

And this criticism of Soros is pure garbage. He hates humanity and wants to destroy civilization? Come on. It's straight from the drumpf book.

I know you are a lawyer and believe facts not in evidence aren't facts, but here it's pretty clear what Musk is saying, and why he is saying it. I *might* consider giving him the benefit of the doubt if he had anything substantive to say in his criticism, but no. Soros is bad because "assign random negative motivations to him".

Again, Soros is regularly targeted as a Jewish cabal member, and Musk knows this. Is Musk a racist or just using racists? Who cares?

But Soros really is a billionaire funder of liberal, progressive causes, right? So Musk could rail against Soros for prominent reasons other than antisemitism.

I mean, I don’t doubt the antisemitism of many of those who attack him (especially when they also believe he is funding Jewish space lasers), but you can be anti-Soros without being antisemitic. I’d need to see more from Elon than his anti-Soros quotes to be comfortable judging him as antisemitic.

I’m very much anti-Koch, but that, in and of itself, doesn’t make me anti-Dutch.

[Full disclaimer: I am, actually, very much anti-Dutch, but my antipathy for the Koch brothers is not what makes me so.]