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#3025278 21-Jan-2023 19:28

Monty Python's Money Song (with lyrics)

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#3025295 21-Jan-2023 20:14

NBC News: On Musk's Twitter, users looking to sell and trade child sex abuse material are still easily found

Twitter accounts that offer to trade or sell child sexual abuse material under thinly veiled terms and hashtags have remained online for months, even after CEO Elon Musk said he would combat child exploitation on the platform.

“Priority #1,” Musk called it in a Nov. 20 tweet. He’s also criticized Twitter’s former leadership, claiming that they did little to address child sexual exploitation, and that he intended to change things.

But since that declaration, at least dozens of accounts have continued to post hundreds of tweets in aggregate using terms, abbreviations and hashtags indicating the sale of what Twitter calls child sexual exploitation material, according to a count of just a single day’s tweets. The signs and signals are well known among experts and law enforcement agencies that work to stop the spread of such material.
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It’s unclear just how many people remain at Twitter to address CSAM after Musk enacted several rounds of layoffs and issued an ultimatum that led to a wave of resignations. Musk has engaged some outside help, and the company said in December that its suspension of accounts for child sexual exploitation had risen sharply. A representative for the U.S. child exploitation watchdog the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said that the number of reports of CSAM detected and flagged by the company remains unchanged since Musk’s takeover.

Twitter also disbanded the company’s Trust and Safety council, which included nonprofits focused on addressing CSAM.
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#3025300 21-Jan-2023 20:31

The Talented Mr. Musk, Part 2: The Elon Files,

Some more news

Includes long non-sequester about Musk seeing himself as Captain Edward Jellico in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes “Chain of Command,"

Youtube: jump to timestamp

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#3025568 22-Jan-2023 17:15

Their blue tick was removed following this story,

BBC News [Hard-line Islamists] Taliban start buying blue ticks on Twitter

The Taliban have started using Twitter's paid-for verification feature, meaning some now have blue ticks on their accounts.

Previously, the blue tick indicated "active, notable, and authentic accounts of public interest" verified by Twitter, and could not be purchased.

But now, users can buy them through the new Twitter Blue service.

At least two Taliban officials and four prominent supporters in Afghanistan are currently using the checkmarks.

Hedayatullah Hedayat, the head of the Taliban's department for "access to information", now has the tick.

His account has 187,000 followers and he regularly posts information related to the Taliban administration. He had his paid-for blue tick removed last month, according to local media, but it has now returned.

Abdul Haq Hammad, head of the media watchdog at the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture, also has a blue tick on his account that has 170,000 followers.

Prominent Taliban supporters have acquired the blue tick too.

Muhammad Jalal, who previously identified as a Taliban official, praised the new owner of Twitter on Monday, declaring that Elon Musk was "making Twitter great again".
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#3026660 24-Jan-2023 20:08

King Charles suing Elon Musk's Twitter over alleged unpaid rent

From: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/uk/300791494/king-charles-suing-elon-musks-twitter-over-alleged-unpaid-rent

Elon Musk’s Twitter is being sued by the Crown Estate after allegedly failing to pay the rent on its London headquarters, The Telegraph can disclose.

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#3026893 25-Jan-2023 10:31

So instead of getting an invitation to the Coronation he could end up in the Tower of London.

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#3026937 25-Jan-2023 11:47

kingdragonfly: Their blue tick was removed following this story,

I thought you meant BBC's blue tick was removed. That sort of retaliatory nonsense would be completely on-brand for Musk.

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#3035077 11-Feb-2023 16:49

Platformer: Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count

For weeks now, Elon Musk has been preoccupied with worries about how many people are seeing his tweets. Last week, the Twitter CEO took his Twitter account private for a day to test whether that might boost the size of his audience. The move came after several prominent right-wing accounts that Musk interacts with complained that recent changes to Twitter had reduced their reach.

On Tuesday, Musk gathered a group of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters looking for answers. Why are his engagement numbers tanking?

“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”

One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning.

Employees showed Musk internal data regarding engagement with his account, along with a Google Trends chart. Last April, they told him, Musk was at “peak” popularity in search rankings, indicated by a score of “100.” Today, he’s at a score of nine. Engineers had previously investigated whether Musk’s reach had somehow been artificially restricted, but found no evidence that the algorithm was biased against him.

Musk did not take the news well.

“You’re fired, you’re fired,” Musk told the engineer.
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#3035079 11-Feb-2023 16:56

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#3035082 11-Feb-2023 17:22

kingdragonfly: NBC News: On Musk's Twitter, users looking to sell and trade child sex abuse material are still easily found

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#3035093 11-Feb-2023 17:58

Yes apparently in South Africa its normal to call people you are annoyed at that.
Its no major insult let alone an accusation, so if you shout that at people in
South Africa they don't worry.
Even if you follow up with multiple accusations and expand the insult to their wife
South Africans just laugh it off.

Well thats what Elon seemed to say in his defense, its a South African thing ...

Note that great defender of Freedom, and NZ citizen Peter Thiel
is also a major backer in his ventures.

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#3035687 13-Feb-2023 05:01

Moahunter:

So instead of getting an invitation to the Coronation he could end up in the Tower of London.

Bad idea, there are all the crown jewels that he could pocket! 😄

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#3035776 13-Feb-2023 10:13

ezbee:
Yes apparently in South Africa its normal to call people you are annoyed at that.
Its no major insult let alone an accusation, so if you shout that at people in
South Africa they don't worry.
Even if you follow up with multiple accusations and expand the insult to their wife
South Africans just laugh it off.

Well thats what Elon seemed to say in his defense, its a South African thing ...

Note that great defender of Freedom, and NZ citizen Peter Thiel
is also a major backer in his ventures.

Not really, apparently when Musk was growing up in Pretoria it may have been a local thing then.

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#3036051 13-Feb-2023 15:41

neb:
ezbee:

Yes apparently in South Africa its normal to call people you are annoyed at that.

Another thing that's useful to know about SA is that they really like a type of cool mint lime drink, so lime-flavoured with mint leaves in it. Kaffir limes are particularly popular for this, so if you want to have this just wander into a cafe and ask if they serve kaffirs.

Just be careful you don't get your Kaffir's mixed up. One is a lime citrus fruit and the other is a derogatory term for a Black African. This derogatory term properly derived from the Kaffir Bean which is black in colour and used as food for livestock and for soil enrichment. It was then expanded upon to mean all sorts of things concerning Black African's but always in a derogatory way and is considered profoundly offensive and inflammatory. It now ranks as perhaps the most offensive term in South African English.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3036054 13-Feb-2023 15:51

FineWine:
Just be careful you don't get your Kaffir's mixed up. One is a lime citrus fruit and the other is a derogatory term for a Black African.

It was inspired by the contents of a "tourist guide" for the UK that gave plausible-sounding but outrageously incorrect advice for visitors from the US.

Ah, here it is:

One of the most delighful ways to spend an afternoon in Oxford or Cambridge is gliding gently down the river in one of their flat- bottomed boats, which you propel using a long pole. This is known as "cottaging." Many of the boats (called "yer-i-nals") are privately owned by the colleges, but there are some places that rent them to the public by the hour. Just tell a professor or policeman that you are interested in doing some cottaging and would like to know where the public yerinals are.

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