Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps…
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 128•1 year ago
Funny, knowing Elon, I assumed he would have gone with a whites only mode.
- Derproid ( @Derproid@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
What the fuck is wrong with you.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 31•1 year ago
I get that a lot.
- LazaroFilm ( @LazaroFilm@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
No, what the fuck is wrong with Elon‽
- Ganondorf ( @Ganondorf@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
Nothing wrong with argulaZ. They are bothering to read news.
“Hate speech is soaring on Twitter under Elon Musk, report finds”
- albinanigans ( @albinanigans@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Suffer
- Rottcodd ( @Rottcodd@kbin.social ) 51•1 year ago
It’s like a 15 year old got ahold of his mom’s credit card and bought a social media corporation, and now he’s up in his room, all juiced up on Doritos and Mountain Dew, banging away at his keyboard and giggling to himself.
- PupBiru ( @PupBiru@kbin.social ) 17•1 year ago
mark is a robot, elon is a 15 year old, both wearing grown up suits! all signs point to yes tbh
- blivet ( @blivet@kbin.social ) 14•1 year ago
I was thinking pretty much the same thing. He’s got the sensibility of a teenage boy. He thinks things like the letter X and the color black are totally cool, and he thinks naming his company “Space-Sex” and one of its spacecraft “Big Fuckin’ Rocket” is the height of humor.
- TimeSquirrel ( @TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
I think black is cool. But only because I’m lazy and it by default looks good with every other color and doesn’t clash.
- Xeelee ( @Xeelee@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
Spot on. He’s been spending far too much time on 4chan.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
His parents should have been a little firmer with him. “Young man, I don’t want to see you on that computer until your comedy is at least at a Colbert level!”
- Big P ( @peter@feddit.uk ) 27•1 year ago
Someone please make a lemmy client with a word filtering option so I can stop hearing about elmo
Or just scroll past things you don’t want to read about? That is a very viable option.
- crowsby ( @crowsby@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
I can do you one better with a Tampermonkey script that will replace every reference to his name on every webpage to either “the biggest twat on the planet” or “this dipshit”, depending on which works better syntactically.
// ==UserScript== // @name Text Replace // @version 0.1 // @description Text Replace // @author SiameseDream // @include * // @grant none // @namespace beepboop // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; var replaceArry = [ [/ Elon Musk/gi,' the biggest twat on the planet'], [/Elon Musk/gi,'The biggest twat on the planet'], [/ Mr. Musk/gi,' this dipshit'], [/ Musk/gi,' this dipshit'], [/Mr. Musk/gi,'This dipshit'], [/Musk/gi,'This dipshit'], // etc. ]; var numTerms = replaceArry.length; var txtWalker = document.createTreeWalker ( document.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT, { acceptNode: function (node) { //-- Skip whitespace-only nodes if (node.nodeValue.trim() ) return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT; return NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP; } }, false ); var txtNode = null; while (txtNode = txtWalker.nextNode () ) { var oldTxt = txtNode.nodeValue; for (var J = 0; J < numTerms; J++) { oldTxt = oldTxt.replace (replaceArry[J][0], replaceArry[J][1]); } txtNode.nodeValue = oldTxt; } })();
In practice it looks like this
- FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Why didn’t you downvote this thread? In kbin I can see who downvoted it and you’re not there.
- Big P ( @peter@feddit.uk ) 4•1 year ago
Because the downvote button isn’t for what I personally don’t want to see, it’s for what isn’t relevant. As much as I don’t want to see this, it is technology
- lowdownfool ( @lowdownfool@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Options that empower you:
- Downvote button
- Ignore button
- Unsubscribe button
- Big P ( @peter@feddit.uk ) 2•1 year ago
Downvoting is kind of unfair because it is technology based, ignore button just ignores that specific post, unsubscribe unsubscribes me from all technology posts which I don’t want
… You are putting the responsibility on the victim?!
(/j)
- Ertebolle ( @Ertebolle@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Elmo loves you even if you don’t love Elmo
- Ertebolle ( @Ertebolle@kbin.social ) 21•1 year ago
Cool, can’t wait until they ban the use of the letter ‘e’ for non-verified users and wii all hav to wrayt layk this
- curiosityLynx ( @curiosityLynx@kglitch.social ) 9•1 year ago
Avoiding the letter E is already a creative writing style, except you don’t hav to wrayt layk this. There’s even a Mastodon instance dedicated to it and a funny writeup about what happened when they came across another mastodon instance where the letter E is the only allowed letter.
- Sinnerman ( @Sinnerman@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I was initially excited to hear about the Oulipo community, but they seem to have an very limited take on what Oulipo is/was. There is a lot more to Oulipo than lipograms (avoiding a character) as even the Wikipedia page says.
- curiosityLynx ( @curiosityLynx@kglitch.social ) 0•1 year ago
Can you elaborate?
- Sinnerman ( @Sinnerman@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
The whole point of Oulipo is “the seeking of new structures and patterns”.
Constraints inspire creativity, so let’s come up with new constraints.
If you only allow one structure/constraint, that’s the opposite of what Oulipo is about.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
“Oulipo Compendium” is a fun book if you can find it.
Motte’s “Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature” is OK but a bit dry. Looks like there’ve been a couple new surveys recently too.The mastodon community Oulipo.social only allows one structure/constraint, so it’s not that interesting. If you know of any good Oulipo communities in the fediverse, I’d be thrilled to hear about them.
- Calcharger ( @Calcharger@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
Why is Elon Musk J.P from Grandma’s Boy?
- girl ( @girl@lemm.ee ) 8•1 year ago
surely this will save them
- wave_walnut ( @wave_walnut@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
I have a suggestion for him: wouldn’t it be a development cost savings if Twitter just provided an API and users could see it on their own clients?
- mihies ( @mihies@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
He already backtracked because of public outrage, dark will be default, light will be an option, dim black (or whatever it was called) is no more. Like 15hrs later. Yet another clueless idiotic decision that backfired…
- doctortofu ( @doctortofu@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Hasn’t it been in dork mode for a while now? Oh wait, I misread… ;)
- xc2215x ( @xc2215x@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Another not good decision from Elon.
- Mandy ( @Mandy@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
So there is outrage about this switch yet I barely heard anyone ever say anything about there never being a proper dark mode?
- jimbolauski ( @jimbolauski@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
JFC guys, for a group that says that don’t like musk you sure think about him alot.
- KorokSpaceProgram ( @KorokSpaceProgram@kbin.social ) 23•1 year ago
Discussion does not equal admiration.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 17•1 year ago
Seriously. People were talking about Jeffrey Dahmer a lot in 1991, but there weren’t any contrarian pimple-dicks jumping out of the bushes and shouting “He’s living rent-free inside your head!” Dahmer was news. People tend to think about recent events.
- TwilightVulpine ( @TwilightVulpine@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
Gee, I wonder why. Could the fact that he keeps making unpopular changes to one of the largest social media platforms out there have anything to do with it? Nah, those hundreds of millions of people just don’t like his face or whatever.
- ArugulaZ ( @ArugulaZ@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
What point are you trying to make?
- kamenoko ( @kamenoko@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
That ignoring demagogues doesn’t in fact make them stop acting like demagogues.
- Xeelee ( @Xeelee@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
Unfortunately, billionaires have an outsize influence on the lives of regular people. Like this shitstain buying one of the most important social media properties in the world and turning it into a safe space for fascists. He’s contributing to the downfall of human civilization and we absolutely need to talk about that.
- mayooooo ( @MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
We don’t like eating shit but when we’re forced to it’s the only thing we can think about.