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screaming fire in a theater that’s on fire
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journalists: they scare people about fire
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I burst out laughing every time this happens. his weird nerds paying for a check mark and floating to the top of the reply pile should be annoying but instead it’s hysterical
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in retrospect, “this musk acquisition is going to be a disaster because he doesn’t seem to understand content moderation” was missing the forest for the trees
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peak twitter blue subscriber interaction
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Speaking of billionaires who enjoy setting money on fire.
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He spent $5.25 million to defeat Tina Kotek. She won anyway.
“I’m disappointed in the result but not disappointed that I tried,” Phil Knight says. wweek.com/news/2022/11/1
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the day that twitter became the main character of twitter
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yes… ha ha ha… YES
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Wow. Elon Musk just told Twitter employees he’s not sure how much run rate the company has and “bankruptcy isn’t out of the question.”
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Elon Musk is doing an all hands with Twitter employees. They got a one hour notice and he showed up 15 minutes late.
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"he's not afraid of the ftc" is basically a sniper check
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Strong statement from FTC, following the security and privacy departures at Twitter: "We are tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern. No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees."
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woahhh, the New York Times has rendered its verdict on the "quietly thrilling" Beyond Measure. chuffed with this one, thank you so much !
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which corporate reputation will be senselessly sullied tomorrow??? which public figure will twitter’s ceo personally defame next?????????? I can’t wait to find out! what a time to be alive!!!
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every time the kind of wild bullshit that scares advertisers goes down on here, you fucking bet I’m opening up this hell app and refreshing the timeline repeatedly. eyes glazed over and unblinking as I inject brand-unsafe chaos straight into my veins 🥰🥰🥰
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Mario flipped off Twitter for nearly two hours with the blessing of Musk’s "verification" theverge.com/2022/11/9/2345
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this is the most I’ve used twitter in years. god I love it when shit sucks
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Unfortunately, because something in my personality is deeply damaged, the messier this app gets, the more likely I am to use it more. twitter.com/realspinker/st…
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I really love it
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Also seems notable that the only way users would know that something changed about verification today is if you … read news coverage? Or Elon’s tweets?
It’s times like this a company wishes it had comms and marketing teams
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I love it
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The fact that the new verified badge looks exactly the same as the old one, and verifies exactly nothing about an account, is really just one of the all-time avoidable design mistakes twitter.com/jasonschreier/…
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“The firms behind these programs insist that their use of this data is covered in the US by fair use doctrine. But legal experts say this is far from settled law and that litigation like Butterick’s class action lawsuit could upend the” status quo.
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I have absolutely no reason to restrain myself lol
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It's like every day is the llama day but impure
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I think everyone knew this was going to be the beginning of the end but it definitely accelerated faster than I thought it would, and it's somehow been way funnier than I thought it would be, too
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I don't know why it's funny when everyone replies to elon musk and it was so unbelievably unfunny and annoying when people replied to trump. I mean other than the general flavor of pathos / knowing this is a distraction from the hellscape and everyone's posting to feel alive
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“…an effort that, had they not failed, would have seemingly served to legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa,” an “organization” that even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed.”
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As world leaders gather in Egypt for #COP27, the country’s most prominent political prisoner escalated his hunger strike.
Alaa Abd El Fatta, who has been imprisoned for most of the last nine years, is now refusing water.
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There are a lot of interesting things going on in this thread, but one thing I would like to highlight is that this is a story about how engineers refused to build a privacy-invasive product for advertisers AND IT DID NOT GET BUILT.
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With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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"On Friday, jelly brained Silicon Valley thinks haver David Sacks Thanosed half the staff, reportedly by a raw lines-of-code ranking, so Twitter engineering now consists only of people who’ve committed package-lock.json recently."
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no one feels like they have control over any of the many many things going wrong in the world... except when it comes to pissing off elon musk. the iceberg is getting genuinely mad etc
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, best known for playing 1960s advertising executive Harry Crane on "Mad Men,"
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this is so obvious to almost everyone! it's absolutely perfect and I love it
some tech policy things can be difficult to grok without a significant amount of background information & experience. but this specific thing? lol
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this is the most bbs-style drama the internet has seen in decades
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the vibes are bad everywhere about everything so my primary source of joy is muttering “the iceberg is getting genuinely mad” to myself
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being on Twitter right now is like playing the violin on the titanic except we are also making fun of the iceberg and the iceberg is getting genuinely mad
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