Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data

Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by parkingrift on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:01AM (#31704909)

I agree. I don’t know what his motivations were or are. This whole thing about not accounts is even more ridiculous when you consider that Musk was tweeting about not accounts in January. Elon Musk knee bots were a problem before he made an aggressive acquisition maneuver, and knowingly waived his rights.

But people keep telling me this guy is a genius. I guess I’m not smart to understand his level of thinking.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by shrimp_emoji on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:06AM (#31704974)

>But people keep telling me this guy is a genius.

That's just hero worship, like with Jobs; there's zero evidence to believe he's Einstein or Feynman or Knuth (which I would say are legit "geniuses").

He's a smart guy with a South African emerald fortune.

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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by blagie on Saturday June 11, 2022 @06:51PM (#31709257)

I tend to look at track records. Jobs started Apple, Pixar, and came back to fix Apple 2.0.

That's three unicorn-grade successes. Within those, he had similar streams of successes, like OS-X and the iPhone.

That's genius.

Two footnotes:

- I'm not sure genius is a good reason to worship someone or treat them as a hero; it's to me, it's more about what you do with that genius. For example, Hitler was a genius speaker, and Stalin was a genius administrator. Many geniuses I've met are not-nice people.

- Jobs had one major failure: NeXT. NeXT was still pretty brilliant, even if it didn't do well in the market.

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