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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’ve been keeping an eye on this, but it’s all self reported right could just be people poking fun? Correlated with the news last night and people waking up this morning.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It will be very hard for people not to learn the wrong lessons from Elon’s takeover of Twitter, even if he is successful. Seems very early to judge in either direction, we’ll probably need at least a year to see (or maybe just through Black
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I was assuming the 90% laid off a disproportionate number of non engineers and only engineers were left but your version is much spicier :-)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This was a fun read, a few additions: "Everything fails, all the time" --Werner Vogels, CTO of AWS. They are in a code freeze right now. Which means they're not changing the system. And as every SRE learns in SRE Kindergart
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Kara Swisher recently interviewed Noam Bardin, the creator of: https://post.news/ This seems like a public square with the exact opposite goals of Elon (heavy moderation)
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by mikkergp 4y ago
If this really does tank, what is the likelihood/options for the Twitter assets to be bought by someone?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I mean you’re not wrong and it’s not over yet. “ How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one.”
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It almost seems on purpose but that seems like a money and reputation to burn to what, defeat wokeism? Pave the way for truth social? Seems very high risk to assume that Twitter is that essential a source of that influence.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
You’re absolutely right for any small group of people, but if 88 percent of employees are gone(and you’re right that’s a big if right now) I don’t think there’s a precedent for this?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/15933997046366... !!! “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," "There is no longer eve
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Platformer said 25% staying? Which probably gets Musk Closer to that 75% layoff number he originally said he was looking for. It's probably a good sign for him that he keeps having to set new ultimatums. Lots of people want to stay.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
A bit of a snooze fest, but features for websites like twitter are weird, sometimes I forget to remember that people _like_ Twitter, so in some ways more of the same executed well is what you want. But is there any other company doing well
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Hmm feels like the myth of the rational actor, while the incentivized may not be there, individual differences likely are.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Is staying be inherently safer than moving?
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don't see how the conclusion the author comes to doesn't supports the title of the article: "There are approximately twelve thousand Mastodon servers at the moment, so the fact that forty-five of them block one server of jo
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I love the assortment of projects you've been working on, and great design!
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by mikkergp 4y ago
This is an interesting emergent observation, but what is the author criticizing, What is the fear here? In a connected world with social media amplifying peoples opinions, there will be a reaction when powerful people break a taboo. Why is
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by mikkergp 4y ago
There’s a thesis here I can’t get my head around which seems to be when powerful people do things you don’t like, don’t speak out. Don’t speak truth to power, defer to it and let power manipulate the world without criticism. And when you d
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don’t know if it’s just me but I’m not really sure that anything Elon says is really honest. I suppose I think he honestly has disdain for the former Twitter staff and honestly wants people to work 90 hour weeks but almost everything els
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Is the difficulty of running a company proportional to the technical difficulty of the problems it attempts to solve? I believe there's a lot more to running a company than finding a solution to a technical problem without killing
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by mikkergp 4y ago
You think this article is designed to protect SBF? As in a positive spin? That was not the impression I got at all from reading the article.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
So when a worker missed a Tesla function for the birth of their child, Musk was about as understanding as you would expect. According to a new book, he said, “That is no excuse. I am extremely disappointed. You need to figure out where you
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by mikkergp 4y ago
While I think you're absolutely correct in theory there are a lot of people on the risk management side using bad data to argue the opposite. Personally I know for people in my life it's not enough to discuss the fact that the CO
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by mikkergp 4y ago
It was kinda a joke based on this headline: https://fortune.com/2022/11/14/elon-musk-only-exceptional-tw... He said exceptional is the baseline and only exceptional twitter employees can work from home, ergo
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think most of my instinct is just fear of going against the “smart money” support of Elon.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> I think Twitter can continue to operate and even be profitable Im curious to hear more on this, in my mind the biggest problem with adding a new product offering would be diluting the text based content which may drive people to more “
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Oh I read the article and know what the article says, but the headline is still a mess. I’m imagining monkeys in cubicles at hello fresh corporate frantically dialing coconut milk vendors
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> My guess is that most celebrities would figuratively crawl through a field of broken glass to get their fix of attention and kudos from their supporters. Yeah I think the network effects are stronger than anyone would like to admit. I
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Trying to unwrap this headline, and still struggling.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I think this is certainly true. But my understanding of Twitter - and this may be flawed - was that it was always a mission driven company over a profit driven one. Elon said he wanted to continue that tradition, but with the debt load Tw

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