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