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Elon Musk Demands Twitter Servers Explain What All These Wires For (www.theonion.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social
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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 78 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 57 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Cipher22@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

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

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 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

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

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