Redwood
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Why is he so obsessed with the letter X though?
General Elon Musk Fukkery Thread
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my stupid theory is that he is so rich, he thinks he can literally own a letter. he's such an insecure autistic dork i feel like that's been a goal of his through his life. "imagine being so rich i can literally buy a letter of the alphabet!" he probably thinks it's the ultimate status symbol. plus it's the "edgiest" letter.
Redwood
Superstar
It's been worn out since the 90s though.
Slim
Superstar
He’s still making 420 and 69 jokes.
His whole existence is stuck in the 90s. Which is even more lame since he wasn’t even a kid then.
look who you're talking bout
Redwood
Superstar
Saysumthinfunnymike
VOTE!!!
Imagine the kid in special ed class. No disrespect to them. But now imagine them with $100B+ dollars and that's Elon.
i know, and he's tweaking everything on twitter to make it a fukkin echo chamber of pychophant losers. every time he posts the first reply is some dogecoin doof sucking his balls and the biggest loser on Earth, Ian Miles Chong or whatever telling him he's the manWell his antics are not being checked so, there's going to be more of this continuing
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CBC mainly remains off X, citing low traffic six months after scaling back presence
OTTAWA - Six months after the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada scaled back its use of the social media site X, the public broadcaster says it will mostly remain off
CBC mainly remains off X, citing low traffic six months after scaling back presence
CBC mainly remains off X, citing low traffic
- Mickey Djuric The Canadian Press
- Oct 22, 2023 Updated Oct 22, 2023
Six months after CBC/Radio-Canada scaled back its use on X, the public broadcaster says it will mostly remain off the platform, formerly known as Twitter, because it doesn't bring in a lot of traffic for them. The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Rick Rycroft
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OTTAWA - Six months after the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Canada scaled back its use of the social media site X, the public broadcaster says it will mostly remain off the platform formerly known as Twitter because it doesn't bring in a lot of traffic.
Leon Mar, a spokesperson for the public broadcaster, said CBC's focus is to engage Canadians on other platforms and to continue driving traffic to its websites and streaming services.
"The audience and engagement that we get from X is small. Among our social media platforms, X is among the smallest sources of traffic," he told The Canadian Press when asked why it hasn't fully returned.
Although CBC was unwilling to share its data, Mar pointed to a 2022 Reuters Institute report that shows just 11 per cent of Canadians use X for news.
CBC significantly reduced its presence on X in April after the social media company labelled it as "government-funded media." Similar tags also appeared on other international public broadcasters such as the BBC in the U.K. and the American network National Public Radio.
NPR said quitting X has resulted in an "expected small decline in audience."
"Before this decision, Twitter referrals made up less than two per cent of NPR.org’s audience – with a majority coming from our biggest news accounts (@npr and @nprpolitics)," Chief Communications Officer Isabel Lara said in a statement. "In the months after ‘Twexit,’ NPR has seen a one percentage point decline in total weekly users to our website that can be attributed to the decision."
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had asked X to apply the government-funded label to CBC's English-language accounts days before the tag appeared.
The social-media giant defines "government-funded" media as outlets that "may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.'' Poilievre has said he believes that applies to CBC, an assertion the broadcaster has emphatically and repeatedly denied.
Poilievre has pledged to "defund the CBC" should he become prime minister, but has suggested that would involve exceptions for Radio-Canada, the broadcaster's French-language arm. At the Conservative party's policy convention in Quebec City last month, delegates gathered behind closed doors decided against advancing a submission to change the party policy to pull federal funding from both the CBC's French and English wings.
Last week, the Tories also called on Parliament to study editorial decisions that were independently made by the public broadcaster. Their motion at a House committee meeting was rejected by Liberal, NDP and Bloc Québécois MPs, citing concerns it went against broadcasting law and expressing fears the Conservatives wanted to turn the public broadcaster into state television, such as outlets that operate in Russia and China.
In a letter written to X's head of global government affairs Nick Pickles on April 17, the CBC said their label was "factually incorrect" because the government doesn't have involvement in CBC's editorial decisions.
"Twitter has said that adding designations to media is designed to help accuracy and clarity for users of Twitter. In this case, this label has done the opposite," reads the letter, which was obtained by The Canadian Press through access-to-information laws.
"We were not advised of this decision and if we had, we could have provided you with the information to demonstrate our editorial independence."
CBC/Radio-Canada is funded through a combination of parliamentary appropriation and commercially earned revenue, Claude Galipeau, executive vice-president of corporate development for CBC/Radio-Canada wrote in the letter.
All elected members of Parliament vote for CBC/Radio-Canada funding, not just members of the government, and its editorial independence is enshrined in the Broadcasting Act.
CBC argued "publicly funded media" would have been a more accurate label.
"Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians; but it undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way," Galipeau said in the letter.
While it asked X to examine its decision, CBC spokesman Leon Mar said the network "never received a response."
Four days after the letter was sent, X removed the "government-funded media'' description on a number of public broadcasters' accounts, including CBC's, without explanation.
The move came after the Global Task Force for public media called on X to correct its description of public broadcasters in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.
In May, CBC decided to resume activity on a handful of umbrella accounts such as @CBCNews, @cbcradio and regional accounts such as @CBCCalgary and @CBCNL, but there's no plan to fully return.
"CBC/Radio-Canada has decided to reduce the overall footprint of our activity on that platform, including by sunsetting accounts for some programs," Mar said.
CBC received nearly $1.3 billion in government funding in 2022-23 through parliamentary appropriation. CBC also makes money through advertising, subscriptions and syndication.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2023.
Slack gets rid of its X integration
/If you used the tool to be notified of X posts in Slack, it’s officially gone now.
By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.Oct 24, 2023, 6:37 PM EDT|4 Comments / 4 New
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Slack has retired its integration with X (formerly Twitter) because of X’s API changes introduced earlier this year.
According to Slack, X’s API changes affected the functionality of the integration, which led to the decision to retire it. “Slack’s integration with X relies on access to its API, and changes to that API this spring impacted the integration’s functionality and the services it supports,” Rod Garcia, Slack’s VP of software engineering, said in a statement to The Verge. “The Twitter app for Slack has not been functional since X implemented these changes, so we have removed the app from the small set of customer workspaces that still have it installed. For more information, please see our update on Slack’s feature retirements page.”
Here’s what Slack says on that feature refinements page: “The Twitter app for Slack is no longer available due to upstream API limitations.” However, X posts will “continue to unfurl” if your Slack settings allow that. The page says that the Twitter app has had a “retired” designation as of October 19th.
The retirement means that Slack’s X integration is just one of many useful things relying on X / Twitter data that has gone away because of the changes instituted under Elon Musk’s ownership. In January, X banned third-party apps, which my former colleague Mitchell Clark argued made the site what it is today. When asked for comment, X’s press email replied with its recent standard auto-reply: “Busy now, please check back later.”
Slack’s decision follows last week’s announcement that it would be retiring its status account on X.
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now we just have to wait and see if he react as fast to the next mass shooting done by someone with a twitter account. I doubt he'll be consistent if the shooters ideology or race doesn't fit the narrative he likes promoted on the site.
The banks which loaned Elon Musk money to help buy Twitter expect to lose $2 billion on the debt, report says
Elon Musk's Twitter purchase was funded by $13 billion of loans from banks like Morgan Stanley. Now they're trying to sell the debt at a cut-price, per WSJ.
www.businessinsider.com
The people who made the decision to loan billions to this idiot should lose their jobs.
The simplest answer is he’s corny