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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 13:45:47 UTC Robert McNees

   It is not just as bad as you’d expect, it is somehow even worse:

   https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 15:32:19 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Blake C. Stacey

     @bstacey Right? I sort of slapped my forehead with that one. Of course that's who'd be running it. (Though, to be fair, Dorsey and his whole crew were really pushing NFTs.)

   • Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 15:32:20 UTC Blake C. Stacey

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     @mcnees Twitter Blue being run by someone straight out of pushing NFTs goes in the file of things I should have expected.

   • Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 15:32:21 UTC Blake C. Stacey

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     @mcnees "Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer and scientist, and he has a track record of having a Midas touch"

     I don't think I could have restrained myself to compose a reply so polite as "I take your point, but as a childhood Greek mythology nerd..." On the contrary, my phrasing would likely have included variations upon "you culturally illiterate cockwomble" and the like.

   • Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 15:32:21 UTC Blake C. Stacey

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     @mcnees 🎶 He's the man
     The man with the Midas touch
     A spider's touch
     Such a cold finger
     Beckons you to enter his web of sin
     But don't go in 🎶

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 18:04:26 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Catherine is Tired

     @CatDragon People really project onto him.

     I'm sure a lot of tech folks are enchanted by the possibility of an uber-engineer rising to the top by virtue of his cool, mechanical skill and talent, qualities they hope they see in themselves *finally* receiving appropriate recognition.

     He's a sort of nerd wish fulfillment, and it's all a complete scam.

   • Catherine is Tired (catdragon@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 18:04:27 UTC Catherine is Tired

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     @mcnees Luke Simon saying Musk is a brilliant engineer and scientist makes me realize just how many supposedly intelligent people were fooled.
     He’s an entrepreneur with a nose for trends and tech. I’d suggest one of my cats has a better grasp of engineering.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 00:52:39 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Nick Wood

     @nickw This but he sent them a picture of himself.

     https://crownandpaw.com/products/colonel-custom-pet-standing-canvas?_pos=4&_sid=6a6b69bbb&_ss=r

   • Nick Wood (nickw@sfba.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 00:52:40 UTC Nick Wood

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     @mcnees the engineering director who owns, “a ­portrait of himself dressed as a 19th-century French general” … good Lord.