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by grappler 4y ago
"oh yeah, I have plenty else going on. I'm the head of other innovative companies. I don't need this crap over at twitter." At this point, twitter's goal (whether headed by Elon or someone else) should be to join th
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by grappler 4y ago
I mean ok, yes it's part of the web and there are legit reasons to link to content there but, you know, make the effort to not do that without a really good reason.
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by grappler 4y ago
Not even a bit
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by grappler 4y ago
Using twitter, linking to twitter, giving a twitter as your contact handle... these things are now markers of the Wrong Kind of People. I wouldn't want to be one of those people, and I hope you wouldn't either.
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by grappler 4y ago
There is now no good use for twitter other than steering people off of twitter. The fediverse is where microblogging should happen now. We should collectively turn our backs on twitter. Twitter needs to collapse into nothing.
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by grappler 4y ago
The replacement for twitter is the fediverse. It has already been growing by leaps and bounds since Elon's takeover. https://the-federation.info/ People will say "mastodon" a lot and they're not wro
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by grappler 4y ago
Techdirt post responding to the platformer article https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/14/twitters-big-ad-plan-violate-both-ftc-consent-decree-california-privacy-law-to-force-users-to-hand-over-info-for-ad-tar
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Twitter may mandate personalized ads and location sharing for non-paying users(platformer.news)
5 points by grappler 4y ago|2 comments
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by grappler 4y ago
I think it just took some parts of the media a few days to sort through the noise and pick up what the most important developments actually were, and perhaps get the necessary confirmations on the meaningful developments (and lack of confir
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by grappler 4y ago
he may have been left leaning before but that label seems debatable at best for the last couple years https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-happened-to-matt-taibbi.html
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by grappler 4y ago
It may not be as good a link as the one from FTC itself, but I wouldn't call a leading national newspaper "blogspam". Here for example is a capture of techmeme, which routinely gives media reports more emphasis than a primary
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Tips for Analyzing Logs | Julia Evans(jvns.ca)
6 points by grappler 4y ago|0 comments
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Mister Roboto or the Trouble with the Turing Test – J.M. Berger(jmberger.substack.com)
1 points by grappler 4y ago|0 comments
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‘We kind of lost track’: how SBF blurred lines between FTX and Alameda(ft.com)
79 points by grappler 4y ago|145 comments
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by grappler 4y ago
If you're a liberal who likes the idea of an electric car, and knew Musk as the Tesla guy, bringing to market sexy electric cars people actually want, and then you see him waging a culture war siding with Trump et al and going well out
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by grappler 4y ago
The takeaway for me is that anyone who doesn't like large centralized social networks having and using this kind of influence over the dissemination of information, whether because you didn't like twitter's earlier management
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SBF's Political Scam(popular.info)
1 points by grappler 4y ago|0 comments
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CLion 2022.3 Released(blog.jetbrains.com)
5 points by grappler 4y ago|1 comments
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by grappler 4y ago
I'm loving seeing the shift from embedding and linking to tweets and twitter accounts to embedding and linking to fediverse posts and profiles.
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by grappler 4y ago
Musk used to be one of the Good Ones. Reusable rockets. Electric cars. Now he's lowered himself to be one of Those People. People who help Trump, and pander to Trump supporters. Well, the old days were nice but they are gone.
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by grappler 4y ago
fwiw, I was not editorializing when submitting the headline. I just used the headline from the post I was linking to. I know hacker news sometimes rewrites headlines and remember thinking that they might decide to do that in this case, thou
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Elon Admits His Content Moderation Council Was Always a Sham to Keep Advertisers(techdirt.com)
13 points by grappler 4y ago|6 comments
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SBF Apologizes to FTX Employees, Details Amount of Leverage in Internal Letter(coindesk.com)
2 points by grappler 4y ago|1 comments
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by grappler 4y ago
with the rise of mastodon in the past week [1] I feel twitter is already yesterday's news. It serves no purpose. It has lost whatever cachet it had. The world of the Fediverse and ActivityPub and Mastodon and similar implementations is
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by grappler 4y ago
I suppose the people still there must either be Elon fanboys, or have really limited options (e.g. in the country on a work visa). I'm imagining a big tech company suddenly run by James Damores, rather than having a minority of them sc
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by grappler 4y ago
I don't hope the wheels stay on. I hope they come off, as a warning to anyone in the future considering acquiring an organization with the idea that its people are a small part of its value and can be cast out or easily replaced.
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What Defamation Looks Like(world.hey.com)
3 points by grappler 4y ago|0 comments
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by grappler 4y ago
saw this one coming https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401885
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by grappler 4y ago
just by using that term, you leave the impression that you're on a weird fringe information diet. e.g. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal...
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by grappler 4y ago
if internet advertising really is that ineffective, how does one explain the incredible amount of it, its permeation of seemingly everything, and the amounts of money involved?

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