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Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

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Oh fuck he's so done
 
Hahaha. I worked at a company once who got in a load of consultants and they renamed all the conference rooms things like "resolve" and "commitment". Even that was better than this.

See you at 3 in Endeavour!

Oh they love doing that.

"Meeting at 3 in the Churchill room"

The Churchill room is 3 stools and a VCR thats never worked amidst a nest of decaying cables.
 
For those still on it how has it changed in summary? I saw one jorno say it was now unusable. For those of us who are not on it, give us a view from behind the curtain?
 
I am looking at the odd tweet when twitter lets me do so and the website just feels like its part of some sort of farcial April fools logo change, it all just looks slightly cheap and weird.

I assume thats the vibe Musk is going for bit its given me some respect back for UI and site designers (they still have a long way to go)
 
Worked briefly for a law firm which specialised in shipping. Meeting rooms were called “quarterdeck”, “wheelhouse” etc

i understand that meeting rooms in the TFL headquarters pile in blackfriars are (or were) named after stations on the network.

i don't know how many people have ended up going to a meeting at (say) kings cross station instead of 'kings cross' meeting room or vice versa...
 
i understand that meeting rooms in the TFL headquarters pile in blackfriars are (or were) named after stations on the network.

i don't know how many people have ended up going to a meeting at (say) kings cross station instead of 'kings cross' meeting room or vice versa...
When we first moved to our current building, I once saw my boss was at a meeting in "Christchurch". Thought "that's OK, he'll be gone for hours". Nope, turned out it was one of our meeting rooms. (named after local parks)
 
For those still on it how has it changed in summary? I saw one jorno say it was now unusable. For those of us who are not on it, give us a view from behind the curtain?
I only read and don't tweet, but as long as I only ever use the Following tab, it's basically exactly the same as it was before the takeover, except some of the people I follow have stopped tweeting, and it periodically breaks when Musk decides to do something that one of the fired engineers would normally tell him was a bad idea.

It's the algorithmically generated tab that appears to have turned into a complete hellhole (not that I'd know though, as I don't use it).
 
I'm enjoying this whole X thing.

Look at you lot all outraged that your beloved twitter has been meddled with, when just a couple of years ago you'd all be moaning and saying how awful twitter was.

Have just been reading the Origin Story, which is quite heartwarming.

 
If you want a bit of insight into the minds of Musk and the kinds of people he surrounds himself with, then you could do worse than to read this article: Elon Musk’s Text Messages Explain Everything (link to archived article in case you don't have free access to The Atlantic).
Yep good read. The picture really is a a man in his own hyper reality just throwing things at the wall hoping they stick. Our first Always Online Billionaire archetype. Been told and encouraged to be an Edgelord by his own algorithms.
 
Our meeting rooms are called things like “3.2” and “5.6” and “LG.1”. And I bet you can guess where room 7.4 is likely to be.
 
Our meeting rooms are called things like “3.2” and “5.6” and “LG.1”. And I bet you can guess where room 7.4 is likely to be.
Our LG recently became -1, to sync up with all the other buildings on our campuses.

Honestly, who could say whether X or -1 caused the most outrage? Not me, that's for sure.
 
I only read and don't tweet, but as long as I only ever use the Following tab, it's basically exactly the same as it was before the takeover, except some of the people I follow have stopped tweeting, and it periodically breaks when Musk decides to do something that one of the fired engineers would normally tell him was a bad idea.

It's the algorithmically generated tab that appears to have turned into a complete hellhole (not that I'd know though, as I don't use it).

similar really. some people i used to follow on there have buggered off to various bits of mastodon, some to bluesky, some have just stopped.

meh.

Never been a very prolific user but it definitely seems like more of a Nazi-infested shithole than it used to be, with flakier technology

i've never really ventured on to those bits of tweeter - again, i just do the 'following' thing

but feel ever less comfortable just being there

meh again.
 
Our LG recently became -1, to sync up with all the other buildings on our campuses.

Honestly, who could say whether X or -1 caused the most outrage? Not me, that's for sure.
I was just about to write a post about this issue.
Has G become 0, too?
In the states they don't have to worry about choosing between an inconsistent letter-amongst-numbers, and a logical but somehow awkward 0.
In the University of Surrey original campus buildings they label floors by their height above sea level, I believe.
 
I was just about to write a post about this issue.
Has G become 0, too?
In the states they don't have to worry about choosing between an inconsistent letter-amongst-numbers, and a logical but somehow awkward 0.
In the University of Surrey original campus buildings they label floors by their height above sea level, I believe.
I don't think so, think it's still G.

We also have mezzanine levels, so you get GM, 1M, 2M... :D
 
I was just about to write a post about this issue.
Has G become 0, too?
In the states they don't have to worry about choosing between an inconsistent letter-amongst-numbers, and a logical but somehow awkward 0.
In the University of Surrey original campus buildings they label floors by their height above sea level, I believe.
I work at a university, and our floor numbers are matched across the campus to ensure that even in different buildings, floors at the same elevation have the same floor number.

Because the front of the campus is sort of on a slope, the main entrance is at level 0, but the ground floors of most buildings (which sit at a higher elevation) are labelled as level 2, and don't have anything labelled as either ground floor, or level 0/1, which confuses the hell out of people when they first start.

Our buildings are labelled from A-Z, and we've recently opened Z block, so people are eagerly awaiting how they'll name the next building to get built.
 
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