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an analysis of that one time musk disassembled twitter’s biggest datacenter in a manic fit (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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there’s an alternate universe version of this where musk’s attendant sycophants and bodyguard have to fish his electrocuted/suffocated/crushed body out from the crawlspace he wedged himself into with a pocket knife

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[–] cwood@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"This brought back memories of the crush and electrical injuries I've heard of when there's insufficient datacentre safety."

Of course originally at: https://octodon.social/@cwood/111055481742842480

[–] corbin@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's somewhat infuriating that all of my datacenter adventures have ended up with lacerations on my hands at a minimum, and yet he did not have a single object fall on him. It's almost enough to make me believe in a hateful sadistic deity who protects billionaires.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

Or it was elided from the retelling (which I could see happening if, e.g., everyone got hurt and just accepted it as “part of the process” and thought nothing more of it)