Elon f*cks Twitter

[Khamon]

I refuse to pronounce meme as maymay. It will never happen. The city of Nice is pronounced neeese, with a long first E, just like meme.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Meme was already pronounced "meem" as a semi-homophone of "gene" back when the Internet was like 6 hosts connected by 56k dedicated phone lines, and there were already macros but they were pronounced "line printer graphics".

But that's a whole separate thing from how the city of Même in Switzerland is pronounced.

 

[Khamon]

Oh that Même. Didn't catch that map reference. It's still not even so bad that it's funneh.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Sometimes I pronounce it "mei mei" when I want to sound Chinese. ...

You got me wondering:

米姆

Mǐ mǔ

 

[Noodles]

I think its short for memetic or something, somits probably actually "meem", but I always assumed the "may may" thing comes from the way Japan would pronounce "Meme" and weeb culture.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I think its short for memetic or something, somits probably actually "meem", but I always assumed the "may may" thing comes from the way Japan would pronounce "Meme" and weeb culture.

It was invented by Dawkins in the '70s, it's completely documented in every detail, we probably know more about the origin of this word than pretty much any other word in the English language. Dawkins is typically salty about how his term, in poetic analogy with genes, has forked off a mutant spur and been domesticated.

 

[Noodles]

Reading through this article.

What's in a Meme? | Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

Preparing for this article, I googled the word “meme” and generated 78,000,000 results! Looking back on 2013, the BBC published an article on-li ...

richarddawkins.net

It kind of just makes you really realize that "memes" have been around long before internet image macros. Like when I was a kid, my friends and I had some stupid phrases we would repeat a lot, some made up, some from movies, but these were basically just, memes, in the same sense as anything today, they just didn't have the internet to spread things wider than the handful few of us.

 

[Casey Pelous]

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Out of the blue, I got an email from Twitter (will never call it X0 that my account was reinstated. It's been many months ago now that I was permanently banned due to the 3 cryptocurrency spam texts that a (hacker, someone using password lists on dark web) gained access to my account.

Oddly enough, they did not delete those posts. I went in, did so and then signed back out. I really have no interest in participating in that nazi site. Others may stay in an attempt to combat that continued destruction of it, or because it is still useful to them in some way, but to me the louder noise is the nazis being given full and free rein and I want nothing to do with it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How one former Twitter employee could beat Elon Musk in court

In her first interview, former engineer Yao Yue discusses being fired over a tweet — and her success in getting the NLRB to file its first formal complaint against X

www.platformer.news

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Twitter is rolling out a test baloon in New Zealand and the Philippines: new accounts have to pay 1 US$/year there from now on if they want to be able to tweet something. Otherwise it is read access only.

Musk says this is to combat spam bots and alike. Many though think this is a miserable attempt to generate new revenue, since Twitter's ad revenue decreased by 60% since the takeover.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/18/x-twitter-1-dollar-annual-subscription-fee-new-users-elon-musk-new-zealand-nz-philippines

 

[Essence Lumin]

Twitter is rolling out a test baloon in New Zealand and the Philippines: new accounts have to pay 1 US$/year there from now on if they want to be able to tweet something. Otherwise it is read access only.

Musk says this is to combat spam bots and alike. Many though think this is a miserable attempt to generate new revenue, since Twitter's ad revenue decreased by 60% since the takeover.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/18/x-twitter-1-dollar-annual-subscription-fee-new-users-elon-musk-new-zealand-nz-philippines

Good. Most likely people aren't going to cough up their credit card info even for a dollar.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Good. Most likely people aren't going to cough up their credit card info even for a dollar.

Seriously, I value giving my credit card info to Musk at like +40 dollars a month since I don't trust their security policies not to get hacked.... so the 1 dollar charge is a rounding error. No way am I giving them my credit card for any actual charge for that shitty site.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Not even if they were paying me.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I can see it as part of his Everything App plan. He wants to make X a payment/commerce platform, so starting to get people to add credit card information for a nominal payment makes it easier for him to start adding payments since they already have your card on file.

 

[Noodles]

I can't WAIT for Musk to run up against financial regulators, because you know half his motivation here is tonget around financial regulations like all Crypto idiots.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A guide to Elon Musk’s latest battle over disinformation on X

Europe’s probe into harmful content on X about the Israel-Hamas war tests a new law that could reshape the internet.

www.vox.com

 

[Essence Lumin]

A guide to Elon Musk’s latest battle over disinformation on X

Europe’s probe into harmful content on X about the Israel-Hamas war tests a new law that could reshape the internet.

www.vox.com

Note that there is no mention of twitter possibly leaving the EU in this article. I believe that is because that news came out a day after this article was published.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Musk feels like donating a billion...

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Well, he's an expert on dicks.