Aaron Parecki

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EricaJoy https://twitter.com/EricaJoy

there is strong chance twitter has a major outage in the next few days. get your backup comms channels situated if you haven’t already.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 5:02pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 6:32pm -08:00)
Tom Coates https://twitter.com/tomcoates

If you’re interested in the lunacy at Twitter, then @platformer is the only place to go. Today’s newsletter documents how Musk ignores his own staff, shaming and firing them in public, has frozen all deployment and how advertisers won’t reengage until he reverses his changes.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Tue, Nov 15, 2022 1:41am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 6:31pm -08:00)
soul nate https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan

can’t believe my stupid ass has imposter syndrome while elon musk is confidently marching around twitter HQ and chewing on wires until something breaks

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 10:43pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 5:40pm -08:00)
Zoë Schiffer https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer

NEW: Days before the launch of paid verification, Twitter’s trust & safety team sent Elon Musk a 7-page list of risks and recommendations on how the feature could be abused. But Musk refused to adopt any change that would delay the launch. We got the docs: https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-only-trusts-elon

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Tue, Nov 15, 2022 1:05am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 5:39pm -08:00)
sachee@macaw.social https://twitter.com/sachee

you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching

like did you bother to even learn how graphql works

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 6:14pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 4:35pm -08:00)
Travis Kling https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling

I’m at a loss for words at the depth & breadth of the pieces of shit that permeate crypto. So many fucking sociopaths were granted the opportunity to do so much damage. It’s hard for me to imagine the space bouncing back quickly from this ordeal. Too many got burned too hard.

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 4:53pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 12:33pm -08:00)
Mohanad Elshieky https://twitter.com/MohanadElshieky

It’s called the blockchain because it’s a list of crypto bros who you should block

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 8:11pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 12:13pm -08:00)
Zach Leatherman https://twitter.com/zachleat

“I mean it’s one thousand RCP calls, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?”

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 7:47pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 12:10pm -08:00)
Chris Messina 🐀 https://twitter.com/chrismessina

It was a useful way to provide visibility via attribution for third party clients, like Tweetie (which was acquired and became the Twitter iOS app) or Tweetdeck (RIP).

It was also a useful status indicator (e.g. whether the tweet was sent via desktop or mobile).

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 3:49pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 11:44am -08:00)
David Buchanan https://twitter.com/David3141593

When you look inside your C: drive and see that System32 is taking up a lot of space

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 6:35pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 11:43am -08:00)
@eposvox@mindly.social https://twitter.com/EposVox

Just a reminder that "self-hosted" doesn't *necessarily* have to mean literally hosting on a computer in your house. It just means you're in control over it.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 3:58am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 9:49am -08:00)
Laurie Voss is also @seldo@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/seldo

People sometimes describe startups as rocket ships and it's a great metaphor. They set fire to tons of fuel, big chunks of the structure that did most of the early work are discarded into the ocean, and only a handful of people right at the top make it to space.

Portland, Oregon • 36°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 2:52pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 7:50am -08:00)
🦥 Mx.Grey ☭ :verified_gay: https://mastodon.nz/@TheAtheistAlien

mastodon vs twitter (updated)

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 4:46pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 7:31am -08:00)
blaine https://mastodon.social/@blaine

"Mastodon sucks because any one of the 5000+ communities can set their own rules and might accidentally deprive people in that community of my witty hot takes for a reason I personally believe to be flippant" isn't the sick burn that the Twitter user with 50k followers thinks it is.

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 2:55pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 14, 2022 7:22am -08:00)
https://adactio.com/links/19608

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 7:19am -08:00
Derek Powazek 🍥 https://twitter.com/fraying

Fun new Twitter feature: porn ads! Bet some of those laid off contractors were ad reviewers.

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Mon, Nov 14, 2022 5:19am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 9:45pm -08:00)
Gergely Orosz https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz

This is what micromanaging from the top looks like, when the CEO *thinks* they can tell the source of the problem and how to fix it, just by looking at it.

It’s incredibly frustrating when it happens to you. It’s rare to see it this public.

Good luck to engineers in the weeds.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 8:45pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 4:45pm -08:00)
Casey Newton https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton

Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.

People inside are stunned.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 5:41pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 4:33pm -08:00)
trash panda https://twitter.com/instmonk

a fun one is "anime" which in japanese is an english loanword referring to all animation (it's just the first three syllables of "animation") and then it got loaned back into english to mean "japanese animation"

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

Sun, Nov 13, 2022 6:19pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 4:21pm -08:00)
Jerry Bell :verified: https://infosec.exchange/@jerry

The Epyc system is now carrying the load of Infosec.exchange. There are now 112 cpu cores (224 threads) and 1TB of RAM across 6 servers powering the site. Now I can breath.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sat, Nov 12, 2022 3:06am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 13, 2022 12:46pm -08:00)

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