Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through

[CastletonSnob]

Twitter's about to get even worse.

Twitter has reportedly refused to pay its Google Cloud contract

More platform instability could be in Twitter’s future, with the company reportedly refusing to pay Google for the Cloud services contract the two signed in 2018.

www.engadget.com

 

[bluegate]

Burn all that money away Elon, do it.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Burn all that money away Elon, do it.

You can't say he's not giving it his all!

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Our very smart and stable free speech advocate has decided that "cis" and "cisgender" is a slur and has begun using code to automatically regulate it...the code for regulating nazi hate speech in Germany

 

[Ag3ma]

Our very smart and stable free speech advocate has decided that "cis" and "cisgender" is a slur and has begun using code to automatically regulate it...

Firstly, fascinating decision for a "free speech advocate". Secondly, fascinating sense of priority given all the shit that goes down on that platform.

If this is really even true, what do you reckon the chances are it gets reverted within 48h?

 

[thebobmaster]

Firstly, fascinating decision for a "free speech advocate". Secondly, fascinating sense of priority given all the shit that goes down on that platform.

If this is really even true, what do you reckon the chances are it gets reverted within 48h?

It seems to be true, as per Elon Musk himself, unless this is a fake.

 

[Asita]

Firstly, fascinating decision for a "free speech advocate". Secondly, fascinating sense of priority given all the shit that goes down on that platform.

If this is really even true, what do you reckon the chances are it gets reverted within 48h?

I mean, I can sort of see it if I squint hard enough. I've certainly seen "cishet" being pronounced as "cis-shit", and even defined by the speaker as "a shitty het", but that was probably a good dozen years ago when people weren't used to seeing the term and were treating it as slang rather than proper categorization. Even then, the prevalence of that bastardization was questionable at best.

Never mind that even a quick jaunt to wikipedia would show that trying to make an algorithm around the word "cis" would be stupid. You've got at least three cities by that name, a mathematical function, a beetle, a chemisty concept (from which the terminology is derived), a genetic concept, a musical note (C#), and a slew of acronyms. "Sorry, CIS National Football Team! You're not welcome on Twitter!"

 

[Silvanus]

Never mind that even a quick jaunt to wikipedia would show that trying to make an algorithm around the word "cis" would be stupid. You've got at least three cities by that name, a mathematical function, a beetle, a chemisty concept (from which the terminology is derived), a genetic concept, a musical note (C#), and a slew of acronyms. "Sorry, CIS National Football Team! You're not welcome on Twitter!"

Not to mention the Separatist organisation in Star Wars (Confederacy of Independent Systems), and the Eurasian defence alliance (Commonwealth of Independent States).

 

[Thaluikhain]

a chemisty concept (from which the terminology is derived)

Was it? Cisalpine Gaul and Transalpine Gaul were terms used millennia ago.

 

[Asita]

Was it? Cisalpine Gaul and Transalpine Gaul were terms used millennia ago.

Perhaps it would have been more accurate of me to say that they have a common etymology.

 

[Satinavian]

"cis" is just latin for "here on this side (of X)" and "trans" is latin for "there on the other side (of X)". That is why both are in countless compound words, proper names, texts, etc.

Ok, trans is in more words ( transport, transfer, transission, Transsilvania, Transoxania, ...) because there is more demand to describe interaction with the other place instead of your own. But Cis is still pretty widespread.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

It seems to be true, as per Elon Musk himself, unless this is a fake.

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Won't someone please stop the oppression of the safe, protected majority?!

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Absolutely massive "I'm not straight I'm normal" energy, and just as pathetic

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

The man is a genius of legend I say!

 

[Thaluikhain]

Who were these "many" who expected that and why should we take them seriously?

 

[Bedinsis]

Welp. Whenever I visit Twitter now, it requests that I log in in order to actually see any content.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Making social media as insular as possible is never a good sign

 

[Chimpzy]

 

[Absent]

Whatever the rules, I just love the fact that they change three times a day.

 

[crimson5pheonix]