Muskovian for “We’re both too lazy and scared of attempting any kind of coherent moderation, but we also know that advertisers will stay away from this train wreck without it…so, we’re just going to crowdsource it and hope for the best.”

Seriously. He’s a couple days of missed medication and a cheesy monologue away from becoming a full-on James Bond villain. 

Yeah, a Starlink-capable mobile device might be feasible, but it’d require a massive battery, end up being bigger and heavier than a 1st gen iPad to support the battery and required antenna array, and cost several thousand dollars. Useful for remote scientific, archaeological or military activities, to be sure. But…

That’s an optimistic perspective. In a perfect world, I would agree with you.

“My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame,” Musk tweeted.

That’s like buying an MLB franchise just to fire half your players and staff, then threaten the remaining half with a mandatory season back in the minor league farm team, just so you replace them with members of the Aryan Nation’s prison softball league.

While the idea of him shorting the stock or playing some kind of complicated credit default swap angle on the deal isn’t out of the question, something about that also screams “stint in a federal penitentiary for securities fraud”. I would hope he’s not that dumb…but that’s not much stupider than he would have to be…

Was his plan to completely cripple his $44B investment while he scrambles to hire enough members of his cult of personality (who are likely marginally competent, at best) and hungry recent grads who can’t find their asses with both hands yet to actually make the company operational again? If so…maybe.

Exactly. Freedom of speech means you can say what you want, but it doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t call you out for saying verifiably false BS.

Pretty much. His remaining workforce is going to be comprised solely of a handful of insane Musk fanbois, some H-1B staff that are afraid of being shipped back to their home country without sponsorship…but mostly marginally competent people who don’t have any better/other options.

On one hand, some of this is kind of on the employees. Slack is a corporate communication tool. You have to assume it’s being monitored at all times, especially if you have a control freak and borderline Bond villain running the place. If you want to grumble about the big boss with your coworkers, do what the rest of…

Did you even read the article, or did you just decide to get all worked up over the headline?

I can only imagine the conversation to get laid off back is hella awkward.

This! I had to drive into an office complex on the other side of town four days a week in the before times. All so I could sit at a computer in a beige cube grinding away on spreadsheets, with a team that was distributed across five sites in three time zones. All of our meetings were already via WebEx due to how the…

Wait - how did government spending cause Zuck to make an expensive and poorly planned/executed bet on a service nobody really wanted in the first place?

Exactly. Give it about 3-4 years, and Twitter will end up being auctioned off to AT&T, Snap or FB/Meta for pennies on the dollar to be scrapped for parts.

The amount of secrecy around pay in the corporate world is maddening. There’s nothing worse than having a hiring manager after hiring manager dance around the issue of compensation, saying that’s HR’s role and not theirs, investing the time and energy to get past the second or third interview, finally getting a job…

Mash together Parler, Truth Social, Stormfront and 8chan…make the resulting monstrosity exponentially larger than any of those components, give it a much larger budget and a thicker veneer of respectability (at least initially).

I’m not a huge fan of Amazon getting their fingers into literally everything, but if they’re going to expand into homeowners insurance…could they please do Florida next? Our insurance market is so jacked up right now that it might be a rare opportunity for Amazon to actually make something better instead of worse for…

OTA TV is useful for live sports that aren’t available on most non-premium streaming platforms and some localized PBS content that their app doesn’t cover. That’s about it, though.