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Musk on path to turn Twitter into the next MySpace or Yahoo, co-founder suggests(arstechnica.com)
9 points by hn2017 3y ago|3 comments
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by hn2017 3y ago
Wiki article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_4%E2%80%932_Grenada https://bleacherreport.com/articles/74831-barbados-vs-grenad... Note this isn't possible in today's rules, afaik
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by hn2017 3y ago
> In another analysis, prominent climatologist Katharine Hayhoe monitored responses to a tweet on climate change that she published twice, as an experiment, on separate dates before and after Musk’s takeover. > She counted the hostile
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Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network (The Atlantic)(theatlantic.com)
28 points by hn2017 3y ago|17 comments
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by hn2017 3y ago
> Now the site itself has unquestionably transformed under his leadership into an alternative social-media platform—one that offers a haven to far-right influencers and advances the interests, prejudices, and conspiracy theories of the r
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by hn2017 3y ago
> Three barriers exist for Musk to succeed with his “X” idea. The first is, people outside of Asia don’t like “super apps.” >Second, as I’ve detailed before, Musk is proving incompetent about media, both social and mainstream. >And
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Elon Musk will kill his own ‘everything app’(mikeelgan.substack.com)
3 points by hn2017 3y ago|5 comments
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Anything that can be done regarding this? Imagine if Paul Graham was defending a white supremacist murderer or spread anti-Semitic rhetoric or saying things were psyops conspiracies, would that be quickly outlawed and flagged here?
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by hn2017 3y ago
Exactly, just see the brainwashed masses who believe in Qanon conspiracy, which Trump and Musk both amplify. It's an alternate reality.
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by hn2017 3y ago
He has started embracing white supremacists, far right politicians and even qanon conspiracy theories. it's a terrifying and dangerous situation for something as influential as social media (as if it wasn't bad enough)
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by hn2017 3y ago
It's sad that Musk has been radicalized. It's ok to admit it.he can't accept the fact the Texas shooter is a white supremacist.
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Elon Musk Just Can’t Stop Posting Antisemitic Tweets(vice.com)
12 points by hn2017 3y ago|8 comments
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by hn2017 3y ago
> Musk also responded to tweets spreading other Soros conspiracy theories, including false claims that Soros, a Holocaust survivor, helped roundup Jews for the Nazis, and claims that Soros is somehow linked to the Rothschilds, an entirel
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Elon Musk Says George Soros, Who Just Dumped His Tesla Stock, ‘Hates Humanity’(rollingstone.com)
20 points by hn2017 3y ago|13 comments
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by hn2017 3y ago
> The Twitter owner has turned into a full-fledged right-wing conspiracy theorist
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by hn2017 3y ago
> Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter is forcing us to come to terms with a new reality: a social media platform where the person running it is himself spreading the misinformation.
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When a Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform(thebulwark.com)
8 points by hn2017 3y ago|1 comments
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That's not even close to the main issue. The issue is he is spreading false stories involving far right-wing conspiracies, in this case involving neo-nazis
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Elon Musk Flirts with Conspiracy Theories About Texas Mall Shooting(rollingstone.com)
12 points by hn2017 3y ago|9 comments
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by hn2017 3y ago
> Responding to a tweet that referred to this fact as a “psyop” — short for a psychological operation, usually employed by counterintelligence military personnel — Musk said it was indeed “the weirdest story ever or a very bad psyop!”
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by hn2017 3y ago
> Axios has learned that Carlson and Elon Musk had a conversation about working together, but didn't discuss specifics. Oh, how easily Elon Musk was radicalized.
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Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk had a conversation about working together in media(axios.com)
11 points by hn2017 3y ago|9 comments
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by hn2017 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230505152450/https://www.nytim...
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Twitter gives dril a spite checkmark(mashable.com)
47 points by hn2017 3y ago|11 comments
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Twitter power users begin campaign to 'Block the Blue' paid checkmarks(mashable.com)
39 points by hn2017 3y ago|54 comments
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Twitter permanently suspended journalist who interviewed Matt Walsh’s hacker(arstechnica.com)
10 points by hn2017 3y ago|3 comments
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Wired Journalist Banned from Twitter for Reporting on Hack of Matt Walsh(forbes.com)
4 points by hn2017 3y ago|0 comments
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by hn2017 3y ago
Anything for iOS?
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by hn2017 3y ago
Not when i checked an hour ago. in expert mode. https://www.phind.com/search?cache=cd799e4b-5a4a-4dc3-9e85-e... and if you do it right now with all 3 modes selected, it's still not correct https://www.phind.
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by hn2017 3y ago
I asked, "can i use plus sign to concatenate two strings in bigquery?" it said, yes you can. Correct answer is no. You can use Concat func or ||. note, chatgpt also gets this wrong. hopefully this comment makes it into their trai

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