LoL!  Look up NUMMI!

From the movie Hoffa!

Bobby: First thing: "fire every one of these cocksuckers."

Hoffa: "You're gonna can a lot of people, make sure you do it on the first day. That way, the ones that are left don't feel insecure, you see. What they feel is grateful." That's a sad view of how people tick.

Bobby: But true.

The name of this game is, “pay attention to me”.  Twitter will ultimately win.  The attention whores can’t help themselves.  Negative attention is better than principled objection.

The same goes for the advertisers.

A friend worked for Ernst Young and developed and anti- fraud algorithm which he then marketed and sold for EY.  Ended up a partner VP fairly soon after.

I dont do much on twitter but made sure to give you a follow man for what its worth

It will be interesting, & probably impossible to prove without the help of the blue checks that paid the extortion fee, to see where it goes & how long it has been going on.

With supposedly 400K Blue Checks @ even $10K/ is 4Billion worth of fleecing.

Oh my…


This popped into my head right away.

You know that if they're corrupt like that, they'd have no hesitation to sell your personal information for a dox attack too. Or to shadowban you if you upset someone important, rich or politically connected.

I'm kind of in the boat that short of flushing the entire Twitter swamp, it can't really be fixed.

Elon Musk says Twitter Blue is a piece of shit



Tesla Owners Silicon Valley: In never before seen footage Elon Musk talks about Twitter Blue in our interview back in May 2022. This is in relation and gives more clarity on his intentions with the Twitter Acquisition.

I wouldn't say "shocked or surprised". Everything had been stewing for quite a while; coordinated lapdog journalists driving a narrative, cancelling and doxxing, and the fake push for feminism and diversity.  Nor did it seem to me, at the time, that "gamers" were politically unaware. Politics was something that was largely checked at the door.

If "gamers" were forced into anything, it was fighting to keep politics and cultural warfare out of gaming. Which was ultimately unsuccessful. Mainstream society would get introduced to that cancer just a short time later.

I’m really starting to like this musk guy.

If I upload a video of just me talking, it will most likely make it through the AI monetization review within 20 minutes or so. If it includes police body cam footage, which a lot of my videos do, it will come back demonetized after the AI review, almost 100% of the time. Because the AI knows that if I'm including body cam, it must show someone getting arrested, beaten, etc. ,etc. Then I have to move to the second layer of review, supposedly by humans. Meanwhile the video has already been uploaded and "unlisted". Because you have to make sure its monetized before you hit publish. Or else you don't make any money off it, it doesn't go viral, because YT doesn't make money off it, and may end up needing to be modified or deleted if it still gets demonetized.

Recently I found out that for channels of a certain size, they have a third internal review process that is more personalized. This is how some of the firearms channels are able to monetize videos that the AI and even human reviewers will attempt to cancel.

As far as the live streams go, they may monetize it to begin with, but will still run their AI over it after the fact and demonetize or restrict it. Last one I did got restricted to over 18 b/c it had some violence in it.

Dispensing w/ all that bullshit would be fantastic. Currently facebook will instantly monetize my videos with very little censorship. And they pay better. I'm going to spend more time there if this keeps up. But from what I've heard, they still do give gun stuff a hard time. But they are pretty okay with police videos so far.... They did put a restriction on my last one, but still kept it monetized.

You slip the H1B dude/dudette $15,000.

This was documented years ago by some journalist.  I remember reading the article where he went through the process.  
You know a guy who knows a guy.  Go to the yuppy party in SF or LA.  Pay the people their money.  Its been so long ago, but I seem to remember the amount being $12K.  The next day you got your blue check mark and a ton of bot accounts following you and propping you up.

Its probably been 6yr since I read that little article.

This bears repeating.  It is applicable to ANY JOB during a recession. Treat the break room like it is infected with a deadly virus. Be on time, go for a brisk walk during your lunch hour, don’t drink 24 hours prior showing up for work, get at least 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep before coming to work, develop a passion for accomplishing the task, use the restroom prior to getting to work or after work, smile, be polite, dress professionally, and keep your head down. If you do these things you won’t get kicked off the island.

No mention of a blue check. $4.99?? Is this not the new thing he’s offering?

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Twitter Blue has been around for a while.

What I've read sounds like he will be rolling it into verification as well, meaning that it will be replaced by a new plan that includes verified status in addition to the other benefits. And that doing so will be the only way to display a verified checkmark.

Jesus Christ, what kind of fucking horrible work environments have you worked for? Fuck all that noise.

Major corporations that employ adults.  This isn’t the 7th grade.  When the cuts come down, the company keeps the most effective employees.  You choose whether you want to be kicked off the island.

We're going to have to agree to disagree, I have more respect for myself than to follow half that list. Results are what matter and if you don't produce results you should expect to be shitcanned.

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No. It means you don’t really produce and your only claim to fame is I show up everyday and don’t poop on company time.

Known plenty of those. They are the first to go.

I agree to some extent with the principal there but not to that extreme.

Show up on time do your job well know when to bite your lip and most of that other shit is irrelevant

Yeah you don't wanna show up late tired with a hangover and then spend an hour taking a shit and look like trash while accomplishing nothing...

I refer to the shock and surprise of the early over-reaction from virtually all the gaming press, all coming out uniformly. Do you remember the day when they virtually all had front top of website/print "the gamer is dead" ? The gamers I saw who were talking about it were taken aback that the gaming press could be that self destructive.

That was, from my not so close following, the intial first public declaration of "war to the knife, no quarter."  After that the next big thing was when the mainstream media all piled on. It is my belief that gamers until that time *as a whole group* were not politically aware *as gamers,* specifically because "politics was checked at the door."  Being younger, they were as a group also not on the whole very politically astute. I mean they didn't even know what the real functional positions of the viable sides were, and they especially didn't (and still, imo) know the intellectual/ideological roots that drove politics.   They got forcibly dumped into the gladiator arena of politics *in gaming* unwillingly.

As for who won and who lost, I don't think that's really clear cut. Neither side has managed to force the other from the political arena. The sleazy devs and journos didn't manage to make all the evil gamers shutup and toe the line, and the gamers did not manage to run the stupid leftists and neo-marxists out of gaming journalism and development. Both sides are now more open and willing to take up their lines of battle and shoot at each other now, with the miserable no-fun left/neo-marxist inquisitors playing the side of the evil establishment.

Gamers as a whole know these people are miserable and want to force their misery on everyone, but they still don't understand, for instance, how critical theory of anything is a key part of this mess, or how marxism with economy taken out and (genuinely anything else the left wants to destroy) put in drives the stuff.  The establishment inquisitors don't understand how they can't get everyone to agree with them and they don't understand how the gamers can so easily mock them in ways that get right under their skin and hurt their feelings and ego.

We have an established gladiator pen now. I think this is one reason why indie game development is much more of a thing now, because some of them just ... want to make something fun, that THEY want to play for fun, and share that with others.

Which is what gamers were trying to preserve and keep these dreadful jerks from ruining in the first place with their bigoted politics and hatred of gamers and gaming.

It's not hard to pick up that the rebellion and outsider group is now ... anyone not leftist.

It'll take time to see if musk is tapping into that or if he's starting to understand *and believe* in any conservative principals.

Given personal experience, I tend to think it's more of the first, not the second. We'll see.

Firing people for eating lunch is a bad look

Fuck your island, lol

I know Rumble is tiny in comparison but how does their monetizing work compared to the others?  It looks like you have to potential to earn from day one. I have videos there and they show as monetized but nobody has really watched them.

While, on a whole, your assumption of age group is somewhat correct.

However, there is a VERY large subset of the adult population that are gamers in the 30-50yr bracket that we grew up with Atari & NES systems. We have moved on as platforms came & went. We brought our children into that hobby as well, hundreds of millions of us world wide in all.

It was largely us parents that noticed the direction, & falsity of honest reviews, of new titles.

Our biggest push back was against BF’s blatant wokism. I’ve played the BF EA games from Medal of Honor days. I played with a lot of other adults & we talk in-game about this stuff. It doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

We, as parents, also control the purse strings of what we, & our kids, buy. We let them know how we feel about their crap games by not buying & playing them. That is or regardless of what some bought & paid for reviewer has to say.

Multimedia has opened the door for legitimate gamers to review & share honest opinions of gameplay of titles. If they try to blow smoke up our ass & we find them lacking they lose credibility & viewership.

I am personally not on the outside looking in on gamergate, I, & my kids, & their parents & friends, my very own neighbors, were part of it.

My first gaming console was an NES and before that I played homebrew ascii dungeon crawlers on an ibm 8088 with a green monochrome screen and dual floppy drives. I've been politically aware and fairly informed for a long time, and I guess I could say for my age, I was so from middle school on up. We are basically in the same shieldwall together in that right.

I cut my teeth having political and social discussions on a gaming community forum, and the interactions I had there and what I saw elsewhere are how I came by my opinions about GG; that's why I was careful to say "as a whole." The parents pay for the games, but it's the kids who make up the lions share, or that's how it classically was.

*fistbump.*

eta: I distinctly remember thinking to myself how the GG stuff was going to force the gaming community as a whole to become politically aware and that gamers would come out as some sort of odd hybrid mashup, politically.

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Be the hardest worker, stay away from the break room, eat at your desk while working,
be dedicated and serious, and you will most likely be the last to be laid off.

For real, it works.

Start another thread. This attitude is only taken by people who offer zero value other than “I show up”

It’s a sign of supreme incompetence and produce nothing. So scared to lose their job they rely on “showing up everyday” as the only thing they have to contribute.

All other things being equal.

Why that needs to be pointed out is beyond me.

Start your own thread.
Being the hardest worker, and being seen as the hardest worker keeps you from getting laid off in hard times, period.
Worked many high level jobs in hard times?

Which one am I going to fire?
The person I see working hard at their desk all the time, or goofing off in the break room all the time?

Sounds like you're spoiled by good bosses.

You mean like rumble and odysee?

"Being seen as" is the problem, and why bad management often favors poor employees over productive ones.

Joe Sixpack shows up to work half an hour early every day, but spends that time drinking coffee and reading the paper, then spends the last hour of each day "cleaning up", and always leaves right on time, regardless of how work work there is left to do. He is somehow viewed as the model employee for merely showing up early every day, and his actual productivity is rarely, if ever, factored into this perception.

Meanwhile, another coworker doesn't start work until 9:00 am, but always stays an extra hour or two late every day making sure everything is done before they leave, and their productivity is twice what Joe Sixpack's is. Even though they are the better employee, they are looked down upon because bad managers only see them coming in "late" every day, and never see the additional hours they put in after the manager leaves for the day.

I've personally seen this situation play out multiple times.

Employees should be evaluated on actual productivity, not perceived productivity. Merely being present for work should never be the determining factor in evaluating this, but often is.

I'm guessing Elon already knows who's doing the actual work, and who's just putting in hours to appear like they're working. Those who show up early just to stand around drinking coffee should be worried, and rightfully so.

Those who are productive, regardless of how they are "being seen as", are often very confident in their position because they know their productivity speaks for itself.

With all things being equal usually.  Often times they are looking to fire the most expensive employees.  

What's far more important is proving your value to the company.  Many times management doesn't track individual contribution to the company.  As an employee if you have a way to do so.  Constantly remind your employers of your value.  

I paint cars at custom shop.   I keep track of the job costs and my productivity myself.  I constantly remind the owner of howuch money I make them and I get raises when other people get canned.   The biggest factor in tight times is being essential and irreplaceable.  Being a model employee is second place to that.

Kathy Griffin was making a ton of fake posts while impersonating Elon Musk. Impersonation remains a violation of the TOS. She f’d around and found out. pic.twitter.com/EOfemitKbP

Ian Miles Cheong  (@stillgray) November 6, 2022

This is how it works.

You have 3-5 guys at top magazines like LA weekly , forbes, business insider, USA today and similar magazines who are "Journalists" who will only write "high quality, well researched articles" and name-drop you into them. Once you reach a threshhold of about 4 publications, you can then submit yourself to Twitter/IG/FB/Etc for the verification process.

Not everyone at twitter/etc are bribed, but some certainly are, in order to get you to the top of the pile for verification. SOMETIMES you can directly pay someone at these social media companies the $10k-$15k bribe, but usually the easy way is to find someone at a major publication who will take the money.

In my inbox right at this moment I have 10 different guys at different, large magazines asking for between $997 (Lowest) and $3997 (highest) for pay-for-journalism articles.

Fun fact, the ONLY company out there that doesn't play this game is google : You get 50k or so followers on Youtube, then you submit you phone #, driver's license and like a recent utility bill, or some piece of mail that ties you to a physical address you claim, once you do that, there's nothing else as you have THEIR green check mark, but it isn't the "blue verified badge" as google doesn't do it.

edit : arfcom won't let me link/post an image, but here's a screenshot to one of my many proposals from a verified, obviously fake IG account : http://knowledgeglue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot_20221106-173941_Instagram.jpg

And the recursive feedback loop continues.

All they have to do is enforce the existing rules and restrictions equally, and the problem will soon fix itself.

I looked up NUMMI. Thanks for sharing. Guess we will see in a year.

Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended

Elon Musk  (@elonmusk) November 6, 2022

I see no issues with that policy. I'm somewhat surprised it hasn't been policy already.

@Shockergd

This seems really interesting. Maybe it is worthy of your own thread? Usually I really don't give this kind of stuff any thought as I really don't care that much but you might know some interesting information on the seedy underbelly of the internets others would be interested in reading about.

I personally reported it. She even stole his childhood picture for her image.

She fucked around and found out.

What about “Pierre Delecto” type accounts? Lol