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Elon Musk Demands Twitter Servers Explain What All These Wires For (www.theonion.com)
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For context, this article is from 2022 but it was just reposted by the Onion’s social media accounts tonight, and I’m sharing it here, because: The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster / Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.

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[–] Someplaceunknown@fedia.io 77 points 2 months ago

At press time, sources confirmed Musk had publicly fired a prominent CPU for loudly humming in a way that he said constituted insubordination.

Hmm, yes

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 56 points 2 months ago

remember when elon just started yanking out servers and twitter had a sustained months-long meltdown?

[–] Cipher22@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

1/3 will need to justify their presence in writing or be removed.

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago

“Remove all the wires, or you are all fired. We’re transitioning to the AI Cloud. You’ll all be sleeping in your office cots this month.”

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The grammar falling apart at the very end of the title is peak Onion writing.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I love headlinese.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Twitter demands Elon to explain why that many unused brain cells.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The Twitter server: https://youtube.com/watch?v=12LLJFSBnS4