The great Twitter cleaning has begun

[DKTanker]

33 minutes ago, Murph said:

That is what I was thinking with the phrase "Gold Digger", the K family seems to have made it into an art form.  None of them a real, they are all silicone and surgery.  

Lessons learned from their father, the late Robert K who leached off OJ for decades.

[Murph]

22 minutes ago, DKTanker said:

Lessons learned from their father, the late Robert K who leached off OJ for decades.

Yes, a man who made the law a lucrative profession with only a faint acquaintance with the truth.

[Ivanhoe]

2 hours ago, Angrybk said:

Most great musicians/writers/artists are mentally ill. I really think the Shaman dynamic is a thing.

Actors, for sure. Very damaged people on average.

Kinda like psychiatry; the study of the id by the odd.

 

[Murph]

15 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

Actors, for sure. Very damaged people on average.

Kinda like psychiatry; the study of the id by the odd.

 

Every psychologist/Psychiatrist I have ever met, I thought they were completely nuts.  

[Rick]

7 hours ago, Murph said:

Every psychologist/Psychiatrist I have ever met, I thought they were completely nuts.  

Except for one, a gentleman in his eighties, I agree.

[Markus Becker]

Something serious for a change:

https://nypost.com/2022/12/03/who-is-matt-taibbi-journalist-behind-hunter-biden-twitter-files/

 

 

 

[DKTanker]

Apparently the FBI still has their dick beaters where they don't belong.  That is until Elon fired Jim Baker.

 

[Ivanhoe]

31 minutes ago, DKTanker said:

 

Exited? Hell, he was de-platformed!

[Ivanhoe]

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/12/06/breaking-matt-taibbi-drops-more-information-on-the-twitter-files-and-exposes-an-attempted-cover-up-n669840

 

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As Taibbi notes, the next installment of the “Twitter Files” is being led by controversial (as in she makes the right people upset) reporter Bari Weiss. Apparently, while she was working on her part of the effort, she discovered that someone on the backend was curating what was being released. When she inquired about who it was, she discovered it was none other than James Baker.

Baker is a name many people who read RedState will likely recall. He was at the center of the Steele Dossier and was part of the FBI regime that tried to bring down Donald Trump via the “Russian collusion” hoax. Naturally, he left that post to take a high-paying job as chief counsel for Twitter because government hacks who toe the line always have a path to the private sector.

It appears that Baker was trying to mitigate the damage of the “Twitter Files” with some kind of attempted cover-up. According to Musk, his explanation wasn’t satisfactory, and that led to his ouster. With Baker gone, the release of the files should now continue unabated. I have a feeling Weiss is going to produce something really good with her research.

 

 

[Murph]

James Baker a typical FBI criminal just moved on to a bigger paycheck.

[nitflegal]

8 hours ago, Murph said:

James Baker a typical FBI criminal just moved on to a bigger paycheck.

I understand it logically but it still makes my head spin that the leftist activists have been so ready to embrace those that they railed against.  I know many apparently sincere leftists and I think they were being honest when they demonized the CIA/FBI/etc a decade ago and are just as sincere when the very people they hated are now totally acceptable to them.  It's really just weird. . . 

[Stargrunt6]

2 hours ago, nitflegal said:

I understand it logically but it still makes my head spin that the leftist activists have been so ready to embrace those that they railed against.  I know many apparently sincere leftists and I think they were being honest when they demonized the CIA/FBI/etc a decade ago and are just as sincere when the very people they hated are now totally acceptable to them.  It's really just weird. . . 

They went on and on about COINTELPRO and what the CIA did in the 3rd world.  Now they are fans of them. It's all odd really.

[NickM]

57 minutes ago, Stargrunt6 said:

They went on and on about COINTELPRO and what the CIA did in the 3rd world.  Now they are fans of them. It's all odd really.

Well to be honest,  many on the right were OK with COINTELPRO when it was used against black militants. I'm sure the left will simply have 'fung shway' about the same tactics being used against the right.

[DKTanker]

Finally the next installment of the Twitter Files has been released.

 

[rmgill]

I want to see 18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242 applied.

Civil Rights Conspiracy Statute - Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree to injure, threaten, or intimidate an individual in the free exercise or enjoyment of his or her constitutionally protected rights.

Deprivation of Rights under the Color of Law - Section 242 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law, including acts done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, as well as acts done beyond that authority, if they are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his or her official duties.

I want to see people in prison for this shit. This, at the behest of government, with false allegations of Russian influence, at the behest of law enforcement? I am sorry, this is beyond the pale. I want to see FBI agents who were involved in this do a perp walk, I want to see them charged and thrown out of their jobs, offices and pensions. 

Edited December 9, 2022 by rmgill

[Murph]

It will never happen as long as the left controls the (in)Justice department.

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[nitflegal]

Hey, I just wanted to check.  When Musk terminated a majority of the Twitter workforce we were all confidently told by experts that Twitter was a ticking timebomb and would be dead in days or maybe a couple of weeks.  Is Twitter still online and functional?

[DKTanker]

Is Twitter still online and functional?  As of right now, yes.  With the the current release of files, on Twitter, showing FBI involvement with Twitter to suppress, censor, and in some cases pushing fantasy narratives, the end of Twitter might occur at any moment.

 

[Ssnake]

1 hour ago, nitflegal said:

When Musk terminated a majority of the Twitter workforce we were all confidently told by experts that Twitter was a ticking timebomb and would be dead in days or maybe a couple of weeks.

Well, it seems to be what IT professionals call "a pretty darn complex infrastructure". It can sputter on on inertia, it can break down. The longer it keeps going the greater the chances that those still on board will get a handle on the situation. But there is no health bar on a server. You just don't know if a combination of factors may trigger a cascade of failures in the next few minutes, weeks, or months.

The few people who have an overview about the system as a whole are probably too busy to make predictions. The potential for failure is there, like in every technical installation. The more complex systems become, the more fragile they tend to be. Maintenance and monitoring requires people that know what to look for. Maybe they are still on board, maybe they went. If they went, those who are still there will eventually learn what's going on. It's those few weeks where you're moving at high velocity while blindsided that are cause for concern.

 

At the end of the day, of course, it's just Twitter ... and someone else's billions that are at stake. Honestly, if it imploded tonight we'd all probably be just fine.

[Josh]

2 hours ago, nitflegal said:

Hey, I just wanted to check.  When Musk terminated a majority of the Twitter workforce we were all confidently told by experts that Twitter was a ticking timebomb and would be dead in days or maybe a couple of weeks.  Is Twitter still online and functional?

I believe on this board the general consensus was months of operating until a problem, with a high likelihood that there was a smooth enough transition for platform stability if they made it to the one year point without a major incident.

[rmgill]

6 hours ago, Ssnake said:

 But there is no health bar on a server.

Umm. Yeah there is. Monitoring of server class sytems tells you the health of multiple CPUs, memory, drives, PSUs, fans.  Not a bar so much as a set of lights, but green/amber/red status is certainly a facet of HP iLO and Dell OME monitoring. 

6 hours ago, Ssnake said:

You just don't know if a combination of factors may trigger a cascade of failures in the next few minutes, weeks, or months.

I doubt the pink haired interns who were pressing the shadow ban buttons were the ones ALSO keeping the lights on. Tater and Not Fredo didn't know the first thing about the server infrastructure in my data centers let alone the TGR spaces that made their news programs possible. 

I think musk knows how to run an IT stack. Twitter isn't flying to orbit then landing back where it launched with a suicide burn. 

[Ssnake]

1 hour ago, rmgill said:

Umm. Yeah there is. Monitoring of server class sytems tells you the health of multiple CPUs, memory, drives, PSUs, fans.

Yeah, for the hardware. But you don't know if the code that the server executes may have a problem, until there is a problem. And I agree, firing 50% of the staff in a social media platform type of company isn't a big problem if you fire the right 50%. Whether their target discrimination was so good, we'll see. Obviously, every day passing with the lights still on increases their chances of making it.

[Tim the Tank Nut]

from a technical point of view each day increases their chances but from a political view I can't imagine that the FBI is going to take the firing of their house shill without a reaction.

Weiss is a bulldog for this type of reporting.  It remains to be seen how long before Twitter has an "accident".

[glenn239]

12 hours ago, Josh said:

I believe on this board the general consensus was months of operating until a problem, with a high likelihood that there was a smooth enough transition for platform stability if they made it to the one year point without a major incident.

What would be the effect of Apple deplatforming Twitter?  Would it end Twitter or would this break Apple's monopoly has half the country pitched their I-phones?