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I can't read that bloomberg article, does it have the 98% fatality rate in it? Because the only reference I've seen is a faked usa today screenshot.

Pishwish wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:00 pm

I can't read that bloomberg article, does it have the 98% fatality rate in it? Because the only reference I've seen is a faked usa today screenshot.

It does not, and instead states that independent reporters have visited the labs, and not seen evidence of mistreatment or suffering. Which doesn't mean a whole lot, as the animal welfare part was brought in-house some time ago.

Musk is now cosying up to Alex Jones (using Ye's twitter account).

It's like a support group for rich c.nts whove lost significant chunks of their fortunes by f.cking around and finding out.

Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:49 pm

It's like a support group for rich c.nts whove lost significant chunks of their fortunes by f.cking around and finding out.

You're missing the adjective "fascist-curious" there.

dyqik wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:03 pm

Musk is now cosying up to Alex Jones (using Ye's twitter account).

Alex Jones isn't on Twitter?

Stephanie wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:59 pm

dyqik wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:03 pm

Musk is now cosying up to Alex Jones (using Ye's twitter account).

Alex Jones isn't on Twitter?

Musk doesn’t like people profiting from child murder apparently. Nice to know he has some lines.

Grumble wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:08 pm

Stephanie wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:59 pm

dyqik wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 01, 2022 10:03 pm

Musk is now cosying up to Alex Jones (using Ye's twitter account).

Alex Jones isn't on Twitter?

Musk doesn’t like people profiting from child murder apparently. Nice to know he has some lines.

He also doesn't like people posting Swastikas, so Ye is banned again.

dyqik wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:22 pm

Pishwish wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 01, 2022 2:00 pm

I can't read that bloomberg article, does it have the 98% fatality rate in it? Because the only reference I've seen is a faked usa today screenshot.

It does not, and instead states that independent reporters have visited the labs, and not seen evidence of mistreatment or suffering. Which doesn't mean a whole lot, as the animal welfare part was brought in-house some time ago.

Reuters is reporting that they are under federal investigation for potentially violating animal welfare laws with their testing.

Though the article does say "Neuralink Corp is a vanity project that only exists because a crooked fantasist can't tell the difference between sci-fi and reality and/or relies on marks who can't"

I support animal testing where it is necessary for medical research. But a venture involving Musk where he's trying to do things he read in a sci-fi story and trying to do it on a preposterously unrealistic timetable in order to whip up interest/lure in marks/boost his ego is never going to conduct animal research ethically if left to their own devices.

EACLucifer wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:11 pm

I support animal testing where it is necessary for medical research. But a venture involving Musk where he's trying to do things he read in a sci-fi story and trying to do it on a preposterously unrealistic timetable in order to whip up interest/lure in marks/boost his ego is never going to conduct animal research ethically if left to their own devices.

And this project is largely not necessary, so animal research it does can never really be ethical, however it is carried out.

A radical left take on Twitter’s actions on the Biden laptop story: https://jacobin.com/2022/12/twitter-fil ... ss-freedom

Temptar: We jailed a guy for importing garlic and labelling it as apples because he didn’t pay the proper tax.

Surely I'm not the only one who imagined a bag of garlic bulbs at the shop with a "Golden Delicious" sticker on them. I did eventually realise that the labelling probably applied at the import stage rather than retail.

Woodchopper wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:53 am

A radical left take on Twitter’s actions on the Biden laptop story: https://jacobin.com/2022/12/twitter-fil ... ss-freedom

What a strange comment piece. Little connection to reality and seems to be unquestioning on the laptop origin story. The writer gets tied up in knots about the US 1st Amendment when these issues apply to all countries. It fails to address some pretty big areas:

- how should the media deal with stolen information?
- how should the media deal with stolen sexual photos?
- how should the media deal with political smear campaigns that are newsworthy but of uncertain accuracy?
- how should the media operate in a world of deep-fakes and big budget professional disinformation, much coming from overseas enemies?

dyqik wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:35 pm

EACLucifer wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:11 pm

I support animal testing where it is necessary for medical research. But a venture involving Musk where he's trying to do things he read in a sci-fi story and trying to do it on a preposterously unrealistic timetable in order to whip up interest/lure in marks/boost his ego is never going to conduct animal research ethically if left to their own devices.

And this project is largely not necessary, so animal research it does can never really be ethical, however it is carried out.

Indeed. It's fairly obvious the "i WaNT to puT CHiPS in BraNEs" came before any attempt to rationalise it with potential medical applications.

lpm wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:30 am

Woodchopper wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:53 am

A radical left take on Twitter’s actions on the Biden laptop story: https://jacobin.com/2022/12/twitter-fil ... ss-freedom

What a strange comment piece. Little connection to reality and seems to be unquestioning on the laptop origin story. The writer gets tied up in knots about the US 1st Amendment when these issues apply to all countries. It fails to address some pretty big areas:

- how should the media deal with stolen information?
- how should the media deal with stolen sexual photos?
- how should the media deal with political smear campaigns that are newsworthy but of uncertain accuracy?
- how should the media operate in a world of deep-fakes and big budget professional disinformation, much coming from overseas enemies?

Yup,

He's not a public citizen, and it's private media.

jimbob wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 3:04 pm

lpm wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:30 am

Woodchopper wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:53 am

A radical left take on Twitter’s actions on the Biden laptop story: https://jacobin.com/2022/12/twitter-fil ... ss-freedom

What a strange comment piece. Little connection to reality and seems to be unquestioning on the laptop origin story. The writer gets tied up in knots about the US 1st Amendment when these issues apply to all countries. It fails to address some pretty big areas:

- how should the media deal with stolen information?
- how should the media deal with stolen sexual photos?
- how should the media deal with political smear campaigns that are newsworthy but of uncertain accuracy?
- how should the media operate in a world of deep-fakes and big budget professional disinformation, much coming from overseas enemies?

Yup,

He's not a public citizen, and it's private media.

And the Biden campaign was also an entirely non-governmental operation at the time. Meanwhile Taibbi etc. have refused to give any details on the Trump campaign's requests to Twitter, submitted on behalf of the President.

lpm wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:30 am

Woodchopper wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:53 am

A radical left take on Twitter’s actions on the Biden laptop story: https://jacobin.com/2022/12/twitter-fil ... ss-freedom

What a strange comment piece. Little connection to reality and seems to be unquestioning on the laptop origin story. The writer gets tied up in knots about the US 1st Amendment when these issues apply to all countries. It fails to address some pretty big areas:

- how should the media deal with stolen information?
- how should the media deal with stolen sexual photos?
- how should the media deal with political smear campaigns that are newsworthy but of uncertain accuracy?
- how should the media operate in a world of deep-fakes and big budget professional disinformation, much coming from overseas enemies?

Those are of course important, but this is Jacobin. I expect that that author is a bit of a Marxist and is concerned about power, and those questions would just be the irrelevant scruples of the capitalist class that includes both Biden and Trump.

Twitter is down for me

Just saw this from a week ago. Twitter has had its credit rating withdrawn by Moodys and S&P. Not a good look for a company.

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/tw ... ngs-pulled

The latest round of attempted scandal has involved Twitter giving access to PII to third party "journalists". Which I'm sure is sparking GPDR regulators' interest.

So, Musk seems to be swimming in the alt right bubble, listening to Kimdotcom, ian miles cheong and other various trolls. There are some who have suggested that musk is insincerly adopting right wing conspiracy opinions to create a right wing demand for twitter (or even for teslas), but I don't believe this. As part of an attempt to make the "twitter files" into something they are not, Musk is smearing former twitter employees and advisers. He is also calling for the prosecution of Faucci.
Although there is a strong argument to stay on twitter to counter the disinformation (I would tend to agree with this, at least while normal users dominate the discourse), several prominent accounts have either quit (popehat, carl bergstrom) or are thinking about it. It will be interesting to see if the migration of users to Mastodon or Post accelerates, which is likely if Musk doubles down on the right wing conspiracies.

Pishwish wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:04 pm

So, Musk seems to be swimming in the alt right bubble, listening to Kimdotcom, ian miles cheong and other various trolls. There are some who have suggested that musk is insincerly adopting right wing conspiracy opinions to create a right wing demand for twitter (or even for teslas), but I don't believe this. As part of an attempt to make the "twitter files" into something they are not, Musk is smearing former twitter employees and advisers. He is also calling for the prosecution of Faucci.
Although there is a strong argument to stay on twitter to counter the disinformation (I would tend to agree with this, at least while normal users dominate the discourse), several prominent accounts have either quit (popehat, carl bergstrom) or are thinking about it. It will be interesting to see if the migration of users to Mastodon or Post accelerates, which is likely if Musk doubles down on the right wing conspiracies.

What's "Post"?

Brightonian wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:43 pm

Pishwish wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:04 pm

So, Musk seems to be swimming in the alt right bubble, listening to Kimdotcom, ian miles cheong and other various trolls. There are some who have suggested that musk is insincerly adopting right wing conspiracy opinions to create a right wing demand for twitter (or even for teslas), but I don't believe this. As part of an attempt to make the "twitter files" into something they are not, Musk is smearing former twitter employees and advisers. He is also calling for the prosecution of Faucci.
Although there is a strong argument to stay on twitter to counter the disinformation (I would tend to agree with this, at least while normal users dominate the discourse), several prominent accounts have either quit (popehat, carl bergstrom) or are thinking about it. It will be interesting to see if the migration of users to Mastodon or Post accelerates, which is likely if Musk doubles down on the right wing conspiracies.

What's "Post"?

It's a new social media site, it seems that they're trying to attract journalists. Not sure anyone knows much about it, because it's still in beta and they're not letting that many users on. It was being worked on before Musk broke twitter, but they rushed the launch because of that.

monkey wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:04 pm

Brightonian wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:43 pm

Pishwish wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:04 pm

So, Musk seems to be swimming in the alt right bubble, listening to Kimdotcom, ian miles cheong and other various trolls. There are some who have suggested that musk is insincerly adopting right wing conspiracy opinions to create a right wing demand for twitter (or even for teslas), but I don't believe this. As part of an attempt to make the "twitter files" into something they are not, Musk is smearing former twitter employees and advisers. He is also calling for the prosecution of Faucci.
Although there is a strong argument to stay on twitter to counter the disinformation (I would tend to agree with this, at least while normal users dominate the discourse), several prominent accounts have either quit (popehat, carl bergstrom) or are thinking about it. It will be interesting to see if the migration of users to Mastodon or Post accelerates, which is likely if Musk doubles down on the right wing conspiracies.

What's "Post"?

It's a new social media site, it seems that they're trying to attract journalists. Not sure anyone knows much about it, because it's still in beta and they're not letting that many users on. It was being worked on before Musk broke twitter, but they rushed the launch because of that.

Thanks, I'd Googled 'post social media' but of course got stuff about posting to social media. I did look at the Android app store too but couldn't find anything, presumably because it's still in beta.

monkey wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:04 pm

Brightonian wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 2:43 pm

Pishwish wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:04 pm

So, Musk seems to be swimming in the alt right bubble, listening to Kimdotcom, ian miles cheong and other various trolls. There are some who have suggested that musk is insincerly adopting right wing conspiracy opinions to create a right wing demand for twitter (or even for teslas), but I don't believe this. As part of an attempt to make the "twitter files" into something they are not, Musk is smearing former twitter employees and advisers. He is also calling for the prosecution of Faucci.
Although there is a strong argument to stay on twitter to counter the disinformation (I would tend to agree with this, at least while normal users dominate the discourse), several prominent accounts have either quit (popehat, carl bergstrom) or are thinking about it. It will be interesting to see if the migration of users to Mastodon or Post accelerates, which is likely if Musk doubles down on the right wing conspiracies.

What's "Post"?

It's a new social media site, it seems that they're trying to attract journalists. Not sure anyone knows much about it, because it's still in beta and they're not letting that many users on. It was being worked on before Musk broke twitter, but they rushed the launch because of that.

And it's another private company, so essentially nothing stopping someone doing a Musk to it.