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Linda Yaccarino pressed about the chaos on X. She seems detached from reality

14 points by isaacfrond 3y ago

tibbydudeza 3y ago
Detached - I would have used that word - there is an Elon Reality Distortion Field just not in a good way.
drumhead 3y ago
I feel sorry for her. She has to try save a company burdened with too much debt and very little cash, alienating and losing customers and being run by a capricious teenager.
- throw-ru-938 3y ago
  She'll probably get more money than you and me have ever seen, then fail upwards into another cushy C-level position. There's no need to be sorry for her.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
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- clouddrover 3y ago
  No need to feel sorry for her. It's what she signed up for. She decided the money was worth it.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  I mean, she's a grownup; she presumably knew what she was getting into. (I suppose it's borderline possible she thought she'd actually be the CEO, but she'd have had to be very naive.)
- bluefishinit 3y ago
  Anyone who chooses to work with Musk deserves what they get. It's been crystal clear for years what kind of person he is, this was her own doing.
  - rekabis 3y ago
    Prior companies always had a history of surrounding Musk with “handlers” that steered him in productive and non-destructive directions and manipulated him into making sane decisions. Twitter never had this, and was never ready for Musky-boy when he bought the place. The behind-the-scenes presence and work of these handlers are also what engineered such a “tech bro” cult of personality around Musk, such that he acquired legions of deluded fanboys who thought he was playing 4D chess when he was always two drool bubbles away from munching on the carpet. So I can understand it when people have an unrealistically idealistic view of Musk. The social engineering done by his handlers has been exemplary, if only because they were trying to leverage this useful idiot into making their company greater than it could have been without his name attached to it. They had to do what they did from behind the scenes, completely hidden, in order for investors and other involved entities to not lose confidence.
    - inemesitaffia 3y ago
      It's a meme sorry
aaron695 3y ago
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jonathanstrange 3y ago
I sincerely hope that Twitter self-destructs, goes bankrupt or becomes Myspace 2.0 very soon. It's the worst online platform I've ever seen. There is no comparison to other social media platforms. It swamps me with tweets by Neon-Nazis and Russian propaganda when I simply just look for #ukraine from a nearly blank, new user account. The things I've seen there are mind-boggling, and they have made the ability to report illegal tweets defunct for my account (or browser, Firefox with Ublock Origin, but it doesn't seem to be the ad blocker). So I have to report illegal tweets directly to online portals [1]. Hopefully, at least the EU takes actions against Twitter / X. [1] https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/reporting-to-national-bodies https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/reporting-to-nat...
- cc_ashby 3y ago
  > It swamps me with tweets by Neon-Nazis and Russian propaganda when I simply just look for #ukraine from a nearly blank, new user account. Strong accusation. It’s wrong. Very easy to test. I made a new account, put Careers, Business, and Technology as interests, followed one person (Elon Musk) as bare minimum. Searching #Ukraine shows pro-Ukraine posts and mostly atrocities by Russia. There’s virtually no difference in search with my own personal account. What are you on about?
  - jonathanstrange 3y ago
    Twitter is a cesspool of hate, be aware that I only gave #ukraine as an example. And No, AFAIK I'm not wrong. Yes, it mostly shows pro-Ukrainian accounts and never claimed the majority of tweets are problematic. But it also shows a lot of pro-Russian propaganda of the worst sort. Many of these tweets are illegal in e.g. Germany. The tweets I've seen range from torture of POWs, over the glorification of genocide to conspiracy theories. However, you're right in that I should have prepared better ways of proving this. I'll document the respective posters and accounts in the future and will report them more systematically. I encourage others to do the same, and instead of reporting to Twitter directly report to the links in [1]. > What are you on about? Excuse me? [1] https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/reporting-to-national-bodies https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/reporting-to-nat...
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DemocracyFTW2 3y ago
> since Musk’s takeover. Yaccarino, who was once considered a serious person in the industry Emphasis mine. Yaccs, now Yacx, reminds me of that lady who was Hitler's private secretary. You have done no killing in the camps, none of the shooting, you didn't formulate those laws and regulations to help in the genocide, none of that. You just did your 9-to-5 job like a regular girl. Right next to and at the beck and call of your idealized and, in your view, slightly misunderstood and wrongly demonized (by some) boss. But it's this very proximity, both the physical and the syntactic, that will be your undoing. You willingly opened the door to his echo chamber and walked right into the heart of it, the epicenter. When your boss is physically gone forever one day, when his enterprise lies in ruins and bankruptcy, then no matter what your afterlife will look like, you will never get to leave that close syntactic and narrative proximity, ever. Even if you lay down your steno pad tomorrow and declare distance and independence, writers will always keep writing about you as "Ms So-and-so, who once was part of the innermost circle around The-one-who-we-shall-not-name, ...". Before that day, just in order to keep returning to that cherished office of yours, you must amplify whatever BS is cooked up there, and cook up your own distortions and outright lies. It's not an option, it's vital. To those who are mad at me for drawing a tired, frivolous analogy to a certain unpopular historical figure (who is easily magnitudes more of a villain than E.M.), let me say, One, the story is true, and the lady fessed up late in her life when she was like 90yo. Two, I could've chosen from any number of absolute boss + smart but obedient aide situations, past and present. This particular story is just a reminder that once you're inside, the sky is the limit when it comes to reality distortion fields. They are physically real, in the sense that they destroy people's lives, both inside and outside of The Circle.

14 points by isaacfrond 3y ago

Detached - I would have used that word - there is an Elon Reality Distortion Field just not in a good way.

I feel sorry for her. She has to try save a company burdened with too much debt and very little cash, alienating and losing customers and being run by a capricious teenager.

throw-ru-938 3y ago
She'll probably get more money than you and me have ever seen, then fail upwards into another cushy C-level position. There's no need to be sorry for her.
3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago
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clouddrover 3y ago
No need to feel sorry for her. It's what she signed up for. She decided the money was worth it.
rsynnott 3y ago
I mean, she's a grownup; she presumably knew what she was getting into. (I suppose it's borderline possible she thought she'd actually be the CEO, but she'd have had to be very naive.)
bluefishinit 3y ago
Anyone who chooses to work with Musk deserves what they get. It's been crystal clear for years what kind of person he is, this was her own doing.
- rekabis 3y ago
  Prior companies always had a history of surrounding Musk with “handlers” that steered him in productive and non-destructive directions and manipulated him into making sane decisions. Twitter never had this, and was never ready for Musky-boy when he bought the place. The behind-the-scenes presence and work of these handlers are also what engineered such a “tech bro” cult of personality around Musk, such that he acquired legions of deluded fanboys who thought he was playing 4D chess when he was always two drool bubbles away from munching on the carpet. So I can understand it when people have an unrealistically idealistic view of Musk. The social engineering done by his handlers has been exemplary, if only because they were trying to leverage this useful idiot into making their company greater than it could have been without his name attached to it. They had to do what they did from behind the scenes, completely hidden, in order for investors and other involved entities to not lose confidence.
  - inemesitaffia 3y ago
    It's a meme sorry

aaron695 3y ago

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jonathanstrange 3y ago

I sincerely hope that Twitter self-destructs, goes bankrupt or becomes Myspace 2.0 very soon. It's the worst online platform I've ever seen. There is no comparison to other social media platforms. It swamps me with tweets by Neon-Nazis and Russian propaganda when I simply just look for #ukraine from a nearly blank, new user account. The things I've seen there are mind-boggling, and they have made the ability to report illegal tweets defunct for my account (or browser, Firefox with Ublock Origin, but it doesn't seem to be the ad blocker). So I have to report illegal tweets directly to online portals [1]. Hopefully, at least the EU takes actions against Twitter / X. [1] https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/reporting-to-national-bodies https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/reporting-to-nat...

cc_ashby 3y ago
> It swamps me with tweets by Neon-Nazis and Russian propaganda when I simply just look for #ukraine from a nearly blank, new user account. Strong accusation. It’s wrong. Very easy to test. I made a new account, put Careers, Business, and Technology as interests, followed one person (Elon Musk) as bare minimum. Searching #Ukraine shows pro-Ukraine posts and mostly atrocities by Russia. There’s virtually no difference in search with my own personal account. What are you on about?
- jonathanstrange 3y ago
  Twitter is a cesspool of hate, be aware that I only gave #ukraine as an example. And No, AFAIK I'm not wrong. Yes, it mostly shows pro-Ukrainian accounts and never claimed the majority of tweets are problematic. But it also shows a lot of pro-Russian propaganda of the worst sort. Many of these tweets are illegal in e.g. Germany. The tweets I've seen range from torture of POWs, over the glorification of genocide to conspiracy theories. However, you're right in that I should have prepared better ways of proving this. I'll document the respective posters and accounts in the future and will report them more systematically. I encourage others to do the same, and instead of reporting to Twitter directly report to the links in [1]. > What are you on about? Excuse me? [1] https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/reporting-to-national-bodies https://www.coe.int/en/web/no-hate-campaign/reporting-to-nat...

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DemocracyFTW2 3y ago

> since Musk’s takeover. Yaccarino, who was once considered a serious person in the industry Emphasis mine. Yaccs, now Yacx, reminds me of that lady who was Hitler's private secretary. You have done no killing in the camps, none of the shooting, you didn't formulate those laws and regulations to help in the genocide, none of that. You just did your 9-to-5 job like a regular girl. Right next to and at the beck and call of your idealized and, in your view, slightly misunderstood and wrongly demonized (by some) boss. But it's this very proximity, both the physical and the syntactic, that will be your undoing. You willingly opened the door to his echo chamber and walked right into the heart of it, the epicenter. When your boss is physically gone forever one day, when his enterprise lies in ruins and bankruptcy, then no matter what your afterlife will look like, you will never get to leave that close syntactic and narrative proximity, ever. Even if you lay down your steno pad tomorrow and declare distance and independence, writers will always keep writing about you as "Ms So-and-so, who once was part of the innermost circle around The-one-who-we-shall-not-name, ...". Before that day, just in order to keep returning to that cherished office of yours, you must amplify whatever BS is cooked up there, and cook up your own distortions and outright lies. It's not an option, it's vital. To those who are mad at me for drawing a tired, frivolous analogy to a certain unpopular historical figure (who is easily magnitudes more of a villain than E.M.), let me say, One, the story is true, and the lady fessed up late in her life when she was like 90yo. Two, I could've chosen from any number of absolute boss + smart but obedient aide situations, past and present. This particular story is just a reminder that once you're inside, the sky is the limit when it comes to reality distortion fields. They are physically real, in the sense that they destroy people's lives, both inside and outside of The Circle.