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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK so Musk buys Twitter. I don’t know if it is true, but it is reported that many Twitter employees walked away and the others are trying to unionize.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is remarkable on both counts, the second one first. Unionize a bunch of computer science majors. OK then. Many of us who have ever worked with anyone who holds a Bachelor of Science degree in anything hard to get, anything which required the calculus series up thru and including differential equations, please: can you even imagine them forming a successful union? The egos included in that group, heh, imagine plenty of them saying something like: Sure I will join your lame-o union, as long as you make me president for life with unlimited powers (etc.) Those kind of people just don’t unionize well.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>First part: employees walked away. They just won’t have Mr. Musk owning that company, after what he plainly said (and he is the kind of guy who says what he means, then does what he says.) He said he would do two things: make the filtering algorithm public and ramp up efforts to stop bots.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK then, second part (of the first part) first: did they walk away because Elon wants them to amp up the anti-bot-otics? I think not. So… (first part of the first part)… did they walk away because they didn’t like Elon making the filters public?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Think about that a minute please. Did they object to their filters… being… public?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My ExI friends, I think that was it. The walk-aways didn’t want that public. They can’t really form a union to pressure the company, because STEM guys just don’t swing that way, the whole union thing is far too hard-hat-and-lunch-pail for their level of sophistication, and I can’t imagine why they (or anyone) would object to better and more robust anti-bot-otics, so… I can’t think of anything else… they didn’t want their filters to be public.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Implications please? Thoughts? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>