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Re:Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky? by insane_dreamer on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:36PM (#42267136)
I used to like Musk pre-Twitter, but he's turned into such an immature person -- or maybe he always was and now can just flaunt it without consequences.

Being immature is fine if you're alone in your basement hacking away, not when you have the power to single-handedly control the (formerly) most useful digital public square in the world, and use it to your own political ends.

Re:Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky? by p_j_w on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:23PM (#42267467)
Do you mean pre-Twitter buyout or pre-Twitter presence?

If you mean pre-buyout then I have bad news for you: Musk has been baselessly calling people pedophiles since at least 2018.

If you mean pre-presence then I have bad news for you: If you only liked someone before they were really expressing themselves, you probably never actually liked them.

Re:Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky? by insane_dreamer on Thursday November 28, 2024 @03:00PM (#42268170)
I meant pre-buyout. I guess I hadn't heard much about his personal antics before then; mostly just knew of his achievements with Tesla, SpaceX, and admired him pushing the auto industry towards EVs (kicking and screaming, but they had no choice because Tesla posed an actual threat where no EV company had ever done before).
Re:Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky? by waveBidder on Thursday November 28, 2024 @03:12PM (#42268255)
He should've been banned from Twitter for his own mental health years ago. Dude should've just stuck to building rockets and stopped trying to get into the culture war.
Re:Who Is Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky? by bryanlarsen on Thursday November 28, 2024 @01:57PM (#42267699)
"Never meet your heroes" is from Madame Bovary which was written in 1857. With Twitter we can meet all our heroes.