Westor Lowbrood

"In a way, the app created its owner. "

That right there feels like science fiction, like it's something the author dropped in to do a bit of world-building. A story where we never quite got AI to doomsday levels, but let's look at what's happening as humans adapt to new and artificial constructs in our biome (for lack of a better word- sort of feels like a symbiote or a virus or something, the attention-encouraging skinner boxes and their results).

Agreed that the whole thing is "a little fucked up."

very minor correction only because the rest of the post is [chef's kiss]: it was musk's cousin, apparently, who woke up employees with the red alert about the super bowl tweet.

it seems like we're living in Infinite Jest

Have you reshared this post as a YouTube comment? Someone’s left a comment on this video, and if it’s not you they’ve plagiarized you pretty much word for word. I don’t know if you care about this sort of thing or what can be done about it if you do, but I wanted to make sure you were aware just in case

the more or less openly stated end goal of basically every web 2.0 company has been to hook a rich mark and cash out for megabucks before the lack of any way to make a normal revenue kills the company, but afaik Twitter is the first to succeed by getting oligarchs addicted to their gamification system directly instead of trying to pitch them on some technobabble get-rich-quick scheme.

The poor chumps running around trying to placate Elon now are just more marks tho really, the real architects of the scheme took their $44B and won't have to do anything to please anyone ever again

SCREAMING

ngl, I genuinely thought the fail whale was what OP's title was referencing before I read the post

rich kid never wanting for life covets the few things he has (the praise of being a decent human without understanding the work involved to get there)

envy of the poor. twitter was a gacha game. lose your section 230 protections speed run

Elon Musk the human failwhale