Today in Musk Twitter: The Poll is Invalid

[solarbird]

So Elon lost his own poll, nice, nice, and a strong majority (57-43) said he should step down as CEO. There was some speculation that this was his intent, because he said at one point earlier he wouldn't be CEO long term, he'd hand it off - but no, he seems mad, and all his alt-right buds like Kim Dotcom have been goosing him with "it was Democrat and Deep State Bots" all day.

And now, also taking a suggestion from some fanboy, he's decided that only paid bluecheck votes - meaning, people who already like him - should get to vote. So the vote is invalid and he wins anyway.

If that sounds awfully familiar to how they want government elections to go, congratulations, you have found the plot.

Also, he's been chatting today with overt white nationalists about how immigration is bad, supporting their viewpoints. Apartheid Clyde gonna Apartheid, clearly.

In short, it's really, really time to leave Twitter.

Meanwhile on Mastodon, the artists have started to show up, and there's been a minor kerfluffle from some of the Mastodon Police bitching at them for promoting their work in their own toots. The cops have been told to fuck off. Some of the art is pretty good, too. Furries are making it over, photographers have already been around but it's definitely picking up. I've never seen a photograph of fireworks like this before.

Comments

[kathmandu]

I'm mildly surprised he lost the poll, only because I figured he could use his swarms of hired bots to tilt the results of any poll in his favor. I thought for sure it was just a way of drawing attention to the planned handover. Maybe it was, but he's still ego-hurt that people rejected him.

[dewline]

I didn't trust to the outcome and I voted for him to resign anyway.

Yeah, he's ego-hurt. I don't care. He's earned the rebukes.

[arethinn]

some of the Mastodon Police bitching at them for promoting their work in their own toots

...promoting yourself in your own space is considered a faux pas?

[solarbird]

As I said, the (would be) Mastodon Cops have been told to fuck off, so not generally, no. But there was a cluster on one particular server of... how should I put this... excessively Usenet people... who push back against anything whispering of commerce.

And given the experience of Usenet I can understand why, but still. No.