Far from being destroyed overnight as the Australian ABC told was possible, Twitter has come to life. Banned Twitter accounts are reappearing like Jordan B Peterson.
Elon Musk ran a poll on reinstating Donald Trump which was pulling in a million votes an hour at one point. Elon Musk then declared that Donald J Trump’s account will be restored. And it appears to be live, though missing 75 million followers, and Trump himself, who still says he’ll stay on Truth Social.
Elon Musk tweeted, “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” which means “the voice of the people is the voice of God.’
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It’s is encouraging the vote was evenly split. It suggests Twitter might be able to be able to be a “town square”.
However the Corruptocracy that depends on censorship are not finished yet, and an EU spokesman said Musk will have to open his algorithms (did the EU demand this of the last owners?). Thierry Breton the EU’s internal market commissioner said Musk will have to “fly by our rules” and that he will have to increase the number of moderators in Europe. Breton said “we will have control, we will have access, people will no longer be able to say rubbish”. Which means people in the EU will only be able to say or hear what the EU wants. The solution is for countries to leave the EU.
And so the fightback for freedom of speech begins …
What Musk needs to do is apply the same standards “claimed” by the previous owner, but apply that brush to all Twitter accounts. This means calling out the fake news of the left and banning them accordingly. I’m thinking the deep state won’t appreciate having their own sins exposed and being banned. Get the popcorn ready !!!
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As Jo asks: did the EU demand this [opening of algorithms] of the last owners?
BTW, I don’t think that the new Twitter should ban deep state accounts. Better to have all sides openly arguing their case.
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Elon did once say he’d release the source code related to the algorithms (independent of the EU he said it before they even asked for it), who as stated, never asked it of the previous owners.
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And is Dilbert back yet
It went missing a few days ago – one group of newspapers syndicating the strip dropped a lot, including Scott Adams’ Dilbert.
There had been one or two [amusing] jibes about wokeism.
That is possibly sheer coincidence.
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There is nothing that the EU fart-sniffers can do to stop people saying what they want on Twitter. You can tell they are worried.
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Does ‘the eu’ have a TWITTER presence?
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Corrected version…
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So few victories for those of us on the side of the angels, that seeing the hard core left apoplectic over the threats to their online “safe spaces” really is worth the price of admission.
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I think that there was no question Musk would reinstate Trump. I heard it said that the only reason he had a poll about it was to help draw out the bots so they could be identified.
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Yes David, I was mystified as to why a poll was needed, if Elon was extolling the value of free speech then Trump should have been reinstated regardless of bed wetters concerns.
Maybe there was a hidden agenda here.
Regards
Chris
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Was the poll to determine if Trump would be banned?
I don’t think that was even consierable. It would have destroyed Musk’s credibility if he had continued the ban.
If Trump lost the vote he would have still been reinstated.
What is incredible is that 48 % voted against. Clearly they do not agree with free speech.
Ignorance has lost a major tool.
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A poll by the proles to decide if Trump can be allowed back in. Democratic free speech! LOL.
If a tree falls in a forest…
Free speech with conditions, or in restricted environments, or that can’t be found outside of a group is what Twitter is becoming.
If a tweet is made in a soundproof box…
Will Twitter fail massively and do an Enron?
I don’t know but I don’t have high hopes for them either.
Either way, there’s bigger things of concern to focus on.
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As a free speech platform, Twitter will now become much like Jo’s blog here.
Both rational thinkers and Leftists will be allowed to have their say, rather than just the latter as on pre-Musk Twitter.
Rational thinkers have never been afraid to discuss alternative opinions but Leftists are always terrified of them, hence all “their” platforms having heavy censorship of non-Leftist opinions.
And this censorship cost millions of lives during covid with the social(ist) media including Twitter banning scientific and medical opinions of eminent scientists and doctors. Had the dangers of the vaccines and the efficacy of safe antivirals like HCQ and IVM taken according to appropriate protocols been allowed to be discussed then people wouldn’t have needlessly died. Even proven benefits of correcting Vitamin D deficiency to dramatically reduce covid mortality was labeled as misinformation and/or banned.
Their ABC (Australia) even maintain stories on their website to this day that Vitamin D supplementation is useless even in deficient people and another story they have is that it is toxic, but the person referred to took 400 times the recommended daily dose for a month.
About six million dead covid victims can be added to all the other millions killed by the National Socialists and International Socialists last century. All due to censorship and the pre-Musk Twitter was one of the main culprits.
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Will I be moderated here for saying the 2020 election and the 2022 election were both gamed by the corruptocrats in USA?
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No.
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Neither for pointing out that if a Socialist government is elected- in any country that country will fall into corruption and destitution. Brazil will be a country to keep ones eyes on.
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Its like riding a motorbike, you arent trying hard enough unless you have been banned (or in the motorbike case, come off)
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That is false. We arn’t so free here.
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Only because of leftist’s legal choke-holds like 18c.
Jo’s blog is free to rational thinkers who can put forward rational comments, backed by facts, data etc..
… perhaps that is why you find it so difficult. !?
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As the saying goes, the heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge.
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You should see me in bathers
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I don’t have a grudge. My comments are vetted.
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Do you need the happy bird link again? 😄
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We never see anything that you allege is vetted.
There is plenty of items you get published that come from sources I find untrustworthy.
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Do you want screenshots?
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“My comments are vetted”
To see if they have any content at all.. other than whinging ?
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Gee Aye, you may be setting a record here. We’ve published, wait for it, 11,465 comments of yours. All anonymous. Tell us again how unfree you are?
The truth is anyone is free to post any scientific link or question they want as long as it’s on topic, that’s not the case at the ABC, The Conversion, or at any major media outlet. People are not free here to repeatedly hijack threads to take them off topic at the top, or to post repetitive comments diluting the conversation. They’re not free to discuss moderation on active threads, or to repeatedly ignore questions asked of them, or to repeatedly post logical fallacies.
So you could post screenshots of the few comments we blocked, but you know we’ll find that same content published in other comments — and by you, or else it was a trivial one-liner, or off topic remark.
The most frequent commenters are held to higher standards.
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I aspire to the high standard displayed by the frequent commenters :\
[Nil value snark. – LVA]
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No we’re not free here in Australia. You have the right to vote every 3 or 4 years, no compelled to in order to elect a set of nincompoops. We’re very much under the thumb of the State. It will get worse.
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You have to sign in to vote…. but you don’t have to actually vote. !
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The whatever letter in the alphabet must have lost the Mo Jo and Musk has been thrown in to lead the sheep closer to the cliff.
We are sticking to the script. Twitter has to remain in the market. Twitter had to undergo an upgrade to continue to control rumor.
From the SPARS Handbook
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I see no evidence that Musk will be controlling the censorship demands of the SPARS Handbook.
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I meant to say:
I see no evidence that Musk will be following the censorship demands of the SPARS Handbook.
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JP Sears talks anout some hilarious recent Tweets from Elon Musk reacting to some now ex-Twitter employees.
Very good.
https://youtu.be/P8NO-kqYR28
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This excellent comment doesn’t just apply to this topic, it applies to everything these globalists have their tentacles clutching to.
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Like wise.
I am surprised that the EU hasn’t broken up before now.
Greece and Ireland would surely have been better off if they had left, especially if they renounced all their debts.
Britain has left but seems to be still in.
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That makes sense.
Maj. Major Major
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You left out the middle name – Major. . .
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I found the 51.8% interesting.
What would have happened if those in favour were 49.9%? No reinstatement?
With the amount of conservative users previously suspended, did the vote really represent a balanced view?
I suspect the result was shown is much tighter than it would be if everybody had have been able to vote.
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Styxhexenhammer talks about “Leftist Twitter Tantrum” including the restoration of the account of far Leftist Trump hater Kathy Griffin.
Even that obnoxious, unfunny, anti-conservative is getting its account back which Elon had previously banned for breaking terms of service rules.
https://youtu.be/zSBPvSCMxHg
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Styx posted this about an hour ago, he discusses the return of Trump’s Twitter account.
https://youtu.be/DzAC5x_uF_8
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Tempting to start a flat earth twitter account, or a, we didn’t go to the moon account.
The reaction of that EU guy just supports my theory that people are not ready for free speech, they just couldn’t handle it when it moved from a soap box in a park to literal worldwide distribution.
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No-one’s ever left Earth’s atmosphere.🙄
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Would the EU Ban this 1. Min 4 Sec Video of Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calling out France?
Italy’s new firebrand PM launches blistering diatribe saying immigration from Africa would STOP if countries like France halted exploitation of continent’s valuable resources
. Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called out France and its policy over its former territory Burkina Faso
. Meloni suggested France operated a policy which saw it taking a huge slice of the money made from gold found in its mines worked by children
. During a live TV broadcast, she held up a photo of a child working in a gold mine
. More than 70,000 migrants have arrived on Italy’s shores this year
. Meloni is now taking a hardline stance on immigration which saw a ship full of migrants turned away from the port of Rome only to later dock in France
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a ship full of migrants turned away from the port of Rome only to later dock in France
Needing food, water, and fuel — where from? Who pays?
And where was the initial port from which the ship embarked?
Could Meloni send a demolition crew to such ships and poke a hole about the size of Al Gore just below the water line? Before it is loaded, I mean.
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Just like France did to the Greenpeace ship in the Pacific years ago. They just planted a charge and sunk it.
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killing a photographer
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Hold your horses Steve!
Are you telling me the Rainbow Warrior explosion wasn’t a meth lab. The unfortunate accident then sold as a Froggie bombing to enhance Greenpeace’s street cred in selling the doomsday message whilst harming the future of Nuclear power for reliable base load power.
One line and all my conspiracies theories sunk with the ship.
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Excellent news, about time
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Quietly, behind the Twitter controversy, is solid, irrefutable evidence (backing up the external Google audit) of the types and scope of left wing bias and information control. Without a lot of fuss, we have moved from “everybody knows” (with loud denials from the left) to proof (with rationalizations from the left). Having little self awareness, they have moved from “we aren’t doing it” to “we had to do it” without missing a beat. In a telling commentary on their social values, a very many are now unemployed, yet main stream (“real”) businesses are still finding it difficult to hire workers. It appears that endless narcissism is not a useful skill in most arenas.
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What is Twitter?
I become more of a curmudgeon as time moves, and the faster times moves, the faster I curmudg.
Here is another thing I don’t get:
Webcams fixed on people sleeping draw a growing online audience and offer a potentially lucrative bedroom business for so-called sleep streamers.
A few people are making thousands a Year Snoozing on TikTok.
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Chicomm-owned TikTok is a major weapon of theirs to promote Western degeneracy in all its forms.
It is banned in China.
I heard it advertised on Australian radio the other day.
YouTuber “Odin’s Men” regularly reviews the latest instances of degeneracy on TikTok.
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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/fda-attorney-argues-guidance-against-ivermectin-covid-was
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This can be categorised as part of the “pandemic amnesty” that the guilty parties are asking for.
They are trying to “revise” what really happened.
Never forgive these people.
Never forget what they did
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Elections have consequences? Who knew?
Operation ass cover has begun
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not in San Francisco it hasn’t, nor Darlinghurst.
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One learns to not stoop over to pick up something on the street in such areas.
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It’s called Celebration Parallax
https://americanmind.org/salvo/thats-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is/
It’s weird that now such things have names but there you go.
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Still banned in Oz.
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Hooray for Musk’s Twitter and Booray for the twittertwerps that have poured scorn on his attempts to give the World free speech again. Especially self-serving management and staff that oversaw the old version. It’s not there yet but the signs are promising! And, no the EEC did not ask the previous vendors of this marketplace to publish the algorithm. They were complicit in composing the original restrictive animal.
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I have never heard someone on the conservative and rational side of the spectrum promote censorship of opinions but Leftists do it all the time. They simply don’t value free speech.
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Joannenova
Should the person Pederson in the title be Peterson? If so then it needs to be changed.
Regards
Climate Heretic
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The end of the first sentence has it correct. ‘d’ and ‘t’ are on the same side of the keyboard.
Please buy some chocolates for Jo, ’cause sometimes her fingers fly over the keys and a rare mistake is made.
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Thanks to you both. Silly me. Fixed.
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Remember the old adage they used to teach children before wokeness and everyone was perpetually offended by something and demanded censorship?
Origin unknown but it was considered an “old adage” even in 1862.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones.html
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In today’s society, that’s no longer the case of ‘woke’ people, they are psychologically and irreparably damaged mentally by calling them names.
I took that adage on very young and it has stood the test of time with me.
Regards
Climate Heretic
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I recall it as
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Good news for bots, and this was an analysis commissioned by Elon himself
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It so hurts the left that free speech has been re-established on twitter, doesn’t it. 😉
Bots with empty comments soon get seen for what they are. 😉
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Project Veritas back on
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Bots vote
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“Bots with empty comments soon get seen for what they are”
“Bots vote”
Thanks for verifying my comment !
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Even if Twitter becomes a financial failure for Elon Musk (I hope it doesn’t) he has given the supporters of Western Civilisation (those few of us left) a glimmer of hope and at least a temporary outlet for our beloved free speech.
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If Gab can make money every month then so can Twitter
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Trump will not be returning to Twitter. According to Trump himself.
Regards
Climate Heretic
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See Styx’s comments in linked video I posted above. He suggests that Trump cross-posts everything he says on Truth to Twitter. Trump’s presence on Truth may have originally drawn people away from Twitter while it remained a censored Leftist platform but Musk taking over Twitter and turning it into a free speech platform was totally unexpected. Truth would not have been established if Twitter was a free speech platform at the time and Trump hadn’t been banned
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I was going to start using Twitter again but I have to sign in with Google so I haven’ gone there yet.
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Just re-arrange your sign on as a username and password. I too have suspicions about using Google, Facebook or Apple to sign into anything. Its convenient, but you know big tech are watching big time.
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I don’t use Google to sign in. Are people blocked from using email and password on new accounts now?
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Twitter is back and is ‘allowing’ the discussion of dangerous covid RNA vaccine side effects, such as the sudden appearance of what oncologists are calling Turbo Cancer, in addition to the blood clots, heart attacks, and neurological injuries.
This family doctor, noted that in the past a small percentage of his patients would suddenly discover that that they have aggressive, advanced, stage 4 cancer.
He notes that after the start of mass RNA vaccination, roughly 2/3 of his newly diagnosed cancer patients, find that have stage 4 cancer with poor treatment options and low survivability. These patients have what oncologists now called ‘turbo cancer’. Large rapidly growing tumors, multiple tumors in the same organ, and tumors in multiple organs.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1591710515734384640
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The fake “vaccines” should be reclassified as Group 1 carcinogens.
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There seems to be reports of new “adverse” health effects or increases in many medical conditions every day. An explosion in cancer cases is still being blamed on a lack of early detection etc during COVId lockdowns. But , now there’s commentary on the immune suppression effects of mRNA vaccines in particular, even coupled with suppression of bone marrow function. The last 2 weeks the focus is now on the increase in RSV and also flu. Plus, very worrisome is the reporting of increased unexplained deaths amongst children.
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Wow! Farcebook must be terrified of the free speech competition from Twitter!
They have decided to stop using their fake “fact checkers” (sic) on everything Trump says.
Just wow!
https://youtu.be/TKL-jkZA0mU
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Not “Pederson”!
[Indeed! Thanks. – Jo]
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The most interesting aspect of the whole Musk/Twitter episode is that the whole platform is presently functioning quite well with only about 100 employees. (I’ve seen reports as low as 75). Where once there were thousands worldwide. Which leads to the obvious question – what , in heavens name were all those people actually doing?
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And as one person commented – if the company can perform so well after such massive staff cuts why can’t we do the same to governments, bloated gravytrain-suckling dumping grounds for society’s inept and power hungry, that they are.
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But JC, what would all those diversity, sustainability, equality and climate change officers do?
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Practice – ” Do you want fries with that?”
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“But JC, what would all those diversity, sustainability, equality and climate change officers do?”
Or, of course, “You cut the crop, and I’ll bundle & stack it” …
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Obviously those weren’t contributing to company cash flow positively – so where was the cash that paid them coming from?
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A pre-Musk employee posted a video about life at Twitter.
It was like a government department with free wine and food, meditation rooms, sleep pods, you only had to work when you felt like it, etc..
SEE COMMENTS and video here.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/twitter-day-in-life-video
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Most large IT systems have at least an order of magnitude more developers and testers than operations staff (system admins, DBAs, etc). Especially cloud-based systems. They can generally keep running for ages, but entropy does set in.
Unfortunately, they also tend to have lots and lots of layers of management as well.
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One learns to not stoop over to pick up something on the street in such areas.
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Here is the USA one of the media giants (CBS – pronounced sleeze-i-est to the cognoscenti) stopped posting with Twitter as a protest. Within 48 hours, they were back. . .
Seems they need Twitter more than they need a protest.
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Musk says there is freedom of speech and freedom of reach.
He aims to curtail freedom of reach by derating bots and instigating bluecheck boosting of visibility.
The irony is that Twitter’s strength is Freedom of Reach. All people at all levels are equal.
Those bots are mostly just angry people. Twitter’s strength is that it encourages everyone to come together and have conversations.
Way too much extreme polarization in the world.
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Meghan Murphy is back as well
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