At the time, I thought Bill Gates’d be the billionaire most interested/willing to try to stop Elon’s Twitter purchase…but apparently Sergey Brin (who was also at TED) would’ve been a much better target..
Speaking of which, did Elon beg Sergey to forgive him at #TED2022?
Wondering how meaningfully #TED2022 considers
👀 Climate crisis
👀 Racism
👀 Economic disparities
Never been, so not sure.
Looks fancy from social media vantage point.
Any insiders have reflections to share?
I mean…why couldn’t the outcome of @elonmusk’s attempt to take over Twitter be that @laurenepowell (& @EmCollective) @MackenzieJScott @melindagates buy Twitter? (Or 97+ other billionaires!)
Come on #TED2022, you can totally do this!!!
Of the <2000
people who attended #TED2022, I’d bet close to (if not more than) 100 are billionaires (& even more folks who represent them…& many many more 1%ers!).
Maybe saving Twitter (& um what remains of democracy) from Elon Musk is THE idea worth spreading, rapidly?
I'm kind of actually a little bit mad that they advertised the town hall thing all week long as a way for attendees to get a chance to share/speak back, and then they cancelled it in favour of giving El*n more time on stage to bloviate :/ #TED2022
Oh no oh no oh no M*sk claimed in his Q&A that he is the way he is because of autism. FUCK THAT. #TED2022
Dear #TED2022, This is who & what you are cheering….
What could express more about how doomed humanity is that #TED2022 gave @elonmusk a standing ovation????
In his #TED2022 livestream—despite Chris’s almost desperate efforts—seems like @ElonMusk is trying to set a record for most lawsuits provoked in 15 minutes?
Also what is fiduciary duty if Twitter’s BoD approves a sale to Musk after he’s said the public co’s profits don’t matter?
Yeah okay I'm done, I'm just going to walk out, there's really nothing inside of that suit. #TED2022
He's now railing against the SEC for penalizing him over the 420/69 thing where he lied about funding.
and now blames the banks for "making him plead guilty" #TED2022
How the fuck is the only idea he has is "delete retweets and likes" upon edits. there are plenty of social scientists and others who have already thought plenty about this sigh #TED2022
How can this man throw around tens of billions of dollars on something he doesn't even fucking understand? the fucking confidence of it all. god give me that confidence #TED2022
Journalism is how we get accountability, not "open source algorithms" and "keep all speech up unless it is clearly against the law".
Hate speech is not just "I don't like this". Raaaagh. #TED2022
Not to mention that open-sourcing ranking algorithms opens systems to abuse, there is a reason that Google's search algorithm is proprietary, because if it were open, it would very much be gamed. #TED2022
Does El*n EVEN UNDERSTAND how moderation works? auto-moderation is only a very small percentage of this, there are policy manuals (which reporters ALREADY have gotten hands on).
and there is no "algorithm" for moderation, as @TEDchris is saying. #TED2022
When asked by @TEDchris where the line is on social responsibility, he just defers to "if it's legal under local law, it should be allowed"
e.g. that yes, you can make veiled threats to violence as long as the cops don't file charges #TED2022
"I can afford it, I don't care about the economics at all" -- fucking take the money of billionaires. all of them. #TED2022
I'm sorry, this is purported one of the most brilliant people in the world, and this is how he responds to a question that he should already have been anticipating?
No wonder why every person who works in media relations won't work with him any more. #TED2022
He's stirring up conspiracy theories about how "the algorithm" is manipulating who can see whose tweets and...
maybe JUST STOP BEING RACIST and you won't get banned or shadowbanned? #TED2022
I think @kateconger has it right that El*n has gone "full goblin mode". He's just laughing and treating it as a joke when asked "why did you buy twitter?"
and his answer is "free speech" (aka rampant white supremacy) and "open source the algorithm" #TED2022
"I wouldn't worry about putting people out of a job, I want to create a world of abundance," he says as he union busts, discriminates against Black employees, and retaliates against whistleblowers. #TED2022
M*sk is a generator of half-baked ideas and of racism, and any benefit is a side effect rather than something that's a predictable output. #TED2022
techno-optimism will be the fucking death of us all.
So they can't solve self-driving so they're now changing the goalposts and saying they need to build a humanoid robot & AI (who was an actor wearing a suit onstage at the announcement) instead? #TED2022
"I think this is the year [for fully reproducing human vision]" pffft loooool #TED2022
No kidding "you just hit a ceiling", it's hard freaking stuff, and you can't just magic handwave through it, there's actual hard work involved (which Waymo and others have done a fine job at, because they didn't try to take clever shortcuts). #TED2022
The "machine that makes the machine" does not actually work well if it generates racial discrimination in the process.
Nor does it work if it creates machines that drive people into concrete traffic barriers. #TED2022
I am starting to understand where Chidi's character comes from in @kentremendous's #TED2022 talk.
I'm not sure I agree that there always should be bipartisan civil discourse when there's an attempt to debate the very humanity of a group of people, for the record. #TED2022
Change of plans now that I know that M*sk's talk is going to be streamed for free to the public, and thus you don't need me to paraphrase what he's saying. Instead I'll just be reacting with 😠😠😠.
https://livestream.com/tedprivate/ted2022 to follow along #TED2022
