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Incredible explosion of gold from a 1,400-year-old Ginkgo tree. Photo by Han FeiKhai (@ThamKhaiMeng)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:12 GMT
Incredible explosion of gold from a 1,400-year-old Ginkgo tree. Photo by Han FeiKhai (@ThamKhaiMeng)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:12 GMT
twitter.com/lavern_spicer/…dog na praia (@paulodiniz)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:05 GMT
These Halloween costumes get more frightening every year. #HalloweenParody Rishi Sunak (@Parody_PM)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:23 GMT
He literally tweeted a fraudulent article by an outlet notorious for publishing false claims. Elon deleted his tweet because he embarrassed himself. (Don’t strain too hard to understand, we know you’re not capable of feeling embarrassment)
Pool Ladder, MD (@_ladder_MD)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:16 GMT
Elon Musk has deleted his tweet spreading an unfounded conspiracy about Pelosi’s husband. And his fans are now upset that he has “caved to the leftist mob”
Davey Alba (@daveyalba)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:32 GMT
Gamergate was v1.0 of a type of online information warfare, extremely effective at weaponing white male rage and radicalizing them into digital soldiers for fringe causes. We still talk about it because the playbook is being used by far more dangerous actors at greater scale.twitter.com/morrobots/stat…Post details
@BriannaWu I'm shameful to admit I don't really understand what Gamergate was other than manpigs in the gaming media/industry being massively sexist in ways that was not a shocking to normal people. What am I missing here? (OH shit, you're the third name on the Wikipedia article)MorRobots (@MorRobots)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 11:53 GMT
Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:50 GMT
I don’t want to leave twitter because I’m afraid to find out how much more productive I could’ve been without it.
Sean Thomason (@TheThomason)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:27 GMT
Tony Hawk as Larry David is still the best Halloween costume
How to Make Friends (@nickgraynews)Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:17 +0000
In fact, I would not pay a dime for verification. In fact, social media should pay its creators and treat them with respect , instead of unleashing knuckleheads on them. Like I said, fuck that.
Kara Swisher (@karaswisher)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 02:41 GMT
Between and I took 2452 steps.
Proposed talk title: “Automation: how to fail at scale”
Lorin Hochstein (@norootcause)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:09 +0000
If every account followed by @verified subscribes b/c of this shakedown, that's $26M/year. Musk owes $1B/year in interest. Not sure this is the magical solution. (And the risk of chasing verified users off the platform and confusing everyone seems.... not worth $26M/year.)Post details
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges (@caseynewton / Platformer) platformer.news/p/elons-first-… techmeme.com/221030/p13#a22…Techmeme (@Techmeme)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:06 GMT
Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:08 GMT
Thread. One of the things that struck me about the Black Swan book that was popular a dozen or so years ago was the notion that it is impossible to tell the difference between a very smart person and one that has been extraordinarily lucky _so far_
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in conclusion he has been lucky his entire life and he is going to need that to hold up, i think.
jason wilson (@jason_a_w)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:04 GMT
genecluck (@genehack)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 06:40 GMT
Fundamentally the rich will never solve the problems they profit from, or the systems they profit from. They have no incentive to do so and every incentive not to do so.
Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:56 +0000
Obviously there are some occasional big donors who give away a lot of money. But they almost never give it in ways that will bring us closer to actual systemic change. They just aren’t the answer and never will be.
Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 01:15 GMT
This should really mark the end of the “benevolent billionaire” myth. Not only did Musk pay $44 billion for Twitter when he could’ve ended starvation globally with that money, he also has already literally backed out of a $6 billion promise to the UN to help solve world hunger.
Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:39 +0000
You will never figure out where this video is going even into the end of it
Curtis Remarc 🌴🤙 (@CurtisRemarc)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:16 GMT
big beautiful water-pool
GLADIO stay-behind poster (@gorgeous_sorel)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:49 GMT
"and i would have gotten away with it too if i hadn't produced a series of videos on tiktok bragging about the entire plot to everyone on the internet"
Permanent Rebuild ☠️⚾️👻 (@DW_reader)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:08 GMT
Did he... did he imply that he fucked the guy's girlfriend?
Peelon Bust (@yayedgarhoover)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:59 GMT
My oil painting of McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish w/Strawberry Shake & Fries
Noah Verrier (@NoahVerrier)Sat, 29 Oct 2022 13:18 +0000
I have concerns about any software update that was thought up by a rando and had to somehow be rolled out to production a week later. Like, has anyone in this mix ever... computered? Because this isn't gonna go well; I can tell them that for free!
Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:30 GMT
lol no elon just buys companies to cover up that he cant computer
Abby Fuller (@abbyfuller)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:32 GMT
Bluechecks are elite users to Twitter, and a small group at that. Why would they try to earn revenue off of a small user base they don’t wanna lose?
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Some news from inside Elon’s war room: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users pay $4.99 a month to keep their badges. Many questions remain. Subscribe to read ➡️ platformer.news/p/elons-first-…Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:02 GMT
ashe dryden 😷 (@ashedryden)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:32 GMT
I’m not finna sit here all night talking about a blue icon. Now here’s what I remain sore about. The HOURS I spent skipping class in undergrad thanks to the smorgasbord of knowledge served up via RSS and Google Reader was everything. 🥹😭Post details
Bring back Google Reader!
roxane gay (@rgay)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:42 GMT
Tiffani Ashley Bell (@tiffani)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:57 GMT
This falls in line with my theory that Musk bought Twitter punitively because he was humiliated here by powerful influencers. So what's the first thing he does? He makes those influential users bend the knee and pay him to retain their power. If they refuse, then they lose it.
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Some news from inside Elon’s war room: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users pay $4.99 a month to keep their badges. Many questions remain. Subscribe to read ➡️ platformer.news/p/elons-first-…Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:02 GMT
Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 22:38 GMT
I don’t think Elon Musk realizes how much money he’s going to lose on Twitter at this rate.
Scott Nover (@ScottNover)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:34 GMT
Lol nope
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Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification theverge.com/2022/10/30/234…The Verge (@verge)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:52 GMT
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:55 GMT
$5. And I constantly mute convos and tweets after sending them. My Twitter is as chill as I am.
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:29 GMT
I don’t care about “being verified”, just about having better tools to manage the noise (which it turns out isn’t all that much better until you just turn off notifications). I definitely don’t get a $20 of value per month, and it seems you concur. 😹
Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:19 GMT
I’m getting word that Elon Musk has given Twitter devs an ultimatum: they have 30 days to bring Joseph Kony to justice. #Kony2022Travis View (@travis_view)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:00 GMT
Shorter: Black President made already racist white people even more racist so they embraced full on open white supremacy when Trump offered it twitter.com/nickyfrank30/s…Post details
I'm a big Obama fan, but people forget that his intelligence and way of speaking made a lot of low-education, working-class white folks feel stupid and inferior and came across as smug and dismissive of them, and that's what we're paying for today. twitter.com/Acyn/status/15…Nicky Frank (@NickyFrank30)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:15 +0000
Michelle_BYoung (@michelle_byoung)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:02 GMT
"Singlehandedly" is fanboy fantasy. He was far from being the only member of the PayPal mafia and was even less of a sole source of brilliance at Tesla or SpaceX.
Dr. Phil (@Duke_of_neural)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:15 GMT
Twitter was somewhat famous for slow product rollouts, but often because they went to the extreme to test and consider what might go wrong. It appears they're moving to the opposite extreme. Also, this management style is how you drive away any good engineer.Post details
It is truly amazing that after so many years pretending to be an engineer, he still has absolutely no idea how anything works. This is not the way to make a stable platform.Dan Sandler (@Danielsand)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:55 GMT
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:26 GMT
It is truly amazing that after so many years pretending to be an engineer, he still has absolutely no idea how anything works. This is not the way to make a stable platform.Dan Sandler (@Danielsand)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:55 GMT
Oh this is good.
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I just finished a tiny tool that searches through screen name, description, location and url field to find fediverse handles: fedifinder.glitch.me
Luca Hammer (@luca)Sat, 29 Oct 2022 22:33 +0000
anildash (@anildash)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:49 GMT
inside me there are two programmers: one can bang out a POC for a complex thing that couldn't have existed a year ago, and the other doesn't know how to do authentication properly
John VanEnk (@sw17ch)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:10 GMT
the nice thing about my ADHD is that if my apartment is haunted I will literally never notice it “silly me, always leaving these cupboards and drawers open and the sink running at full blast,” I say, as a frustrated ghost screams into a pillow in the cornerJanel Comeau (@VeryBadLlama)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:14 GMT
Earlier today Musk was responding to LeBron with @yoyoel's tweet. Now he's reading Yoel's Slack messages (I think) from earlier this year. It's like day 4. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:51 GMT
I mean you assume he's going to read people's messages, but actually tweeting a screenshot from a senior employee's private messages is something!
Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:56 GMT
Seeing all these people who were just recently very, very concerned with people losing their jobs due to "cancel culture" now gleefully mocking people losing their jobs makes me think that maybe they're not quite as principled as they claimed.
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:36 GMT
"It's one checkmark, Michael. What could it cost, $20?"
mdazee (@mdzapp)Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:08 GMT
🎃🔪👻💀 @KarlUrban #HappyHalloweenJack Quaid (@JackQuaid92)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:57 GMT
hey did we mention that we got married?
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Gesunde Zivilgesellschaft ? (@ZivilSolidarity)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:15 GMT
Good morning I would like one ticket out of this reality.
Average Spooky Enjoyer (@GdoubleWB)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:18 GMT
Hahaha this is a bad website.
Hank Green (@hankgreen)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:12 GMT
"but won't hundreds or thousands of talented, capable, wealthy strangers take my code and scale it for me for free?"
cube drone (@cube_drone)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:19 GMT
Serious question. How do you complain to Twitter about misinformation on Twitter when Mr. Twitter is doing the misinforming? twitter.com/mollyjongfast/…Post details
This exchange between @HillaryClinton and @elonmusk should kill any remaining confidence advertisers had in the platform.Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 12:50 GMT
W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell)Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:26 GMT