Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in

Though we will be subject to a lot of irritating social media drama and pointless public controversy despite no material changes.

You're talking about the wrong "this". I think you're right, and that's why he went through with the purchase instead of fighting the lawsuit, but he was only facing that lawsuit because he moved to buy it in the first place. He didn't accidentally sign a bunch of paperwork to buy a company for $40bn, he at some point made a bunch of deliberate decisions.

Would you kindly expand briefly on what you are alluding to? I’m unaware of the court case. TIA.

100%. It may or may not sell products, be good for ads. Those engagements might not be ideal, for those stakeholders-bearing-checkbooks.

But it is by orders of magnitude highest radix connector of humanity we have. I've probably clicked fav on a million different people's tweets, I've probably written messages to tens of thousands of different people I've never met. I've seen multiple sides of millions of topics & synthesized my own opinion.

Nothing comes remotely close. Highest human engagement platform of all time.

Well, according to Musk himself, a giant percent of claimed user base are bots.

agree. Track record says way more than words.

Well don't leave us in the dark...

What actions have you noticed that contradicts his statements?

So we can debate whether or not you came to the right conclusion in interpreting said actions.

Or were you just making general hand waving statements?

Heard this many times since the whole Musk/twitter thing started, yet no one actually comes up with any action he did.

Especially on twitter itself its a very common "argument", usually followed by the burden of proof fallacy calming that it is "common knowledge" and its up to me to research if I dont already know the free speech "wrongdoings" of Musk.

Once is fine but I hope you're not planning on spamming that link throughout this thread (this is now the 2nd time I see you've linked it)

Oops, my bad, and there was a tweet earlier this week about WP throwing narrative in Elon way, he replied about that too.

That's correct. It's a bit of a meme on twitter where someone will make some statement, then that phrase. Eg "20k seagulls die every day from choking on keurig pods. Let that sink in." Musk is parodying that with a physical sink.

yes. Let that "sink" in.

Yes, that's probably why. Musk likes dumb puns. Or maybe knows that his fans like them and that it gets attention without saying anything real.

I keep my feed reverse-chronological (and avoid their "home" feed), and the worst thing I see in my feed is people complaining about all the rage bait. Their algorithmic feed tries to put "engaging" content in your face, but it's so easy to avoid that it honestly seems negligent that most people don't bother with the two clicks it'd take to make the change.

Yes it'd be better if that stuff didn't exist, but it's hardly as bad as other sites' feeds.

Twitter is much like Reddit in that if you actively avoid the shit, you won't get any on you and it's not that bad.

Remember when the "mobile version" was just SMS? It was fun back then.

Fun fact: A couple of years ago, I wanted to see some of those first tweets I made over SMS, and they were gone. My guess is that they had major data loss at one point, and just never told anyone.

I met my wife on Twitter in that timeframe.

That's some bad fanfic.

Who knows, maybe that's the long term plan.

In the medium term, Twitter might be the best place to train models on the zeitgeist of the moment. For whatever reason you'd want to do that.

My personal fanfic for neuralink is that it's the reason the Tesla bot has human like hands.