3256

It seems to me, that whatever happens, Musk will learn nothing. He’s like Trump in that way.

3257

King of Suck Balls Mountain is a pretty fitting title for Musk…

3258

Perhaps you’d be interested in a pillow that wraps around your head instead? Something bespoke to your particular noodle, let’s call it your My Pillow?

3259

No thanks. I can chop up surplus foam rubber and stuff it into a cheap pillowcase myself. :p

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There’s nothing to learn, since it’s someone else’s fault. A conspiracy by Radical Leftists to take him down. Radical Leftists within Twitter looking to sabotage him. Government keeping him down, etc.

3261

The question is, whether the NEXT Twitter revolution will be live tweeted.

3262

I’m starting to think that these Leftists are not nice people.

3263

I would imagine that one of the things Musk is imagining for Twitter 2.0 is to forklift it onto a commercial cloud provider. Doing that alone would probably justify halving the engineering staff.

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80% of the remaining staff didn’t leave. Of the 3500 remaining after the first layoff, the Washington Post estimates that the number remaining is between 2,000 and 2,500. Still very likely too small…but it’s not 600 either.

3267

But running on someone else’s machines doesn’t sound very hardcore?!

More seriously, Twitter has already been running projects to replace their home-grown infrastructure with commodity solutions, for I think like half a decade. Actually, project is too small. These migrations are massive programs. And that’s when they employed the people who understood the existing systems. If this was the goal, Musk has just set it back by years; this is not happening with a skeleton crew.

And I’m sure that part of why they’ve been doing that was to have an option to turn down their own DCs if it starts to make financial sense. They’ve been on that path for a long time: e.g. Twitter been running increasing parts of their analytics and offline storage on GCP since 2018. And here’s the kicker: when the deal closed and Musk was demanding $1 billion / year in reduction in infrastructure costs, it was widely believed to involve reducing the cloud spend, not increase it.

3268

They are definitely at the scale of needing to run their own DC for cost reasons.

3269

A former astronaut named Karen has since posted that she was the OG Space Karen. Wish I could find the Tweet.

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I don’t think this has been posted yet. RSS feed if you want to follow along.

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Here it is:

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Musk-owned Twitter was always going to be a force for regression, no matter how many liberals spend the majority of their waking hours on it. Get off the platform and stop helping him, some free unsolicited mental health advice to whom it may concern. (Just my 2c)

3274

Wait, does he mean on twitter, or as president???

3275

Yes.