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[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 469 points 1 month ago

I can't believe people still use Twitter.

[-] mienshao@lemmy.world 204 points 1 month ago

I think this every single time I see news about that website. Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform? Insanity.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 month ago

This sketch was about Facebook but it's also relevant to Twitter

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 36 points 1 month ago

Actually more relevant now, considering the ending

"Go to the site where Nazi's scream at you". It's talking about moving from facebook to twitter.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

Well the punchline to that sketch is "instead of FB, just do what I do: Go to the site where nazis scream at you!" just might be that twitter reference you said was missing.

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[-] ter_maxima@jlai.lu 26 points 1 month ago

Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that's how the people running it make money.

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[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 96 points 1 month ago

I dont really care that the average person still uses twitter... What's INFURIATING is that gov't agencies are still using that shit. Why are important pieces of information still being shared on twitter??

[-] don@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 month ago

The Secretary of Defense coordinated military operations on Signal, accidentally included a reporter to the group chat (who later spilled the tea on the whole thing), and in that chat claimed they were "clean" on their opsec.

That's what republicans do. They're dumber than a bag of wet bags.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

they would never do such a thing. not after calling out hillary clinton for using private email servers.

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[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

I keep getting arguments from peoplee about this, even on Bluesky.

Apparently it's too much to expect people to inconvenience themselves and not follow their favorite musicians or whatever.

If the vast majority of people can't be assed to take the absolutely easiest step possible to fight (or avoid supporting) fascists/Nazis, then we really are fucked.

Same thing with how people could very, very easily choose just NOT to buy another Nazicar. Yet 90% if Americans still bought one last month as a year earlier. It's just about the smallest sacrifice I can think of - just buying a DIFFERENT car that you might not like quite as much.

And I think the fact that we are where we are right now also confirms the problem.

[-] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

Perhaps it's because I'm old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.

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[-] Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

People just don't want to quit because the alternatives aren't populated enough.... Which is caused by people not leaving. Twitter is to many a necessity for their business, just like many softwares provided by scum companies.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

We can all go entire books at this point with the things we can't believe...

This timeline is fucking insane, and twice as depressing as anything I thought I'd ever live through.

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[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 127 points 1 month ago

I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.

Translation: I’m so thankful that I’ve had the opportunity to devote 2 years of my life to a company that was able to build a product that could appropriately express its true love for Adolf Hitler.

[-] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

Real translation: thanks for the paycheck. Remember me when you need another yes person to be your scapegoat.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 108 points 1 month ago

Media acting all surprised when “anti-Woke” means Hitler. That’s exactly what it means.

[-] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 102 points 1 month ago

In response (or so it seems) to her tweeted resignation, someone managed to get Grok to sexually harass her

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago
[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 18 points 1 month ago

No shit. These are THE bad guys of all time

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 97 points 1 month ago

Yeah ... it's best to grab what money you can now and run ... because you won't be able to later

[-] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 91 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

She was happy to take the bag even after Musk’s nazi salutes but now runs away. I wish I could say ”better later than never’ but she was a CEO, not some random nobody working at the ”basement’. Fuck these people!

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[-] tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk 90 points 1 month ago

Literally haven't heard anything that this person did as CEO in the two years since she joined.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 month ago

she was hired to fix the advertiser exodus. Good reason to quit is this scandal would hurt her bonuses/job function.

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[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 1 month ago

If you hang out at a Nazi bar, you're a Nazi.

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[-] JakenVeina@midwest.social 65 points 1 month ago

Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn't willing to cross.

Not that anyone really believed Elon isn't calling all the shots here.

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[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 month ago

A lot of people in this thread are falling for the classic weasel headline reporting trick of using the word "after" to imply a connection, when there's zero evidence in the article body to suggest it means anything other than two different events happened a day apart.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Exactly. A top executive leaving is rarely a snap decision, especially for companies that aren't publicly traded. I think the more likely explanation is that she joined under the assumption that Musk would let her handle things, and now Musk is wanting to get more involved now that his stint in DOGE is over, and she's not a fan of that. This was probably in the works for a month or two, and only announced today.

I also have no evidence for this, other than an understanding in how executive handoffs usually happen. Given her history at X, I highly doubt Grok would be what pushes her out.

[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

Thoughts and prayers for the next CEO to not get Grok-blocked.

Thankfully, Linda Yaccarino’s Golden Parachute worked perfectly fine.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

She peaced out 3 months after 2 years. I wonder if she had shit that paid out on her anniversary.

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[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 32 points 1 month ago

I guess you could say she's the...

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...ex-CEO.

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[-] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 month ago

I'm not convinced she actually did anything as "CEO." I'm sure that Elon just told her what to do/say and she made it seem like they were her ideas. There's no way she had any ability to make any real changes or do any real work.

[-] match@pawb.social 16 points 1 month ago

i have huge news about what a CEO usually does

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[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 29 points 1 month ago

She was a DEI hire anyway, right folks?

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[-] secretlyaddictedtolinux2@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In possible defense of this woman...

So initially, she's a woman brought on for a top leadership position to a problematic company. This is her chance to make some money and turn things around... And woman having top roles in business is a great thing. 100 years ago, that simply did not happen. Although there's still a fight for gay rights, trans rights, and the right of marginalized people, and there's still people being genocided and with no human rights, and people being tortured, that doesn't mean the struggle for woman's rights is over and that there's not some value to women taking top positions at large corporations.

And she made some progress on making that company less unappealing to advertisers, and did some good things...

AND THEN came the Elon Musk Hitler salute. And she probably had invested a lot of time and energy into the role, was being paid well, and was frustrated. Is she, as a woman in business, required to walk away from her efforts just because Elon Musk is a PR disaster and prejudiced person?

And then THIS finally happened. Her whole thing was just to be a businesswoman, be professional, and help make things profitable for this business unit, and this new AI change (which she almost certainly had nothing to do with and completely sucker punched her out of nowhere) completely undermined her.

So she did the smart thing and walked away. It was too much, it was undercutting her effort, she's moving on. Her last tweet was also very professional and corporate. She's a businesswoman.

Should she have left sooner? Should she have taken a stand against transphobia and some of the awful things on Xitter earlier? Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.

Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured? I think her situation is somewhat understandable.

Even if we want to work toward a more egalitarian world in which all people have rights and are respected, woman will still be in organizations, most likely (if global warming doesn't kill us all), and so shouldn't woman be able to succeed?

[-] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.

And that is somehow an excuse? Being a business women trying to succeed does not give her a pass for anything.

[-] eestileib 30 points 1 month ago

She knew exactly what she was going to be defending. She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.

Her presence on a project will raise my eyebrows.

So I'm assuming she will head to Mozilla or Ubuntu.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 21 points 1 month ago

She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.

Yep, Elon picked her for a reason.

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

You talk too much like a bot.

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[-] TomMasz@piefed.social 29 points 1 month ago

X Pretend CEO Linda Yaccarino

[-] KingOogaBooga@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

I think she had a discussion with Musk about the AI and didn't like his answer. Escape before she is caught in the shit storm that is coming. Dunno. I don't make enough to speculate what a CEO would do.

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[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

Twitter has been a nazi shithole since day 1 of the Musk era. At least now people cant say they didn't know anymore. If you stick there your either a nazi-bitch, or a nazi's bitch.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

[taps microphone]

...

Ahem.

...

Yaccitey-Yacc, Don't Talk Back.

...

[leaves stage]

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 weeks ago

Elon neuralinked into Grok AI, and mechahitler was the result.

[-] manicdave@feddit.uk 17 points 1 month ago

I wonder if she signed an NDA that prevents her from saying she was greeted on her last day by a manic sweaty wide-eyed Elon musk demanding he be referred to as mechahitler.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 14 points 4 weeks ago

she was only installed as a lightning rod for Musk for criticism nothing more.

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