“Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.

You know this was back in the day because they had that credit card right up in the camera 😂 twitter.com/todd_spence/st…

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Sandra Bullock buying movie tickets on the net for the first time… for her movie THE NET

SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:23 GMT

Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:52 GMT

I need to look at the org chart again because a few of them have been there a while because they're big ol' nerds.

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RT @rwidome@mastodon.social Here’s the good news: I think we have at least 6 months before your boss finds this place. mastodon.social/@rwidome/10933…

Jesse (@obra)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:30 GMT

brian wisti (@brianwisti)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:36 GMT

therapist? oh you mean my gossip doctor?

monika woods (@booksijustread)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:12 GMT

Sandra Bullock buying movie tickets on the net for the first time… for her movie THE NET

SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:23 GMT

I don’t even know how to quantify this but one of the weirder moments gotta be when dude live tweeted the osama bin laden raid without knowing it

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Enough talk about the good times on this website, let’s talk about the dumbest moments on this website. I’ll start: that time people thought there were two drils and the second one was much less funny

AK Lingus (@aklingus)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:06 GMT

ZuluHeavy (Parody) (@ZuluHeavy)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/aubrionna/status/1591678779545767937

not feeling miserable anymore rules nature is healing

aubri (@aubrionna)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:27 GMT

sometimes i'm like "what is wrong with millennial women" and then i remember how in the early 2000s special k tried to wipe us all out by telling us to replace breakfast and lunch with a cup of cereal and a splash of skim milk

emma lord (@dilemmalord)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:54 GMT

One of the benefits of the #Fediverse is I can use the system I prefer to post and you can follow and interact with any #ActivityPub system you prefer. Your choice of, say, a photo sharing platform doesn't dictate that I have to sign up too. It's like RSS you can reply to.

Simon Phipps (@webmink)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:13 GMT

tens of billions of dollars wiped out by a single polycule

Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:16 GMT

i gave a presentation

explodikid @ jess lackey's house (@explodikid)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:13 GMT

https://twitter.com/explodikid/status/1591585123623137281

This but not evil.

Matthew Brown (@JustXillow)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/type__error/status/1591697602189627395

There’s also a world of difference between a community conference and a big corporate one.

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:42 GMT

https://twitter.com/type__error/status/1591492424651919360

To clarify: no not all confs pay but they should at the very least cover travel & accommodation for speakers, and look after them. Seems like some don’t even do that. If a conf isn’t offering you any kind of compensation for the literal money you spend to get there, don’t do it.

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:40 GMT

Implementing (some of) the ActivityPub standard with Netlify functions, a post by Lewis Dale

Facebook Meta - like many other tech titans - has institutional Shiny Object Syndrome. It goes something like this:Launch a product to great fanfareSpend a few years hyping it as ✨the future✨Stop …

Decide exactly what you want to read and escape the social media algorithms. How an old protocol called RSS can give you back the autonomy about what you read.

Wow someone really did this

Lisa Lucas (@likaluca)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:33 GMT

This site now supports sending and receiving webmentions and surfacing structured data using microformats2.

RT @quentquarantino An anonymous tweeter pretending to be Eli Lilly & Co spent $8 to put out a fake tweet that insulin is now free. Eli Lilly lost $30 billion dollars in market cap today. This may very well be the best use of $8 in human history

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:29 GMT

RT @TheSamethyst I can't explain the energy on Twitter these days with words but it's this.

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:51 GMT

RT @jzux (me, still acting really weird) sorry i acted so weird the other day

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:10 GMT

https://twitter.com/coopercooperco/status/1591250467618959361

POV: you are an orphan who's just stepped out of a shipping container in Epstein island

Matthew Schroeder (@JoblessMatthew)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:53 GMT

Remember when people thought this was incredible or something

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Enough talk about the good times on this website, let’s talk about the dumbest moments on this website. I’ll start: that time people thought there were two drils and the second one was much less funny

AK Lingus (@aklingus)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:06 GMT

🏜🔋, fka ☕️ (@coopercooperco)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 02:04 GMT

I love it when 400 private jets fly to Egypt for the UN Climate Conference to tell the peasants to ride bikes and live in tents.

Catturd ™ (@catturd2)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:32 GMT

The cognitive dissonance it must take to look at everything going on at Twitter and still feel confident that your Tesla is a quality product that isn’t made in a similar environment is astounding.

Tim Banks: Principal VibeOps Engineer (@elchefe)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:15 GMT

https://twitter.com/phocks/status/1591549286999023616

Lol

Mitch Wright is still writing (@MitchWrites)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:36 GMT

https://twitter.com/phocks/status/1591549286999023616

Lol, account locked

Dump Ump (@DumpOnTheUmp)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:28 GMT

If you're at Twitter and you've been invited back after they fired you in error, here's a chat with one of the managers there, the Senior Director of Engineering at Twitter, aka @LukeEvansSimon

Joshua Byrd (@phocks)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:51 GMT

i know its trendy to hate jack dorsey but being a one day a week billionaire ceo of like 3 different things while spending the other 6 pounding ayuasca deep in the desert is likely to be the best we’re gonna get out of these lunatics

red (@thomas_k_r)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:13 GMT

honestly the fact that he almost never did anything is a real point in his favor

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i know its trendy to hate jack dorsey but being a one day a week billionaire ceo of like 3 different things while spending the other 6 pounding ayuasca deep in the desert is likely to be the best we’re gonna get out of these lunatics

red (@thomas_k_r)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:13 GMT

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:16 GMT

https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1591570785000656896

as I've said before, twitter.com/ReinH/status/1…

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one thing that normal leaders can do that elon is totally incapable of is nothing, just not doing a thing

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:08 GMT

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:17 GMT

Victoria 🎀 🦃 (@EuphoriTori)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:16 GMT

https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1591505810911531008

And this is his fault. He failed to properly manage the transition by figuring out who knew what, mapping out coverage, and making sure there was time and motivation to hand everything off. So he is eager to fuck over these people to cover up his incompetence.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:59 GMT

https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1591503962385289217

The most obvious thing here is that he is planning to fuck over people he just got done fucking over. He just helped put these people out on the street in a recession. Now he wants to bring them back, get something out of them, and then fire them AGAIN.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:58 GMT

I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:44 GMT

https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1591503539935010816

Let me just get this out of the way early: he can go fuck himself. With the proverbial sandpaper dildo.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:51 GMT

“I could do code that in 2 hours” said senior 10x engineer who had no idea what the requirements even were twitter.com/richseviora/st…

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what the fuck nytimes.com/2022/11/11/tec…

Rich Seviora: A Series of Petty Events (@RichSeviora)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:07 GMT

Laurie (@laurieontech)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:33 GMT

Imagine charging £699 for a conference and not paying your speakers

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:05 GMT

ngl, corporations being forced to come on here and publicly say shit like "we apologize for the impersonator account that tweeted that everyone deserves food, clean water, and shelter, that is absolutely not what we stand for" is pretty funny.

🦇 Tumisha(🤡)'s Spooky Stud Boiwife 🫡🎃 (@disrupthehuman)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 04:28 GMT

If you need a laugh this morning, Elon's idea of curbing abuse for Twitter Blue was predicated on "If you get suspended I keep your $8" and I think after a twelve-hour session with puppets and background music he finally grasped the idea of "credit card chargebacks."

The Call is Coming from Inside the Nash (@Nash076)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:15 GMT

My heart goes out to all those still at Twitter. Y'all must be going through hell right now. Thank you for sticking it out so far, but don't (figuratively, one hopes) kill yourself for this site. You don't deserve this treatment. Get out if you can. Condolences if you can't.

VM (Vicky) Brasseur 💉x5 🎉 (@vmbrasseur)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:39 GMT

Scoop from within Twitter: small things are breaking, not enough engineers to fix them. Noticed that notification counts are not showing? The BE service powering it is down since Thursday. A bug was filed, but the team that would fix it is full on with verification work.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 14:25 GMT

im meal (@boygrrI)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 21:03 GMT

When you share a tweet, the URL copied contains a parameter ?t=XYZ. This is the encoded user ID of the person who shared this tweet (aka your user ID). Twitter can track this way who views the link that you shared elsewhere. To maintain privacy, manually delete this parameter.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:46 GMT

I don't want this site to implode! I have built up a network of people I love to read and followers who are supportive and engaged. I will miss that. If you want to get to know more women techies, there are a few on this list: twitter.com/i/lists/712989… I hope to stay in touch

Trisha Gee | @trishagee@mastodon.social (@trisha_gee)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:28 GMT

Doggo 

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588081971221053440

Actually, no, it can't.

Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch)Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:04 GMT