elon did not 'buy Twitter'
he impulsively made a ludicrously overpriced offer on Twitter
signed a contract that put him on the hook for that exact amount
tried to back out but was sued BY TWITTER to complete the buyout at the ridiculous price
and is now in a deal where-
Marie kondo never said "minimalism is the way" she never said "throw everything away" she never said "you can only have 30 books"
what she asked you to do was
ask yourself
Does this spark joy?
if not, thank it for its service, and toss it.
elon financed his Twitter bid for 43bn (he hasn't officially bought it yet) with a loan leveraged against tesla stock.
tesla dropped 11 percent today. 110bn market value lost.
if it loses 40 percent he has to repay his loan.
it would be funny except- no. wait. it is.
Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients’ mental and financial wellbeing bit.ly/2zi5D8d
Shinichiro Watanabe, creator, says he intentionally wanted to have lots of skin colors in bebop as he didn't like other animes where all the characters have white skin
the worse tesla performs, the more debt he's in, and the worse Twitter performs, the worse tesla performs because Markets.
his actions = a guy with no impulse control suddenly at risk of losing his shirt and doing damage control
the dog who caught the car.
'he can fix twitter' man can't fix a fucking car window or make a door that opens.
he's going to fix one of the largest and most complicated social networks after dissolving the board and firing all the staff?
suuuure jan.
russian onlyfans models who got banned off the platform urging their subscribers to donate the refunds to ukraine relief efforts is such a stark illustration of the moral imbalance of tech platforms and the users who built those platforms
social programming lies to us that rich people 'deserve' to be in their position, through skill, talent, or wisdom.
rich people get rich because they took a small fortune and turned it into a huge fortune
trump and musk are man children whose only talent is throwing money away
myers-briggs creator is a white supremacist, love languages creator is a christian homophobe, turns out trying to reduce the world to easily labellable boxes is a regressive, conservative idea. who knew.
the number one streaming show in the world for like two months was a gay pirate romance and netflix is over here releasing more transphobic 'comedy' shows and wondering why their business model is dying
all this fucking ridiculous oh he has a plan oh he has this motive - he's a redditor with a huge loan he has to service to the tune of a billion dollars a year and no one to tell him no. he's trump if he actually had some money. there's nothing to fucking analyze.
common thing I'm seeing:
person A: doesn't know what an NFT is
looks it up, reads accurate description
A: that can't be right, that sounds like complete bullshit. I must be missing something.
dear reader: you are not. it is bullshit.
I just saw a question in a history forum asking 'Is it true that 30/40 years ago people could buy houses and support multiple children on a single income?'
Think about this. The current generation has no concept of what it is like to be able to do this.
“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997.”
“Soon after the death of his lover Stephen Earabino from AIDS, Los Angeles conceptual artist Boskovich discovered that Earabino’s family had completely cleared out his apartment-
super earth sends millions of men, women, and children 7+ to die for managed democracy. the bugs bleed oil which we kill them for. we scream US military catch phrases (get some!) and are reported on by strohmann (strawman) news network. the jet is called eagle 1.
it's not subtle
Today's a big day for Sudowrite. We're launching Story Engine, an AI tool for writing long-form stories.
Our awesome team worked with hundreds of novelists for months to build the ideal interface for writers and machines to collaborate on a narrative.
someone buying crypto art got all his tokens stolen and the crypto website he uses won't help him get it back because they claim it's his fault and the whole point of Bitcoin is that it's unregulated
I'm telling you this so you can enjoy the genius of this reply in the comments.
you can't argue with me because I'm right. this is the best message star wars ever had: you don't need to have a special bloodline, or a magic sword, or anything except your friends and your courage. inspire someone, be kind to someone, and they can change the galaxy.
randomly clicking the 'explain more' dialogue choices in old fallout often had bad results. the npcs weren't just info dispensers for the player some of them got really pissed for you wasting their time.
american remakes of things highlight the core problem the rest of the world has with americans - they cannot stand not being the center of the universe and being directly catered to at all times.
Disney is basically synonymous with "corporations using the full extent of their power and money to benefit themselves and bully everyone else"
and even such a ruthless megacorp did the numbers and decided to go to war with Republicans over LGBT rights.
ceos don't understand anything about how to actually run a business. if they actually understood, netflix and all the other streaming services would have an instant screenshot, clip sharing, gif making, and meme template button
but no. they want control.
the backlash to her was an amalgamation of racism, misogyny, and consumer culture - objects defining personality. I watched book Twitter falling over themselves to outhate her for weeks 'throw out my books?? she's a monster!! only uncivilized people do that!!'
if you think I'm going to sit idly by and let another round of north americans slander this woman who leads little prayer sessions thanking the things that have served us and letting them quietly pass on from our lives, you're fucking wrong
I've just learned that reddit admins now consider misgendering a trans person as hate speech under their rules
Reddit.
so now your bar is 'how can you be less progressive than reddit'
uncomfortable truth for a lot of us in the games and entertainment industries:
the decades spent on depicting the middle east as warzones and unchecked militancy rather than the wealth of culture, art, and history in one of the oldest human-inhabited regions in the world
Do I think it's coincidence that netflix drops cool new cowboy bebop footage the day before their employees walk out to protest transphobia at netflix?
No
i think this tweet is the perfect summary of the anti-porn and anti-adult content movement.
bg3 is a mature rated game made by adults for adults. but somehow it HAS to cater to kids too. or else.
just in case you haven't been keeping score with the latest White Male Mediocrity, transphobic author john boyne published a historical novel in which he describes a recipe for red dye
the recipe in the book is the fucking recipe from zelda breath of the wild
reminder that the game of thrones showrunners were so incompetent instead of finding a safe way to do her torture scene they waterboarded this poor woman for hours
part of why the chili lady got so much fucking hate is
some of the people who spun up the rage machine thought she was trans
and some other people have ongoing beef with her because... she has a cute pet pig
so those cute videos of the dancing robots being manufactured PR was one hundred percent correct, yeah? because here's one of those 'cute' robots with a fucking sniper rifle on it
please don't fall for the cute robot PR videos, they are literal military propaganda
the older I get the more I see 'cruelty to acceptable targets' as the biggest red flag there is
because one day you might be the acceptable target, and then all their ethics and morals go out the window.
reminder that Twitter once tested an automated Nazi ban algorithm. they never rolled it out because it was catching too many Republicans. Google it, it's true.
D&D makers are spending $1 billion on their own video games, promising they’ll be ‘quality and authentic’ like Baldur’s Gate 3
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tumblr was purchased for 1.1billion dollars, banned adult content, lost 30 percent of its user base in 3 months, was sold for 3 million
and tumblr wasn't even synonymous with adult content like onlyfans is
hokusai started painting at age 6. he was 71 when he painted the great wave off kanagawa.
"At seventy-three years I partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants."
apparently the XKCD guy got Serena fucking Williams to test a theory of his on whether it was possible to destroy a drone using a tennis ball.
She got it on the third shot.
my question is WHY IS THERE NO VIDEO
let me repeat
he got his account hacked and all his stuff stolen
the website owners confirmed that it happened and know who did it
but they won't help because there's no regulations that compel them to.
unlike with a bank where his money would be back with him already
remember that the stock market is ruled by fear and emotional men who have the world's worst case of herd mentality so tell everyone you know about this
he did manage to get some of his money back
...by filing a complaint with his credit card which he used to purchase some of the tokens.
so the regulated form of currency was the only protection he got.
just to be super clear:
buying harry potter branded stuff signals to companies that hp stuff will sell. they will therefore make more stuff.
if hp items rot in warehouses, companies will stop making them and the terf queen will lose influence and power
stop fucking doing it
In the last few months, many people have reached out to me about their game projects asking 'Is what we're doing cultural appropriation?'
This is great! It shows that they care, I don't mind answering, but for the help of everyone here I thought I'd sum it up in a small thread.
I repeat
he googled 'red dye recipe'
and the first result was the one from the video game zelda breath of the wild
and he fucking put it in his historical novel
and it made it to print
I never want your impostor syndrome to stop you from doing anything ever again
and yet the entire selling point of Bitcoin is that there are no regulations and you can't be compelled by anyone to do anything for any reason. perfect freedom! including the freedom to have all your stuff stolen with no protections or recourse.
there's a saying about sowing
this is what it feels like to be a citizen and watch our useless fuck up governments keep doing wasteful hateful bullshit instead of actually helping people
I don't think the problem with the live action avatar fight scenes is that they remade animation. I think the problem is they thought they could rely on computer animation to do the fights instead of giving the kids 10 months of fight training.
also:
the two most awarded films in history
everything everywhere and the lord of the rings
scifi and fantasy
not to knock other film genres, just saying maybe we should fund more scifi and fantasy
instead of posting this here's an idea
pay him what you owe him
apologize
try to fix the professional relationship so everyone can move forward
ego solves nothing.
friends is it time to have a talk about purity culture and how it's infiltrated lots of left wing spaces disguised as 'respect for women' and 'keeping it respectful' but is actually leading to infantilizing adults who can make their own choices, body negativity, and kink shaming?
British TERF twitter has encountered SonicFox and their response is to try and *drag* him.
SonicFox is a black, gay, furry who is currently the best e-sports player of all time, basically. It's like a kitten trying to wrestle a fighter jet.
I saw with my own eyes soooooo many 'they don't have the vooootes' pieces of shit armchair commentators over the last few years excusing them dragging their feet over student loans covid relief minimum wage bla bla
after, what, one day of direct action protests? instant pass.
this is what an NFT is.
I walk into a gallery and ask to buy an NFT of a painting.
I pay the asking price and they print a fancy receipt and give it to me. also the receipt printer uses more electricity than a small town.
they keep the painting. I just get the receipt.
everyone:
you MUST refuse to associate with, buy, support, or fuck with anyone using ai for creative work
ai for protein folding, machine learning for cancer research, doing the heavy lifting, yes, fine
using ai art, writing, sound, music - we need to make it career suicide
everyone reading this:
you have to block @thequartering
don't mute. block.
get as many people as you can to also block.
this is one of the most dangerous accounts on Twitter.
if you become targeted by the hate machine your account is at risk.
block now. share this info
Q: why do conservatives attack gay/trans people so much
A: because once you see that something as fundamental as gender/sexual identity is malleable/fluid/plastic rather than rigidly defined, you see the Matrix and realize no human system is clearly defined.
i just watched an American try to explain why a wall was a fantastic, secure, and not only economically feasible but profitable border solution
to a German
White dude wrote a thread about how he 'taught' his hungry 9 year old to use a can opener; 'figure it out' The child was in tears unable to figure out how to get the opener to align with and bite the increasingly damaged can for 6+ hours, during which time she didn't eat anything
marty did not have to come out of the gate with that reddit post. that was extremely unprofessional behavior.
mick had every right to respond.
what is the point of this statement? who ordered this? why are you playing with your entire studios reputation? I don't get it
'why the fuck would anyone pay for a receipt?'
because it's a scam. they want you to think the receipt is valuable because it's the only one in existence, and you can resell it for more than you bought it for.
'who the hell is buying receipts?!?'
the people running the scam
with the attempt to ban porn and now this onlyfans has proven that it's completely dedicated to screwing over its userbase
AND THAT SUCKS
it feels like every week another tech platform fucks over the users who BUILT the fucking platform