Notices by John Bull (garius@mastodon.me.uk), page 4

Scoring against Canada early is brave. Australia clearly didn't watch the Ireland game. #fifawwc #mastodonfc

Japan look really, really good. #fifawwc #mastodonfc

SUNDAY STREAM!

His father Uther saved Romano-Britain. Until his life was tragically cut short by a peasant dropping a pot on his head.

Now his son Iulius rules. Can he continue what Uther started and bring peace to Britannia? Join me for Crusader Kings 3!

https://twitch.tv/gariusthebrit #gaming #history #histodons

@danielellis nope- all stuff that's in books, interviews and the public domain.

I've now written up a full piece here:

https://every.to/p/twitter-s-future-is-a-return-to-elon-musk-s-past

@glenatron pfff. i've always been big time. it's the world that got small.

For those of you who wanted the full history of how Musk lost control of X during the X/Confinity merger, @every were kind enough to commission me to write it.

Come for the Microsoft vs Linux internal war. Stay for the boardroom coup launched during the Sydney Olympics... #technology #history https://every.to/p/twitter-s-future-is-a-return-to-elon-musk-s-past

WHAT A GOAL #mastodonFC #fifawwc

Ah. that well known hangover cure which is the builders turning up at 8am

@FeralRobots @KimPerales with a few bits more context. Benefit of a larger character limit! 😆

@DrAlexandraK well yes, that's a given.

@LALegault Musk worked at Scotiabank briefly.

While there he came up with a 'genius' plan to buy up South American debt cheap then wait for the US to bail the country out and reap the profits.

He was shocked when the bank were like:

"ARE YOU MAD DO YOU KNOW THE LEVEL OF RISK IN THAT?!"

And decided to focus on being a tech bro instead.

@freediverx @Louis_Renault yup. they're both absolute wrong 'uns. But that's also why they're good at functioning together while also occasionally backstabbing each other.

Thiel was one of SpaceX's backers almost immediately after couping Elon out of PayPal, for example.

OH GOD IRELAND DON'T MAKE THE CANADIANS ANGRY

Not this early. #mastodonfc #fifawwc

@KevinMarks couldn't claim to know enough about it rn.

No doubt I'll get obsessed about the history of it at some point though. 😆

@wjt just two images of a wheelchair user buying a kebab.

@catsnkittens trusts you very much indeed.

@Geoff i mean, there's no doubt platform partisanship played a part, but i'm also not gonna hindsight a thing that Levchin and co. spent a LOT of time in 2000 trying to do. With a considerable amount of platform testing.

You're welcome to argue the case with him though!

@Geoff basically if Musk had been making the push in 2002ish it wouldn't have been as bad an idea. He was just pushing it too early, largely because X had already been a Microsoft house while Confinity was Linux.

@Geoff it wasn't scalable enough for what they were doing.

V2 was plagued with memory leak issues and more.

What I'm taking from a lot of the replies to that "Elon at Paypal" thread is that I should probably, finally watch Succession.