Caught a permaban for telling Rowling I hoped the coming year was a miserable one for her, and the reason given was "wishing harm on others."
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Good move, he's one of the most boring men on the planet.
Interesting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007
Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders say
Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.
Exclusive academic data plus testimony from Twitter users backs up their allegations, suggesting hate is thriving under Mr Musk's leadership, with trolls emboldened, harassment intensifying and a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profiles.
Twitter can’t protect you from trolls any more, insiders say
Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.
Exclusive academic data plus testimony from Twitter users backs up their allegations, suggesting hate is thriving under Mr Musk's leadership, with trolls emboldened, harassment intensifying and a spike in accounts following misogynistic and abusive profiles.
Looking into it (to make it ever better for incels, that is).
So many issues with the app right now, no images loading at the moment.
Yeah, and it's even worse if you're not logged in. If you try to log in via the website, then this is what you get:
This also stops people from viewing Tweets outside of their already logged-in sessions. At this point, I hope that everyone I follow can just move over to Mastodon or a similar competitor. It's incredible to see how much worse Twitter has gotten in terms of both quality and reliability under Elon Musk.
Love the dead bird in the banner.
FYI - I (and many others) predicted exactly this happening.
My company used to pay them a small fortune to scrape data off there but they fecked that up the other week too.
Need to hear from some completely messed up Musk-fanboys before I form an opinion on wether or not this is a bad thing for Twitter.
Are the bunch of 15 year old programming geniuses still an available option?
twitter.com is down. I get an error message on a black screen - wow that's bad.
Only couple of weeks before the talented high schoolers come around.
Maybe Elon does want to buy United after all, they wanted to banter us so hard but he wouldn't let them.
From the error message about the API, it sounds like they've continued switching off that functionality unless it's on paid plans and ended up stopping any users at all accessing the site. They must be in such a mess to let that one through.
Looks like their URL shortener service is down which is used by all links generated for images and videos.
It's surreal when you think about it.
Niall notifies us days in advance when the site is about to go down for maintenance. Even during moments of high stress when traffic is unwieldly, we get the functional 'she cannae take the strain captain' screen. I cannot think of a time the caf went down with a black screen and an error message in the last 9 years. (@Niall for Twitter CEO?)
This is a 44B social media organization - that blackout itself would cost the company a small country's education budget. What a joke Elon is.
Niall notifies us days in advance when the site is about to go down for maintenance. Even during moments of high stress when traffic is unwieldly, we get the functional 'she cannae take the strain captain' screen. I cannot think of a time the caf went down with a black screen and an error message in the last 9 years. (@Niall for Twitter CEO?)
This is a 44B social media organization - that blackout itself would cost the company a small country's education budget. What a joke Elon is.
Apparently the platform is brittle, and obviously nothing to do with sacking a large percentage of their developers and engineers.
Twitter API error broke the site today as Musk blames “brittle” platform | Ars Technica
Twitter API error broke the site today as Musk blames “brittle” platform | Ars Technica
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Twitter became much better. Elon is like ETH. Improved everything but some bumps here and there. Happy now?
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If Musk sold tickets to a live feed of him personally sitting at a computer and starting this "rewrite" then he'd earn an absolute fortune back.
A 'rewrite' will eventually be even more 'brittle' as well, especially with the revamped, smaller, high attrition profile of Twitter.
Man has either no idea how code at big tech works or is simply posturing to look cool and knowledgeable. Or both. I'd put money on both.
He’s legit hilarious at times, Trump level semi-accidental hilarious.
He has no idea how code works, full stop. Just like he has no idea how rockets work, electric cars work, language models work or even how monkey brain chips work.
Most of all he's trying to deflect blame away from himself and onto the previous leadership.
True, but he's either stumbled upon or known a team how rockets work. They're way ahead of the rest (by a huge amount in terms of launch cadence), and although it's nothing to do with him are likely to keep him around and buying what he wants unfortunately
Oh yeah for sure. SpaceX is full of very smart people making incredible things, that then turn into money in Elon Musk's pockets (maybe? I have no idea if SpaceX is profitable, I just assumed because NASA is giving them so much money to do space stuffs)
That was true in the past, but now they're very self-sufficient and getting a lot of their money from other companies. A relatively small amount of their Falcon 9 launches are NASA nowadays. They're launching one every 5 days now on average and going for more which is pretty crazy. Starship should be launching in the next month as well, which will allow them to put more Starlink and bigger commercial satellites in orbit.
Nothing to do with Musk like you say, and it says a lot that they have the least public Musk input.
This would be true if ETH lost 7-0 to Liverpool every week. But he doesn't so it is not.