Likes from 15 November 2022

WHEN THEY WERE BRAINSTORMING THE INTERNET AND IT’S POTENTIAL CULTURAL: every person will have instant access to every piece of information it’s going to be a nirvana of thought and intellectualism THE INTERNET:

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thanks (@lu2000k)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:56 GMT

Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:23 GMT

thanks (@lu2000k)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:56 GMT

so we're all leaving twitter for the hm treasury discord right??

Cait Goodale (@designCaitlin)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:16 GMT

people think Friends is unrealistic bc of the whiteness but actually it’s how much free time they all have??? If I tried to get 5 other friends together to hang we’d have to plan it weeks in advance and someone would inevitably cancel last minute

Karen Chee (@karencheee)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:24 GMT

A friendly reminder to some on here... deleting a tweet doesn't delete the screenshots of that tweet. 🥰

Kelly Vaughn (parody) (@kvlly)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:37 GMT

https://twitter.com/elibelly/status/1592585733126361094

i don’t think it’s gonna be alright m8 im so sorry 💜

Andy Bell (@piccalilli_)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:39 GMT

being a millennial mom is WILD bc I just realized that I apologized more times to my kid THIS MORNING than my parents apologized to me my ENTIRE LIFE. that’s two times btw

ely kreimendahl (@ElyKreimendahl)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:10 GMT

Good reminder that corporate Slack accounts can let bosses read *everything* on any given employee slack account. Private messages, locked rooms — it's all visible to them, and in some cases they can and will use it against employees.

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https://twitter.com/skilldrick/status/1592519449307148289

My twitter account was protected at the time, so I can only assume this was for not showing 100% loyalty in slack. I’ve heard the same thing has happened to many others now.

Nick Morgan (parody) (@skilldrick)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:32 GMT

Kevin Collier (@kevincollier)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:17 GMT

how do we get back to precedented times? this is exhausting.

Jessysaurusrex ✨ (@jessysaurusrex)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:33 GMT

the fake argument whether dogs or cats are better hurts us all

america's tweetheart (@kalehummus)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:34 GMT

very cool industry, no notes! also, no women nominees lol.

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Louis CK and Dave Chappelle have both been nominated for best comedy album at the #GRAMMYS. bit.ly/3hMDKer twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Variety (@Variety)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:49 GMT

Alison Leiby (@AlisonLeiby)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 19:40 GMT

https://twitter.com/nicollhunt/status/1359117386582999043

damn, this aged extremely well

ashley (parody) 🐀 (@rabcyr_alt)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:14 GMT

I absolutely regret this

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I regret nothing

Nicoll Hunt (@nicollhunt)Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:30 GMT

Nicoll Hunt (@nicollhunt)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 19:11 GMT

every time musk fires a twitter engineer for calling out his bs, the general response is "sad, but you shouldn't call out your boss in public". why? why is it assumed that people in power can say or do whatever tf they want without even being called out for it. serf mentality

Cain Maddox (@ctrlshifti)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:35 GMT

I reiterate: fuck you if you support or are neutral towards Musk. This is a WILDLY unsurprising outcome, and your lack of care for his hate speech around trans identity in the past has enabled this.

tierney cyren (parody) (@bitandbang)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:39 GMT

RT @Derick549 Please stay at least 6 weeks away from me

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:51 GMT

RT @thejasonkirk "Download your twitter archives now, so you can look at your old posts" is a call to action that does not fill me with urgency

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:36 GMT

I thought mastodon instances don’t make a difference but it turns out they have their own custom emoji, which means I will now be on a lifelong quest to find the best one

If we're sharing our favorite tweets in case the twitter ship goes down, this is up there. It's not quite to the level of "look it up, baby" but it's as close as I'll ever get!

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how it started: how it's going:

Laurie (@laurieontech)Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:49 +0000

Laurie (@laurieontech)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:40 GMT

Fill your void with shredded cheese

stormygailart skeleton with boobs (@stormygailart)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:38 GMT

how it started: how it's going:

Laurie (@laurieontech)Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:49 +0000

horrible news. been starting my days with 20-30 min of light yoga and unfortunately it really makes a difference, mentally and physically. i’m so sorry

Sydney Battle (@SydneyBattle)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1592574667470307328

Simone Giertz (@SimoneGiertz)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:27 GMT

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1592549696710799360

What do you even say?

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:46 GMT

https://twitter.com/endingwithali/status/1592545276619022339

can you tell i recently stopped going to my therapist shout out to my twitch chat - i basically go online and have public therapy for 4 hours a day now

ali - LOOKING for mid level developer roles!! 🐀 (@endingwithali)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:16 GMT

i feel bad because people are asking for my reply to things, but ever since getting laid off i've been extremely lethargic and sluggish, to a point i cant stay focused. if it wasnt for certain things in my life I definitely would be experiencing a full blown depressive episode.

ali - LOOKING for mid level developer roles!! 🐀 (@endingwithali)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:49 GMT

Same. I was hyped to get one as our next car (unbeknownst to my husband).

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Watching Elon operate in a domain I have some familiarity with has put me off ever wanting to own a Tesla.

Tom Dale (@tomdale)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:12 GMT

sarajo (@SaraJChipps)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:00 GMT

What the last few days have felt like reading Twitter.

James Turnbull (@kartar)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:01 GMT

Watching Elon operate in a domain I have some familiarity with has put me off ever wanting to own a Tesla.

Tom Dale (@tomdale)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:12 GMT

Three senior+ software engineers working at Twitter quote tweeted the below, pointing out how it doesn’t make sense. All three fired the same day, one done in public. Criticising your boss in public always has negative consequences, though this response was unusually strong.

twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:44 GMT

I know everyone’s watching Twitter’s various features & systems fall apart. It’s clear that the wheels are falling off. But a quick reminder that you also need to keep an eye on what’s happening in the European regulatory space. In short, Twitter’s in BIG, BIG trouble. 1/

Rebekah Tromble | rebekahtromble@federate.social (@RebekahKTromble)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:56 GMT

bro what is going on at twitter

soul nate (@MNateShyamalan)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:12 GMT

*slaps hood of twitter app* This bad boy can fit 1000s of poorly batched RPCs in it!

Aaron Patterson (@tenderlove)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:30 GMT

https://twitter.com/skilldrick/status/1592519449307148289

My twitter account was protected at the time, so I can only assume this was for not showing 100% loyalty in slack. I’ve heard the same thing has happened to many others now.

Nick Morgan (parody) (@skilldrick)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:32 GMT

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Nick Morgan (parody) (@skilldrick)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:06 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592431233698787329

For those saying that criticizing should be done in private: I have reports for a number of employees similarly terminated the past 24 hours who were criticizing Musk's tweet on an internal Slack watercooler channel. Some criticized other eng leaders. ~10 people, as I hear.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:31 GMT

https://twitter.com/i_x_s/status/1592497155985416192

Criticizing in private also ended up in pretty much instant firing. So...

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:44 GMT

this was supposed to be a reply to someone else's message which shows how well I am getting on with mastodon

https://twitter.com/CarolSaysThings/status/1592469731789131776

Goblin mode => great code

jmalk (@jmalk)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:02 GMT

Leave Twitter just because it's fallen into disrepair under terrible leadership? Babe, I'm British

Martha 🖊️ (@marthaabigail_)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:34 GMT

because his boss is an asshole who publicly threw his employees under the bus by tweeting erroneous information about their work. I, as a leader, am not a coward who throws my ppl under the bus and then gets butt hurt when they defend their work by correcting me.

twitter.com/YouAreW8733075…

Angie Jones (@techgirl1908)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:19 GMT

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what would YOU build using over a thousand RCP calls

laura 💩 (@freezydorito)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:52 GMT

Richard is on Mastodon @penllawen@infosec.exchange (@PenLlawen)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:57 GMT

I can't believe I'm complaining about anything right now. There are a lot of people going through some real shit and all this energy should be directed towards supporting them.

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 04:52 GMT

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

Pinboard (@Pinboard)Fri, 05 Aug 2016 20:15 +0000

As a Twitter engineer working on a number of those microservices, I'm predicting a massive outage in the next few days if 80% are turned down twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Sheon Han (@sheonhan)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:33 GMT

All the tech people I know are just waiting for this thing to just stop working

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 (@pati_gallardo)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:30 GMT

Mario Fusco 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@mariofusco)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800

James Felton (@JimMFelton)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:29 GMT

So if you’ve just purchased a company that uses microservices and want to understand what the hell they are, and whether or not turning them off randomly will cause issues, this might be helpful: samnewman.io/books/building…

Sam Newman (@samnewman)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:23 GMT

The Treasury creates a Discord server (2022)

insane moments in british politics (@PoliticsMoments)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:28 GMT

https://twitter.com/piccalilli_/status/1591795575296589824

Which conference has spurred this? I have a seen a few tweets along these lines

Lily Dart (@lily_dart)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:18 GMT

https://twitter.com/podperson/status/1591870451785293824

Just because academia does it a certain way doesn't mean it's right.

jina @ #clarity2022 (@jina)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:12 GMT

“Meritocracy is a given” ah yes, notably a thing that exists especially in the tech industry 🤣🤣🤣

twitter.com/gergelyorosz/s…

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https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592427163097014272

At better tech companies, meritocracy is a given, including pointing out incorrect arguments your boss made *with facts*. And yes, I’ve seen this happen in public enough settings (eg all hands). A leader wanting to have a culture of meritocracy would handle this different.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:13 GMT

danielle 🏳️‍🌈 (@endocrimes)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:49 GMT

at an absolute *minimum* a conference should cover speaker’s travel and accommodation I can’t believe this has to be said still

Andy Bell (@piccalilli_)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:10 GMT

Looks like I just got fired for shitposting too✌️ twitter.com/jessefeinman/s…

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Same, the best way to go! twitter.com/sachee/status/…

Jesse's boring account (@JesseFeinman)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 05:46 GMT

nickrw (@nickrw)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:54 GMT

lol just got fired for shitposting i said it before and i'll say it again kiss my ass elon 💋

sachee@macaw.social (@sachee)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:07 GMT

https://twitter.com/sachee/status/1592310225125920768

just because some dipshit doesn't understand what we built doesn't make it (or us) any less awesome

sachee@macaw.social (@sachee)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:19 GMT

this is the kind of top tier content you can’t get anywhere else but this website

b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/blaine/status/1592265431309778944

According to @rabble all of prod had the same PW and he was adding code 2 years after he left

Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks (@kevinmarks)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/1592280607941603328

Yes you could remote ssh in to all the boxes as root with the password of the company name and year it was founded: odeo2005. Code changes could be made that way until the switch from subversion to git.

rabble (@rabble)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:15 GMT

(I have chronic pain) I'll be talking to someone and they'll say something like "Big deal, my back hurts all the time and sometimes I can't get out of bed because of it" and I'll have to be like oh honey, that's not the norm for human bodies. You have chronic pain, too.

Heron Greenesmith, Esq. 🐀 (@herong)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 00:39 GMT

apparently they didnt turn off 2-factor authentication but they DID turn off the service that sends you the 2-factor authentication code. so if you log out and try to log in with an authentication code you simply wont receive one. lol. lmao twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

zach silberberg (@zachsilberberg)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:48 GMT

One thing that struck me while I was searching for friends to follow is that I hadn’t realised how many people I hadn’t heard from for ages, because The Bird Algorithm decided what it was going to …

the “why am i the only one with sense” to “girl am i autistic?” pipeline

leo thee afro-arakki (@arakkisuperstar)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 21:41 GMT

Elon Musk tweeting like “did you know twitter hq only needs about 10% of the copper wire in its walls to function? Today I will be liquidating this costly bloat.”

Pseudonym Jones (@pseudonymjones)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:22 GMT

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1592322715540918274

One detail that could prove important: Twitter has no automated means to remove verification badges for people who don’t pay for Blue. So Elon either has to build that tech, or have folks do it manually. Except he just fired 80% of his contractors. platformer.news/p/elon-only-tr…

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:09 GMT

NEW: On Nov. 1, Twitter’s trust and safety team prepared a 7-page document warning Musk and his team about exactly how the rollout of the new “verified” badge would go wrong. They were ignored. And then their fears came true With @ZoeSchiffer platformer.news/p/elon-only-tr…

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:04 GMT

shout out to paleolithic people for petting those wolves, you really did us a solid

Amy-Leigh Gemstone (lolennui@mas.to) (@lolennui)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:42 GMT

https://twitter.com/kyleshevlin/status/1592404075840438273

Jokes on me, what microservices?!

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:31 GMT

I was skeptical before, but after seeing his management skills in action I think letting Elon Musk oversee the migration of Earth's wealthiest people to Mars is a great idea.

Jesse von Doom (@jessevondoom)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:04 GMT

Ya know, if I wasn’t so bad at systems design interviews (it’s always these that ruin me), I might have gotten an offer from Twitter at the start of the year, and right now would have been a VERY different experience. Sometimes you have to be thankful for what you failed at.

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:19 GMT

https://twitter.com/kyleshevlin/status/1592401815815221249

Them: How would you design the microservice architecture of this feature?? Me: I’ve got no clue. I’ve written like 2 SQL queries in my whole life without an ORM. But I can center a div in every conceivable way! Plus, I’m like super good at React, yo. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Kyle Shevlin (@kyleshevlin)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:28 GMT

People who brag about not being politically correct tend also not to be factually, morally, or grammatically correct.

God (Not a Parody, Actually God) (@TheTweetOfGod)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 01:06 GMT

Joan Cornellà (@sirjoancornella)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:08 GMT

A bold move, to fire key developers who understand Twitter’s codebase and speak truth to your power. Elon is the most incompetent and toxic manager of any software-intensive system than I have ever seen (and in my many years of experience I have seen quite a few).

twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:36 GMT

https://twitter.com/MiaRSato/status/1592233411888181248

Certainly could be that more than 4 million new users are people just joining in to watch the show unfold🍿

Eliot Lu (@eliotlu95)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:52 GMT

i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun: DAY 1 – ARRIVAL

worms cited (@christapeterso)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:44 GMT

It’s really something to see these all laid out in one thread. I missed seeing some of these tweets, despite being extremely online.

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i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun: DAY 1 – ARRIVAL

worms cited (@christapeterso)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:44 GMT

Rich Burroughs @ $8chan (@richburroughs)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:40 GMT

Actual science would like a word.

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Biological sex is real, immutable, and binary.

Colin Wright (@SwipeWright)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:53 GMT

Sean Carroll (@seanmcarroll)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:50 GMT

Was I a good website? mastodon.social/@Shatter242/10…

insecurity princess @saraislet@infosec.exchange (@saraislet)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:53 GMT

Welp sextpanther is dead in the water. Due to the service provider they use for SMS messaging deciding sexual messages are no longer allowed. They are switching to website only. No more SMS which was a huge client converter. The war on sex work continues.

Lacey Royce (@MissLollipopMFC)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:13 GMT

https://twitter.com/CarolSaysThings/status/1592418933075693569

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:27 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592287508729303041

Three senior software engineers fired in one day for criticising Elon’s statement on how Twitter’s backend works. The other two firings were now communicated on Twitter but also happened yesterday. I haven’t heard of an engineer being fired promptly over a tweet, much less 3.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:35 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1592286605024415744

My question on “who would work at Twitter, given options” now includes that of working there you should expect to receive criticism in public, and firing on the spot for responding in public. The pool of experience sw engineers who would choose Twitter just shrank some more.

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Serious question: outside of outsized, unvested stock on the line or high compensation, why would any software engineer with options consider working at Twitter, going forward? Policies changing overnight and an owner acting visibly hostile towards staff who built Twitter.

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Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:01 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:45 GMT

In the backchannels I have with software engineers, the act of firing a respected engineer after he publicly responded to Elon criticising Twitter’s engineering team - and explaining choices - broke the straw with many. It’s a chilling message. Contradict Elon and you’re fired.

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How to be the ultimate professional and still utterly destroy someone, a masterclass by @EricFrohnhoefer

Dan Kim (@dankim)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:45 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:41 GMT

The Stanford Prison Experiment as a management philosophy Lord of the Flies as a business model

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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

Ray Granger (@rgranger21)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:33 GMT

https://twitter.com/lmillernpr/status/1592253569083838467

My 4 yr old: are crabs happy? Do crabs have friends? My wife: does this mean there aren’t actually any different species on earth and instead we’re just all at different points on our way to Crab?

Lulu Miller (@lmillernpr)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:28 GMT

FRIENDS. LATIF AND I ARE ABOUT TO INTERVIEW THE SCIENTIST WHO SHOWED THAT EVOLUTION KEEPS MAKING CRABS. From separate, unrelated species, the crab shape KEEPS evolving, almost like an ideal form. Evolution wants a crab. Got any Qs? Big or Small?

Lulu Miller (@lmillernpr)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:30 GMT

12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet. “Anyone know who owns this?” “Unplug it. Someone will show up.” Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”

Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky)Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:32 GMT

My lungs haven’t functioned normally since the second time I had COVID and it really is killing my vibe for living

Cher Scarlett (@cherthedev)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:42 GMT