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BlueSky is now trending on Twitter 😆
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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If Bluesky can develop the capacity and resilience, I think it's all over for Twitter. It's a bit like Heminway's quote on bankruptcy as to how it happened... "Two ways: gradually then suddenly."
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It's worth reading Dunt, if only for the sweariness:
"I spent years building a following on Twitter. And for what it's worth, I'm actually kinda proud of it. I accept that the vast majority of this accomplishment was based on calling people cunts, but I nevertheless enjoyed that, a few others seemed to as well, and it was reassuring to know that the things I felt were reciprocated by many of the people around me. I got to feel human connection by calling people cunts. I really was having my cake and eating it.
Having a decent Twitter following opened doors - big important career doors. It meant my articles received solid traffic so editors wanted me to write for them. It meant producers on podcasts saw my stuff and approached me. It meant publishers met with me to discuss book projects. To be clear: it's not just that they discovered my stuff on Twitter. It's that this kind of reach reassured them that I could promote it too. Leaving that behind is professionally dangerous. You don’t do it lightly."
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Come on salty that’s not a real face. He’s some sort of Alien wearing a mask.
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Madame Taussads won't be challenged to replicate the face. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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Maybe this should be in the irony thread.
"Elon Musk might be in charge of the business of Grok, but the artificial intelligence has seemingly gone into business for itself, labeling Musk as one of the worst offenders when it comes to spreading misinformation online.
User Gary Koepnick asked the AI which person spreads the most information on Twitter/X—and the service did not hesitate in pointing a finger at its creator."
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A nice bit of writing, as well as ripping into Musk.
"It works like this: in one end, you stick in $44,000,000,000. The Machine slurps that cash up, sputters to life, and it begins. A slow burning fire ignites, relentlessly incinerating most of that cash. As the money disappears, out the other end shoots a dystopian firehose of conspiracy theories and lies, knocking reality-based sense out of Americans until they are eagerly making egregiously foolish, catastrophic decisions, all while turning millions of brains to mush.
Once sufficient gobs of neural matter have degenerated into an unfortunate wet ooze, the most spectacular David Attenborough-worthy display will inevitably follow. Millions upon millions of Muskian keyboard warriors who have been drawn into the machine will begin to proudly define themselves as independent thinkers. To showcase their independent critical thought, they will, in seemingly coordinated unison, howl their shared, newfound battle cry into the digital ether whenever they encounter a bigoted viewpoint: “FREE SPEECH!”"
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It would be ironic if Rick, having flounced from here to Twitter because not enough people shared his views, has to re-flounce to Bluesky for the same reason.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
IIRC he was already on it (he was espousing its positives some while ago, I think, but saying you had to subscribe to as many news sources as possible to make it work well), but if he is there, it's under a different handle (and yes, I've looked, haha.) Given he got little to no engagement on Twitter anyway, I don't know why he wouldn't migrate, unless he's secretly a MAGA alpha male.
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If you want to call this a mass flounce, feel free, Stevo. But might be worth reading the reasoning, if you're interested in understanding it.
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A flounce is a flounce, the reasons may vary.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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He'll get his kill rate even higher with that cybertruck monstrosity.
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This is a major reason why businesses are migrating to Bluesky:
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It's been known for some time that electric cars have higher accident rates involving pedestrians especially - so maybe not a Tesla specific problem, more of a 'electric cars are harder for people to hear' problem.
Happy to say that my car is very safe in that respect 😊
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Classy 🙂 but I prefer this one
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Not sure that this is the whole story, but it's ultimately why it's become unusable.
"X rewards assholery, shithousery, amateurish trolling and outrage baiting. That’s what brings in the bucks. X isn’t a shithole just because of who’s on there, or because Elon laid off lots of moderators. It’s full of ragebait because that’s what is rewarded."
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And that's just what I imagined would happen. It ended up as a troll and insult house, not a place for genuine debate.
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I've told you before, if you want loud, you need to upgrade to an aero engine.
I wonder how many plastic bottles they tried before they found one that sounded just right.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I must admit I've never understood why the sound of an engine appeals, or why so many motorbike riders seem to want to make as much noise as possible when riding up beautiful roads. Conversely I'm in awe of how quiet aero engines are these days, just really a gentle whirring even on take off, especially compared with the foundation-rattling, ear-splitting noises they used to make 40 or 50 years ago.
But I think this discussion might be in the wrong thread...
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It's loud enough to warn dozy pets. I've never hit one so clearly it works.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
He seems quite nuts.
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I think he’s been reading too much fake news on twitter…
Quite delusional, bad he has so much power.
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Are you talking about Starmer the farmer harmer?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Elon Musk's electric car firm Tesla pushed the government to make petrol car drivers "pay more" in the days after Labour won the general election.
Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has waded into British politics openly on social media, predicting "civil war" and criticising prime minister Sir Keir Starmer.
But behind the scenes his firm was trying to persuade the new government to extend a policy that would boost his firm's profits.
The company called for the mandate to boost electric car sales to be extended to lorries, and said electric vehicle (EV) subsidies could come from charging people buying petrol and diesel cars.
"The government should ask those still choosing to purchase a new polluting vehicle, to pay more," Tesla's European boss, Joe Ward, wrote in a letter addressed to roads minister, Lilian Greenwood, in July.
The letter, released under a Freedom of Information request made by the EV newsletter The Fast Charge, external, shows that Tesla "applauded the Labour Party's strong position [on] decarbonisation of the energy system by 2030, growth and net zero".
I'm not impressed by this. I thought Musk wanted his products to do the talking.
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Tesla products do the talking, and the public has given its response. 😂
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0
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Haha. it was all going so well until just after the comma.
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Not sure he'll be too worried, given the increase in Tesla share value since last month and the recent valuation of Space X at $350bn.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
