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by fooey 4y ago
It's smart because Musk already blinked The top 10,000 are getting exemptions and won't have to pay https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/twitter-business-month...
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by fooey 4y ago
Makes it more difficult to get their members to keep paying a mandatory 10% of their income, to be considered a member in good standing, when you're already sitting on a dragon's horde
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by fooey 4y ago
The fund in question has never in 22 years been tapped for any charitable purpose
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by fooey 4y ago
He liked a tweet about this story too https://twitter.com/DAnconia_Crypto/status/16110365997013688... https://twitter.com/thegristleking/likes
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by fooey 4y ago
Yeah, $13 billion being the generous side of the very most Twitter was ever actually worth, so that's the all the banks were willing to finance Musk himself is personally on the hook for $25 billion
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by fooey 4y ago
Paying out 90 days severance for the majority of your workforce is a big stack of cash that has to come from somewhere It's not like Twitter has any cash reserves after it was just saddled with a few billion dollars of debt, and I doub
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EU warns Musk that Twitter faces ban over content moderation(ft.com)
11 points by fooey 4y ago|1 comments
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by fooey 4y ago
Doing the big ultimatum after firing a random half of the organization and then demanding RTO really wasn't the best planning
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by fooey 4y ago
The World Cup is in 3 days too, that's a seriously massive global event
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by fooey 4y ago
Wonder if her return is related to the Official checkmark returning as well
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Twitter Buyout Loans Get Bid at 60 Cents as Banks Sound Out Investors(bloomberg.com)
8 points by fooey 4y ago|3 comments
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by fooey 4y ago
Banks are on the hook for about $12b, plus he convinced a handful of shareholders to roll over their multi-billion dollar investments so he didn't have to buy them out, notably @jack and the Saudi group
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by fooey 4y ago
Reporting now adds the "Head of Advertising" and the "Head of Trust and Safety" to the exodus of executives https://twitter.com/anthony/status/1590822724946956289 > TWITTER EXECUTIVES ROBIN
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by fooey 4y ago
Here's an article with more details https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elo... Twitter is under an onerous FTC consent decree that could lead to billions in fines, but is being
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by fooey 4y ago
The NAACP is officially calling for an advertiser boycott of Twitter > It is immoral, dangerous, and highly destructive to our democracy for any advertiser to fund a platform that fuels hate speech, election denialism and conspiracy theo
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by fooey 4y ago
At $500 per day at a max of 60 days, you're capping out at $30,000 per employee When you're talking about thousands of employees, it gets up in the millions, but that's not much compared to the pile of cash already on fire
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by fooey 4y ago
And Tesla is being sued for WARN Act violations, which mandates 60 days severance, but it remains to be seen if they can enforce it > An employer who violates the WARN Act notice requirement is liable to each affected employee for an amo
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by fooey 4y ago
cross-origin caching on the web has been dead for years doesn't seem possible to do without leaking data
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by fooey 4y ago
Part of his pitch during the acquisition was charging for embeds, so I would not be making any bets on the API loosening up
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by fooey 4y ago
the actual PCB is not overly big, it's the cooler that's massive
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by fooey 4y ago
Conveniently, much of Musk's assets are stored in another Delaware company called Tesla
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by fooey 4y ago
Also > The Delaware Court of Chancery says Twitter can proceed with a limited probe to figure out whether whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko contacted billionaire Elon Musk’s lawyers before he backed out of the deal. The decision was rel
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by fooey 4y ago
There is no negotiating, he agreed to buy it at $54.20 Twitter and the Delaware courts were going to seize his assets if necessary to complete the funding, but Musk was going to own Twitter whether or not he still wanted it.
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by fooey 4y ago
Here's Bloomberg backing up the tweet: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-04/elon-musk...
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Musk said to propose to Twitter to proceed with deal at $54.20, shares halted(twitter.com)
36 points by fooey 4y ago|7 comments
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by fooey 4y ago
After the lazy dumpster fire atrocious port they did for PC, I guess anything can be a miracle
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by fooey 4y ago
The Texas law makes it illegal to not do business with Texas Which is hilarious, but who the hell knows what the courts will decide these days
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by fooey 4y ago
What a bummer. My plan for this fall was to go all in on a new high-end machine with all EVGA parts once the 4090 and 13900 are available Now I'll have to spend a ton of time trying to figure out what other brands to deal with instead.
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Elon Musk's $44B takeover offer accepted at the shareholder meeting(twitter.com)
2 points by fooey 4y ago|0 comments
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by fooey 4y ago
I've been very happy with CloudFlare Pages, and I hear good things about Vercel, but those aren't as expansive as Heroku (yet?)

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