The two most striking conversations this week on the world’s largest microblogging platform were Elon Musk’s beef with Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer, and Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin’s musings on a letter sent to Washington by crypto skeptics.
On Monday, Australian news outlet Crikey published an interview with Palmer, who was promoting his new podcast, Griftonomics, when he laid into the crypto industry.
“I wish it was the end of crypto, but it’s not,” Palmer said, before turning his thoughts to Musk: “He’s a grifter. He sells a vision in hopes that he can one day deliver what he’s promising, but he doesn’t know that. He’s just really good at pretending he knows.”
Palmer also said that he wrote a Python script that would automatically detect and report spam bots in a Twitter user’s mentions. The Dogecoin-loving Musk allegedly reached out to Palmer and asked for the script, but, according to Palmer: “It became apparent very quickly that he didn’t understand coding as well as he made out. He asked, ‘How do I run this Python script?'”
You falsely claimed ur lame snippet of Python gets rid of bots. Ok buddy, then share it with the world …
The Tesla CEO responded by saying his children wrote better code than Palmer. Musk also called Palmer “a tool.”
My kids wrote better code when they were 12 than the nonsense script Jackson sent me.
Like I said, if it’s so great, he should share it with the world and make everyone’s experience with Twitter better. If he does, you will see what I mean.
Palmer didn’t reply directly to Musk’s provocations, but he defended his spambot catcher in a subsequent mini-thread.
I never said it was super complex, but this simple script definitely worked in catching and reporting the less sophisticated phishing accounts circa 2018… They’ve since evolved their tactics.
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