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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

It's a shame Bari got cancelled. We just never hear from her or even about her anymore!

Meanwhile, I heard that Twitter is now running with just under 20% of its original workforce, and just under 30% of its original ad revenue. I'm just waiting for some back-end function to break down and the whole Twitter machine comes grinding to a halt.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

My first genuine horse laugh in some days at Bofa Deez Nutz.

I am crude and juvenile.

As far as I can make out, the alleged Twitter Files Scandal, as fronted ably by such as Weiss, is “content moderation on twitter has a liberal bias, or we could have seen Hunter Biden’s dick.”

Are there files online for actual searching, or just a name for those curated by the Muskovite Regime? And claimed to prove their assertion?

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Thanks, I needed that!!

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

It's too bad Wari "Bofa Deez Nutz" Beiss still has some trace memory of doing journalism, so she wants to talk with genuine employees. If she were more like Salena Zito she'd just find Elon's cousin and build out her narrative from there.

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Dec 9, 2022·edited Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

"Maybe you should check your spelling."Made me laugh pretty hard!

Don't get me started on "Bofa Deez etc."

"Bari Weiss" rhymes with "Edelweiss" the most National Socialist of flowers.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence

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A supervillain nevers gets cancelled, they just return in 12 issues to complain about it some more.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Bari: Senator Sinema, how wonderful to hear from you! Welcome to independence! We’re holding a management position for you in 2025.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Pogromatic.

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

I admit I was intrigued by "President of the University of Austin" so I went to their website uaustin.org to see if I could find a list of classes offered, or an "enroll" button, or even a application form. Maybe Georgi could help with my search? Because I couldn't find nothin'. Seems like "Undergraduate Curriculum" should say more than just "Intellectual Foundations Core" with the blanks to be filled in later, but I'm no University President, so what do I know?

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Making a tour through my Tiktoks so I can prune & establish my own "GM" feed to enhance the algorithm & bump up my engagement. So along the way, I find some gems,

Like this one:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRV1kGsx/

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Bari's an eeeendependent journalist? WTF does she do that's even tangentially associated with journalism? "Professional whiner", more like.

(Speaking of eendependent, I hear this morning that Kirsten Sinema is no longer a Democrat but an Independent, but she won't be caucusing with the GOP, either. Perhaps she will just sit in the cloakroom and fume.)

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Ignored Bari is the best Bari

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"By now you must have gotten the memo from Elon suggesting you respond to my invites."

Access journalism!

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

Elon and Bari need to design some uniforms.

I was in a call yesterday at an org I consult in where the acting exec was desperately trying to pretend she was running a safe place even though the previous exec was fired without cause and everyone knows the big guy is a randomizing moron. Nobody took the bait.

But this appears to be the case across all the clients I work with. Every senior randomizing moron sees Elon as his (almost exclusively the pronoun is "his") moment of vindication. "We don't need people who know what they're doing! Confidence is more than enough!" they tell their immediate subordinates, as real leaders always try to communicate. The ones who know better update their resume and the rest eagerly pile into the tram on the left side of the dunning-kruger curve for the ride up to the top of Mt. Stupid.

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@Roy, can we find you on Mastodon somewhere?

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Dec 9, 2022Liked by Roy Edroso

A most satisfying fantasia, but having spent too many years in a "largish" software company i know that cooperating with knucklehead projects and dysfunctional managers is a core competency for employees. True, Twitter is a more existential case than most, but the plan is the same: keep your head down, never volunteer, attend every meeting but say nothing, update your resume and start going out to lunch with friends at other companies. Other than whatever hired guns Elon has brought in, I'd bet a paycheck this is what who's left are doing. I'd talk Bari's ear off about the projects I was working on, and she'd never talk to me again.

In any case, their whole shtick is pretending the 1st Amendment applies to businesses, that's all they've got. It's so mind-bogglingly stupid we should try wrapping a towel around our head.

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