4 ms·

What's obvious here is that these people are drunk with power. Most of the conversations revolve around social engineering or extracting as much money as possib

What's obvious here is that these people are drunk with power. Most of the conversations revolve around social engineering or extracting as much money as possible from Twitter. Paints a really bleak picture of everyone involved. The only one that appears sane is Jack, everyone else is pushing some agenda that has nothing to do with the product itself or its participants.

jshzglr 4y ago
I don't know. Didn't seem so bad, aside from Jason Calacanis' gobble gobble.
- koyanisqatsi 4y ago
  It's pretty obvious none of these people care about anything other than money, power, and their personal amusement. Jack is right, Twitter needs to be a protocol. It's a mess because it is centralized and there are private and state actors trying to run influence operations on it.
perilunar 4y ago
Didn't seem like that to me. Mostly seemed pretty mundane. There's this weird thing I'm seeing at the moment where every second comment about Musk (here, on Twitter, wherever) is calling him a psychopath or worse (so much name calling), but when you read what he actually writes, or watch him on video, he seems pretty sane. He's got money and Aspergers, so he's not 'normal', but he seems sane and not-evil to me. I'm beginning to think that anyone who resorts to name-calling is not worth listening to.
- klyrs 4y ago
  > I'm beginning to think that anyone who resorts to name-calling is not worth listening to. That includes Musk.
- d23 4y ago
  He’s responsible for his behavior and the image he puts out in public. The fact that he acts cruel, psychotic, and childish in public and somewhat normal to other billionaires in private says a lot about him, and it’s not good.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
- puffoflogic 4y ago
  > He's got money and Aspergers, so he's not 'normal', but he seems sane and not-evil to me. It's very easy to underestimate by 1000x the number of people who have an irrational hatred of Asperger's/other ND people. Only ND are in a position to really notice (for the same reason a white person in the US saying "I just don't see much racism" means nothing) but ND are uniquely deficient in identifying who has such a hatred for them. With 30 yrs experience I have determined that at least 2% of my casual acquaintances casually harbor this particular brand of bigotry. This is likely an underestimate for the aforementioned reason. I have no idea where this stands relative to racism, etc. but it seems pretty significant. Case in point: sibling comment asserts that Elon is "cruel, psychotic, and childish" when in fact he exhibits nothing but perfectly harmless ND-typical behavior.
  - vanattab 4y ago
    Calling a hero a pedophile because he thought your toy submarine was a dumb PR stunt (which it was) is not harmless ND-typical behavior.
wombatpm 4y ago
If only Jack had not been a part time CEO for all of those years. He should have stepped away when they had their quarters

jshzglr 4y ago

I don't know. Didn't seem so bad, aside from Jason Calacanis' gobble gobble.

koyanisqatsi 4y ago
It's pretty obvious none of these people care about anything other than money, power, and their personal amusement. Jack is right, Twitter needs to be a protocol. It's a mess because it is centralized and there are private and state actors trying to run influence operations on it.

perilunar 4y ago

Didn't seem like that to me. Mostly seemed pretty mundane. There's this weird thing I'm seeing at the moment where every second comment about Musk (here, on Twitter, wherever) is calling him a psychopath or worse (so much name calling), but when you read what he actually writes, or watch him on video, he seems pretty sane. He's got money and Aspergers, so he's not 'normal', but he seems sane and not-evil to me. I'm beginning to think that anyone who resorts to name-calling is not worth listening to.

klyrs 4y ago
> I'm beginning to think that anyone who resorts to name-calling is not worth listening to. That includes Musk.
d23 4y ago
He’s responsible for his behavior and the image he puts out in public. The fact that he acts cruel, psychotic, and childish in public and somewhat normal to other billionaires in private says a lot about him, and it’s not good.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
puffoflogic 4y ago
> He's got money and Aspergers, so he's not 'normal', but he seems sane and not-evil to me. It's very easy to underestimate by 1000x the number of people who have an irrational hatred of Asperger's/other ND people. Only ND are in a position to really notice (for the same reason a white person in the US saying "I just don't see much racism" means nothing) but ND are uniquely deficient in identifying who has such a hatred for them. With 30 yrs experience I have determined that at least 2% of my casual acquaintances casually harbor this particular brand of bigotry. This is likely an underestimate for the aforementioned reason. I have no idea where this stands relative to racism, etc. but it seems pretty significant. Case in point: sibling comment asserts that Elon is "cruel, psychotic, and childish" when in fact he exhibits nothing but perfectly harmless ND-typical behavior.
- vanattab 4y ago
  Calling a hero a pedophile because he thought your toy submarine was a dumb PR stunt (which it was) is not harmless ND-typical behavior.

wombatpm 4y ago

If only Jack had not been a part time CEO for all of those years. He should have stepped away when they had their quarters