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Former Twitter Executive Blows Whistle on Company's "Negligent" Cybersecurity, Stating that It Lacks Even Basic Protections for User Data and Its Personnel Includes Foreign Agents

Oh -- and he delivers Elon Musk a big sloppy kiss by revealing that Twitter is unaware of the extent of its bot problem.

And he alleges that Twitter is deliberately unaware of the number of bots on the platform. It doesn't want to know the actual number, he says, because if it knew the actual number, it would be legally required to tell stockholders that number.

Or a would-be purchaser, like Elon Musk.


Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.

The disclosure, sent last month to Congress and federal agencies, paints a picture of a chaotic and reckless environment at a mismanaged company that allows too many of its staff access to the platform's central controls and most sensitive information without adequate oversight. It also alleges that some of the company's senior-most executives have been trying to cover up Twitter's serious vulnerabilities, and that one or more current employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service.

The whistleblower, who has agreed to be publicly identified, is Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, who was previously the company's head of security, reporting directly to the CEO. Zatko further alleges that Twitter's leadership has misled its own board and government regulators about its security vulnerabilities, including some that could allegedly open the door to foreign spying or manipulation, hacking and disinformation campaigns. The whistleblower also alleges Twitter does not reliably delete users' data after they cancel their accounts, in some cases because the company has lost track of the information, and that it has misled regulators about whether it deletes the data as it is required to do. The whistleblower also says Twitter executives don't have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to. Bots have recently become central to Elon Musk's attempts to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company (although Twitter denies Musk's claims).

Zatko was fired by Twitter in January; the company claims they fired him for "poor performance."

Maybe. Or maybe he didn't do what he was told and cover up all of the security problems and put a Happy Face Bandaid on them.


...

In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson told CNN that security and privacy are both longtime priorities for the company. Twitter also said the company provides clear tools for users to control privacy, ad targeting and data sharing, and added that it has created internal workflows to ensure users know that when they cancel their accounts, Twitter will deactivate the accounts and start a deletion process. Twitter declined to say whether it typically completes the process.

...

Some of Zatko's most damning claims spring from his apparently tense relationship with Parag Agrawal, the company's former chief technology officer who was made CEO after Jack Dorsey stepped down last November. According to the disclosure, Agrawal and his lieutenants repeatedly discouraged Zatko from providing a full accounting of Twitter's security problems to the company's board of directors. The company's executive team allegedly instructed Zatko to provide an oral report of his initial findings on the company's security condition to the board rather than a detailed written account, ordered Zatko to knowingly present cherry-picked and misrepresented data to create the false perception of progress on urgent
cybersecurity issues, and went behind Zatko's back to have a third-party consulting firm's report scrubbed to hide the true extent of the company's problems.

...

The scathing disclosure, which totals around 200 pages, including supporting exhibits -- was sent last month to a number of US government agencies and congressional committees, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The existence and details of the disclosure have not previously been reported. CNN obtained a copy of the disclosure from a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill. The SEC, DOJ and FTC declined to comment; the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a copy of the report, is taking the disclosure seriously and is setting a meeting to discuss the allegations, according to Rachel Cohen, a committee spokesperson.

...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the same panel's top Republican and an avid Twitter user, also expressed deep concerns about the allegations in a statement to CNN.

"Take a tech platform that collects massive amounts of user data, combine it with what appears to be an incredibly weak security infrastructure and infuse it with foreign state actors with an agenda, and you've got a recipe for disaster," Grassley said. "The claims I've received from a Twitter whistleblower raise serious national security concerns as well as privacy issues, and they must be investigated further."

Regarding bots:

Zatko says he began asking about the prevalence of bot accounts on Twitter in early 2021, and was told by Twitter's head of site integrity that the company didn't know how many total bots are on its platform. He alleges that he came away from conversations with the integrity team with the understanding that the company "had no appetite to properly measure the prevalence of bots," in part because if the true number became public, it could harm the company's value and image.

...

Twitter told CNN that the claim it doesn't know how many bots are on its platform lacks context, reiterating that not all bots are bad and adding that to focus on the total number of bots on Twitter would include those the company may have already identified and taken action against. The company also does not believe it can catch every spam account on the platform, Twitter said, which is why it reports its less-than-5% figure, which reflects a manual estimate, in its financial filings.

But Zatko told CNN he thinks there would still be value in attempting to measure the total number of spam, false or otherwise potentially harmful automated accounts on the platform....

Twitter says that it allows bots on its platform, but its rules prohibit those that engage in spam or platform manipulation. But, as with all social media platforms' rules, the challenge often lies in enforcing its policies.

The company says it regularly challenges, suspends and removes accounts engaged in spam and platform manipulation, including typically removing more than one million spam accounts each day. Twitter said the total number of bots on the platform is not a useful number.

The company declined to answer questions about the total number of accounts on the platform or the average number of new accounts added on the platform daily as context around its daily bot deletion figure.

But in casting doubt on Twitter's ability to estimate the true number of fake and spam accounts, Zatko's allegations could provide ammunition to Musk's central claim that the figure is much higher than Twitter has publicly reported.

All of this seems to have started well before Elon Musk ever began talking about the possibility of buying Twitter, so this doesn't seem like a set-up.

Musk's lawyer said he will be sending a subpoena Zatko to give evidence in his lawsuit against Twitter.

This might force Twitter to either end its lawsuit against Musk or, my preference, offer him a discounted price in the purchase.


Posted by: Ace at 01:29 PM




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1 My tin-foil theory is Musk is buddies with Dorsey and let him know where to hit the board so he can wrestle his company back from the brink... well, prob not, but it'd be a good story for once.

Regardless of what happens there, if half of this is true Twitter's going to have to start issuing the famous "we're not sure if this is really a going concern" notices.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2022 12:39 PM (ZGrMX)

2 You say that HERE?
/jk, don't ban me Ace.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (/NCI4)

Chuy at least does not get paid by advertisers per comment. I would bet ace cares more about traffic and clicks on articles over comments (although comments shows a level of engagement.) By the same token, how many recurrent commenters are there? 20? 30? No matter what, overall traffic dwarfs comments (and number of commenters.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:39 PM (dNqv+)

3 I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.

I was fine with five heads, but six is just bragging.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2022 12:39 PM (/NCI4)

4 and Allows Itself to be Penetrated by Foreign Hackers
—Ace

OOOoooh! Thign me up!

Posted by: Eric Swallowell at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (MFphb)

5 I always say that social media is a poison.


They found a way to hit the rewards center of people's brains to make them addicted.

I think a strong case could be made to ban social media for those under 18.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (ESjRY)

6 Did something just happen?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (/NCI4)

7 42 So is Elon Musk still buying this dumpster fire? I lost track.

He's not, and they're trying to sue him into buying it anyway (which is, frankly, bizarre). Musk can trivially get out of it if it's proven Twitter's been lying to shareholders and the SEC, which this whistleblower says is true.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (ZGrMX)

=========

I want him to be forced into buying it, but at a heavily reduced price per share due to a new evaluation. And then I want Musk to simply shut it down and burn the patents.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

8 Also, non-security experts at IT companies *really* don't want to hear about security problems. Especially if they hurt users rather than the company's execs.

Posted by: Ian S.
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That is the story of our society at this point in time. The higher ups in society preen for the camera but don't do their jobs. Essentially, many of their roles could be taken by an incompetent AI and no one would notice.

Posted by: whig at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (CXr4y)

9 27 I have never had any desire to use Twitter.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (AdGz1)

Me either. Even Gab, I kind of like some things you can do, but am not a huge fan of the format.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (dNqv+)

10 Nice tech you built there, Jack Dorsey.
*makes shake weight motions*

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (4I/2K)

11 Why yes, yes it did.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (/NCI4)

12 Well...time machine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

13 Test.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:40 PM (dNqv+)

14 As of 2020, there were 5,500 Tweeps (what Twatter employees call themselves.) What the hell are they all doing? Other than working on algorithms to massage what individual users see, and adding occasional features like giving users location based trends, what the hell innovations are they doing?

Of course, I know part of the answer is policing content, but Twatter depends on contractors and algorithms to do that. I'm wondering what the hell a Tweep does in their day to day duties.

Twitter is a basic API (Create, Read, Update, Delete, Like, Retweet, Quote Tweet, etc) with a well known data format. They couldn't hire a dozen security experts to lock down user data?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (eyxn4)

15 Ugh the memories. It took three weeks for me to be able to sit again

Posted by: Eric Shartwell remembering his Chinese spy at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (ESjRY)

Fang Fang was peg pegging?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (ZGrMX)

16 I don't use twitter, so my fuks are on the endangered list.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (QSjkU)

17 Ouch. Looks like a banned IP for me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (dNqv+)

18 Bots are like Monkeypox Pustules. They are irritating, smelly and covered in fag man chowder.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (J7wri)

19 Some enterprising techie zillionaire out there needs to launch "Shitter". Replete with toilet bowl logo. Messages to be called "Turds". DMs can be called BMs.

And of course, you Flush to delete the messages.

Teenage boys everywhere would flock to the app. Immature humor will find it's market, everytime. But the natural used base would HAVE to be "journalists". Because: ".. are you Shitting me?"

Why, yes. Yes they are. And we've known it for years.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (tkOps)

20 >>"penetrated by foreign hackers"


Sounds like a synopsis of a Stcey Abrams Novelette.

Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (LUyXH)

21 Uh, oh. The timeline is messed up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (dNqv+)

22 Something has infected the blog

Posted by: NCKate at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (2oJif)

23 "Experts on inauthentic behavior online"

I'm wearing an ironic T-shirt and I have 4 monitors behind me in my linked in picture. What more proof do you need?

Posted by: An Expert on inauthentic behavior online at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (ESjRY)

24 48 The @tits account has quite a few posts, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

"Must have an account."

Drat.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (KbCG3)

25 Oh, nelly. Looks like a primary key got eaten by one of the Hamsters.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (6FeV1)

26 Are we doing the time warp again?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (ESjRY)

27 Don't understand why anybody cares whether Twitter gets hacked. Worry about our satellites. You think the Chinks haven't figured out how to spoof our sat command telemetry? They're waiting for the right moment.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (qpX6U)

28 Oh noes, the comments are coming from inside the comments section again.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (Y5qcH)

29 Of course this is all deliberate. The social media "companies" dance to the tune of the govt .... because they're part of it. Every one of them were stood up and spun off by DARPA. So says someone who was "read in" on the TS programs.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (tQL7r)

30 I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2022 01:38 PM (AW0uW)

If I had six heads!!! Imagine what I could have done!!!

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (7bRMQ)

31 if the true number became public, it could harm the company's value and image.
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Twitter worrying about its image is like Hillary obsessing over the appearance of corruption.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (0HOXn)

32 He's not, and they're trying to sue him into buying it anyway (which is, frankly, bizarre). Musk can trivially get out of it if it's proven Twitter's been lying to shareholders and the SEC, which this whistleblower says is true.
Posted by: Ian S

They have to. Duty to shareholders and the matter of the $1 billion if he does back out. They need to sue to prove their estimate is correct and Elon is backing out in bad faith.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 23, 2022 12:43 PM (hwoGt)

33 Har, har! National security my ass! Twitter is a platform for tweeners and buttmunches.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2022 12:43 PM (iRfpu)

34 Hmmm, when this happens it is always interesting. Send your comments out into the aether, see where they end up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:43 PM (dNqv+)

35 I have never had any desire to use Twitter.



Back in the 70's, A&W Root Beer tried to compete with McDonald's Quarter Pounder.

They released a 1/3 lb burger. It failed because most people thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3.

This is why I don't argue with people on the internet. Present company excluded.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 23, 2022 12:43 PM (gUnY3)

36 Sen. Chuck Grassley, the same panel's top Republican and an avid Twitter user,
=====

"avid Twitter user." Uh huh. Chuck Grassley's lucky if he is able to use the bathroom, let alone Twitter.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 23, 2022 12:43 PM (IytoW)

37 So...we're gonna find out that the Chinese have a backdoor into the Twitter app and every phone with the Twitter app is functioning as a CCP information gathering tool, aren't we?

Up to and including government phones?

Good thing Farmville is safe!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 12:43 PM (ESjRY)

38 We're caught in a LOOP!

Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 12:43 PM (LUyXH)

39 Here we go

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 12:43 PM (0HOXn)

40 Uh oh. Server fell over, or there are too many FBI informants online slowing it down.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (hwoGt)

41 "Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy..."

The last two made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: Roy at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (hSmo9)

42 I Love This Blog.

Posted by: Toby Keith at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (LUyXH)

43 I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2022 01:38 PM (AW0uW)

If I had six heads, imagine what I could have done!!!

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (7bRMQ)

44 Hmmm.
The timestamps and ordering of comments seems to be rather random.

Posted by: Buddy at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (MFphb)

45 But can Twitter keep time?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (Y5qcH)

46 Is this stuck? smacks desktop

Posted by: BignJames at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (AwYPR)

47 I'm from the future....and I can tell you at MP4 is going to say social media is a poison.

Posted by: John Titor at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (ESjRY)

48 "Also, non-security experts at IT companies *really* don't want to hear about security problems."

They don't want to hear about anything that impacts budget, project deadlines, or infrastructure that needs to be replaced.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (qpX6U)

49 Uh oh.....did we do the time warp again?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

50 Number of real people on the platform is what ultimately drives its valuation. In fact, it drives everything in its business model. Ergo bots is an extraordinarily important number, especially if they are manipulating content along with Twitter content.

I'll give them $5 for the whole platform.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (S1S3K)

51 I think this is a new version. First comment is a reply to another comment in the same thread.

Novel ace, you keep us coming back with new things!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:45 PM (dNqv+)

52 Only platform I use is Anti-Social Media.

Oh, and AoS. There is a difference, however slight.

/s

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 23, 2022 12:45 PM (tkOps)

53 New Posts are at 42.


Pretty awesome.

Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 12:45 PM (LUyXH)

54 Its just a step to the left...

Posted by: Some mad scientist at August 23, 2022 12:45 PM (ESjRY)

55 So is Elon Musk still buying this dumpster fire? I lost track.

He's not, and they're trying to sue him into buying it anyway (which is, frankly, bizarre). Musk can trivially get out of it if it's proven Twitter's been lying to shareholders and the SEC, which this whistleblower says is true.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (ZGrMX)


It's much less bizarre if you believe you'll never get another offer this good ever again, and your company will be an abandoned dumpster fire in a couple years. If you believe that (and insiders would certainly have a reason to believe that), you want Musk's $40+ a share offer.

Posted by: Wally at August 23, 2022 12:45 PM (FJYfm)

56 Of course this is all deliberate. The social media "companies" dance to the tune of the govt .... because they're part of it. Every one of them were stood up and spun off by DARPA. So says someone who was "read in" on the TS programs.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (tQL7r)

Look up an article in Wired about the "shuttered" LifeLog program. The date of the article is the exact launch date of Facebook.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 12:45 PM (0HOXn)

57 A Suffusion of Yellow

Posted by: i ching calculator at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (LUyXH)

58 I see comments are borked.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (DRSnL)

59 I'm a bit lost in this new timeline format...

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (53oGX)

60 All we have to do is catchup to the old time and then we're good. It's like Back to the Future.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (Y5qcH)

61 I hope Twitter burns

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (XvPQV)

62 like how phone companies totes aren't aware of which calls are spam calls?

When India shut down for COVID I stopped getting spam calls.

What a coincidence.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (ESjRY)

63 I always say that social media is a poison.

I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2022 01:38 PM

Truth.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (RkC6l)

64 If I had six heads, imagine what I could have done!!!
Posted by: Ron Jeremy at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (7bRMQ)

Given yourself a sore throat?

Posted by: Buddy at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (MFphb)

65 First?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (fs1hN)

66 Elon's dad should have named him Musky Musk.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (M+Lyo)

67 44 Hmmm.
The timestamps and ordering of comments seems to be rather random.
Posted by: Buddy at August 23, 2022 12:44 PM (MFphb)

Yeah, it is kind of cool. Impossible to follow a thread. Just random ideas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:47 PM (dNqv+)

68 Same here MPPPP. Never used any of these things.

And, from the files of what you could never say on tv today-

stumbled on an old Matlock while flipping through channels, 'Matlock, he's a retard.' Then a bit about the backstory. I laughed. Dude was a retard.

Posted by: Infidel at August 23, 2022 12:47 PM (QgnTJ)

69 Why are new comments being added to the top of the comments section?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 12:47 PM (AdGz1)

70 66 Elon's dad should have named him Musky Musk.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (M+Lyo)

Frumunda Musk

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 12:47 PM (Y5qcH)

71 >>All we have to do is catchup to the old time and then we're good. It's like Back to the Future.


I'm surrounded by Morons!

Posted by: Dark Helmet at August 23, 2022 12:48 PM (LUyXH)

72 I see the blog has ventured off into Central Standard time... Welcome to the middle, horde.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 23, 2022 12:48 PM (53oGX)

73 Hey guys I'm on!

No one has noticed any weird time warping have you?

Posted by: The Large Hadron Collider at August 23, 2022 12:48 PM (ESjRY)

74 AoSHQ unveils its new Pre-Willowing Comment Technology.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 12:48 PM (qpX6U)

75 65 First?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (fs1hN)

Yeah! Maybe?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:48 PM (dNqv+)

76 And he alleges that Twitter is deliberately unaware of the number of bots on the platform. It doesn't want to know the actual number, he says, because if it knew the actual number, it would be legally required to tell stockholders that number.
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This would surprise me not in the least. You can't disclose what you don't know.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2022 12:48 PM (WWh8n)

77 Well, I see the numbering is fubar.

Posted by: Infidel at August 23, 2022 12:48 PM (QgnTJ)

78 Never let your Ewok have the keys to the DeLorean after midnight.

Posted by: spindrift at August 23, 2022 12:48 PM (h5TKJ)

79 Feb 4, 2004 12:00 PM

The Pentagon canceled its so-called LifeLog project, an ambitious effort to build a database tracking a person's entire existence. Run by Darpa, the Defense Department's research arm, LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read....

....

Researchers close to the project say they're not sure why it was dropped late last month. Darpa hasn't provided an explanation for LifeLog's quiet cancellation. "A change in priorities" is the only rationale agency spokeswoman Jan Walker gave to Wired News.

[Narrator: On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another.]

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 12:49 PM (0HOXn)

80 TJM got the exceedingly rare natural sponge for this thread.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2022 12:49 PM (6FeV1)

81 The company's executive team allegedly instructed Zatko to provide an oral report of his initial findings on the company's security condition to the board rather than a detailed written account, ordered Zatko to knowingly present cherry-picked and misrepresented data to create the false perception of progress on urgent cybersecurity issues, and went behind Zatko's back to have a third-party consulting firm's report scrubbed to hide the true extent of the company's problems.
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That's how all above-board companies that aren't engaging in cover-ups act, right?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2022 12:49 PM (WWh8n)

82 Twitter has bots, AoS had bugs.

Posted by: The Large Hadron Collider at August 23, 2022 12:49 PM (ESjRY)

83 "Well, I see the numbering is fubar."

Screwed up both the cardinals and the ordinals. Every comment should be numbered NaN.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 12:49 PM (qpX6U)

84 Pto Tip : Find the latest comment and use the link in the Comment Number.

Also, Cut and Paste your Comment in to Word and then import it back here.

Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 12:50 PM (LUyXH)

85 Why aren't my comments showing up?

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 12:50 PM (0HOXn)

86

Here, you hold the flashlight, I'll spread 'em.

Does that look like monkeypox to you?

Posted by: J. Dorsey, Esq. at August 23, 2022 12:50 PM (1xTle)

87 Ahhh, so the comments are actually presented by timestamp, not by number. Interesting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2022 12:50 PM (6FeV1)

88 Something funny going on in the post? Numbers keep changing.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 23, 2022 12:50 PM (7bRMQ)

89 > Twitter said the total number of bots on the platform is not a useful number.

In a sense, this is true. What you really want is much more granular information than that. How many accounts are directly run by a real person? How many accounts were initiated by a real person, but abandoned?
How many accounts are bot accounts that provide value to readers? Example: A bot that gives you a Founding Fathers quote a day, or a Bible scripture a day. How many accounts are bot accounts that are there simply to like and retweet famous accounts to pump up their numbers?

Without a bit more specificity, the question of which accounts are "bots" is not a terribly interesting question.

That said, of course Twatter should have good info on all of this. They're selling advertising to companies based on how many accounts are real people with real money to spend. If they inflate the number of eyeballs on ads, that's fraud.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (eyxn4)

90 All of this seems to have started well before Elon Musk ever began talking about the possibility of buying Twitter, so this doesn't seem like a set-up.
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And I wonder how much Musk knew before he big. My bet (probably unprovable) is that he knew before he even started acquiring shares or made the offer to buy out the company. The cost of shares he owns will be hurt by it, but he'd drive the price of the company down hard if he does want to acquire it or possibly destroy the company (or deal it a serious blow) if he just wanted to wreck it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (WWh8n)

91 Also, Cut and Paste your Comment in to Word and then import it back here.

I...hunger.

Posted by: The Barrel at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (ESjRY)

92 a Twitter spokesperson told CNN that security and privacy are both longtime priorities for the company.

That's good, I'm going to use that. Sobriety is a longtime priority for me.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (p+1gI)

93 59 I'm a bit lost in this new timeline format...
Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 23, 2022 12:46 PM (53oGX)

Silly conservatives- with our puny notions of linear time.

This is how Biden's brain works ALL the time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (dNqv+)

94 Something's amiss.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (ppBhU)

95 Ah, fun. Comment wraparound is the *best*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (WWh8n)

96 Also, Cut and Paste your Comment in to Word and then import it back here.
Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 12:50 PM (LUyXH)

That's just mean.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (DRSnL)

97 Good on him to have evidence and get it out to the world. Hopefully, they will beg Elon to buy them for about $100 and he responds with "LOLGF."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (4olE8)

98 Looks like another episode of Find the Latest Comment.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I think I have a skeleton inside me at August 23, 2022 12:51 PM (xPJvm)

99 11
Unfortunately, the security people at my company do seem to GAF and implement excessive, redundant (OK. I mean stupid) security policies.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (Hszs6)

100 offer him a discounted price in the purchase.



Two-fiddy

Posted by: DaveA at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (FhXTo)

101
"Must have an account."

Drat.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (KbCG3)


Huh. That's new. It didn't used to be the case last time I looked, anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

102 I make $88/hr online fucking up comments sections on blogs. Ask me how!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (hwoGt)

103 This business will get out of control. It will get out if control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (0HOXn)

104 "Twitter has bots, AoS had bugs."

It may not be bugs. Could be cyberattack, carefully timed to the topic. Could be a cosmic ray hit a RAM or CPU chip.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (qpX6U)

105 Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (AdGz1)

106 Hey guys, are we talking about penetration again?

Because boy do I have some stories to share from Man's Country

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (ESjRY)

107 This is worse than math.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 12:53 PM (UuD2k)

108 It'll be fun around 2:30 EST when the old and new comments start to interleave with each other

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2022 12:53 PM (6FeV1)

109 145 I have never had any desire to use Twitter.

I always say that social media is a poison.

I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.

Behold, while I quote this future comment . . .

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 23, 2022 12:53 PM (ppBhU)

110 >>> 25 Oh, nelly. Looks like a primary key got eaten by one of the Hamsters.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (6FeV1)

*burp*

Posted by: hamsters at August 23, 2022 12:53 PM (llON8)

111 @73 No one has noticed any weird time warping have you?

----

.nees ev'I sa raf os ,no gniog eb ot smees lausunu gnihtoN

Posted by: junior at August 23, 2022 12:53 PM (ZFIc9)

112 Did we hit 2^32 comments?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 12:53 PM (g1EEm)

113 147 The @tits account has quite a few posts, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

*perks up*

KBDaBear is also a treasure.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 23, 2022 12:53 PM (XvPQV)

114 I make $88/hr online fucking up comments sections on blogs. Ask me how!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 23, 2022 12:52 PM (hwoGt)

LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (DRSnL)

115 Unfortunately, the security people at my company do seem to GAF and implement excessive, redundant (OK. I mean stupid) security policies.

No security expert is getting fired for putting too many layers of red tape in.

But you can get fired for not doing so.

Leads to a bad set of incentives.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (ESjRY)

116 *test*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (llON8)

117 I agree with comment 382

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (0HOXn)

118

"Twitter told CNN"

LOL

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (XnbJC)

119 i changed the blog's time, maybe that screwed up the time for the comments.

Posted by: Chuy at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (B3oWe)

120 All you twits bewrong us.

Posted by: Archer at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (gmo/4)

121 I hope all involved lose. All!

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (ytSiK)

122 SSH into server, edit TZ environment variable, reboot.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (qpX6U)

123 It's that new middle-out compression algorithm.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (g1EEm)

124 and people are kind of >>>Lemmingish- if they see a bunch of people doing or saying something, they tend to repeat it. Which is a self feeding loop.

You say that HERE?
/jk, don't ban me Ace.
Posted by: Archimedes

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My first thought as well. I mean, have you met the Horde?? JK, Chuy 😉

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (tQL7r)

125 Yeah um IT guy may wanna consider some cyber security of his own..

Posted by: Commentor What Got a Shirt at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (EKM4/)

126 You know what this thread needs?

You know what I think this thread needs:

https://tinyurl.com/bdd7mfhk

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (dNqv+)

127 Pixxy just needs a Pikka Bird and a stampede of Perfectly Normal Beasts and he'll have this fixed up in a jiffy.

Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (LUyXH)

128 Well, after manufacturing cars and such for 100+ years, it seems Ford is tired and ready to go out of business. Get woke, go broke. Good riddance, bitches.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (QSjkU)

129 It'll be a while before this bitch get back to normal.

1:38 isn't for another 40 minutes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)

130 Ok in all seriousness is it even possible to tell the difference between a bot and a lefty NPC online?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (ESjRY)

131 119 i changed the blog's time, maybe that screwed up the time for the comments.
Posted by: Chuy at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (B3oWe)

Maybe?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (UuD2k)

132 Are we chasing the sponge into the next hour?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2022 12:56 PM (iRfpu)

133 Test?

Posted by: lowandslow at August 23, 2022 12:56 PM (qH6FZ)

134 Dr. Pixay, Dr. Pixay, emergency, come right away!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 12:56 PM (AdGz1)

135 127 ace said "penetrated by foreign hackers"
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:34 PM (g1EEm)

Chuy's been hanging around with Paulo

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 23, 2022 12:56 PM (XvPQV)

136 >Posted by: Chuy at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (B3oWe)


When did you go to?

Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 12:56 PM (LUyXH)

137 By my calculations, if we keep commenting for another 42 minutes, things will return to normal.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 12:56 PM (g1EEm)

138 [Narrator: On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another.]

The original version of The Facebook was a Hot or Not for Harvard coeds. All you could do was vote yes or no on pictures of females. Today, that would be the worst crime imaginable.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2022 12:56 PM (ZGrMX)

139 131 119 i changed the blog's time, maybe that screwed up the time for the comments.
Posted by: Chuy at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (B3oWe)

Maybe?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 12:55 PM (UuD2k)

HAHA!

*golfclap*

I think TJM's sponge comment is a good benchmark to work off of. The comment directly above it seems to be the most recent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:57 PM (dNqv+)

140 i changed the blog's time, maybe that screwed up the time for the comments.

Likely there is a different time tracking system in the system so the two are no longer aligned leading to...this

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2022 12:57 PM (ESjRY)

141 I could totally believe that all the trannies on Twitter are actual bots run by China or even Russia. So these people are having their kid's dick cut off because of a foreign intelligence operation to harm Americans.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 23, 2022 12:57 PM (QRdjz)

142 i changed the blog's time, maybe that screwed up the time for the comments.
Posted by: Chuy at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (B3oWe)

Verdad?

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 12:57 PM (DRSnL)

143 test

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2022 12:57 PM (QSjkU)

144 186

Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (nTU5+)

145 all right, we'll try to be witty next thread

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (XvPQV)

146 The original version of The Facebook was a Hot or Not for Harvard coeds.

Heh, I can just imagine some tranny scoring a perfect 0 and Zuckerberg getting thrown out of college

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (ESjRY)

147 I make $88/hr online fucking up comments sections on blogs. Ask me how!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
___

LOL

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (z6Z2i)

148 189

Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (nTU5+)

149 145 all right, we'll try to be witty next thread
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (XvPQV)

Well, there's a first time for everything. I guess.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (dNqv+)

150 test
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 23, 2022 12:57 PM (QSjkU)

Positive for COVID-19. Please report directly to the nearest Immolation Booth.

Stay safe!

Posted by: CDC at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (h5TKJ)

151 40 minutes....

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (g1EEm)

152 I agree with comment 382
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 12:54 PM (0HOXn)


LOL.

In what thread? This one ain't that far yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 12:59 PM (Zz0t1)

153 The blog is fartclamed up right now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 12:59 PM (AdGz1)

154 Well, there's a first time for everything. I guess.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (dNqv+)

BURN

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 12:59 PM (DRSnL)

155 Impossible to follow a thread. Just random ideas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

////

And here I thought that was one of the AOSHQ' perks every day.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 12:59 PM (tQL7r)

156 Stay for the bots and the leftists (but I repeat myself).

Don't stay for dissenting opinions from real people, cause we banned them

Posted by: Twatter at August 23, 2022 12:59 PM (cY9wR)

157 145 all right, we'll try to be witty next thread
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 23, 2022 12:58 PM (XvPQV)

Speak for yourself, pal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 12:59 PM (UuD2k)

158 Time to find something else to do until this gets fixed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 23, 2022 01:00 PM (7bRMQ)

159 I'm surrounded by Morons!
Posted by: Dark Helmet

////

Well, yeah. Comes with the territory. Moose put front should have told you.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 01:01 PM (tQL7r)

160 I have never had any desire to use Twitter.

I read some peoples twits but I do not have an account. Never will. I do have a truth social account though. Meh.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 23, 2022 01:01 PM (m7R0k)

161 158 Time to find something else to do until this gets fixed.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 23, 2022 01:00 PM (7bRMQ)

You can't mean...

Go outside?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 01:01 PM (dNqv+)

162 Musk knew.

Posted by: pawn at August 23, 2022 01:01 PM (kYVzH)

163 "Time to find something else to do until this gets fixed."

It's always 'better find something else to do' time around here, but the addiction is too powerful.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 01:01 PM (qpX6U)

164 A half hour to flatten the curve.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:02 PM (0HOXn)

165 Check Check Is this thing on?

Posted by: Rock n Roll Front Man/Commentor What Got a Shirt at August 23, 2022 01:02 PM (EKM4/)

166 In 28 minutes we will start to interleave.

8 minutes later we will break free.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:02 PM (g1EEm)

167 On the topic of social media, I have a bit of a personal story to share that illustrates how ingrained it is in a young person's life.

My sister and brother in law are very much against social media. Also, they have made it a rule they will have access to everything on their teenaged son's phone. I'm sure there are many people here who 100% agree with all that so far.

Unfortunately, that means that my late teens nephew is largely cut off from his friends. Not only do teens not call each other, they don't text either. All of his friends communicate over Instagram.

Yeah, it's stupid. Yeah, maybe he's better off without friends like that. But the reality is, it severely harms the poor guy's social life. They're all on Instagram talking with one another, and he's excluded.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 23, 2022 01:02 PM (eyxn4)

168 Twitter stock was around $52 when it appeared the Musk deal was solid -- it went down to around 36, today it is down 5% but still holding at 40.76.

For those buying at $52 thinking it was "free money" cuz they would sell at $54, the lesson is "no such thing as a free lunch".

Posted by: illiniwek at August 23, 2022 01:03 PM (Cus5s)

169 Opens up Twitter....

....it's full of bots!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 23, 2022 01:03 PM (BFigT)

170 >>In 28 minutes we will start to interleave.


Pro Tip : Stay away from your mom.

Posted by: Michael J Fox at August 23, 2022 01:03 PM (LUyXH)

171 I blame climate change.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 01:03 PM (AdGz1)

172 I never had a Twatter or a Facefuck account.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 23, 2022 01:03 PM (kDW7z)

173 Thousands of years from now historians will read this comment section and not know what the f'k is going on.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 01:03 PM (UuD2k)

174 "In 28 minutes we will start to interleave."

Better don our jimmy caps. Ace warned of penetrations.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 01:04 PM (qpX6U)

175 https://tinyurl.com/28pt4zfp

This one is titled 'busty jumper.' I do not think she is particularly suicidal, I think they are saying the tank top is a sweater- although I do not see how well it can keep you warm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 01:04 PM (dNqv+)

176 White hole. Spewing time. Engines dead.–

Posted by: 29Victor at August 23, 2022 01:04 PM (BJKQV)

177 Rant On

Why is any Republican giving an interview with CNN? Why would you trust them when they are a proven enemy of your party.

Rant Off.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 23, 2022 01:04 PM (m85Ms)

178 19 Some enterprising techie zillionaire out there needs to launch "Shitter". Replete with toilet bowl logo. Messages to be called "Turds". DMs can be called BMs.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 23, 2022 12:41 PM (tkOps)
----
Jim, you better copyright or patent this crap as it has merde .... I mean merit.

Posted by: what brilliant bullshit this is at August 23, 2022 01:05 PM (qfLjt)

179 Looks like Poppins is going to get the last word.

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2022 01:05 PM (Vr12I)

180 Yeah, it's stupid. Yeah, maybe he's better off without friends like that. But the reality is, it severely harms the poor guy's social life. They're all on Instagram talking with one another, and he's excluded.
Posted by: bonhomme

This is why I don't cut my kids off from social media. IG seems pretty benign. They use discord a lot too. None of them use FB or even SnapChat.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:05 PM (g1EEm)

181 I'm having deja vu over and over again.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 23, 2022 01:05 PM (Qhnrt)

182 Never tried Twitter. Dumb name. Offensive to backyard birds.

Posted by: Dr. I love children Nokoff at August 23, 2022 01:05 PM (4h9M3)

183 And he alleges that Twitter is deliberately unaware of the number of bots on the platform. It doesn't want to know the actual number, he says, because if it knew the actual number, it would be legally required to tell stockholders that number.

I do not believe there is one person here at the Q who hasn't stated this to be the case.

They had an obtuse model for their bot monitoring because they did not want to know.

Posted by: blaster at August 23, 2022 01:05 PM (6TxNR)

184 Twitter is the excuse CEOs and Governments use to do what they want to do with the facade of popular support.
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Manufactured facade via millions of bots.

There was that story the other day of some far-left group that was bragging about "placing" 2 billion impressions of left wing talking point over social media in just the last few months.

2 billion fake posts.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 23, 2022 01:05 PM (Zf0+a)

185 I saw Happy Face BandAid open for Jack the Ripper at Casino de Paris in '98.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 23, 2022 01:06 PM (hyqfe)

186 Hey this just in: Dog with Monkeypox was molested by a worker at a mobile dog groomer named Sniffylube..

Carry on that is all.

Posted by: Commentor What Got a Shirt at August 23, 2022 01:06 PM (EKM4/)

187 Site is acting strange.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 23, 2022 01:06 PM (kDW7z)

188 Us mere mortals can only screw up the text formatting or blow the margins. ace can shift the blog into a new time dimension.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 23, 2022 01:06 PM (hwoGt)

189 158 Time to find something else to do until this gets fixed.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 23, 2022 01:00 PM (7bRMQ)

You can't mean...

Go outside?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 01:01 PM (dNqv+)

Figure out when Interphase happens and get me the hell back in the Enterprise.

(who knows where this will show up)

Posted by: Capt Kirk at August 23, 2022 01:06 PM (7bRMQ)

190 Testing

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 23, 2022 01:06 PM (Qhnrt)

191 Which one has the ghost logo? Snapchat? That's what my son mostly uses instead of texts.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:07 PM (DRSnL)

192 I think this thread is going to be remembered right along with the time Ace banned himself from his own blog.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2022 01:07 PM (AW0uW)

193 In Which Elon Musk Buys Twitter Brand Ice Cream:

Step One:
EM - I will buy TBIC for $40/share.
TBIC - Boo!, you bastard! No, wait, yay! We'll take it
Step Two:
EM - Your ice cream is not made from any sort of dairy product but composed of cricket powder, dried white dog turds, and lark's vomit.
TBIC - No way! That's not true. And we want $40/share.

Step Three: ????????
Step Four:
EM - I'll give you a buck fifty for the whole thing
TBIC - We'll take it!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2022 01:07 PM (5NkmN)

194 224 I have never had any desire to use Twitter.

I always say that social media is a poison.

I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2022 01:38 PM (AW0uW)

I deleted my FB account years ago. I watch a few twitter posters but only if I can view them without an account (Jack Posobiec, Margot Cleveland, Mollie Hemingway, Jesse Kelly, Julie Kelly, etc.)

The world will improve greatly if social media died a quick and gruesome death.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 23, 2022 01:07 PM (N39Ws)

195 ....contact....

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:08 PM (g1EEm)

196 Again: use TJM's comment of 'sponge' to target off of. The comment above is the most recent. This is the first time ever his comments are relevant, so we should take advantage.

j/k

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 01:08 PM (dNqv+)

197 Some enterprising techie zillionaire out there needs to launch "Shitter". Replete with toilet bowl logo. Messages to be called "Turds". DMs can be called BMs.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim
___

I would actually use this.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 23, 2022 01:08 PM (z6Z2i)

198 Never had a account either

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2022 01:08 PM (k8B25)

199 sponge
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 01:30 PM (LvTSG)

Find this comment in the thread. New comments are above this one.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:09 PM (DRSnL)

200 196 Again: use TJM's comment of 'sponge' to target off of. The comment above is the most recent. This is the first time ever his comments are relevant, so we should take advantage.

j/k
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 01:08 PM (dNqv+)

========

*gonna mention Prometheus now*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 01:09 PM (LvTSG)

201 lolgf

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 23, 2022 01:09 PM (yHsuS)

202 So Twitter is a digital ENRON 2.0

Where's Paul Krugman?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 23, 2022 01:09 PM (4AWFU)

203 Testing

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 23, 2022 01:09 PM (Qhnrt)

204 The only social media I have is LinkedIn. I don't use it much and hopefully don't have to, ever.

It's really been ruined as they've tried to turn it into Facebook, which sucks. It was moderately useful at one point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

205
Find this comment in the thread. New comments are above this one.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:09 PM (DRSnL)


Because there is no thread, only Sponge.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

206 The only social media I have is LinkedIn. I don't use it much and hopefully don't have to, ever.

It's really been ruined as they've tried to turn it into Facebook, which sucks. It was moderately useful at one point.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

I keep getting emails that people are "noticing" me on LinkedIn.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:10 PM (DRSnL)

207 Huh?

My comment posted backward in time.

Ace's time machine's chronoinfindibulator is broken again.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 23, 2022 01:10 PM (5NkmN)

208 Publishing market data you know to be false, by using a method you know to be inaccurate, so that your market data looks better than it is......that might be more than simple civil liability.

Posted by: mikethemoose at August 23, 2022 01:10 PM (T/vhV)

209 A splash of greek vinaigrette can add zest to frozen pizza.

Posted by: Comment From Next Weekend's Food Thread, Unmoored From Time at August 23, 2022 01:10 PM (qpX6U)

210 This Chinese girl in a string bikini, which was made by slave labor, wants to know if Elon wants to party.

https://tinyurl.com/3ky3d2re

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 23, 2022 01:10 PM (m7R0k)

211 It's simple, really.

ALL 'social' media is currently designed to act in a similar fashion as heroin, rewarding your participation with a dopamine release from the brain. The designers fully admit to it and have no issues with it.

So the mindless clicking and scrolling is a heroin user looking for the fix. But it's also just like heroin in that it takes more and more to get the same affect after prolonged usage.

The why is the scary part. It's been subverted by the deep state in order to provide the same service the Ministry of Propaganda did for Hitler. Control the message, invent the truth and manipulation of the masses.

It is, IMHO, the most efficient, most effective tool for mass manipulation ever designed because people actively search it out and get addicted to the lies it tells them.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 23, 2022 01:11 PM (mE7cY)

212 We are replaying time.

Do not touch anything.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:11 PM (g1EEm)

213 Mass banning?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 23, 2022 01:11 PM (m7R0k)

214 Social Media rewards narcissism by Munchuasen Proxy

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 23, 2022 01:11 PM (4AWFU)

215
I keep getting emails that people are "noticing" me on LinkedIn.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:10 PM (DRSnL)


Yeah.

"Your profile is looking good!! You got 18 searches this week!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

216 Yo

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 23, 2022 01:12 PM (mE7cY)

217 KBDaBear is also a treasure.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 23, 2022 12:53 PM (XvPQV)

I think he, too, is a bot, or has become one. He never engages with the Horde in any substantive way, just drops his cheesecake and bugs out. Not complaining about the cheesecake, other than he uses Twatter to host it, but the non-engagement is troubling.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2022 01:12 PM (QTLJh)

218 How much twat could a botnet twit, if a botnet could twit twat?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 23, 2022 01:12 PM (yHsuS)

219 Round and round she goes
Where she stops nobody knows

Posted by: Commentor What Got a Shirt at August 23, 2022 01:12 PM (EKM4/)

220 Are posts not showing up

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 23, 2022 01:12 PM (mZ3xv)

221 >>> I make $88/hr online ****ing up comments sections on blogs. Ask me how!
Posted by: Cat Ass

////

Sarah, is that you?

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 01:12 PM (tQL7r)

222 The Blog shouldn’t have eaten those egg-salad sandwiches from 7-11.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 01:13 PM (AdGz1)

223 Has the blog slipped into a time warp?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 23, 2022 01:13 PM (4AWFU)

224 They should all be in prison for fraud.

They should all be in prison and in the poor house for violating securities regulations.

They should be penniless from share holder lawsuits.

They will not go to prison, they will not be fined, and most likely never personally pay a single dime in lawsuits. They played ball with the democrat-communist party and the deep state so they will skate... except for Leon down in accounting. Leon gonna pay big time.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 23, 2022 01:13 PM (u4CEu)

225 Brandon at to announce he's giving away your money to student loan deadbeats for votes in November. What he's doing as usual is unconstitutional. Only Congress can deal with those fiscal issues.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8v4y37

Posted by: Marcus T at August 23, 2022 01:13 PM (S1S3K)

226 Pelosi pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and causing injury on Tuesday, for which he technically received five days in jail - except that Judge Joseph Solga, a Gavin Newsom appointee, gave Pelosi credit for two days of actual time served and two days for 'conduct' credits.

The remaining day will be covered by an 8-hour work program.

Pelosi - who allegedly had a drug in his system and addressed officers with slurred speech before trying to slide them a 'police courtesy card' - will also have to participate in a 90-day drunk driving program, install an ignition interlock device on his vehicle(s), pay restitution of $1,700, and will be on probation for three years.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 23, 2022 01:13 PM (hwoGt)

227 Do not touch anything.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:11 PM (g1EEm)

Ah crap.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at August 23, 2022 01:14 PM (7bRMQ)

228 Holy shit! We've come full circle!

Crime in Los Angeles is so bad that a Beverly Hills boutique has actually banned face masks

That's the new reality at Kitson on Robertson Boulevard in Beverly Hills, where Ross has banned face masks out of concern for the "safety of our staff & assets of store," according to a sign posted in a front window.

https://bit.ly/3PON3pE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2022 01:14 PM (FVME7)

229 We're about to cross the streams in 16 minutes.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (iRfpu)

230 Pro tip: go to Madison's Sponge post and click refresh. You should stay on the latest comment

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (0HOXn)

231 Hey, the timestamps are messed up.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (ufFY8)

232 231 Hey, the timestamps are messed up.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (ufFY

========

I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (LvTSG)

233 Wtf

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (89T5c)

234 'ace said "penetrated by foreign hackers"'

Could be worse.

Posted by: Stuntwoman on She Hulk at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (pCXlW)

235 I could tell you how to find your comment, but you'd have to find this comment.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (g1EEm)

236 Pro tip: go to Madison's Sponge post and click refresh. You should stay on the latest comment
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:15 PM (0HOXn)

Dammit, I said that already.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:16 PM (DRSnL)

237
Pelosi - who allegedly had a drug in his system and addressed officers with slurred speech before trying to slide them a 'police courtesy card' - will also have to participate in a 90-day drunk driving program, install an ignition interlock device on his vehicle(s), pay restitution of $1,700, and will be on probation for three years.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 23, 2022 01:13 PM (hwoGt)


I know a woman in Texas that got over $18k when it was said and done and had to blow into the tube to start her car, a device that SHE had to pay for as a part of that total, for a year for her FIRST offense.

Must be nice to be part of that superior class........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

238 The bots ate my comment!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 23, 2022 01:16 PM (yHsuS)

239 'ace said "penetrated by foreign hackers"'

Could be worse

Posted by: Stuntwoman on She Hulk at August 23, 2022 01:16 PM (pCXlW)

240 "Kitson on Robertson Boulevard in Beverly Hills"

Sell the bling that thugs crave, then don't be surprised when they show up to steal it.

Posted by: Comment From Next Weekend's Food Thread, Unmoored From Time at August 23, 2022 01:16 PM (qpX6U)

241 including eliminating $10,000 in federal student-loan debt for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year, the people said.

So if you used your loan to get a degree which lead to a high paying job, you get punished by paying the full amount. If you scraped and sacrificed to pay off your loan, you are screwed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 23, 2022 01:17 PM (hwoGt)

242 I'm waiting for the first major company that advertised on Twitter based on faulty "views" (due to bots) to file a civil suit. The fact that it hasn't yet happened just goes to show you how entrenched the left is in corporations.

But, all it will take is one bold company with nothing to lose. Discovery would be interesting if the judge assigned has the least bit of integrity.

Posted by: Orson at August 23, 2022 01:17 PM (yxpCs)

243 >>>I changed the blog's time, maybe that screwed up the time for the comments.
Posted by: Chuy

////

That's sweet of you to take the blame, Chuy. TBH, I'd just let it go-- they're on a roll!

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 01:18 PM (tQL7r)

244 All comments are timestamped as ECT.

Eastern Chuy Time

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2022 01:18 PM (6FeV1)

245 So the SEC is just like the three monkeys.

Posted by: torabora at August 23, 2022 01:18 PM (EeUOj)

246 Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
If so, I can't imagine why

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 01:18 PM (UuD2k)

247 I keep getting emails that people are "noticing" me on LinkedIn.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:10 PM (DRSnL)

You're the Kamala of LinkedIn

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:19 PM (0HOXn)

248 See! I told you this blog doesn't know what time it is!

Posted by: blaster at August 23, 2022 01:19 PM (6TxNR)

249 This usually works.

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at August 23, 2022 01:19 PM (qpX6U)

250 *tries to think of how boobs can help*

Our love of boobs can cross the barriers of space time and bring us all together.

https://tinyurl.com/yv969wby

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 01:19 PM (dNqv+)

251 I see Mr. SanFranNan got 3 years of probation for his DUI...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2022 01:20 PM (bs+z0)

252 Where am I?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 23, 2022 01:20 PM (J0u6U)

253 If the Feds are paying off past student debt, what does that mean for new students? Are they going to just pay it upfront?

Posted by: blaster at August 23, 2022 01:20 PM (6TxNR)

254 Are we in an Escher picture now?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 01:20 PM (AdGz1)

255 10 mins to event horizon.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 01:20 PM (UuD2k)

256 Twitter blows.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2022 01:20 PM (sVtYq)

257 This gives me an idea for a movie.

Posted by: Christopher Noloan at August 23, 2022 01:20 PM (g1EEm)

258 So I see Mr. Pelosi got 3 years probation for his DUI/ crash

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2022 01:21 PM (bs+z0)

259 Dammit, I said that already.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:16 PM (DRSnL)

I said it better.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:21 PM (0HOXn)

260 Hello ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2022 01:21 PM (bs+z0)

261 https://tinyurl.com/yv969wby

In the movie "Drive," Nicholas Winding Refn managed to stuff that whole booty into the tightest jeans since "River of No Return."

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at August 23, 2022 01:22 PM (qpX6U)

262 Hello ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 23, 2022 01:21 PM (bs+z0)

Is it me you're looking for?

Posted by: Lionel Ritchie at August 23, 2022 01:22 PM (7bRMQ)

263 I said it better.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:21 PM (0HOXn)

WhatEVER

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:22 PM (DRSnL)

264 Weird

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 23, 2022 01:22 PM (9qSw/)

265 It's always 'better find something else to do' time around here, but the addiction is too powerful.
Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan

////

Yes, we have that trouble around here as well. Must be a contagion.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 01:23 PM (tQL7r)

266 Twitter is best understood as a competitive AI chat bot and ideological warfare space. Anyone who's peeked "behind the curtain" knows it's a hollow platform, but it's the best one they've got for the time being.

The best part is watching formerly conservative pundits selling their souls for all those artificial likes and retweets. Ten times as much "positive" engagement for switching sides, but it's all an illusion.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 23, 2022 01:23 PM (bM7vb)

267 Sooner or later, your past catches up with you.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:23 PM (g1EEm)

268 WhatEVER

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:22 PM (DRSnL)

What really happened was I didnt NOTICE you.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:23 PM (0HOXn)

269 I always say that social media is a poison.

I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.

--

It has accelerated (greatly, I think) societal decay in just about every way imaginable. Social media is pure human rot.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2022 01:24 PM (sVtYq)

270 I said it better.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:21 PM (0HOXn)

WhatEVER
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 01:22 PM (DRSnL)


It's ok. You said it HOTTER, Jordan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

271
What really happened was I didnt NOTICE you.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:23 PM (0HOXn)

You shoulda woke up and smelled the bacon, Trippa Dot

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 23, 2022 01:24 PM (7bRMQ)

272 Six minutes until thread impact.

Please place the mask over your nose first, then help others with you.

Posted by: blaster at August 23, 2022 01:24 PM (6TxNR)

273 spot-on, gp

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 23, 2022 01:25 PM (+eXoW)

274 The fact that Twatter is for sale is proof it's a monopoly.

Posted by: torabora at August 23, 2022 01:25 PM (EeUOj)

275 It's ok. You said it HOTTER, Jordan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm going to actually take this as a compliment. And I'll need those TPS reports by 5:00.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2022 01:25 PM (0HOXn)

276 >>> I do not believe there is one person here at the Q who hasn't stated this to be the case.

They had an obtuse model for their bot monitoring because they did not want to know.
Posted by: blaster

////

Hate to admit it, but actually I've never stated that. But I'm fairly certain that I'm the only one.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 01:25 PM (tQL7r)

277 @277: "So...we're gonna find out that the Chinese have a backdoor into the Twitter app and every phone with the Twitter app is functioning as a CCP information gathering tool, aren't we?"

Backdoor? No, not quite, not in the strict programming sense. Do they have human assets working inside Twitter who have full access to databases including private messages? You betcha. Same goes for all the social media platforms.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 23, 2022 01:26 PM (bM7vb)

278 I can quit social media anytime I want.
I quit three times last week.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 23, 2022 01:26 PM (J0u6U)

279 Soon:

Parag Agrawal Youngman: Take my Company Please!

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2022 01:26 PM (Z32m1)

280 Weird things are happening with comments. Or is it just me?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2022 01:26 PM (sVtYq)

281 "spot-on, gp"

Are you a Refn fan too? Milo for President 2024.

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at August 23, 2022 01:27 PM (qpX6U)

282 Twitter is best understood as a competitive AI chat bot and ideological warfare space. Anyone who's peeked "behind the curtain" knows it's a hollow platform, but it's the best one they've got for the time being.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 23, 2022 01:23 PM (bM7vb)

Kind of what I was thinking. Gulag serves up the preferred search results, giving the impression that that is all there is to the conversation. Twitter/Facebook give the impression that such positions have popular acceptance. Both are lies. They have achieved MSM status in a list of ne'er-do-wells that have a reckoning coming.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 23, 2022 01:28 PM (yHsuS)

283 Just a reminder: ace/chuy (Gesundheit!) totally does not have a time machine.

Posted by: blaster at August 23, 2022 01:28 PM (6TxNR)

284 Brace yourselves for an 8 minute clusterfuck.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2022 01:28 PM (iRfpu)

285 Wanna worry about cybersecurity? SCADA.
Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 01:38 PM (qpX6U)

Two words and two universal passwords for one system:

Otter Tail

Posted by: rd at August 23, 2022 01:28 PM (Z32m1)

286 >>>>Again: use TJM's comment of 'sponge' to target off of. The comment above is the most recent. This is the first time ever his comments are relevant, so we should take advantage.

j/k
Posted by: Aetius451AD

////

I snorted

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 01:28 PM (tQL7r)

287 Weird things are happening with comments. Or is it just me?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2022 01:26 PM (sVtYq)

What do you mean? They seem fine to me.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 23, 2022 01:28 PM (yHsuS)

288
I've never understood why Musk wanted to buy Twitter. Did he really want to? Maybe he did. I simply don't see a future in it. The only people who care about Twitter are middle-aged twits. Do you know any teenager who thinks Twitter is hot stuff? Yes, I said hot stuff.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at August 23, 2022 01:29 PM (Cgo1x)

289 I have never had any desire to use Twitter.



Back in the 70's, A&W Root Beer tried to compete with McDonald's Quarter Pounder.

They released a 1/3 lb burger. It failed because most people thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3.

This is why I don't argue with people on the internet. Present company excluded.
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace

That's pretty funny !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2022 01:29 PM (T4tVD)

290 Ok guys, when we exit the turnstile, do not look at the other comments...

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:29 PM (g1EEm)

291 ONE MINUTE UNTIL THREAD IMPACT!

BRACE!

Posted by: blaster at August 23, 2022 01:29 PM (6TxNR)

292 sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 01:30 PM (LvTSG)

293 Twitter is the excuse CEOs and Governments use to do what they want to do with the facade of popular support.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

294 hat trick!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

295 The Bots are gonna be outraged.

Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 01:32 PM (LUyXH)

296 "The claims I've received from a Twitter whistleblower raise serious national security concerns as well as privacy issues, and they must be investigated further"
Well, yeah, and them reps are just the guys to do it eh?

Posted by: MkY at August 23, 2022 01:32 PM (cPGH3)

297 Gotta be true...Twitter sez so.

Posted by: BignJames at August 23, 2022 01:32 PM (AwYPR)

298 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

299 Uh-oh, Grassley's gonna investigate further. That should put the fear of God in 'em.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2022 01:33 PM (/NCI4)

300
I'm inclined to believe he was fired for saying something. Security experts at IT companies have a surprisingly brittle, DGAF attitude in my experience.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 23, 2022 01:33 PM (IXpV7)

301 obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.


Uh, it's not so exclusive if multiple media outlets have access, bruh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

302 So...we're gonna find out that the Chinese have a backdoor into the Twitter app and every phone with the Twitter app is functioning as a CCP information gathering tool, aren't we?

Up to and including government phones?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 01:33 PM (LvTSG)

303 One wonders if Musk already knew all this, and was just giving Twitter enough rope to hang itself.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2022 01:34 PM (/NCI4)

304 One thing that always gets missed in my opinion: in the short term, bots are good for twitter. They show activity and people are kind of lemmingish- if they see a bunch of people doing or saying something, they tend to repeat it. Which is a self feeding loop.

The question really is: are they intentionally injecting bots into the system, just using them, or just glad the bots are there?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 23, 2022 01:34 PM (dNqv+)

305 ace said "penetrated by foreign hackers"

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:34 PM (g1EEm)

306 8 Uh-oh, Grassley's gonna investigate further. That should put the fear of God in 'em.
Posted by: Archimedes

Grassley's too busy doing Pence reach arounds to bother himself with another fake investigation.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 23, 2022 01:34 PM (m7R0k)

307 Twitter is filth.

Posted by: democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973 at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (jV+aN)

308 ...Twitter is unaware of the extent of its bot problem.

Intentionally unaware. Fully aware of what they have to not look at to stay unaware.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (c86jt)

309
ace said "penetrated by foreign hackers"
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:34 PM (g1EEm

Better than being penetrated by foreign retards, I suppose.

Posted by: Fang Fang (I hate this job) at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (IXpV7)

310 The question really is: are they intentionally injecting bots into the system, just using them, or just glad the bots are there?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

#3. The illusion of engagement.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (g1EEm)

311 One thing that always gets missed in my opinion: in the short term, bots are good for twitter. They show activity and people are kind of lemmingish- if they see a bunch of people doing or saying something, they tend to repeat it. Which is a self feeding loop.

You say that HERE?
/jk, don't ban me Ace.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (/NCI4)

312 Parag Agrawal should be trebuche'd into the ocean wearing a fresh meat suit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

313 Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com
@JordanSchachtel
Be skeptical. They pulled the same nonsense with the "Facebook whistleblower," who was acting as an agent of the intel community to pursue a massive power grab on behalf of the state.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (BJKQV)

314 Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com
@JordanSchachtel
·
1h
Replying to
@JordanSchachtel
The "whistleblower" worked for Pentagon, DARPA, specifically on its cyber program. A clear case if ive ever seen one.

I would bet the house that he's a spook.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (BJKQV)

315 But foreign hackers could be here as illegals

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (j3bQd)

316 I have never had any desire to use Twitter.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (AdGz1)

317 17 ...Twitter is unaware of the extent of its bot problem.

Intentionally unaware. Fully aware of what they have to not look at to stay unaware.
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (c86jt)

Twitter's Sgt Schultz: "I know nothing!"

Posted by: Thrawn at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (Rl7KJ)

318 This is right up horndog Musk's alley. CCP probably provides him with all the Asian poontang he wants. He'll look the other way.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (m7R0k)

319 17 ...Twitter is unaware of the extent of its bot problem.

Intentionally unaware. Fully aware of what they have to not look at to stay unaware.
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 23, 2022 01:35 PM (c86jt)

========

Well, except that they made promises to Elon Musk during their negotiations over the purchase, as well as in filing to the SEC, that it was no more than 5%.

Hey...remember when Sarbanes Oxley required CEOs to be legally liable for any misstatements in government forms?

Yeah...that was pretty neat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (LvTSG)

320 My tin-foil theory is Musk is buddies with Dorsey and let him know where to hit the board so he can wrestle his company back from the brink... well, prob not, but it'd be a good story for once.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (53oGX)

321 So is Elon Musk still buying this dumpster fire? I lost track.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (DBrN4)

322 I'm inclined to believe he was fired for saying something. Security experts at IT companies have a surprisingly brittle, DGAF attitude in my experience.

Also, non-security experts at IT companies *really* don't want to hear about security problems. Especially if they hurt users rather than the company's execs.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (ZGrMX)

323 Chuy makes a post about Twitter without a single Twitter embed.

Way to andar, Chuy. How am i supposed to bitch about Twitter embeds now, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (6FeV1)

324 ace said "penetrated by foreign hackers"

It's not as much fun as you'd think.

Posted by: Hope Solo's Globetrotting Squeakhole at August 23, 2022 01:36 PM (AW0uW)

325 and that one or more current employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service.

Remember when Russia buying some facebook ads was the greatest crime in human history?

Pepperidge Farms does.

Also...err anyone with out Dementia.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (ESjRY)

326 and Allows Itself to be Penetrated by Foreign Hackers
--------

Sign me up!!!

Posted by: Don Lemon at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (0HOXn)

327 WILL NO ONE RID ME OF THIS MEDDLESOME TWATTER ???????

Posted by: Henry II, King of England, France, etc, etc at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (8KSPd)

328 like how phone companies totes aren't aware of which calls are spam calls?

Posted by: NCKate at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (2oJif)

329 Twitter . . .Allows Itself to be Penetrated by Foreign Hackers

The Paolo is all about, how you say, cybersecurity!

Posted by: The Paolo at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (4I/2K)

330 The @tits account has quite a few posts, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

331 So is Elon Musk still buying this dumpster fire? I lost track.

He's not, and they're trying to sue him into buying it anyway (which is, frankly, bizarre). Musk can trivially get out of it if it's proven Twitter's been lying to shareholders and the SEC, which this whistleblower says is true.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (ZGrMX)

332 ace said "penetrated by foreign hackers"

Ugh the memories. It took three weeks for me to be able to sit again

Posted by: Eric Shartwell remembering his Chinese spy at August 23, 2022 01:37 PM (ESjRY)

333 "Company's "Negligent" Cybersecurity,"

Every company I ever heard of.

"a chaotic and reckless environment at a mismanaged company that allows too many of its staff access to the platform's central controls and most sensitive information without adequate oversight."

Typical IT job.

Wanna worry about cybersecurity? SCADA.

Posted by: Check Out gp's Rehoboth Beach Tan! at August 23, 2022 01:38 PM (qpX6U)

334 "Experts on inauthentic behavior online"

Not a thing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 23, 2022 01:38 PM (Y5qcH)

335 I have never had any desire to use Twitter.

I always say that social media is a poison.

I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2022 01:38 PM (AW0uW)

336 Twatter, like Fakebook, will be gone in 4 years. The short attention span set will move on to something shinier and newer.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 23, 2022 02:29 PM (flINI)

337 Today is Joe Biden’s 93rd day on vacation for just this year.

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Nice work if you can get it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 23, 2022 02:29 PM (FVME7)

338 Does Ace also have a weather machine?
(Cue Twilight Zone music)

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 23, 2022 02:29 PM (J0u6U)

339 'ace said "penetrated by foreign hackers"'

There is a tranny in this cell block named Ivan Drago

Posted by: Brittney Griner at August 23, 2022 02:30 PM (z9V4B)

340 It's ok. You said it HOTTER, Jordan.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

Thank you, Sponge!

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 23, 2022 02:30 PM (DRSnL)

341 Okay, there's weird shit going on with the comments.

Comments numbers are going up as old comments get added after the fact upthread; exact opposite of what usually happens with previous comments being deleted and comment numbers going down.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 23, 2022 02:30 PM (bM7vb)

342 I was talking about SCADA "security" actually

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 23, 2022 02:30 PM (+eXoW)

343 hello?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 02:30 PM (g1EEm)

344 ♫ Agrawal's song

Agrawal works in the Twitter store / Savin' his pennies for some day
Papa Elon left a note on the door / He said "Sonny move out of the country"
Ah but working too hard can give you
A heart Parag, ag, ag, ag, ag, ag,
You ought-a know by now
Who needs a CCP hack attack? / Is that all you get for your money?

Elon says it's a waste of time / If that's what it's all about
Man if that's movin' up then I'm movin' out

Posted by: Muldoon at August 23, 2022 02:30 PM (kXYt5)

345 TOUCHDOWN!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

346 >>>>IG seems pretty benign. They use discord a lot too. None of them use FB or even SnapChat.
Posted by: quantum mechanic

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Lots of kids wouldn't be caught dead on FB or SnapChat. Because both FB & SC been taken over by ol' people.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 02:31 PM (tQL7r)

347
I certainly hope people turn against social media. It's devastated our society already, and we can't go back from what it's done, but it would be nice just for people's individual well-being if they #WalkedAway from the brain plantation.

I don't see it happening, though. People love them some digital heroin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 23, 2022 02:31 PM (IXpV7)

348
Comments numbers are going up as old comments get added after the fact upthread; exact opposite of what usually happens with previous comments being deleted and comment numbers going down.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 23, 2022 02:30 PM (bM7vb)


Blog changed to the best time zone on earth. Central time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

349 That was not what I was expecting.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 23, 2022 02:31 PM (g1EEm)

350 NOOD

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 23, 2022 02:32 PM (yHsuS)

351 Now it's back to that Eastern shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 23, 2022 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)

352 "I was talking about SCADA "security" actually"

Ah, thanks! But, watch Refn's 'Pusher' Trilogy, and tell me we shouldn't run Milo for prez.

Posted by: gp's Nood-Stimulating Comment at August 23, 2022 02:32 PM (qpX6U)

353 Whew, are we out of that vortex?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 23, 2022 02:32 PM (sVtYq)

354 @348: "Blog changed to the best time zone on earth. Central time."

Agreed on the best time zone, but it looks like the comments are still timestamped one hour ahead in eastern.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 23, 2022 02:32 PM (bM7vb)

355 >>> I always say that social media is a poison.

I used to be looked at as if I had six heads. I find that these days more and more people are agreeing with me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

////


I've heard that before, just recently.

Posted by: Prime Sister at August 23, 2022 02:34 PM (tQL7r)

356 Read quite a few articles how social media has talked kids into the transgenderism craze

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2022 02:36 PM (k8B25)

357 30
If I had six heads!!! Imagine what I could have done!!!

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (7bRMQ)
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Sorry Ron, not enough blood nor hydrostatic pressure for all 6 heads.

Posted by: Ron Jeremy's Heart at August 23, 2022 02:48 PM (qfLjt)

358 357 30
If I had six heads!!! Imagine what I could have done!!!

Posted by: Ron Jeremy at August 23, 2022 12:42 PM (7bRMQ)
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Sorry Ron, not enough blood nor hydrostatic pressure for all 6 heads.

Posted by: Ron Jeremy's Heart at August 23, 2022 02:48 PM (qfLjt)
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There's a photo somewhere of Ron arriving at some airport and a bunch of women greet him, on their knees and bowing to the King. He does look surprised at the prank and I liked it.

Posted by: Ron Jeremy's Heart again at August 23, 2022 02:51 PM (qfLjt)

359 84 Pto Tip : Find the latest comment and use the link in the Comment Number.

Also, Cut and Paste your Comment in to Word and then import it back here.

Posted by: garrett at August 23, 2022 12:50 PM (LUyXH)
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As I am a relatively new user/commenter would you kindly/cruelly explain that Word statement above as to what it does?
Also what to do with the link (from the top sentence).

Posted by: If you only had a heart .... at August 23, 2022 03:05 PM (qfLjt)

360 356 Read quite a few articles how social media has talked kids into the transgenderism craze

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2022 02:36 PM (k8B25)
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If soc. med. had simply been a vehicle for all that malarkey it would have been excused, but no, it actually employs people to promote that crud.

Posted by: Ciampino - If you only had a heart .... at August 23, 2022 03:12 PM (qfLjt)

361 ”test”

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 23, 2022 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

362 14
Of course, I know part of the answer is policing content, but Twatter depends on contractors and algorithms to do that. I'm wondering what the hell a Tweep does in their day to day duties.
----
So on Shitter these people would be shitting on the job then?

Posted by: Ciampino - floaters and sinkers at August 23, 2022 03:44 PM (qfLjt)

363 Take out the bots, and the *hitshow he described can be said oh 80% of all companies doing b2c transactions that fall outside of PCI transactions.

IT culture talks a good game about security, but in no way wants to pay for fixing it. That’s what drove leadership to keep the data away from the business.

Posted by: Dave at August 23, 2022 06:05 PM (CJ3Po)

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