Twitter and Musk

TreeFrogTrader · Dec 21, 2022

gwb-trading said:
Even Twitter's Intern Just Resigned in Disappointment
"Feel free to ban me."
https://futurism.com/twitter-intern-resigns

Being an intern isn't generally isn't considered a fun — or even particularly human — role at any company.

But it's hard to imagine a greater entry-level hell than interning at Elon Musk's Twitter, which has somehow spiraled into greater disarray than ever as a result of Musk's cursed "Should I step down as head of Twitter?" poll. Clearly it was finally enough for hacker-turned-entrepreneur-turned-Twitter-intern George Hotz, who had been taking an increasingly combative tone against his employer before eventually quitting last night, long before his internship was due to be over.

"Resigned from Twitter today," he wrote. "Appreciate the opportunity, but didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there."

To be fair, Hotz isn't your average intern, and his role at Twitter was anything but conventional.

Holtz is a well known self-driving car developer, hacker — he was the first person to hack the iPhone — and coder, who currently helms an autonomous vehicle startup called Comma. Musk even asked him to work at Tesla back in 2015, but Hotz turned the Tesla CEO down to do his own thing. (At the time, Hotz told Bloomberg that Musk kept "changing the terms" of their agreement.)

History aside, though, Hotz was inspired by Musk's "hardcore" email to employees, prompting him to offer his reverse-engineering skills to the transitioning platform.

"I'll put my money where my mouth is," Hotz tweeted at Musk back in November. "I'm down for a 12 week internship at Twitter for cost of living in SF."

"Sure, let's talk," the newly-minted Twitter CEO replied.

Hotz has seemingly been on the Twitter team since. But after weeks of layoffs, disastrous and half-baked platform changes, and Musk's ever-growing flirtation with far right conspiracy theories, Hotz's tweets have taken on an increasingly adversarial tone toward his boss, lobbing broadsides at everything from the food situation at Twitter to its development inefficiencies.

His most fiery takes, though, related to Musk's now-reversed decision to ban links to competitors on Twitter.

"Agreed that’s this is an absolutely ridiculous policy," he wrote after Musk suspended Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham under the policy, which he lampooned as the "fastest speed run of 'free speech' ever."

"My bio link has been a link to my Instagram since I created this Twitter," he added. "Feel free to ban me."

His funniest swipe at Musk, though, was probably when he posted a poll of his own asking whether he should step down as Twitter's intern — though unlike with Musk, a majority of respondents said he should stay.

And since the Twitter thing didn't work out, would Holtz himself be interested in becoming Twitter CEO if Musk actually does step down?

"Hell no," he wrote, adding that "there's legit no way I'd ever take that job."
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The "intern" jumped in thinking that he would have a shot at the ceo or some other high level position since he aggressively threw himself and his skills at Twitter for free but it is not looking like he is headed anywhere. So he is leaving.

womp womp

gwb-trading · Dec 21, 2022

TreeFrogTrader said:
The "intern" jumped in thinking that he would have a shot at the ceo or some other high level position since he aggressively threw himself and his skills at Twitter for free but it is not looking like he is headed anywhere. So he is leaving.

womp womp
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Industry leading technologist and Musk fan-boy finds out Musk's Twitter 2.0 is a fiasco which is unfixable.

womp womp

gwb-trading · Dec 21, 2022

Let's see the latest Twitter Files...

TreeFrogTrader · Dec 21, 2022

FBI paid Twitter $3.4M for doing its dirty work on users, damning email shows

On Monday, Shellenberger reported that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth to dismiss The Post’s bombshell October 2020 report on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as a Russian “hack and leak” operation.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/fbi-reimbursed-twitter-for-doing-its-dirty-work-on-users/

ids · Dec 21, 2022

Does anybody believe this crap? They used money and the power of the government to pursue what they want. FBI should stay away from the business of the private company unless there is a crime involved. They do not. Their tentacles are everywhere.

FBI officials told Fox News that the agency didn't ask Twitter employees to "take action" based on the information provided, and said the information was provided so that Twitter employees can make a determination on whether to take action.

"We are providing it so that they can take whatever action they deem appropriate under their terms of service to protect their platform and protect their customers, but we never direct or ask them to take action," the FBI officials said.

TreeFrogTrader · Dec 21, 2022

ids said:
FBI should stay away from the business of the private company unless there is a crime involved. They do not. Their tentacles are everywhere.
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Anyone who hires James Baker (Andrew McCabe's chief counsel) as deputy chief counsel at Twitter MOST definitely is not staying away from the FBI. They are putting a system in place to become a field office of the FBI. Either willingly or under duress from the FBI. Most likely willingly because Twitter was/is all lefties and they know that the FBI and the democrats play on the same team.

ids · Dec 21, 2022

I fear that otherwise, it is hard to make business in America. Big corporations, which are affecting the minds of people, are all under the umbrella of the swamp. This is how it is done and if there is a rebel like Trump and Musk, they should be destroyed. What could keep Musk going is a deep military implication of SpaceX and Starlink. Still, the swamp is very unhappy.

TreeFrogTrader · Dec 21, 2022

ids said:
I fear that otherwise, it is hard to make business in America. Big corporations, which are affecting the minds of people, are all under the umbrella of the swamp. This is how it is done and if there is a rebel like Trump and Musk, they should be destroyed. What could keep Musk going is a deep military implication of SpaceX and Starlink. Still, the swamp is very unhappy.
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Elon is going to play the same game as the FBI did in a roundabout way. He is going to hire a CEO and announce that the CEO is in charge of everything. Then he is going to become even more vocal around the issues and when people complain he will just say "I didn't tell them to do this or that, I just expressed my views to them and through tweets."

gwb-trading · Dec 22, 2022

It's not only Twitter laying people off due to Musk's poor leadership.

Tesla reportedly plans more layoffs as the company’s stock tanks
https://www.engadget.com/tesla-report-layoffs-hiring-freeze-160001808.html?guccounter=1

exGOPer · Dec 22, 2022

ids said:
I fear that otherwise, it is hard to make business in America. Big corporations, which are affecting the minds of people, are all under the umbrella of the swamp. This is how it is done and if there is a rebel like Trump and Musk, they should be destroyed. What could keep Musk going is a deep military implication of SpaceX and Starlink. Still, the swamp is very unhappy.
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Ya, right wingers are always the victims, poor helpless weak white men as always.