IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why “Hitler was right”
When there’s a meeting and some higher up says “We need FOO to do BAR”, and the middle manager glances over at the tech lead to answer, they’re gonna say “I’ll see what $CURRENT_PROVIDER has to offer.” Then the middle manager will interject “Ah, and we’ll check $COMPETITOR[0] to see if we can save some cash”.
Those ads are aimed at making sure IBM is in the zeroeth index of the middle managers COMPETITOR array.
(Also making sure people who currently use IBM feel good about themselves)
as someone who learned c++ last week this feels like im reading and understanding hieroglyphs in an egyptian tomb
“it says… he who sets foot in this tomb shall perish… and then a bunch of uninitialized variables”