Aaron Parecki

Biggest issue with the Elon stans is that they don't actually love him for environmental reasons or because he's allegedly attempting to make humanity a multi planetary species.

It's because he's getting away with bad stuff and profiting, and they wish they could do the same.

So no, I don’t move seats for families unless it is literally I have to go up one row and I haven’t already put my stuff away in my specifically chosen seat so I can rest/do work in my office. Flying is expensive and exhausting for everyone. If you can’t plan ahead, fly Southwest

In light of everything happening at Twitter, a lot of people are wondering "where to go next". May I suggest, and I am speaking to myself here too, that you invest in your own blog on your own domain? Own your own content, and share your thoughts independently of dingaling CEOs.

"Blockchain" is the "essential oils" of tech bros.

the history of "social media" is the history of people inventing things that are strictly worse than livejournal

Europe but if Europe colonised it

Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.

Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.

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https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-takes-over-twitter

30 people getting coffee

Our dystopia will be full of grays and washed out colors, just as sci fi movies told us it would be.

Fun times ahead for #Adobe designers. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that's 20 years old) with an obscure PANTONE colour, it will remove the colour and make it black. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November.

Want to feel old? Three hours ago Twitter was a public company

The cool thing about cyberpunk coming true is that we got ALL the cyberpunk futures.

China: universal surveillance and social control

America: cool gadgets and staggering inequality

Russia: shadowy plots, covert ops, and assasins

Japan: Japan

Over the past 6 months, I’ve conducted an investigation that has uncovered the most prolific scamming collective currently on YouTube.

-a thread

Over the next few months, I continued to gain the scammers trust. Eventually, I lied and told him that I was running low on money, and needed to earn some extra cash.

So I asked him if I could be a part of his scam.

He said yes.

I've been using that new macOS/iOS feature where you can use your iPhone as a webcam and it's fantastic - quality is absolutely superb

Makes me wonder why Apple can't ship the iPhone camera built into a MacBook screen. Is the part just prohibitively expensive?

*Tom from MySpace slowly turning around in a big office chair*

"I knew this day would come. When you all came crawling back."

Turns out taking away car traffic is great for businesses https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/nyregion/ny-open-streets-restaurants.html

The Perfect YouTube Video Recipe

1️⃣ Big Idea (Topic, Title, Thumbnail)
2️⃣ Hook (The First 30 Seconds)
3️⃣ Content (Keep The Viewer Watching Until The End)
4️⃣ Transition (Lead The Viewer To The Next Relevant & Enticing Video

A reminder that this can happen to anyone at any time in any social media platform.

Make your personal website’s URL known so that you and your peers can reach out.