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So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

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  • #6812
    Flaneur OBrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120773937#Comment_120773937

    Naming your kids?

    Actually, parenting in general?



  • #6813
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,953 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120773937#Comment_120773937

    Being a decent human being?



  • #6814
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,971 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    That might be a bit much to ask.



  • #6815
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,737 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1673831774038949888

    Apple just put up the full first episode of Silo on Twitter, ahead of the series finale. Just testing the waters, I'd say



  • #6816
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120773192#Comment_120773192

    There's been a stigma against these for decades but there in an awful lot of research being done these days with promising results. You can't let your hatred of one man determine your entire stance on a massive topic. Like really, you'd have to be living in a cave on the moon to have not heard about all of these trials in the last few years.

    I think it's very positive that famous people can #1 talk about depression and #2 talk about demonised drugs like ecstasy or LSD etc. so that the public gets used to them and understands they can have medical applications. You'd prefer for this to not happen for some reason.



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  • #6817
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120775961#Comment_120775961

    That's not fair and an antagonistic read on my opinion: I don't want people not to have access to good treatments for mental health issues so please don't try that tactic. I'm acutely aware, as would many people, of both what it is to have mental-health problems - or the dangers of not having the right access to help. Thankfully that's a changing tide, especially in Ireland though not so much America. I don't "prefer" people not to have options; Jesus.

    But I think until there's a reliable consensus about psychedelics as a treatment for mental issue, celebrity endorsement isn't helpful; doesn't matter if it's Elon Musk or Tom Hanks, as a broad opinion it's not healthy to have celebrities deploying their opinion en masse like they're an authority. It's not so cute when, say, it's spreading CoVid disinformation and scepticism.

    If you say there is research, then cool, I'd be interested to see it & if it's akin to cannabis becoming an accepted treatment for pain management ... but until there there is that sense of confidence, it's irresponsible for celebrities to use their public platform to promote these things. Until we know for certain it's a net positive, we shouldn't just talk it up like it's a panacea. By all means promote the conversation, but public endorsement should be careful.



  • #6818
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Right, so you think what I did was unfair, but then you drag Covid disinformation into it and try to equate the two.

    He's allowed to have an opinion on this stuff, and he told friends, not us, that he take ketamine for depression. His other public posts are pretty benign and are nothing particularly new with him saying people should be open mind towards psychedelics as treatment. This isn't a vaccination campaign against a global pandemic. Wellbutrin is regarded as dangerous when it comes to suicides and the people who mocked him for his comments only served to make the drug appear harmless.

    I simply do not believe that your opinion on this is rooted in anything other than your dislike for the man since you ended that post with "he should STFU and stop opining on everything.". Had he said that illegal drugs are bad and people should not go near psychedelics and should instead do what he does and use prescription drugs for depression, you'd be saying he should keep his right wing opinions to himself.

    You don't need to criticise someone for every single thing they do. When you criticise everything, you criticise nothing. You are literally arguing that the man should not have an opinion on his own depression.



  • #6819
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120776236#Comment_120776236

    Well yes I say you're being unfair because you're now you're just having a go, and trying to just decide I'm blinded by some hatred of Musk - rather than interrogating my view that until there's a safe medical consensus that's equivalent to that of cannabis, I think it's premature to promote the use of psychedelics. It's not a particularly radical view that maybe caution should be applied; It's as simple as that, and trying to frame me as an irrational lunatic is ... yes, unfair at best.

    Flaneur had already corrected my initial, premature dismissal in a far more conversational tone; providing some context on the subject - without resorting to weird personal digs and putting words in my mouth. Not worth continuing to talk if you're just going to fight some strawman version of me. Sure we could all do that.

    Post edited by pixelburp on


  • #6820
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Anyone else today find they can't open Tweets without logging in anymore? Embedding still seems to work, just tested here as I typed, but if you click through you're bumped back to the homepage.

    I wonder if that's a bug or intentional, cos the latter's ... an interesting choice. Other social media will still let you view profiles and posts, albeit with some interactions curtailed (often obvious ones such as "liking" etc), but totally preventing the tweets visibility? I guess they're trying to force more sign-ups and logins.



  • #6821
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,971 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120787827#Comment_120787827

    Yeah. Tried opening a couple of feeds that I look at on a semi regular basis. When I close the log in window it brings me to the base page where I'm told I have to sign up or log in. Whereas before I could just read the thread.

    I'm not a Twatter member, and have no interest in signing up to be either.

    But, mmmmmm, if that's intentional it's just, yet another, bizarre move in a long series of random bizarre moves.



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  • #6822
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,909 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    It's definitely intentional. Have seen others point it out on Twitter today.

    Nobody is going to sign up based on this. If they haven't signed up before, they're not going to now. All people are going to do is screenshot tweets and post them as images instead of posting a link to people.



  • #6823
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,279 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120787873#Comment_120787873

    Or just replace "twitter.com" with "nitter.it" in the url.

    And voila instant work around.



  • #6824
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Not sure the explanation makes a tonne of sense, especially given every sibling in social media is capable of letting unauthorised users view content; so why not Twitter?

    "Pillaged" is a weirdly loaded word, and maybe reading between the lines this is another offshoot of the reduced staffing and knowledge base; nobody's around to help throttle or tackle the load caused by unauth'ed access so the "emergency" response is to block all access to people like me, while Devs try to fashion a plaster fix. At least it's temporary?

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505


    Post edited by pixelburp on


  • #6825
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,200 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120787921#Comment_120787921

    how does this work?

    any work around for this block?



  • #6826
    Panrich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭Panrich


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120790779#Comment_120790779

    I think nitter is blocked as well now.



  • #6827
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,200 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120790970#Comment_120790970

    cant seem to get it to work myself either, ah im sure some clever fcuker will figure it out soon....



  • #6828
    Flaneur OBrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    This may go to prove to me that I don't actually need twitter at all any more. I hadn't logged in since the takeover, but occasionally clicked on a twitter link if I couldn't see the full article.

    Rather strange wager that Musk is making, hoping people will be so desperate to see articles they'll create accounts.



  • #6829
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,200 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120791010#Comment_120791010

    never created an account myself, boards is the only social media i have ever really done, couldnt be bothered with the rest, but always found twitter really good to get access to peoples work i really like, but you can see since the take over, theyve been trying to block viewers only, they ll probably lift these measures soon, when they achieve a certain number of new subs, and/or someone figures out a work around....



  • #6830
    Christy42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭Christy42


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120791010#Comment_120791010

    I was similar. I did initially keep using it after the take over but left soon after when the quality of my feed dropped drastically. This just provided the motivation to close the account entirely. It just seems pointless at this stage, twitter got a lot of clicks through those stories, now people won't use them as much and twitter will just narrow down to its core user base a bit.



  • #6831
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    I noticed I was getting errors Searching for accounts about an hour ago. Now my timeline won't load.

    Every day it gets worse and worse.


    Edit: Seeing a message saying my account is "rate limited please wait a moment".

    I have a second account that seems to be working fine.



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  • #6832
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The Cleverest Man Ever doesn’t appear to be very good at running a pretty basic social media website.



  • #6833
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,882 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120791579#Comment_120791579

    I keep getting "cannot retrieve tweets"


    Seems we're not alone.


    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/twitter-down-social-media-outage-b2367772.html




  • #6834
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,890 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Its a fascinating case study in how to absolutely **** something up. Also a good case study for a CEO who doesn't know what his job is, which is not to get involved in lower level stuff he doesn't remotely understand.



  • #6835
    francois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭francois


    The blue check Elmo stans will be happy.

    No doubt some bs excuse about congestion on the way.



  • #6836
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,901 ✭✭✭✭zell12


     “Something went wrong. Try reloading” & “Sorry, you are rate limited".



  • #6837
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,771 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120791726#Comment_120791726

    He should stick to EVs.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/leaked-tesla-documents-reveal-major-050000723.html



  • #6838
    nachouser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,703 ✭✭✭nachouser


    "Your tweet is important to us. There are 1,256,834 Tweets currently in the queue ahead of yours. Please try again later. *poop emoji*"



  • #6839
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,849 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    What a shambles:

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672




  • #6840
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not sure Intergalactic Intelligence gets the idea behind an ad supported website. 44 thousand million dollars to run a website into the ground must surely go down as the worst business move of all time.



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  • #6841
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,299 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Is that 600 real posts or are those crappy ads counted too?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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