Aaron Parecki

If there's one thing I think we can take away from the last few years, it's that nobody — absolutely nobody — is ever playing 4D chess

no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them.

free speech!

we’re baaaack! Twitter Blue is now available for $8/month on web or $11/month on iOS – we’ve made some upgrades and improvements 🧵

As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.

an incredible play in three acts

It's honestly hilarious how every time a weirdly arbitrary change is made to Twitter, you can always trace it back to a recent moment when people made fun of Elon for something.

Any attempt to remove my tweets that link to my other social media accounts, not violating any law, would actually make #twitter an editorial media, and no longer a social media platform, with civil and criminal liability for *any* illegal content therein. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

This is the last straw. I give up. You can find a link to my new Mastodon profile on my site.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.

My initial thoughts on the @gumroad price increase:

The 10% flat fee "no longer includes credit card processing fees", which means it's more like a 12.9% fee to sell on the platform.

We do ~$100K/mo in sales, so this would make our fees go up to roughly $13,000/mo.

NickFlightX has captured on video the perfect synchronized touchdowns at SFO (San Francisco Airport) with a United 737 MAX 9 and Alaska E175 landing together.

[more clips by the author: https://buff.ly/3uUEjq6]
https://t.co/42xoE8Dc7q

AI isn't going to replace workers... AI can only mimic what it sees and suggest basic ideas that have to be ignored or corrected. AI will replace CEOs.

The alternative federated protocols seem too complicated. I see a lot about the need for progressive enhancement on the web, but when it comes to communication systems people seem to abandon that requirement. Part of my nostalgia for RSS comes from how easy it was to get started.

🚨 SEMI-FINALS ARE HERE 🗳️

After starting with 32 names, we’ve narrowed it down to the final four contenders for Worst Person in Tech of 2022. How to choose from people who’ve caused so much harm?

Cast your votes and get the executive you despise to the finish line!

call me karl marx, but I feel like it shouldn’t be up to one car salesman whether a billion of us can communicate or not

I’ve been playing with chatGPTs riddle abilities and man does it get weird fast:

I have discovered the best possible use of ChatGPT

I almost bought one for science but did not hahahahhahaa. I don’t like science that much.