7/19/2024, 6:39:47 PM · by God luvs America · 178 replies
WSJ ^ | 7/19/2024 | Sadie Gurman and Aruna Viswanatha
I recently watched a story about Elon musk firing 'executives' (engineers) 2 days before Christmas. This happened about a month after he bought Twitter on October 28, 2022.
Musk fired them because they kept resisting when he said Twitter didn't need three server farms. They gave reasons why Twitter needed them (redundancy, cacheing etc) and he said 'no'. Musk decided to close the Sacramento server farm. The engineers said, "fine, but that will take 6 weeks" and he said they could shut it down in 6 days, and the engineers said "no" and so he fired them.
I think it's odd that these engineers seemed to be wiling to resist as much as they did. If Musk said they could shut it down in 6 days, I would expect them to ask for ALL the resources they would need to do that (costs more but okay, boss).
Musk fired them on Dec 23, 2022. On Christmas Eve Musk was flying home from San Francisco to Texas and he has his pilot turn around and return to California. He went to the server farm he wanted shut down, the biased video clip narrator said Musk forced his way in (the guard was shocked he wanted in on Christmas Eve) and once inside, used his body guard's pocket knife to cut the cable to the Twitter server, shutting it down.
I know Musk may have done that as a 'teachable moment' for the remaining staff at Twitter, or out of frustration getting things done with an uncooperative staff. But going back to my comment that I think it's odd they resisted the way they did, maybe Musk had begun to wonder what was really on that 'unneccessary' server farm that the engineers would not shut down promptly?
We know the Deep State requires massive computing power for all the surveillance and election theft, money laundering etc. What if the Deep State just has big tech companies maintain extra redundancy that is in fact cover for deep state servers? Who would know? And if Twitter's 3rd server farm in Sacramento was housing Deep State data, wouldn't the engineers would want plenty of time to move it somewhere else and scrub it before shutting it down? And if Musk's concerns included this kind of curiousity, might it be worth turning the plane around on Christmas Eve to go cut the cable, thereby preventing the content from being moved?
I know we have computer networking nerds who walk among us on the Q thread. Instead of naming names, I wonder if some of you pocket-protector types would have a look at the rest of the post which I'll put in Festival, because it is very speculative regarding the computer outtages we're having, and it's written by a non-pocket protector worthy drone, therefore it's likely to be anesthesia in text form.
The computer -nerd bar is now serving free drinks in Festival
Fascinating.
“This happened about a month after he bought Twitter on October 28, 2022”
Musk bought Twitter on Q-day? Wow! I missed the actual date of that when it happened.
(Of course, that was our 50th wedding anniversary, so “maybe” you’ll cut me some slack this time?)