Curley: [stops Moe and Larry] Hey! What’s this stuff [Brighto] for anyway?
Larry: Why, it’s a cleaner, ya chump!
Curley:I know, it’s auto polish.
Moe:You boys really wanna know what it’s for?
Larry & Curly [In unison] Yeah!
Moe:It’s for sale, now get busy selling it.
The Three Stooges, Dizzy Doctors 1937
Watching Elon Musk over the last few days reminds me of the early days of Donald Trump’s first run for president in the sense that both of them absolutely know the media left having functioned from inside it and know how to play them like a fiddle.
Twitter as a platform to generate profit has only one commodity, eyeballs and buzz. If you are an advertiser your goal is to get your product in front of as many eyeballs as possible, if you are a person trying to create “buzz” you need to be able to establish yourself as a “credible” source.
Every step Elon Musk has made in the last month is designed to bring one or the other forward.
The pushing of the $8 blue checkmark got everyone talking about blue checkmarks and baited people, particularly people who hate him, to talk and tweet about them.
But got people outside of Twitter, on TV and Radio talking about…Twitter.
And then yesterday came the restoration of three large accounts, the above quoted Babylon Bee (without deleting their Rachel Devine tweet) Gordon Peterson a terror to leftist thought and of course “D” list comedian Kathy Griffin and even while doing so he baited people again and many, including myself took the bait
how about @rsmccain and Milo and frankly why has Trump decision not been made?
The guy is a former president and running for president, this is a no-brainer
But while restoring Trump is a no brainer, just doing so doesn’t create the required buzz, the conversation, the tweets and the eyeballs that he is selling so he follows this up with his Piècederésistancethe Trump Poll!
As of this writing (4:14 AM EST Saturday, yeah I woke up coughing again) Seven point nine MILLION people responded to this poll.
This doesn’t count multipliers from the untold number of people who have commented on it, retweeted it, wrote about it etc,
What does all this accomplish? It demonstrates to all the advertisers that the left is trying to pressure to run away from Twitter that Mr. Musk can literally deliver millions of eyeballs almost at will.
Now if you’re trying to repress a particular point of view that’s a bad thing, but if you’re trying to get the word out about a product like Brighto
…that’s just what the Doctor is willing to pay for.
Twitter may not be real life but it produces real eyeballs. Elon doesn’t give a damn if you like him, or hate him or think his buying Twitter is an act of war, he just wants you talking about, writing about and above all TWEETING about his product.
That’s the prize he has his eyes on, anything else is just gravy.
Update: A quick example of this, check out what the Times of India is tweeting about
Back when I learned to code in the early 1980’s people who knew how to code were, in terms of the general population, kinda rare.
About 70% of the class who tried a Computer Science Major washed out because of the math and science involved and ending up with a job that was worth about $24K (the equivalent of $66K today) was par or even below par for the course. We were considered a BFD and had a pretty high opinion of ourselves.
Well after a while I decided I’d rather do other things than code and so I did but while I stepped away from my college major people poured into the industry, computers shrank in size and increased in power exponentially.
When I was looking to get back in the industry it seemed that everyone and their mother knew how to code and had been doing it in languages I had never seen before to the point where old Fortran coders like me in their late 40’s or early 50’s weren’t worth the investment when you could get a kid with now wife and family attachments for less money right out of college with all the new stuff fresh in their heads.
And that in a round about way brings us to the current nonsense at Twitter.
All these kids at Twitter seem to have a really inflated sense of self, not all that surprising given the way public education took a turn in the last few decades but they have in effect forgotten the reality of things which is namely this:
The pool of competent programmers has grown even faster than the processing power of computers over the last 40 years and you don’t have to be one of the richest men in the world to be able to tap into that pool and find a few thousand programmers if you need them.
Furthermore when you are one of the world’s richest men you can easily tap into a pool that extends far beyond America, let alone the blue areas of America.
Put simply while the supposedly bright people at Twitter who are considering leaving may have forgotten the laws of supply and demand Elon Musk hasn’t and if they think Twitter is suddenly going to go black because a bunch of them, even the majority of them choose to leave, then frankly their too stupid to be working at any company Musk owns.
I suspect those who choose to come aboard Twitter to replace these narcissists will be well rewarded for working hard and I suspect those who stay and choose to work hard will be even better rewarded.
This is the chance of a lifetime for a young programmer and if I was younger I’d consider it myself.
As for those leaving given the layoffs going on around the nation in the Biden economy I wish you the best of luck, you’ll need it.
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Things appear to be rather bleak here in the United Sates after the theft of at least four senatorial seats by the Democrats in last Tuesday’s midterm elections, along with the possible theft of some House seats. There is a very strong temptation amongst Conservatives and Libertarians to simply give up. I have spoken to several fellow right-wingers who have stated that they have in fact given up because they believe there is no hope left for the United States.
There have been many times in this nation’s past when things have been even more dire. What has pulled us through has always been Patriotic Americans who have a never say die attitude. Rugged individualists who fight the good fight against unbeatable odds have accomplished miracles, no scenario is more American.
There are many things us patriots can do to fix things before all hope is lost. It will be a long tough road. There are a great many obstacles in the way, placed there by both the Democrats and Republicans.
Most important, we need to wake people up. Social media should have been the perfect tool to accomplish this. Rampant censorship of those who oppose the progressive agenda makes waking up those in need difficult. Hopefully Elon Musk will turn things around on Twitter. I’m not holding my breath. When my lifetime ban is lifted I’ll be most surprised.
Us patriots need to work to gain more control and influence over the Republican Party. The Republican establishment is only slightly better than the Democratic Party. This can happen slowly, starting on the local level, and building from there.
We need to make sure the Republican Party does one of two things. Firstly, we need to make sure the Republicans overturn all of the dirty tricks the Democrats have used to steal the presidential and midterm elections. Unlimited mail in ballots, ballot harvesting, and massive dumps of fraudulent ballots all need to end. Until the Republicans fix our broken electoral system, they need to learn how to be competitive in the mess we have now.
There is so much more we can do before all hope is lost.
President Trump has announced that he is running to return to the White House. Can somebody explain to me why if so many people are positive that he is going to destroy the chances of the GOP in 2024 why so many on the left are doing all they can to prevent him from even being elegible?
or president
Amazon is laying off 10,000 just before Black Friday. Let those of you who have insisted that we’re not in a recession let that sink in.
At my own warehouse we’ve gone from Friday being mandatory to people being offered yesterday and today off. Frankly I was tempted to take today but I’ve been out sick so many days lately I figured I’d better turn up.
I’m telling you this, if this country returns Biden to the White House after this economy then we deserve everything that happens to us and more.
A lot of fuss is being made about the rockets that hit Poland this weeks. There was a rush to blame Russia until it was discovered that is was a Ukrainian rocket. Let’s remember a few things about war that our friends who never studied it and know nothing about it need to know:
Accidents happen in war, from Friendly fire to malfunctioning equipment. It’s very easy to screw up when you’re working under the pressure of someone else trying to kill you.
Information is a weapon in war. All sides are going to release info to try to gain the support of others. Anyone who blindly believes what a belligerent in war says is a dope and deserves to be deceived.
No plan, regardless of how elegant or well conceived survives contact with the enemy and real world conditions.
Given the track record of the “experts” on this war I’m shocked anyone consults with them.
A lot of people have conveniently forgotten that just before the war started Biden talked about the Russian seizure of the eastern parts of Ukraine as a fait accompli something to be accepted and let’s not forget he was in a hurry to get Zelensky out of there before he was turned down.
The real irony however is that Putin was likely encouraged by Biden’s show of weakness and because of this the Russians bit off more than they could chew and were revealed to be the paper tiger they apparently are. If Trump had been in Putin wouldn’t have moved period and the world would still be terrified of the Russian army instead of using it as a punchline.
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