Elon Musk makes $43 Billion offer for private buyout of Twitter (3 Viewers)

[buzd]

dumb arse






in all honesty- i think its probably a bit of all 3.

But if you know how to keep the attention of a classroom full of 18 year olds, on a subject as mundane and tedious as Chemistry, do tell. Ill finance you to go on Shark Tank and SELL THAT !@#$@#.

Profit.

Chemistry mundane and tedious? Surely you jest.

 

[buzd]

I don't know when sfidc3 was there, but given that we are the same age, we were probably at UNO at the same time. I graduated in December of 1993 and started there in August of 1990. But I was over in the School of Liberal Arts avoiding all the math classes.

Explains a lot.

 

[St. Widge]

Explains a lot.

It doesn't really take a lot of math to add up your day in tenths of an hour.

 

[buzd]

It doesn't really take a lot of math to add up your day in tenths of an hour.

It's too much for most lawyers, for sure.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

“Money is nonsensical fiction” - “Money is harsh reality”

Money as a measure of value (actual and/or sociological) is nonsensical fiction
Money as the engine of commerce is harsh reality

 

[St. Widge]

It's too much for most lawyers, for sure.

How are you typing from way up there on your high horse?

 

[buzd]

How are you typing from way up there on your high horse?

Geometry

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

How are you typing from way up there on your high horse?

Maybe he’s dictating

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Please hold him in contempt...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/tech/sec-sanctions-elon-musk-testimony-twitter-probe/index.html

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Please hold him in contempt...

Way ahead of you

 

[superchuck500]

Elon Musk Is Debasing American Society

He’s not just enabling trolls; he’s personally endorsing their posts.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[efil4stnias]

Elon Musk Is Debasing American Society

He’s not just enabling trolls; he’s personally endorsing their posts.

www.theatlantic.com

If people, who rely on X to get their news/truth, don't start to disengage from spending hours at a time on X, will find themselves in a really bad spot when it comes to their mental/emotional state.

I'm starting to wonder if X is nothing more than a billionaires personal psychological experiment on a massive scale.

 

[Sailorsaint]

If people, who rely on X to get their news/truth, don't start to disengage from spending hours at a time on X, will find themselves in a really bad spot when it comes to their mental/emotional state.

I'm starting to wonder if X is nothing more than a billionaires personal psychological experiment on a massive scale.

IMO, misinformation/disinformation in the media is being treated too lightly. We look at seemingly innocuous post or article in a paper or segment on a news broadcast and say to ourselves "well, it's a lie, but what can you do?". There needs to be REAL accountability for obvious and intentional stories that are untrue or, at the very least, misleading. Suing a multibillionaire for a few hundred million dollars ain't working. And I'm not just talking about Musk. There should be real consequences for putting out false info that leads to putting people in danger. Just the little lie about Haitians eating pets has endangered children and officials in Ohio.

I'm just spitting into the wind here because the justice system has been rigged for a long time and now it's starting to show the fruits of their labors. Friendly judges that are supposed to be bipartisan that aren't, established laws that are being struck down or manipulated, etc. I'm not sure how you fix it, but we better find a way or we'll spiral into pit that other authoritarian countries find themselves in. I don't want to live in Venezuela or Russia or Hungary.

 

[efil4stnias]

IMO, misinformation/disinformation in the media is being treated too lightly. We look at seemingly innocuous post or article in a paper or segment on a news broadcast and say to ourselves "well, it's a lie, but what can you do?". There needs to be REAL accountability for obvious and intentional stories that are untrue or, at the very least, misleading. Suing a multibillionaire for a few hundred million dollars ain't working. And I'm not just talking about Musk. There should be real consequences for putting out false info that leads to putting people in danger. Just the little lie about Haitians eating pets has endangered children and officials in Ohio.

I'm just spitting into the wind here because the justice system has been rigged for a long time and now it's starting to show the fruits of their labors. Friendly judges that are supposed to be bipartisan that aren't, established laws that are being struck down or manipulated, etc. I'm not sure how you fix it, but we better find a way or we'll spiral into pit that other authoritarian countries find themselves in. I don't want to live in Venezuela or Russia or Hungary.

I think part of the problem is that now, the cart is ahead of the horse.

X, FB, Instagram...have gotten so large and with really no controls over content (hiding behind free speech) and so many have gotten used to being able to say anything (even getting positive feedback thru "likes" for really inappropriate comments) and it starts to create this "feedback loop (not unlike in an ecosystem, which social media is kinda like).

when that feedback loop is operating in a detrimental way, it simply continues its decent. Folks will continually push the social norms/acceptability, get more likes and the next person will up the ante to get more likes.

And here we are.

20 years ago folks talked about some of this crap in private. And if there were 10 ppl in a room and 8 didn't agree with the premise, they either said nothing or spoken to the other 2 privately. And that's pretty much where it ended.
Today, if it's controversial enough, it doesn't get suppressed, it actually gets amplified.

And you aren't having to say this in person, to a bunch of people standing around you. It's pretty anonymous and if too far, delete it.

It's a mess. But installing guardrails NOW is going to a heck of an achievement because those same folks who feel liberated to post every dumb thought and get some satisfaction (likes or even getting into arguments) will claim it's free speech infringement.

 

[superchuck500]

I think part of the problem is that now, the cart is ahead of the horse.

X, FB, Instagram...have gotten so large and with really no controls over content (hiding behind free speech) and so many have gotten used to being able to say anything (even getting positive feedback thru "likes" for really inappropriate comments) and it starts to create this "feedback loop (not unlike in an ecosystem, which social media is kinda like).

when that feedback loop is operating in a detrimental way, it simply continues its decent. Folks will continually push the social norms/acceptability, get more likes and the next person will up the ante to get more likes.

And here we are.

20 years ago folks talked about some of this crap in private. And if there were 10 ppl in a room and 8 didn't agree with the premise, they either said nothing or spoken to the other 2 privately. And that's pretty much where it ended.
Today, if it's controversial enough, it doesn't get suppressed, it actually gets amplified.

And you aren't having to say this in person, to a bunch of people standing around you. It's pretty anonymous and if too far, delete it.

It's a mess. But installing guardrails NOW is going to a heck of an achievement because those same folks who feel liberated to post every dumb thought and get some satisfaction (likes or even getting into arguments) will claim it's free speech infringement.

Any sort of content moderation is going to have to come from the platforms themselves because the First Amendment just makes it hard to for the government to be the arbiter of content. Then, of course, when they do it, it opens those platforms up to criticism from those who don't like being moderated.

It's this weird combination where our First Amendment allows us to say these things and is, in part, what keeps us from seeing some of the crack-downs that our countries have done on misinformation online . . . and that has allowed for the amplification of some pretty nasty and untrue ideas that can actually harm our communities. But that same wide scope of protection keeps us free to be critical of government, which is a critical feature distinguishing our society from more controlled, even autocratic nations.

It's a really challenging issue, and deep-fake AI-assisted content is only going to make it harder. Either the Supreme Court evolves our First Amendment standard to include some kind of exception for deliberately false, harmful information (but again, it's much easier to say than to faithfully perform) or we continue to have to live with this tradeoff.