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Floon

The beautiful thing about Musk is the same beautiful thing about Trump: they are so desperate for respect from capable, intelligent people, who see through them and do not give it to them.

They have the love only of lunkheads they despise, which is clearly driving them crazy. They try and try and try, and keep getting less and less happy, and more in trouble, and cannot find a face-saving way to stop digging the hole they're in. It's delicious.

#Elon#ElonMusk#Trump
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AnneTheWriter

@mastodonmigration @aral

As a middle-aged woman, when I first heard he was trying to recapture a time from his younger days, my first thought was: "How old is #ElonMusk?"

Not remotely surprising to me, he is 52 years old. 🙄

#Elon is having a #MidLifeCrisis, if you ask me, and he's dragging everyone else down in the process.

Some guys buy classic cars or RVs, some guys have affairs with their secretaries. Musk tries to fix a previous business failure of his younger days, but ends up empowering Nazis and destroying a $44B investment instead.

Thank God my husband only tried rebuilding a classic car.

#TwitterX#XTwitter#X
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Crunchysteve

I was just discussing the #TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS with a twitter refugee, IRL friend and it occurred to me, this is what humans have always done as other humans invade. Some leave to tell the truth to the world (like Einstein's migration to the USA in the 1930s), sometimes in full flight, as refugees. (Like Einstein in the 1930s.) OK, there aren't the threats of firing squads and "account death" isn't actual death, it's a silencing, but violence is traumatic, accumulative and harmful. Likewise microvilences accumulate, slowly, sure, but the harm still gets done.

Elon "Muck" is an aggressor, a tyrant, a fascist. Twitter has become a battleground between hollow opinion and reasoned dissent. It is a war zone. Bombs aren't falling. People aren't dying, but the behaviour of the platform's self-appointed supreme leader is weaponised gaslighting, weaponised abuse, in short a war _of_ torment. Singling out the different ("cis is term of abuse") and using their reasoned, evidenced position against them in abusive propagandist's twisted reversal of the attacked group's position.

Trans? "They're the problem!" ~ Elon Hitler
Evidence based and academic? "What do they know?!" ~ Elon Mussolini.

This fight for Twitter (I believe Twitter is lost, sorry) is the evolution of war. The "corporate aristocracy" have gone to war on the heart of democracy, public discussion, in much the way Trump went to war on legal procedure and common decency (as in manners, not morality, the latter itself, hijacked.)

I left Facebook because I was no longer willing to allow my reactions to feed Meta's product motive. I fled the evolution of slavery, a pseudo-consensual slavery of our psychology rather than bodies. I am a dissenter in exile. Writing what I can.

Those of you from twitter, really are refugees. Not fleeing a physical threat, not in fear of life, still with your rooves over your heads sure, but in fear of your voice being unilaterally silenced without trial or evidence, more easily than by spilling your blood.

This is what #cyberwar looks like.

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Sheldon

Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.

Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person.

...but wait! It's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.

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#TwitterDown#Twitter#MastodonMigration
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Sheldon

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

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