Elon Musk draws his first diagram of all of the Twitter engineering teams he fired
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/yz8zas/elons_10_pm_whiteboard_twitter_for_dummies/
Oh... my....
"The Verge reached out to Musk for comment. Twitter no longer has a communications department."
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning
1. Alienate your userbase
2. Start charging subscriptions for a previously ad-supported service
3. ???
4. Profit!
GATs have arrived in #Rust 1.65
For FP fans, this makes it possible to implement monads on stable Rust
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/10/28/gats-stabilization.html
It’s truly hilarious how every move Elon makes at Twitter is met with backpedaling. Blue checks replaced with gray checks that are themselves removed shortly thereafter
Nice to see The Hulk putting Elon in his place
"Days before the midterms, Twitter lays off employees who fight misinformation."
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/twitter-fires-employees-fight-misinformation-midterm-elections-rcna55750
You love to see it: "Gigi Hadid quits Twitter: It’s a ‘cesspool’ of ‘hate & bigotry’"
https://pagesix.com/2022/11/06/gigi-hadid-quits-twitter-its-a-cesspool-of-hate-bigotry/
Elon repurposes "Blue Checkmarks" from verified accounts into paid accounts.
Repurposed "Blue Checkmarks" immediately impersonate Elon.
Hilarity ensues.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-bans-impersonation-after-parody-elons-flood-twitter
"TrumpIsDead" is trending on Twitter after Tim Heidecker decided to test moderation of the platform under Elon Musk's reign
Apparently Elon Musk was up in Hillary Clinton's Twitter replies, spreading a completely baseless rumor that Paul Pelosi took his assailant home believing he was a gay prostitute.
It seems like Twitter is just going to turn into a cesspool of batshit insane right-wing conspiracy theories and Elon will destroy all moderation.
Elon Musk has reduced Twitter’s content moderation team from hundreds of human moderators to just 15 people to manage content violations, just in time for midterm elections in the US
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-content-moderation-musk-midterms-1849726968
OpenSSL v3.0.7 has been released with fixes for CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602: X.509 Email Address Buffer Overflows (downgraded from "CRITICAL" to "HIGH")
https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2022/11/01/email-address-overflows/
Terrorist truckers are back… this time in Brazil. They’re angry their fascist, rainforest-destroying president lost a democratic election
High temperatures in Europe have soared into the 70s and 80s — more like late summer than almost November
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/10/31/europe-extreme-heat-october-france/
Great news for Brazil and its rainforest: Bolsonaro loses!
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/10/30/americas/brazil-election-polls-open-intl/index.html
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