Only reading headlines and news stories, you would be forgiven if up until now you had thought SBF was a teenager still driving around on a learner’s permit, who picked up crypto trading to avoid high school summer jobs that might force him to go outside.
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"The tech sector seems to be betting that these massive, algorithmically orchestrated firings will not only cut labor costs, but also once again remind increasingly empowered tech workers of their insecurity, and the power the companies still hold."
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The Hampster Dance website in 1999 in Netscape Navigator 4.04
This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998.
#InternetHistory
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welcome to hell
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bots are fixed
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Especially since then, it's been very weird to read stories about how maybe he's a poor smol bean who made a whoopsie when most of us have managed to somehow not toddle our way into financial fraud at the fragile age of 30 YEARS OLD.
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A while ago a reporter asked me if I knew SBF personally, and apparently sensing I was confused by why that might be likely, they pointed out that we would have been in college in Boston/Cambridge at the same time, so maybe would've bumped into one another.
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Only reading headlines and news stories, you would be forgiven if up until now you had thought SBF was a teenager still driving around on a learner’s permit, who picked up crypto trading to avoid high school summer jobs that might force him to go outside.
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Sam Bankman-Fried is continuing to cultivate this boyish persona. If he can keep it up, and if news outlets continue to fall for his narrative, perhaps he can sway not just some of the general public, but members of a jury.
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the website is *chefkiss*
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lol
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We just tricked Dillon Danis into promoting a fake NFT project. We paid him $1,000 to post, he didn't disclose it was an #AD, and posted copy that literally spells out S.C.A.M. 
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all my apes gone?
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DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police arrest man in the taking of two monkeys from the local zoo, say he was nabbed near animals at the aquarium.
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if youre gonna migrate to Mаstօԁοո and use a service to locate your twitter mutuals there you NEED TO DO IT *NOW* before fedifinder and debirdify get blocked too
if you might ever wanna migrate then there's NO MORE TIME TO PROCRASTINATE twitter.com/Enichan/status
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Here's hoping enough lazily hacked together twitter bots were built with relatively reliable API so taken for granted that they just blindly retry on failure and will turn into an unintended DDoS botnet when you deny them en masse.
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This website is becoming a reply guy hell where now if you're like 'the torment nexus really seems to be degloving a lot of people' the top reply with zero likes will be 'well thats just what torment nexuses do if you don't like it switch over to the brutality sphere 🤷♂️'
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nice way to end the day
(BBQ chicken, chicken goes under the cheese, don't @ me)
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An independent examiner just spent months interviewing employees, reviewing financial statements, and digging through the wreckage of the company once known as Celsius. It doesn't look good.
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wow, so I threaten a few dozen former CasCoin employees and now I’m “not allowed to speak to any of them without a lawyer present”
what a joke, the Justice system is broken
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As a former Tweep, this is all really painful to watch.
That team worked tirelessly to restore trust with the 3rd party community, and now the rug is being pulled out from under those users.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 
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Feel like not enough people are saying Elon is shutting down the twitter API to prevent people from using things like this to move to Mastodon
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(it's not going anywhere — it doesn't use the API, though it absolutely should — just means the crossposting to masto will break if i don't build a workaround)
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THIS! All of the bad bots & scammers are using scrapers and tools like puppeteer to do their damage, not the official API where twitter can inspect every request. Bad bots are going to take up MORE of your feed when possum every day is gone
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i love it when people assume that requiring people to pay for a twitter feature will magically fix the scam/spam problem
as though all good actors are willing/able to pay and no scammers/spammers are
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Does this mean the primary way we can add captions to videos won't be available?
I use it multiple times a day because the vast majority of videos posted are not accessible to Deaf people.
#accessibility
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when i'm working on a tool i'll look for an API if one's available, because it's polite, but then i'll absolutely resort to scraping if i have to
(looking at you etherscan lol)
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i also wonder to what extent elon foresees that this may just push people to accomplish the same things they were doing via the API by less polite means
scraping, headless browsers, etc
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otoh, i can still put effort towards making those tools solely for mastodon if i do find the time
well, really just the thread tool. mastodon doesn't have the cryptospam problem to the degree that twitter does to necessitate a filter tool
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i wonder how much of the choice to cut off free API access was motivated by the desire to shut down mastodon/etc crossposters
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anyway, i'm glad i didn't put effort into a few of the projects i was thinking about.
i was going to make a tool to do a better job of threading on both twitter and mastodon, but now i'm glad i never got around to it. same with a spambot filtering tool i was considering.
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if you want to get a sense of some of the impact of this change, just look at the quote tweets 💔
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Bye to every good community safety tool built over the years. No longer will you be able to mass-block people to stay safe from dogpiles
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elon said that at some point and now a non-negligible number of people seem to accept it as some kind of law of nature
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i love it when people assume that requiring people to pay for a twitter feature will magically fix the scam/spam problem
as though all good actors are willing/able to pay and no scammers/spammers are
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wow this blows
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a copy of the retracted piece was captured on the internet archive: web.archive.org/web/2023013116
would love to know more about why retracted the piece! legal threat?
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My Op-Ed on @yugalabs + @BoredApeYC was removed from @Coindesk.
I did NOT base this article on "inflammatory, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories." It is based on my expertise as a historian.
I went through the NORMAL Coindesk editorial process with TWO EDITORS over TWO WEEKS. twitter.com/tfine/status/1…
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My Op-Ed on + was removed from .
I did NOT base this article on "inflammatory, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories." It is based on my expertise as a historian.
I went through the NORMAL Coindesk editorial process with TWO EDITORS over TWO WEEKS. twitter.com/tfine/status/1
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welcome to my entire twitter account
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What subject would make you do this?
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The annotated version of this is still quite fun: mollywhite.net/annotations/la
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