Elon f*cks Twitter

[Noodles]

Using something like Twitter for academic research will cause me to discount the research.

They never ever take the pulse of those who do not join such sites. There are probably more of us.

I mean, we still rely on phone poll data that is mostly just lonely old people for some data gathering too. Sometimes they need to combine sources.

 

[Free]

Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid

$15 billion valuation after Fidelity lowers value of its Twitter stake again.

arstechnica.com

Twitter's value has reportedly dropped to about $15 billion, slightly more than one-third of the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid for it in late October 2022. The $15 billion valuation is based on Fidelity's latest analysis of its stake in the company.

"Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund's stake in Twitter was valued at $6.6 million as of April 28, according to the fund's monthly disclosure released Sunday," The Wall Street Journal wrote today. "That is down from about $19.7 million at the end of October, shortly after Musk's takeover, and the third time Fidelity has marked down the value of its Twitter stake, public disclosures show."

Fidelity's new calculation "puts Twitter's overall valuation at about $15 billion, or roughly a third of the deal price," the WSJ wrote. Twitter is identified in the Fidelity filing as X Holdings, the Musk-owned holding company that owns X Corp., which merged with Twitter. Fidelity's new valuation of Twitter was previously reported by Bloomberg.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[WolfEyes]

I mean, we still rely on phone poll data that is mostly just lonely old people for some data gathering too. Sometimes they need to combine sources.

I'm not that old.

Or lonely.

 

[Noodles]

I'm not that old.

Or lonely.

Did you ask the pollsyer on the phone about his family and how his day was going?

Asking for a friend.

 

[WolfEyes]

Did you ask the pollsyer on the phone about his family and how his day was going?

Asking for a friend.

WTF is a pollsyer?

1) I used to work for one of those research companies. Not selling anything (outright, that comes later) is only an excuse to try to legally circumvent the DNC list. It's still soliciting.

2) When they call and I do happen to answer the phone (if they haven't been blocked yet) the only words they hear from me are "Remove this number from your list." and " Do not call again."

3) We have been on the National Do Not Call list for decades.

 

[Free]

WTF is a pollsyer?

I believe she meant to write 'pollster'.

 

[Noodles]

Yeah Pollster.

Which I originally mistyped AGAIN as "pollsyer."

 

[WolfEyes]

I believe she meant to write 'pollster'.

I just like to tease people who post from their phones.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Elon Musk has pinned Matt Walsh's thing with the name "What is a woman?". Yeah, Elon moves even more to the right...

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

I have mixed feelings about this... I don't want to just let them have their echo chamber.... but also don't want to support twitter and want it to die. I do like a lot of the good content on twitter! But am trying hard to avoid doing anything to support them. I have no subscription and only view it on PC with a strong ad block.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I have mixed feelings about this... I don't want to just let them have their echo chamber.... but also don't want to support twitter and want it to die. I do like a lot of the good content on twitter! But am trying hard to avoid doing anything to support them. I have no subscription and only view it on PC with a strong ad block.

Like you, I use it with an ad block, and I also look only at content from accounts I follow, with the result I don't see much objectionable content unless someone tweets about it (but I have a huge automatic block list, from the days they still worked, so I don't see tweets from most far right accounts unless I want to).

 

[WolfEyes]

Elon Musk has pinned Matt Walsh's thing with the name "What is a woman?". Yeah, Elon moves even more to the right...

And in all that hour and a half they never did actually define what a woman is. Because they don't know!

 

[Noodles]

I have mixed feelings about this... I don't want to just let them have their echo chamber.... but also don't want to support twitter and want it to die. I do like a lot of the good content on twitter! But am trying hard to avoid doing anything to support them. I have no subscription and only view it on PC with a strong ad block.

Let them have their echo chamber. Every other Conservative Echo chamber has died or was DOA. This one is starting from a strongish position instead of nothing, but I doubt thst helps in the long run.

 

[Noodles]

And in all that hour and a half they never did actually define what a woman is. Because they don't know!

Its conservative media, I can tell you the definition is essentially entirely, "RrrEeeEEeEE XX Chromosomes!!!!!! AbLe To GiVe BiRtH."

And I didn't even need to watch it.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The ranting Right Wing Nutjob is at core, an abuser. That person does not even want an echo chamber, that person wants a supply of victims. Take everyone from the stoic and practical conservative on through to the wildest of lefties out of Twitter, Twitter is dead in part for that reason. The abusers leave to go find victims.

 

[WolfEyes]

Its conservative media, I can tell you the definition is essentially entirely, "RrrEeeEEeEE XX Chromosomes!!!!!! AbLe To GiVe BiRtH."

And I didn't even need to watch it.

All females can give birth regardless of species but that doesn't make them women. So, they have managed to define "female", but they still haven't defined "woman".

What's the Word?- "Woman"

In light of recent controversy over the notion of “toxic masculinity” it’s tempting to choose “toxic” as our first word for 2019. However, seems more…

www.wkms.org

‘Woman,’ similarly, is from the the Old English word for “wife”—“wiffman”—which, as you hear, is also related to “man.” But because of significant influence of Christianity (and particularly the King James Version of the Bible) on the English language and American culture, many mistakenly believe that the “wo” in “woman” is a prefix, meaning “out of.”

In the Hebrew Bible’s books of Genesis, the Hebrew the Hebrew for “man” is ish and “woman” is ishah because Eve was “taken out of” the man’s side:

“This is now bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called ‘woman,’

for she was taken out of man.”

So even where there is no etymological reference to women’s dependence, there is often a conceptual or theological one.

 

[Noodles]

All females can give birth regardless of species but that doesn't make them women. So, they have managed to define "female", but they still haven't defined "woman".

Not all women can give birth, for various reasons, but that wasn't really my point, my point was their definition is going to be very limited in scope and basically amount to "making babies."

 

[WolfEyes]

Not all women can give birth, for various reasons, but that wasn't really my point, my point was their definition is going to be very limited in scope and basically amount to "making babies."

We both have the same point. Only mine goes a bit further. Baby making machine. We are not human to them.