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by papito 4y ago
Perhaps less whining about being “cancelled” when what is really happening is that a person is being a tool, then complaining that THEY are the real victim here, and then immediately doubling down on detestable behavior.
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by papito 4y ago
That's where I am actually going now. I started reading much more long-form content. I created a list for the people I follow on Twitter and gave someone else the key, effectively rendering Twitter read-only. It is amazing how fast y
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by papito 4y ago
This has been a trend in this late stage Capitalism, if you will. A large group of people spend years and decades building a company that can still grow and produce immense wealth over long-term, but a bunch of grifters roll in and sell it
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by papito 4y ago
Using the word "regime" is a dead giveaway. Neo-libertarians use it to refer to the "oppressive" laws, norms, and basic human decency. It's in the way of chaos, which they use to extract advantage from.
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by papito 4y ago
Amazing to watch a guy troll his way into a corner. Men of privileged background really, really do not know how to deal with this alien to them thing called "consequence". It's just meltdown .
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by papito 4y ago
You'd do that if you had spent, like, 5 minutes thinking about this. Apparently Elon's physics major is not easily translating into understanding moderation or social dynamics.
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by papito 4y ago
This is literally what it means. It's like the PRO badge on Github. You are paying for Twitter but you do not have to be a real person or who you claim you are.
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by papito 4y ago
Twitter uses Scala heavily. It is one of my favorite languages. I love Scala, but it's also sprawling and complex, and requires great care to code for readability without getting too cute. I would expect there is a lot of code at Twitt
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by papito 4y ago
Considering that Musk is on a roll making decisions that will outright murder the platform (making everyone pay for the Blue Check or your tweets are treated like garbage), who's to say the new boss will not come up with some knee-capp
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by papito 4y ago
While there is something to be said for tech bloat and obsession with pouring money into insanely complicated distributed systems, WhatsApp does not have to have a moderation system covering the whole planet and a confusing maze of govern
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by papito 4y ago
Rewatched all of it recently. It actually got better and more on the nose with time. Incredible.
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by papito 4y ago
"I am acting like an asshole and everyone seems to hate me. Oh, I KNOW, let me act like an asshole MORE! Hmm, more flak. I AM THE VICTIM EVERYONE IS OUT TO GET ME!"
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by papito 4y ago
Seriously. The sweetest words to me would be: "Here is your six months severance and full medical, now get your shit and get out!"
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by papito 4y ago
This guy seems to be as exhausting as the last U.S. president, I guess.
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by papito 4y ago
I feel like there is way more talk now in general about the current broken state of the Internet, corporatized and designed to inflict productivity-destroying scatter brain on all of us. I started to aggressively use newsletters and digests
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by papito 4y ago
Hopefully that day comes soon. It will make it easier to quit social media and focus on the things that matter. The greatest advantage one can have in the modern world is being able to avoid these distractions while everyone else is turned
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by papito 4y ago
Well, first of all, if the Tesla engineers are so brilliant, how come no one brought up the fact that LOC is a useless and even a bad metric? And print out? Printing code was acceptable and common in the 80s and even all the way into the
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by papito 4y ago
Free speech absolutists don’t want free speech. They want chaos. These are chaos monkeys. Who are Elon’s fans? Crypto bros and WSB incels.
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by papito 4y ago
Tony La Russa. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/us/twitter-verification-e...
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by papito 4y ago
No, the problem is that it is UN-believable. Some tech reporters did a double-take when they heard it from others, and were unwilling to report on this until they got multiple corroborations of this madness. In addition, Tesla engineers wer
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by papito 4y ago
And he doesn't even take it that well. Criticize Musk and the whining ensues. You see, the richest man on the planet IS the victim.
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by papito 4y ago
Twitter does not have a technology problem - the prototype was famously put together with Ruby-on-Rails in a weekend. Most of the effort comes after that, with moderation and legal compliance. There is really no better reality check for t
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by papito 4y ago
So we are going to have an 8chan clone? Imagine an 8chan but only lightly moderated. No one wants to be on that. It's the worst of both worlds. There is a good chance Twitter will go the way of Tumblr - sold worthless for parts.
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by papito 4y ago
"The election was stolen by Italian spy satellites" is not a viewpoint .
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by papito 4y ago
I think one can acknowledge Musk's entrepreneurship, ability to hire top talent, and risk-taking while at the same time pointing out his immaturity and petulance.
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by papito 4y ago
If an average Netflix viewer watches Netflix 70 hours per month - they will spend 6 of those hours watching ads - to save $3. It's a sucker's deal. Sure, some extreme savers will be so blinded by the promise of CHEAPER that they w
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by papito 4y ago
Better Off Ted had a great premise, but it didn't survive past two seasons because it didn't "click". It was the right idea, but just like with successful shows, certain magic that not even the creators understand has to
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by papito 4y ago
The problem with the cloud is that it makes things easy. Just throw it in, eh? Developers keep adding toys that cost money, and then at some point, someone at the top notices the bill, and it's all hands on deck. The cost due diligen
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by papito 4y ago
The concept of "public service" is being slowly erased. The United States is becoming just like any other country, where people will do anything to get to power to get to the trough - it's the fastest way to get rich. Obvious
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by papito 4y ago
Part of why I am fed up with this industry is that I no longer know what my role is. It seems that I have to: * Develop new features * Fix bugs * Sit in standup, "alignment" meetings, and any meeting created by a Zoom-promiscuous

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