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EBGuy says

The stock market seems convinced that the deal will go through, as the market price is approaching Elon's offer of $54/share:

EBGuy says

Lol, I did not get "let that sink in" at first!

Patrick says

Lol, I did not get "let that sink in" at first!

Yeah, I watched the video and it looked like a monitor at first or maybe a PC chassis. My cognitive dissonance was finally resolved when I looked at the text.

The open letter almost sounds like opposition propaganda, except for how it makes them sound like snowflakes.
https://nitter.net/MattNavarra/status/1584867664912318465

HES GOTTA PAY PER VIEW THE FIRINGS, at least in the PR/Fact Cheka Departments.

Day in the Life of a Twitter Employee.



Holy shit these people are out of touch.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1585395267552960512?s=20&t=7LvDJNcorNe_Mm04z4SrVw

https://babylonbee.com/news/guy-who-decided-to-ban-the-babylon-bee-wondering-if-he-might-be-in-hot-water

Guy Who Decided To Ban The Babylon Bee Wondering If He Might Be In Hot Water
TECH
Oct 27, 2022 · BabylonBee.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — As Elon Musk takes over Twitter this week and begins looking for ways to make the $44 billion-dollar company more profitable, some employees are starting to worry about the future of their jobs.

And none more so than Shea L. Porter, a content moderation specialist who's been working for Twitter full-time for 4 hours a week since 2019. According to sources within the company, Porter is the one who made the decision to lock The Babylon Bee out of its account after the satirical news site gave Rachel Levine its coveted "Man of the Year" award.

"You know, I'm starting to wonder if I might be in trouble here," he confided in coworker Ally Federer. "I don't know. I just feel like it might be frowned upon to make a content moderation decision that may have resulted in the entire company getting sold and the whole discourse around free speech in this country shifting."

"Like, did I change Western Civilization forever just because I was a little grumpy that day?" According to Porter, he had a heavy workload back in March when he decided to lock The Bee out of its account and was just a little on edge, resulting in the decision that may have shifted the tides of the war over free speech and big tech censorship forever.

"It was a pretty rough day for me," he admitted. "I was putting in extra hours to get a project done, so I'd worked, like, 8 hours the week before. The cafeteria was out of red wine on tap, and I found the garlic shrimp a little mealy, which is weird, because Fernando down there in the kitchen is usually on point. So, I dunno. I let my emotions get the better of me."

At publishing time, Musk had called Porter into his office and asked him, "So, what would you say... you do here?"

Patrick says

I would actually pay to be able to watch them reeeee

Please tweet this at all the whingy leftoids complaining about Musk UNcensoring people. The smug fucks loved sending this comic.


PRIVATE! COMPANY!

https://babylonbee.com/news/elon-to-replace-3200-twitter-employees-with-one-hardworking-immigrant-from-india

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Only hours after officially taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has taken action on firing underperforming employees. After reviewing the metrics on individual employee productivity, Musk abruptly fired 3,200 Twitter team members and replaced them with Amar.

"Amar is a hardworking immigrant from India who can easily do the work of 3,200 Silicon Valley millennials," said Musk. "Once we filtered out all the breaks for meditation, wine-on-tap, matcha sipping, shuffleboard, and corn-hole, we discovered that these employees could all be replaced with Amar, who will outperform all 3,200 of these employees by at least 9%."

Amar's resume includes a steady stream of success at several call centers in Mumbai, and since his start date on Monday, he has already outworked 2,973 of the employees in weekly productivity. Sources say he works 18 hours per day, sleeps at the office, and takes baths in the bathroom sink, all of which he says are much better working conditions than where he came from.

At publishing time, Twitter employees had announced they all found jobs working for the DNC in Washington, D.C.

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/TitaniaMcGrath

David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Oct 27
Successful social media companies begin in a shed with 12 coders, and end up in a sumptuous glass tower with 1200 HR staffers, 2000 product managers, 5000 salespeople, 20 gourmet chefs, and 12 coders

Patrick says

He needs to be careful to not involve politics in any way shape or form into firing decisions because it is indeed illegal in CA to fire people for political beliefs. But I'm sure he knows that. The cartoon's author doesn't.

wait for it lol

Fired Twitter engineer sounds off on Elon Musk as takeover commences | LiveNOW from FOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLVG9Mmx-I

First he will show his grey npc face views on free speech. Then he will show you he's a cuck too.

If in a month or so I apply to twitter, do you think it would help if I put "Murica!" at the top of my resume?

I have a link to https://patrick.net/memes at the top of my resume.

Either some leftist will read them and throw out my resume, in which case I got them to read the memes!

Or someone more tolerant of truth will be interested in interviewing me.

I'm OK with either outcome. Still don't really need a job, but Twitter sounds like a very interesting place now. Going to wait a few weeks before sending my resume there in hopes that they clean out HR soon.

HOLY SHIT! One of the two Data People fired by Elon today :

His box had Big Mike's Junk in it!

stereotomy says

Who wants to wager?

Musk is controlled opposition.

I don't have to wager, I know. Have pointed out his fucked up family and NWO connections many times.

Or were the laid off twitter employees a troll?

""I have to go touch base with my husband and wife."

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1586077079195422720?s=20&t=Kh8SmLZTurK32_KIkaF7qg

I remember watching the Babylon Bee interview with Musk and thinking we had gone through the looking glass...

NuttBoxer says

stereotomy says

Who wants to wager?

Musk is controlled opposition.

I don't have to wager, I know. Have pointed out his fucked up family and NWO connections many times.

That begs the question, is Trump controlled opposition? Or was it a big mistake of the deep state to let him run?

I'm not sure.

Liberal ideology is unrecognisable. Whereas classical liberalism meant that each individual is free to speak and act as he sees fit, in the 20th century liberals started claiming that their "open society" has enemies. And the freedom that these enemies have must be restricted and cancelled.

—Vladimir Putin

Putin is clearly right about this, whatever else you might think of him.

And Twitter was at the forefront of cancelling everyone who disagrees with violent leftist woke ideology.

Elon should hire Alex Jones to run Twitter public relations.

Onvacation says

That begs the question, is Trump controlled opposition? Or was it a big mistake of the deep state to let him run?

I say the powers that be are always playing good cop/bad cop with their puppets. They also play the audience so that the population differs 50/50 on who is the good cop and who is the bad cop to keep them from uniting, and fighting each other instead.

Trump and Musk are essentially comic actors. Entertainers. Who knows how much money they really have but they’re both playing the part of eccentric plutocrat. Enjoy the show!

A new hidden-camera video by Project Veritas--published January 11--features "nine current and former Twitter employees" admitting to "steps the social media giant is taking to censor political content that they don't like," according to Project Veritas.

The video opens with a montage of damning quotes before showing those quotes in context. Far from being less damning when seen in context, they are more so. The video focuses on something called "shadow banning."

Abhinav Vadrevu, a former software engineer at Twitter, said, "One strategy is to shadow ban so that you have ultimate control." He added, "The idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone, but they don't know they've been banned because they keep posting, but no one sees their content." On the psychological side of the equation, this creates a situation where the users just think their posts--their ideas--aren't appealing to anyone. "So they just think no one is engaging with their content when in reality, no one is seeing it," Vadrevu said. He admitted that the practice "is risky" because "people will figure that sh*t out." He also said that it would cause "bad press" and that "it's like, unethical in some way, you know? So, I don't know."

Olinda Hassan is a policy manager in Twitter's Trust and Safety Department, which she describes as "controversial." Her team makes the rules and regulations for the platform's millions of users. They are the gatekeepers. As Hassan explained, Twitter is "working on" a way to silence certain people and ideas on the platform. "Yeah, it's something we're working on--where we're trying to get the sh*tty people not to show up," she told the undercover journalist, adding, "It's a product thing we're working on."

The Project Veritas video shows Mo Norai, a former content review agent at Twitter, saying, "Let's say if it was a pro-Trump thing and I'm anti-Trump, I was like, 'I banned his whole account.' It goes to you, and then it's at your discretion. And if you're anti-Trump, you're like, 'Oh, you know what? Mo was right, ft'ck it, let it go.'" Norai went on to say that "discretion" --which he described as "I guess how you felt about a particular matter"--plays a huge role in what content gets banned at Twitter. Norai said that during his time at Twitter, left-leaning posts that were tagged as possibly offensive were allowed to remain. "It would come through checked and then I would be like, 'You know what? This is okay. Let it go.'"

Pranay Singh is a direct messaging engineer at Twitter. He said that the suspension of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's Twitter account may have been because of "the U.S. government pressuring" Twitter. He said, "They do that." In fact, he said it happens "all the fucking time." In Assange's case, he said the U.S. government doesn't like "people messing with their politics, and [Assange] has sh*t on a lot of people."

Singh helped explain the types of tweets that are likely not to make the cut. "Just go to a random (Trump) tweet and just look at the followers," he said. Those followers will "all be like guns, God, 'Merica, like and with the American flag and like, the cross." He said the way to get rid of those users--all of whom he assumes are bots, not real users, because, "Like who says that? Who talks like that?"--is to "just delete them." But since "there are hundreds of thousands of them" and that volume can't be handled by people, "you got to, like, write algorithms to do it for you."

Perhaps most shocking is the statement by Steven Pierre, a software engineer at Twitter. Speaking on hidden camera, he said that Twitter is developing a way to automate the whole process of what gets seen and what doesn't. "Every single conversation is going to be rated by a machine" that will decide whether the conversation is "positive" or "negative." If it's negative, "They may have a point, but it will just, like, vanish," he said. When asked whether this would "ban certain mindsets," he said no. "It's going to ban, like, a way of talking."

If that isn't Pravda, nothing is. Between filtering, banning, shadow banning, and manipulating what users see, Twitter is dangerously close to a thought-control platform.

gabbar says

(((South Asians))) Hassan... Singh...

npc media broadcasting behavioral instructions

AmericanKulak says

gabbar says

(((South Asians))) Hassan... Singh...

Let's not forger that Twitter is an American company headquartered in the land of the free, home of the brave and unlimited dollar printing matrix, run by leader of the free world. Just saying. Sometimes its interesting to look in the mirror.

My post is sarcastic.