Monkeyshines

Musk isn't a reliable narrator. But this isn't implausible. Yoel Roth made clear in his oped that App Store reviewers frequently raised questions/concerns re moderation/content in the pre-Musk Twitter era and that it was always clear that continued access was part of the ... https://t.co/DbcSfnwfdE

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 1, 2022

The only narrator of this story has been Elmo. Apple never announced it was banning Twitter from its App Store, or even considering removing it. And Apple hasn’t commented on this meeting with Elmo. So everything we know about this story, from soup to nuts, is from Elmo.

And Elmo isn’t an unreliable narrator.

No truth to Apple stopping their advertising on Twitter:https://t.co/FDePJ4SLnn

No truth to Apple removing Twitter from the app store:https://t.co/548xWdu6zg

Elon Musk is just full of shit.

— Pithy Quips (@PithyQuips) December 1, 2022

He’s a liar.

Comedy IS legal. pic.twitter.com/tsuk9rg43p

— RSchooley@socel.net (@Rschooley) November 30, 2022

As Orwell said, sometimes the hardest thing to see is what is right in front of your nose. As Paul Simon said: “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”

And, of course, you can’t fix stupid.

"Exactly" pic.twitter.com/5QKRdeGN18

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) December 1, 2022

I’ve read that statement six times, and it still makes no more sense than a speech by Herschel Walker. He doesn’t say what the microchip does, how it protects us against a “superior intelligence,” or what he hopes for it. In fact, he sounds like a twelve-year old who got an idea from a comic book.

Meanwhile, the genius of Elmo the manager of companies rolls on:

Elon Musk has fired so many Twitter workers by mistake that HR created an 'accidental termination' category to re-onboard employees https://t.co/E5YPvVbI8z

— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) November 30, 2022

Elon Musk's attempted fire-by-email of European Twitter VP @smcs has been overruled by Irish Court.

You can't fire people like that in Europe. https://t.co/OhCaEuf8Je

— Adrian Weckler (@adrianweckler) November 30, 2022

His self-awareness needs work, too:

pic.twitter.com/FKFJvTu9fg

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 14, 2022