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Hyggyldy, to technology in Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter

wHaT bUsInEsS hAvE yOu StArTeD

t3rmit3,

follows Musk on LinkedIn

vhstape, to technology in Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter
@vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

shocked pikachu face

chemicalwonka, to technology in Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

MORE!

crandlecan, to technology in Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter

Brilliant business strategy, you just wait!! šŸ˜‚

Powderhorn,
@Powderhorn@beehaw.org avatar

Iā€™m pretty certain I know how Musk would respond to this. Itā€™s inappropriate for Beehaw.

hydroptic,

Something something woke mind virus something

averyminya,

Or some bs like I didnā€™t make my money by being nice.

some_guy,

Heā€™s a genius playing 8D chess. You just donā€™t understand. By this time next week, Twitter will be the only website in the world and Lonnie will laugh at you from mars. Just watch!

renard_roux,

Insert Bond Villain Plotā„¢ where heā€™s secretly buying all the EMP-hardened server parks in the world, and itā€™s getting ready to orbital-nuke everything except Shitter servers back to the stone age.

And of course he will brick every phone and computer everywhere, so nobody will be able to use Shitter, but God damnit, it will be the only site left!

agegamon,

Literally only the best strategies here! I mean lets recap:

  • Threaten to buy company then double down and agree in writing as a bullying tactic: check
  • Roll a nat 1 on your intimidation check: check
  • Be forced to follow through when called out on being mentally an 8 yo by the feds: check
  • Fire critical employees, like basically all of them: check
  • Yoink verification away from public news orgs: check
  • Let anyone pay to be ā€œlegit,ā€ even if theyā€™re parodying you: check
  • Rename twitter to the stupidest thing imagined since head-on (apply directly to the forehead): check
  • Gut content moderation policies but also stop enforcing regardless: check
  • Post own hate content and racism to the platform: check
  • "Accidentally" run ads next to hate content: check
  • Be told your sign sucks and to take it down by city: check (lol)
  • Become a living embodiment of ā€œbig yikesā€ energy while telling aforementioned advertisers to ā€œgo fuck yourselvesā€ on live TV: check
  • Hallucinate about making x into a libertarian wechat alternative: check
  • Tank the value of the company while blaming literally anyone else for your failures: mission in progress, #1 priority

10/10 solid buy, gonna grab some long calls rn. The koch boys and rupert murderjock must be holding back a tsunami of jealousy by now šŸ¤£

crandlecan,

See! This guy gets it!! šŸ˜

Thisfox,

You left out ā€œthrottle diaster information accounts when the disaster is happeningā€ (Japan earthquake).

agegamon,

Check!

Also, I forgot all the tomfuckery he pulled with starlink in Ukraine, cutting off access and the like.

Itā€™s truly a testament to how much shit this guy has done that we forget so much of it.

Burn_The_Right, to world in Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons ā€“ poll

Nothing good in human history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.

phoneymouse,

You mean a backwards looking ideology doesnā€™t address the needs of society today and in the future?

grue,

Even calling it ā€œbackwardsā€ is falling for conservativesā€™ euphemistic lie. Conservatism has never really been about ā€œupholding traditionā€ or any of the bullshit they claim; itā€™s only ever been about authoritarianism and enforcing hierarchy. If it happens to jive with a ā€œtraditionā€ it is only because said tradition is authoritarian and hierarchical.

Bassman1805, to games in Nintendoā€™s design guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ā€˜I wanted to make something weirdā€™

he is also responsible for several of Nintendoā€™s other hit games ā€“ among them The Legend of Zelda, whose latest instalment just topped many of 2023ā€™s game of the year lists.

Did the author not actually check any GotY lists, or do they only look at GotY lists by hard-core Nintendo fans? Because none of the big industry lists had TotK at the top.

GoodEye8,

Maybe theyā€™re from a timeline where Baldurs gate didnā€™t release?

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Lot of people put TotK as one of their top games, even for how stacked 2023 was. Although, Iā€™d be hard pressed to find anybody labeling it as GotY.

MrScottyTay,

Almost everyone at GVG had it as their #1 spot

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Then, nobody there was playing BG3.

MrScottyTay,

Some did and said it just wasnā€™t their kind of game

wildginger,

2nd place is still ā€œtopping,ā€ I would say. When a song is topping the charts, its not usually actually number 1, more often its actually in the top 4, or 10, etc.

DdCno1, to technology in Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

Iā€™m not usually one to defend Facebook, but it might have something to do with (and is possibly being done to counteract) this massive state-sponsored disinformation campaign:

nytimes.com/ā€¦/israel-hamas-information-war.html

In case of paywall:

web.archive.org/ā€¦/israel-hamas-information-war.htā€¦

snowe,
@snowe@programming.dev avatar

And yet all of Israelā€™s disinformation is allowed to stay upā€¦

BlueBockser, (edited )

What do you base that claim on? The article doesnā€™t mention it.

Edit: Your silence is also an answer. Ironic, talking about misinformation and spreading it yourselfā€¦

snowe,
@snowe@programming.dev avatar

lol my silence is not an answer. I donā€™t spend inordinate amounts of time on the internet so have no need to respond within a day much less a week. Hereā€™s one example of the numerous misinformation that Israel has been spreading, coming from a news source that actually helped spread Israelā€™s disinformation.

washingtonpost.com/ā€¦/al-shifa-hospital-gaza-hamasā€¦

BlueBockser,

You evidently had enough time to post elsewhere, so itā€™s not unreasonable to think you mightā€™ve read my reply already.

How is the WP article showing misinformation? It basically boils down to ā€œIsrael alleged something and provided some evidence, but we think itā€™s not conclusiveā€. It does not show that Israel knowingly lied about anything, which is what youā€™re insinuating.

snowe,
@snowe@programming.dev avatar

You evidently had enough time to post elsewhere, so itā€™s not unreasonable to think you mightā€™ve read my reply already.

Evidently? Huh?

How is the WP article showing misinformation? It basically boils down to ā€œIsrael alleged something and provided some evidence, but we think itā€™s not conclusiveā€. It does not show that Israel knowingly lied about anything, which is what youā€™re insinuating.

The article is literally about how Israel claimed a bunch of things as complete truths and then every single thing they claimed was wrong.

This has been the case for almost everything Israel has said until this point. They lied about hostages being raped, they lied about not going to bomb specific areas, they lied about certain areas being safe for Palestinians, they lied about only trying to kill hamas, and have killed over 20k civilians as a result, they lied about not actively trying to kill journalists. The list is endless. Itā€™s perfectly clear that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians and if you support that, Iā€™m sorry but youā€™re absolutely evil.

BlueBockser,

Itā€™s perfectly clear that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians and if you support that, Iā€™m sorry but youā€™re absolutely evil.

This ā€œyouā€™re either for Palestine or a genocide supporterā€ mindset is half the reason this conflict still exists, the other half is the ā€œyouā€™re either for Israel or a terrorist supporterā€ mindset. Iā€™m sure it feels great to have a one-dimensional world view, but not everyone is either for or against one side.

All I was asking for is a source for your claim that Israel is spreading misinformation and that said misinformation is allowed to proliferate. The one source you provided is inadequate because it doesnā€™t have any proof of Israeli lies, it just says that Israeli-provided proof is inconclusive. Let alone your claim that the alleged misinformation is not removedā€¦

Weā€™re done here, clearly thereā€™s no good faith discussion to be had.

PrincessEli, to games in The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple

Itā€™s like the textbook example of why you want a jury when your case is just nonsensical appeals to emotions and bias, and a judge when you want a case of facts

sugar_in_your_tea, to games in The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple

Crucially, they said, a jury rather than a judge decided the Google case, meaning the gaming companyā€™s underdog narrative likely held more sway. Google was also repeatedly caught misbehaving. From damning internal documents to missing and deleted evidence, the company seemed to take every chance it could to present itself as the very archetype of a powerful monopolist sneakily trying to muddy the truth, experts said.

And here are some examples of those internal documents:

In particular, Epic repeatedly pointed to an initiative called ā€œProject Hugā€ where the company paid major game developers like Activision and Nintendo millions of dollars in incentives to keep their wares in the Play store and persuade them not to create their own rival stores. The stakes were high. Activision alone was reportedly offered $360m. Epic was offered $147m to keep Fortnite on Google Play. Google documents reportedly referred to Epic in this case as a worrisome ā€œcontagionā€ that could cause other developers to defect.

A jury is going to see that as bribery and not look favorably on Google.

That setting automatically deleted messages within 24 hrs.

Googleā€™s sloppy handling of documents struck a nerve with Judge Donato during the trial. Around a week before the verdict, the judge slammed Googleā€™s handling of evidence as ā€œa frontal assault on the fair administration of justiceā€ā€¦ Donato said Google actionā€™s amount to ā€œthe most serious and disturbing evidence I have ever seen in my decade on the bench with respect to a party intentionally suppressing relevant evidenceā€.

The judge calling out the defendent certainly doesnā€™t help.

"The big difference between Apple and Google is Apple didnā€™t write anything down,ā€ Sweeney said, according to CNBC. Epic Games did not immediately respond to the Guardianā€™s request for comment.

That says all I need to know about the difference between these two cases.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

"The big difference between Apple and Google is Apple didnā€™t write anything down,ā€ Sweeney said, according to CNBC. Epic Games did not immediately respond to the Guardianā€™s request for comment.

That says all I need to know about the difference between these two cases.

So, pretty much thisā€¦

zipzoopaboop,

SLAMMED

TrickDacy, to games in The curious case of Epic Games: how the developer beat Google but not Apple

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  • Aurenkin,

    I dunno, I think Google has some of that too though

    TrickDacy,

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  • Pratai,

    Google is worth over one trillion dollars, genius. And for the record-

    There are FIVE publicly traded trillion dollar companies.

    YMS,
    @YMS@kbin.social avatar

    Besides, if you want to win a complex court case, it certainly helps to have more than a few million dollars, so you can hire more of the best lawyers and let them prepare for longer time. But at some point, more money gets useless, and the stock value of your company isn't even money that you could spend on anything.

    TrickDacy,

    TIL Iā€™m a fucking idiot if Iā€™m not up to date on my trillion dollar companies

    Pratai,

    No, youā€™re an idiot and a tremendous asshole if you make up shit in an argument. People read that and believe it. This is how misinformation is spread.

    TrickDacy,

    What an angry person. I wrote specifically that I hadnā€™t read the article. Not every utterance should be taken so seriously.

    You couldā€™ve corrected me on my out of date information which was absolutely true for a while. I wouldā€™ve been receptive to learning.

    In any case, there was zero chance here of any damage done, yet you behave as though Iā€™m spreading harmful medical information or something. Bye.

    Pratai,

    Iā€™m not an angry person at all. I just think that you shouldnā€™t opine on articles you had no intention to read, and then make up information so you can argue non-points with people. And ā€œout of date?ā€ Thatā€™s a pretty broad defense isnā€™t it? Sureā€¦ā€¦ At a certain point there were no trillion dollar companies- until there was one. So it looks like you have the perfect defense there bud.

    I wonā€™t apologise becasue Itā€™s my belief that people need to be called out over this bullshit.

    Weā€™re far too lax and forgiving of people who purposefully dilute information because theyā€™re too lazy to bother to educate themselves- and then start lengthy arguments in defense of said bullshit.

    Iā€™d like to think youā€™ll remember er this the next time you think to invent ā€œfactsā€ so you can join in a discussion.

    Donā€™t argue. Just do better.

    TrickDacy, (edited )

    Yeah you kind blew the whole ā€œIā€™m not angryā€ charade with the second half of this message.

    Edit: after browsing your comment history a moment, itā€™s quite clear Iā€™m not nearly the first to feel the anger

    CileTheSane,
    @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

    So Epic had more money for the Google case than the Apple case?

    TrickDacy,

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  • Pratai,

    And Google isnā€™t a trillion dollar company?

    sugar_in_your_tea,

    $1.67T market cap. To the OP, it took me like 10 sec to look that up.

    CileTheSane,
    @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

    Or you might have read that article instead of making wild guesses.

    Caligvla, to world in Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos
    @Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I wonder if in 100 years weā€™ll be looking at Israel like we look at Nazi Germany nowadays.

    veganpizza69,
    @veganpizza69@lemmy.world avatar

    100 years from now the MENA region will be uninhabitable due to climate heating and I doubt that anyone will want to visit it in some spacesuit.

    Meowoem,

    Thatā€™s not what any of the worst case scenario in climate studies Iā€™ve seen seem to think, what are you basing it on?

    veganpizza69,
    @veganpizza69@lemmy.world avatar
    Meowoem,

    Just posting a whole big pile of stuff and saying ā€˜the answers probably in there somewhere and you canā€™t disagree until youā€™ve been thought it allā€™ is something conspiracy theorists and idiots do.

    The first paper doesnā€™t agree with your claim so itā€™s pretty obvious you didnā€™t even read it yourself.

    Pons_Aelius, to lemmings in ā€˜The sprites clearly do not look like actual lemmingsā€™: the inside story of an iconic video game

    For those that have never played or just want another shot

    Lemmings

    Thisfox, to technology in Spotify made Ā£56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski

    I have never really seen the attraction of Spotify. Music is accessible so easily in so many ways. I own thousands of CDs, listen to the radio all the time, and have at least 100gig of music files to make playlists from, much of it music by people I know. I play and listen to live music regularly. What could spotify possibly offer me that I canā€™t access in a more ethical and recogniseable way?

    BeautifulMind, to politics in Muslim leaders in swing states pledge to ā€˜abandonā€™ Biden over his refusal to call for ceasefire [Dec 03 2023 | Edward Helmore | The Guardian]
    @BeautifulMind@lemmy.world avatar

    On the one hand, their pro-Palestinian politics are morally valid and increasingly popular as the world watches horrifying human rights violations in Gaza- I agree with them, itā€™s important to put pressure on the Democrats to get on the right side of this issue.

    On the other hand, I honestly think we are one GOP sweep victory away from an end to democracy in the USA- and my take on that is that the establishment-Dems probably think a 4-year stint of being punished by Republicans will teach those uppity leftists and minorities to toe the line better and in the interim theyā€™re pretty sure theyā€™ll be fiiine.

    The reason I lose sleep over this sort of thing is I believe that once political power becomes decoupled from the consent of the governed, the rights and protections that arise in the constitution will become instead favors granted by an unaccountable power, contingent on whether or not they find you supplicant enough. Also we shouldnā€™t count on being able to vote our way out of a situation where the rules prevent voting from making a difference- should it come to that, itā€™s dark days friends

    o0joshua0o, to politics in Muslim leaders in swing states pledge to ā€˜abandonā€™ Biden over his refusal to call for ceasefire [Dec 03 2023 | Edward Helmore | The Guardian]

    What a bunch of utter morons. ā€œLetā€™s abandon the guy who isnā€™t doing as much for us as we would like and instead vote for a guy who will actively oppress us!ā€

    firecat,

    Incorrect, they can vote for 3rd parties. Americans people need to know a 3rd party exists instead of money grabbing politicians who spend billions on ads.

    Ensign_Crab,

    They donā€™t have to vote for Trump. They could just deny Biden the votes you think heā€™s entitled to by staying home.

    ā€œNot Trumpā€ is a message that does not work across all voters. If thatā€™s all weā€™re running on, letā€™s hope we donā€™t need those votes.

    fiah,
    @fiah@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    ā€œNot Trumpā€ is a message that does not work across all voters

    It ought to work for Muslims that havenā€™t lived under a rock the last 7 years

    Ensign_Crab,

    And yet here we are.

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