Lichfield Dean Posted April 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 7, 2023 Elon has now stopped links and embeds to Substack. Apparently replies and retweets to any tweet mentioning Substack are disabled. The guy is completely out of control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted April 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 7, 2023 56 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said: Elon has now stopped links and embeds to Substack. Apparently replies and retweets to any tweet mentioning Substack are disabled. The guy is completely out of control. It's certainly the bastion of free speech he proclaimed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted April 7, 2023 Moderator Share Posted April 7, 2023 Whats his beef with substack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 I imagine they haven't paid the extortionate fees that are no required to use the Twitter API. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Oh. This will probably do it https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/5/23670452/substack-notes-tweets-posts-twitter Quote Substack is getting a new tweet-like feature called “Notes,” the company announced on Wednesday. The feature will let users publish small posts about things like “posts, quotes, comments, images, and links,” according to a blog post from Substack co-founders Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, and Jairaj Sethi. And their Twitter access ahs gone away 2 days later. That'd be a hell of a coincidence 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted April 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 7, 2023 12 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Oh. This will probably do it https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/5/23670452/substack-notes-tweets-posts-twitter And their Twitter access ahs gone away 2 days later. That'd be a hell of a coincidence Yeah, it's definitely that. He's decided presumably that they are the competition and will not allow them to be linked to. I mean, if the whole internet took that view... There would be no internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 2 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said: Yeah, it's definitely that. He's decided presumably that they are the competition and will not allow them to be linked to. I mean, if the whole internet took that view... There would be no internet. The only thing giving me a shadow of a doubt is I don't think he'd have had the restraint to not publicly boast about it like the whopping great bellend he is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted April 7, 2023 Author Share Posted April 7, 2023 ironically given the Substack thing. Also, wonder how Musk applies this argument to kiddie porn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 the amusing thing is his main bootlicker Matt Taibbi uses solely substack for his newsletter. On the subject of Matt Taibbi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Quote Elon Musk, boss of Twitter and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has given a surprise interview to the BBC Musk agreed unexpectedly to the last-minute conversation with our correspondent James Clayton at Twitter HQ The billionaire admits he only bought Twitter because he had to, and describes running the firm as "quite painful" and "a rollercoaster" He also spoke about the mass lay-offs at the firm, saying it was down to 1,500 staff members from an initial 8,000 The BBC objected this week to a new tag describing it as "government funded media" on its main Twitter account - and Musk agrees the tag will be updated He also says he sometimes sleeps at the office, and addresses his controversial tweets saying: "I think I should not tweet after 3am". And he contests the idea that hate speech was now more common on the platform I guess he couldn’t resist a bargain bbc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 From those bullet points he seems like a reasonable and open person to me. Granted he's a bit of an eccentric, but we're supposed to love those here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 8 minutes ago, TreeVillan said: From those bullet points he seems like a reasonable and open person to me. I guess you could say that. It's just everything else about him that makes him look like a nobhead. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 34 minutes ago, TreeVillan said: From those bullet points he seems like a reasonable and open person to me. Granted he's a bit of an eccentric, but we're supposed to love those here. He's a child Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 5 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said: He's a child The absolute worst type of boss. Obviously he’s not this journalist’s boss but you can see why Twitter has gone to the dogs. His mind is closed to the fact he’s made Twitter worse, anyone who dares suggest it probably gets sacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 55 minutes ago, TreeVillan said: From those bullet points he seems like a reasonable and open person to me. Granted he's a bit of an eccentric, but we're supposed to love those here. Is this where we're at when making judgements? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seat68 Posted April 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2023 Musk is a word removed, lets not dress it up as eccentricity, the man is a word removed. He sacks people and laughs at them, he welcomes the far right to his platform, I despise him. The sooner he fades from memeory and public life, the better. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 9 minutes ago, Rolta said: Is this where we're at when making judgements? When replying to that message with the bullet points then yes. Unless you want me to go live him for three months to make sure I can make a sound judgement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 11 minutes ago, TreeVillan said: When replying to that message with the bullet points then yes. Unless you want me to go live him for three months to make sure I can make a sound judgement. There's a big sliding scale in forming judgements on people between looking at seven bullet points of their own unchallenged words from a single article on the one hand and spending three months living with someone on the other. I reckon there's a fairly huge middle ground a million miles from both those options that is pretty doable. I'd argue (I think successfully) that seven bullet points from an article is about as flimsy a set of evidence as there could possibly be! Although those specific bullet points do indeed sound reasonable, I bet if you quoted some of the worst people in history directly you could muster seven decent bullet points. Steven Gerrard (I'm joking) for one—well, when he started at least. In the end he only had one—something or other about moments of magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted April 12, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted April 12, 2023 1 hour ago, StefanAVFC said: He's a child He is but from the clips of the interview I've seen so far, the BBC have sent a very inexperienced journo to do this interview. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seat68 Posted April 12, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 12, 2023 Built the autobahn Was a vegetarian Introduced animal protection to his country Introduced the kindergeld Had a moustache Didn't like jews Helped startup Volkswagen 3 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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