I get some notifications on my phone from places from which I suppose I agreed to receiving them, but I never let a website notify me. But blogs can notify too, right? I seem to recall some tool that people used to get notifications from blogs and websites. I think of Twitter as a bit like a micro-blog.
I just googled Popehat on Twitter and found his Twitter feed. I could read his feed a few times a week this way instead of being notified when he tweets. Twitter just seems to want to amplify the time I spend there. I want to avoid that.
Heh. The latter. :)
It’s funny, when I linked to that tweet, I saw a warning that it was a parody account. Then when I went back to it again, the warning had disappeared. But I’m pretty sure it is actually a joke.
based on the profile pic alone, I assume joke
jsnell
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Definitely a joke. The account also has tweets e.g. claiming to be a member of the Twitter data science team.
I’m glad he landed on his feet at Apple after being fired from Twitter. I look forward to the next chapter of his journey.
Scotten
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I read last week that AMZN is expected to lose something like $10B on Alexa this year on hardware alone. Crazy.
The twitter replacer – should it either crash out or become an untenable place to be – that I might bet on now is Post. It does a lot of what Twitter does, though it’s still missing some features (like direct messaging, especially). But it looks promising.
And if you look at who just wrote them a big check of VC money – a16z, Andreessen Horowitz – you sure couldn’t blame a fellow for wondering if Andreessen is maybe putting down a saver bet on another horse in this race. (He bankrolled about $400m of the financing for the Twitter purchase by Elon.)
Tman
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I’m in the same boat. For now, I’m doing both twitter and Mastodon, and I’m enjoying Mastodon more because there is so much less repetition. (ads / retweets). But on the flip side, Saturday was caturday and Mastodon was overrun with cat pictures. I think they are cute the first 5 or 10, but I lost interest quickly after that. I’m not sure how many caturday’s I can handle.
Wolverines! Freedommmmmm!
Translation: if Apple doesn’t give me money when I demand it, I will have a hissy fit online.
JoshL
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Which is odd, since he tells people to vote for Republicans, and put Trump back on Twitter, which is the best thing you could do to end democracy and bring on tyranny.
He knows exactly what he is doing and what he and his bankrollers want.
How many times must it be said that when people tell you who they are, just believe them!
Tim_N
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If money is speech, then I guess it is true that taxation or having to pay for things is a limitation of speech.
Did Lenin have it right all along?
Thrag
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Sometimes I find myself scrolling down after clicking a tweet and wondering what the hell am I doing!?
Sometimes it is worth it.
Dejin
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More signaling? For those non-military history nerds, that’s a WW2 German Wehrmacht soldier carrying the pigeons.
This Tweet was sent out much earlier this month and I only found out about it as it was referenced in a NY Times article on Trump’s hanging out with anti-Semitics —”For Trump’s Jewish Allies, His Dinner With Antisemites Is a Breaking Point” (Gift Link if anyone really wants to read about Right-Wing Jewish Organizations’ handwringing over whether to chastise Trump or not).
Article also talks briefly about Kanye, Kyrie Irving, and Musk.
Tim_N
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Yeah this was talked about quite alot when it happened.
I am undecided whether Musk is secretly hard-right, or if he is a typical narcissistic and overconfident billionaire who happens to have a slew of hard-right twitter fans and borrows their symbology and language in a vain attempt to be likable on the internet. He has burnt away most of his space nerd and renewable tech fans, all that’s left are the crypto bros and alt-right incels, so he has to play to his demographic.
JoshL
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You know what you call a businessman at a dinner table with five Nazis?
(edit: also see “the rule of goats”)
Tim_N
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Someone who is a true moderate and only voting for the Nazi party because shared power curbs the worst excesses of both sides of politics and anyway Hindenburg is the Chancellor.
