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> Space Karen

> billionaire bozo

> comparisons to his Mother's death

Yeah, I had a hard time getting through it. At least, I don't get the point the author is trying to make.

Is this really a surprise given the direction social data has gone in the past decade or so? APIs will only remain public as long as they are useful.

Elon sees an upside to making the API at twitter more private, in order to maintain control over Twitter's direction. You can argue as much as you want for, or against this, but don't add noise and make me rake through it.

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Same thoughts. Someone's got to get emotions under control

Why? I loved reading something that was heartfelt and unfiltered. Does everything have to be sanitized to that it doesn't offend anyone's sensibilities? Because I find that offensive.

Being coarse on purpose to express yourself is perfect valid. It's not like he's being asked to critique Schopenhauer and his reply is "Fuck that shit." He's responding to having years of work rendered moot for no apparent reason beyond one man's preference.

Space Karen is more than generous.

It's not about generosity, it's about substance.

There's no substance to name-calling a billionaire. The entire article is emotional drivel.

That's what is distracting about Elon the most. He's nothing but emotional drivel. Everything he does is draped in a veil of emotion.

The author is disappointed because API access has been removed.

He's angry because it was apparently done without notice on the orders of billionaire bozo Space Karen.

Do you really think that "Space Karen" is a clever insult? It's such a boring meme. You might as well just print a "Spaceman Bad" t-shirt so that everyone knows your approach to technology is motivated by politics.

I don't have any opinion on it. I was explaining why I think the author used the language he did. Even if I did have an opinion on it, I don't think it's an insight into my politics, any more than simping for Musk would be an insight into yours.

Ehhh. Nobody's "simping for Musk" in this thread.

You should just evaluate Twitter on its own merits. Don't worry about the fact that Elon Musk doesn't march lockstep to woke orthodoxy.

And there it is, the inevitable "woke".

Why is this hard to understand without bringing your politics into it?

If you build an app that depends on an API, it really sucks if that API is taken away. But we all know it happens. Even so, most companies care enough about goodwill that they will give some advance notice so that you can prepare for it.

In this case, the API was revoked with absolutely no advance warning for people like TapBots, who have been selling and supporting TweetBot for literally years, and now have to clean up the unexpected mess.

That's why, on their merits, Twitter the company and Musk the owner are complete dicks here.

Can you understand that, or is basic common decency too much woke orthodoxy for you?

Keep back-pedaling, you'd have supported the same actions if they were done by "the good guys" that lost control of the company.

> Why is this hard to understand without bringing your politics into it?

Pot, meet kettle.

I thought Dorsey was a doofus whose part-time management contributed to the utter stagnation of the product. And their API changes in 2012 were a shitty thing to do to developers, but perhaps less cowardly than the current changes.

I don't use it much these days, but hopefully it'll stick around, even if only as a Parler clone with $5B in debt, mostly populated by angry reply guys whining about wokeness. I'm sure you'll be happy there.

Your reaction to and obsession with the word "woke" tells us all we need to know about your propaganda driven mind.

I don't even have a twitter account, by the way.

This is an absurd gotcha. If someone is pointing out that someone else is employing a political buzzword for that argument, that's somehow having a "propaganda driven mind"?

Everyone knows using the word "woke" like this is a cheap shot pejorative that has no substance, but pointing out someone using it like this is some kind of "obsession"? If the original poster didn't intend to be so provocative, maybe they shouldn't have leaned on using the words "woke orthodoxy" to make such a lazy point for them.

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