This is the most baffling part of Elon's entire acquisition; even many of his most ardent supporters now hate him. Surely he should have realized that installing himself as King of Twitter could only end poorly. I suppose that's what happens when you're surrounded by yes-men.
While I'm no Elon fan, I've enjoyed reading his articles about his positive experiences at Tesla, understanding there is another side to the story. Likewise, I'm sure there are those still at Twitter that would have a different take, but this article is interesting in its own right.
What was that saying about facts and feelings?
a few fun parts:
She launched into a technical explanation of the company’s data-center efficiency, curious to see if he would follow along. Instead, he interrupted. “I was writing C programs in the ’90s,” he said dismissively. “I understand how computers work.”
Shevat thought Sacks seemed bored — he spent most of the meeting checking his phone. “He didn’t want to understand anything,” Shevat says. It made him want to cry, especially since he had actually been eager to work with Musk. “I would have worked really hard for him,” he says.
She had printed out a few lines of Python rather than her actual code repository. (“Python is more at Musk’s level,” she says.)
my take: seems like an accurate review of all the sordid details, including musk's stochastic terrorism, round eleventy.
Just in case the single word title Hardcore didn't help understand what the article is about.
But this is a hugely lopsided take.
A hit piece by the people that WANT Twitter to die now that it is in Elon's hands, and will do everything in their power to advance that goal.
I read it even though it's by a party with an open slant, because you have to keep an open mind and hear what both sides say.
tl;dr - "Elon, you idiot! You don't know what you're doing! Hey, everyone, how can you keep on using Twitter?!"
The few salient points in this critique of Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter are completely lost in the overt biases of the author and publication.
Acting as if pre-Elon Twitter wasn't already doing "unconscionable" things to choke off free speech - while claiming Elon Twitter is Satan incarnate in that regard is laughably partisan.
The critique of Elon's public musings and actions based on a specific idealogy could just as easily be turned back on the author.
dreaming of unbiased journalism...
> Twitter might have had a reputation as a left-leaning workforce, but there had always been a faction that disapproved of its progressive ideals. On Slack, some of these workers had formed a channel called #i-dissent, where they asked questions like why deadnaming a trans colleague was considered “bad.” When Musk announced he was buying the company, one of the more active i-dissenters was thrilled. “Elon’s my new boss and I’m stoked!” he wrote on LinkedIn. “I decided to send him a slack message. I figured you miss 100% of the shots you don’t make ”
> This employee was cut during the first round of layoffs. Soon, all the prominent members of the #i-dissent Slack channel would be gone. The channel itself was archived, while bigger social channels like #social-watercooler were abandoned.
Seems there are a couple snowflakes floating around SMH