Elon Musk is such a stellar example of this country's anti-intellectualism. A bunch of people calling themselves free thinkers believe that the richest man on Earth proposing the invention of tunnels is an anti-establishment genius.

Read Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell (@JoshuaPotash)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:16 +0000

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1518647878532665345

Meritorious Nepotist (@DabIoDicasso)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:58 +0000

Dr. Eggman’s Wealth Scrutinized Following Report His Family Owned A Chaos Emerald Mine In South Africa hard-drive.net/dr-eggmans-wea…

Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:47 +0000

https://twitter.com/earthlingworks/status/1518677276207947776

Elon. It's not a call about Twitter but I'm obviously going to bring it up.

Jack Ellis (@JackEllis)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:49 +0000

BREAKING: Man Makes Midlife Crisis Everybody's Problem: ow.ly/PAi450IRKV0

Reductress (@Reductress)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:40 +0000

I honestly don't know what to do about Twitter. I find him and his fan club absolutely repugnant. I don't want to support him in any way. But Twitter is how I've made many of my friends as an adult, how I've found multiple jobs, and is pretty essential to my life. Fuck.

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 20:22 +0000

elon musk spending $43 billion to stop getting bullied on twitter when he could’ve simply been less annoying is insane

first-mate prance (@bocxtop)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:38 +0000

when we stopped literally demonizing and torturing left handed people, the number of them on record shot up, because people felt safer admitting it the actual proportion of left handed people in society didn't change, and right-handed kids were not 'groomed' to left handedness

Oliver Darkshire 🌈 (@deathbybadger)Sun, 24 Apr 2022 08:40 +0000

None of this would be happening if you all simply did as I do, and pay Twitter $3 a month for no reason

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:33 +0000

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1518644312505913344

Some people replying with “Twitter Blue isn’t available where I live.” Well then move. Are you committed to this app or aren’t you

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:38 +0000

casual sex implies the existence of competitive, ranked sex

Violet Valentine (@slutpilled)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:29 +0000

it's not twitter that's broken, it's the internet. at every step of the way we've let the digital commons be overrun by corporate interest and now we stand inside each of our fenced off spaces yelling across the divide, hoping it's better in someone else's pasture.

dongwon 송동원 (@dongwon)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:33 +0000

https://twitter.com/SharpieStuff/status/1518568198957940736

Billionaires are all the same. A shame they get so far because too many people just assume they're rational, normal folk. Theyre not.

SharpieStuff (@SharpieStuff)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:35 +0000

general panic aside, would strongly encourage ppl to maintain an alternative platform just in case, but to not abandon ship entirely many of us depend on the varied demographic of twt users to make a living; a mass exodus will only harm small businesses, not a multi billionaire

tsu 🌈 working on BEANS (@tsurudraws)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:43 +0000

mastodon.social going down on rumors of a Twitter acquisition is a pretty good microcosm of where decentralised social media is at, infrastructure-wise

Tristam (@0x21376B00)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:44 +0000

as someone who wrote a social network in a weekend: yes, it's possible to do that as someone who's seen the Google App Engine bills for what that social network would've cost if launched publicly: you absolutely cannot afford to grow to 100k users without a serious cash infusion

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There's no need to panic, everybody. The Hacker News comment section told me that a real programmer can build a Twitter clone in a day

Gabriella Gonzalez (@GabriellaG439)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:03 +0000

Colin McMillen (@mcmillen)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:49 +0000

Now that this platform is being bought by a freedom maximalist, does this mean we can expect a free and open Twitter API?

Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:53 +0000

https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1518619152755224576

I thought he was going to open source the whole thing?

Adam Jacob (@adamhjk)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:31 +0000

https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1518618639263444992

Yeah, I originally joined Twitter to promote my blog posts haha

milf twink (@SamAllenX)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:00 +0000

This is an interesting thread and I agree with all the points PK makes. I joined Twitter for the tech content but got pretty bored of it and found much more community in trans Twitter twitter.com/pkodmad/status…

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Tech twitter especially frontend discourse is dead or at the very least dying and becoming increasingly disconnected. 👇

PK 🐢 👩🏻‍💻 (@PKodmad)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:36 +0000

milf twink (@SamAllenX)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:28 +0000

big benefit to a fragmentation of people, thanks to a mass twitter-bail means we will no longer be forced to hang out with complete dickheads maybe a centralised platform where everyone yells at each other wasn’t a good idea actually

Andy Bell (@hankchizljaw)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:07 +0000

Next week, I'm joining GitHub as a Distinguished Engineer. As a long time GitHub user, it's going to be a true privilege to join the team to broadly work on our products, infrastructure and engineering culture.

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Sun, 24 Apr 2022 21:13 +0000

https://twitter.com/monkchips/status/1518587934873640960

Back? I've never left.

Markus Eisele (@myfear)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:56 +0000

https://twitter.com/monkchips/status/1518587934873640960

Some of us never left.

Mike Maney (@the_spinmd)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:49 +0000

so back to RSS, then?

facemask holdout (@monkchips)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:49 +0000

https://twitter.com/alexkealy/status/1518536679782559744

GB News employees: [shredded muscley dog] britain is the greatest country in the world. everyone wants to live here, we are The Chosen People. GB News employees: [pathetic doge] if we tax billionaires a bit they'll never choose to live in this hole, this cesspit isle

Alex Kealy 🇺🇦 (@alexkealy)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:27 +0000

Remember when one shoe bomb failed to kill anyone and the government made everyone take their shoes off at security checkpoints for the next few decades? Ever think america is just really terrible at risk assessment?

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Guns became the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2020, killing more people ages 1 to 19 in the U.S. than vehicle crashes, drugs overdoses or cancer. nbcnews.to/3vabwid

NBC News (@NBCNews)Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:01 +0000

James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:08 +0000

Once again... me: "brew install ansible" brew: "sure i'll upgrade everything everywhere without checking that's OK with you first"

Karl (@karlstoney)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:09 +0000

https://twitter.com/JamesSACorey/status/1518547548960481280

Shoe first, ask questions later. (Just unbelievable how bad on just so many levels)

Andy Pearlman (@apearlma)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 11:13 +0000

orange cat being scratched pet on its back while meowing loudly yelling talking blabbing sped up fast

meow (@meowniments)Sun, 24 Apr 2022 18:22 +0000

Finally exchanged on the house, only three weeks delayed because (and who could have predicted this) fax may not be the most reliable method of communication 🙃

James King (@ripixelcodes)Wed, 30 Mar 2022 20:59 +0000

https://twitter.com/CiaranMcNulty/status/1518497268848025602

I married you too?

Matt Brunt (@Brunty)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 07:49 +0000

A map of the most popular browsers in 2012 compared to 2022. Welcome to the world of Chrome.

Aaron Toponce ⚛️ (@AaronToponce)Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:57 +0000

A 200% salary increase for someone in my course this morning 😍

Randall (@RandallKanna)Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:47 +0000

https://twitter.com/joshoconnorchen/status/1518342666026885120

If you've never worked anywhere where this is the case, I am genuinely happy for you and a little envious

Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@IanColdwater)Sun, 24 Apr 2022 23:55 +0000

So you can invert a binary tree, map and reduce and all sorts of other things. You can’t leetcode yourself into a team player or a leader. Why did we let these companies Keyser Soze the tech hiring process? The outcomes from these process don’t create software people want to use.

Bryan Liles (@bryanl)Sat, 23 Apr 2022 23:21 +0000

Random commenter: Why does CS need an ethics focus? Me: Because technology hurts people and maybe if doesn’t have to. Them: Technology is just a tool. Me: That. That is why CS people need more ethics focused training. I swear this is 100% real.

Casey Fiesler, PhD, JD, geekD (@cfiesler)Mon, 24 Jan 2022 01:26 GMT

If in 5 years #COVID is discovered to cause cancer like HPV, Multiple Sclerosis like EBV, liver failure like HepC, or acts like VZV chicken pox in form of adult shingles…I don’t want to hear one cry of terror from anyone who gleefully shouted while removing mask on the plane.

Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJHilton_MD)Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:47 +0000

Looking forward to the 5,000 word oral history of Netflix where they slowly realize canceling shows after 2 seasons makes audiences not bother picking up new shows.

Laurie Voss (@seldo)Sun, 24 Apr 2022 16:27 +0000

The last 3 months, we have seen trans people: - referred to as pedophiles/groomers - called "an infection" - "need to be morally mandated out of existence" Parents of trans people are investigated. Health care may be pulled. The eugenics/genocide language is turned up to 11.

Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn)Sun, 24 Apr 2022 05:10 +0000

Pretty hostile of a job to require a college degree. “You and/or your parents must take out loans of $100,000 or we won’t let your log into SalesForce in our windowless building next to the airport.”

rob delaney (@robdelaney)Sat, 23 Apr 2022 21:41 +0000