Aaron Parecki

oh my god, i looked at these and thought, "that's a weird absurdist joke" before it dawned on me after reading the entire thing that the point is that it is real

My latest: A dispatch from the Failing States of America.

How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/how-western-media-would-cover-minneapolis-if-it-happened-another-country/

Hmm, what port did I plug AP-6 into again? 🤯 Extremely awesome.

I used to be pretty anti-starting soon screen, but now I consider:
- Twitch notifications take 3-5 minutes to send in most cases
- Many people like to not miss gameplay or initial hellos
- There is almost always a "let me hit me resub button" rush during the start period

Most viewers aren’t seeing the notification immediately. If I do see a notification right away, it gives me time to wrap up what I’m doing or grab a drink/snack before the stream starts. I’m not waiting 20 min, but I can wait 5 minutes for a couple hours of entertainment.

Most people don't have viewers immediately (I know, I don't) and it helps me send out all social media notifications by hand AFTER I hit the live button, so that I'm not lying about that live bit. 2-5 minutes is not a long time to wait, you know?

I always felt like it was a way for people to get in before the streamer actually starts talking. I've been told before that some viewers like being there for the first words of the stream and a Starting Soon screen gives more people a chance for that!

My twitch notification takes a few minutes to push through. If I start stream the majority of viewers will miss the first few minutes of what I say (when I’m normally catching up with my day / week) and I’ll have to repeat it all loooool

I’ve never understood the Starting Soon screen

Like it’s so disappointing for a viewer to hit a go live notification only to be hit with a 5m wait screen. Plus, being live right away lets me hang out with the viewers that are there before the notification

Anyone feel the same?

What should Twitter have done from the start? @blaine knows, and speaks out: https://slate.com/technology/2020/05/twitter-trump-blaine-cook.html

It feels pretty fucked up to have built Trump's magaphone. Twitter serves a lot of other important roles, too, though. I'm glad that they're starting to take steps to rein in the damage, but I wish they'd go further to create safe spaces for all of us.

I honestly don't. Ten years ago I couldn't predict where I ended up today.

I actually had a hand in the development of this and it’s amazing to see finished! Got mine today and will be doing a review on it shortly! So stoked. 🎙

Did you see that @anomalily & @ohmydollar made a @nytimes list of best money podcasts?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/arts/podcasts-money-virus.html

Amazon order confirmations and shipment notifications no longer include any item details. I could not for the life of me figure out why they would do this. They're not scored on MAUs, they don't need me to click through. Then I realized: is it so Google can't see my order data?

Mark Zuckerberg created a website to rank his female classmates by their appearance and it ended up destroying democracy, in case you're wondering about the consequences of toxic masculinity

Just remember that you can still open Notepad and make a website and nobody can ever take that from you.

You guys! I've become trivial!!

/via @GuyLigertwood

I kind of wrote the guide on cloning twitter for your cohort https://runyourown.social

I am essentially king dingdong of https://friend.camp/about

It's generally nicer than here