Ignore fake news - Musk is kicking ass
Musk had a long day of embarrassing the fake news and pwn'ing ex-Twitter losers.
There’s some recent news with Elon Musk and his douching of Twitter to cleanse it from the commie stink. I’ll hit them at random.
Non-tech tech journalist Ashley Belanger continues to spew crap via Ars Technica. From the very first paragraph:
Twitter already faces a class-action lawsuit from some staff that the company laid off without providing federally required notice. Now, rather than realize the error of its ways, Twitter decided this weekend that its next round of layoffs should come with no notice at all.
This has been explained ad nauseam, and yet she ignores facts while attempting to keep the lie alive that Musk just fired employees contra to California law and outright implies he did something wrong.
Next, Musk fired about 5,500 contractors. It’s hilarious that this is spun as a bad thing. As one who’s been on the contractor side of the table, and the other side as the one hiring the contractor, this is no big deal. A pro contractor never expects a permanent position, unless it’s a C2H agreement.
Musk has proven he’s not illegally breaking contracts, and any terms to which the contractors agreed will be enforced, and all due compensation will make its way into their bank accounts so they may continue to finance their vegan diets and Whole Foods shopping habits.
This kind of news triggers the Bernie bro/Hussein Obama communist contingency that thinks businesses are evil to their core, getting rich on the backs of the po’ ditch-digging man, except for when they’re running them, sitting on their boards, etc. If you’ve seen how these employees treated the Twitter HQ like a day at the spa, you wouldn’t at all feel sorry for them.
These contractors were a useless burden on the company:
Why are these millenials and zoomers operating under the premise that they have a right to collect a paycheck from, well, any company? A business creates a job opportunity demand to be filled by someone supplying labor; employees are not born with a job that’s ripped away by evil business man.
I’ve never had a problem firing employees. Honestly, it never even moved my radar. People change jobs, and moving from one job to another is perfectly normal and natural within a free market society. These whiny losers think they’re entitled to be embedded into company’s payroll system like a tick. They’re not.
Losing access to internal communications is part of the life of a contractor when the business’ situation changes. One reason this needs to be done immediately without notice is because communists are not exactly responsible and ethical people. Once confirmed they’re on the chopping block, they’d sabotage and scheme to hurt the company and product “for the good of Democracy!”, hence why these things need to be done under the cover of night and without prior knowledge.
Stories like this are intended to pull at the heartstrings and invoke emotional reaction by the Bernie/Hussein commies:
Ingle, a data scientist, said she worked on the data and monitoring arm of Twitter's civic integrity team. Her job involved writing algorithms to find political misinformation on the platform in countries such as the U.S., Brazil, Japan, Argentina and elsewhere.
Ingle said she was 'pretty sure I was done for' when she couldn't access her work email Saturday. The notification from the contracting company she'd been hired by came two hours later.
'I'll just be putting my resumes out there and talking to people,' she said. 'I have two children. And I'm worried about being able to give them a nice Christmas, you know, and just mundane things like that, that are important. I just think it´s particularly heartless to do this at this time.'
Poor thing. Any coder right now could throw a rock and hit a recruiter and find a job in no time. This lady brings no value to the workforce. The Christmas quip makes me laugh; suddenly satanists and anti-Americans are celebrating Christmas? As for affording Christmas presents, why does her husband not provide for the family? I don’t feel sorry for the “I don’t need a man and will have children on my own”, only to play the “I’m a struggling single mother” card when convenient.
Sorry. Learn to code, loser! Maybe she can launch a GiveSendGo for her Christmas gift buying and kind people from middle Bible-thumping America, who are crapped on daily by San Franciscans in digital media, can bail her out and send her a few bucks?
There’s no issue with advertisers in the long run. Musk is making the platform fun again, which brings actual real humans. These humans are people who buy products and services. Advertisers will fall in line to bid for ad space to target these actual humans. This is a non-issue long-term which I explained in a previous post.
For example, I posted this on 11/2:
But what about advertisers? This is supposed to be the biggest victim with Musk’s subscription model, but it will be his biggest advantage. This is really delicious since advertisers have been lied to about user metrics over the years.
Who do you think will be Musk’s first advertisers? Before you answer that, think of Starlink, Tesla Phone, and Tesla. Those alone would be some high-quality ads.
Who competes with those companies? Starlink competes with Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and the others. Tesla Phone competes with the Android phones, and iPhone. Who competes with Tesla? Last time I checked, other auto manufacturers are in the EV market, along with non-EV. If you don’t understand that his competitors are going to buy ad space on Twitter, then I can’t help you.
Today, we had this:
Elon Musk has seemingly decided that one way to inspire confidence in Twitter as an advertising platform is to become an advertiser himself. Yesterday, CNBC reported that SpaceX purchased one of Twitter’s premium advertising packages—when typically SpaceX rarely invests in Twitter advertising—as Musk's other company plans to begin advertising Starlink satellite Internet to customers in Spain and Australia. According to internal documents CNBC reviewed, SpaceX has so far spent $160,000 on the Twitter ad campaign and in total could end up investing up to $250,000.
The de facto anti-Musk writer at Ars Technica, Ashley Belanger, actually slanted her piece to say Musk “has seemingly decided...” Actually, Miss (unmarried, I presume) Belanger, it was just common business sense. Ars Technica really hires the best.
For some more good news, Twitter’s communist rabid Trump-hater head moderator, Yoel Roth, finally tapped out and quit. Good riddance.
The best pwn by Musk yesterday was him slapping down this useless commie over the ridiculous food service at Twitter HQ, where he’s now forcing employees to pay for their own lunches (oh, the horror of this evil man):
Musk delivers the smackdown:
Ouch. That little girl didn’t even know anything about her own job. That must be embarrassing. Musk wasn’t done spanking ex-Twitter commies:
The issue referred to by Musk is Twitter is slow because of crappy engineering. In a nutshell, when you load your Twitter timeline, a lot of unnecessary back-and-forth communications between your phone and Twitter servers takes place, zapping battery, internet usage, and rendering time, among other issues, which slows things down.
Musk gave the loser the opportunity to correct him, but got scared when all eyes were on him:
The clown continued to back himself into a corner by playing a game of specifics, where the app doesn’t make RPC calls. That’s like when someone says you took too long to drive to the store, you say “no, the car drove.” Sad.
Another point, the “app” is full-stack, as it encompasses front-end and back-end, and stuff happening in the middle. The idiot developer seems to think “app” is only the phone component.
Actually, I doubt this clown had access to the back end, as he was an Android developer and just understood what calls the app made client-side without knowing what happens server-side, which is speculation on my part to explain why he was caught unarmed and embarrassed when attempting to correct someone who’s been in the platform for only a few weeks versus the developer’s 6 years.
His fellow commies dogpiled on his side, then Musk had to deliver the smackdown:
He continued to embarrass him:
He then tap dances on Twitter’s incompetent engineering:
The idiot engineer (Eric) doesn’t realize he’s making the engineering talent at Twitter look incompetent. Twitter is (was) supposed to be a place of the top engineering talent, but they look like morons from these exchanges. At this point, I wouldn’t hire one to fetch my coffee, especially knowing they didn’t make it past Tesla’s engineers’ screening.
Musk was on a role. He embarrassed ex-T-Mobile CEO John Legere, after saying no to him asking to be Twitter chief:
John was a CEO of a company that Musk described exactly, but wasn’t a tech guy. I could use some emoticon smileys right here because a lot of people didn’t notice that dig.
This article got long, so let me wrap it up. Musk, after a few weeks, proved he knew more about the food situation than the lady running the food service, more about the application on Android than the guy developing the application on Android, slapped down trolls, embarrassed fake news, tap-danced on and exposed Sam Fried, and even a sitting Senator.
There’s issues with the Blue service rollout, but like any business, it’s a problem that pops up and will be fixed. Idiot non-tech and non-business tech and business journalists don’t understand that because they’ve never done anything in tech or business beyond fling poo.
If the Twitter engineering department was competent, Musk wouldn’t have to be putting out all of these fires. If management was competent, he wouldn’t have to slash bloated and useless employees and projects.
Those of us from the tech and business world get it. We more than often get it right; the fake news journos ALWAYS get it wrong.