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Musk.. the gift which keeps on giving.

I wonder if anyone thinks this is a good idea. It's at least theoretically possible but seems very unlikely.


Yet another sign that Yaccarino is a sham CEO.

We already knew Musk was like this, but it's surprising that Yaccarino signed up for it. I hope she negotiated a massive cash signing bonus, because she's totally trashed her career.

We can hope for her sake, but I think it's much more likely that given her background in sales, she's just uninformed about building consumer products and services, and all in on that sales culture of promising everything and ignoring the execution.
I know I would volunteer you be a sock puppet for the kind of money that she will be paid. For significantly less actually.
Why would this tarnish her career? Everybody understands Musk is still the chief twit.
Surely just taking that not-a-real-job did that?
Have you considered looking away?
It’s really hard to not look at a train wreck in progress. Especially when it comes with a large drink of schadenfreude and a bucket of virtual popcorn.

I’m sad for what the destruction of Twitter and the people it affects, but at least the fireworks are cool.

>fireworks

Usually this is too vacuous of a criterion for comments on any other topic on HN. For some reason any post on Twitter has pages and pages of “yikes” “derp”, people gossiping about “Elon” like he’s their wayward cousin. Pathetic.

He is our wayward cousin.

Elon is a cautionary tale about what can happen when a slightly clever, asocial, ADHD, internet troll finds himself with more money than God. He is the archetypal HN user gone off the deep end. This is like a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Future for most of us.

I'm afraid I see many similarities with that older wayward cousin, John McAfee. I truly hope Musk finds help, or finds that his coffers are harder to deplete than Johns, but it's not looking good.

"we", the hacker-crowd, indeed have some lessons to learn here.

> people taking about “Elon” like he’s their wayward cousin

What is the proper form of address for naughty ol' Mr Car?

So, what's your take? Give us the vibe, the feel of it. What's the upside plan here?
This is too insignificant for a “take”. It doesn’t change anything substantial for me or most existing Twitter users.
> Have you considered looking away?
Have you considered that some people may be unable to do so without losing their job?
I've only known one person brave enough to stand up to a toxic ceo in an "all hands" in 40 years of working. It's surprisingly hard to do. Nobody is really trapped but it can be very hard to just walk. I didn't. I wish I had.
Example? Who are these people forced to use Twitter?
Anyone in any kind of social media role, pretty much. And, although not literally forced, many others cannot ignore the advantage the platform brings: writers, gamedevs, journalists, etc.
Why on earth would I look away from such an absurd spectacle?

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