SpaceX is where other Musk efforts go to die. SpaceX “bought” xAI and Xitter recently. It was also buying hundreds (thousands) of Cybertrucks from Tesla to keep that company afloat, but they gave up, and just dumped the price down to $60,000.
HighOnGoofballs on
Motion to ban any titles with “brutal” or “slams” etc
CJ_Productions on
video unavailable in my country…what?
2pt_perversion on
It’s a mess over there. Bluesky looked hopeful as an alternative but pretty much everyone I want to follow is inactive there and still mainly using twitter. Network effect is a bitch.
Talonsminty on
“Video not available in your location.”
Dammit this soggy island spawned that ssrcastic sod and now we can’t even watch his videos, how unfair is that.
ChapterThr33 on
That video is simultaneously great and depressing. Go watch it.
Catatafish on
It’s the current year! 🤓
_Lenski on
Wonder when he will do one on Blue Sky? 😂
Original_Slothman on
Don’t upvote this. Just watch the episode. It’s a good episode. This article is literally just quoting things from the episode. Sam Haysom sucks.
JohrDinh on
I’ve been using Twitter since 2011, originally for gaming/esports/art discussion. Literally have to follow mostly news/political stuff these days tho as the site is completely useless for anything else now, it’s as uncomfortably obsessed with politics as the rest of the US is these days sadly. The algorithm sucks and legit just doesn’t give me useful information at all, the following feed is just people fighting about shit that honestly doesn’t even affect them half the time or unneeded skepticism/assumptions about news or the markets or whatever else…it’s just….depressing.
Btw no shade to just that platform, they’re all kinda pathetic these days deadass.
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Bluesky is a perfectly usable alternative. Not sure why people aren’t jumping ship.
VictorBelmont on
Shake he didn’t get to include the new trend of vagueposting for engagement
SnoopsBadunkadunk on
It makes me wonder what will be the eventual fate of reddit… I can imagine it becoming a wasteland too. Its founder seems to want to join the billionaire club and that means all the compromises with the same people who made the big social media companies what they are now. And we’ve already seen it be vulnerable to organized manipulation by the spooks and AIs.
Optimal_Beyond_1600 on
X is literally porn, nazis, and Elon Musks’s unfiltered stream of consciousness
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Dreaminginslowmotion on
I was working at Twitter with the Cortex team that was helping to lay down all the ML that would regulate things like sexual abuse, child trafficking, child porn (y’know, all the things you NEED in a major social platform).
When Elon officially took over, within a day, he axed the entirety of that team. I’d like to say he did it with care and precision, though that is the farthest from the truth.
Also, coincidentally, when he came on board, his siblings started appearing randomly in our systems at the highest levels of IC in the company. Want to say Kimbell Musk was one of them? It was just shocking to see because those highest IC levels were reserved for the best minds (and we hired from Apple, Darpa, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.. usually top guys)
Happy to say we won our termination lawsuit against the richest man in Earth’s history. We begin getting paid for severance next month and in 3 installments. Told my wife, I’d like to post the first check in selfie in front of a sink, maybe online, though she recommended not poking the billionaire any further than needed.
broke_boi1 on
Great segment. Twitter’s trending tab has become absolutely useless. Not to mention the bots. Government via social media is truly the worst modern development.
Oliver’s two shows this season have been right on the mark.
BrutalisExMachina on
Was there any SLAMMING or DESTROYING?
Stereo_Jungle_Child on
What was the brutal summary?
The fact that 95% of all the people who vowed to leave the platform in disgust after Musk bought it are all still there?
letsseeitmore on
Stop using it. Problem solved.
Myte342 on
State of what? Why did you just leave the stand-in moniker there at the end, and didn’t finish the sentence?
njman100 on
Thank you John!
Annual-Somewhere7402 on
Great segment. John Oliver never disappoints
Edit: confirmed for me my reasons for deleting m6 account
Tomhyde098 on
There’s two things in my life that I’m happy I never got into. Twitter and POP! figures
Spiky_Hedgehog on
I’ve never liked or trusted John Oliver after his interview with Edward Snowden. He went full mask off in that interview with all the jabs and passive-aggressive comments. There seems like a very angry man underneath the smiley facade and I don’t think he has American’s best interests at heart.
OnlyKey5675 on
John Oliver is alarmingly dishonest in all his hit pieces. Once he does a segment on something you’re knowledgable about you realize it.
Basically it’s a bullshit “source” being fed bullshit and being used by a bullshit president and his bullshit cabinet, and regardless of how you want to receive the bullshit on the app, you’re gonna either get what you don’t want, or get twice as much of what you don’t want.
And if you don’t think this was just a Dev server version of the voting discrepancies surrounding Elon Musk, you aren’t paying attention.
straightdge on
What does this have to do with ‘technology’?? This is purely American politics.
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SpaceX is where other Musk efforts go to die. SpaceX “bought” xAI and Xitter recently. It was also buying hundreds (thousands) of Cybertrucks from Tesla to keep that company afloat, but they gave up, and just dumped the price down to $60,000.
Motion to ban any titles with “brutal” or “slams” etc
video unavailable in my country…what?
It’s a mess over there. Bluesky looked hopeful as an alternative but pretty much everyone I want to follow is inactive there and still mainly using twitter. Network effect is a bitch.
“Video not available in your location.”
Dammit this soggy island spawned that ssrcastic sod and now we can’t even watch his videos, how unfair is that.
That video is simultaneously great and depressing. Go watch it.
It’s the current year! 🤓
Wonder when he will do one on Blue Sky? 😂
Don’t upvote this. Just watch the episode. It’s a good episode. This article is literally just quoting things from the episode. Sam Haysom sucks.
I’ve been using Twitter since 2011, originally for gaming/esports/art discussion. Literally have to follow mostly news/political stuff these days tho as the site is completely useless for anything else now, it’s as uncomfortably obsessed with politics as the rest of the US is these days sadly. The algorithm sucks and legit just doesn’t give me useful information at all, the following feed is just people fighting about shit that honestly doesn’t even affect them half the time or unneeded skepticism/assumptions about news or the markets or whatever else…it’s just….depressing.
Btw no shade to just that platform, they’re all kinda pathetic these days deadass.
Bluesky is a perfectly usable alternative. Not sure why people aren’t jumping ship.
Shake he didn’t get to include the new trend of vagueposting for engagement
It makes me wonder what will be the eventual fate of reddit… I can imagine it becoming a wasteland too. Its founder seems to want to join the billionaire club and that means all the compromises with the same people who made the big social media companies what they are now. And we’ve already seen it be vulnerable to organized manipulation by the spooks and AIs.
X is literally porn, nazis, and Elon Musks’s unfiltered stream of consciousness
[deleted]
I was working at Twitter with the Cortex team that was helping to lay down all the ML that would regulate things like sexual abuse, child trafficking, child porn (y’know, all the things you NEED in a major social platform).
When Elon officially took over, within a day, he axed the entirety of that team. I’d like to say he did it with care and precision, though that is the farthest from the truth.
Also, coincidentally, when he came on board, his siblings started appearing randomly in our systems at the highest levels of IC in the company. Want to say Kimbell Musk was one of them? It was just shocking to see because those highest IC levels were reserved for the best minds (and we hired from Apple, Darpa, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.. usually top guys)
Happy to say we won our termination lawsuit against the richest man in Earth’s history. We begin getting paid for severance next month and in 3 installments. Told my wife, I’d like to post the first check in selfie in front of a sink, maybe online, though she recommended not poking the billionaire any further than needed.
Great segment. Twitter’s trending tab has become absolutely useless. Not to mention the bots. Government via social media is truly the worst modern development.
Oliver’s two shows this season have been right on the mark.
Was there any SLAMMING or DESTROYING?
What was the brutal summary?
The fact that 95% of all the people who vowed to leave the platform in disgust after Musk bought it are all still there?
Stop using it. Problem solved.
State of what? Why did you just leave the stand-in moniker there at the end, and didn’t finish the sentence?
Thank you John!
Great segment. John Oliver never disappoints
Edit: confirmed for me my reasons for deleting m6 account
There’s two things in my life that I’m happy I never got into. Twitter and POP! figures
I’ve never liked or trusted John Oliver after his interview with Edward Snowden. He went full mask off in that interview with all the jabs and passive-aggressive comments. There seems like a very angry man underneath the smiley facade and I don’t think he has American’s best interests at heart.
John Oliver is alarmingly dishonest in all his hit pieces. Once he does a segment on something you’re knowledgable about you realize it.
Since the link in the news story no longer works [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI)
I’ll save you all a click, the current state of **Twitter** is this:
It’s fucking shit.
“400 billion tweets and not one bit of useful data was published.”
https://youtu.be/juQcZO_WnsI?si=LUuAboB354rDlM9p
Basically it’s a bullshit “source” being fed bullshit and being used by a bullshit president and his bullshit cabinet, and regardless of how you want to receive the bullshit on the app, you’re gonna either get what you don’t want, or get twice as much of what you don’t want.
And if you don’t think this was just a Dev server version of the voting discrepancies surrounding Elon Musk, you aren’t paying attention.
What does this have to do with ‘technology’?? This is purely American politics.