Which means that, no matter how depraved Twitter becomes under its reigning proprietor, you have to be there, even if he despises you.
Last October, the richest manchild in human history fell into the trap he had dug for himself. Elon Musk was forced to purchase Twitter at an absurd price. He had no clear idea of what to do with his new acquisition, other than realising a fatuous idea about “free speech”. It was like watching a monkey acquire a delicate clock: the new owner started thrashing wildly about, slashing the headcount (from 8,000 to about 1,500) – in the process losing many of the people who knew how the machine worked – and generally having tantrums while tweeting incontinently from the smallest room in the company’s San Francisco headquarters.
Therefore it’s going to work, isn’t it? Because the journalistic classes have to be here, so therefore so do the advertisers, therefore…..
If we had a desalination plant, the water shortages from yesterday’s thread could be solved by the floods of salty tears from bbcgrauniad “journalists”.
Sour-faced journalist who’s never built anything more sophisticated than a straw man argument does not understand Elon’s plan, so, therefore, Elon does not have a plan.
From further down the article:
“The answer is that there is a select category of humans who are obsessive users of Twitter: politicians; people who work in advertising, PR and “communications”; and journalists.”
Exactly the classes of people who broke Twitter and then chose to bathe in the toxic remnants. Anyone who tries to straighten the mess up is going to be criticised by those who like things the way they were.
According to the Guardian, the recent BBC Elon Musk interview was a triumph… for the BBC.
They’ve been pretending to be sophisticated, intelligent adults for so long it’s sometimes easy to forget that Progressives are all 11 year old girls at heart (or they sexually identify as one).
ANNRQ @ 8.31 + 1.
This sounds like an attempt to get back at the man who made a BBC journalist (and by extension, the rest of the journalist class) look like a complete tool. If you haven’t seen it, comedy gold.
I support the Grauns view on this one. Sadly (for them), I mean they MUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.
At least the Graun has a grain more integrity than Aunty. It begs for money rather than demands it with menaces.
I do find it interesting that both devout Left wing organisations use every tax dodge they can think of. When they can remember (see above).
The Musk interview was covered by The Media Show about 12 hours later, and I heard TMS before I heard the interview, and got a complete reversed expectation of it.
BBC interviews the BBC. Another triumph for the BBC.
“in the process losing many of the people who knew how the machine worked”
A thing I often say is that if there was a fire in a massive IT department, you need to rescue the right 5-10% of people. That’s your gurus. The other 90-95% of people are adding small (mostly unnecessary) features and fixing low-medium priority bugs.
Whether it is a success or not, the free entertainment as all the non job holders were sent out into the wider world to do actual work was a joy to behold along with the wailing and lamentations that apparently are still echoing in Guardian Towers, so all is good here.
According to the Guardian, the recent BBC Elon Musk interview was a triumph… for the BBC.
Indeed, but anyone who has watched any of the footage will see through the lie. It was a car crash and Musk wiped the floor with the ignorant twat.
Guardian journalist doing excellent impression of a small child throwing it’s poo against the wall.
Meanwhile the Real Toy™ will hopefully fly tomorrow.
Still suborbital ( the Heavy is going to cut out and separate at 3 mins ) , and both the Falcon Heavy and the Starship are going to do a “soft” splashdown in the ocean, but if it flies, NASA’s SLS is no longer the Biggest Baddest Rocket ever.
And to think that this isn’t even the full stack.. They plan to be able to strap two “ordinary” Falcons, or even two Heavies to it…
And musk is honest about the whole thing… “Excitement guaranteed, success… hopefully..”
I know I’ll be watching. There may even be a boyish Squee!! if it does fly as planned…
Don’t forget that the 12M diameter version is just the small testbed. Elon is still determined to switch-up to an 18M diameter version at some point. Probably once he’s delivered the Lunar HLS for NASA.
We’re living in interesting times.
My clock shows less than an hour until the show seriously begins to start.
Hey, Naughton…