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News from the blue bird apocalypse

[twitter-today]

well, maybe I should rename this one to tumblr-today, uh?

[jv]

If you are not following the news of the cesspool formerly known as Twitter, let me fill you in because something very funny happened.

xAI, the part of the company that makes Grok, the Twitter version of chatGPT, is facing big public backslash for silently trying to force the bot to endorse certain political views and failing miserably.

The first time, a few months ago, was about how they tried to made it ignore any source that was critical of Elon Musk or Donald Trump.

This time? They tried to make the bot confirm that there is an ongoing white genocide happening in South Africa.

In the process, they manage to make the bot talk about south African white genocide in Every Single Response it has sent in the last couple of days. Like “hey grok what’s the capital of France? / The capital of France is Paris. Now, in the context of south African white genocide, it’s important to note that…. ”

The funniest part is that, in both cases, the company is blaming it on an unauthorized employee that made some changes to the default prompts and force pushed them into production.

And unauthorized employee with merge rights that want Grok to stop criticizing Musk and support the existence of a white genocide in South Africa, uh?

I WONDER WHO THAT COULD BE.

[wafrn]

[jv]

If you are not following the news of the cesspool formerly known as Twitter, let me fill you in because something very funny happened.

xAI, the part of the company that makes Grok, the Twitter version of chatGPT, is facing big public backslash for silently trying to force the bot to endorse certain political views and failing miserably.

The first time, a few months ago, was about how they tried to made it ignore any source that was critical of Elon Musk or Donald Trump.

This time? They tried to make the bot confirm that there is an ongoing white genocide happening in South Africa.

In the process, they manage to make the bot talk about south African white genocide in Every Single Response it has sent in the last couple of days. Like “hey grok what’s the capital of France? / The capital of France is Paris. Now, in the context of south African white genocide, it’s important to note that…. ”

The funniest part is that, in both cases, the company is blaming it on an unauthorized employee that made some changes to the default prompts and force pushed them into production.

And unauthorized employee with merge rights that want Grok to stop criticizing Musk and support the existence of a white genocide in South Africa, uh?

I WONDER WHO THAT COULD BE.

[twitter-today]

Uh, hey, how much things have changed since I was posting here, uh?

[twitter-today]

At this pace, I'm going to need to open @automattic-today before tomorrow

[thebuginthecornerofyourroom]

Likes charge, reblogs cast

[twitter-today]

We still have two weeks for Twitter to close down for good in 2023.

Come on Germany do you thing!

[twitter-today]

The funniest thing about Elon's tantrum about Disney's CEO is that he is turning what it was probably a temporary halt in ad expending by Disney into a complete platform drop. Somehow Musky seem to think that

Twitter

Can bully

DISNEY

Into submission.

Puto bocachancla. He is doing more for killing the idea of meritocracy and exposing late stage capitalism as neo-feudalism than any living left wing radical.

[twitter-today]

Ok, I must concede this to my pal Elon. For this past year since he bought Twitter, I've been feeling, and saying, "ok this is absolute rock bottom. He can't make it worse than this". And he always manages to go even deeper in his own giant piss pit.

[twitter-today]

[jv]

Oh please dear lord I promise you to consider becoming theist if you make this happen for real.

please, please, please, let me, let me, let me, let me get what I want, this time

Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation

As Twitter, renamed X, faces increased scrutiny in the EU and usage falls, Elon Musk has floated drastic action.

[twitter-today]

It has been half a year since I ran this poll, and now we are close to the one year mark from Musk' purchase, so it looks like a good time to repeat it:

So, if you were an active twitter user (let's say: you checked your twitter timeline at least once per week) before april 2022, please throw a vote here!

How are you using twitter nowadays?

I don't. I deleted my account.

I don't. My account still exists, but I haven't checked it in weeks.

I still use it, but only when someone links twitter from somewhere else.

I use twitter more or less the same I used to.

I use twitter more often nowadays than a year ago.

I never used twitter but I want to take a look

Voting ended onSep 26, 2023

[twitter-today]

After two days we have more than twice the votes of the original poll. Normalizing the values (the original didn't have the "never used" option):

Deleted Twitter: 23% -> 24%

Stopped using it entirely: 36% -> 34%

Barely no use: 18% -> 19%

Use Twitter the same: 21% -> 22%

Use Twitter more: 2% -> 1%

[twitter-today]

It has been half a year since I ran this poll, and now we are close to the one year mark from Musk' purchase, so it looks like a good time to repeat it:

So, if you were an active twitter user (let's say: you checked your twitter timeline at least once per week) before april 2022, please throw a vote here!

How are you using twitter nowadays?

I don't. I deleted my account.

I don't. My account still exists, but I haven't checked it in weeks.

I still use it, but only when someone links twitter from somewhere else.

I use twitter more or less the same I used to.

I use twitter more often nowadays than a year ago.

I never used twitter but I want to take a look

Voting ended onSep 26, 2023

[jv]

wait wait, let me do a serious analysis of these news:

Musk said X is “moving to having a small, monthly payment for use of the X system”

So, well, is they do this, then, hmm haha hahah hahHAHAHAHGAHAHJAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA haha aha haha ahah ah ah ha, ok javi get it together

Ok, and then:

and said the social network now has 550 million monthly users.

About this, it's important to hhahahahHHAHAHAHAGAHHAHAGAHAHHAHA HAHAH AHA HAHA HAHAHAHAHA++

Musk also defended himself against criticism that he and his social network spread hate speech and antisemitism after he threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League and made disparaging remarks about George Soros.

AHSDGAHSDGKJASDHKAHSK OJHASD HAHAHAHAH AHAHHAAHAHAHA OH MY FUCKINHG GOD AOHGASDJHAHHAHA HAHAHA HAH AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA oh my god he's dumber than a stoned toad ahhaha ha hahahHAHAHAHHAAHHAH

AHAHAHAH HA GHASDGHASD HAHAHAHA HA HAHA

AHAHA HAHAHAHAHAH HA AHAHHA

[jv]

The person up there (@sachee) is the _CURRENT_ tech lead of Twitter's core API team. Like, I can't think on a more influential or important position you could be if you are a developer. Her pinned tweet:

It's beyond amazing how openly hostile the Twitter folks are toward Musk. Now, Musk has been shitting on their work for months, and he didn't even stop once he became his boss, so I can understand the feeling.

What I can't understand at all is how he doesn't realize how bad for the product he has just bought is to have core engineering employees up in arms against him. Unless he really don't care if twitter just burn down.

[jv]

More, just from today:

This pretty much means that no dev can 'finish' any work they are doing and launch it. Which is not super unusual, every company has some of those from time to time.

What's NOT FUCKING NORMAL IS ENGINEERS NOT KNOWING WHY THEY ARE IN A CODE FREEZE. What the fuck, I can't even start picturing THE CHAOS they are living through.

[kilodelta]

I feel so bad for the Infra/SRE people at Twitter…assuming any are left.

As for Sasha, she’s only of the worlds leading experts on GraphQL. She literally sits on the projects governing board, and the technical steering committee.

This isn’t just some engineer calling out Elon as an idiot. It’s more akin to Stephan Hawking calling a random Physics 101 professor an idiot. It’s that level of a smack down. She’s fucking badass.

[jv]

Oh woah, very important context about who @sachee is (I'm just a humble JavaScript guy, I didn't know she was such a big fish). And... Yeah, as other notes have pointed out, she has been fired already:

And don't get me wrong, she totally looked for it: if you post, publicly, that your boss can kiss you ass... Well, you know what you are up to. Same for the android guy they fired yesterday.

What's incredible is the Musk has managed to have so many engineers in open rebellion, almost looking to be fired. See, engineers are usually a quiet folk. As a group, we usually don't steer the pot too much: we are the folks who earn crazy amounts of money for a job we usually enjoy, so, sadly, we tend to put up with any kind in bullshit in silence. I have seen entire engineering organizations melt away several times, and there is always the kind of comments we are seeing on Twitter... in private. In DMs, or private channels, or small group watercooler conversations. But even if you are 100% sure you want out, you don't want to openly fight management: you want to find another job that's cozy and interesting before leaving, and even when you do, the tech world is kind of small, it's in your own interest to leave without leaving any beef behind, just in case you meet the same people again in the future.

The fact that so many engineers, high profile ones even, are dissing management at this level means that they not only want out, but they want out ASAP and they are expecting for the company to really meltdown so their own leave ends being just an anecdote in the overall Pompeii-like story of The End Of Twitter.

In any other week, someone like @sachee leaving Twitter like this would be the biggest and sauciest news of the development scene for weeks. Now? It will probably be forgotten by the end of the day, buried under who knows what.

[jv]

We stan a queen

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[twitter-today]

This... This is crazy. Why they didn't just change the handle of their corporate account??

Do... Do they know they own the database?

[twitter-today]

Oh wait they probably just changed the name of the old account and created this one as a placeholder to keep the name occupied

[twitter-today]

This... This is crazy. Why they didn't just change the handle of their corporate account??

Do... Do they know they own the database?