Musk should bankrupt Twitter to get out from under the debt.
Or better yet turn it over to the lenders. 
If you really dislike someone give them the gift of Twitter this Christmas.
I am not qualified to make this diagnosis, but I think Musk has had a psychotic break. Seriously.
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No one is qualified to make that diagnosis because presumably no one has sat down with him and asked.
But we are qualified to say he’s as odd as it gets.
The best comparison is Howard Hughes.
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Twitter is his Spruce Goose.
Twitter is also the mason jars he p*sses in.
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Put @Manlobbi on it. He’ll build a new Twitter-like platform in 2 weeks 
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hilarious ( in a twisted way,lol ). Isn’t this action by Musk the textbook example of “cancel culture” ? I thought his side was against “cancel culture” ? I have zero respect for Musk and his ilk.
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One of the people I follow on Twitter is Chris Owen who is a journalist and military historian. He’s been doing a lot of work reporting the war from the viewpoint of Russian soldiers, using mostly open sources. As far as I know, no one else is really going to the depth of reporting that he is. Anyway, he decided to bail Twitter and go to Mastadon. I tried to follow his link and got this:
So good of Twit’s system.
Mdon is certainly different. I liked it for all of 7 days. But it is much better than Twitter.
Your news military historian will end up in all essence being a bot using a system to automate posts on Mdon and people who care will follow. But for most Mdon users the bots/news agencies are dead to them. It is just a pain blocking them endlessly.
Mdon has fewer active users than you’d expect about 2.8 million. When Twit hickups Mdon gets the flu…but only some followers these days.
Interesting update to Twitter’s Terms of Service:
At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL:
If I understand that correctly, I could not post “I share delightful insights as syke6 on Instagram” without violating Twitter’s TOS.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy
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I am not an attorney, but this seems like an epic episode of pooch-screwing. For a long time now, most companies will not provide references for ex-employees. All they will do is confirm dates of employment and if the employee is re-hirable. The reason is that saying more than that could potentially open up the former employer to defamation lawsuits.
A former Twitter employee apparently got mixed up in an HR glitch where he was locked out of the internal Twitter system, but hadn’t been formally noticed he had been laid off. So he reached out to Elon on Twitter to see if Musk could help him out. Well, Elon proceed to kind of have a meltdown, and wound up mocking the former employee, accused him of not doing any work, and revealed his medical condition. A few hours later, Musk apparently called him and apologized. The Tweets have now been deleted.
I don’t think this ends well.
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LARPing an 8kun troll has consequences.
I don’t suppose you could translate that in to something resembling American English?
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The guy has a case, that’s for sure. But what kind of sick person is Elon to have done that in the first place? I mean seriously? And people wonder why I don’t want to give him my money.
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LARP = Live Action Role Playing
There is a category of games known as Role Playing Games (RPG), where you can pretend to play a character in some setting. These include “board” games like Dungeons & Dragons and computer games like Call of Duty. A Live Action Role Player is taking their favorite game and acting it out in real life. They make costumes and props and sets and get together with other fans of their favorite game to play in real life.
8kun troll = umm … welllll … I’m not really sure. My guess is that is a D&D reference, since that game famously has trolls. If correct, the 8kun part is probably a reference to the power level of that troll. And a further guess is that is a high powered troll.
So the translation might be something like:
Acting like a powerful troll in the real world has consequences.
–Peter
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I’m quite familiar with RPGs and D&D - my characters in one group were Panzerlied & Duck the Deadly! Heard of LARP but haven’t given it a try. The 8kun was what was really confusing me and the combo didn’t seem to make sense since I thought I knew LARP. The 8kun is not any D&D reference I’m familiar with. Although it has some resemblance to 8chan and that made me a bit suspicious.
Still don’t like changing nouns and acronyms in to verbs with an ‘ing’!! But I’m old and grumpy!
JimA
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8kun = the former 8chan of QAnon infamy.
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You’re preaching to the choir. I’m tolerating LARP with various endings because those endings can be applied properly to the Play part of the acronym. Playing, player, played - all can be correct English. So LARP, LARPing, LARPer, LARPed seem OK to me.
As to D&D, I’m aware of its existence, but have never played and don’t know a whole lot. Pretty sure there are trolls in the game, but if not I’ll stand corrected on that one, too. That part was a pretty wild guess.
I’ll defer to @looseinthehead on the 8kun explanation.
–Peter
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More news on the Twitter train wreck. A while back Elon attached a “State Controlled Media” tag to NPR’s account. Now he’s threating to give the account to somebody else.
I use Twitter the same way as most people. I don’t Tweet, but I follow some interesting organizations and people. But the utility falls off if I don’t know how I’m following.
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Musk seems to think blackmail is a good business strategy’s. First he threatened Twitter’s advertisers as they paused (because the guardrails were dismantled in real time) and now it’s “I’ll hand your credentials to someone else if you don’t keep tweeting.”
Seriously, this guy has a problem (as if you didn’t know.)
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There is precedent for recycling phone numbers, web domains, land, houses, cars, stuff, etc.
We hear about people/businesses who forget to pay their subscription fee and “lose” their website to some other entity. The domain name is “recycled”.
When people stop paying their phone bill, the number is “recycled”.
Renters’ stop paying rent → eviction. Ie the rented item is recycled to some other entity.
Land owners stop paying taxes → tax lien → someone else buys it. Ie “recycled” to an entity that will pay taxes.
Pawnshop… Stuff gets “recycled”.
How is Twitter “recycling” @handles different?
ralph
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