Aaron Parecki

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Derek Powazek thinks Elon Musk is an asshole https://twitter.com/fraying

Part of Twitter's centrality can be seen in newscasts with twitter handles on screen and author twitter handles on articles. Keep an eye out for those disappearing.

London, England • 57°F

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 5:39pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 6:27pm +00:00)
Casey Newton https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton

According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night.

An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”

London, England • 58°F

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 3:13pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 3:38pm +00:00)
Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈 https://berlin.social/@ainmosni

As Web 3.0 as a term has been utterly ruined by cryptobros, I propose the next version of the web will be Web 95.

London, England • 58°F

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 6:16am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 1:31pm +00:00)
Michael Harris https://twitter.com/MichaelH_PhD

Trying to arrange a work trip to Toronto.

London, England • 58°F

Tue, Nov 8, 2022 10:57pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 1:22pm +00:00)
Michael Andersen https://twitter.com/andersem

Short term: PDX 4plex legalization will have little effect (200-300 additional homes per year in a city with 300,000)

Medium term: not much more (1%-2% more homes in 2040)

Long term: big. As old 1plexes reach the end of their lives, most get replaced by 4plexes not huge 1plexes

London, England • 56°F

Wed, Nov 9, 2022 8:36pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 10:05am +00:00)
Owen Williams ⚡ https://twitter.com/ow

its just incredible we all get a front row seat to a speed run of how to kill a social network rather than a slow death by a thousand a/b tests

London, England • 56°F

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 1:45am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 10:05am +00:00)
Stuart Langridge https://twitter.com/sil

Adopting the concept, yes. Better would have been for them to use Webmentions, which are what Pingback should be; that is, not using XML-RPC, I think -- Pingback was designed when that was the cool thing, which it no longer is :) https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2014/11/29/enabling-webmentions/ has more on that!

London, England • 55°F

Thu, Nov 10, 2022 7:58am +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 9:09am +00:00)
Mike Jones https://twitter.com/selfissued

Among the best Indian food in the world

London, England • 50°F

Wed, Nov 9, 2022 11:04pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 12:33am +00:00)
Mike Jones https://twitter.com/selfissued

Traveling in high style, London edition!

London, England • 50°F

Wed, Nov 9, 2022 11:54pm +00:00 (liked on Thu, Nov 10, 2022 12:33am +00:00)
George Takei https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei

To independent-minded voters: Don’t just listen to what one person says, that’s not very independent-minded.

Vote for the party that will preserve democracy and isn’t steeped in election denialism and the desire to control our bodily autonomy. Vote for a Democratic Congress.

London, England • 53°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 4:02pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 3:37pm +00:00)
eve6 https://twitter.com/Eve6

Blue checks used to mean you were a mild to severely annoying public figure or journalist. In a week they’re going to mean you don’t believe in age of consent laws and you’re running a crypto scam

London, England • 53°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 5:23pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 3:36pm +00:00)
Dave 🧱 https://mastodon.design/@DavidDarnes

Twitter's verification: Either jump through all these hoops and cross all your fingers, or wait for a man-child to buy the entire company and spend $8 on something that will eventually lose all meaning.
Mastodon verification: Add your website to your profile and then your profile on your website as a regular HTML anchor link with `rel="me"` and you're done.

London, England • 58°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 5:05pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 1:10pm +00:00)
Janus Rose 🔊 https://mastodon.lol/@janusrose

❌ we should have daylight when we go to work in the morning
❌ we should have daylight when we come home from work at night
☑️ we shouldn’t have to work so many hours that we have to ration The Sun

London, England • 57°F

Tue, Nov 8, 2022 12:13am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 10:43am +00:00)
Steve Krenzel https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel

I wound up meeting with a Director who came in huffing and puffing.

The Director said “We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”

London, England • 54°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 7:26pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 8:41am +00:00)
Steve Krenzel https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel

To set the stage, this was the 2015-2016 era. @dickc was just ousted, though he was wonderful and made us feel like family. @jack came in as part-time CEO. Twitter had been near death for a while and was desperately trying to find a buyer. Facebook and Google both refused.

London, England • 54°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 7:26pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 8:40am +00:00)
Queens of the Stoner Age https://twitter.com/Katabassist

guys you've gotta stop liking this tweet twitter doesn't have enough engineers left to handle this many interactions you're gonna break it

London, England • 54°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 5:13am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 8:30am +00:00)
🌻✨️Lauren Dombrowski🏴‍☠️🍊 https://twitter.com/callmekitto

being on Twitter right now is like playing the violin on the titanic except we are also making fun of the iceberg and the iceberg is getting genuinely mad

London, England • 58°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 11:59pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 7, 2022 11:22pm +00:00)
𝕞𝕖𝕘𝕙𝕟𝕒 𝕛𝕒𝕪𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕙 https://twitter.com/betterthemask

if you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth

London, England • 57°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:33am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 7, 2022 11:05am +00:00)
anildash 🤪 https://mastodon.cloud/@anildash

When it came time to reckon with social media’s failings, nobody ran to the “web3” platforms. Nobody asked “can I get paid per message”? Nobody asked about the blockchain. The community of people who’ve been quietly doing this work for years (decades!) ended up being the ones who welcomed everyone over, as always.

London, England • 57°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 1:45am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 7, 2022 10:34am +00:00)
iJustine https://twitter.com/ijustine

I once said Teslas should have a front camera (because that only makes sense being able to see under the front of the car) and they told me to use my eyes and that’s what a windshield is for (and also to go kill myself)

London, England • 51°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:33pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:42pm +00:00)

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