I'm reading this because I saw, on Twitter, that "titter" was trending. I clicked over there and Twitter did not filter out the pornographic pictures the trend had inspired. I looked at one picture too long because I had trouble seeing and believing what I was looking at.
Why isn't Twitter filtering out this sort of thing? Did Musk want to inspire the childish people who see the word "titter" — which means laugh — and think of breasts? Given the failure to screen out the photos I saw, I'm going to say yes.
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Did Musk want to inspire the childish people who see the word "titter" — which means laugh — and think of breasts? Given the failure to screen out the photos I saw, I'm going to say yes
It is apparent you haven’t paid much attention to Musk
Cannot wait for Drago to arrive and tell me how dumb I am for seeing that Twitter is imploding when the evidence is quite apparent.
Elon keeps saying that Twitter will break even next quarter, but as he spent most of a decade promising that Full Self Driving is coming next year at Tesla, his promises do not have a great track record.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
I have no similar desire to rush out and find something to offend me.
Probably make money that way.
Titter America's Merriest Magazine (1943-1955 Roy Harmon).
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=36306224
As I discovered recently, twitter is chock full of hard-core porn. Something to do with free speech I guess.
I wouldn't read it as "titter," I would read it as "t itter" and it wouldn't mean anything to me. Just gibberish.
They didn't even do a good job blocking the w; it looks like it's undergoing maintenance.
I used the word treacherous earlier. Here the word is lecherous.
You gotta love a guy with a sense of humor. That it rankles some people is not on Musk; it should clearly be on the people looking to take him down. It’s not Musk, it’s them.
It’s well stablished knowledge that female breasts… I had to pause and add ‘female’ because you know…trans, but now I’m thinking what do trans think female breasts mean? Maybe that’s the trap Musk is setting… brilliant!
And just like that I was derailed from saying that it was stablished here at this here blog not too long ago that breasts drive up traffic. NTTIAWWT
The New York Times tells Althouse that good little liberals must hate, loathe, and utterly despise Elon Musk, and like Pavlov’s dogs …
Musk is trolling people with the woke mind virus that will be offended by titty jokes, but are perfectly ok with Tranny story hours and drag show for little kits.
I looked at one picture too long because I had trouble seeing and believing what I was looking at.
Link?
There is story with photos on Titter about Trump wanting to put up a 50ft flag pole on one of his properties. Local ordinance board said no, it could only be 30ft.
So Trump built a 20ft mound, and put up a 30ft pole.
If you want something done, tell Elon Musk he can't do it.
If they didn't want the W removed, they should have told Musk he had to.
The porn I was subjected to was not bare breasts. It was a complete well-lit closeup of a woman's bare crotch. I thought it might be one of those "confusing perspective" images that turns out not to be what you think. It was not.
If Twitter can't keep porn images out of the feed of all of us who haven't opted in, then it is not viable social media.
Those of you who are treating me as if I've been anti-Musk are just plain ignorant or deliberately lying about me.
Big Mike, why should I not regard you as a bad faith troll? Really, what is the point of you being here?
Buck and Clay (idiots who took Rush's show) report their kid, visiting Italy, exclaimed "Dad, there's penises all over."
Paglia reports that female genitals are architecturally chaotic, so they might be hard to recognize out of context. On that other hand that gave us The Dinner Party.
Why are you offended by porn? Don't people have a right to display their sexual beliefs wherever they want? That's one of the arguments concerning the trans movement, that we have no right to object to their behavior, so why do you object to this?
Big Mike!
Don't fuck with Althouse. Apologize!! Or you will be out on your ass.
The porn I was subjected to was not bare breasts. It was a complete well-lit closeup of a woman's bare crotch.
Good heavens!
What did you say that link was? I'd should know so I can be careful to avoid it.
I had twitter for about a month during the World Cup in Nov-Dec that was held in Qatar. I got inundated with Arab porn that I didn't ask for and couldn't get rid of. So I got rid of Twitter.
If God thought women's breasts should be an evil thing to see or discuss, He wouldn't have made them so gosh darn (His preferred cuss term, I understand) attractive nor stand out so much. Nor would women spend so much time and money strategically partially clothing them in ways to offer seductive peaks at them, or their artificially enhanced outlines.
I don't use Twitter so I did a search for "titter" (with no screening for naughty bits. Had to convince the search engine I really did NOT wasn't to search for Twitter.
Got a lot of Twitter links. Several giving me the definition of titter. One or two for the above mentioned "Titter" magazine (previously unknown to me). and, a few pages down a couple of buxom, yet fully covered women.
My inner 13 year old boy* was sorely disappointment.
* A cis-boom-bah male.
If Twitter can't keep porn images out of the feed of all of us who haven't opted in, then it is not viable social media.
Agreed.
But was it ever?
Titters: The first collection of humor by women Paperback – January 1, 1976
I bought one back then but gave it to a gf.
I would have said that the lesson here is that people don't change. They don't "grow up" after they're already adult. But who thought Elon could be this childish? Maybe people do change -- Biden, Trump, Pelosi, Dalai Lama, Musk -- only to get worse.
Is Musk seeking to evolve Twitter from its root word:
Twit
To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.
[1913 Webster]
And instead create a place with more humor?
This will, of course, anger the old blue check mob who reveled in their twitting.
Ann Althouse said...
"The porn I was subjected to was not bare breasts. It was a complete well-lit closeup of a woman's bare crotch."
Sounds like you got the middle-schooler curation. A 12 or 13 yr old, especially boy, would titter at such.
"Cannot wait for Drago to arrive and tell me how dumb I am for seeing that Twitter is imploding when the evidence is quite apparent."
It's not apparent to me. He's laid off half the staff and Twitter functions the same as it always has. And Twitter has only been profitable once in it's existence.
Elon has a sense of humor. One more thing to like about him.
Many thought Twitter would devolve into mere titter. It was only a matter of time.
The porn I was subjected to was not bare breasts. It was a complete well-lit closeup of a woman's bare crotch.
I had a similar experience several years ago on Twitter. It was some special furry day. I never gave the costumes much thought before and so hadn't pondered on the existence, or lack there of, of a crotch. That was the day I realized that some people are going to want that bare. Not sure why they had to take and share close up photos of their bare crotch, but it was a learning experience. Mostly I learned to leave safe search turned on.
My view is that Musk is either a marketing genius, or idiot. What I do see is that the old Twitter business plan was crashing. The left, that controlled Twitter, didn’t want the advertising that made comparable platforms profitable. But they also went out of their way to make it inhospitable to the right, which is growing, and possibly over half the potential market in this country. The prudest element in society has long been the upper middle class, which are increasingly left wing nutcases. So, yes, this move may drive off some of its traditional customers. But I think it likely will bring in more customers than it will drive off. It’s a class thing, and pissing off their prudish betters is likely to attract less elite customers.
Musk did opine about creating the "Texas Institute of Technology & Science" in part because the School abbreviation would be really easy to sell merchandise, so I'm going to guess it is a definite possibility he intended this.
Blogger Big Mike said...
The New York Times tells Althouse that good little liberals must hate, loathe, and utterly despise Elon Musk, and like Pavlov’s dogs …
It seems odd then that Althouse literally bought in to Twitter with the new blue checkmark system if that was her real motivation.
Decades ago, owner of the MHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, Harold Ballard, did not have the names of his players on the backs of the player's jerseys. He calculated he could sell more game programs for casual fans to determine the names of players via their number. The NHL forced him to do it. So pre-Musk, he put the names of his players on their jerseys - with the same color as the jersey itself.
"Did Musk want to inspire the childish people who see the word "titter" — which means laugh — and think of breasts?"
You mean, men? There are probably sixty billion pictures of women's breasts on the internet, but I actually wasted two or three minutes trying to find this particular set. Of course, twitter is a river, and you never go fishing for titty-pics in the same river twice. They are long gone, or at least I can't find them. I mourn.
And here is illustrated the quality that sometimes makes Musk not a great tweeter.
Musk announcedp twitter tender offer 4-14-22. Think he'll announce a CEO by Friday?
Harry Bolz LOL.
Its hilarious to see the liberal wish casting that "Twitter is broken down" after he laid off 75% of his staff.
What's probably changed is the uniparty-swamp-regime has lost this tool to ban inconvenient ideas and spill the dirt on Hunter Biden bribery. You can smell their desperation as this once useful tool has gone rogue.
And if anyone is so worried about seeing nudes now why weren't they outraged at the amount of pedo porn that freely flowed before Musk acquired it. Talk about motivated reasoning.
I'm retired. Even with a lot of time on my hands, I don't care to delve into the reasons for hiding the 'w". As one of the world's most wealthy people, I suppose one can indulge one's sophomoric humor. I believe it was Mr. Musk that proposed a Texas Institute of Technology and Science in the not-too-distant past.
Bob Boyd said...
I looked at one picture too long because I had trouble seeing and believing what I was looking at.
Link?
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Edumacator with ZZZ
partly false So Trump built a 20ft mound, and put up a 30ft pole.
More like T itter.
Quaestor said...
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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same as
who wouda couda shouda thunk it >> NOT
Buck and Clay (idiots who took Rush's show) report their kid, visiting Italy, exclaimed "Dad, there's penises all over."
This was how my husband got our 4yo through three weeks in Italy - by looking for bottoms and doodles.
“ The porn I was subjected to was not bare breasts. It was a complete well-lit closeup of a woman's bare crotch. I thought it might be one of those "confusing perspective" images that turns out not to be what you think. It was not.”
I’ve seen these same images (and lots of them) on Spotify of all things!
Never try to understand the mind of a genius. A common smart person would be working himself into exhaustion, trying to get twitter profitable, finish up Starlink, double production AND reduce the price of EV's, cure Alzheimres, etc.
But a genius, makes twitter, t itter.
He also twitted out a year or more ago, that he was going to start a brand new college in Texas for STEM education. Texas Institute of Technology and Science.
Several hours later, he followed up. "it will have epic merch"
I think I see a pattern emerging
Sometimes, a cigar, is just a cigar.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1453954994546229253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1453954994546229253%7Ctwgr%5E18161638fe1ca290942db0f1da5f101ba8874324%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finterestingengineering.com%2Fculture%2Felon-musk-to-open-a-university-in-texas-could-it-be-a-joke
"Cannot wait for Drago to arrive and tell me how dumb I am for seeing that Twitter is imploding when the evidence is quite apparent."
Sorry, Mark, Drago couldn't make it. He said to tell you that you are dumber than a blue-assed baboon, but not quite as dumb as a pouch full of pencil erasers. Does that help? Sorry you were kept waiting.
He also just changed his Twitter handle, his pronouns are now they/them. Childish or not, he's got a sense of humor which most elites don't. To quote Mel Brooks, "It's good to be the king."
Jamie, that was my top LOL of the day. Thank you.
Love him or hate him (or indifferent), I think history suggests that the burden of proof is on the accuser, if the accusation is "fool, idiot".
It occurs to me that I don't believe this story. The canonical Musk response to such a remark by his landlord would be to make it (not assuming gender, no sir) an offer it cannot refuse, to buy the building outright.
And just like that he changed his name back to Elon Musk. On to the next news cycle.
I read there was once a real school in Texas to be named Sam Houston Institute of Technology. I don't remember what it was changed to.
I have never seen porn on Twitter. Must be your filthy timeline, Althouse.
The schoolmarm strikes again.
So, are we to assume that as soon as Musk took over he turned off the porn filter that the previous management had in place? People seem naive, it’s a good cudgel if it beats Elon Musk.
Dumb Lefty Mark: "Cannot wait for Drago to arrive and tell me how dumb I am for seeing that Twitter is imploding when the evidence is quite apparent."
"...is quite apparent."
Not!
Looks like I wont need to tell you how dumb you are. Your post acvomplished that well all on its own.
Well played!
Even Dumber Dumb Lefty Mark: "Elon keeps saying that Twitter will break even next quarter, but as he spent most of a decade promising that Full Self Driving is coming next year at Tesla, his promises do not have a great track record."
LOL
Dumb Lefty Mark really cant help himself, can he? Comparing development of life altering tech with an easier cost cutting/streamlining/restructuring of an established social media company!!
Too funny....and so very, very dumb.
Hehhehheh...she said “crotch”.
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