2024-04-29 22:57:39 @mshelton thank you! this is useful, even if i have to parse out elements that are more or less relevant, or identify dimensions that aren'

2024-04-29 21:42:18 cc @mshelton (and whoever else you think would be a good @ for this?)

2024-04-29 21:39:36 what handy opsec &amp

2024-04-15 22:53:17 i feel like every AI ethics-related job really just wants me to say this

2024-04-15 22:51:08 you could make one of those mad libs books where it'

2024-04-10 01:24:28 #eclipse probably last shot

2024-04-10 01:17:33 #eclipsepunch-in from the 6k footage to 1080p

2024-04-10 01:08:20 ok let'

2024-04-08 23:25:50 really having trouble finding the sweet spot for media on here, and not interested in messing with the settings of the instance just this minute. here are some screenshots of the #eclipse

2024-04-08 22:59:45 #eclipseoh no i can'

2024-04-08 22:35:21 here'

2024-04-08 22:28:15 something coming soon let'

2024-04-04 22:58:41 i got an app on my phone that reminds me when golden hour is starting so that my evening dog walks are as photogenic as possible, so that i can take the best photos of my dog.i think in most ways i'

2024-03-30 19:08:32 @wm_annis thank you for this. i really felt apprehensive writing &

2024-03-29 23:58:18 Hi, I wrote a post - "

2024-03-28 03:14:33 that being said, will back up more often, i promise

2024-03-28 03:13:44 i genuinely can'

2024-03-27 20:01:45 things still work, surprisingly lol

2024-03-27 19:53:38 did things work? i restored from a slightly older image, but i see people i follow and people who follow me...

2024-03-22 22:42:27 i cannot tell you all how many times i nearly borked my whole instance when i just wanted to do one stupid little thing.

2024-03-14 21:15:20 @andresmh i'

2024-03-14 21:01:45 omg https://masto.al2.in/@ali/112096056904672017

2024-03-14 21:01:27 omg @ivory supports quote posts now omg omg omg

2024-03-01 00:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2024-03-11 00:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-05-22 16:21:45 RT @thotscholar: tbh, i think these discourses (about personhood) should be of interest to all of us, particularly nonwhite folks and immig…

2023-05-20 17:28:26 @jessiegender (sorry for lots of replies okay this is too much i'll stop)

2023-05-20 17:27:42 @jessiegender (that being said, i think that's a mindset that makes the game experience stressful

2023-05-20 17:23:45 @jessiegender maybe the single biggest issue is *why* you didn't play BotW

2023-05-20 17:17:39 @jessiegender short answer: yes. long answer: there are a tiny number of things that concretely carry over, but the narrative of tears of the kingdom does a good job filling you in, and ultimately the game is more of its own story than it is BotW+1

2023-05-20 16:45:35 really really!

2023-05-20 16:44:57 you don't need to add your own words to legitimate what someone else says. you can just amplify them and not make it about you! https://t.co/IMQR75UkkG

2023-05-20 16:22:32 if you're white, none of this applies to you, please back out of my mentions quietly

2023-05-20 16:21:44 never give your phone to a cop even if you CAN present your ID without unlocking it, they're going to act dumb and demand you unlock it with threats &

2023-05-20 13:59:31 @timnitGebru i made a general "tech bullshit" bingo game but i stopped adding things to the json file to populate it because the bullshit got repetitive lol https://t.co/A6hWGswxwZ

2023-05-20 13:43:58 @histoftech that's just what a not-snitch would say

2023-05-20 03:06:22 chaser https://t.co/qPQdttltzn

2023-05-20 03:05:47 shot https://t.co/3TTdrdeiFy

2023-05-20 03:04:19 RT @_alialkhatib: i realize it's a fucked situation, but please try to be a little aware of the data ownership setup you're running into be…

2023-05-19 19:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-05-21 19:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-04-24 17:41:34 @future_of_music i'm a little surprised that she and her ex must have talked about AI all the time - the thought experiment of that AI thing was the basis of their meeting, wasn't it? - but the idea of respecting the stake or origin of the data that goes into training an AI like... never came up?

2023-04-23 19:51:21 RT @AnnieLowrey: I am writing a book about time taxes and I need your help! Tell me about the insurance snafu ruining your life, the years…

2023-04-23 14:45:12 it's hard for me to imagine a platform that has to fact-check its advertisers will be around in 10 years, so this'll have to be a short bit - can't be a whole day lol maybe someone will write a concise paper about it and it'll be required reading for students to do before class

2023-04-23 14:42:15 i'm REALLY curious how teachers will explain this verification debacle in classes about online communities and stuff... in like... 10 years the whole misadventure monetizing this intangibly valuable thing, the self-annihilation via @dril, the disgusting posthumous verifications

2023-04-23 14:35:40 @karenkho lol i wasn't sure if i saw it or if it was one of those things you think up that's half-real and half-totally-insane as you're drifting off while doomscrolling (i know, i'm working on it )

2023-04-23 14:32:51 @karenkho with the quotes, to be clear

2023-04-23 14:32:29 @karenkho "you want to post a photo of your dog? well have you considered that some people can't have dogs where they live??" somehow goes through my mind more often than it should

2023-04-23 05:05:23 @yoavgo @jeremyphoward alternatively, "i asked [nondescriptGPT] to do something [and also 11 other things that yielded thoroughly unremarkable results] and the results were REMARKABLE!"

2023-04-22 22:10:38 RT @Blackamazon: Breonna Taylor’s killer has been rehired

2023-04-22 03:32:26 @Smelkshake @Cri_moon_cuh @AbyssalPen @CovfefeChan @capriceppv @elonmusk yes, it's contagious

2023-04-22 03:28:19 @Smelkshake @Cri_moon_cuh @AbyssalPen @CovfefeChan @capriceppv @elonmusk https://t.co/3evnOmMFlM

2023-04-22 03:22:25 ads on this app are increasingly turning into the bullshit that's so dishonest and misleading that it had to get annotated https://t.co/VwAxVFI1GS

2023-04-22 03:14:03 @Smelkshake @AbyssalPen @CovfefeChan @capriceppv @elonmusk you could say the last point leaves an opening to require a business license then again you could say the last point leaves an opening to require a pic of a giraffe from a local zoo how could they forget to say businesses need to produce a business license? one can only imagine

2023-04-22 03:09:58 @Smelkshake @AbyssalPen @CovfefeChan @capriceppv @elonmusk twitter organization verification is described as being for "organizations of all types–businesses, non-profits, and government institutions" there's also a criteria section

2023-04-22 00:55:35 @athundt @KyleMorgenstein are you saying he's going to make breathing unreliable and shitty??

2023-04-21 22:08:17 @RMac18 such a shit deal even charmin won't touch it https://t.co/wUD6Xj5gHh

2023-04-21 21:45:53 @TaylorLorenz it's a sad story. he spent all his money on checkmarks and now he can't afford a phone that can handle 2 installed apps :(

2023-04-21 21:31:23 @McCaineNL @tressiemcphd i want to head off the "thE rIsk Of LOsIng yOUr bLUE chEck wILL bE A dEtErrEnt" comments the risk of losing the loser's badge one pays $11/month for will hardly be a deterrent.

2023-04-21 21:29:18 @McCaineNL @tressiemcphd i was about to say that seems unlikely, but then i realized he probably thinks it'd be as effective to say that you can report an account, get their blue check revoked (lol as if), and THEN block them of course, if that sounds incredibly time-consuming and hopeless to you...

2023-04-21 00:00:01 CAFIAC FIX

2023-04-18 03:18:29 @eddyburback @drewisgooden a billion dollars to punch eddy 9 pins and danny gonzalez???

2023-04-18 00:51:47 might be a dumb request, but i've been in my head a bit lately if you've assigned my writing for a class, or used something i wrote, or if something i said/wrote was helpful for making sense about a thing, or whatever... i'd super like to hear about it DM/email/whatever is fine

2023-04-17 23:17:52 RT @treasurefbrooks: They won't fund your organization but they will fund your funeral. They won't read your resume but they will repost yo…

2023-04-17 21:50:59 i realize it's a fucked situation, but please try to be a little aware of the data ownership setup you're running into before you paste huge chunks of your writing into a text field offered by a tech co that aggressively collects as much text data as it legally (&

2023-04-17 21:46:21 1. objective- just ugh 2. openAI keeps whatever you enter into chatGPT

2023-04-17 16:29:39 who could have imagined https://t.co/adM1x4qsBh

2023-04-16 22:32:47 @eddsteel @isaiah_bb that's a real "chatGPT apology" right there

2023-04-15 17:59:58 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @_alialkhatib 100

2023-04-15 15:43:56 @UpFromTheCracks pointed this out a bit ago, but i lost track of it - tech regulation isn't like medical or food regulation, and we need to not start the conversation on the basis of what the tech co's need.

2023-04-15 15:43:55 when big tech joins the chorus for AI regulation, don't mistake it for public interest advocacy without real commitments they're only helping because they feel confident they have the means to capture regulatory agencies that currently or will exist to make entry more difficult

2023-04-12 18:14:31 @RMac18 i would've expected some mention about how twitter circles are evidently not as private as promised, dubiousness of twitter DMs as private (setting aside whether you trust that the person on the other end is who they claim to be), etc...

2023-04-12 07:47:17 RT @NBedera: We know that almost all Title IX cases end in institutional betrayal for the survivors who sought help. But how do administrat…

2023-04-11 18:03:03 RT @AINowInstitute: Today we launched AI Now’s 2023 Landscape Report. In it, we put forth an actionable policy strategy to confront concent…

2023-04-11 07:37:08 @npseaver is this like an NFT?

2023-04-11 04:46:33 @trucknorris56 @elaifresh @ashlea one of the tips &

2023-04-11 01:15:57 RT @rcourt: New call for pitches from @techreview, for our upcoming issue on ethics. We're looking for *big* swings: narrative features…

2023-04-10 23:18:22 @NotABigJerk i would believe she played a lot of hide-and-seek and imprinted on the sound of people saying "found her" all the time

2023-04-10 23:15:05 RT @NotABigJerk: this woman has an MBA from harvard

2023-04-10 15:58:33 start regularly recording your parents, elderly, and loved ones and your kids and your pets and yourself and strangers ,

2023-04-10 12:25:16 @Abebab i was 100% expecting this to be a thing about how you could watch the video again later when you miss their voice, but noooo it had to go to an extra level of creepy

2023-04-10 05:20:59 i really did a disservice to science fiction because usually sci-fi authors are making a subtextual point with their work that comments on the contemporary, so even in this analogy EA/LT people are alone in their nonsense

2023-04-10 05:12:31 the funny thing about EA/LT weirdos is that they're *fuckin obsessed* with science fiction crises like killer robots &

2023-04-09 21:20:10 @ranjodhd @kevinbaker hot take: i prefer local setups in grad school, cloud-based latex editors went down routinely around major submission deadlines, which scared the shit out of me. i really really like sublime text + LaTeXTools i should take a few screenshots or record a walkthrough sometime..

2023-04-09 20:23:29 @ShanaVWhite it's honestly baffling how we can keep having this conversation over and over and seemingly never make progress

2023-04-09 20:20:48 this image is a joke. white liberals don't hesitate https://t.co/QdI4KNv1oW https://t.co/du5z6SfxLP

2023-04-09 19:06:04 RT @karlitaliliana: Watching a bunch of dudes justify their relationship with a person who collects nazi memorabilia is a good reminder tha…

2023-04-09 04:23:21 you would all know if i was coming out of someone's home and there was a painting signed by adolf hitler in there. i would be talking about it.

2023-04-09 04:21:56 can't say i've ever been in a house with a signed HITLER on display, but i'd like to think i'd respond to it with more alacrity than a lot of the people who are just remembering and trading on their stories now there's clout to be had by talking about the sensationalism of it all

2023-04-09 04:17:46 RT @jason_a_w: lol has every one of these guys been to this nazi buff’s mansion https://t.co/mf0pyIfr0w

2023-04-09 03:34:14 stop going to things hosted by nazis and nazi enthusiasts.

2023-04-08 01:53:33 ultimately, the question of whether AI will replace artists has less to do with whether AI can generate compelling - or even plausible - art (whatever you mean by that word), and more to do with whether our society values art as an expression of artists and that makes me nervous

2023-04-07 19:35:05 RT @Blackamazon: This is a manipulative person using therapy speak . Folks have like most manipulative people learned to use the terminolog…

2023-04-07 19:33:33 @plentyofalcoves lmao fair point on both counts but seriously this helped me wrap my head around this - thanks

2023-04-07 19:18:58 @plentyofalcoves @gun_toucher but like... it's all road trip snacks, right?? this isn't like a rainforest cafe attached to a gas station or something. there's nothing to go there to *see*. i'm looking at photos and there's a wall of jerky, and aisles of mixed nuts like any gas station, just *more*?

2023-04-07 19:13:52 @gun_toucher @plentyofalcoves i seriously googled "what is buc-ees" because i couldn't believe it was just a gas station but it really is just a chain of gas stations???

2023-04-07 19:06:25 i don't know where i'm going with this, except maybe to be able to point to something later when someone asks why i give a shit about garbage being passed off as art in a cynical attempt to claim that GPT or some other AI system is producing functionally equivalent art

2023-04-07 19:06:24 but then i think about who buys art, and to what extent the scene is sustained by patrons. if half of the art-consuming world is satisfied filling wall space with crap produced en masse by some algo, then won't that force the world of art to shrink considerably?

2023-04-07 19:06:23 i've been thinking about this a lot, and going back and forth depending on my mood that day on one hand, AI-generated art may reach its greatest potential in hotel rooms decorated to a budget. or AI-generated sounds will replace hold music or to provide cover for elevator sounds https://t.co/b3MDLc3UUZ

2023-04-07 04:17:21 a year later, i can report that he sometimes tries to high five me when he's confused...

2023-04-07 04:13:52 how much has changed https://t.co/Kn4zm9urtE

2023-04-07 04:11:24 so anyway... look - i learned how to make a gif now you can all enjoy the sheer terror of my 70lb muddy dog running straight at you https://t.co/U8kMbaxBI2

2023-04-06 22:54:28 @timnitGebru thank you so much - sorry for always being a bit frantic when we get to chat lol

2023-04-06 21:59:38 i'll be leaving the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the end of this month

2023-04-06 21:06:54 RT @ruchowdh: On the heels of Open AIs letter in safety - we need a global governance body for generative AI systems. Here’s my thoughts on…

2023-04-06 20:14:36 i feel like there's a cliche in tech that basically amounts to "you were all too stupid to make my needs a priority, so i manufactured a crisis to get you all to focus on my needs. that makes me kind of a hero, for getting you all to notice the same problem, right?"

2023-04-06 19:53:54 >

2023-04-06 16:30:36 RT @sanjuktampaul: Open letter from Michigan faculty regarding University request for judicial injunction to stop GEO strike: https://t.c…

2023-04-06 16:25:11 i don't know. when i read a review of a thing, i don't want you to consolidate facts. i want to know what hit you and what surprised you and what landed with a thud and what reverberated and like "beep boop the grapes of wrath was a book about the great depression" ain't it lol

2023-04-06 16:21:26 whenever people talk about whether chatGPT or some other LLM correctly summarized a thing, i wonder if engineers really believe everyone gathers and resonates with the same key details from a given piece of writing. it's just an unbearably sad, empty way to think about reading.

2023-04-06 16:03:54 @interacciones @tante i feel actually dizzy reading this lol

2023-04-06 16:02:12 @interacciones @tante please what is happening

2023-04-06 15:20:14 i understand the idea of gauging the commonness of a practice before reacting, but if that's not the point - if the point is to calibrate your outrage based on whether your team does it too - then please go take a walk today without your phone and just reflect on how you got here https://t.co/b6NKLr7LVV

2023-04-06 15:16:26 @vinn_ayy this whole conversation is a lot https://t.co/tbZBObalgb

2023-04-06 15:14:53 @vinn_ayy the man donated to establish a "justice thomas portrait fund" at yale the man is genuinely, and maybe actually pathologically, obsessed with portraits.

2023-04-06 15:04:31 @tante they might let us use it for free for a bit then they'll show ads then they'll charge rent then they'll do both it's vaguely an "enshittification" thing, but kinda just the basic Silicon Valley business model

2023-04-06 15:00:45 @tante the argument that AI empowers people (to do X) belies the underlying point that the promise is only valid if we allow the people making the promise to be the gatekeepers of all things. as long as the power all ultimately ends up in their hands, they'll let us make nice pictures

2023-04-06 14:58:16 @tante i really thought about re-writing it lol

2023-04-06 14:57:11 @tante but then they still step on the metaphorical rake in the form of AI consolidates and centralizes power and resources. the pursuit of algo systems will hollow out the arts &

2023-04-06 14:55:23 @tante absolutely

2023-04-06 14:41:29 @tante there's a (slightly) subtler argument that people sometimes make about not needing expensive education or training to acquire the skills

2023-04-06 14:40:00 @neilturkewitz @tante they say democratization, they mean commoditization.

2023-04-05 20:33:04 RT @SleepyOktobur: I have reinstalled Twitter to respond to this story and make sure my voice is fully heard. I am Casey. My real name is…

2023-04-05 18:49:20 my therapist has told me to focus on the good things. it's good that i'm not associated with this event.

2023-04-05 18:48:15 *scans first row*: hmm, no people of color *scans second row*: oh thank god, no blackface bots https://t.co/qtrUQcAX7C

2023-04-05 14:06:18 @Agent_Snark @sassycrass i brought all my taco ingredients indoors just in case

2023-04-05 13:50:51 @amandabee @schock yes but AI ... so it's more better

2023-04-05 05:34:12 RT @HardDriveMag: https://t.co/AUtLJFBPOA

2023-04-05 04:55:36 @hipsterelectron i've had more arguments than i can count, about simply acknowledging this problem on campus, and they always went nowhere.

2023-04-05 04:43:33 would you like to spend $2700/month on a single owned by one of the wealthiest universities on the planet? https://t.co/YB4YSFGg5h

2023-04-05 04:37:18 a 325sqft studio that the university owns, and they rent it out at $1900/month. and the rents only get steeper from there i remember paying 1500 a few years ago and thinking this is totally untenable on the stipend the university gives me. this is snake-eating-itself shit. https://t.co/akxc7PMmSK

2023-04-04 23:25:07 @schock "own your insights" is especially funny to me for some reason.

2023-04-04 20:44:13 RT @amontobin: independent music is in a war of attrition against pay to play algorithms.we can't let fire emojis be the measure of our wor…

2023-04-04 20:39:13 anyway, have fun y'all

2023-04-04 20:38:06 i wonder how many Star Trek convention nerd style questions you can get away with asking before a LT enthusiast figures it out...

2023-04-04 20:35:12 issues on the table vs scraps that fell to the floor https://t.co/PyIkI5cu3H

2023-04-04 20:28:18 1. no clue why i still get emails from the stanford cs mailing list, but for your own sake maybe it'd be a good call to prune me from the list? 2. i wanna thank the BS AI ethics orgs for all agreeing to put "life" in their names to signal to me that they're longtermist crackpots

2023-04-04 20:11:59 RT @StanfordGWU: https://t.co/5qav5YBQnL

2023-04-04 19:51:09 @doctorow didn't realize @dril has been around that long

2023-04-04 07:08:47 "I'm rAIsIng cApItAL fOr my stArtUp, wOULd yOU LIkE tO InvEst?" https://t.co/Pwg4uncrlp https://t.co/zaWUwm62cC

2023-04-04 02:53:11 RT @StanfordGWU: Cards are still rolling in and entries are still being made, but as of right now, we’ve logged OVER 2000 SIGNED UNION CARD…

2023-04-04 02:47:56 RT @StanfordGWU: Hey organizers! Due to the wind, we’ve moved inside to Rays. If you’ve got cards to deliver, come see us here!

2023-04-04 02:43:23 RT @FrenchRainez: You know what I noticed? The absolute silence of Caitlin Clark, Iowa's team and the coaches. They have neither condemned…

2023-04-03 21:37:21 >

2023-04-03 21:33:34 the funniest thing about all of this is that none of the work really necessitates deployment without the explicit consent of people occupying office/common space. it's just not flashy to have it in fewer spaces, so the researchers appear to have made this an existential fight lol https://t.co/MC7DjZ9NDr

2023-04-03 21:28:29 "i would rather we be designing the dystopian technology rather than, like, some tech co, or some other extractive, exploitative corporation" (these devices came out of a project funded by a tech co grant and is supported by a DIFFERENT extractive, exploitative corporation)

2023-04-03 21:25:49 this is the funniest parenthetical https://t.co/hiWFZpmSwW https://t.co/8G1AGH8Nk5

2023-04-03 21:18:14 stanford grad student friends, please do this if you haven't already https://t.co/Qr6wfx9DkE

2023-04-03 21:11:17 RT @StanfordGWU: Hey Stanford graduate workers! Ready to vote union YES? Here’s a thread of 3 ways you can do that, both on campus and virt…

2023-04-03 02:16:55 follow me for more predictions https://t.co/hVXTlPNLwN

2023-04-02 22:23:53 RT @Nash076: So, to recap: Elon was anxious to rub it in "legacy" verified users' faces and got snarky with it. Turns out everyone hated…

2023-04-02 20:51:40 elon is that loser who keeps giving insane ultimatums from a position of total powerlessness before panicking and shifting the ultimatum as soon as the other person starts to walk away https://t.co/7p6H8h5K7C

2023-04-02 19:52:42 @kashhill (sorry. to be clear, i mean submit archive material per se. it seems like the only way to "submit" is to submit a URL for the site to retrieve for itself, which means it's almost exclusively acquiring archive material by what we would broadly define as "scraping")

2023-04-02 19:50:09 @kashhill if someone wants to challenge that it's a scraper, they probably need to get you to commit to a very specific definition of what a scraper is. if you just say "scraper" then i can't see a reasonable way to object except by fabricating an interpretation specifically to object to.

2023-04-02 19:49:53 @kashhill looking more at https://t.co/LRAtM2I3yB and https://t.co/kspGu4VRa7 i'm less clear on whether it's even possible to submit something to the internet archive except in the most niche circumstances. /2(or 3?)

2023-04-02 19:45:23 @kashhill short answer is yes

2023-04-02 06:43:08 @digitaaldenken "similar to an excel spreadsheet" we're all great danger.

2023-04-02 05:57:10 i was fucking right, people. he's really gonna do it one by one like a chump https://t.co/RD5QFd2rhZ

2023-04-02 05:56:24 @MattBinder i was right he's gonna do it one by one lollll https://t.co/jTmhPym9Ns

2023-04-02 05:52:53 @MattBinder @MarzGurl @nytimes he's working up the courage he needs to touch the @KingJames checkmark lol

2023-04-02 00:10:23 RT @alexnpress: I went to Detroit to watch UAW members try to take back their union. Fain presided over the convention and while his oppone…

2023-04-01 21:29:01 i want twitter to become just this https://t.co/M9HjKfcc73

2023-04-01 19:13:51 like i'm not saying a QT should knock down this score

2023-04-01 19:10:16 interestingly, as far as i can tell, there's no penalty (or different effect in any direction at all) for quote tweets vs retweets. they're all counted as retweets? after all these years i think i figured that there would be some distinction between a RT and a RT with commentary https://t.co/DxhWdDOHwf

2023-04-01 18:39:15 @janusrose (in the same way that tweetdeck continues to show the app/site/whatever that people used to post a tweet, despite that apparently being an important thing to the loser to remove)

2023-04-01 18:37:56 @janusrose i wonder if there'll be a field that accidentally leaks this info. like i know he's self-destructive, but annihilating the list of verified users with no hope of going back seems especially chaotic, and simply making verified accounts not *render* a checkmark seems safer...

2023-04-01 18:34:48 open letter: twitter needs a 6 month pause on posts to figure out verified accounts

2023-04-01 18:24:16 RT @_alialkhatib: i don't believe anything at twitter is competently automated anymore. at some point in the middle of the night someone wi…

2023-04-01 17:55:29 someone forgot to wake up their bunkmate at twitter HQ last night, huh? https://t.co/txXbv6nCEo

2023-04-01 17:53:40 @KevinMKruse @Moreshortflsh @Twitter @elonmusk per month

2023-04-01 17:05:17 @thewayoftheid (all of those are available on jetpens if you don't mind getting it online, but some might be available in stores

2023-04-01 17:02:47 @thewayoftheid finally, a use for this knowledge i love the Uni-ball Signo UM-151 the Pilot Hi-Tec-C is also extremely popular i think the Zebra Sarasa is loved for being all-around reliable and good if you want something you might find in a store then maybe Pentel Energel or Pilot Precise V5 https://t.co/gTL5xtippg

2023-04-01 07:32:16 *glances at watch* cron is tricky, okay?

2023-04-01 04:41:14 @WellsLucasSanto !!! i'm refreshing @KingJames lol

2023-04-01 03:57:15 if you're waiting until midnight, so am i, because i'm curious! but let's be honest how this is probably gonna go

2023-04-01 03:56:29 i don't believe anything at twitter is competently automated anymore. at some point in the middle of the night someone will roll out of the bed they share with 3 co-workers and start manually deleting verified statuses one by one. and then somehow it'll cause a server to go down.

2023-04-01 03:51:43 @mcwm it's like a halloween costume you'd get at party city

2023-04-01 03:47:54 @swodinsky are you trying to get your phone to run out of battery right at the stroke of midnight?

2023-04-01 03:36:00 RT @JackieFielder_: Pretty wild to think that the SJ Police Officer Assoc. president was signing this check for a PAC opposing Boudin in 20…

2023-04-01 03:06:09 i let this slip by, but it's really cool to see a podcast network doing this i thought a lot about worker-owned coops in grad school, and broadly came away with a ton of respect for people who work to make this all happen btw, they have a support drive: https://t.co/CXFAryVbbm https://t.co/kOMG7CIlR6

2023-04-01 01:51:57 the scene with ben and nog. you know which one. https://t.co/8jicX3yCRx

2023-03-31 23:28:26 this seems bad. i hope organizations that rely on getting notifications out to people in a timely manner will consider other platforms and methods than twitter, if not now then at least in the future. https://t.co/ldAEAqIpM8

2023-03-31 21:10:25 when the FLI people talk about eugenics and genocide as though it stopped in the 1940s, and warn that it now looms in the distance, they reveal that they don't comprehend that it's fucking happening right now. this is how out of touch with reality they are

2023-03-31 21:08:05 when people talk about algorithmic harms, but can't bring themselves to talk about what's right in front of you and all around you, you should assume these people are removed from the world in which we live. they're insulated and secure these people are living on another planet

2023-03-31 21:08:04 from enough of a distance, all risks probably blend together. the FLI people can't tell the difference between a sensationalized, terminator-esque, time-traveling killer vs an algorithm that denies you housing, because they can't comprehend either being an immediate, present harm https://t.co/ey3pkcRpwB

2023-03-31 20:58:11 @MarzGurl i wonder if any/all of them will go verified when they're ready to start scamming people

2023-03-31 20:12:46 sorry, bouncing around a bit >

2023-03-31 20:08:56 >

2023-03-31 20:05:41 finally, an open letter about AI actually worth retweeting https://t.co/VZfI6EiKTH

2023-03-31 20:03:16 hard-coding measurement tools for a single specific user into production to collect stats is such a weird defense. it's like actually i'm at a loss. i can't think of anything this is like. it's unlike anything i can imagine.

2023-03-31 20:01:07 how do you collect stats? wrong answers only https://t.co/rMVTiqH0U8

2023-03-31 20:00:08 @broderick it's certainly stupid and embarrassing, i'll give him that.

2023-03-31 19:30:08 @alexhanna @kateconger someone explain scala

2023-03-30 19:48:25 i know it sounds like old person shit but try sitting quietly in a room, focusing on one thing to read with intentionality when you stop reading words, stare at a wall and think about what you just read

2023-03-30 19:43:06 if you don't want to write, and you don't want to read, and you don't want to make the culture of either reading or writing better... please do us all a favor more charitable than creating a human centipede of shitty writing and instead... idk, take a sabbatical or something https://t.co/mJLQ0MG4EW

2023-03-30 19:32:10 "pontifex" kinda sounds like the name of a VC firm, doesn't it? it just... sounds VC-ish https://t.co/fmk0dG1EZi

2023-03-30 18:19:33 this article by @willknight and @kharijohnson about chatGPT plugins and how it'll make things... even weirder, is good https://t.co/GTcHCMRQtS

2023-03-30 17:17:28 RT @WillOremus: Some tech companies are cutting the AI ethics teams they formed just a couple years ago. Story by @GerritD &

2023-03-30 01:27:20 @JennyENicholson i'm really sorry. that sounds unbelievably stressful

2023-03-30 01:26:31 RT @JennyENicholson: I keep seeing a lot of suicide bait on tiktok, I report it, my reports get rejected, but because I lingered on the vid…

2023-03-30 01:25:47 crucially, the *speculative* panic about super-intelligent deity AI bullshit. the people who deal with algorithmic harms right now, today? they're not describing an exciting or otherwise enticing system

2023-03-30 01:23:44 RT @oneunderscore__: I'll say it: The AI panic is starting to feel like an advertisement.

2023-03-29 21:24:09 RT @Iwillleavenow: Fourth Amendment whomst https://t.co/SuNbam2ir4

2023-03-29 21:16:53 you're leaving so much on the table if you mindlessly paste an intro or a conclusion from a LLM. i know it's hard to write. think about why! unilaterally framing the conversation as you see fit is so much power in your hands, and you ask GPT to blurt out some patterns? come on.

2023-03-29 21:09:56 there's some AI-powered academic paper writing thing and it just makes me sad i know writing is hard. i know engineers don't get trained to flex these metaphorical muscles. but it's a skill worth practicing and worth working on. how you frame and connect and close stuff matters.

2023-03-29 20:53:00 @alexbaez i know :( i hoped i could fix it in youtube's editor since it wasn't like i was doing stereo mixing in the first place, but i didn't see any way to fix it after it had been uploaded i remember this every time i edit a video now though

2023-03-29 20:51:39 pretty soon you'll have a following tab that consists of people you follow and also a considerable amount of garbage, and a "For You" tab that consists of people you follow and also LOTS and LOTS of garbage

2023-03-29 20:38:03 paper was published at CHI, which is a conference and i made a youtube video about it https://t.co/TreMcC0BzK

2023-03-29 20:36:43 oh hey, i wrote a paper about why algorithmic systems create absurd outcomes, titled "To Live in Their Utopia" https://t.co/UqtjglYDeP ML systems create models of the world and then evaluate our conformance to them. it's a utopia of perfect little rules for the machine

2023-03-29 15:58:55 3. lots of false signatories lol https://t.co/uYaPofAHqM

2023-03-29 15:58:54 just for the sake of citation.... 1. lots of trash interspersed. see this thread https://t.co/1EtL4CIYvk

2023-03-29 15:51:35 i've got a meeting to prepare for so if everyone involved in tech can all please pause for 60 minutes i would be quite grateful

2023-03-29 15:48:15 sorry, i haven't directly commented on the AI open letter 1. lots of trash interspersed in the letter 2. the org is bad 3. lots of false signatories on it apparently? lol 4. wake me up when there's a letter that doesn't center a bunch of old white dudes who got rich on this tech

2023-03-29 15:36:42 @alexhanna not the worst way to raise funding...

2023-03-29 15:35:15 @mmitchell_ai @emilymbender really curious whether any of the authors have "thesaurus _____" in their browser history...

2023-03-29 14:50:22 @tante @neilturkewitz @emilymbender @random_walker @timnitGebru i wish i had the skills to typo in a way that miraculously landed on another *also valid* sentence

2023-03-29 04:48:40 this rocks (i'm still working on it) https://t.co/HuVT5EZ6BE

2023-03-29 04:42:15 RT @lmatsakis: It’s a longtermist organization co-founded by Jaan Tallinn, a tech billionaire who helped develop Skype

2023-03-29 04:28:12 RT @lmatsakis: People like Bill Gates, Sam Altman, etc. looked like they had signed it, but their names have been disappearing. Someone als…

2023-03-28 20:56:07 RT @adapperprof: Hey folks!! Looking for any Black scholars that study AI and social justice for a roundtable convening. Any names I should…

2023-03-28 17:59:41 i feel like life on the internet is this endless work of finding and settling down in places where the conversations don't feel like yahoo answers/quora/facebook/youtube comments

2023-03-28 17:51:37 RT @Matt_Cagle: The only responsible standard for police use of face recognition is a total prohibition, and this new California bill moves…

2023-03-28 08:23:02 @shengokai yeah?

2023-03-28 07:03:06 if i understand correctly, if you pay for twitter blue but you hide your checkmark, the latest policy announcement suggests you'll still appear in people's For You feeds, who might make *even more* fun of you for being embarrassed about it do whatever you want with that thought

2023-03-28 06:43:48 @jvgraz @athundt something i'm turning around and around in my head, but so this means, starting april 1, everyone in my FYP feed without a checkmark is a subscriber who's embarrassed about it? has he considered this is maybe a bad idea? do these people not get bullied enough???

2023-03-28 00:02:58 @Bhargavi_Ganesh i imagine they figured it's a strategy that works well enough for the military industrial complex

2023-03-28 00:01:53 RT @Bhargavi_Ganesh: @_alialkhatib doing a mini-paper on the history of technology governance, and this has always been the playbook

2023-03-28 00:00:18 schmidt futures only funds STEM students to study AI lol

2023-03-27 23:55:59 just watch as they construct this revolving door, then watch as alumni of these companies, programs, etc... fill out the roles meant to bring and keep these companies in check. they'll certainly be The Most Qualified (by definitions established earlier, by them)

2023-03-27 23:49:30 idk if people want to prevent regulation entirely - that'll happen regardless i think they want to lay the groundwork to say you should have designed &

2023-03-27 21:17:06 you don't have to take every suggestion, obviously, but those who successfully argue for a paper or whatever's inclusion can email the author(s) to just let them know that their piece is going to be taught in this class also helps ECRs know where their stuff is being taught btw

2023-03-27 21:17:05 so here's a thought, and if it's garbage then lol sorry: what if you tasked the class with updating *itself* (students/groups pick a week/module of the syllabus and make the case for adding or removing or swapping some reading

2023-03-27 21:17:04 the whole engaged scholar thing is cool but people email me with actual things to talk about and to ask for and stuff and i barely keep up with those, to say nothing of people who do it out of obligation. and i feel terrible about it because they're not really asking for anything https://t.co/bPiu7Qel3f

2023-03-27 20:33:52 and then shit like this :( https://t.co/HQbgedvnZN

2023-03-27 19:08:40 kinda feels like the difference between a pirate and a privateer, except avoiding targeting americans in mass-scale surveillance/spyware campaigns is basically impossible so it's like the difference between a pirate and a privateer, except "also i guess you can kill whoever idc"

2023-03-27 19:04:58 the spyware EO is more of a noncompete clause tbh

2023-03-27 18:58:20 prominent AI boosters want you to feel as hopeless as possible about regulating and governing massive algorithmic systems because their compensation packages are tied up in tech company stocks lol

2023-03-27 18:55:47 remember when that idiot said he's a stochastic parrot? and now people are trying to say GPT is *more* than a stochastic parrot? these folks don't care which point sticks

2023-03-27 18:52:43 RT @emilymbender: Ugh -- I'm seeing a lot of commentary along the lines of "'stochastic parrot' might have been an okay characterization of…

2023-03-27 04:05:34 @_StevenFan i imagine it makes a difference to dogs without indirect access to GPT lol

2023-03-27 03:54:15 i guess here's my question: did gpt offer a unique insight into a difficult problem, or did it facilitate disrupting an otherwise-ossified bureaucratic process that would have otherwise yielded administratively defensible but wholly insufficient care?

2023-03-27 03:54:14 the "GPT saved my dog" story reads like it fundamentally misses a broader failure i'm happy the dog is okay, but i can't overlook the overextended vet who didn't have the time/mental bandwidth to spot what the author described as a "common complication" of a "common disease" 1/2

2023-03-26 20:51:38 RT @cocoazafreen: i keep saying this but without an analysis of power. the general public will never understand abuse. abuse requires power…

2023-03-26 19:49:25 what's crazy about all this is you could make a case that tiktok has suppressed LGBTQ and WOC folks when they talk about stuff like gender and race but actually putting the heat to tiktok for harming trans kids would fucking kill some of these old shits

2023-03-26 19:38:59 amazon gives ring recordings to cops and uses a wristband microphone to shittily guess how stressed you are to determine your health insurance premiums. but congress stares down tiktok's CEO and grills him about tiktok using home wifi if you think it's not racism, you're dumb af

2023-03-26 03:38:56 RT @gojosdaya: the other day y’all was begging sheryl lee ralph and victoria pedretti to reveal the names of the men who assaulted them, an…

2023-03-26 03:37:01 @mat_johnson @taoleighgoffe yes but now you can wear a sweater over that shirt *whenever you want*

2023-03-25 19:04:45 this isn't really a comment on Shou Zi Chew's charisma (although i guess it kinda is because he handled the day pretty well), but more of a comment on how unimaginably incompetent congress is at tapping into existing frustrations that ALREADY ALIGN with their goals. goofballs.

2023-03-25 19:03:46 i still can't quite wrap my head around the fact that zoomers had been complaining about tiktok's stifling and at times oppressive algorithms for YEARS, and one day of congressional testimony seems to have broadly reversed their feelings toward at least this tech company's CEO

2023-03-25 14:38:54 when someone says "alignment" you can be sure that they've completed the process of turning concepts like algorithmic harms and justice into utterly worthless corporate drivel lol https://t.co/DS223yAGZV

2023-03-25 14:26:50 if he didn't see through the smoke and mirrors and lies that tech companies make up to fool people, i couldn't really fault him

2023-03-25 14:21:17 RT @Muffin_Chips: Michael Phelps had a wingspan longer than his height, a hyper-jointed chest, double-jointed ankles, and lung capacity tw…

2023-03-25 14:13:37 i don't know quite how to express this thought, but it's a relief to know that someone like Neil Gaiman, whose words and actions inspire me (to say nothing of millions of others) to know that he gets it and isn't one of the many loud voices on the internet i have to worry about https://t.co/SgTxwMsvzr

2023-03-25 01:00:55 It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 15 years, since 25 Mar 2008 (via @twi_age).

2023-03-24 22:03:46 RT @erinoverbey: holy shit https://t.co/dcQPh1qjSl

2023-03-24 22:00:37 RT @Blackamazon: Another reason Elon is ending legacy verified accounts is that the ones of color had small triggers to stop right wing bv…

2023-03-24 20:45:43 (wayne gretzky didn't say this, but i think if i say it enough times i can get GPT to say he did)

2023-03-24 20:42:51 it's like wayne gretzky said, "it's difficult to get a man to understand something when his stock options depend on his not understanding it"

2023-03-24 20:40:52 if you listen to people who deal with oppressive bureaucratic power systems, you find out pretty quickly they understand how AI and algorithmic systems work on a macro level better than a lot of the people who claim their company's products are unknowable. which is weird, right?

2023-03-24 20:17:38 GPT plugins for travel sites will book you a trip to narnia if you a s k i t l i k e t h i s

2023-03-24 18:01:52 RT @zarawesome: *clutching a 90s desktop tower to my chest, hiding behind an office partition as gunfire rings out* it's okay, ELIZA. we're…

2023-03-24 05:24:20 all the presenters who share their papers in advance, you're that student in class who points everyone else to a free copy of the reading for people who can't afford it. you're MVPs. you're great. keep being awesome.

2023-03-24 05:23:10 every year CHI rolls around and i think about how we ask students to attend discussion sections having done the readings, and how CHI makes papers available only *after* CHI ends so BY DESIGN we're all that idiot who shows up having not done the reading &

2023-03-23 19:32:44 congress is more outraged that tiktok isn't making government contracts than they are about the data collection and downstream use like, screaming at tiktok about harmful effects on kids, sleeping late? really? how long did the revelations about the FBI buying data make rounds?

2023-03-23 18:35:01 @TaylorLorenz congress really doesn't like seeing anyone other than them paralyzed between two conflicting forces and unable (and, tbh, unwilling) to do anything to resolve those tensions. feels a little "narcissism of small differences"-ish

2023-03-23 18:32:03 @evan_greer (that and sinophobia, obviously)

2023-03-23 18:31:45 @evan_greer at this point, i honestly believe the outrage in congress has more to do with giving the data away (instead of selling it via lucrative government contracts, a la the FBI story https://t.co/z0rtwxWIrg ) versus respect for or protection of people's data.

2023-03-23 18:24:32 @RMac18 :( okay

2023-03-23 18:13:12 i really just don't understand why you would put this much effort into subterfuge that's this flimsy. that's what i spend so much of my time thinking about. why do tech companies do all this work to make such specious, insultingly stupid excuses for themselves?

2023-03-23 18:05:38 data ethics laundering by training a model based on another model and claiming that inoculates them from data ethics issues is such a perfect microcosm of how baby-ish silicon valley people are. if you put a hand in front of their face they'd wonder if they're the last man alive.

2023-03-23 17:58:28 @RMac18 should i make a bingo game like my old https://t.co/jR6zKfkYKX board for tiktok hearings or do we think it won't see enough use after today?

2023-03-23 17:43:20 on the left: a photo of a child in '08, before tiktok (and the internet) existed on the right: a photo of a child in september 2020, AFTER china invented tiktok or whatever they're saying in that congressional hearing coincidence? i don't even remember what point i was making! https://t.co/1n6R1MHhon

2023-03-23 17:30:42 they used to be little adults with flat caps and jobs cleaning chimneys or something! look at what tiktok has done!

2023-03-23 17:29:44 will someone think of the children PLEASE? before tiktok they were going to sleep on time, had no body image issues, and were never doing unsafe things. now look at them!

2023-03-23 17:26:51 @TaylorLorenz UX people at youtube, instagram, netflix, etc... must be on a group chat right now freaking the fuck out

2023-03-23 17:21:49 whenever they talk about tiktok influencing kids in harmful ways, do you guys think someone at youtube starts sweating profusely? like... as an instinctual response

2023-03-23 17:19:16 i've had https://t.co/jR6zKfkYKX since ~june 2020, but maybe i should make a variation for tiktok that's just variations on "you should be SELLING that data" and "china!!!! ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!"

2023-03-23 17:17:17 maybe tweets like this are why scammers are always in my DM requests. they must figure that i'm a credulous idiot.

2023-03-23 17:16:22 i'm sure congress is going to go from this session directly into a comprehensive and tractable debate about data privacy laws, yielding draft legislation to continue to push forward. i'm sure of this :)

2023-03-23 17:10:51 https://t.co/5Tf4WbdcC1

2023-03-23 17:07:10 i can't believe that in 2023 i'm watching a couple of old fucks wring their hands over how evil and scary it is that a company is giving data to a government, lamenting that they're not selling that data like the wholesome american companies google and facebook

2023-03-23 02:54:23 RT @LaurenKGurley: Trader Joe's workers announced ~2~ new union drives today, one in Oakland, Ca and the other in Manhattan, N.Y. (Essex St…

2023-03-22 15:03:39 traditionally, iraqis celebrate the day that guy threw a shoe at bush every day. it's just in the west that you only acknowledge it one day of the year

2023-03-22 02:59:41 RT @muntazer_zaidi: Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at George W. Bush says his only regret is he "only had two shoes" - CBS News https://t…

2023-03-22 02:59:09 RT @ruchowdh: Call for fellows @BKCHarvard ! Resumes are due next Monday - if you’d like to work with me on issues of AI governance and Res…

2023-03-20 22:41:48 i am dead now. https://t.co/stB2807avo

2023-03-20 22:36:37 at the park today walking my dog, a kid wayyy over on the swings yelled "hey you!" and then when i looked over continued "you look like a roblox character" and- friends, i genuinely need to know, did i just get roasted by a 7-year-old from like 100ft away?

2023-03-20 19:51:06 @Iwillleavenow Q3 2023: "there's a new scam making the rounds, where someone calls you saying that you called them to confirm that they called you earlier, and now they're calling to confirm that you called them to confirm that they called you. eventually you'll pay them to stop confusing you"

2023-03-20 19:47:19 the joke of watching AI advocates co-opt discourse and lecture at us about ethics and harms is a lot less funny when you have to *live* the punchline at 1x speed.

2023-03-20 19:45:06 i used to joke about how all these tech bros would get very lucrative second careers flying around the world, talking about all the harmful shit they did and how "we" were all so naive and bad, talking about how they learned about ethics and now they're more enlightened [than us]

2023-03-20 19:40:04 lmao the CEO of openAI, of chatGPT fame, is going around warning that *other* AI developers might do harmful shit he should know: openAI's policy is to withhold disclosing the data they used to train the models (eg GPT-3 &

2023-03-20 04:19:37 @crystaljjlee i have to assume jacobin is pivoting to competing with the onion

2023-03-20 04:19:02 @crystaljjlee whhaaaaaaaaaat the fuuuuuck lol

2023-03-18 21:09:36 @npseaver if i was a medical doctor i would be so tempted to write the most profanity-laden letters chastising professors for this shit

2023-03-18 21:07:38 @npseaver and then they hand me a crisp $100 bill. and the nurses come in and clap

2023-03-18 21:07:04 @npseaver every doctor i've seen has loved being asked to do more paperwork. they ask me for it. they'll say "ali, can i write you a letter with extremely vague details about this appointment that i'm going to have to do a bunch of other paperwork for? also, can i give you $100 right now?"

2023-03-17 15:12:37 1. i don't use SMS

2023-03-15 15:47:27 RT @UpFromTheCracks: GPT v whatever is just an elaborate public relations campaign that seems to be successful in that people continue to b…

2023-03-15 03:07:08 @bigblackjacobin what do you love more than someone who won't stop talking about their SAT scores? someone who won't stop talking about their stupid computer's SAT scores

2023-03-15 00:44:23 @davidthewid it was just one wild story among dozens in quick succession, i'm not surprised if it slipped by lol https://t.co/rGZLBvF9H7

2023-03-14 22:31:29 openAI bragging about GPT-4's SAT scores doesn't make me think of it much more like a human or like it has sentience... but i'd be lying if i said it didn't make me want to dunk it in a toilet.

2023-03-14 22:15:49 RT @AFLCIO: BREAKING: THE MICHIGAN STATE SENATE HAS VOTED TO REPEAL “RIGHT TO WORK.” https://t.co/BqZCBGKpzN

2023-03-14 22:09:32 all this is to say that i think it's not as much part of the conversation at CHI as i wish it were, that our roles should (sometimes) be at odds with the company's superficial interests if our compass is pointed toward the needs of the people we're learning from and working with

2023-03-14 22:09:31 there are fewer papers at places like CHI that take a step back and look at the landscape of power disparities between a UX researcher at a company and people who use the system in question (different from eg a researcher reflecting on their positionality in the CHI paper itself)

2023-03-14 22:09:30 the thing i've been thinking about since Microsoft eliminated the AI ethics team has been along the lines of... HCI prides itself on publications like those offering guidelines &

2023-03-14 21:30:49 @alexhanna *Tina Belcher groaning* https://t.co/kgova2c1sb

2023-03-14 21:28:55 @alexhanna i remember a cousin telling me that the US gave soldiers deploying to Iraq a booklet with Arabic phrases and pronunciation guides, so now i'm looking for that. it's like i'm just seeking out things to make me feel more uncomfortable.

2023-03-14 21:23:28 (don't spoil it for me, my body is actually not ready for this)

2023-03-14 21:22:50 won't be gringo accents in the future

2023-03-14 21:13:11 i really wanna make bañana bread sometime soon. anyone have a good recipe?

2023-03-14 21:11:04 i'm just reflecting on the fact that basically the entirety of scots-language wikipedia was written by some kid in the US who (seemingly earnestly) thought it'd be helpful to make up a scottish accent and write the english-language articles but spelled phonetically in that accent https://t.co/NYyRFAOuBL

2023-03-14 21:02:37 RT @emilymbender: Feeling exhausted by the #AIhype press cycles? Finding yourself hiding from GPT-4 discourse? Longing for a dose of realit…

2023-03-14 20:59:02 "AI alignment" may sound like mealy-mouthed abstract philosophical nonsense to avoid saying "justice" or "harms" or otherwise acknowledging real-world impacts, but you see-

2023-03-14 20:57:27 openAI officially announcing GPT-4, now with more alignment aligned to whom? to what? and how? huh?? stop asking questions

2023-03-14 20:50:26 hearing "alignment" in the context of AI is such a red flag for me now lol

2023-03-13 23:25:44 @ERnurse86 from 0:45 to 0:50 his voice change holy shit. i had to do a double take because it was like he got possessed

2023-03-10 21:25:28 when i was a first year phd student i rotated in jure leskovec's lab and we fucked around with twitter data and i'm reeling at the thought of how much that rotation would've cost if this had been in place lol. and all to get less than 1% of the firehose. whew

2023-03-10 21:18:07 >

2023-03-10 21:13:41 let me just carry the one... and again... and again... and again... yeah that's uh... that's not gonna work lol https://t.co/0XePHpZNzj

2023-03-08 21:00:36 RT @mer__edith: For those interested, here is the paper that lays this argument out in more detail: https://t.co/e0pcTkJ3Jm

2023-03-08 02:52:33 @iamharaldur better now, thank you

2023-03-07 20:29:12 dude's scared of a super advanced AI but doesn't realize he's the dumbest asshole on the planet, and actively destroying himself

2023-03-07 17:16:13 @ruchowdh i just want to hit "skip 30 seconds" a billion times on reality https://t.co/IlPPYBPehQ

2023-03-06 18:13:07 >

2023-03-06 18:05:45 i forgot why i came to twitter earlier because all the technical issues twitter was having distracted me

2023-03-06 17:02:59 remember when twitter wanted you to follow links? https://t.co/83E3Ftf1zm

2023-03-06 17:00:16 @TaylorLorenz why is there such a thing as a "compliance officer", isn't it everyone's job to comply with laws?

2023-03-06 16:54:49 they finally really did it... "YOU MANIACS!! YOU BLEW IT UP!! DAMN YOU!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!" https://t.co/D00kTjEGDP

2023-03-06 16:51:52 { errors: [ { message: "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://t.co/WsDwu7UPs4 for more information", code: 467 } ] } goodbye tweetdeck :(

2023-03-05 10:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-03-02 22:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-02-27 01:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-02-15 19:26:26 @MikeIsaac there could be a series of your food misfortunes :(

2023-02-12 23:39:43 RT @hahnscratch: I moved into the cell with Mike by choice. I didn't really know him, but my current cellee was a lifer addicted to Magic T…

2023-02-05 08:22:52 SAME GUY lmao

2023-02-05 08:22:25 etc etc etc but "spends their saturday trying to discredit award-winning scholarship that happens to be critical of AI" etc etc etc https://t.co/zU2Sxs2OCv

2023-02-05 00:58:32 all day my timeline seems to have been about microdosing semen. on that note, i am done for today.

2023-02-03 16:15:18 this is so fucking awful https://t.co/RbwPvS7PgU

2023-02-03 14:19:52 @zeyneparsel at least they're using the carrot?

2023-02-03 14:10:32 @mcwm as with verification, this just becomes another figure to plug into an excel spreadsheet in gaming out the ROI on some scam. if you need to generate astroturf for your crypto scam, what's $100? just another line on the sheet

2023-02-03 14:03:42 @npseaver my hunch is they didn't come up with a list of apps and take coordinated action on them because someone had an impulse. fedifinder might have the rest of today then again, that's enough time to use it one last time

2023-02-03 13:54:33 RT @npseaver: @_alialkhatib Looks like Fedifinder still works, for now!

2023-02-03 13:51:29 twitter's shut down movetodon's API keys

2023-02-02 21:01:26 lmao https://t.co/qMOVyTdTMW

2023-02-02 19:39:54 there are a few good tools to see who's on mastodon and to make it easier to follow them (without taking all the controls away) i find https://t.co/xQCZSbK0N5 intuitive and pretty good, for what it's worth!

2023-02-02 19:39:53 if you're thinking about moving to mastodon, you'll want to do that ASAP, because access to the API (which apps need to match up your friends to their mastodon profiles automatically) will be cut off soon. https://t.co/XFinXE6HpM https://t.co/J1fPPduPpm

2023-02-02 19:34:51 RT @RichFelker: Folks, y'all basically have just 1 week left to migrate off here, because API access, which all the migration tools depend…

2023-02-01 19:24:16 @miguelsicart thank you!

2023-02-01 17:41:18 you know how you can just... tell, when a white person wrote something?

2023-02-01 17:40:27 so much this. particularly the critique about the impulsive bleaching of all texture from language just because a word like "bullet" happens to be in it it almost reads more like someone's slightly pathological aversion to scary words manifested as a guide for others. https://t.co/DLBk6253OE

2023-01-30 17:18:25 @broderick he's kinda basically reliably child-friendly without being dora the explorer or algorithmically generated disney cartoons of elsa extracting teeth from winnie the pooh or whatever they did when that wave was big

2023-01-30 17:16:12 @broderick is he the jay leno of youtube? like broadly inoffensive but kinda textureless? when you sit and really think about what he's doing on so many people's screens you just draw a blank?

2023-01-30 01:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-01-24 01:45:23 definitionally, we're talking about a technology that works by taking in a ton of data, generating patterns using whatever aspects of that data it can measure or operationalize, and then trying to generate or classify stuff that reflects to varying degrees the patterns it's seen.

2023-01-24 01:42:47 that's... do we need to talk about how machine learning works? https://t.co/KOx0BNOayb

2023-01-23 22:09:11 you have to read the actual review because so many of the 1-star reviews are just confused people!

2023-01-23 22:08:17 confused new jersey man doesn't have induction-compatible cookware, erroneously rates plug-in cooktop 1-star on amazon https://t.co/gY0pDywrCR

2023-01-23 21:57:26 @MikeIsaac i don't want to see "y'd u leave me on read" from a coworker :(

2023-01-23 21:28:12 @Grady_Booch if he says unskilled i'm gonna throw a chair

2023-01-23 21:24:14 you can also read it here i think but like lol paywalls? https://t.co/hlv1DWXf2I

2023-01-23 21:21:13 "fondly" remembering when google and apple tried to make smartphones part of society's COVID response https://t.co/ZKtDs0B2j0 https://t.co/CQU3onNaj4

2023-01-23 19:42:16 @RikerGoogling @GreatestTrek more evidence that riker MUST have consent at all times

2023-01-23 19:32:57 october '21 to january '23... so that's... carry the 1... someone set a timer for March 2024. by then chase will have probably come clean about lying out their asses on this https://t.co/06QoUXK6xK https://t.co/mHXFJfgvRR

2023-01-22 23:12:08 @Abebab clippy pops up on product hunt submission page "did you mean commoditize?"

2023-01-22 22:44:36 "Does anyone know what to do next" is going to be on my mind for a while. haunting me.

2023-01-22 22:43:05 "Does anyone know what to do next?" who's gonna have the talk with him? https://t.co/hB9ni98K0B

2023-01-22 22:43:03 i seriously hope that @abelinasabrina and @itsgabibelle will see this and eventually make a video about AI pickup artists sliding into your DMs https://t.co/KqeXElk8Fk

2023-01-19 23:45:37 and then talking about it about a year later? idk https://t.co/gE3VKOzD2Z

2023-01-19 23:45:36 boston dynamics thread, year whatever

2023-01-18 01:49:01 "and what's the deal with dress codes, am i right everybody?"

2023-01-18 01:48:06 thiel railing inexplicably against shakespeare makes me wonder if his beef is with high schools rather than universities.

2023-01-15 15:57:26 twitter should give them a badge so we can roast these people separately and in addition to the checkmark-buying people if you can't come up with a badge in time, don't sweat it

2023-01-15 15:47:58 @FEhrsam @danrobinson ... can you come back to the surface and share that lesson for us dumbs?

2023-01-15 05:20:25 i always find amazon's data grabs borderline-unbelievable. you have all my credit cards, my addresses for the past decade, 75-90% of the things i've ever bought in my life, and what treats give my dog weird poops. and here you are asking me to give a drone a tour of my apartment? https://t.co/Kf8AvbYu4T

2023-01-15 03:05:54 so twitter made a FYP but worse than tiktok ever was lol

2023-01-15 02:58:58 amazon has no idea why they want palm data but they're sure they'll figure out a reason to use it, maybe to determine your eligibility for something like insurance based on your fingerprints, or maybe they'll just forward it to cops, so they're collecting it just in case. https://t.co/icYG45VMSO

2023-01-12 20:39:08 RT @colinkalmbacher: BREAKING: The LAPD is accused of killing Keenan Anderson, a Black, 31-year-old father and English teacher in Venice on…

2023-01-12 17:36:41 RT @stevanzetti: After posting surveillance footage of a self-driving Tesla causing a major pileup, it appears that Ken Klippenstein's acco…

2023-01-12 17:36:35 RT @kenklippenstein: I obtained surveillance footage of the self-driving Tesla that abruptly stopped on the Bay Bridge, resulting in an eig…

2023-01-12 04:32:33 i'm confuned https://t.co/9GTfhiv7wG

2023-01-12 03:41:32 @polotek "hey, i'm pretty thrilled with myself for making a video that's going to send a bunch of harassment your way. does that make you want to set aside time to talk with me about my problems?"

2023-01-12 00:03:39 backblaze has file version history, 30 days standard and up to *infinite* if you want... and, uh... if you use my referral code you'll get a month of backups for free https://t.co/pIGNMhXFYW https://t.co/CGnnX0DMYY

2023-01-11 15:08:11 god, i would be so sad that all my fucking friends are telling me to just be okay with it. like now i'm getting divorced AND i gotta go find and delete all these contacts off my phone??? https://t.co/R4lCwwSrbc

2023-01-10 22:43:37 @triketora can't believe they were publishing assassination coordinates all this time so bad of them

2023-01-10 17:19:26 @bobdaduck @knrd_z @skrossa please take your weird masturbatory fantasies about being an edgelord instructor out of my mentions?

2023-01-10 17:17:28 @bobdaduck @knrd_z @skrossa if you're judging a student's readiness based on the absence of code on their github profile, or website, as though it were a comprehensive record, i'm not sure it's consequential what political criteria you promise to use to exclude people from courses you're fantasizing about

2023-01-10 07:13:45 @knrd_z @skrossa i don't even want to get into a focused discussion about the factual issues, as @skrossa is doing

2023-01-10 07:04:52 @knrd_z @skrossa looking up a student after letting them into a class without thinking about it is one thing. i suppose a sloppy person has few options. acting on the absence of evidence on their github (or personal, professional, or institutional website) is entirely another rash, sloppy thing.

2023-01-10 06:54:25 @knrd_z @skrossa lol i have no idea why you're dying on this hill just to get to this point looking up someone's professional website (or their LinkedIn, or github) for persuasive concrete evidence of preparedness for a technical course would be a massively irresponsible, wild shot in the dark

2023-01-10 02:19:22 somebody needs to go enable parental controls on tucker's computer RIGHT NOW https://t.co/nP8gO9ccX2

2023-01-10 00:57:16 RT @so_radhikal: I've been reporting as many violent replies in my mentions but it's gotten out of hand. I don't think ⁦@TwitterSupport⁩ is…

2023-01-09 20:15:40 https://t.co/K5fmqPMCwO https://t.co/I3uV50Ljz8

2023-01-09 20:11:10 RT @33unitehere: We Won! Grad workers at Yale said overwhelmingly: UNION YES! https://t.co/srPaoSnXms

2023-01-09 15:18:01 @janusrose uber is maybe most infamous for this - retaliating toward drivers getting together at airports to work together, or rumors of monitoring drivers getting together in their off hours

2023-01-09 15:14:25 @janusrose (but that just underscores the need to backchannel with coworkers off-platform, eg use signal)

2023-01-09 15:13:56 @janusrose there's something i feel super anxious about in that mgmt can quickly put up and move around the metaphorical walls of workplaces via algorithmic systems, so being entirely remote and rarely/never meeting challenges a lot of what i've learned about labor organization ... /2

2023-01-08 17:37:12 k https://t.co/3XlKaRbXop

2023-01-08 17:36:16 for fuck's sake... 6 years ago they were found preying on people posting to r/SuicideWatch via DMs https://t.co/yU7v0yOutv

2023-01-08 14:13:12 @cyberneticpond @goof @blprnt the real thread should be how a bunch of AI researchers developed and went through the appropriate procedures to get consent to experiment on 4000 people to use chatGPT in a highly sensitive context such as mental health care for mostly adolescents

2023-01-08 14:04:01 @cyberneticpond @goof @blprnt and, as discussed, the description and follow up suggest that the consent process only went out to providers (therapists?), not to the patients. which leads me to wonder if the users are even regarded properly as like... human beings with serious needs and dignity and stuff

2023-01-08 14:02:19 @cyberneticpond @goof @blprnt giving him benefit of the doubt, and it's a lot here, that might be debriefing when they're told which condition they were in. like, consent having been acquired earlier but the factors of getting consent to experiment on children with mental health care needs are... complicated

2023-01-08 07:28:45 i almost went with in-n-out but there's no in-n-out endowed professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at UC Irvine https://t.co/qBKut5i4fj

2023-01-08 07:22:31 taco. fucking. bell. https://t.co/QhjpnDtI2L

2023-01-08 07:19:12 RT @mrragersson: SCREAMING https://t.co/qMRkS8B9af

2023-01-08 02:28:45 i'm learning the startup mostly serves adolescents. i just thought i should relay that.

2023-01-07 21:57:49 resilience is a new cryptocurrency dropping later this year, backed by myopic tech dorks https://t.co/C8hebqSrqN

2023-01-07 18:45:37 it feels a little like i'm going back and forth between deep sea diving and snorkling, and every time i come back up to the surface i get the bends, in addition to the frustration of chasing some kid who's excitedly telling his friends about how many turtles he rode like a horse

2023-01-07 18:41:02 working in AI/tech ethics is challenging at the same time that i'm trying to work out frameworks for thinking about complex learning systems, some shithead will post a thread on how he secretly experimented on several thousand people with varying serious mental health care needs

2023-01-07 17:53:49 i hope you get the care and compassion you emphatically deserve.

2023-01-07 17:52:47 i'm really sorry to the ~4000 of you who may be finding out now that you were subjected to a self-aggrandizing experiment trivializing your mental health care without your consent. you deserve better care and deserved more dignity and respect than this. https://t.co/AGQQJiDuKQ

2023-01-05 23:34:26 @mattbc what.

2023-01-05 23:32:06 on the 13th day of christmas, my true love gave to me 13 speaker votes failing 12 drummers drumming 11 pipers piping 10 lords a-leaping 9 ladies dancing 8 maids a-milking 7 swans a-swimming 6 geese a-laying 5 golden rings 4 calling birds 3 French hens 2 turtle doves-

2023-01-05 23:18:28 just a reminder: never let apps raid &

2023-01-05 22:48:52 >

2023-01-05 22:45:16 >

2023-01-05 22:26:32 @theferocity and at least half the time he doesn't trust me and camps out just outside the bathroom anyway https://t.co/NANKVo7j4P

2023-01-05 22:20:58 @theferocity getting up without prompting him jumping up and following me always feels like i'm negotiating with a bank robber for hostages or something. no sudden movements, promise something good in return, don't make any loud or interesting sounds when i'm out of sight

2022-12-28 23:02:44 @marclamonthill it took him ten hours to come up with this. oh my god

2022-12-28 00:15:25 @HylianRailgun ? https://t.co/l9Ml45ZQK9

2022-12-27 23:14:23 @egrefen @LeonDerczynski @emilymbender @FelixHill84 lmao?

2022-12-23 17:36:35 if i wanted to stare at a fucking wall of numbers i would go back to work.

2022-12-23 17:34:42 RT @_alialkhatib: being on this app has gotten so exhausting.

2022-12-22 16:56:21 gonna be such a bad look for UX designers in particular to have twitter on your resume in 2023. look at the state of this shit lol

2022-12-22 16:52:02 RT @anabrandusescu: “People have to file freedom of information requests just to learn an algorithm set the length of their prison sentence…

2022-12-22 16:51:48 RT @loisbeckett: So incredibly sad to learn yesterday that Henry Berg-Brousseau, a transgender rights advocate, has died at age 24. “The…

2022-12-22 16:46:38 really putting out the big fires at twitter HQ

2022-12-22 16:45:26 when you notice the likes and retweets are no longer in the same approximate place when you're focused on the tweet as when you're scrolling past tweets

2022-12-22 03:25:15 @iarvis is "dhar mann basically looks directly at the camera and says the moral of the story" on the board?

2022-12-22 03:21:49 @MikeIsaac he looks like a street magician in the first pic

2022-12-22 02:47:19 "we're not focusing on accessibility... let's get everyone in first" surprisingly indexes pretty effectively https://t.co/2heyOzMPMa

2022-12-21 22:53:38 @IBJIYONGI lmao yes it isssss what this article doesn't seem to mention is that this design isn't just favored by munger - he fucking designed it. and he's done it before (at UMich and a few other places) https://t.co/cfwSL6xkgr https://t.co/6Q4Int6Evn

2022-12-21 22:47:29 @IBJIYONGI oh my god is this that ugly monstrosity designed by that billionaire donor who has no idea what he's doing?

2022-12-21 08:07:08 i guess that's not fair. hotz was around for 4 weeks

2022-12-21 08:04:19 i didn't know any of this was happening until now, at which point i'm gathering he's already out. is this elon's scaramucci? https://t.co/Pv6OqgHCxp

2022-12-21 02:26:14 my god https://t.co/bF71WNLkR9

2022-12-21 02:22:45 i wish someone had written about how we can't trust governments not to use digital contact tracing apps for oppressive purposes https://t.co/OTQVRt3wc5

2022-12-21 01:53:01 hello i am a big dumb idiot i am going to go report on how elmo is resigning from twitter now https://t.co/wsxh4ow80H

2022-12-20 23:44:21 @lolkat @Hbomberguy the tactical baby walker kickstarter i backed 12 years ago took a little longer to deliver than projected, but it turned out exactly how i hoped https://t.co/Yn7mHjbwPn

2022-12-20 20:37:41 ... and there we go: Tawana Petty of @Data4BlackLives, along with @ConMijente, @fightfortheftr, and other groups, commenting on this in 2021 https://t.co/p48ktLUOh9 i think @hypervisible said these tech always get used on oppressed groups first- listen to them https://t.co/HlPiXbRVxs

2022-12-20 20:29:12 whenever i see a technology causing what seems to be new harm, i've learned to ask how long, and where, has this tech been workshopped &

2022-12-20 20:14:24 @Hbomberguy these aren't even the worst of the ones i've gotten lol https://t.co/MOZaCsc8rp

2022-12-20 20:03:57 RT @100soft: hey Los Angeles friends, our mascot and beloved cat Admiral Whiskers snuck out Saturday night (Dec 17) near North Koreatown. P…

2022-12-20 16:57:27 i think the american commitment to the delusion that social strata in the US are fluid and ascendable is going to collide with the nepo-baby discourse in ways that are even more disturbing than what we've seen thus far.

2022-12-20 16:52:46 RT @Nina_Metz: The conversation tends to revolve around connections and favors. Obviously financial stability/support from those famous pat…

2022-12-20 16:52:10 RT @MillyTamarez: I know alot of the nepo baby discourse is tired and now the cool thing to do is to be like "wait til you realize xxx prof…

2022-12-20 16:39:04 @gothspiderbitch *banned from r/TolkienFans*

2022-12-20 16:37:23 @gothspiderbitch why couldn't you two fly there?

2022-12-20 16:21:12 RT @ButNotTheCity: If you are like this as a professor, please quit.

2022-12-20 02:28:00 @its_a_me_lucy he might be in a funny position now

2022-12-20 02:20:09 @alplicable @GreatestTrek rule #1

2022-12-20 01:35:50 hmm. https://t.co/7i3wWwffIy

2022-12-19 23:51:55 give these women a break from you. https://t.co/nJRl2SFQGx

2022-12-19 23:41:23 underwear, then pants. go with whatever's clean. if it's on the floor, it's not clean. and remember to brush your teeth before you put your shirt on in case you make a mess, buddy

2022-12-19 23:39:59 does anyone at twitter know a way of running this site that doesn't involve all of us weighing in on every stupid little decision that they should be able to handle on their own? elon, do you need help getting dressed? if you're hungry, make a poll

2022-12-19 23:29:34 @AnthroPunk what's so intriguing about it (to me, anyway) is how much it sounds like something one would find in a really bad self-help book. it's so... falsely and delusionally self-empowering nonsense. it's fascinating

2022-12-19 23:12:32 RT @eileenguo: NEW FROM ME: I investigated the origins of 15 video stills taken from inside homes by robot vacuums and shared to social med…

2022-12-19 21:21:56 whenever tech advocates talk up AI replacing journalism or art or smth, it makes me kinda sad

2022-12-19 19:25:31 "the now habit" sounds like some white people winesday shit https://t.co/fAcBgPYkuU https://t.co/uQLgv3qemB

2022-12-19 17:26:32 @RMac18 #macpack https://t.co/hHYePNgdr5

2022-12-19 06:08:04 @PatBlanchfield @ubiquity75 i can't handle a real person earnestly being this much of a simp. i need this to be satire

2022-12-19 06:07:05 @PatBlanchfield @ubiquity75 please, god, let it be a joke account laying the groundwork to get him to publicly agree with fake nonsense quotes attributed to him

2022-12-19 04:34:24 RT @catesish: sometimes I hate the internet

2022-12-18 23:29:36 @jwkritchie i had heard of this a while back but it seemed to be hit or miss in terms of who was being asked. the best guess i have is that either the account doesn't have an email associated with it or the system is bugging out https://t.co/z1sQvtXZok

2022-12-18 23:25:31 @erinbiba nope, not unless something went totally sideways during the switch

2022-12-18 19:45:14 RT @_alialkhatib: whew. crazy news these days. world cup happening and everything, am i right? so anyway: https://t.co/kASzJhyG5W

2022-12-18 19:43:45 @MikeIsaac i need to give you the benefit of the doubt and let you finish your thought more often lol

2022-12-18 19:42:58 @MikeIsaac (still not a great analogy, though

2022-12-18 19:41:48 @MikeIsaac i guess, but disallowing access to data via API and banning even mentioning other places feels miles apart. it seems more in the neighborhood of when apple wouldn't let app developers even mention payments/subscriptions outside of the apple flow (a rule they've since dropped)

2022-12-18 19:04:29 if you all think elon's not gonna make downloading an archive of your data more difficult to try to keep you here, then 1. get a grip on reality. and 2. get an archive of your data before reality hits you like a tesla on autopilot

2022-12-18 18:42:35 okay, this was funny https://t.co/8JsNYjVvTE

2022-12-18 18:41:43 RT @dril: https://t.co/9nJ93UKpa4 dont you dare click on this illegal list of web sites that are better than twitter

2022-12-18 18:39:28 RT @ShadowTodd: your boyfriend trying to stop you from dumping him by standing in front of the door

2022-12-18 18:39:09 RT @tinysubversions: Hey, this isn't for everyone, but if you are of a technical inclination and care about community (or have a friend who…

2022-12-18 18:36:49 well, fuck. blocking linktree is... actually seriously shitty, no kidding around. sex workers get forced off of almost every other platform so they keep a SFW presence on places like ig and tiktok (not banned? ok, anyway) and have links to their work sites on their linktree pages https://t.co/2UDM7VVdNW

2022-12-18 18:10:49 lots of metaphors in that tweet. very confused imagery there

2022-12-18 18:10:31 i dunno, i personally think the marketplace of ideas should decide if my post linking all of my other socials rises or sinks in the public square or whatever

2022-12-18 17:56:13 i can still post about the jeremy renner app, right? or ... is that what Nostro is?

2022-12-18 17:47:18 whew. crazy news these days. world cup happening and everything, am i right? so anyway: https://t.co/kASzJhyG5W https://t.co/KP2OahwyuR

2022-12-17 17:37:16 no medical costs for living people

2022-12-17 17:36:34 insulin caps for seniors https://t.co/FvKLv3UkPC

2022-12-17 17:35:04 RT @shengokai: It’s astonishing that you think the presence of marginalized folks means there’s no oppression on the platform, especially g…

2022-12-17 16:33:40 also, the "hide details" button was for people who had no joy left. or if you were convinced it made this process faster. which, like, at that point how could you even tell???

2022-12-17 16:32:16 kids in the future aren't going to understand how much this sped up the computer, but it genuinely did. https://t.co/kXjwua591j

2022-12-17 16:14:44 RT @Blackamazon: I mean she doesn’t allow any correction for herself so like she’s know they pattern And it’s bluntly disgusting to avoid…

2022-12-17 08:20:42 RT @az_rww: And as predicted, while all the mainstream journalists who were banned come back, the indies who specifically track the far-rig…

2022-12-17 03:19:33 @JuliusGoat "nobody else is saying this, which means i'm very smart for realizing it "

2022-12-17 00:41:08 if someone i cared about told me GPS data was "basically assassination coordinates", i would try to see if they were okay. i think the fact that nobody seems to care to ask that about him says something i'm not sure what though, and i don't really care but it is passingly sad

2022-12-17 00:38:44 for the record, elon's jet flight info is maybe 2 steps more work to track down than googling the flight info for a friend you promised to pick up from the airport. also, dunno who needs to hear this, but those arrivals/departures screens at the airport aren't like... hit lists.

2022-12-16 22:42:56 RT @_alialkhatib: @EricBlair19o3 like i was saying

2022-12-16 22:40:11 @EricBlair19o3 like i was saying https://t.co/SdLptFOHSp

2022-12-16 21:13:02 @tressiemcphd yessss got mine a few days ago but i've been caught up by other stuff https://t.co/MqFkQP5wv1

2022-12-16 16:55:07 RT @_alialkhatib: being on this app has gotten so exhausting.

2022-12-16 07:10:33 RT @JaneLytv: Currently, as I type this, Russia is bombing Ukraine. Explosions in Kharkiv have been reported. Explosions in Kyiv have been…

2022-12-16 07:02:36 @AASchapiro obviously context matters, and obviously this rhetorical conflation of his is fucking stupid, but then so is he.

2022-12-16 07:00:07 @AASchapiro in the space earlier, he mentioned not caring about whether the person posting the info is a journalist or the context. i think the answer to your question is that his definition of doxxing omits (or tries to erase) status, wealth, power from the equation

2022-12-16 06:53:39 oh. https://t.co/9vR8TxMT2y

2022-12-16 04:17:45 what if a bot posted a bunch of longitudes and another bot posted a bunch of latitudes, and another account - you know what, i'm gonna go write down all the scenarios

2022-12-16 04:16:28 what would happen if a bot tweeted a bunch of GPS coordinates all in the span of a few hours starting right now, and i occasionally retweeted one of them without comment whenever someone happened to be there? i'm just asking questions. like, hypothetically.

2022-12-16 04:08:01 RT @eaton: Aha, we’ve reached the “mod loses his shit and starts adding new rules because he had a bad day, banning people who notice and p…

2022-12-16 04:03:36 it's just bad parenting, tbh. that's all there is to it. hot take: i don't think you should name your kids after assassination coordinates!

2022-12-16 04:02:36 can't help but feel bad for elmo's kids, being named after assassination coordinates or whatever :/

2022-12-16 03:52:52 being on this app has gotten so exhausting.

2022-12-16 03:45:50 RT @ddiamond: “Permanently suspended” user Matt Binder has found a loophole: he can talk (and is talking!) on this Twitter space, right now…

2022-12-16 03:29:15 @pixelatedboat "basically assassination coordinates" everything about this guy is just... an unspeakably exhausting-sounding chore

2022-12-16 03:09:25 RT @loisbeckett: The LA County Sheriff's Department also said in an email yesterday that "LASD has not received any reports related to this…

2022-12-16 02:39:55 you'll never take down all the single-user instances, elmo https://t.co/5iPYmgkxlD

2022-12-15 03:52:29 @IBJIYONGI @elon11minutesago isn't registered... yet

2022-12-15 03:50:52 @IBJIYONGI he'll change the rules. it would be easier if he just had them make the rule "posts elmo likes are okay"

2022-12-15 03:47:21 everyone who posted elmo getting his pasty ass roasted and booed that night better watch out

2022-12-15 03:46:50 just to be clear sharing someone's past location, like the flight plan 10 minutes after the plane landed, is fine right? it's not sharing the live location. right? this would literally be easier to make sense of if the rule was just "no posts that make elmo sad or feel bad"

2022-12-15 03:44:09 >

2022-12-15 03:41:39 i swear to god i look away for one day and... https://t.co/pAsDVlm5sc

2022-12-13 17:19:19 @cassius_a oh sorry lol i must've spaced and skipped the top bit. need to stop doing that

2022-12-13 17:09:08 @cassius_a this looks different from what i read before. have their demands shifted slightly, or was the stuff i saw initially wrong?

2022-12-13 16:32:34 ??? but the founder already said it wasn't worth shit. what kinda scam is this? https://t.co/cCOYUZYiov https://t.co/wl30YNufOf

2022-12-13 16:21:56 you'd think advocating against giving people with AIDS anti-retrovirals because they're poor would immediately disqualify you from acting as an authority in public health policy but oster turned that into a *launchpad* into an endless career of bad, minimizing takes about COVID https://t.co/dAxvWKVwZX

2022-12-13 06:15:20 @sashaperigo i don't know why, but i feel like i need to know if they mean it *aesthetically* didn't fit or *geometrically* didn't fit.

2022-12-13 06:09:17 twitter blue's return will bring Trial By Combat, where users challenge one another to duels of demotivational posters*. mr bigsmartking will judge

2022-12-13 06:03:29 @DocDre how did they take all this time to work this shit out and not explain these things in the thread??? i'm not some kind of big brain person and these seem like pretty obvious contingencies to have to be prepared for lol

2022-12-13 06:01:55 @DocDre ... are they saying they'll refund people who fail their <

2022-12-12 23:51:05 encountering legacy verified users is increasingly going to be like finding "low-background steel" from before we started using nuclear bombs and contaminated all the steel that's been milled since then https://t.co/Yy3K35OhdG https://t.co/kLQH1mMkop

2022-12-12 23:43:54 @RMac18 "some people were definitely booing. it's san francisco, for goodness sake" huh... is SF famous for booing?

2022-12-12 23:34:21 @GreatestTrek i don't think i can say for sure from this picture. i'm gonna have to order one to see it up close

2022-12-12 23:33:30 @GreatestTrek *squints at the corner* ... is that... jeffrey combs playing poker with jeffrey combs and jeffrey combs??

2022-12-12 17:01:02 RT @msolurin: Elon Musk got bood off the stage at a Dave Chappelle show and then immediately jumped on twitter to attack trans people becau…

2022-12-12 16:11:24 RT @vinn_ayy: Ten percent and he was still up there sputtering and shaking like he got slapped in the face??? https://t.co/Nl9d1IVsfD

2022-12-12 15:50:34 @Wolven error text implies deleted rather than suspended but the only reason we're ruling out the possibility that someone at twitter went and caused a deletion is because that would be unbelievably damaging to trust in the system. which is a long way of saying "they might've done that" https://t.co/Q6iPM4VoLZ

2022-12-12 15:36:34 @lequelle8 @thotscholar damn you're fast

2022-12-12 15:33:07 i dunno what "let's split up and vulnerably look around" would look like in this context but i'm not sweating it

2022-12-12 15:29:20 in the horror movie cliche, they're gonna suggest that we make a deal with him and he'll let us go. no, you dumbshit, get in the fucking car and drive away!

2022-12-12 15:26:56 the NYT is proof that there exist people who are genuinely as stupid as those teenagers in horror movies we all make fun of https://t.co/7QhXagAYIJ

2022-12-11 16:19:59 don't implicate all of us like this. his politics are clear, you're just dumb. https://t.co/af1bheRrcN

2022-12-11 04:35:18 @notlkjones_SOC @sgbuggs "we've changed oh fuck also we were hella racist in the 00s and 10s i forgot about those CHANGED "

2022-12-11 04:33:58 @notlkjones_SOC @sgbuggs i don't know if it's supposed to be intentionally hilarious like "us? racist? in the 20s? yes. in the 30s?? yes. in the 40s??? yes. in the 50s???? yes. in the 60s?????? yes. in the 70s??????? yes. in the 80s?????????? yes. in the 90s????????????? yes. but now? no. now we're good"

2022-12-11 04:15:00 RT @UAW7902: You heard it here first: We have countersigned a tentative agreement and the strike is ending. Stay tuned for the official j…

2022-12-11 03:43:29 RT @yyzji: Can’t live.

2022-12-11 03:06:29 RT @PhilipRocco: The fact that Chat GPT seems “surprisingly good” at its job should be a sign that the conventional prose style has become…

2022-12-10 18:01:22 nah, you're not gonna need coffee makers. this isn't a hotel, god damn it. oh, make sure to buy some extra bedsheets so you can swap them out when you do the turndown service on all the beds you've brought in. https://t.co/WDAWXXRvHr

2022-12-10 17:55:29 " hardcore mode but you're gonna have to wander off for 20 minutes to get drip coffee"

2022-12-10 17:53:43 elmo's nominally trying to get rid of shit like espresso machines and refrigerators, which could be used for things like food and drinks, which would allow people to stay at work during daytime, when they can be productive but he's getting rid of all of it to make room for beds.

2022-12-10 17:48:06 if it wasn't clear that he's not trying to run this site (he's burning it to the ground because it's an effective platform for people to organize against power, and annihilating that is worth blowing away tens of billions of dollars), he's liquidating office furniture for $25 OBO https://t.co/qXLBcnXQYn https://t.co/jFj70HNoGZ

2022-12-10 17:40:32 the META team documented how the timeline algo favors right-wing content then elmo fired that team then he gave unprecedented access to user data to trolls with documented histories of harassment who misunderstood basic notes and drew a conclusion literally opposite to reality

2022-12-10 17:11:28 if Ella knows what's good for her she's gonna have a bigger legal team on a personal retainer than twitter has on payroll within a week https://t.co/IBvubhZ9hM

2022-12-10 17:09:22 RT @ZoeSchiffer: If you're a tech worker considering sharing information with the media, you have rights! The Tech Worker Handbook is a goo…

2022-12-09 16:23:25 i mean i'm going to reply. i'm going to reply i'm going to. i swear, stop watching me, i'm going to do it. stop. go away.

2022-12-09 16:22:27 someone sent me an email in august. is it too late to reply? i've been thinking about this as far back as a time when replying would have simply been late, but not baffling. i can't even tell my therapist about it anymore because it might be too much even for her to deal with.

2022-12-09 06:56:42 you ever see court exhibits happen in real time? https://t.co/CHHgCpTNVE

2022-12-09 05:43:01 RT @karen_ec_levy: https://t.co/gUYly0wuJa

2022-12-09 05:33:04 RT @BamaParrott: Friends, spread the word: We have 2 tenure-track assistant professor positions opening at Alabama for Fall 2023. Details s…

2022-12-09 04:32:46 a month ago i felt like this was a "substantial amount of account access" i no longer feel like it's an extraordinary amount more access than elon seems to be willing to give people otherwise unaffiliated with twitter and with a documented history of harassment

2022-12-09 04:32:45 i'm avoiding starting private conversations on twitter now except to immediately trade signal contact info to let me switch to that. if there's even a tiny chance that deleting my DMs actually means deleting them still, then there are tools. https://t.co/EGKBtkSS5Y

2022-12-09 04:32:44 this is a good question. both i don't trust that twitter is deleting things i ask them to delete. i believe they're removing them from view, but i expect any of elon's friends who get access over the years will probably have access to anything that ever touched twitter's servers https://t.co/t1ARidlL7u

2022-12-09 04:22:28 love the spam on this platform. it makes spending less time here easier

2022-12-09 04:20:11 i check and sometimes post here every so often, but i've moved a lot of my time over to mastodon. you can follow me there if you wanna see photos of my dog and also commentary on things. https://t.co/e4gwmwviki sorry things are so shit :(

2022-12-09 04:20:10 for what it's worth: i use signal. i trust signal emphatically, probably more than i trust any other service or system out there i donate to signal. oh right, donate to signal if you can: https://t.co/Guf3Nilo7X (reach out privately somehow if you want to contact me via signal)

2022-12-09 04:20:09 i know i have followers who don't live in tech. i have no idea why. it baffles me. is it my dog? here's a pic of him anyway, if you haven't been keeping up with twitter management drama, the tldr is i wouldn't trust any data stored on twitter. get your convo's off this platform https://t.co/bya2QfXY3p

2022-12-09 03:44:49 >

2022-12-08 22:40:05 RT @AAUPTNS: The students are now occupying University Center at the New School

2022-12-08 13:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-12-07 08:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-11-15 16:44:07 also, you must now compliment him when you walk past himpreferred subjects of praise:- pants- any of his three (3) latest non-reply tweets- heightprohibited subjects:- hair- "dump truck" (also, stop beeping when he backs up)- HAIR- anything drawing attention to skin

2022-11-15 16:44:06 NEW POLICY: the only person at twitter allowed to post about twitter is elon. twitter employees can like his tweets if they want, and retweet his tweets if they want twitter-related stuff to show up on their profile pages. you must also keep your profiles public so elon can check

2022-11-15 16:30:13 this is fucking unhinged shit. elon melting down and making a fucking fool of himself, taking everyone within arm's reach with him https://t.co/C7lkGVNyXb

2022-11-15 03:05:17 @Sssuzannaaaa @JStein_WaPo nobody has been stopped from making the unnecessary payments on their student loan debt over the past 2 years

2022-11-15 02:56:28 @matrixman124 i don't remember what board i was on.. but i went back into my email and i'm incredibly embarrassed by the username i chose. but i only talked about anime with people, so if there was an anime board, then that lol https://t.co/vwNp6EE2jl

2022-11-15 02:37:49 @matrixman124 if nothing else, regularly checking who's moved to mastodon instances by using https://t.co/dSY32e4Wvt is just one of the slightly panicked ways im dealing with the growing possibility that this place fully stops being accessible

2022-11-15 02:35:57 @matrixman124 ok i see what you're saying. but i put a lot more stuff here than i did on the boards. errant thoughts and serious conversations that could become something later. and i think i'm more invested in the lives of people here than i was on old web forums (i mean, i was younger then)

2022-11-15 02:32:44 @matrixman124 WAIT ITS GONE?

2022-11-15 02:27:15 do this ASAP. no joke. it took twitter a few days to get my archive ready, which is normal. but SMS login verification failing to send is NOT normala hundred little things have to work smoothly for you to end up with a link to a zip filea hundred PROBABLY UNMAINTAINED things https://t.co/jZkHg44VqI

2022-11-15 02:14:17 @syardi i said $$$

2022-11-15 02:11:07 @syardi academic api seems risky for multiple reasons:- takes labor to maintain, which is stretched thin- he's been breaking services that don't directly affect his user experience- it's free to researchers. if it exists in a year, i would bet he'll charge universities $$$ for access

2022-11-15 01:31:45 @RMac18 yeah, but it gets light again the next day at 11:51

2022-11-15 00:53:35 RT @Blackamazon: Because structures that include your platform mocked his targets , refused to listen to those who asked for better reporti…

2022-11-15 00:52:35 @gianluca_string @evan_greer to be clear, i don't want any of them to face any repercussions except maybe a fist bump. but it is SUCH a bad sign for management if you've completely lost any hope of getting a factual answer from people

2022-11-15 00:40:31 @gianluca_string @evan_greer room full of SWEs supposedly told him they couldn't think of why it was there.no matter how many people he fired, i can't believe that he was in a room full of tweeps who couldn't figure it out/didn't know.so they're just lying to his face when he asks them shit.incredible.

2022-11-15 00:37:18 @oysta i have completely given up on any hope that he might try something quietly to see if it blows up in his face before talking about it publicly and confidently.every instinct elon musk has just seems catastrophically wrong.

2022-11-15 00:16:54 i'm sure he has mixed feelings about something but you can't tell me 50 million dollars can't pay for therapy sessions to process those feelings.

2022-11-15 00:15:02 i'm not saying i feel bad for him. i just can't stop thinking about how fucking blissed out he probably feels.

2022-11-15 00:14:32 can't help but think about parag. more than 50 million dollars' worth of shares vested immediately as he was almost literally turned around and walked away from the building while elon set himself on fire surrounded by paper printouts of all of twitter's most recent code commits.

2022-11-15 00:05:38 @HardDriveMag is he confused about how twitter works? yes.does he not understand why it's so slow? yes.does he insist on printing everything out even when it makes no sense? yes.but these jokes about elon are mean.oh, one moreis he a crazy tycoon-era-sounding emerald mine heir? yes.

2022-11-14 00:27:46 @timnitGebru the overlaps... https://t.co/KtqFW6eWy0

2022-11-14 00:25:54 RT @Blackamazon: “Good faith “ is the white man way of saying do my homework for me . You do not have to be good faith. You have to be…

2022-11-14 00:11:22 @MikeIsaac you're gonna want to plant some corn to make chips

2022-11-14 00:05:19 @IBJIYONGI "i've never experienced this before" i want to grab these people and scream "OF COURSE YOU HAVENT YOU ARE WHITE ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?"

2022-11-13 18:38:41 RT @ubiquity75: As with most companies in the space, Twitter’s official FTE numbers of around 7500 employees did NOT count the contractors.…

2022-11-13 16:24:11 https://t.co/tgjqq0kk51

2022-11-13 16:18:00 RT @yimregister: @_alialkhatib Not to be like “omg my work” but also omg my work! I’ve been looking at how people talk about “the algorithm…

2022-11-13 16:17:28 @yimregister yes please

2022-11-13 15:59:25 @dgolumbia "what'll really stump bad actors is fewer regulations, actually" is breathtaking

2022-11-13 08:21:31 RT @Blackamazon: Because like screw Black folks and womens rights and and and Y’all make these white dudes feel unassailable and coddle…

2022-11-13 08:20:49 RT @harryjsisson: If you voted in Lauren Boebert’s district and your ballot was rejected, you have a week to fix it. Spread the word!!!!

2022-11-13 08:18:31 every other year a bunch of white democrats exhale as soon as the election is over and do everything they can to distance themselves from black people and people of color in general. and every other year minus 6-12 months they dust off the "vote blue" signs to browbeat POC with

2022-11-13 08:13:15 couldn't wait to get that off your chest? https://t.co/phbFgbW7NQ

2022-11-13 06:02:37 RT @CaseyNewton: You don’t have to treat people this way https://t.co/YLBJdJqvkH

2022-11-13 01:03:19 at some point i'm gonna go on a rant about what people mean when they talk about "the algorithm" in a few different contexts because when you say "there is no algorithm! it's chronological!"you're saying a very particular thing that i think we all really, really need to unpack.

2022-11-12 22:18:37 @JuliusGoat something about white guys in tech is so bleak and sad. when they're really pushed to explore potential futures in public view, they can't even begin to imagine what a future for twitter that doesn't involve a billionaire like elon or jack mismanaging it might look like.

2022-11-12 21:21:44 RT @Blackamazon: So when do places like STANFORD start talking about how they fast tracked EA while slow footing diversity, accountability…

2022-11-12 19:05:33 i don't know where to go with this. it's just something i'm stressed about.

2022-11-12 19:05:32 i know that you can get into counterfactual thinking and go down this rabbit hole forever - if i hadn't done X, then would Y have happened? - and maybe i would've been so frustrated and dissatisfied that i found these people either way. but i don't know HOW that would've happened

2022-11-12 19:05:31 between jokes about this shitshow:not even 5 years ago i was working on a CS PhD at stanford. you can imagine the demography, and the attendant perspectives, of that kinda groupthis stupid app is why i know about a lot of the people whose works have become cornerstones for me

2022-11-12 18:42:21 @Verba_et_Vertus @semiphemeral @micahflee @theintercept to note in case someone doesn't notice: twitter only lets apps to delete DMs up to 30 days backBUTif you have the DM's unique ID (which you get along with every DM in your data download), then it can go to twitter and say "go delete ID 354254252342" even if it's >

2022-11-12 18:39:59 @Verba_et_Vertus this might work. you have to provide a substantial amount of account access to @semiphemeral, but the author (@micahflee) is director of infosec at @theintercept, so it's not some fly-by-night thingi might run the open source code on my own data thoughhttps://t.co/qcZv9ngcDZ

2022-11-12 18:14:33 @Verba_et_Vertus there has gotta be a way to automate it though, no? the whole rest of my year is gone if i have to do it all by hand

2022-11-12 18:13:39 RT @Verba_et_Vertus: @_alialkhatib May want to note that deleting DMs isn't enough. The *other* person in the convo would have to delete th…

2022-11-12 18:06:30 just... do not delete your account. do not deactivate it. delete whatever you want (NB: might wanna save a backup, and keep in mind the system is falling apart in lots of little ways, &

2022-11-12 18:00:26 in such a messy information environment like this, you've got to assume some people are running a competent playbookthere might never been an opportunity like this again. and when the site collapses, all the evidence will go... where? lost under the rubble of elon's stupidity?

2022-11-12 18:00:25 we're seeing so much dumb shit right now

2022-11-12 17:54:37 i would assume people crawl twitter for mentions of leaving, note follower/following lists, copy profile pics, etcthen, when your profile disappears, a timer starts. after 30 days your @ is released, and they swoop in, messaging friends with open DMs, running any scam they want

2022-11-12 17:30:09 a quarter of a million dollars per month. holy shitthere would have to be on the order of 400x as many subscribers as are in this list for twitter to have any hope of paying just the interest on the loan elon saddled the company withthe scale of elon's failure is astounding https://t.co/bR2eWEnw0B

2022-11-12 17:08:02 @yoshuawuyts who could have guessed this would happen? https://t.co/nMt8r4VibA

2022-11-12 07:01:14 RT @alextwenzel: California Teamsters have asked drivers in the state to respect picket lines at UC campuses. Deliveries by unionized drive…

2022-11-12 05:53:53 @FTX_aid @knowmiun @rekmarks @MikeIsaac i wouldn't DM this account but that's just my professional opinion

2022-11-12 05:29:19 @rekmarks @MikeIsaac okay.jesus christ.

2022-11-12 05:25:17 @MikeIsaac what now

2022-11-12 02:31:08 i would love to be in the room to have watched this in real-time but there is not a single human being who was in the room whose shoes i would like to be in. https://t.co/7PmqN6CXpc

2022-11-12 02:25:52 @pixelatedboat and don't forget constantly maintaining a posture prepared to go "thermonuclear" on them if they scale back their advertising budget even $1

2022-11-11 18:02:49 @timnitGebru it's just more tone policing, laundered so that they can avoid saying "she made me feel bad". it sounds more legitimate and principled to say "she wasn't discussing things in good faith". and it's so insistently nebulous that any interrogation of what that even means is hopeless

2022-11-11 18:00:33 there'll be so many short discussions of what it looks like to be completely and utterly inadequate to the task you've assigned yourself and they're all gonna end with a series of screenshots of elon musk's tweets

2022-11-11 17:57:34 this would all be fine if not for all the journalism https://t.co/G8BQuzQnNV

2022-11-11 16:27:39 @NotABigJerk @jbouie he thought twitter's payroll system was haunted?

2022-11-11 16:15:51 @iarvis 3 omg

2022-11-11 16:05:31 @ginasue is any philanthropy popular among billionaires NOT?

2022-11-11 14:39:30 RT @sassycrass: 1.) Muskmelon is absolutely a creep for doing this2.) The number of men more up-in-arms in the comments about her calling…

2022-11-11 14:39:20 @sassycrass these guys are gonna be so sad when they come to terms with the fact that elon is never gonna kiss them

2022-11-11 14:36:48 RT @Blackamazon: The way I know these reporters don’t talk to Black people seriously or talk about racism and harassment “Ghost/ NPC empl…

2022-11-11 14:35:00 my favorite part of this shit is when statisticians are like "yeah but we weighted and accounted for that" https://t.co/d56xxBX21H

2022-11-11 05:28:57 @odannyboy either he was lying in his accusation that twitter was undercounting bots by a significant degree, or he genuinely believes he needs a healthy margin more than 5% to be subscribed at $8/month. or presumably 2-3% at the original $20/month??i'm not sure which is more preposterous

2022-11-11 05:19:18 if twitter goes down while i'm asleepplease remind elon he's a weirdo creep https://t.co/3MyV4R2PKJ

2022-11-11 05:06:04 @odannyboy did you account for elon's *definitely totally earnest belief* that twitter had been misrepresenting the proportion of its MAUs that were bots?

2022-11-11 04:45:57 @nycsouthpaw noticed the same but thought it was mostly about promoted tweets (everyone screenshotted has verified status because of notability, from before twitter blue) https://t.co/QulqwmzsYe

2022-11-11 03:24:55 RT @MorePerfectUS: Eli Lilly apologizing for a fake tweet but not for charging $714.87 for a carton of insulin. https://t.co/0TmiAGXEKk

2022-11-11 03:22:28 we're barreling toward this faster than i expected https://t.co/sMof1T4dJG

2022-11-11 03:21:09 oh my gosh, it's not even consistent. what a mess https://t.co/ijY0nsvCWj

2022-11-11 03:17:16 this feels like those "don't use if seal is broken" labels on drinks. it might've made sense if you taught people to look for it, but now i figure whenever i don't see the additional verified status i just... don't think about it. or i assume it doesn't show up in that context

2022-11-11 03:12:25 okay, so now in promoted tweets when the account is verified for notability it will get an extra hat to wear. but for organic conversations between verified users, no extra hat verifying it under ... any circumstances? https://t.co/1C907KTcqy

2022-11-11 03:02:58 RT @mattbc: The @NYTimes obituary of Lois Curtis, a disability rights hero.

2022-11-11 02:47:03 tbh we should all be thanking the comedians because they warned us and sacrificed their accounts doing it. thank you @h3h3productions

2022-11-11 02:43:26 it's kind of chilling. you know about the chiquita tweets and all the elon pranks. why the hell would you know about a scammer who's being just a little bit discreet?

2022-11-11 02:41:49 i wonder how many verified scam accounts impersonating brands are just... quietly DMing random elderly people asking for credit card numbers

2022-11-11 02:19:48 it's been 2 weeks since elon musk took over twitter and even after saying that i cannot fucking believe it's been less than a month.

2022-11-11 02:15:57 RT @HBeckPDX: Did you download your archive and realize it didn't come with alt text? I made a free tool to help pull down all the image de…

2022-11-11 02:14:23 @AASchapiro in some ways i feel stupid for spending my time thinking about complex algorithmic systems and the subtle, far-reaching damage to people's lives that they cause.all along the real risk was an idiot with no grasp of cause and effect smashing shit left and right

2022-11-11 02:00:02 this site has been around for a WHILE but maybe now is its moment: https://t.co/HYecHoaCC4 https://t.co/GpufXXOZVk

2022-11-11 01:58:42 RT @kazweida: Look. If Musk declares bankruptcy and the bank puts the bird site up for sale cheap, a bunch of pro-democracy and news organi…

2022-11-11 01:56:28 sorry what i spaced out didi say something??

2022-11-11 01:55:58 imposter syndrome is the phenomenon you experience when white supremacy and misogyny impress themselves upon you when you're in spaces that have historically been exclusive to clueless white guys with no talent https://t.co/FRrDPSXjmU

2022-11-10 03:04:23 RT @Robert_Gordon_: This kind of analysis needs to understand the ways in which online toxicity works, the phrases used by dangerous people…

2022-11-10 02:38:37 @SagetheEDRPh @hebagowayed @Catherineoscopy i don't see it when i search some of the text of the posts either... maybe went private and changed @? https://t.co/CwpnzzuQSV

2022-11-10 02:35:56 RT @Catherineoscopy: I have a stalker.Recently, she contacted my employer in effort to get me fired. She is racist, and has begun conta…

2022-11-10 02:27:25 you should be taking your data ethics advice from other people than me, but this this this this this THIS THIS THIS JFC THIS https://t.co/Hjzqbah4UM

2022-11-10 02:23:53 RT @karenkho: I don't report on finance anymore, but please do not connect your bank account to Twitter

2022-11-09 23:57:23 i'm guessing there'll be (delayed) action on verified accounts because it seems like elon wants the free accounts to languish till they pay up

2022-11-09 23:53:41 i worry we'll see 2 things- moderately motivated people will soon pull off elaborate, tremendously destructive scams. numerous (albeit finite) huge scams- currently verified users who don't pay will blend into the accounts impersonating them, making for a flood of small scams https://t.co/V1JoPCeQmE

2022-11-09 23:30:40 @mcwm i'm ok, i just need a second to recover from that last one

2022-11-09 21:40:21 i forgot where i saw it (maybe mastodon? try mastodon ), but someone pointed out that signal stories might not be your thing, but it's worth CONSIDERING the prospect of something like stories not meaning carrying around a whole complex surveillance apparatus like instagram.

2022-11-09 20:59:29 RT @HeerJeet: Biden should reward the kids with some more of that sweet, sweet student loan forgiveness. https://t.co/8APgBOu8WZ

2022-11-09 19:27:38 @Saul1245 @HardDriveMag comedy is legal, but heavily taxed

2022-11-09 19:22:57 @Grady_Booch he saw a tweet over the weekend where some idiot said 3 people could make a twitter clone over the weekend and he looked around the hollowed out twitter offices and thought "we've probably got 3 people still trying to figure out if they've been laid off..."

2022-11-09 18:55:27 my hunch is that in 3 months it'll be harder to decipher someone's checkmark than it is to understand how mastodon works.

2022-11-09 17:37:37 RT @DataInstituteSF: The Center for Applied Data Ethics is pleased to welcome Christina Boyles as a data ethics fellow. Christina’s study o…

2022-11-09 17:10:35 i have a good feeling about this elon dude's steady hand on the wheel of - https://t.co/zNS8ABCjVe

2022-11-09 17:03:18 i'm glad twitter took the extra beat to test that incredibly public-facing feature before rolling it out to the public the morning after the US midterm elections

2022-11-09 16:17:25 @DaveOrrick there's just so much courage in this post. that you would have the certainty of self to show your whole ass to the world, to take pride in it, to try to start a hashtag of your own design that makes you sound like a creepy incel.i'm just amazed. it's breathtaking.

2022-11-09 03:50:10 RT @verdantSculpts: Spare me your “fuck Florida” and give some support to trans Floridians this week. We are entering a really scary era in…

2022-11-09 03:45:31 @histoftech @WellsLucasSanto @struthious i accidentally a word there but you get what i mean

2022-11-09 03:44:40 @histoftech @WellsLucasSanto @struthious i genuinely feel really bad because i know that people at twitter worked their asses off to keep this place running smoothly. used to get fail whales all the time. the work that getting it to be as reliable as it was must've been an actual epic featand then that loser showed up

2022-11-09 03:34:53 @histoftech @WellsLucasSanto @struthious https://t.co/oIWltaH5as

2022-11-08 23:36:07 @hondanhon lmao i just looked. i think this might be the worst of both worlds

2022-11-08 22:29:56 *furiously skimming the program now that i'm actually registered for the conference* https://t.co/JeFZpLEDZ5

2022-11-08 22:28:00 i've posted about papers that caught my attention at #FAccT2022 &

2022-11-08 14:50:45 @DRodbone @broderick comedy is legal now. unfortunately a humorless emerald mine heir who has never been more than 5ft away from a sycophant desperate to buy his bathwater has tasked himself with defining comedy

2022-11-08 14:48:01 @theCJS @KrangTNelson no matter where he goes, he'll always be down under

2022-11-08 14:42:07 @acaguy it's gonna make it "vacant office space in downtown SF"

2022-11-08 03:15:52 @polotek and the difference between what's intuitive to you (or more accurately, what you'll just accept after grinding away at it) and what's intuitive to any arbitrary person who encounters your work is somewhere between "close, but not quite" and "what fucking planet are you from?"

2022-11-08 03:12:21 @elmcitytree @polotek stay innocent lol https://t.co/iA9kwfVXVU

2022-11-07 20:08:28 tabouleh. you'd have to physically hold me back on day 41. https://t.co/0MwrvIURwc

2022-11-07 05:10:22 @adapperprof @DocDre it's like he's trying to sound authoritative with some of his word choices but he doesn't know what he's doing so he accidentally lands on "ominous" instead

2022-11-07 03:54:30 @karenkho trash bags (unpacking yields a lot of trash esp if you have packing filler)i would also suggest:- this is going to be exhausting. got sheets and a bed to collapse onto (even if boxes remain to be unpacked)?- prioritize unpacking kitchen stuff, or buy paper plates? your call

2022-11-07 01:23:11 @AdamZHerman @dellcam @oneunderscore__ i love how pathetic these guys are

2022-11-06 01:04:13 idk. im sure someone will say this is obvious and like okay cool great

2022-11-06 01:04:12 that's not to say that stuff isn't useful. it is! i see a lot of people scared that they won't be able to interact with one another if they choose the wrong instance, or worried about various other misconceptions. which is both reasonable and addressable.i just have 2 thoughts:

2022-11-06 01:04:11 people are talking a lot about bridging technical gaps differentiating twitter/mastodon, but i'm struggling to trace the line between most of these technical explanations, &

2022-11-06 00:24:31 can i just... *not* have mid-roll ads on the night sky? https://t.co/seITThPZMJ

2022-11-05 20:44:34 @onekade looking forward to elon explaining to advertisers that half of the ads twitter was selling were crap, and how they came to that conclusion, and what sorts of discount they'll offer companies that buy those bargain bin ads

2022-11-05 15:56:20 @wiredfire @hondanhon some people can't wrap their heads around the idea of identifying an existing effort and humbly asking how they can help, and i sometimes wonder if silicon valley is overrepresented by these people

2022-11-05 07:01:21 @hondanhon on one hand i want to dismiss this entire thread but on the other hand... no?i swear to god... https://t.co/CPMLSE02jN

2022-11-05 05:12:23 @MikeIsaac since it doesn't make sense to call the academic community on mastodon #AcademicTwitter for obvious reasons, i'm pushing for #AcademicTootSuite

2022-11-05 05:08:43 @nycsouthpaw @jason_kint if he finds a way to get $8 per month from everyone who thinks he's a staggering fucking idiot, then he can definitely get twitter profitable

2022-11-05 00:41:25 @WillOremus this is going to be more of a distilled platform of pure grievance-sobbing than parler or gab ever were.

2022-11-04 19:59:59 @harrisj @hondanhon how about a emoji?

2022-11-04 19:53:06 elon is living proof that you can be handed a fully turnkey social media platform with competent employees, reasoned policies, and robust infrastructure

2022-11-04 19:41:23 the accessibility experience engineering team is gone too??you may think you don't use accessibility features. you're gonna learn that you do. oftena lot of things that make this place functionally usable in a wide variety of circumstances are accessibility implementations: https://t.co/peI8BF9Bte

2022-11-04 18:57:20 more in the "we're all gonna feel this one" file folder https://t.co/yhIfhyA95L

2022-11-04 17:53:07 @atpfm elon laid off staff who were on call at the time and had no plan for their departure

2022-11-04 17:43:26 @RMac18 if someone in the room plays this sound at max volume at precisely the right moment, and someone else records it, i will venmo both of you $50https://t.co/6alhe4YVsr

2022-11-04 17:41:13 @RMac18 listening to peter thiel do bits on a stage sounds like torture

2022-11-04 17:35:12 @RMac18 i honestly didn't think anything of it until someone in the replies expressed gratitude that keanu was finally on twitter and then i was like "wait, shit, that's right, what the fuck?"

2022-11-04 16:50:21 RT @willknight: Musk just got rid of most of Twitter's Ethical AI Team, a highly respected group that was working to make the company's alg…

2022-11-04 16:46:14 @IBJIYONGI maybe most famous for fixing the image thumbnail cropping algorithm that prioritized on white faces, they also published a study finding the timeline algo was disproportionately amplifying right-wing content (and working to correct that), and started a novel bias bounty program

2022-11-04 16:42:50 @IBJIYONGI the META team was laid off https://t.co/N9P7xfc2ot

2022-11-04 15:55:38 great point. i teach classes with some of these blog posts as required reading. if you do (or might), might want to make sure @internetarchive's @waybackmachine has a snapshot and/or you have PDFs or something of those pages as they exist now https://t.co/t7bHwpMd3x

2022-11-04 15:17:02 elon's going to feel this fuckup for a while. we're all going to, but at least we'll know why.

2022-11-04 15:14:33 not many tech company ethics groups (those that exist at all) seriously and rigorously investigate themselves. META did.not many of those groups write up reports for the public. META did.not many of those groups made the reports comprehensible. META did.so, META was rare.

2022-11-04 15:14:32 this was the team that did a serious deep dive into the tendency for the timeline algorithm to disproportionately amplify right-leaning content in particular:https://t.co/0UKBEbzWRU

2022-11-04 15:14:31 i doubt she would say this herself, but people across intellectual chasms respect Rumman. she knows her stuff. she knows the political and social side of things and knows the technical side of things. when she has a take, she's clear and direct.and her shots don't miss.

2022-11-04 15:14:30 been talking to people about why, so might as well unpack a few thoughts publicly:the META team was one of the only good case studies illustrating a tech company running an AI ethics group that interacts with the public and with academia with substantial credibility.

2022-11-04 04:45:52 @ruchowdh i'm so sorry Rumman, this is so fucking awful

2022-11-03 16:28:08 @AASchapiro it's a waste of time to point out that shotspotter is inaccurate surveillance capitalism foisted upon communities that have been surveilled and harassed by cops for decades. isn't ALL technology inaccurate sometimes?i bet there's a nice smell when you unpack the box. cover that

2022-11-03 16:22:42 @AASchapiro no no no, the NYT should really exclusively focus on how impressive it is that clearview manages a database of billions of photos of people. that's a gargantuan number! this obsession with how clearview scraped those images without anyone's knowledge or consent is just so rude.

2022-11-03 16:17:21 @AASchapiro why are we not marveling at the engineering that went into the construction of the autobahn? why are we so consumed with - oh

2022-11-03 02:32:13 @MikeIsaac @mshelton @AynRandy stg i move away from the bay area and just like that, 3 months later, you invite people over to do exactly what i'm an expert at :(

2022-11-03 02:22:52 @yoshuawuyts apple has tried to make employees to go back to the office several times and each time they found out that a significant number of their employees (often in extremely high demand) would rather change jobs than move their whole family to cupertinoand apple is competently run lol

2022-11-03 02:18:41 @yoshuawuyts he's going to cut off one of his legs and find out that the blood loss and shock makes him lose an arm as well

2022-11-03 02:16:32 @yoshuawuyts it's worse than that

2022-11-03 01:53:17 get @StephenKing back in here https://t.co/CeYKLAEO3L

2022-11-01 20:59:06 @dataeditor @MKBHD but that's the threat

2022-11-01 20:55:02 @dataeditor the implication of this entire shakedown is something @MKBHD pointed out, how a LOT of people try to impersonate him.seems like a crypto-obsessed dweeb like elon, who sees thousands of spam/scam posts in his replies daily, must know how many people try to pose as famous people

2022-11-01 20:51:39 @dataeditor idk how many scammers will pay $20 payments for accounts that get suspended within 5 minutes of messaging peoplethe issue is this setup is kinda extortionate

2022-11-01 19:21:23 @parismarx @willknight lmaookay i'm gonna go for another prediction. eventually he'll push algorithmic pricing so you see a totally different price from other users depending on a substantial number of factors all going into some model.people will quickly discover that it offers lower rates to men. https://t.co/BlRQmtdmtm

2022-11-01 13:47:04 i never count my threads correctly, fight me

2022-11-01 13:46:18 i don't have a panacea for this, except to say that if these aggregated quantitative broad brushstroke methods are designed to minimize the impression of how marginalized people are dealing with abuse, then you've gotta predicate your approach on other methods.

2022-11-01 13:46:17 i can't help but reflect on how the primary metrics for the the content moderation of abuse of marginalized communities mostly don't account for the marginalized communities being disproportionately exposed to abuse and harassment... /2 https://t.co/P5Y8w21gfd

2022-11-01 13:36:08 @parismarx @willknight lmao https://t.co/nMiwpojQyT

2022-11-01 02:25:19 https://t.co/DHtqzrIizU

2022-10-31 22:38:27 @MattBinder i wonder if the morbius trolls will get involved to see how hard they can spike this site into the ground

2022-10-31 21:05:28 @JessicaCalarco schedule send "no thanks!" for 10 years from now

2022-10-31 16:34:01 RT @BerkeleyISchool: Applying to the @UCBerkeley I School PhD program?Our *amazing* current PhD students run a PhD Applicant Feedback P…

2022-10-31 16:28:27 fuckin hell, this place is becoming 4chan 2.0, huh? https://t.co/yfi60ewlUP

2022-10-31 16:22:36 RT @ranjodhd: Deadline today!! It is a great position, I promise!

2022-10-31 15:24:52 get people with different perspectives in the room, folks. or you might end up like elon at twitter HQ, advised by these total losers lol

2022-10-31 15:22:17 i realized that the rumored verified status for $20/month idea feels a little like tinder super likes (with all of the attendant implications), and a war room principally consisting of men explains why they haven't figured out how desperate that potentially makes the user look https://t.co/tyP2rIQExZ

2022-10-31 15:11:01 @parismarx @willknight they still don't seem to understand that nobody would want to pay for a status that ambiguously signals that they are an incredibly desperate loser who will pay rent for depreciated status symbols, though

2022-10-31 15:09:25 @parismarx @willknight i wouldn't be surprised if their bright idea was a sliding scale for verified status depending on follower counttheir goal isn't necessarily to get every user to pay (or even most), but to get anyone who can afford $5/month paying $5, anyone who can afford $10/mo paying 10, etc

2022-10-31 08:22:16 i'm definitely gonna come back with popcorn to see who's verified and who's not on day 91 when the grace period runs out

2022-10-31 08:15:50 @jbouie @sgbuggs something i realize i'm not even clear about now that i've stopped laughing: is the offer that your account gets verified upon cc charge? totally zeroing out any social signal that the checkmark even claims to provide?i don't even want to think of how the codebase is gonna look

2022-10-31 07:56:54 @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards @alexbloor none of this is prohibitive, and it's unambiguously a win to be able to do this at all, but i would tell someone set aside 10 minutes to do it and not get distracted in the middle because i don't know what would even happen if you left halfway through

2022-10-31 07:53:34 @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards @alexbloor also might be worth noting that the transfer went fine but by design doesn't bring the posts over. which makes sense! but if you start at the new instance you would never be able to figure out where older posts are (the old instance page is grayed out, points to the new instance)

2022-10-31 07:51:02 @neil_neilzone @lilianedwards @alexbloor i did it over the weekend... "trivial" is a bit generousit involved a few steps on each instance that seemed to need to be coordinated, and afterwards there was this indeterminate period where stuff seemed to be processing. maybe because one instance was under some load? 1/2

2022-10-31 04:00:23 i used to think i knew what people meant by brain worms. https://t.co/TaNPYTaB0L

2022-10-31 03:50:12 @mmasnick @linguangst "users who follow the same account of my choosing"so like a grifter targets a user and... harass their followers?it'll be interesting to see users leaving twitter go through the extra step of dissolving their social network. haven't seen that before

2022-10-31 01:48:29 @xirclebox @timnitGebru @HabenGirma @heluecht @joinmastodon thank you! i've been encountering lots of issues in the github repo that arrived at... really bad conclusions, and often because maybe 2 or 3 people were involved in the conversation and it just wasn't enough people paying attention to the problem. thanks for getting involved

2022-10-31 01:37:23 @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in their bio and lots of replies to elon begging him to run them over with his car or RT their scam or something

2022-10-31 01:21:37 @mattbc @verified lmao my thought exactly https://t.co/c4GHkkBljl

2022-10-31 01:16:11 @reckless @alexeheath imagine spending close to $250 per year on this fucking site lol

2022-10-30 22:04:11 @CaseyNewton i bet jason's got a million of these fucking ideas lol https://t.co/mKSoMD9blX

2022-10-30 19:14:58 @MikeIsaac >

2022-10-30 03:35:28 @MikeIsaac @kateconger @RMac18 @sheeraf sorry i mean this is obvious but maybe it's not to someone who thought it wouldn't be transparent that making employees print 50+ pages of code to walk through it like it's the 1970s is just a dumb scheme to try to get people to quit and forfeit compensation

2022-10-30 03:32:35 @MikeIsaac @kateconger @RMac18 @sheeraf there's no way elmo thought this was a good way to quietly get rid of them, is there? like there's no way any of them would walk away from >

2022-10-28 18:27:59 @tinysubversions eeeeee

2022-10-28 18:21:44 @tinysubversions what, i thought we were leaving twitter

2022-10-28 03:55:03 @LibyaLiberty let's just say it's gonna stink around here pretty soon

2022-10-28 02:33:05 @davekarpf @verified just doesn't seem worth trying to get anymore tbh :(

2022-10-28 02:24:51 @SoulofDemocracy @sassycrass @duty2warn wow, in such a short time i almost forgot how much of a fucking dirtbag he is. all came rushing back.

2022-10-27 21:05:18 @broderick "what if no legs?" notwithstanding lol

2022-10-27 21:04:43 @broderick does the metaverse express any strong opinions that make it an interesting experiment of VR? it's surprisingly timid in experiential, user-facing features. but one has to imagine that a data architecture to capture every atom in this nascent universe must be an engineering feat

2022-10-27 20:58:17 @broderick i've been trying to workshop this way of thinking about the metaverse and i think my take is more cynical, but "the same universe, except with tracking instruments built into every atom of that copycat universe" keeps feeling sticky to me https://t.co/OO8yapA9u1

2022-10-27 20:44:38 @hondanhon https://t.co/vvuAtz8yGm

2022-10-27 20:20:06 @tante @foldingchable (according to google, operating all the disney parks globally costs ~$14B annually, by the way. but that's more like a silly coincidence - i still don't love the analogy lol)

2022-10-27 20:16:50 @tante @foldingchable it's a baffling waste of resources, and i'd have thought they'd *incidentally* build something that wasn't offensive to look at, but it's an order of magnitude less crazy that they spent $15B to build a panopticon (just that what they've done is several orders of magnitude crazy)

2022-10-27 20:13:17 @tante @foldingchable i don't love this analogy, but i sometimes think about it less as building GTA V and more as building a version of disneyland that instruments every food-wrapper, bench, article of clothing, etc... as tracking devices, and the backend architecture all that data necessitates

2022-10-27 19:53:33 @foldingchable @tante but identifying and communicating a reason for wanting to explore the metaverse has never seemed like a high priority, has it?

2022-10-27 19:52:33 @foldingchable @tante confidence in their ability to make the metaverse a place people *have* to be (eg for work) might be playing a role here. or they might hilariously think that they played a significant role in people using platforms they bought, like instagram and whatsapp lol

2022-10-27 17:12:30 @anthropologydp well, he is a rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

2022-10-27 14:14:46 @tante judging the metaverse primarily as an environment people might enjoy spending time in is probably wrong, regardless of how it's marketedthink of it as a project to build a universe with tracking and advertising built into every atom, and the visual cheapness makes sense

2022-10-27 03:12:50 https://t.co/4IKgIAqUKt

2022-10-26 20:52:12 RT @timnitGebru: Happening in 2 minutes. Join us.https://t.co/vDCO6n1cno

2022-10-26 03:48:54 in the future, we'll all be inundated by cheap-looking ads for cheap-looking games that belie their highly refined inner workings, carefully designed to get you to buy loot boxes or play tokens or whatever, via gimmicks made to distance you from the revelation that this is a scam

2022-10-26 03:38:14 when the app store launched in 2008 steve jobs said they took 30% because that was the bare minimum to keep the lights on, reviewing app submissionsthat was a long time ago

2022-10-26 03:30:58 @Def64Gamer @simonbs either the ads are ineffective or they're effective. in either case, for independent reasons, they should be removed.

2022-10-26 01:13:41 @anildash @tressiemcphd they should find a way to count "make available offline"

2022-10-24 03:57:31 never register with your edu account. no matter how sure you are you'll remember to move it. never.

2022-10-24 03:55:56 the replies to a lot of tweets doing big numbers these days increasingly look like the comments section of youtube videos or the answers from yahoo answers and that more than almost anything else makes me want to recover access to my mastodon account

2022-10-24 00:17:26 @MarzGurl lol imagine him just going for L after L in civil trials because his fans convince him each time he's got a chance

2022-10-23 01:25:14 @rinewithoutacat i was scrolling through the replies and people were making up complete nonsense and replying contemptuously to that nonsense. it was the goofiest and most embarrassing shit i've seen in a while

2022-10-23 00:10:53 if you follow academic twitter from outside of the field you might get the impression that we're fucking stupid based on the bad faith misreadings of totally mundane comments other academics will make about lending books to students ha ha wait what?

2022-10-22 17:17:56 proof of (mi)stake https://t.co/mXiRPbrtOH

2022-10-22 17:10:23 those first 35 built the foundation, so they didn't need to operate at the level of those next 15and once they built that foundation, there was no additional work to be done.that's called scalability please don't ask me about murders spurred by viral whatsapp messages

2022-10-22 17:04:48 based on this math those 15 additional engineers brought in 450 million users so uh...i guess you need to hire 15 more engineers just 17 or 18 times and you'll have the entire world :)

2022-10-22 17:02:33 comparing the needs of two different platforms on the basis of registered users and not actual usage, types of media and content, content moderation needs, etc... is actually hilarious. https://t.co/8XW6qGz8iV https://t.co/jZNcaPMPdn

2022-10-22 16:52:05 (it's not as though all these ideas sprang forth from nothing, shoulders of giants, etc... but you have to admit there's been a massive flourishing of work)

2022-10-22 16:50:20 the oldest book here is from like 2009, and i know many of these authors had been publishing bits and pieces in journals and stuff, but it's surreal to pause and think about how much the landscape of our discourse has changed and matured in like... literally less than 5-10 years https://t.co/PaO30VFIlE

2022-10-22 16:32:12 @FominayaC @ewrigleyfield @PamOliver1180 yeah but you have to earn trust to get people to come right out and say they found something impenetrable. like what if they were the only one who struggled? or if a friend of yours wrote it and you take it badly that they couldn't understand it? lots of risk for them to shoulder

2022-10-22 16:24:40 @hondanhon cats are jerks, i'm sorry :(

2022-10-22 05:47:22 @atpfm i'm sorry for being creepy but it you google the address of the business that scammed @caseyliss (listed on the profile, anyway), the first result is this https://t.co/oGquW6owk4so it's not just lots of bad amazon reviews, but rises to the level of local news coverage

2022-10-22 05:38:08 @shengokai i swear i didn't make this, i just found it https://t.co/OXMNd0hzSa

2022-10-22 05:25:00 @shengokai jeff goldblum, on the proposal to clone and ultimately maintain yet more academic deadlines https://t.co/jY6peGjkkN

2022-10-22 03:35:08 RT @Alacranita: This hire at Brown when I was a grad student was incredibly painful &

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2022-10-21 22:25:18 try not to be remembered for "some conversation where you were stupid back then as well"

2022-10-21 22:24:23 prelude to a guy getting blocked https://t.co/SPspN7hO81

2022-10-21 21:55:26 @npparikh if you don't understand the context of the conversation you're totally allowed to not comment dude lol

2022-10-21 21:03:33 @joeybean @crystaljjlee what makes me so sad is that if you told me ~15 years ago that i would be able to use "IRC with a GIF library" i would've thought that was so fucking cool. it still sounds awesome. so why is it not clicking for me??? maybe the pseudonymous part was crucial :(

2022-10-21 20:41:17 still thinking about UW giving that bigot a stage in front of a bunch of phd students. i heard from an alum that i should be less hard on the department because people might be quietly working behind the scenes. that was almost a year ago. glad i told him i didn't need his input.

2022-10-21 20:37:52 RT @levinishere: Sharing that room w/ former students &

2022-10-21 17:06:28 lmao i looked at the actual local timezones and i think i'm gonna turn into an owl for a week over here

2022-10-21 17:05:00 also very pleased that CSCW is going to be in a timezone that allows me to be comfy (anywhere on earth, via zoom)

2022-10-21 17:03:56 the CSCW 2022 program is live but as far as i can tell papers aren't available yet (some shared sporadically)i'm debating a partial rundown of the papers i'm interested in seeing talks for vs waiting till after the conference to link the ones i went to/liked (like i did here) https://t.co/7jQZlVvaFC

2022-10-21 16:46:53 RT @mer__edith: You can start by learning that "AI" is first &

2022-10-21 16:41:27 it wasn't something i would forget about by this morning https://t.co/8UusyuDZXt

2022-10-21 16:36:02 if you don't know anything about AI, you can still bring your experiences &

2022-10-21 16:36:01 here's why i'm making this point:a *worryingly* large group of AI researchers have no training, nor any inclination to learn, how to structure any thoughts about administrative power - how it marginalizes people, as in CREATES marginalization. not even talking about other harms

2022-10-20 21:39:05 all we can do is watch him be an idiot in many of the same ways he's always been an idiot, i guess

2022-10-20 21:38:21 it'd always be sad to watch someone repeatedly fail to learn that being a cheapskate early on means paying back those debts with interest later, but to watch someone repeatedly fail to learn that as they actively pollute and dismantle a space you spend time is doubly frustrating https://t.co/4Jx38cySVe

2022-10-20 19:32:44 @niloufar_s @ranjodhd my arms and eventually whole upper body shaking as i try to lift like 40+lb of water over my head to pour just a little bit into my mouth

2022-10-20 19:31:09 @niloufar_s @ranjodhd i either want to bring a tiny paper cup that i try to reuse until it disintegrates or i want to bring a 5-gallon drum of water and awkwardly try to waterfall from it surreptitiously

2022-10-20 19:29:41 @niloufar_s @ranjodhd kids these days... hydrating. it's getting out of hand, really

2022-10-20 19:25:41 @ranjodhd also do they prefer that students refill a tiny disposable water cup like 50 times?? because that's the kind of malicious compliance i would immediately gravitate toward

2022-10-20 19:23:32 @ranjodhd this person really fights the impulse to tell people they're not supposed to drink water lol

2022-10-20 15:51:26 @janusrose i mean i think that's how a lot of people feel right now. so SimCity2000's verisimilitude was underrated, is what i'm learning

2022-10-20 15:50:43 @janusrose it's all a valid way to play the game but whenever i played simcity this way i inevitably just wanted a meteor to come and reset everything, so idk???

2022-10-20 15:47:48 @janusrose she found a way to send the UK economy back in time by a few decades which allowed her to clip out of the map of rational thought, which SEEMS like a glitch but i guess isn't

2022-10-20 15:40:56 he's so excited just look at him https://t.co/omoHSMCGDF

2022-10-20 15:36:08 he's gonna throw a tantrum if you don't let him go ahead of you but he won't learn to be polite if you don't stop him now... but also is it your job to babysit him?the dilemma of our time

2022-10-20 15:33:16 the tory platform is that everyone gets a go on the slide as PM. boris is the kid who's already learned to be an asshole, getting off the slide and immediately running back around to cut in front of everyone for another ride because it's his birthday this week or something lol https://t.co/F8PeVcVOfM

2022-10-19 20:01:15 RT @DAIRInstitute: Join us virtually on December 2nd and 3rd as we celebrate our 1st anniversary. We'll have interactive talks and conversa…

2022-10-19 17:16:41 RT @0xabad1dea: Uh, soundcloud… you’re not supposed to label the upsell button “upsell” https://t.co/IkgE4C2eBT

2022-10-19 01:52:19 RT @arabellesicardi: one of my fav university presses @dukepress (nerd alert) is having a 50% off sale, i suggest buying these books if you…

2022-10-18 18:20:54 hey ali wanna proofread before you hit that tweet button? nah? ok, cool. good work

2022-10-18 18:20:11 all this is to say, before publicly excoriating someone for using some of these services, please consider that this person might be as conflicted about it as you are, but reluctantly pressed into participating in an exploitative system... you know... like a lot of us are. 4/4

2022-10-18 18:20:10 i try not to be super hard-line about shaming people for using services like prime, doordash, instacart, etc... though.these platforms are shit: don't pay workers enough, &

2022-10-18 18:20:09 i think this is a good time to reflect on something!the work i did in grad school focused specifically on gig work for a bit, and i have fairly strong feelings about the shitty conditions of people have to endure to make entirely too little money via these labor platforms. /4 https://t.co/gdGrvPY7kJ

2022-10-18 17:52:28 the entire conceit of making everyone fill out a perfunctory form to make debt cancellation opt-in to short-circuit lawsuits sure produces a confounding amount of administrative overhead...

2022-10-18 17:50:20 i have an honest question about these dates:if someone submits an application for debt relief and the process drags through december, what happens if you get notified in like feb/mar that your loans aren't eligible?would you instantly be like 2+ months behind on payments? https://t.co/WECkoBUq7v

2022-10-18 14:37:43 moreover, do you feel like the people making these technologies are intelligent, or have any serious insight into your well-being?or do you think they're impulsively coding knee-jerk reactions to simple keywords? https://t.co/6OS97gr4RJ

2022-10-18 14:35:41 let's imagine your job says you've got to wear a fitness tracker or pay even higher premiums. still feel categorical autonomy?there's no chasm between carceral tech and Luxury Surveillance @hypervisible describes. it's not steep steps

2022-10-18 14:29:28 you might say you're not required to wear an ankle monitor so you're categorically in control.okay. let's imagine amazon halo reports your step counts and other dubious data to your health insurance company.still feel CATEGORICALLY in control?https://t.co/37OLXtZECs

2022-10-18 14:24:29 >

2022-10-18 03:56:28 @hell_spawned i didn't mean to attach some kind of moral superiority to it. sorry. good night

2022-10-18 03:48:37 RT @KentrellOwens: hmmm @uwcse is this the same person y'all invited to give a colloquium lecture this thursday?

2022-10-18 03:41:04 @ubiquity75 how else are they gonna know about my youtube podcast???

2022-10-18 03:35:14 nature doesn't want you to have electricity but you're a lineman so square that circle https://t.co/YAo2YO9S2T

2022-10-18 03:33:07 @hell_spawned acting like it's obvious or natural to have wanted this is so disrespectful to her. it must have been unimaginably difficult. that's what i'm saying

2022-10-18 03:31:41 @hell_spawned they dredged an almost unrecognizably mutilated body from the river. i would do anything to deny his murderers and sympathizers the satisfaction of seeing their work one more time. i would want to protect the last little bit of him i could. i would want people to know his smile

2022-10-18 01:33:10 the smell is dissipating. i'm pretty sure it's dust being cleared out now that the heater is on. but still...

2022-10-18 01:32:08 trying to fit this into tweets was very hard and there's a weird smell coming from my vents now that the heater is on so i'm both distractedly anxious and possibly dying so if someone wants to chime in i'd be keen to hear other people's thoughts

2022-10-18 01:28:58 as for why there aren't many AI ethics people with less progressive politicsi mean i have 2 answers:1. if you avoid bringing history etc into your analysis you run out of analytical power really quickly2. those people exist

2022-10-18 01:28:57 interesting question... QTing for input:my unrigorous guess is: a lot of people in this space at least study (often experience) violence along certain dimensions (eg race, gender, class, caste). what we learn from those fields informs &

2022-10-18 01:15:33 @juanbuis @MatPatGT grilled cheese update?

2022-10-17 22:29:59 @PeoriaBummer @RMac18 lol imagine that source getting to the parenthetical like https://t.co/UwdEu9TLlm

2022-10-17 22:27:48 @RMac18 why would you add that aside like what are you accomplishing except dangling a clue out there?

2022-10-08 15:38:21 RT @Arrianna_Planey: Things Black women in academia actually need:- sabbaticals- unrestricted funds to cover costs that funders don't al…

2022-10-08 02:58:04 RT @_Eric_Reinhart: Nothing is easily confirmable, but reports from people incarcerated at the Haiti national penitentiary are that over 40…

2022-10-08 02:29:31 @hondanhon "heh, workplaces, am i right? i am vulnerable"

2022-10-08 01:24:44 RT @SavGonzalezz: My family put this on their house in Puerto Rico.18 days No power in PR. https://t.co/gefszPGYT1

2022-10-08 01:23:10 @nycsouthpaw @karenkho graduated from the sean spicer school of attendance measurement

2022-10-08 00:36:22 @jbouie @sgbuggs almost categorically when a guy says "female" https://t.co/xwj7YsmF1W

2022-10-08 00:23:43 @undersequoias and i think if people were disabused of the idea that IRBs are like... the agent of change riding in to stop all the bad things that happen on campus, it might prompt some people to think more actively/critically about the role they need to(/can) play in facing bad shit on campus

2022-10-08 00:14:15 RT @hypervisible: “I thought, ‘Let’s build a product now that can that can help millions and billions of people” Founder. Of course.

2022-10-07 20:07:34 like it worries me how far-reaching and omnibenevolent grad students seem to think their university IRBs are.

2022-10-07 20:06:29 *whispers quietly* ok but the IRB wouldn't have any interest in reviewing the sensor thing even if it was submitted...

2022-10-07 02:00:44 @Wolven downstream rob mentions that preserving the likes and especially replies could be a problem if the nature of the tweet changes dramatically (the grandma example he gives is... evocative)i actually can see this as being the more... conceptually straightforward way to communicate

2022-10-06 19:44:02 @karenkho when i stopped traveling i started keeping a constantly replenishing stash at my place

2022-10-06 19:09:16 i mean, repeating what the original tweet said, but i literally can't think of any other word to reply to this

2022-10-06 19:08:54 woah https://t.co/oa5VcdiPfA

2022-10-06 17:16:41 @meepbobeep "you don't say... oh, subscribe to yours? no, i uh... i don't think i get into that stuff. i don't even think i have an app for it"

2022-10-06 17:15:06 @meepbobeep it makes me REALLY sad to think that i've probably done this to someone and, instead of taking the hint, they're dining out on a story about a dumb guy who had never heard of podcasts or whatever

2022-10-06 17:10:05 i can emphatically see a berkeley undergrad looking at their phone monotonously saying "woah, no way... that's crazy..." every few seconds as a total stranger tells him about this mythical land called Boston

2022-10-06 17:02:11 sarcastic ignorance is such an underrated form of humor https://t.co/w7NlQMJNtS

2022-10-06 04:26:53 RT @DerrickPalmer_: My heart goes out to all the ALB1 @amazon workers in Schodack, NY I hope and pray every worker was evacuated safelyTh…

2022-10-06 01:40:42 RT @alexhanna: We're hiring for a community-based researcher!!

2022-10-05 23:15:03 @HardDriveMag yeah but it's meaningful because it's the name of his favorite military-funded chemical agent

2022-10-05 20:32:44 @_lava_b @PodsofWar @JustSeum this is really funny but now's not the time tbh

2022-10-05 17:53:01 @digitaaldenken if instagram made clear (or even implied) some kind of rule against romanticizing violent people, that would be rad, but the [truly bizarre] "joker lifestyle" instagram industry would almost certainly disappear overnight lol https://t.co/amK3V8yfyJ

2022-10-05 17:37:04 @digitaaldenken wherever it exists in relation to that line, the existence &

2022-10-05 17:26:18 @digitaaldenken instagram needs better rules and better enforcement of those rules

2022-10-05 17:25:29 @digitaaldenken glorifying a serial killer is grotesque, but do you think netflix isn't running ads for that show in instagram? the screenshot doesn't fit into any of the bullet points shown and doesn't really seem to fit into the broader spirit encompassed by the constellation of those points

2022-10-05 17:13:24 RT @jacremes: That insecurity, that contingency, is why a majority of NYU’s contract faculty have decided to build our union, @cfuuaw. We k…

2022-10-05 17:10:51 i'm of mixed feelings because any algo that moderates people's content is an inherently oppressive project, so really i'm rooting for the users to find workarounds and avoid the system either way. but practicing a descriptive analysis of why these systems fail might be helpful ig

2022-10-05 17:08:08 the shared (maybe even erroneous? maybe even harmful?) constructed understanding of how a system works is pretty damn important, and can nullify all the superficial work you do to "debias" the dataset or the algorithm training a model on that data (hang on, gagging)

2022-10-05 17:05:34 are appeals actually a farce? idk. but if you see examples like this, see that a *prominent account* with a *seemingly reasonable post* can't get relief from this stuff, why would you ever bother? why not work around the clumsy moderation algo's &

2022-10-05 17:02:41 the defining experience of producing content for platforms like youtube, instagram, &

2022-10-05 16:58:30 @thekerker @doctorow @verge @BrotherOffice oh my god, i have owned the same basic as shit brother printer for 9 years. i don't know if anything else in my possession has been with me for as long as this.my birth certificate. that's all i can think of. my printer and my birth certificate.

2022-10-05 02:25:54 @hondanhon "this is the starship , we received a distress signal

2022-10-05 02:23:44 @hondanhon "whats your starship's name? i just see some square boxes...""oh, you'll get it when you dock at a starbase""well... can you send me a screenshot? what does it look like?"

2022-10-01 02:07:40 @RMac18 "ok... i can do this... maintain... maintain... don't... fall..."

2022-10-01 02:06:08 @RMac18 the way it slowly tiptoes across the stage doesn't exactly inspire confidence

2022-10-01 01:31:35 downloaded a game on my phone to try to unwind because i've been feeling stressed out, and after a few minutes navigating this game's various menus i just wanted to go to sleep instead.

2022-09-30 18:59:33 this was the right call. kudos to @evan_greer for raising the alarm about iti think we should talk about this thinking that taking money from a tech co grants us "a seat at the table", but i'm fine deferring that- turning your back on a massive donation in this climate is major https://t.co/WE6ylEkAJE

2022-09-30 17:42:02 @JessieNYC makes me feel like they're making their own copy of guess who https://t.co/pKDfQzxpvv

2022-09-30 17:17:12 the @AltTxtReminder bot is still useful because it doesn't depend on you using iOS or whatever platform, and the DM can prompt you to return with a reply to add alt text after the fact if you forgot

2022-09-30 17:15:11 ohhhh shiiiiit they built alt text reminders into the iOS app!!!!join me, friends:Settings and PrivacyAccessibility, Display, and LanguagesAccessibility Receive image description reminder https://t.co/sp8n7QjRnO

2022-09-30 17:02:52 RT @evan_greer: I can't believe this is actually a thing I have to tweet, but the @TrevorProject, who are supposed to help queer and trans…

2022-09-30 16:35:27 RT @msolurin: THIS IS INSIDE RIKERS. You can see people covered in feces they’ve been left in for 9+ hours, you can see men locked in showe…

2022-09-30 16:16:22 @TaiDecker @kateconger lol

2022-09-30 15:46:17 @timnitGebru it's kinda funny how transparent it is that billionaires gravitate toward ego-stroking charlatans who tell a story about how billionaires and their big brains were the key to ending suffering around the world all this time

2022-09-30 15:32:03 +1 and: you can make any contribution seem redundant if you flatten out all of its textureif you think you've been scooped, think more about the texture &

2022-09-30 14:59:48 @hypervisible *any random indistinct cough* ->

2022-09-30 13:58:01 @tayl1r @kateconger i dunno what to tell you but i think you need to play around with your notification settings.

2022-09-30 02:49:39 @KrangTNelson people look at this shit and base their entire political identities on the premise that we all need to go back to this

2022-09-29 21:00:21 @kateconger jfc this guy sounds unbearable. https://t.co/1sn8AV0Ru8

2022-09-29 19:01:08 (on point 1: it's nice to have good cameras and microphones and stuff, but i'm specifically talking about how people are just like... telling me about their work, instead of lecturing. it feels like it's appropriately shaped to the platform/medium)

2022-09-29 18:55:17 1. across the board, people have seriously upped their video presentation skills. people are clear, use direct language, are just... like... readable. it's great.2. there were lots of papers that really rang a bell for me in a good way. more than usual. that's very exciting.

2022-09-29 18:53:52 i think i've posted off-shoot threads to all of the papers. sorry if the threads and branches and stuff are all messy :Ssome thoughts:

2022-09-29 18:43:33 RT @UpolEhsan: @_alialkhatib @undersequoias @mark_riedl Appreciate the shoutout! The tweetorial for the paper is here: https://t.co/rOk0AF…

2022-09-29 15:14:29 @caitlinmoriah "we traveled 52 million light years to ensure that the monkeys on this shitty rock understand that a woman is a woman

2022-09-29 15:11:28 @caitlinmoriah aliens with the ability to travel faster than light have come all the way to earth to reassure TERFs that the gender identity presentations arguably best typified by 1950s american culture reflect the paradigmatic worldviews of all life in the universe

2022-09-29 14:15:32 @emtseng IMHO chicken is qualitative. has bones you can choke on if you're not careful. also, candy feels very quantitative

2022-09-29 14:01:33 @libshipwreck 20 seems very high

2022-09-29 14:00:57 RT @BigMeanInternet: Trained a whole cohort of people to just send their marketing budget to Zuck every time. And now what??

2022-09-29 13:50:00 @Blackamazon we always hear so many stories of people with money and power completely losing touch with anyone who would push back on their increasingly unhinged ideas. she could have done that to the absolute extremeso the fact that she's resisted that pitfall is even more incredible

2022-09-29 13:43:34 RT @esmaeilion: وقتش رسیده است.سن‌فرانسیسکو امریکا، شنبه اول اکتبر.#دادخواهی#مهسا_امینی#OpIran https://t.co/CunxEqTM3p

2022-09-29 13:43:23 RT @esmaeilion: وقتش رسیده است.نیویورک امریکا، شنبه اول اکتبر.#دادخواهی#مهسا_امینی#OpIran https://t.co/8f8unRrTqB

2022-09-29 13:43:09 RT @esmaeilion: وقتش رسیده است.شیکاگو امریکا، شنبه اول اکتبر.#دادخواهی#مهسا_امینی#OpIran https://t.co/ycrnWbhfDd

2022-09-29 13:42:59 RT @esmaeilion: وقتش رسیده است.دیترویت امریکا، شنبه اول اکتبر.#دادخواهی#مهسا_امینی#OpIran https://t.co/tXw6dcnxXw

2022-09-29 13:42:53 RT @esmaeilion: وقتش رسیده است.لس‌آنجلس امریکا، شنبه اول اکتبر.#دادخواهی#مهسا_امینی#OpIran https://t.co/YTtPC6KxMr

2022-09-28 20:48:50 @ubiquity75 sometimes when things get really really bad i archive everything and quietly hope everyone forgets they ever sent me an email

2022-09-28 00:18:22 RT @Esqueer_: If any journalists or folks with connections at Google want specific info, let me know and send me a DM. I can provide the li…

2022-09-27 13:42:10 RT @UpFromTheCracks: just want to acknowledge that this is an argument @thotscholar made in depth like 18 months ago, then was called a pic…

2022-09-27 02:45:23 RT @mer__edith: We understand that the Play Store and the Signal site are currently blocked in Iran. So we created an email address: gets…

2022-09-26 20:24:38 @funranium yes! and now maybe they'll consciously notice this kinda stuff in papers they like

2022-09-26 20:17:05 people in the replies to this are rudely saying shit like anyone in grad school should already know this by the time they get to grad school, andlolactually, lolllllllllllll https://t.co/jyqyEjIpvr

2022-09-26 10:43:11 @npseaver https://t.co/vIRI6PFQ12

2022-09-26 00:15:04 @UpFromTheCracks vapid comedy podcasts, youtube video essays about video games or tv shows i've never seen, etclistening to someone talk about... anything i can intellectually disengage from has turned out to be a good way to doze off without (as many) substances, if you're reticent about that

2022-09-25 13:28:23 if american psycho was produced 20 years later the business card scene would be replaced with this iCal scene. https://t.co/kfGIDM4VKw

2022-09-25 12:12:09 @CartyBoston vague statements abound on people's faculty pages, probably still, because noncommittal statements naming nobody cost nothingi remember UMich, CMU, UW faculty in HCI speaking up though - naming Ullman - calling him out for what he is. i guess stanford faculty were more cautious

2022-09-25 11:54:05 i couldn't find the words to describe how angry i was with the ACM for exalting this man who was avowedly, publicly racist.but the silence from stanford CS faculty, from whom i waited anxiously for ANY kind of comment, was something else entirely. i couldn't even call it anger. https://t.co/kpuWhmXoJf

2022-09-25 02:47:23 not as invisible unless you count the retrospective whitewashing of his faculty page to remove all the racist diatribes, but couldn't help but think about this

2022-09-25 02:46:30 the professor who replied to a colleague inquiring about grad school when she was an undergrad by telling her that he would not work with Iraniansand then the ACM gave him a turing award https://t.co/eRJdUkyEs9

2022-09-24 19:31:50 cdc is gonna make washing hands optional because people are tired and hand soap is depressing, but if you have a food borne illness or if everyone around you has a bug you should probably really consider it if that's your jam or whatever

2022-09-24 15:21:58 @abelinasabrina pre-empting for people who are gonna be like "iT's JuSt CoMeDy" punching down isn't comedy, it's just bullying

2022-09-24 15:13:27 @thetalkshow @reckless i think this bothers me because apple is usually good about designing software to do the right thing when clumsy people use these devices (eg ipad bezels)similar issue pulling my phone out of pocket &

2022-09-24 15:08:36 @thetalkshow @reckless also, i think this echos nilay but in slightly different words, but long pressing a button isn't just "right click" as he said - it's like design-language speak for "hesitation"

2022-09-24 15:04:47 @thetalkshow @reckless more reasons @reckless is right about dynamic island long/short press orderwhen you tap the display header, you shoot to the top of the page. great!when you miss that and tap the island, it bounces you OUT OF the current app. not great!expanding the island would be less bad

2022-09-23 15:14:00 RT @Omid_M: Her name is Hananeh Kian. She was 23 years old when she was shot dead yesterday in Noshahr, Iran. One of the dozens of ppl lost…

2022-09-23 01:21:57 RT @byBethRankin: At #ona22, @TaylorLorenz, @hwise29 &

2022-09-23 01:11:01 article desperately shitting on Meghan Marklecongrats, you completed the scavenger hunt https://t.co/rLP1sVdBQc

2022-09-22 23:44:14 RT @signalapp: A request to our community: Signal is blocked in Iran. You can help people in Iran reconnect to Signal by hosting a proxy se…

2022-09-22 22:03:04 RT @timnitGebru: "Our personal experiences sucked into a database, organized by AI and sold to the highest bidder...a behavior modification…

2022-09-22 15:48:34 @katienotopoulos you know when something breaks your brain so abruptly that you just start laughing?

2022-09-22 04:00:40 okay, those photos are pretty sad

2022-09-22 04:00:38 okay, you did that? great! thank you so muchhere are more photos of doggo. is he a good dog Y/N? https://t.co/YAwiTxFDdk

2022-09-22 04:00:37 here's info on people and orgs actually IN Puerto Rico, helping Puerto Ricans, doing important and desperately needed work. please donate if you can: https://t.co/GsTOCVMa5O

2022-09-22 04:00:36 it's my birthday i'm 33!if you're in a position to do so, i'd be really grateful if you could donate to relief orgs on the ground in Puerto Rico dealing with the damage done by hurricane fionaand if you're not, if you could RT these photos of my puppy, that'd be cool :) https://t.co/E3TG6UNSdf

2022-09-22 01:26:39 RT @hneutr: 1/ New paper! https://t.co/E1iAwyqr3g with @_szhang @aaronclauset @DanLarremore. We analyzed all 295K tenure-track faculty a…

2022-09-22 01:10:57 i also talked about it vanishingly briefly in my utopia paperbut don't download it just for thatdownload it because it might help my metrics lolhttps://t.co/fme2tJ6YgW

2022-09-22 01:07:53 still remember the UT Austin paper where they described a machine learning system they were using to "help organize" phd applications (read: fast-track rejecting students with profiles that don't match the profiles of past students), then quietly ending its use a few years later https://t.co/oPf452aXbw

2022-09-21 22:04:35 i would like to take a moment to thank twitter for implementing that button to view quote tweets. it does so much work for us, especially now. https://t.co/E6pHJQqt3b

2022-09-20 11:56:07 @Blackamazon i'm seeing some QTs complaining that this is trauma bonding if he only wants to talk about racism with his partner and like ??? that's totally not what he said????? people are making up their own lore here

2022-09-20 09:38:57 also: "everybody seems to be in pretty good shape"

2022-09-20 09:37:56 still can't get over the president being like "If you notice, no one's wearing masks" like 6 months after the CDC gave up on masking guidance. like i know the headline was "pandemic over", but supporting it by being like "um look around, do YOU see people wearing masks?" kills me

2022-09-19 22:11:13 winter is the test. we shouldn't even be entertaining this conversation until we see case numbers through january. shits gonna get worse over the next few months AND it's going to be harder to spend time outside. the secretary of health should be cautioning people. fucking hell.

2022-09-19 21:57:12 last year i figured that i would gauge my outlook for the year based on how cases peaked by and through winter break. if we avoided a major spike, now that we had vaccines, then maybe the summer i could feel more relaxedand, well https://t.co/CrrljnrkfU

2022-09-19 21:46:57 this "pandemic is over" shit in the middle of september reminds me of that episode of the simpsons where a hurricane came through springfield and homer came out to be like "wow it's over" but everyone was like "this is the eye of the storm you idiot"

2022-09-19 01:51:09 please don't go into the goddamn winter saying we've beaten a respiratory virus. and get your booster shots ffs

2022-09-19 00:13:53 uh, the NYT reports we're seeing ~60,000 new cases per day over the past 7 days.but it's okay because winter is coming up and historically that's been a slow period for respiratory viruses https://t.co/6egeUQ9h4b

2022-09-18 21:07:50 RT @michael_muller: Please join us for mutual education of HCI and AI at the Human Centered AI workshop @ NeurIPS 2022! To apply, please se…

2022-09-18 21:04:14 @EliErlick https://t.co/QOYTQ0pvvc

2022-09-17 03:06:04 my head hurts https://t.co/8oMgTQPW0a

2022-09-16 00:39:19 you know what characterizes sick days quite often? especially long stretches of sick days?medical expenses!it's almost as if you kinda REALLY NEED THOSE SICK DAYS TO BE PAID AND SIMPLY REMOVING PENALTIES ISN'T ENOUGH

2022-09-16 00:25:37 ONE SICK DAYi fucking hope they vote to strike. failing that, i hope we see a wildcat strike. failing that, fuck everything. https://t.co/1B1AvPbHLr

2022-09-15 02:44:32 @rinewithoutacat yeahhhh i recognized the name and did a double take

2022-09-15 02:16:54 w... what the actual fuck??? https://t.co/1n7Up8UvYA

2022-09-14 13:18:14 @mdekstrand the reviews i see from people who seem to know appears to be that the ultra won't compete with the devices made for serious divers, triathletes, etc.. anyway, but people at the low end of the market might find this compelling, and i think the same opportunity was there in cycling

2022-09-14 13:14:10 @mdekstrand true, many people would still prefer the bike computer, but people thinking about getting a series 8 might consider the ultra more palatable than buying an additional unit (even if the computer is a bit cheaper). and haptics could mitigate (some of) the need to look at the screen

2022-09-14 13:09:42 immediately thought about how the news as i logged off last night was about an explosive package that was detonated at northeastern university, and how these things are absolutely everywhere on university campuses. https://t.co/K7JRYhgX4i

2022-09-14 13:00:04 it was never in my budget and even if it were i haven't had a bike since my road bike got stolen lol, but off the cuff i think a lot of cyclists are almost but not quite ready to spend the money on all that quantification gear, but an apple watch is a bearable dip into that water

2022-09-14 12:56:36 i haven't been into cycling for years so idk, but i'm surprised the apple watch ultra doesn't have any cycling-specific features, like ANT+, or BT power meter connectivity, cadence sensors, etc...they could've paired up with strava and taken a big bite out of garmin &

2022-09-14 03:09:53 before anyone says "cmd-shift-v does that"i just don't have it in me to trust computers enough to do that shit without checking first https://t.co/5LCbvDYxn0

2022-09-13 21:46:29 @rhemalinder oh i mean i get that, i think i'm just confused about like... who takes them up on this offer??

2022-09-13 21:34:25 RT @Tinu: Twitter accessibility bots. A reference thread.

2022-09-13 21:33:25 emails generally don't find me well these days or any other days

2022-09-13 21:31:59 i spent a good chunk of the day wondering who these emails even work on https://t.co/Z0F3s8Ewlf

2022-09-13 20:14:03 @savasavasava for the first few weeks it was totally brutal in almost every imaginable way. and i was doing it remotely, so i wasn't prepared for the physical exhaustioni think it got better as i got physically used to it and better at not metaphorically sprinting right out of the blocks lol

2022-09-13 20:04:41 he'll actually lose his shit over it i swear to god

2022-09-13 20:03:54 if anyone gets a photo with Christian Smalls, make sure not to let jeff bezos see it https://t.co/xaDSS0WFJj

2022-09-13 20:02:16 @Abebab i did a drumroll in my head and clicked on it and almost choked on my water

2022-09-13 19:59:40 in early 2020 i expressed hope that this new pandemic might shock people into a sense of solidarity, of shared fate. after that, and after seeing cheap DEI initiatives lure people into unsafe environments and grind them to dust, i resist these hopeful, prescriptive platitudes.

2022-09-13 05:32:03 RT @techworkersco: If you live in SF, please contact your supervisors and let them know you don't want to live in a city where the police c…

2022-09-13 03:36:58 what other comprehensible way is there to describe what happened? https://t.co/F7VSKAZNac

2022-09-13 03:08:24 @mcwm i lost my mind at the bit right at the end. somehow that was the worst by far.

2022-09-13 03:04:05 tried to think of a synonym for "hide" that started with "p" but i gave up https://t.co/11e2B08LDS

2022-09-13 03:02:03 hide the pain pete https://t.co/8LR1kSdOpO

2022-09-12 22:40:59 @dowellml that's currently happening. https://t.co/Cg30PLRhtx

2022-09-12 18:23:15 i can't stop thinking about this. the phenomenon of feeling that buzz of energy when you have an insight or juxtapose some ideas and find they align or reveal something about each other."used to". past tense. not true anymore. that scares the fuck out of me.

2022-09-12 18:12:17 anyway, i'm very pro "remote everything". i'd love to see friends at conferences again but the organizers of the conferences i attend couldn't even be relied upon to handle toilets for everyone, so it shouldn't be much surprise that they weren't up to the task of COVID prevention

2022-09-12 18:08:43 you hope your uni would support you, but be honest

2022-09-12 18:04:12 >

2022-09-12 17:55:56 >

2022-09-12 17:49:36 my nightmare is an academic conf. causes a lot of people to get COVID, many people come out of the acute phase with brain fog, and the organizers congratulate themselves for "0 deaths" while cohorts of young people come to terms with the fact that their academic careers are over. https://t.co/x89n2idxJZ

2022-09-12 16:00:04 this is happening in an hour! https://t.co/3Yzljuiq6o

2022-09-11 23:17:43 finally listening to the @techwontsaveus episode with @hypervisible: https://t.co/BGsNMxu1jni literally cannot keep up with all the quotes i want to post. just check it out

2022-09-11 23:14:28 i was wrong sorry everyone

2022-09-11 23:13:13 @crystaljjlee i was wrong https://t.co/ScB0wYkZij

2022-09-11 23:06:37 @rharang yeah, i generally do that too, but it seems like every other week he'll spin a wheel and pick a fight &

2022-09-11 23:00:47 @Verba_et_Vertus ah shit. that was a real case of wishful thinking, huh? thanks

2022-09-11 22:44:10 the latter obviously shouldn't get you banned from twitter, but good god is it a nice side effect of his suspension

2022-09-11 22:43:08 you could've made a running thread of all the misogynistic, racist bullshit he posted just for clicks.and this is saying nothing of the drivel he would post about AI, seemingly for the sole purpose of getting quoted in powerpoint slide decks by clueless business school people.

2022-09-11 22:34:53 i genuinely mean it when i say WOAHHHHHH ABOUT FUCKING TIME https://t.co/Wnpq5GRnd4

2022-09-11 20:37:34 Queen Elizabeth II, a quiet supporter of locking your bike to any random pole you see fixed to the ground nearby, has died at age 96. https://t.co/0zb7oPlVFh

2022-09-11 20:21:45 RT @dr_nickiw: The silence in the CS community from the non-Black, alleged "advocates" in naming tech bro #3's weaponization of his power a…

2022-09-11 20:13:38 land acknowledgments are a popular way for beneficiaries of empire to pretend nobody has ever suggested reparations. https://t.co/JsTvu5kp0u

2022-09-11 20:08:15 RT @sashaperigo: The SF Rules Committee stayed the surveillance policy for several months, but it’s now up for a vote TOMORROW.The meetin…

2022-09-11 16:12:05 @jaydaronson thank you!

2022-09-11 16:11:54 RT @jaydaronson: CMU faculty and staff, join me &

2022-09-11 14:50:05 "widening your eyes is a signal that i'm pathologically obsessed with you"

2022-09-11 14:48:58 people are QTing this like "JFC shes so unlikeable why can't she just be friendly- look at the micro-expressions in her eyes, that signals defensiveness! why does she have to be like that? cant fucking stand her... anyway, i'm definitely like this about every marvel character :)" https://t.co/3R9nvLaTea

2022-09-11 13:37:02 RT @blai_starker: ATTENTION ACADEMIC TWITTER!!The students of Carnegie Mellon University have written a letter of support for Dr. Uju Anya…

2022-09-11 02:48:50 Queen Elizabeth II, a quiet supporter of mixed martial arts, has died at age 96. https://t.co/NFJZo2GQFr

2022-09-11 02:24:27 RT @PanasheChig: Zora Neale Hurston told us, "If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it."We witness this…

2022-09-11 01:22:01 mmf mmff ffffm mfffm https://t.co/MGP3T7Eg5G

2022-09-10 19:51:03 RT @WalleLawal: ‘You didn’t criticise the Queen when you were applying for a visa.’ Yes, because that’s how imperialism works. Congrats o…

2022-09-10 17:25:50 RT @nelsonlflores: A few of us wrote a letter of support for Uju Anya who has been targeted for her criticism of the Queen’s complicity in…

2022-09-10 17:20:55 @DippedRusk lol thanks for reading my mind

2022-09-10 17:19:26 @DippedRusk oh wow, thank you!

2022-09-10 17:03:16 i'm sure a joint letter is forthcoming. surprised by everyone's discipline, though. saying absolutely nothing about it until that letter is ready! shows a lot of restraint

2022-09-10 16:59:07 day 2 of checking the twitter profiles of tenured profs at CMU

2022-09-10 02:41:46 RT @mannyfidel: POV: you're henry kissinger and everyone wants another fun day on twitter https://t.co/svV2CqCSJ5

2022-09-10 02:08:24 RT @wellsbering: the queen died on star trek day...finally something goes right for miles o'brien

2022-09-10 01:58:00 @pardoguerra lotssss of people in the HCI world have ties to CMU. i so badly wish i saw more of them in my timeline right now. i guess this is the eroding effect of experience on hope.

2022-09-10 01:55:28 @KarlTheFog i moved away recently and miss karl :(

2022-09-10 01:53:39 even for a university named after andrew carnegie, this is a low point

2022-09-10 01:52:46 still blown away by jeff bezos being such a monumental bag of dicks, and by CMU debasing itself by condemning a descendant of survivors of genocide, a god damn professor at their own god damn university, for expressing relief at the death of one of said genocide's perpetrators

2022-09-09 17:48:17 out of abundant respect, Fridays will be half days for the foreseeable future

2022-09-09 17:47:15 this is the weirdest way to announce your meteorological team is going on vacation. https://t.co/CJqqjtatkS

2022-09-09 13:48:42 preparing a talk where i was planning to make a short digression about the consequences of universities endearing themselves to tech oligarchs and corporate interests idk might mention this idk idk

2022-09-09 13:44:51 lol "values of the institution"https://t.co/ptq97JtRnt https://t.co/81DPApyyPg

2022-09-09 09:00:45 RT @nhelberger: Job opportunity: The AI, Media &

2022-09-09 03:48:30 shout out to CMU for the prompt demonstration of solidarity with their multi-billionaire patron.https://t.co/YQZh7zpj2P

2022-09-09 03:46:09 mmm, i'm sure Jeff Bezos, noted weirdo, is genuinely a huge critical sociolinguistics nerd and that's how he knows about Dr Anya. https://t.co/xFL3XUa9BQ

2022-09-09 01:19:59 RT @anildash: ohhhhhhhh i see https://t.co/RNAWCK4NVS

2022-09-09 01:19:48 well, that explains it. https://t.co/3SLoNOj46A

2022-09-09 01:16:52 RT @anildash: @mac779 @maumauzdaughter Lots of people said the same or worse. He picked the one whom he knows had endorsed the Amazon worke…

2022-09-08 21:40:05 @rinewithoutacat @ArtvWar @MTA lolllll

2022-09-08 20:52:18 just waiting for the company i get loose leaf tea from to make an incredibly shitty tweet, what are you doing?

2022-09-08 20:02:16 RT @AlphabetWorkers: Alex Hanna, formerly of the Ethical AI team, speaking next about how workers have demonstrated against military contra…

2022-09-08 19:20:26 in honor of this insane fucking tweet, here's something to read https://t.co/GNp7U7iDeb

2022-09-08 19:16:44 w... what are you even doing? https://t.co/PTmlUuc9qh

2022-09-08 19:15:58 RT @kavithadavidson: Irish Twitter Brown Twitter Black Twitter

2022-09-08 19:05:41 aggrieved white guy with billions of dollars and a fucking space ship directs mob to harass Black woman because a passing comment against empire made him self-conscious https://t.co/4AEfGeeQ2P

2022-09-08 19:02:27 i started writing an issue in github asking if the maintainer of a sublime text package would be able to add support for something and after 20 minutes i got so mad at LaTeX that i just gave up.

2022-09-08 18:37:06 RT @morgan_sung: all of formerly colonized twitter watching "now let's keep it respectful today" twitter https://t.co/I1nBLJZD39

2022-09-08 18:11:20 shouldn't you be in space or something? https://t.co/Wz6ZkAAx0h

2022-09-07 15:42:47 @mimismash AN ACTUAL "IT WORKS BY MAKING CLICKING SOUNDS" CLICKER.this is the era of the person commenting on SERENA WILLIAMSit's 2 steps away from this shit https://t.co/2mHqvsYtc9

2022-09-07 15:38:05 whatever planet you grew up on is not the one we currently live on. the only reason you don't have to confront that is a heinous lopsided intergenerational imbalance of wealth over decades, and somehow we keep coming back to these people for like... folksy racist takes

2022-09-07 15:35:24 they didn't even have DNA sequencing until the decade after court retired. imagine your professional life against the backdrop of the plague being a going concern &

2022-09-07 15:30:11 journalists, resist the impulse to ask the flinstones to comment on things. i'm sure they'll say something eye-popping

2022-09-07 15:28:10 Bell manufactured the first bicycle helmet that most people would consider vaguely recognizable in 1975, just 2 years before court retired. you know what people wore until then? this leather hairpiece https://t.co/iivVgi421H

2022-09-07 15:22:59 the television remote control was a newer invention in the world when margaret court turned pro than the iphone is to us today. https://t.co/zsUFAyXKIl

2022-09-07 15:19:47 smallpox wasn't eradicated until 3 years after she retired.the plague. that's how far back we're talking.

2022-09-07 15:17:19 margaret court retired so long ago that post its didn't even exist yet. https://t.co/5ZHYOLWGHZ

2022-09-07 14:34:56 RT @smartstatistic: Let me explain again! We're STILL under a boil water alertWe STILL can not drink out water!Even when our water is "d…

2022-09-07 14:27:38 RT @DeeshaPhilyaw: Perfect time for my annual tweet about the editor who told me Dr. Roberts (interview + her books) wasn’t an adequate sou…

2022-09-07 13:55:20 @eevee @0xabad1dea i feel like a typewriter when i read that shit

2022-09-06 23:50:24 RT @mer__edith: This piece by @nitashatiku provides a really clear and thorough overview. Thank you! https://t.co/kVrxJwojVh

2022-09-06 12:12:13 @mer__edith @signalapp !!!! omg, congrats!!!!!

2022-09-06 11:48:49 RT @mer__edith: Professional news! On September 12 I'll be officially starting as President of @signalapp. I'm honored, I'm excited, and I…

2022-09-04 03:16:26 nah i'm kidding i hope they're happy

2022-09-04 03:15:33 You know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds when I pull up to the curb to when I get to your door. 'Cause I think maybe I'll get up there and I'll knock on the door and you won't be there. No goodbye, no "see ya later", no nothin'. You just left. https://t.co/kgRWX9tYBM

2022-09-02 20:10:49 RT @morganklauss: Privilege stems from how other people and systems see and classify you, and what the classification allows you to do or n…

2022-09-02 19:03:47 @gwenckatz @ireneista and presumably also children who lost a parent (or multiple parents)

2022-09-02 19:02:09 precarity https://t.co/qTnupjlQKm

2022-09-02 17:15:45 i'm looking forward to watching this, sounds like an awesome idea https://t.co/HGC3UpXQ45

2022-09-02 17:12:34 @janusrose see self-driving car advocates talking about sectioning off parts of roads for just them. their own stupid separate world

2022-09-02 17:11:46 @janusrose they scale it up because the dumb idea seems to just need more resources. eventually they scale things down when it becomes clear that their fever dream idea doesn't work on this planet and they try to invent hermetically sealed environments where MAYBE their dumb idea will work

2022-09-02 16:56:09 @halhod not to be overwhelmingly pedantic but... *what* datasets that were not constructed by humans?

2022-09-02 16:51:54 journalists regurgitate this passive voice BS about how an AI was designed, like it wasn't designed BY SOMEBODY, like the results weren't moved forward BY SOMEBODY. like we're talking about a tidal wave or a rainstorm. it hits us and i guess that's just how the world turns

2022-09-02 16:45:53 this would be like if the team at Adobe who made Content Aware Fill shipped it and then looked at each other like "no one will need to take a photo ever again" like are you people serious?no strike that

2022-09-02 16:44:01 most painters probably buy their paints from an art store. if the focus of your work involves making the pigment itself, like inventing Vantablack or "world's pinkest pink", then i'm *guessing* you're not gonna go to Blick for acrylic paint. because that's the focus of your art

2022-09-02 16:40:50 we offload tasks strategically. @aragusea talked about this in the context of cooking i think - you can make bread to make a sandwich, sure

2022-09-02 16:36:59 same vibeartists will (continue to) use tech for various parts of their work. but without any communicative intent motivating the piece, this stuff barely rises to the level of hotel hallway decor. just there to fill empty spacethe thing is, we don't really need more garbage https://t.co/iZMIiLSU8y https://t.co/oAMfUHWhsL

2022-09-02 02:09:14 RT @seyiolojo: Starting an a reading group this fall with @HZeavin exploring how we can situate black scholarship in STS. I’m mostly excite…

2022-09-02 00:54:10 RT @niloufar_s: If you're close to finishing your PhD I highly recommend applying to the UC presidential postdoc meant to: "encourage outst…

2022-09-01 18:45:20 somewhere there are economists frantically working on a whiteboard to calculate the economic output lost due to lockdown vs the output lost from all the people who would die or come out of it with long-covid

2022-09-01 18:42:16 swear to god, there would be no institutional incentive to fight this pandemic if not for the fact that you probably see kids' test scores drop when they lose a parent https://t.co/pZtIFNhJ09

2022-09-01 00:14:38 @jathansadowski hahahaha i think he blocked everyone who follows chesa on twitter hahahahhahahahaah https://t.co/zPpjpt42N7

2022-08-31 19:46:51 to be clear: time away from twitter didn't improve the situation with the emails. things are still terrible with the emails. i keep starring them and doing other stupid shit as, like, a promise to myself that i'll come back for them?? but now there are too many starred emails...

2022-08-31 19:40:47 i've had a lot less time to be on twitter these past few weeks because of things, and for a little while i knew what it was like to just have regular old anxiety and not supercharged anxiety. it was pretty cool. might do it more often as like a little treat.

2022-08-31 19:15:18 @ERnurse86 the people who say "now's not the time" mean "it's never the right time, but let's see how long you can hold your breath"

2022-08-31 19:06:23 @drewisgooden maybe the most interesting thing to me is how transparent the training data seems to be in some cases. obviously i could be wrong, but you read some of the output and you're like "okay, got it, this was trained on some reddit shit"

2022-08-31 19:04:59 i could probably make a thread of youtubers/web entertainers who have played around with AI and offered interesting reflections on it. most recently: @drewisgooden posted a video about using DALL-E and generative AIs more broadly to write video scripts:https://t.co/GhCbaZiriS

2022-08-31 00:49:02 RT @willie_agnew: 2) "going rogue/grab power" going rogue and grabbing power from *who*? OpenAI? Some billionaires? The military-industrial…

2022-08-30 16:21:54 RT @nantarsya: Excited to study &

2022-08-30 14:27:49 RT @DataInstituteSF: The Center for Applied Data Ethics (CADE) is pleased to welcome Nantina Vgontzas as a data ethics fellow. Nantina’s ti…

2022-08-29 05:34:11 @cwarzel if i ever see an op-ed about the debt cancelation that starts with "the dictionary defines..." i'll @ you

2022-08-28 16:01:50 the issue isn't $300Bstudent debt disproportionately burdens people who simply cannot summon the extra cash to get over that marginal hump and make it start to shrink. so it keeps growingpeople will grow old and die paying off student debt. it's infinite revenue and leverage. https://t.co/A1gSVnJfHH

2022-08-28 14:07:36 @LibyaLiberty two words: chocolate. hummus.

2022-08-27 14:55:35 @timnitGebru @ruthstarkman well finally we have real evidence (because people saying what happened to them isn't valid if a computer scientist doesn't bless it)

2022-08-27 02:33:09 @vinn_ayy it's real coocoo :(

2022-08-27 01:24:28 warning: deadnaming and harassing an individual. https://t.co/Nyl1Gz3FUm

2022-08-27 00:06:25 Rogan, not even once. https://t.co/Iivu2rr5JM

2022-08-26 20:42:01 is "steals jokes and artwork" part of the advanced pack? https://t.co/H2Y2J296DP https://t.co/oV5eUNNu2P

2022-08-26 17:44:21 RT @yurirando: also this is a huge piece of vindication for everyone who ever struggled with brain fog and was told by doctors to essential…

2022-08-26 16:13:45 RT @bittergertrude: Nate Silver is that dude in grad school who didn't do the reading &

2022-08-26 16:13:32 RT @beccalunch: nate silver is the guy in your discussion group who did none of the assigned reading but “plays devils advocate” to hide th…

2022-08-26 15:39:59 i already know this is going to pop back into my head and drive me crazy throughout the day and i fucking hate it https://t.co/cxhhc2K3bN https://t.co/RJXhYhcU9T

2022-08-26 15:36:38 thank you for representing the dumbos out there, nate silver :) you're doing a service for so many

2022-08-26 15:35:48 flashbacks to that kid in class who was painfully confused about the reading, later tries to backtrack by saying "o-other people, dumber people than me- because i got it, you see- dumber people will get confused. because they're not smart like me - like us :)" https://t.co/40ZDSZtXuI

2022-08-26 15:30:31 you can tell someone to stop being ungrateful hypocrites without that meaning you think debt cancelation is wrong

2022-08-26 15:29:19 if nate is actually this stupid i don't know what to say https://t.co/cOF6y3qo16

2022-08-26 15:22:19 i'm sure the pedestrians in this metaphor appreciate it https://t.co/3k4vuTz6Tx

2022-08-26 14:26:45 i'm just flabbergasted by how unimaginably steep the slope has been on quality of life for young people. the shit we force kids to routinely go through because we don't want to deal with a problem ourselves just keeps mounting and mounting https://t.co/ipv8NInwi7

2022-08-26 14:20:09 @hondanhon @tomhannen i recently got a 32-bit float recording interface and it's really neat to get that kind of functionally limitless range, but that thing alone can produce surprisingly large files considering it's "just" audio

2022-08-26 14:17:56 @hondanhon @tomhannen oh my gosh right

2022-08-26 14:17:05 @hondanhon @tomhannen if star trek voyager was recorded on tape then why even bother asking for lossless copies of the episodes? :(

2022-08-26 14:16:04 @hondanhon @tomhannen i think the issue is that drawing a line there means something like 12gbps (if we're talking about 24-bit color, 4k, 60fps). a 44-minute tv show would be... 2640*12-->

2022-08-26 03:09:04 RT @JakeMGrumbach: this is a slap in the face to everyone who worked hard and paid the $51 to Elsevier to rent an article for 24 hours

2022-08-26 00:47:55 RT @UpFromTheCracks: Just finished a panel on abolishing family policing and it’s algorithms featuring @DorothyERoberts and @b_lts_ . Now m…

2022-08-25 23:36:47 RT @Linkletter: Remote Scan of Student’s Room Before Test Violated His Privacy, Judge RulesPaywall-free @newyorktimes link: https://t.co/…

2022-08-25 23:33:03 RT @theSBPC: ' : Tell us your happy student debt cancellation stories. LETS UGLY CRY TOGETHER!!(and then demand more, so more o…

2022-08-25 23:29:59 RT @emilyesfraser: @zeynep The message can’t be “those poor people w/ Long Covid deserve help.” It needs to be “we are all at risk &

2022-08-25 23:20:05 RT @zeynep: Long Covid sufferers have waited too long for help, and things need to change, *now*.Research isn't fast or broad enough. Som…

2022-08-25 22:37:03 RT @shengokai: For the curious, @DocDre’s book provides some excellent context for what I mean in the above. That is, while this is hilario…

2022-08-25 17:29:27 @MikeIsaac it's gonna be a no from me

2022-08-25 02:50:11 @DogWisdomPoker these people are beyond our ability to help. they need to be visited by 3 spirits on christmas eve or something

2022-08-20 01:55:50 get excited everybody https://t.co/uDZiNsyP00

2022-08-20 01:34:27 cue the marvel "phase four" timeline but all the movies are about bit characters from the original

2022-08-20 01:29:56 thank god, i wouldn't want to watch a movie about two guys taking a joyride in a fancy car unless it's canonically part of the ferris bueller cinematic universe https://t.co/dtN6F1nh43

2022-08-19 00:29:37 RT @KrauseFx: New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser TikTok, when ope…

2022-08-18 20:55:02 RT @davejorgenson: lol https://t.co/1xyLvSorcO

2022-08-18 18:26:24 "would you like to upgrade your ambiance to have a quieter atmosphere for just $4.99?"

2022-08-18 18:25:08 gonna love going to a nice restaurant and shouting "zero! zero! zero! operator? main menu! MAIN MENU" at a hologram

2022-08-18 18:23:36 "hi! i'm your virtual waiter! is wine good for your diet? you had 854 calories at this meal, so you should probably stick to water :) remember: please do not reply

2022-08-18 16:56:03 RT @SBWorkersUnited: BREAKING: A FEDERAL JUDGE JUST ORDERED STARBUCKS TO IMMEDIATELY REINSTATE THE ILLEGALLY FIRED UNION LEADERS IN MEMPHIS…

2022-08-18 14:18:19 with that being said here are some pics of doggo across the country https://t.co/VJiYnzIMK0

2022-08-18 14:03:24 i think a keen eye probably would've noticed i had been moving over the past few days/weeks/??, but i don't want people to become such keen followers of my daily adventures that they would have to pull out the red string and cork board to know this stuff

2022-08-18 14:00:43 hello, i'm in ann arbor!(just fyi in case you're trying to meet with me in SF... or if you think you see my doppelgänger in michigan)

2022-08-17 18:57:25 FB didn't realize to prevent people from violating one another's personal space until like a few months ago. by that point they had spent more than $10B.nothing's going toward making it a space for people. it's so utterly a space for advertisers, it might someday be remarkable.

2022-08-17 18:57:24 every new embarrassing update about the metaverse and bit of news about how much they've spent on it is just an indirect reminder that this space is so highly engineered specifically for advertising and surveillance to the exclusion of anything else

2022-08-17 18:57:23 the apparent cheapness of the metaverse isn't intrinsically upsetting to me. i mean it kinda is but it's not the source of looming dread. that feeling stems from the knowledge that the billions FB spends on the metaverse are not going toward making it look acceptable

2022-08-17 18:38:21 @jevanhutson thanks for putting the wii sports music in my head just now

2022-08-17 18:35:47 more than 15 billion dollars for these dead-eyed sims knockoffs without legs. https://t.co/6ospND3hHj https://t.co/9fFqRFbQ5M

2022-08-16 15:54:38 "hey man, false binaries are, like, really bad. we should have space for TERFy reactionary shit in our tent :)" https://t.co/EIBOXe8esf

2022-08-16 03:04:32 i kept cropping this tweet tighter and tighter because it just kept getting more absurd with every clause.

2022-08-16 03:01:36 ... can the CDC maybe meet us where another country is instead? https://t.co/9ZXCwHTk6F

2022-08-15 17:44:27 if you're ever wondering what's causing silicon valley to be a place so comprehensively unlivable that it sometimes feels like an assault on your bodily senses https://t.co/kMPk5NrkYS

2022-08-14 19:15:20 i almost said "the thing that's intriguing to me these days is..." but that's like saying the phenomenon of being gaslit for years is intellectually and academically curiouswhich, mmm, maybe. after a few years of therapy and distance

2022-08-14 19:13:31 different admonishments get deployed according to the state of things. either you're early, and a jerk for derailing a nascent project

2022-08-14 19:13:30 people resist structural changes with large systems (tech/social)

2022-08-13 18:19:45 (can't wait to be told i'm not being nice enough about this)

2022-08-13 18:16:05 just the same shit for years and years. nothing really changes. somehow there's a revolving door of white guys going inside to make a fortune, coming out, saying "huh, <

2022-08-13 18:11:18 just like... great you're acknowledging you were wrong? but how did you end up being wrong? what sources or kinds of knowledge did you value and not value and how did that make you wrong until now and what are you gonna do about it?

2022-08-13 18:06:33 Black women have been saying for YEARS that organized/political disinfo isn't the most significant threat with generative algorithmic systems like deepfake algo's &

2022-08-13 01:37:43 @hondanhon a room full of all the commits that broke production in pillow form. you take a nap in the room when needed

2022-08-11 20:33:01 the cdc doesn't wash its hands after peeing, you can just tell https://t.co/8q2Tg66hqU

2022-08-11 19:57:19 by the way if you go looking for him, don't

2022-08-11 19:56:58 and then he deleted his tweets and lamented how this site is just people bullying each other like lmao what

2022-08-11 19:56:04 i know this site is full of goofy idiots but i'm still thinking about the guy who felt more strongly about zoom meeting attendance than undermining a coworker's ongoing conflict with management by anonymously trashing them for conspicuously gossipy hit pieces about said coworker

2022-08-11 17:13:44 lol it's already thursday fml

2022-08-11 17:13:22 am i gonna spend my week making an annotated bibliography for the FTC? maybe https://t.co/EkNOri6Sqw

2022-08-11 17:10:44 wow, this is a big deal. i mean, much more to day than that, but still processing https://t.co/k9xgNPF5OE

2022-08-11 16:50:13 @DogWisdomPoker yep

2022-08-11 13:31:43 some of you all need to outgrow the edgelord phase of high school where you pretend you always knew about every bad thing happening even in domains you didn't know existed until yesterday

2022-08-11 13:29:29 people are acting like this isn't that big a deal or more precisely that this was widely known, but uh... tampering with SSL-encrypted content is a uniquely transgressive escalation of facebook's already invasive tracking. this kinda shit would get a normal apple developer banned https://t.co/lupBz4rDNI

2022-08-11 12:58:18 RT @KrauseFx: New Post: Instagram &

2022-08-11 02:31:23 the union is the people like this is the first slide of every slide deck lol

2022-08-11 02:30:47 i think it's a little weird to choose this moment to blame someone for not showing up for union activity <

2022-08-10 20:24:05 RT @therealjgutz: jk I'm not done - one rhetorical question: what does it mean for a white man to describe their own body as being "equippe…

2022-08-10 17:43:34 i don't mean to be totally self-serving, but if you're in academia organizing in-person conferences, i hope you're seriously reflecting on this and thinking about what you're putting early career researchers through by way of pressure to attend all available in-person conferences https://t.co/XlXAZmVfgg

2022-08-10 02:19:33 @ShamirBailey @rickshawstopsf fuck fuck fuck yes

2022-08-09 17:54:35 i've lost count of how many intl students have told me about how they hated what they were working on or hated working with their advisor but were bound to their advisors' whims - and their politics - because to rebuke it could irrecoverably derail their lives.

2022-08-09 17:51:06 the leverage faculty have over intl students &

2022-08-09 16:00:42 RT @rajiinio: It's frustrating that the only really viable long-term funding options for international CS PhD students in the U.S. seem to…

2022-08-09 15:35:56 @rinewithoutacat i'm speechless

2022-08-09 15:31:11 @IgorBrigadir i kept trying to think how could this be a parody, or not be a parody, or be like a total misfire of a dark joke, but like... the pdf just keeps going on in earnest... like it's totally real...

2022-08-09 15:29:38 @IgorBrigadir yep :S

2022-08-09 15:09:37 >

2022-08-09 15:07:00 i'm scared to click on the pdf link because how can this abstract be real

2022-08-09 15:04:49 not gonna link it but you WILL know it when you see it. how is this shit real life? https://t.co/qxagsskujM

2022-08-09 15:01:13 lots of opportunity for synergy with the "nurses making tiktoks for clout" business model tiktok has had going https://t.co/gakqp0z4DG

2022-08-09 14:54:49 like 2 big picture thoughts1. incredible failure of the union to recognize and do its job2. so do we need to talk about what it looks like to get fucking played? like is there any air of skepticism or critical reflection about how a story lands at your feet?

2022-08-09 14:52:19 the smear campaign against erin is one thing. you expect a media conglomerate to use its toolset to try to undermine a whistleblower.but watching other news orgs - especially the union that should be protecting her rights as a worker - *participate*?with friends like these...

2022-08-09 00:38:23 RT @anthropologydp: UPDATE: the FBI agents are now swarming the ladder beneath a beligerent Steven Pinker. He keeps shouting "I won at life…

2022-08-07 12:00:04 truly unfortunate https://t.co/tA9vomAcKk

2022-08-07 00:13:32 RT @csdoctorsister: @_alialkhatib “By releasing the chatbot to the general public, Meta wants to collect feedback on the various problems f…

2022-08-06 21:54:19 what https://t.co/nCminob9IG https://t.co/kDT85zgoKg

2022-08-06 18:41:52 RT @JessicaCalarco: For the last four years, my research team and I have been following an Indiana mom I'll call Brooke, who got pregnant w…

2022-07-26 20:20:13 RT @_alialkhatib: it's worth correcting whenever it comes up: the luddites had issues neither with looms nor with mechanization. they knew…

2022-07-26 20:20:07 @MerriamWebster https://t.co/1atsN8WoVE

2022-07-26 19:48:31 RT @BitchyAmi: @antumbral Google's eternal MO of "make products, never bother supporting products because that's not how you get ahead in t…

2022-07-26 18:51:26 RT @bamenke: Can we please change the ranking metrics so that college campuses aren't construction sites all the damn time?

2022-07-26 18:43:38 the hustle &

2022-07-26 17:20:13 either way tell them to kick rocks and eat shit or kick shit and eat rocks or whatever

2022-07-26 17:19:18 do they think people don't see this cynically as an overused tool to try to motivate voters? just do the damn thing and let republicans work themselves into knots over whether they want a strong unitary executive with far-reaching power or if now they want small government again. https://t.co/bjZoBZ42tb

2022-07-26 16:50:28 RT @emilymbender: GPT-3, or any language model, is nothing more than an algorithm for producing text. There's no mind or life or ideas or i…

2022-07-26 16:48:35 RT @afrodesiaq: this monkeypox breakout is going to be very ugly when it "suddenly" explodes into the general population. the messaging aro…

2022-07-26 16:43:23 @hackylawyER i wish i could be joking about this https://t.co/cw5NJMTLbF

2022-07-26 16:42:11 @hackylawyER "they invited me to live on their property for some time and after discussing it with my bosses they agreed this sounded like a good idea" like lol what

2022-07-26 16:38:19 @hackylawyER it should be a more obvious red flag to pubs when a reporter comes back from interviewing tech startup folks with these kinds of stars in their eyes. it really makes me think a sufficiently charming charlatan could scam the entire staff at the new yorker into reverse mortgages

2022-07-26 16:35:40 @hackylawyER reads like a profile of adam neumann. lots of delirious fawning and syrupy cliches about how proximity makes you lose your sense of perspective and even basic reality. almost as if the new yorker should hire a deprogrammer for the reporter writing their profile before publishing.

2022-07-26 15:48:48 RT @BlackPnwLady: They are going to kill queer people over monkey pox stories being presented like this. https://t.co/P3JaeiANzV

2022-07-26 15:19:06 my favorite part of this is how i could pause and go back a few seconds :) good job twitter https://t.co/cx5SqIF7GD

2022-07-26 15:17:31 "we support diversity and different backgrounds informing unique perspectives" but then also this https://t.co/FHJ1jZ5aiQ

2022-07-26 14:01:25 i mean you can write a little note on your phone that's just full of little affirmations followed by md5 hashes if you really want

2022-07-26 13:59:44 paying for a string of text so you can say "eyyy, remember that diamond?" and a tech company run by a white supremacist is like "hell ya, you're so special. now pay me" https://t.co/0UX31kbVq1

2022-07-26 13:43:38 RT @karenkho: arguing US healthcare is good? In this economy?

2022-07-26 13:37:10 i keep expecting one of them to just blurt out "hey man are you gonna flash me later? should i skip lunch??"

2022-07-22 15:20:06 i just-how do you ask people to focus on the less famous, more vulnerable people and not manage to reach "how do dave's transphobic attacks affect TRANS PEOPLE"it's just bafflingly, inexplicably stupid https://t.co/cJOAEl0uY2

2022-07-22 05:45:01 what i wouldn't give to only see 20 characters of 10 tweets of this app https://t.co/384TZ77rWh

2022-07-22 05:36:18 RT @QuinnyPig: "Why is @Amazon acquiring @OneMedical bad news?"Let's explore.1. Horizontal integration at Amazon scale of a company tha…

2022-07-22 03:22:57 @MikeIsaac if the camera were a few feet lower it could've been a knockoff wes anderson shot which would've made my month for sure

2022-07-22 03:21:00 @MikeIsaac a wide shot is often shorthand for comedy but i think this would've been funny in any film style

2022-07-21 04:01:37 RT @KimCrayton1: I’ve been saying for years that tech has great job of introducing new products/services as entertainment or altruism BEFOR…

2022-07-20 22:36:26 first it's the dancing robot https://t.co/gE3VKOi1Ep

2022-07-20 05:48:33 SP is short for "Sus Picious" https://t.co/ZKCSLmXxob

2022-07-19 21:53:52 RT @so_treu: DING x 3

2022-07-19 21:47:07 @so_treu "politics and nuance aside" is white people speak for "i just looked at some country shape outlines on google maps and that is pretty much all i know about what i'm about to talk about"

2022-07-19 18:23:40 RT @ProfMMurray: This will not be like the pre-Roe landscape. It will be worse. The only way to enforce these bans is to rely on a surveill…

2022-07-19 17:13:54 @avicenna ->

2022-07-19 17:12:31 @avicenna i'm a little brain fried from driving but the loose thought that i can think of right now is this chapter at the end of "utopia of rules" where graeber talks about how justice movements move to formalize working groups to shine a light on in-group dynamics and ossified power->

2022-07-19 16:56:21 the tweet got deleted it's ok i've got a screenshot lol

2022-07-19 16:54:18 RT @_alialkhatib: collaborating with authority and power is not some neutral exchange. pretending you're not an agent of the state/oppresso…

2022-07-19 16:51:52 collaborating with authority and power is not some neutral exchange. pretending you're not an agent of the state/oppressor when you just accept the data they construct about people they oppress should be an absolute scandal

2022-07-19 16:45:20 people are laughing at this &

2022-07-19 16:37:08 idk, might be a really superficial reading and i could be drawing a connection that intentionally isn't there on the page

2022-07-17 19:14:26 SF continues to be painfully transparent about its politics despite its facade. the Chronicle just matches the energy of so much power in the city: superficial, almost-farcical talk about diversity, with what must be a gag reflex regarding any talk of restoration or real justice. https://t.co/vw9OioWJCt

2022-07-17 18:41:27 i forgot about this lmao https://t.co/3u5QKOIzd1

2022-07-17 06:02:05 show some respect, people. https://t.co/5AA9puuw6c

2022-07-17 05:40:44 RT @yaneerbaryam: "A nightmare scenario"So letting the virus run unchecked is pretty much a strategy for creating a tsunami of neurologic…

2022-07-16 21:16:37 god i hope someone doesn't ever take me too seriously on this fucking app

2022-07-16 21:16:06 oh my god.oH MY GOD!NO MACJINE LEARNIGN?Twitter is toast!NO AUTOMATION?NOT EVEN TO CALCULATE STATISTICS!‽!!!ohh my godddddd wow smh https://t.co/uh1JMlcRvl

2022-07-16 18:52:21 @sendgoodcheers given how amazon operates i think they'll recommend sketchy as fuck supplements via prime delivery

2022-07-16 18:49:17 @sendgoodcheers i wonder how it classifies screaming at the top of my lungs...

2022-07-16 18:48:06 @sendgoodcheers oh sorry there's a better (at least more accessible) https://t.co/g7mAplzvJJbut it scans your body (with your phone camera) to estimate body fat (lol.), tracks activity like everything else, &

2022-07-16 18:42:55 mm. fun and interesting https://t.co/fyjq73vN8T

2022-07-16 18:42:53 interestinggggggg https://t.co/SfhszQyDlW

2022-07-16 18:42:52 interesting https://t.co/IZSxuB5rKm

2022-07-16 18:39:28 "america will be a pretty fun and interesting place to live in a number of ways"fun in the sense that you're running away from this crazy fuck because some Ring camera misidentified some poor fucking stranger as you walking into an abortion clinic in some other state fun https://t.co/eZcX6Bvjm6

2022-07-16 18:33:35 *whispers* that's what the white supremacists have been promising for years

2022-07-16 02:40:56 god we have all this fucking office space that nobody wants to occupy what ever can we do*thousands of people drowning from rent*i mean what fun business-y stuff can we do

2022-07-16 02:39:04 this city is just full of fucking goofy people https://t.co/jj4lPyeDRP https://t.co/qDUWPbOD3e

2022-07-15 06:08:25 @verge what did you think we meant these last few years when we said that...? https://t.co/WLCfNRuapE

2022-07-14 21:27:51 @hypervisible "maybe a little nap mid-ride?"*sketches a person lying down in the back of a hearse*"add some Z's so you know they're sleeping"

2022-07-14 21:26:55 @hypervisible i really hope someone on that team knows this project is a joke and that they're having some fun sketching out these ideas.

2022-07-14 21:23:01 the old "i'm just saying [stupid shit in your mentions]" to "hey, you're being reactive " pipeline of interminable twitter discourse.not getting into someone's mentions is always, and i cannot stress this enough, a real and creditable option. https://t.co/1CYao7pTrj

2022-07-14 20:54:23 just wanna cite this so much https://t.co/aDfBUUHoDP https://t.co/KaD2rX855l

2022-07-14 20:44:15 RT @JamesTCarter3: Dropping “(CITE)” in the manuscript so my co-author can find evidence of the completely unfounded sentence I just wrote.…

2022-07-14 20:25:34 i get how you arrived here, but nevertheless i feel you misunderstood the spirit of the assignment i gave you, twitter search... https://t.co/kbSVvsJDLH

2022-07-14 20:20:26 pattinson, ford, guinness, idek how many other white guys can be openly contemptuous of the film/tv projects that made them famous &

2022-07-14 17:39:00 the secret is more garlic, it's always more garlic

2022-07-14 17:38:27 like you have a lot of faith in absolutely idfk what if you're sharing anything more sensitive than NYT recipes in DMs

2022-07-14 17:37:39 This bird app that was literally infiltrated by Saudi government spies and later almost owned by apartheid clyde https://t.co/ST2M8OPFej

2022-07-14 17:27:05 !!! this is awesome https://t.co/gqficKf301

2022-07-13 23:31:50 @emilymbender @underlineio twitch streamers have "starting soon" templates. conferences should copy some of the practices that clearly work for online video/streaming

2022-07-13 22:02:24 it feels like the WFH equivalent of saying goodbye and then walking in the same direction like i want to be like "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE- oh i need to click the red button... ok bye for real" i hate it so fucking much

2022-07-13 22:01:28 for all the time i've spent working from home i feel like i've never really figured out how to use zoomis there a setting or something where i can just ... close the zoom meeting without getting another dialog prompt?

2022-07-13 19:51:16 RT @ba_lyons: Faculty are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a PhD. I just remembered that when I was a kid, our window AC unit l…

2022-07-13 19:17:54 1. imagine foisting this on someone like now they need to know about CPU generations. next they'll be saying certain fab locations are disallowed2. electronic exam proctoring is a scummy, scammy industry that has no demonstrated interest in actually proctoring exams competently https://t.co/AT9sp7cM46

2022-07-13 06:31:37 RT @lizthegrey: What protections for immunocompromised people? I'm on a domestic flight. There is no mask requirement. There should be one.…

2022-07-12 23:12:59 RT @JordanSCarroll: I think it freaks some people out that academic twitter is often dominated by contingent faculty, grad students, and TT…

2022-07-12 21:14:23 RT @AnthroPunk: Because META is 'Meta' is 'Meta.' it's like Inception, only worse, becsuse we are all awake.

2022-07-12 21:07:36 between this and the news about not requiring a FB account for Quest a few days ago, it feels like Meta don't know what front they're supposed to put up to the public. are they capturing &

2022-07-12 20:58:47 "BMW has also said this is a way for the 2nd owner to benefit from features that the original owner chose not to purchase"you COULD let people mod cars, but i guess maintaining a system that processes &

2022-07-12 18:59:46 i'm going to lose my mind over uhaul's website bugs

2022-07-12 05:10:42 RT @culturejedi: Damn, we have got to find housing solutions for our communities.

2022-07-12 05:10:36 jfc... https://t.co/7I5yK036ZL

2022-07-12 01:10:53 RT @JustSpaceOrg: Most people who have weighed in in recent years (myself - @RocketToLulu - included) have not born the weight or risk of s…

2022-07-11 21:45:02 (this doesn't help people who face eventual risk or who just don't want to be pregnant, and the fight's not over until anyone who wants an abortion can get one, but this is some movement)

2022-07-11 21:42:23 i've given biden a lot of shit about doing something and this is somethingif someone involved with (/more knowledgeable about) abortion access wants to correct me, id be very receptive to hearing how he could be doing more or better, but this is definitely something substantive https://t.co/IzyZGli5ap

2022-07-11 21:38:08 RT @bunrxm: The Red Hill Leak: How the U.S. Navy Has Poisoned Hawai'i's Waters for Decades https://t.co/lZozpgno6t

2022-07-11 21:37:33 @KeithVallacchi @RMac18 i feel like if you ever bought something from IKEA you'd inevitably pick up that 1in ~ 2.54cm

2022-07-11 05:33:30 @hcitonya that fucking L shaped sentence...

2022-07-11 01:17:34 holy shit, really important stuff i didn't really read but there are a lot of likes https://t.co/AWPuU8qIsB

2022-07-11 00:16:08 moving is never logistically easy but ffs

2022-07-11 00:13:37 rather unavoidable plans to move this summer have really turned into a whole second fucking job in terms of planning and shit so i think i misunderstood the instructions https://t.co/jCxdqJa64r

2022-07-10 19:06:58 RT @UjuAnya: Since the love of my life (who now has a house in Pittsburgh) decided to air me on Twitter, let me tell y’all the full uncenso…

2022-07-10 17:24:16 amazon will never stop being amazon, the question is whether we'll permit them to continue to occupy our lives - a decision that is not at all foregone or inevitable.but it takes stopping shit like this. https://t.co/fV0s7T8h47

2022-07-10 17:21:26 RT @sashaperigo: The proposed SFPD surveillance policy would allow cops to live access to people’sRing doorbell cameras and CCTV footage.…

2022-07-10 15:47:04 i don't get it. i keep marking academia dot edu emails as spam and i keep unsubscribing and yet i KEEP GETTING THESE FUCKING EMAILS

2022-07-10 15:43:06 i uhh i mean go out and vote you out-of-touch activists coalition-building

2022-07-10 15:41:31 some strategist is going to be like "it's time for us to develop our own 40-year plan" and when that happens i hope the party collapses under the crushing weight of people who won't live that long but who strategists evidently don't care about https://t.co/4bAZLhmwzu

2022-07-10 15:36:48 @vinn_ayy whatever you do don't get between the baby and the parent this time of year is really dangerous

2022-07-10 04:37:59 @fulligin congratulations!!! on getting this shot!!!!!!!!

2022-07-09 23:52:35 every angle of this situation is maddeningly stupid

2022-07-09 23:51:43 i love the idea that the activists had no active role in the formation of this supposed coalition

2022-07-09 23:48:08 I have people skills

2022-07-09 23:46:52 thank you joe for assembling an incredible coalition of ... *checks notes* ungrateful demanding out-of-touch activists https://t.co/aasvLX2slm

2022-07-09 23:43:40 if they're anything like me, they're gonna need the next few days to decompress from this much social activity. https://t.co/5hPrV9XIHR

2022-07-09 23:26:02 RT @_alialkhatib: @rinewithoutacat god damn it this got me

2022-07-09 23:25:58 @rinewithoutacat god damn it this got me https://t.co/VMMzOdFLqh

2022-07-09 21:18:28 i'll have a #3 but leave out the part where he owns twitter in the end. i can order parts of this a la carte, right? https://t.co/lPK3El1A63

2022-07-09 18:13:01 i am going to lose my mind over this vaguely apologetic horse shit

2022-07-09 18:11:54 some of this is merely detestable but the point about how a major reason people get abortions is because they can't afford it should be a scandal. the citation she uses is a forbes article claiming some 59% of people who get abortions happen to be mothers at high risk of poverty https://t.co/zbRq3ZCrRX

2022-07-09 17:51:58 @caitlinmoriah whew, this thread is some truly wildly stupid shit. i kept scrolling and popping out to the quote tweets like "is anyone else seeing this shit???" but nope lots of dudes like "mmm indeed, certain truths in here, i am very erudite" garbage lol

2022-07-09 17:50:11 RT @caitlinmoriah: speak to a single woman, i beg of you

2022-07-09 17:43:39 elon paid a billion dollars to find out more followers than he felt comfortable about are probably bots, enough that he didn't want to literally own the problemi think it's really funny that whenever he tweets he's kinda just staring at a reminder of that fact in bird logo form

2022-07-08 21:36:28 RT @_alialkhatib: @rinewithoutacat one of the terms should've been that if he backs out he forfeits his twitter account

2022-07-08 21:32:44 https://t.co/7rt8Ih3LcL

2022-07-08 05:24:54 RT @nielstenoever: Please, don't put standards bodies in charge of ethics nor allow them to develop definitions of legal concepts.Standar…

2022-07-07 23:10:59 @CutForTime @BenjaminAhr @HamletIsDead @GreatestTrek @StarTrekOnPPlus "perfect[ly on time]"

2022-07-07 19:02:20 "eugenics gets a bad rap" is a hell of a way to start a sentence

2022-07-07 18:59:44 turning an R2's critiques into a "future work" section https://t.co/H5IT4Jqv7I

2022-07-07 18:57:30 what the actual everlasting racist fucking fuck is going on right now? https://t.co/BPbW8c6H4t

2022-07-07 18:47:47 @MikeIsaac gonna make my finsta but on meta, gonna call it my feta

2022-07-07 18:47:11 @MikeIsaac "similar to Instagram’s existing model" lol

2022-07-07 18:45:26 this feels like pepsi responding to protests about unhealthy snack foods by announcing they're replacing fritos with doritos https://t.co/qkyM4zpvIO

2022-07-07 18:42:07 @MikeIsaac yeah like... what actually is the difference? and are any of the people interested in VR games(?) swayed that a different subsidiary is requiring login?

2022-07-07 15:27:51 my favorite part of this is how @freialobo's bio just reads "ghostwriter" https://t.co/A9fRucoBfL

2022-07-07 15:25:57 how long till elon hires him to run PR at tesla or something? https://t.co/PhtNXxQQOc

2022-07-04 22:35:36 @IBJIYONGI if your claim starts falling apart as early as when they ask "do you have a name for the baby's birth certificate?" just give up

2022-07-04 22:33:47 @IBJIYONGI also this is laughably stupid but "no one is assigned anything at birth" ummm did i name myself when i was born and just forget??

2022-07-04 22:11:53 there's nothing to reform

2022-07-04 22:02:53 lolll they deleted the tweet??

2022-07-04 21:32:14 RT @Ajijaakwe: THEY AIN'T NEW

2022-07-04 20:44:11 whoops i should've known something was wrong when i didn't get a preview card https://t.co/tFMcH21H63

2022-07-04 20:19:24 last year there was a story of police coming to this guy in 2013 over an algorithm's... fever dream? hallucination? of him being involved in a shooting... somedaythey went to his f'ing house to tell him he might be shot. or BE the shooter. or... not? https://t.co/nsAfMTHD7G

2022-07-04 20:19:22 something about chicago and predictive policing... https://t.co/ziX0JL8T07

2022-07-04 19:39:11 RT @evan_greer: This is good in the sense it shows tech companies are feeling the heat to clean up the surveillance hellscape mess they've…

2022-07-04 19:39:05 RT @KateRoseBee: This is a positive step, however:Google products are notoriously terrible at telling when something is actually an aborti…

2022-07-04 12:41:49 think of the poor engineers who designed the system. the algorithm claimed if they didn't do as it says then it'll predict something bad will happen to their brakes

2022-07-04 12:39:17 an algorithm claims lol https://t.co/oUhKBVh4go

2022-07-03 22:14:45 didn't the CDC oversee the Tuskegee experiment? and initially call HIV "4H" or "GRID"?i say this to point out the CDC betrayed the trust of some people way before 2020

2022-07-03 21:57:15 RT @chaotic_sub: the grad student to second wife pipeline

2022-07-03 20:56:12 RT @rafiazakaria: If I had said Pamela Paul didn’t review my book Against White Feminism (despite having reviewed my previous one) because…

2022-07-03 19:36:56 weeks of screaming and vomiting.you know someone is having the time of their life telling that story, and they will for decades to come

2022-07-03 19:34:54 something i haven't seen anthropologists talk about enough is how you might go to a place to do fieldwork and the people there will tell you a bit of complete bullshit with a totally straight face for no real reason except to laugh about it with their friends later. https://t.co/jOm3xSuSGY

2022-07-03 19:17:29 RT @emilymbender: Not it effing can't. This headline is breathtakingly irresponsible. h/t @hypervisible https://t.co/5z9wqj3sdC

2022-07-03 19:08:20 there's some good news in the world https://t.co/0ZMz8AsIbg

2022-07-03 04:33:53 RT @thricedotted: swipe keyboard is just like ouija

2022-07-02 21:07:28 RT @AugersMonster: “What’s the plan? You’re just going to try not to catch covid forever?”I cannot get my head around how this has become…

2022-07-02 21:01:19 i genuinely think more media depicting this kind of stuff would bothA) be a total fucking blast

2022-07-02 20:55:41 @Abebab @mmitchell_ai i'm so sorry that you had to endure this shit.

2022-07-02 20:54:46 @Abebab @mmitchell_ai a friend was telling me about her day and casually mentioned a manager who was making advances and she just brushed it off like "well, y'know, that's life" and like... the actual extent to which this harassment just wears down your expectations of being treated with dignity...

2022-07-02 17:09:12 i think the one that broke me was someone saying that when he gets pulled over he only answers cops in the form of questions (for reasons that i can't begin to fathom)

2022-07-02 17:07:39 i used to bookmark stuff i saw where white people fucked with law enforcement or security, especially when it encouraged people to do the same, because of their profound misunderstanding of how different the world they live in is from the rest of usi got exhausted and stopped https://t.co/TR7RAWjRnB

2022-07-02 16:59:42 this well-intentioned data-brained dumbshittery is just one technical intervention slapped on top of another on top of another on top of another, all band-aid solutions all the way down to a core premise of "what if we... tracked every place you went?"

2022-07-02 16:56:45 the recommendations the author suggests are reasonable and actionable. google just needs to get over itself and the manufactured, imagined value of logging every place you visit https://t.co/ObwrfZCYCv

2022-07-02 16:54:24 they should delete the entire week before &

2022-07-02 16:44:01 i'm just imagining people who aren't obsessively tying themselves to the railroad tracks of twitter, and especially academic twitter, opening up the NYT and being like "who the fuck is this 27-year-old and why has she enlisted a cabal to help her buy a house?" https://t.co/Ph6VPZUrYl

2022-07-02 16:41:27 RT @Ugarles: PRINCETON: You slept with an undergrad. PROFESSOR: This is because I said something "racist"!OBSERVER: You slept with an und…

2022-07-01 21:46:24 @HowToCookThat made a video showing how fractal wood burning can kill you, something youtube videos/tiktoks don't convey at allif you know youtube, you know what happens nextyoutube removed her video warning people... for promoting unsafe contenthttps://t.co/9shQlwm6L1

2022-07-01 21:35:30 @TeamRocketTrev @PerennialDark @keffals mercedes is when car beeg, got it

2022-07-01 15:43:11 7x7=49 is thursday as noted in the replies6x6=36 is saturday in my humble opinion https://t.co/SBcY6xvIlb

2022-07-01 15:36:21 RT @ReaganGomez: …side without *always* being prepared for this. I think what so many ppl are frustrated about is that, everyone (including…

2022-07-01 05:10:51 i'm just putting this out there in case someone at apple wants to be able to bolster their argument that this is worth dedicating some resources toward to fix. see, there is someone who notices :'(

2022-07-01 05:08:23 this is a stupid thing to complain about but the only thing keeping me from dropping chrome for safari is how the audio in sped-up videos in safari sounds off. i can tolerate the absence of profile switching and everything else, but how it handles pitch shifting somehow grates me

2022-07-01 03:28:16 @LibyaLiberty white people are gonna lose their shit when they find out that different languages have different words for stuff

2022-07-01 00:04:35 power tripping nonsense literally https://t.co/uBpf0mnLAc

2022-06-30 19:25:57 whoops, this article is by @hypervisible

2022-06-30 19:25:10 this is a badly needed dousing of cold water for the advocates of algorithmic or predictive policing, or of expanding the surveillance state to try to work around the much more obvious solutions to the glaringly obvious problemshttps://t.co/G7hUYkT43y

2022-06-30 08:10:34 if the story ended with "and then people started clapping" i would be in a real dilemma

2022-06-30 08:09:34 i'm convinced that the people at the nearby tables were staring in awe and respect of the husband

2022-06-30 08:08:26 this is sublime. my only complaint is that the wife feels ANY amount of guilt over any of this https://t.co/EFnQDUwHE3

2022-06-30 07:48:01 holy shit my blood is boiling, i shouldn't have read this before bed https://t.co/SiI9vQk8w8

2022-06-30 05:40:25 RT @mitpress: Recently, one of our marketers discovered that Amazon does not allow "queer theory" to be included as a keyword in enhanced p…

2022-06-30 04:52:47 RT @elsanfranciscan: Tulul Tepas and Guachiac Sipac are Indigenous surnames, often an indication of being Indigenous and of belonging to an…

2022-06-30 02:59:51 yet another outcome of brexit https://t.co/ltIlEFa26j

2022-06-30 01:38:38 @daveyalba i'm hearing about people getting it- outdoors- in groups of varying sizes- despite wearing an n95my mental model is to discount big events that other people really don't want to miss (ie contexts where people would be motivated to ignore symptoms if they got a negative test)

2022-06-30 01:09:35 @Rose_R0YCE @IfeanyiJnrr @TheHN1C ok like tbh if you've got this much going on in your head i'm giving you permission to just keep your headphones on and stare into the middle distance like everyone else at the gym

2022-06-30 00:29:32 @rinewithoutacat @mattbc i keep feeling like even in exec roles they want more &

2022-06-28 16:27:51 @TheHN1C if "u ok?" is too hard then yeah you're probably not in a position to help

2022-06-28 16:20:13 @nypost you gonna run a story where you mail her a check?

2022-06-28 01:16:37 this is a recent arizona GOP emailtell me with a straight face that this doesn't look like an abandoned geocities site https://t.co/rifPFbPv3i https://t.co/dwgtQMtDwI

2022-06-27 22:58:11 i saw a paper last night that used the phrase "outdoor-indoor mobility calculus". i have been thinking about that phrase since last night through most of today.

2022-06-27 20:53:01 RT @triagegirl: The Murkowski/Collins "compromise" bill in the Senate does not materially aid people who are pregnant or at risk of pregnan…

2022-06-27 18:21:14 it's so incredible to see the amazing people DAIR is bringing together. this is awesome news https://t.co/oSb14zDt7S

2022-06-27 18:19:08 RT @alexnpress: deeply supports my understanding of Eric Adams to learn that he’s so into the google doc he has created to track homeless e…

2022-06-27 09:37:45 >

2022-06-27 05:50:31 RT @TaylorLorenz: VidCon took zero steps to mitigate or prevent COVID, and now countless top influencers along w/ hoards of attendees are s…

2022-06-27 03:08:02 RT @kaludiasays: in the TWO YEAR process of trying to get the rest of the producers in my former newsroom verified, i got doxxed by a white…

2022-06-27 03:03:17 Rudy will be holding a press conference about the events of today outside the Mayo Clinic (sandwich shop) https://t.co/wyCwHBou6T

2022-06-27 02:56:46 RT @mattbc: I would love for a tech journalist to ask @twitter why a convicted domestic batterer was able to get so many BNN News accounts…

2022-06-26 22:41:18 RT @blackpnwlady: Using “camping” as a code word for abortion isn’t gonna stop people from being prosecuted. Lots of people go to prison wh…

2022-06-26 20:25:47 @BadMedicalTakes it was the first sticker i could find i'm sorry if there was a better choice

2022-06-26 20:25:03 @BadMedicalTakes https://t.co/hDbx1WAJf3

2022-06-26 20:22:10 kinda wonder what people think the nature of humanity is if they only know American culture, vs if they have any real exposure to anything else. it must be bleak

2022-06-26 20:15:03 being poor in the US is death by a thousand cuts

2022-06-26 19:58:35 you're not allowed to buy hot food at the grocery store with food stamps because i guess a hot meal is too much luxury for poor people. lots of other arbitrary, cruel, incoherent restrictions, but this one sticks with me https://t.co/AknxadsKG8

2022-06-26 19:56:59 RT @mssinenomine: For same reason people still don't think disabled poor people should be given dishwashers even when they've been shown to…

2022-06-25 04:48:55 RT @sendgoodcheers: This is dumb, sorry. If I were pregnant my continuous blood sugar sensor would make that obvious and many people can’t…

2022-06-25 04:45:47 RT @EFF: Dear employees at tech companies—here's what you can do RIGHT NOW to protect the data of abortion seekers and providers. https://t…

2022-06-25 04:45:10 RT @quoth_the_rave: Oh good, now the people on FB are sharing Lakotaman's loud and wrong tweet that abortion clinics can be set up on re…

2022-06-25 02:17:34 RT @discarddungeon: In the end, the Supreme Court was forced to admit that their power had been broken since nobody was enforcing it. And f…

2022-06-25 01:31:14 i just don't know if watching from 30,000 ft over everyone is the right visual??? https://t.co/myLpti5HTx

2022-06-25 01:05:35 apropos of nothing seriously stop asking questions already answered by the shirt etc https://t.co/ZlT4XFTtO1

2022-06-25 01:02:34 RT @TonyaJoRiley: Multiple tech companies are saying they'll pay for employees to travel for abortions. (Employees who probably already hav…

2022-06-25 00:59:56 what a long fucking year this week has been.

2022-06-25 00:58:11 it describes this paper by @nickmvincent, @hanlinliii, @nic_tilly, @snchancellor, and @bhecht. the paper talks about "data leverage", this framework to think about techniques to use data explicitly to get designers of systems to respond to users' needs:https://t.co/z6uoLQHGev

2022-06-25 00:58:10 just wanna remind people of this article on data poisoning by @_KarenHao https://t.co/ryx2wNu0in

2022-06-25 00:08:51 i think people should act on the assumption that states will move to require period tracking services to more proactively share data with law enforcement - even in invasive and incomprehensible contexts. the batshitness of it shouldn't give you confidence in its unlikeliness. https://t.co/XaYuat3SBI

2022-06-24 23:54:35 RT @evacide: The difference between now and the last time that abortion was illegal in the United States is that we live in an era of unpre…

2022-06-24 23:52:14 RT @sylviaviridian: To be clearer: your app data is not private. if your menstruation pattern is disrupted, and an app knows about it, pros…

2022-06-24 19:08:51 i saw "omg she read a poem" on my timeline, no other info, and i knew who it was without looking. i almost didn't even bother to check.

2022-06-23 17:20:38 @KrangTNelson definitely feels like i'm on a years-long phone call with a customer service agent who thinks they're not authorized to do any of the things that would fix my problems

2022-06-23 17:19:21 RT @KrangTNelson: this year is probably the last moment where anyone with politics to the left of lindsey graham will be allowed anywhere n…

2022-06-23 05:56:27 people at amazon know that this'll be used to fuck with people in really manipulative and awful ways and that's *almost* all, right? https://t.co/9wRqIvMA2j

2022-06-23 02:18:58 overall, for me? the most amazing part is the fixation with the response compared to the racist note itself, and the credulousness of the story toward the excuses the person offers"she said she had a rough week" and just... that's it! no further questions. incredible lol

2022-06-23 02:08:09 every single paragraph is like a unique gem of "missing the point" and minimizing the racist act itself in the stupidest, most self-defeating way possible. https://t.co/XyO3CWoxZt

2022-06-23 00:47:18 https://t.co/zt414otrBX

2022-06-22 21:48:09 earlier today someone outside used a megaphone to instruct someone else not to take their pants off. gonna be on a panel next week and i'm considering my options...

2022-06-22 20:29:07 (btw if you frame AI as a study of power &

2022-06-22 20:14:04 i'll go further to say that any application of AI is doomed to go off the rails in any setting where the people it harms have little or no control, or ways to escape, said harm. this is why a lot of feminist analysis of AI, which focuses on power, offers so much explanatory power

2022-06-22 20:14:03 just gonna re-up my paper ("To Live in Their Utopia"), where i argue ML systems construct their own bullshit frameworks of the world on whatever data we throw in, and that the models they construct are flimsy, thin, brittle representations of the worldhttps://t.co/UqtjglH1Qf https://t.co/ehVjINKIJv https://t.co/YrKeA95Z9W

2022-06-22 17:36:19 @npseaver didn't test well

2022-06-22 16:26:09 @hondanhon physicist PhD shows up to explain Balsamiq to them

2022-06-22 16:24:48 @hondanhon volleyball scene is exactly the same - i mean EXACTLY - but they're inside in front of a whiteboard with lots of sketches on it. tom cruise and val kilmer are still shirtless and high fiving

2022-06-22 16:20:47 @hondanhon the "buzzing the tower" scene gets replaced by a LIVE DEMO

2022-06-22 01:48:27 the story about dave offering not to impose his name on the theatre of a community ashamed of him is so baffling to me that i'm kind of at a loss. i read david's own telling of the events and didn't draw anything like his adversarial, cynical, borderline-paranoid interpretation

2022-06-22 01:40:11 this actually might be the dumbest contribution to the conversation about dave chappelle's transmisogyny i've read to date https://t.co/PWRuU8cOKi

2022-06-21 16:19:46 RT @ClarenceOkoh: It's not just immaturity, it's complicity. These models are political choices &

2022-06-21 04:00:24 RT @kiraIeigh: Listen, random brand I have never heard of, most Boomers can't survive opening a PDF. How's that for a harsh dose of reality…

2022-06-21 03:31:30 @RMac18 "like a peloton" like with unexplained rust??

2022-06-21 03:27:16 RT @Angelikaswayy: Normalize giving honorariums to organizers when you ask them to appear or speak somewhere. 9/10 times the rank and file…

2022-06-20 21:24:26 i mean we've seen what a sadistic shitheel he is on a regular basis to random people. i hadn't given much serious thought to what he does to his kids, and now i've got chills thinking about what a transphobic multi-billionaire bully of a father would do to his kids

2022-06-20 21:21:06 i'm assuming she told him at some point a while back, which puts all of his posts about trans identity in front of that backdrop, which somehow makes him an even bigger scumbag than before, which i thought was impossible.i hope she's gonna be okay https://t.co/uD8GLmLLlo

2022-06-20 21:06:32 RT @its_a_me_lucy: @_alialkhatib I'm kinda tired of hearing the risk of sentient AI, if this stuff is happening right now and disproportion…

2022-06-20 21:06:09 "edges of their seats" fuck

2022-06-20 21:05:49 all the people short on rent by 18 cents this month must be on the edge of their seats right now https://t.co/4PnswAn3Rp

2022-06-20 20:53:39 when i say that the field of AI/ML research is tiresome because it doesn't mature and learn despite the repeated efforts of countless people to teach and explain this stuff in clearer and clearer terms...https://t.co/ccXZMe78NO https://t.co/7zZ1sBQKwC https://t.co/v0lkm02dpa

2022-06-20 20:45:02 you can only laugh or scream and your throat will get scratchy if you scream

2022-06-20 20:44:24 lol??? https://t.co/RvaQ96gO8K

2022-06-20 03:53:35 RT @ubiquity75: Somebody’s having fun in Mid-city! #dead https://t.co/2B7Epq6JLb

2022-06-19 04:42:42 i think i'm going to call it a day now https://t.co/NUqerRM2n8

2022-06-19 04:15:12 jesus https://t.co/JOjZv4uro6

2022-06-18 16:11:43 everything about this thread is breathtakingly deranged

2022-06-18 10:51:49 "o...okay. so is my ergonomic keyboard not approved anymore?"

2022-06-18 10:50:44 just imagining waiting to get reimbursed for some work expense and getting this email lol https://t.co/mL11diElLg

2022-06-17 19:35:56 starting NOW might still be able to RSVP and join! https://t.co/QhlSmmF57V

2022-06-17 19:22:43 this is happening in about 10 minutes! https://t.co/QhlSmmF57V

2022-06-17 17:09:57 is like paying for disneyland passes and writing an ethnography of anaheim? https://t.co/3HeKkMIap1

2022-06-17 17:08:02 a lot to go over here. one main thought: amazon will probably join uber &

2022-06-17 14:41:15 RT @bethmsemel: happening today!

2022-06-17 05:46:25 @ubiquity75 i just-

2022-06-17 01:03:19 RT @FTC: FTC report warns about using #ArtificialIntelligence to combat online problems. Agency concerned with #AI harms such as inaccuracy…

2022-06-17 00:58:19 RT @timnitGebru: Thinking about @ruchowdh @KLdivergence @ubiquity75 and the META team that Rumann built at Twitter. People do not understan…

2022-06-17 00:51:27 @FotisZapantis i signed up for twitter in march 2008, so ... maybe february 2008?

2022-06-17 00:48:35 i just can't tell what's supposed to be satire in academic twitter anymore

2022-06-16 21:42:55 RT @zarawesome: *clutching a 90s desktop tower to my chest, hiding behind an office partition as gunfire rings out* it's okay, ELIZA. we're…

2022-06-16 21:34:00 lol i'd bet anything he's been thinking about this https://t.co/AyOhUXZXgu https://t.co/6ptGcobIFO

2022-06-16 20:35:14 i can't tell you how many times i wanted to highlight something cleanly and it just came out like i was fry from futurama at 999 cups of coffee. i'm bad at drawing smooth lines https://t.co/KW4z7x6UZH

2022-06-16 20:33:39 idk who told me this, but if you're marking up a screenshot in ios and you're bad at drawing shapes or straight lines for whatever reason, you can just kinda approximate it, keep your finger on the screen, and after a second or two it'll clean up the shape or straighten the line https://t.co/jGSZPYJ4WT

2022-06-16 20:18:29 whenever i see this i think about the work that probably went into these things. time spent on photoshop, corresponding with a manufacturer, reviewing proofs, discussing pricing...i mean it's not innovative to point to hannah arendt's work but the banality of evil is terrifying

2022-06-16 20:13:30 incredible. challenge coins to celebrate this shit right down to embossed images of their violence https://t.co/IjsXoykFkl

2022-06-16 19:32:03 not "positivist"? https://t.co/ijzLN8xSWl

2022-06-16 19:29:51 24 hours and 1 minute i was too hasty i'm sorry

2022-06-16 19:29:26 This is tomorrow! As in "24 hours from now!!!"RSVP below! See you there!!! https://t.co/QhlSmmF57V

2022-06-16 19:04:51 jk here's the final version no more revisions https://t.co/ZeMMXHQZTy

2022-06-16 19:01:13 actually wait fixed my tweet https://t.co/cA1JGre5EY

2022-06-16 18:59:38 might be worth thinking about unionizing if you're watching your new boss chastise everyone on your team about not working on "things that matter" one minute and then rambling about aliens the next

2022-06-16 18:53:00 @margaretomara @ubiquity75 low key seriously wonder if he could tell you what that was if you put your hand over the text on the cover of the magazine

2022-06-16 18:50:28 oh my god dude watch out! https://t.co/StxQAoQxNa https://t.co/KnJcXR5QtM

2022-06-16 18:40:25 @ubiquity75 didn't he talk about aliens? maybe he has an in with area 51

2022-06-16 18:36:10 RT @shattybuns_mk2: i am the captain now https://t.co/zjPu9CKkJ4

2022-06-16 17:17:25 he's doing more to make me wonder if the sun is going to explode anytime soon than any other human being alive today

2022-06-16 17:15:56 every time a conversation with elon musk gets documented, i find myself asking if this is real life or if this is hell and i got hit by a bus or a meteor or something ~6 years ago, so in a way he's advancing this inquiry into the nature of reality or whatever dumb shit, right?

2022-06-16 17:11:54 @MikeIsaac he's still going on about this????

2022-06-16 17:10:31 sorry what https://t.co/iObYdLgpPi

2022-06-16 16:43:42 hey siri, what was the population of the british empire at its population peak? https://t.co/GPzroCatTk

2022-06-15 19:31:52 RT @BostonReview: A new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term worker…

2022-06-15 19:30:33 @polotek it's always white guys on here who cannot handle the idea that they're being asked to remove themselves from a conversation. like it's one thing to read about this shit academically but another to watch it

2022-06-15 06:36:25 @LibyaLiberty "how they mated remains a mystery to researchers"

2022-06-15 00:25:53 if you're tired of me tweeting about pharmacy shit imagine how i feel about being at the pharmacy for shit

2022-06-15 00:25:00 every time i go to the pharmacy and i see we can't even have a policy of people HERE, IF NOWHERE ELSE, wearing masks, i feel like we're gonna be in a state of crisis for the rest of all our lives

2022-06-15 00:16:24 @drmistercody @pixelatedboat i just can't get over how perfectly this matches up against walter isaacson's masturbatory hagiography https://t.co/qUgZoPg0wR

2022-06-14 21:47:44 dude can barely "task"his bit is that he's the guy from reddit who looks at something someone showed him and immediately imprints on it like a baby bird who got pushed down some stairs - oh wait

2022-06-14 21:46:04 lol https://t.co/0YVmS1QH9r https://t.co/sLXorXyXhb

2022-06-14 19:40:13 i just think it's really funny that these people think they're serious people! that's all :)

2022-06-14 19:39:07 people spent a significant amount of time this past weekend trying to convince us that google inadvertently made a sentient AI. https://t.co/82I67k9hXj

2022-06-14 19:35:38 @DogWisdomPoker don't forget the indulgence of eating toast with some stuff on it

2022-06-14 19:32:07 RT @davidthewid: Planning to co-lead a Critical AI studies reading group, for people inside and outside of the academy/CS/AI/CMU. Interes…

2022-06-14 18:43:05 i promise it'll be easier to change height restrictions than to fight physics

2022-06-14 18:42:21 the suggestion to build housing way, WAY under the water table instead of changing building height restrictions shouldn't have the effect on me that it does, but it kinda made me feel like YIMBY discourse on here is largely driven by people with no clue what they're talking about

2022-06-14 17:33:39 i swear to god this is going to be my joker origin story

2022-06-14 17:31:47 yesterday i picked up a 90-day supply of this medicine that i usually get a 30-day supply for and i think my copay was the same and i'm pretty sure i've been paying 3x in copays for like no goddamn reason?????

2022-06-14 17:13:39 RT @JoshuaPotash: Tomorrow LA is set to criminalize bike storage in public spaces, effectively making it illegal for the homeless to have a…

2022-06-14 16:39:42 there are lots of good people in the world trying to do better than they were the day before, and we don't have to be centering the most odious whiny shits just because they post more or whatever.

2022-06-14 16:38:05 just thinking about how @lizzo responded compassionately, earnestly, &

2022-06-14 16:28:14 just kidding. the host would've had video of everything happening.... but not for security purposes

2022-06-14 16:26:31 if they had loaded up at an airbnb the host would've just given them a bad review for not doing their assigned chores https://t.co/QP86ln3auC

2022-06-14 03:45:40 RT @JoLuehmann: You either make privileged people uncomfortable, or marginalized people unsafe.You can’t have the comfort of the privileg…

2022-06-14 03:00:18 RT @LilNasX: nah @youtube say the whole thing https://t.co/AF0ldRjLkM

2022-06-14 01:56:51 @Rochelle can we have anything anymore? :(

2022-06-14 01:30:31 RT @sassycrass: We should talk more here, I think, of how dangerous it is to be a woman/girl out in the world, and not be completely alert…

2022-06-13 21:07:03 constructed doesn't mean "doesn't exist". this would be pretty intuitive to someone who had actually ever built something in his life but alas

2022-06-13 20:41:16 i'm super excited for this talk (on Friday at 12:30 pacific time *ahem* RSVP )also, if you're looking for something to chew on this week in advance of the talk, i strongly recommend this paper by Sachin et al. presented at CHI just earlier this year: https://t.co/2NgnNQt9zH https://t.co/JRsQM5rdB4

2022-06-13 20:18:59 but this is somehow so much more absurd, and so much more malevolent

2022-06-13 20:18:58 i was prepared to make a dark joke about how the officials would reluctantly reveal an internal policy of designating anyone fired upon to not be a journalist effective immediately before the bullet kills them, like a tesla "autopilot disengaged immediately before impact" thing

2022-06-13 20:16:07 >

2022-06-13 19:49:04 lots of people are forced into shitty situations because they will get evicted if they don't make a choice between a shitty option and a horrible option but come on AGHHHGJFKG

2022-06-13 19:48:19 like sir you are a podcaster you can do your job from a hermetically sealed hotel room why are you fucking with other people's lives like this??

2022-06-13 19:46:36 1st w/cohost 1: "ive had covid for about a week and i'm still testing + but there's no law that says that i can't travel &

2022-06-13 19:42:49 AHHHHH am i gonna have to unsubscribe from all of this guy's podcasts???

2022-06-13 18:54:05 finally https://t.co/F02pZzcBJd

2022-06-13 15:13:30 gonna rewatch Her sometime this week... just to be prepared for things...

2022-06-13 14:22:14 @emilymbender i wish i had generalized my bingo page from back in 2020 might be able to spin it off if you want a page to randomize the squares and don't mind hosting with attribution lol https://t.co/q2TbpuFleA

2022-06-13 14:17:34 @Tom_Nicholas i had no idea the moon wanted to get promoted or whatever i hope it achieves all its goals

2022-06-13 04:13:36 RT @emilymbender: For those playing along at home, here's a "AI is sentient!" argument bingo card. https://t.co/C4GeB2iMiy

2022-06-13 00:27:24 @emilymbender i mean i love this idea especially. i feel like i have a cursory knowledge of a lot of incidents but nowhere near the depth or breadth enough to be the primary source of things.i'll think about if/how i can throw some stuff together... might follow up soon lol https://t.co/KewNUjUUBe

2022-06-13 00:23:23 you ever witness the real-time beginning of a resource that you're going to reference a ton in presentations someday? https://t.co/7dz1rKhiBI

2022-06-12 15:44:46 the AI is called capitalism and it is both incredibly shitty &

2022-06-12 15:42:39 can anyone convince me that an AI has NOT been designed to exhaust critical AI researchers until we can't be bothered to comment on discourse that rehashes talking points about a chatbot from the 60s, and that every few years it puts cogs in motion to publish a story to test us?

2022-06-11 03:36:43 this dog swears he has never felt less safe in this city https://t.co/9Doks75oBi

2022-06-11 03:33:38 RT @BenjySarlin: Have we had the great Remote Work Catfishing story yet, is there like a 12 year old who made middle management at a Fortun…

2022-06-10 21:06:21 !!! Upcoming talk!Next week (June 17) @SachinPendse will join us in a joint Masters in Data Science/Center for Applied Data Ethics speaker series event!His talk, "From Treatment to Healing", is open to the public!If you can join us, please RSVP here! https://t.co/O283qInC1g

2022-06-10 10:04:56 this is more than a little chilling. the email is particularly unsettling... https://t.co/BjM32BregA

2022-06-10 03:19:13 @rinewithoutacat lol at least some people have shame

2022-06-10 03:17:33 @zeyneparsel these people will later say they had no idea about all the bad shit that was happening because nobody trusted them with this info and not a single one of them will pause to reflect on what a monumental indictment of them as journalists and as people that is

2022-06-10 03:14:38 sometimes when someone tells you about something that happened to them they're not asking if it happened to you too because they KNOW IT DIDNT and they're hoping you'll give a shit about what happened to them, but the fact that you're saying this shit kinda says everything so idk

2022-06-10 03:10:47 i swear to god if i ever miss the point as bad as these people do please take me offline. https://t.co/aAdiE6MewP

2022-06-10 03:07:08 jk i'm excited about DIS this year

2022-06-10 03:04:46 >

2022-06-09 20:29:42 costs less to change core values than to turn down military contracts https://t.co/8fOakRQSTv

2022-06-09 20:24:31 @hdibner right? like imagine updating your linkedin after getting hired???

2022-06-09 20:20:35 >

2022-06-09 20:15:44 >

2022-06-09 20:14:34 if you had a dystopian sci-fi novel in the works and you named the megacorporation that's doing all the bad surveillance shit "misapplied sciences" you're gonna need to go back to brainstorming names i'm not kidding this is the actual name of this companyhttps://t.co/QPInLTntuI

2022-06-09 19:19:34 youtube content moderation hard at work lol https://t.co/eOO6AojgWw

2022-06-09 19:15:52 @ledell then again idk they did catch my attention and are immortalized in some DMs

2022-06-09 19:14:02 @ledell i would say ill-advisedly

2022-06-09 19:11:14 i think i'm either out of my depth at this point or riiiiiight at the limit so i'll stop, except to say again that this thread points out really sharp insights

2022-06-09 19:09:50 but like if you start from the logic of what trans &

2022-06-09 19:05:55 i mean maybe why i'm struggling here is because i'm talking about etic vs emic descriptions and part of my brain resists the prospect of teaching intro to anthro to HCI researchers as if it were some big insight, because if nothing else that seems patronizing as fuck

2022-06-09 19:05:54 this (short) thread really aptly illustrates this thing i've been trying to put into words

2022-06-09 18:57:59 RT @ButNotTheCity: It also holds promises of eugenics and hi-tech conversion practice, where conservatives will start trying to prevent tra…

2022-06-09 17:22:02 got someone's announcement of an NLP paper placed in my timeline as a promoted tweet... so that's the advertising targeting audience i'm part of, i guess

2022-06-09 17:18:56 RT @samfbiddle: NEW: Documents show ICE searched giant database of personal information provided by LexisNexis over a million times in just…

2022-06-09 14:21:41 very very very very very glad i misread the first scene

2022-06-09 14:20:50 also i didn't wanna say this where he might see it in notifications (lol as if he would see it, but still), but i had a moment realizing how historically fucked up hollywood casting is that my reaction to the first scene was "wow so john is an abusive older boyfriend in this?"

2022-06-09 14:15:56 *pencils in "bawl my fucking eyes out" about a month or so from now on my calendar* https://t.co/Ivla8STsBq

2022-06-09 06:27:32 mmk been a long day but a productive day gnight

2022-06-09 06:26:14 i think there's the immediate "woah that's incredible" feeling but i'm not quite ready to deal with the feeling of like... not being alone finally. or processing that i'm not crazy, that someone else gets this thing that i've been wandering around through

2022-06-09 06:24:13 apropos of https://t.co/bMSXemnRiO

2022-06-09 06:23:36 something scary in the stuff i read is when a passage reaches out from 5 or 10 or 20 years ago &

2022-06-09 06:12:50 many papers could be written about this dynamic in HCI and, frankly, in the research nominally trying to advance fairness, accountability, and transparency in AI. fuck, many papers are microcosmic of this

2022-06-09 06:10:49 you ever read something that you know wasn't a comment about the field in which you work but nevertheless made you scream aaaaaahhhhhh https://t.co/VrFj33eval

2022-06-09 06:09:41 RT @SaraNAhmed: So much power &

2022-06-08 04:37:13 RT @hakeemjefferson: San Francisco an amazingly liberal city, unless you account for residents’ preferred treatment of the unhoused, the me…

2022-06-08 04:24:23 gotta get out ahead of matty's fucking takes oh my god oh my GOD https://t.co/CX3bXTSkCP

2022-06-08 04:22:10 i don't know why he sleeps like this, but this is how he spends 80% of his day. not a single one of those infographics about how dogs sleep and what that body language means seems to describe this https://t.co/yDTYkzDxBg

2022-06-08 04:19:41 https://t.co/EonQyPiT0r

2022-06-08 04:18:57 https://t.co/0u7NuvAG5M

2022-06-08 04:17:25 the wave has already crashed over me so i'm just gonna fight back with dog photos https://t.co/6T7sTzt0hh https://t.co/XWIFdT42bE

2022-06-08 04:04:33 the thing i can't get over is how much it looks like cheap warped stainless steel cookware https://t.co/vR8VuP2klq https://t.co/CIB64arKtG

2022-06-08 03:32:59 lol i don't get it why would you even start shit if- whatever https://t.co/pAfmYkrnZ6

2022-06-08 03:07:09 "this bad shit is going to happen""no it isn't. i've been white my whole life and it's never happened to me :)"

2022-06-08 03:05:59 idk how it happened but this thread became microcosmic of the point in the beginning of the conversation. truly magical https://t.co/VBfWDDAkU5

2022-06-08 02:56:04 @CoyoteDen @atomicthumbs lmao yes we're talking about the podcast that we were talking about.

2022-06-08 02:52:10 @CoyoteDen @atomicthumbs i mean setting aside TSA lolif that's the argument then we would be talking about digital IDs not being valid forms of identification for cops

2022-06-08 02:22:20 @swodinsky you called it for *literally* the conflation they made https://t.co/isKK7piKW1

2022-06-08 02:17:36 @swodinsky lol https://t.co/98XkwB3fwi

2022-06-08 01:22:43 RT @swodinsky: @hipsterelectron @_alialkhatib privacy != security and I’m tired of ppl pretending it does!

2022-06-08 01:05:35 @swodinsky sorry i just spent an hour talking and thinking about police conversations lol

2022-06-08 01:04:30 @swodinsky i don't wanna have to find the relevant xkcd comic to convince apple engineers that my needs are real

2022-06-08 01:03:16 @swodinsky people insisting that the threat with digital IDs is someone skimming the data so you have cryptographically secure blah blah blah like ok thanks i'm sure that's not USELESS, but "guy with a gun shouting at me to hand over my phone" is also a threat to me and please believe me!

2022-06-08 01:01:43 @swodinsky i think in some annoyingly theoretical way "the mechanism" might be that when a random person says dumb shit we can largely ignore them

2022-06-08 00:56:43 @swodinsky no

2022-06-07 05:32:41 @mcwm lol they shipped this as a featurehttps://t.co/9327KApkZB

2022-06-07 02:41:28 RT @hypervisible: “If the AI Ethics Board says this technology is problematic and the company should not develop products, then they should…

2022-06-07 01:39:12 cooooool https://t.co/hHsp0n4wNX

2022-06-07 01:19:45 @TaylorLorenz (i'm planning a pretty major move later this year and at this point honestly contemplating renting a big moving truck and traveling 3/4 across the country because air travel and surrounding complications seem absolutely fucked )

2022-06-07 01:17:54 @TaylorLorenz @mattbc sorry to tag you but you always seem knowledgeable about how to deal with.... let's say "not ideal" situations- any suggestions?

2022-06-07 01:03:18 RT @elsanfranciscan: @_alialkhatib Same here. Rampant political naïveté assigns the "left/progressive" label to anyone that isn't a registe…

2022-06-07 00:42:22 @KLdivergence i really like githubpages ->

2022-06-07 00:37:00 after years of arguing with people that tech companies aren't champions of progressive causes, let alone bastions for liberal democracy, i think i'm pretty much tapped out of patience for so many people who style themselves as progressive or left or whatever

2022-06-07 00:34:14 white bay area politics in a nutshell https://t.co/hNNbhPWG9C https://t.co/PnvAYwETaS

2022-06-06 21:32:26 i don't think people appreciated that i composited him into the background so that he's standing behind the dock (i figured his hand reaching in front of the dock made sense though) https://t.co/UXina30CDq

2022-06-06 21:20:04 in 1985, Rock Hudson begged Nancy Reagan for help getting admitted to a military hospital where a doctor who'd successfully treated him in the past was working. Hudson had AIDS.she refused.he died a few months later.these days she says she doesn't recall the incident at all. https://t.co/IOtrGQgqMW

2022-06-06 20:05:10 RT @heatherkelly: Getting into buy now, pay later is certainly a choice. Do you want your shiny pro-privacy brand to be associated with peo…

2022-06-06 20:03:56 RT @Blackamazon: Again more reporting where racists reporting on racists Need leaks to confirm things people have told them for years

2022-06-06 18:48:03 @aprilaser @niloufar_s @tressiemcphd oh, "reMarkable" (or reMarkable 2?)

2022-06-06 18:47:35 @aprilaser i think i've seen @niloufar_s and @tressiemcphd and a number of other people swear by some physical device... lemme see if i can find it but if they happen to be faster then even better

2022-06-06 18:44:29 ok sorry this is the last one for today https://t.co/Elm0vdvHoX

2022-06-06 18:40:18 RT @ContraPoints: It’s not hyperbolic to say trans eradication is the goal. Trans healthcare for under-19s is already criminalized in sever…

2022-06-06 18:35:15 ok i've gotten over it because you can get your own phone stand.here's my pitch:a laptop without a garbagey camera at all. none whatsoever.call it a move against surveillance tech in education or something https://t.co/5F5jxyShsf

2022-06-06 18:33:39 @mcwm like strictly speaking, you shouldn't take ephedrine + caffeine together because people have had heart attacks &

2022-06-06 18:30:22 @mcwm i'd be really really really curious what it'll do (if it'll do anything?) if you log stuff in unsafe doses. or if you log things that are indicated not to take together

2022-06-06 18:14:48 https://t.co/rGVCq9IPJD

2022-06-06 18:12:10 RT @tomwarren: macOS Ventura is here, baby https://t.co/ov41uBUJrG https://t.co/xzs6jooQIZ

2022-06-06 18:04:28 RT @MikeIsaac: unfortunately i must buy the goth macbook air

2022-06-06 18:02:10 i feel bad for whoever got tasked to make these charts. i wonder if the job description specifically asked for applicants to be comfortable producing bad data viz

2022-06-06 18:00:17 oh lol, the first mac to get an m2 at #wwdc22 is a macbook air. so the MBA has been updated twice with apple silicon while the mac pro has had 0 apple silicon updates. i'm sure that's gonna change by the end of the day, but still funny for now

2022-06-06 17:40:44 maybe that premise is worth reflecting on!! is all... i'm... saying.

2022-06-06 17:40:18 like i don't know that there's a great solution to this problem if you accept as a premise that there should be a technology that shares your location with someone for an indefinite period of time because now withdrawing that permission becomes a sleight to the abuser, but-

2022-06-06 17:39:10 i'd love to hear from researchers of IPV or for that matter from survivors who feel comfortable talking about it, but doesn't revoking permission kinda... precipitate a much more dangerous problem later? https://t.co/6UNYVVYu2G

2022-06-06 17:34:41 RT @hondanhon: DOJ and EU: Hey, don’t integrate a browser into your OSApple: What about consumer credit financing?

2022-06-06 15:31:44 @kiraIeigh i tweeted once and got blocked. thus ends the conversation i suppose

2022-06-06 15:27:58 >

2022-06-06 15:20:15 @blablafishcakes @kiraIeigh @theoranggorilla @BookBird71 @samuel_mcqueen at this point it seems like the distinction between a "blocklist" and a "blacklist" has been explained a few times, but you're continuing to use "blacklist". is that intentional or by accident?

2022-06-06 15:08:42 RT @_alialkhatib: @rinewithoutacat one of the terms should've been that if he backs out he forfeits his twitter account

2022-06-06 15:03:44 matt yglesias housing plan https://t.co/qIzxSBMkke

2022-06-06 15:02:20 neither the old boss nor the new boss seems fit to run things and it's causing a lot of pain for everyone. i've said it before and i'll say it again:i would trust LeVar Burton. IF he wanted it, of course https://t.co/n6KOevMTeS

2022-06-06 14:52:41 STOP POSTING YOUR COPSHIT DOORBELL VIDEOS OF COMPLETE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES https://t.co/LLBDNlBB6L

2022-06-06 14:49:50 RT @SamSaysFashion: @moneyymaya @FUCCl Stop posting ppl w/o their permission. A person appearing on your Ring is not permission to post pic…

2022-06-06 14:49:32 RT @moneyymaya: She lost her job over this and it was her only source of income. She has 5 kids. Here’s her gfm help her out https://t.c…

2022-06-06 05:20:30 @alexhanna i think there's a 50/50 chance i would leave crying if i went to my friends place and saw they lived like this

2022-06-06 05:18:51 @alexhanna oh my god i didn't even notice

2022-06-06 04:25:25 if you're not up for that then the 8-hour video about star wars KotoR II was what sent me down this rabbit hole https://t.co/nlgzO0oU8T

2022-06-06 04:17:37 oh sorry this is a review of the remake my bad

2022-06-06 04:16:53 and then (a day later??) SulMatul published a video lauding this game ~14 years after it came out, also a good video worth a watch https://t.co/Uhfn97iLFK

2022-06-06 04:16:52 i've been watching a series of videos where this youtuber plays a game that is widely described by its fans as "not fun, but does a game have to be fun??", and i'm at a loss for why it's so compelling but it is

2022-06-06 03:55:50 @RMac18 big if true

2022-06-06 03:48:51 please don't spend all summer calculating the optimal time to do something that would transform the lives of millions of people. please don't give republicans even more reason to call this a pandering stunt. just do it and then do the next thing, like this is all in a day's work.

2022-06-06 03:43:33 RT @EmmaKinema: Cuba's new Family Code: "Different family structures... are created among relatives, whatever the nature of the relationshi…

2022-06-06 03:42:12 part 2 https://t.co/gx1ygn3wwi

2022-06-06 03:03:40 not a professor (lol) butdropped out of high school (i'm gonna be honest i'm not sure if i ever made up the credits)like... 5 years(?) floating around in community college before i had any clue what i wanted"on leave" (lol) from phd program https://t.co/ywo9niDp2Z

2022-06-06 02:13:45 wow it's crazy what the president can do purely with executive authority anyway like i was saying #CancelStudentDebt https://t.co/zRdmdXAYSN

2022-06-05 23:51:19 is it supposed to resemble an insight? what's the insight? conflicts are bad?

2022-06-05 23:49:51 i generally find matt's whole brand baffling, but on an individual post level i got who he was appealing to. that sense has been slipping away from me lately. idk why. but i spent like a minute wondering who he was trying to appeal to with thing about being better off not at war.

2022-06-05 23:35:03 RT @polotek: This is going down at the Washington Post right now. I don't know a lot about it, but it feels familiar. There is a certain ki…

2022-06-05 23:24:34 or literally anything else really

2022-06-05 23:24:04 don't care how much free weights should cost on craigslist according to someone on reddit posting about it in 2018.

2022-06-05 23:22:47 i don't need a "past year" or "past month" time filter in search engines

2022-06-05 17:35:51 the cops better wear WWJD bracelets if they believe their own story because they've got someone very special in their jail

2022-06-05 02:03:24 @beccalew please don't joke about him being only "mid"-life

2022-06-05 01:54:17 @beccalew not sure if you're talking about EM or JD or someone else, which... i guess proves the point

2022-06-05 01:37:19 did you say the line in your head when you saw this gif y/n? https://t.co/hFxURgHIYj https://t.co/AIrehbAWtM

2022-06-05 01:34:12 RT @zachheltzel: Renters and hourly workers are experiencing an entirely different economy than everyone else right now.We are diving hea…

2022-06-05 01:29:59 morbius. i think it'll just get funnier every time they try https://t.co/N0lP7zgc0D

2022-06-04 23:16:05 RT @seoyoung_chu: @adamdavidson @alexanderchee Thank you for this thread. To this day I am haunted by the fact that so many powerful peop…

2022-06-04 22:49:35 survey design https://t.co/Ld9hubvfCC https://t.co/ol4UaXo10m

2022-06-04 22:44:46 so much of journalists' energy during the last admin had to go to basic fact-checking about simple info about what the president was even doing. and often it was either lies or really creative accounting of time. just a monumental drain on attention. and it was every damn day.

2022-06-04 22:35:50 lol trump called every golf day a "work meeting" and the press only even knew about a bunch of them because pro golfers and random celebrities would mention the recreational games trump would invite them to play with him https://t.co/6A4tjIzmkg

2022-06-04 16:44:14 RT @carolecadwalla: You have not been sued for libel. I have. There are many things I have wanted to say in the last 6 weeks of #DeppvH…

2022-06-04 16:38:37 RT @UnionElections: Starbucks is illegally retaliating against unionized partners in Ithaca. They're a with clear anti-union animus and mus…

2022-06-04 15:55:45 thought about this for a while until i realized the issue these people have with university is that writing term papers arguing their points is too hard

2022-06-04 08:05:19 i tapped out and then back in on this tweet like 5 times thinking it must be fake but this is totally real. unbelievable https://t.co/UkVTDVbxKs

2022-06-04 01:54:53 i was going to teach about data bias but you see talking about it was making people find unaccounted-for biases in their datasets and they weren't having that problem before so-aaaaaAahhh https://t.co/ptX6TL4rKt

2022-06-04 01:52:30 >

2022-06-04 01:46:27 i read that cops in the US are worried that in future shooter crises, people will just show up armed, unwilling to follow instructionsmade me think about decades of police abuse/harassment of BIPOC people &

2022-06-04 01:46:26 this woman got arrested, uncuffed, climbed a goddamn fence, demanded a vest, and - denied a damn vest!!! - navigated a school campus with an active shooter to save her kids. fucking incredible. https://t.co/ayAxp9XOW3

2022-06-04 01:05:43 after looking through the text really superficially, i think one of my major questions is now about the nature of "employee" for the purposes of this law. it sounds... EXTREMELY broad. broad to the point of maybe making this largely meaningless https://t.co/ql0OjUJupK

2022-06-04 00:51:41 @swodinsky oops, disconnected the thread https://t.co/iKBFCgzfjo

2022-06-04 00:13:46 @sgbuggs lmao no idea what they're thinking then

2022-06-03 23:40:49 @sgbuggs there are people who don't use twitter discursively. they probably think it's like 30k new job announcements per year or something

2022-06-03 23:08:01 @DocDre it's maddening that twitter app and a few other apps don't let me get text right from the image. i always have to save it so now i have that taser drone company's apology in my camera roll lol

2022-06-03 23:07:16 @swodinsky are wikipedia editors employees according to this definition?

2022-06-03 23:05:11 RT @_alialkhatib: @swodinsky okay taking from the screenshot:>

2022-06-03 23:04:43 @swodinsky okay taking from the screenshot:>

2022-06-03 23:00:16 @swodinsky k took longer than intended but...i should really do stemming so "reasonable" (31) and "reasonably" (28) show up together. but even with basically no cleaning i'm gathering a few things i want to read into...- "employee" sure comes up a lot... https://t.co/G0I0iIEufM

2022-06-03 22:23:33 @swodinsky i can't find anything that seems to allude to a definition. but god damn now i want to run something real quick... https://t.co/Hn6RSQIa3B

2022-06-03 22:09:24 @swodinsky i tweeted it and i don't feel like i understand it any better lol

2022-06-03 22:07:08 so if facebook has cambridge analytica sign an EULA or whatever saying they pinky promise that they won't find ways to identify people... who's enforcing that agreement? is this an obvious question? i'm not savvy about law stuff

2022-06-03 22:05:58 (C) contractually obligates any person or entity that receives the information from the covered entity to comply with all of the provisions of this paragraph.---okay. i'm still processing this, but... yeah, what you said. also a bit confused about this contractual obligation https://t.co/yYLvxbymDA

2022-06-03 22:01:36 @swodinsky (i) to process and transfer the information solely in a de-identified form without any reasonable means for re-identification

2022-06-03 04:12:23 RT @polotek: Crypto people with laser eyes in their avatar and a thousand hashtags in their bio really be like “no I’m a normal person. You…

2022-06-03 03:50:03 RT @dangoodin001: No exaggeration and no fooling. If your organization is among the 100,000 using @OwlLabs @meetingowl videoconference devi…

2022-06-02 20:07:21 @alexhanna i keep saying tech researchers cracking up about the tech and future depicted in star trek episodes would be funny to a very narrow but very dedicated audience

2022-06-02 19:45:11 >

2022-06-02 19:22:11 @boztank @ArlanWasHere @Backstage_Cap @sama @satyanadella lol wtf

2022-06-02 00:40:49 RT @VICENews: BREAKING: After a jury heard a string of texts from Johnny Depp saying he wanted to “burn” Amber Heard and that he would “fuc…

2022-06-01 17:48:44 this isn't a subtle dig at JR it's literally about white noise https://t.co/N29b94Rg9S

2022-06-01 17:45:04 i don't have what it takes to work at the gate counter for an airline. it's not even close. i just don't have it in me https://t.co/hEVAh6Knb1

2022-06-01 17:40:49 @sullydish @BGrueskin the core point of what lol the source you tweeted was made up bullshitthe core point of your limitlessly motivated reasoning? your gullibility?

2022-06-01 17:04:48 @mcwm @Twitter if we stay perfectly still they might not notice we're here... https://t.co/M1VaQ8FtlU

2022-06-01 16:24:59 @mcwm @Twitter wait sorry i misread. i didn't even realize you could access tweetdeck from anything other than https://t.co/H5ALdtlvt1 lolis the subdomain still going to be available?

2022-06-01 16:23:16 @mcwm @Twitter NONO NO NO

2022-05-31 22:52:03 weirdest thing i've seen today. almost like we're peering into the language of the algorithmic model - in the kind of way that you might learn the arcane names of forms you need to get what you need from a bureaucracy, we learn to say "vicootes" to get the AI to return vegetables https://t.co/XXwZgYjIuC

2022-05-31 22:43:04 my undergrad university has a "taco bell endowed professor of information and computer science" and i have been thinking about it on and off for the 8 years it's been since i graduated from there. https://t.co/NqtJGP8zIs

2022-05-31 22:33:02 ibuprofen doesn't need electricity. no power outage can stop it from helping me with my headache

2022-05-31 22:30:09 RT @joeyfox85: Most buildings are old. The ventilation systems aren't "okay", they're awful.Facility operators know little about ventilat…

2022-05-31 22:08:12 biggest brain thing you can do to save power is turn everything off immediately for an indeterminate amount of time

2022-05-31 22:05:46 my power went out approximately exactly 15 minutes after this tweet was posted... give or take some time coincidence? you decide. https://t.co/izoNOVgNkR

2022-05-31 20:40:37 i feel like my window of feelings for installing a thermostat would span the range from "that was such a fucking pain in the ass" to "okay that went fine".do you have an edible before installing a home appliance? should i be doing that? is that the key?

2022-05-31 20:35:35 he talks about why this company included a screwdriver and he seems to think that people would see the screwdriver in their drawer and remember that they "had a great time" installing a thermostat..?i know i deal w/depression but what the fuck kind of cartoon planet are you on?

2022-05-31 20:35:34 i'm listening to this podcast with a marketing guy and every other minute i'm doing a double take because what he said is just breathtaking

2022-05-31 18:32:18 @ranjodhd life pro tip: if you can somehow defer existing for a year or two, the market will really reward you

2022-05-31 18:31:22 @ranjodhd it's almost "bad time to be alive"

2022-05-31 18:30:49 @ranjodhd looking at rental rates for the last few weeks sometimes wonder if it's less "this is a bad time to buy a house" and more "this is a bad time to not already own a house"

2022-05-31 15:37:09 i went down a rabbit hole googling knife collection photos because i thought maybe people just generally present their weapons in such a way that it would kill them if they tripped and fell, but no, as far as i can tell knife collectors like the pointy ends facing away from them. https://t.co/Ji94eSgYVe

2022-05-31 15:31:13 *cut to an external shot. a hundred million cubic tons of CO2 trails behind the enterprise*

2022-05-31 15:18:30 "computer, right click Earl Grey, copy, paste. Earl Grey (1), hot." https://t.co/Wdnc1C1JI9

2022-05-31 15:08:56 RT @davidthewid: Ever had ethical concerns about software you were asked to work on?We're studying what makes it easier or harder for sof…

2022-05-31 15:07:01 will i stop at 4? hopefullyi don't begrudge or w/e for collaborating with these kinds of groups

2022-05-31 03:52:08 @crystaljjlee @ranjodhd for some reason i expected twitter to truncate it, i'm so sorry everybody

2022-05-31 03:51:42 @crystaljjlee @ranjodhd "no" at hyperspeed"no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no""no"

2022-05-31 03:44:49 i had like 3 days of korean fried chicken and thought i wouldn't want fried chicken for like a week and i finished the last of it this morning and tbh i wouldn't turn down popeye's...

2022-05-31 03:42:53 i don't need this temptation in my life right now

2022-05-31 03:42:32 i'm making dinner don't make popeye's trending ffs

2022-05-31 03:28:54 RT @TaylorLorenz: This is what dangerous health writing looks like. This study was widely criticized/discredited, it didn’t test for ANY ma…

2022-05-30 21:23:05 @maria_antoniak "and my axe" must come up a lot

2022-05-30 18:35:51 RT @shannonmattern: “Unlike its domestic cousin cling film (“Saran Wrap”), which serves to seal in moisture + keep out air, stretch wrap wa…

2022-05-30 16:22:29 it feels so much less toxic when everyone on twitter becomes an expert on the mona lisa instead of epidemiology or something

2022-05-30 16:19:03 @vinn_ayy "i think she smiled at me bro""no she didn't""nah dude she did i'm gonna go talk to her"

2022-05-30 00:04:03 https://t.co/rBwpCfv9pw https://t.co/op9mS5jgWP

2022-05-29 20:03:17 @ubiquity75 @shannonmattern twitter removed one of the URLs to make a preview card &

2022-05-29 19:25:05 @shoppingtheatre @JoelChan86 (nb for anyone reading - lecturer in the UK doesn't mean the same thing as in the US)

2022-05-29 19:24:10 @shoppingtheatre @JoelChan86 he fundamentally isn't treating other reviewers as peers

2022-05-29 19:22:10 @shoppingtheatre @JoelChan86 lol that's all fair but it's not what's funnymy understanding is "peer" means people who submit may be called upon to review. we could argue semantics but PR is essentially, eventually, reciprocal work, right?how is he different from asking freelance editors to work for free?

2022-05-29 15:21:41 @FractalEcho i ask as someone who lives a block away from a fire station ha ha ha ha ha ah

2022-05-29 15:20:08 @FractalEcho i totally appreciate that there's something special about watching the talk in realtime. is it AS SPECIAL if you're watching it at 2am and the speaker is apologizing for a fire truck passing by their apartment?

2022-05-29 15:18:53 @FractalEcho YES! i also think there's so much opportunity in letting people upload videos in their own time, edited so they feel comfortable with their presentation, letting people watch the video in advance, etc.synchronous sessions can focus on stuff that actually benefit from sync

2022-05-29 15:13:30 @FractalEcho conferences going to 8-hour daily sessions for a week make me feel like the conf is every new twitch streamer who wants to be hasan piker when they SHOULD take the advice every early streamer gets to try to do 2-5 hour streams more consistently rather than ridiculous marathons

2022-05-29 15:11:01 @FractalEcho also, many shorter sessions means you could shift that block around by an hour or two each day and eventually hit an optimal time for every timezone (you don't have to do this if you're worried it'll confuse people, but the point is you have more instruments to play with here)

2022-05-29 15:00:46 i know this might sound extreme and maybe what i'm about to suggest is, but just to illustrate @FractalEcho's point by drawing a sharp contrast:CHI is 4 days, ~8 hours of sessions/day, yeah?you could spread this out as much as over the span of a *month* with ~2-hour sessions>

2022-05-29 14:55:48 RT @FractalEcho: An accessible virtual conference would massively decrease the number of sessions per day while extending the number of days

2022-05-29 14:49:57 holy shit, within 5 minutes of this tweet there was a new post on patreon about the video being copyright claimed

2022-05-29 14:41:18 THE THREAT IS VIOLENT YOU CLOWN

2022-05-29 14:40:24 i know that my curse is such that i will say the bad thing and then the universe will manifest it, but i'm bracing myself for The Statistician to try to argue that men threatening women on the internet is actually very common/therefore not a reliable predictor of future violence https://t.co/qiBNG8PlH0

2022-05-29 14:24:58 i was watching this EIGHT-HOUR video in bits &

2022-05-29 05:32:25 anyway i'm gonna keep using my trusty "hunter2" password. it's served me on every website so far.

2022-05-29 05:30:28 like it's ok to admit the technical steps are confusing if you're still confident it'll work seamlessly in practice. but telling people they're stupid for not understanding an abstract description without concrete examples is weak ass shit

2022-05-29 05:29:07 also the comments that are like "i don't see what's so difficult to understand!" and then proceed to write a comment that's almost as long as the article, complete with glossary of technical terms that most people have never had experience with before

2022-05-29 05:26:31 idk why but i get strong "3D movies" energy from this article. like mmmm ok you say this is the next big thing. ok. we'll see. best of luck with that"

2022-05-29 05:08:36 the replies to this are great: https://t.co/KtKynQz2lU

2022-05-29 05:04:33 i think it's really funny that the article is like>

2022-05-29 05:01:58 >

2022-05-29 00:26:29 RT @NovelSci: 2/ https://t.co/L6exJh49Hk

2022-05-29 00:23:36 >

2022-05-29 00:20:30 statute mile is fucking wrecking my brain right now

2022-05-29 00:19:37 lmao welcome back to this bullshit https://t.co/0QEhHumC7X https://t.co/18xMn3piZo

2022-05-28 19:44:40 RT @ubiquity75: Hey, remember earlier this week when @elonmusk and @jack, a couple of regular online dudes who want more free speech online…

2022-05-28 19:29:02 RT @OhNoSheTwitnt: Girls reported the shooter’s death and rape threats prior to the massacre and nobody did anything about it, in case you…

2022-05-28 19:27:52 in some of the comments people are saying that *market forces* are supposedly keeping us safe by making more destructive devices too expensive, and uh1. jfc2. as illustrated, capitalism will always find a way https://t.co/9IxhvU0GHF

2022-05-28 17:04:36 when you intuitively know someone's advice is pointless, it's worth introspecting - why suggest it at all. why tell you that the only avenue of appropriate political activity is voting when they know what is common knowledge about voter suppression &

2022-05-28 16:56:00 "vote""just call the police""be patient""don't protest this way""your impoliteness is what made me not support your demands for basic human rights"

2022-05-28 16:55:59 voting laws that prevent people with any past conviction or any incongruous paperwork from voting, every day-to-day aspect of voting made as difficult as possible for POC, all to vote to elect representatives for districts carefully and explicitly designed to minimize your power, https://t.co/3p6je1s2Vl

2022-05-28 06:49:15 it's just "wheeewwww we beat the last benchmark! no idea how or what the implication is structuring data or scaffolding machine learning means in any deeply meaningful way - it's just scoring better, isn't that weird? anyway fuck off"

2022-05-27 07:09:18 @Grady_Booch "the politics of bitcoin: software as right wing extremism" by @dgolumbia is a really good read if you're looking for something on that topic

2022-05-27 06:01:40 @shoppingtheatre @JoelChan86 that thread is *rich*. i literally laughed out loud when i got to the part about continuing to submit to journals

2022-05-27 05:57:32 peer review is toxic, extractive, and probably not even effective. a LITTLE rich for a prof to come to this conclusion now that service work doesn't personally benefit, but sure ok happy to have you herebut continuing to burden the system to drive ECRs into a crisis is sadistic

2022-05-27 05:47:02 this thread is so wild i don't even - so you say that now that you've got a highly coveted professorship you feel this system is unfair, and you're not going to participate. except you are, because you're creating a burden for the people trying to keep the system functioning

2022-05-27 05:35:29 i saw a thread where this prof was like "hey! peer review is Bad! i'm not going to participate in it anymore because #principles :)" and then like 20 tweets into his thread he was like "btw i will be continuing to burden the system :) #principles" and i literally laughed out loud

2022-05-27 03:10:27 lmao zip2 https://t.co/8XDm0kGERP

2022-05-27 00:40:50 RT @karenkho: It is literally the job of journalists to figure out what actually happened, explain to the public why the details changed, w…

2022-05-27 00:37:35 airports, famously reasonable places to walk in and out of without being harassed relentlessly

2022-05-27 00:36:33 "/limited sites of access" is doing so much heavy lifting here it's going to need to see a chiropractor https://t.co/61mITK5ZLB

2022-05-27 00:30:55 fun fact

2022-05-27 00:10:53 i should say that elon musk probably isn't full of money.

2022-05-27 00:10:15 gosh, if you whacked him and money started pouring out in stacks of $100 bills at like 5 stacks per second, he'd be going for more than a month and a half

2022-05-26 23:52:10 he's right

2022-05-26 23:43:38 just... what the fucking fuck https://t.co/UH7sB7HocZ

2022-05-26 22:10:15 @miriamkp whenever i hear someone say that i'm tempted to make them walk me through the undergrad curriculum at their university to see where they expect their own undergrads to develop that skill

2022-05-26 21:37:57 RT @erinmdouglas23: Today in the Starbucks drive-thru in Uvalde, the barista asked if I was taking time to take care of myself. I told her…

2022-05-26 21:06:48 RT @LeslieMac: Again - the police will continue to change their story until they find the one white people will accept. Don't fall for it.…

2022-05-26 21:05:05 it's exhausting and demoralizing like we have to sit here and keep listening as these people workshop their excuses for why all these children are dead. that's literally what our life is now

2022-05-26 21:03:48 @onekade https://t.co/BCexjLjZ9w

2022-05-26 21:01:12 RT @edyong209: When I say long-haulers are *the* experts on long COVID, I don't just mean "cos they have it." I mean stuff like this. Of…

2022-05-26 20:55:41 the police are still figuring out their story. two days later, they're still working on an internally consistent lie. i almost wish they were faster at this so they could arrive at whatever bullshit narrative they want us to believe so they'll finally just stop talking.

2022-05-26 20:44:29 @ranjodhd "academic career advice" version please

2022-05-26 20:29:42 we just don't pay heroes to murder innocent people enough these days so the hero market is through the floor and that's making people not want to take up a career of heroically murdering women in their beds and crushing the windpipes of men on the street. https://t.co/L3B60hpO8s

2022-05-26 20:20:51 >

2022-05-26 20:19:55 hey AI researchers are you listening? https://t.co/EYahIcrl1v

2022-05-26 18:31:10 RT @WesleyLowery: i’m a broken record on this but: just because the police say something that does not mean that it is true

2022-05-26 16:23:33 @RcvGenderfucked maybe. i think functionally the conclusion is the same

2022-05-26 16:14:55 i'm just venting at this point so whatever i'll stop

2022-05-26 16:14:54 it feels like we could elect democrats to offices of increasingly proximal power and they'd always look back to us hoping for one last affirmation encouraging the thing we asked them to do ages ago. like they just want to make sure one last time that what they're doing is popular

2022-05-26 16:14:53 this reply also really illustrates a deep, fundamental difference in how democrats seem to perceive these offices vs how republicans do. maybe republicans don't respect big government, but they have a functionally (albeit cynically) very acute understanding of what the levers do>

2022-05-26 03:17:16 RT @KarlTheFog: Heat wave over

2022-05-26 02:59:58 RT @KillerMartinis: Hi, folks in minneapolis who are building things!Maybe it’s mutual aid, maybe it’s a small business, maybe it’s art…

2022-05-26 02:25:45 i mean, i have a normal relationship with email

2022-05-26 02:25:26 sometimes the tab just gets lost and then it closes or the computer crashes or something and then it goes into a place where if i looked in there i would have to face a mountain of failures to respond to people, glaring at me like angry spirits with unfinished business

2022-05-26 02:22:54 i've got drafts that have been around longer than COVID. you don't know what a mess i am https://t.co/Iafrpp9Rw6

2022-05-25 23:41:58 @timnitGebru sometimes i wonder if they're making it up on the spot. they know i can't catch them in a lie if i can't remember their answers...

2022-05-25 23:39:57 once a postdoc said (something like) "these systems are so brittle, and they're always designed to break toward us, so the broken glass always falls on us" and that felt really aptyou might say it was a SHARP analysis! huh? get it?or it was a ... ok i'm done sorry

2022-05-25 23:33:16 anyway- i wasn't very upfront with people in grad school about my family's financial stuff because it was complicated and... idk

2022-05-25 23:24:00 i dunno why that always makes me laugh a little. somewhere in my brain is a 10-page CHI paper about the stress of being poor in an environment where professors make 100x what you make thanks to consulting gigs, and where many peers don't even agree that you all are workers

2022-05-25 23:18:06 i eventually talked with people in positions of power about it, and they fought back against that policy to keep it from happening, so that was nice.i dunno how much time i spent worrying about money over the years i was there, but it was more than i spent on any single paper.

2022-05-25 23:15:46 (as an aside, i'll never forget the students who said they didn't care and then they had to pay $$$$$$ to expedite travel documents for a conference, and then suddenly they DID care. true class acts, now in some cases professors themselves lol)

2022-05-25 23:13:56 once, people above me said they'd be introducing a $2k cap on conference reimbursements, which...- airbnb- airfare- registrationkicks you over that limit real quick. forget about paying for food!i immediately disengaged from research and started interviewing at companies

2022-05-25 23:06:38 i was reluctant to gesture to the magnitude when i first saw this tweet because i don't want anyone thinking that there's a threshold below which you're not justified to be stressed out, or to complain. but i also realize that being quiet &

2022-05-25 22:59:54 in grad school at one point i was owed five figures - that was one of the more concrete, tangible reasons that i left. i grew up with my electricity getting cut off and parents' car getting repossessed and being on the edge like this was causing me more stress than i could handle https://t.co/anjI5Mdxas

2022-05-25 21:11:59 RT @emilymbender: Working out systems of governance, appropriate regulations &

2022-05-25 20:42:15 My consent-based product shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. https://t.co/RGVdkyouo1

2022-05-25 19:16:18 they're gonna call for surveillance of private massages and i'm gonna trust you all to knock that dystopian shit down please https://t.co/nZtF0K3Rxq

2022-05-25 16:00:59 at this point it feels like someone complaining that they don't want to build a house with this lumber because any wood that's weak enough to be cut by a saw could just be taken apart by someone later. make him go sleep in the rain, then. https://t.co/HqEiGMSuv0

2022-05-25 06:27:13 it's been a long day. an exhausting day. i hope tomorrow is better.

2022-05-25 06:26:13 whenever an elected leader calls on others for action, i find myself wondering if we deserve better. my tendency toward depression is so well-practiced that this impulse toward depression makes quick work of any aspiration for anything better, tilling the earth for hopelessness.

2022-05-20 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-10-28 18:27:59 @tinysubversions eeeeee

2022-10-28 18:21:44 @tinysubversions what, i thought we were leaving twitter

2022-10-28 03:55:03 @LibyaLiberty let's just say it's gonna stink around here pretty soon

2022-10-28 02:33:05 @davekarpf @verified just doesn't seem worth trying to get anymore tbh :(

2022-10-28 02:24:51 @SoulofDemocracy @sassycrass @duty2warn wow, in such a short time i almost forgot how much of a fucking dirtbag he is. all came rushing back.

2022-10-27 21:05:18 @broderick "what if no legs?" notwithstanding lol

2022-10-27 21:04:43 @broderick does the metaverse express any strong opinions that make it an interesting experiment of VR? it's surprisingly timid in experiential, user-facing features. but one has to imagine that a data architecture to capture every atom in this nascent universe must be an engineering feat

2022-10-27 20:58:17 @broderick i've been trying to workshop this way of thinking about the metaverse and i think my take is more cynical, but "the same universe, except with tracking instruments built into every atom of that copycat universe" keeps feeling sticky to me https://t.co/OO8yapA9u1

2022-10-27 20:44:38 @hondanhon https://t.co/vvuAtz8yGm

2022-10-27 20:20:06 @tante @foldingchable (according to google, operating all the disney parks globally costs ~$14B annually, by the way. but that's more like a silly coincidence - i still don't love the analogy lol)

2022-10-27 20:16:50 @tante @foldingchable it's a baffling waste of resources, and i'd have thought they'd *incidentally* build something that wasn't offensive to look at, but it's an order of magnitude less crazy that they spent $15B to build a panopticon (just that what they've done is several orders of magnitude crazy)

2022-10-27 20:13:17 @tante @foldingchable i don't love this analogy, but i sometimes think about it less as building GTA V and more as building a version of disneyland that instruments every food-wrapper, bench, article of clothing, etc... as tracking devices, and the backend architecture all that data necessitates

2022-10-27 19:53:33 @foldingchable @tante but identifying and communicating a reason for wanting to explore the metaverse has never seemed like a high priority, has it?

2022-10-27 19:52:33 @foldingchable @tante confidence in their ability to make the metaverse a place people *have* to be (eg for work) might be playing a role here. or they might hilariously think that they played a significant role in people using platforms they bought, like instagram and whatsapp lol

2022-10-27 17:12:30 @anthropologydp well, he is a rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

2022-10-27 14:14:46 @tante judging the metaverse primarily as an environment people might enjoy spending time in is probably wrong, regardless of how it's marketedthink of it as a project to build a universe with tracking and advertising built into every atom, and the visual cheapness makes sense

2022-10-27 03:12:50 https://t.co/4IKgIAqUKt

2022-10-26 20:52:12 RT @timnitGebru: Happening in 2 minutes. Join us.https://t.co/vDCO6n1cno

2022-10-26 03:48:54 in the future, we'll all be inundated by cheap-looking ads for cheap-looking games that belie their highly refined inner workings, carefully designed to get you to buy loot boxes or play tokens or whatever, via gimmicks made to distance you from the revelation that this is a scam

2022-10-26 03:38:14 when the app store launched in 2008 steve jobs said they took 30% because that was the bare minimum to keep the lights on, reviewing app submissionsthat was a long time ago

2022-10-26 03:30:58 @Def64Gamer @simonbs either the ads are ineffective or they're effective. in either case, for independent reasons, they should be removed.

2022-10-26 01:13:41 @anildash @tressiemcphd they should find a way to count "make available offline"

2022-10-24 03:57:31 never register with your edu account. no matter how sure you are you'll remember to move it. never.

2022-10-24 03:55:56 the replies to a lot of tweets doing big numbers these days increasingly look like the comments section of youtube videos or the answers from yahoo answers and that more than almost anything else makes me want to recover access to my mastodon account

2022-10-24 00:17:26 @MarzGurl lol imagine him just going for L after L in civil trials because his fans convince him each time he's got a chance

2022-10-23 01:25:14 @rinewithoutacat i was scrolling through the replies and people were making up complete nonsense and replying contemptuously to that nonsense. it was the goofiest and most embarrassing shit i've seen in a while

2022-10-23 00:10:53 if you follow academic twitter from outside of the field you might get the impression that we're fucking stupid based on the bad faith misreadings of totally mundane comments other academics will make about lending books to students ha ha wait what?

2022-10-22 17:17:56 proof of (mi)stake https://t.co/mXiRPbrtOH

2022-10-22 17:10:23 those first 35 built the foundation, so they didn't need to operate at the level of those next 15and once they built that foundation, there was no additional work to be done.that's called scalability please don't ask me about murders spurred by viral whatsapp messages

2022-10-22 17:04:48 based on this math those 15 additional engineers brought in 450 million users so uh...i guess you need to hire 15 more engineers just 17 or 18 times and you'll have the entire world :)

2022-10-22 17:02:33 comparing the needs of two different platforms on the basis of registered users and not actual usage, types of media and content, content moderation needs, etc... is actually hilarious. https://t.co/8XW6qGz8iV https://t.co/jZNcaPMPdn

2022-10-22 16:52:05 (it's not as though all these ideas sprang forth from nothing, shoulders of giants, etc... but you have to admit there's been a massive flourishing of work)

2022-10-22 16:50:20 the oldest book here is from like 2009, and i know many of these authors had been publishing bits and pieces in journals and stuff, but it's surreal to pause and think about how much the landscape of our discourse has changed and matured in like... literally less than 5-10 years https://t.co/PaO30VFIlE

2022-10-22 16:32:12 @FominayaC @ewrigleyfield @PamOliver1180 yeah but you have to earn trust to get people to come right out and say they found something impenetrable. like what if they were the only one who struggled? or if a friend of yours wrote it and you take it badly that they couldn't understand it? lots of risk for them to shoulder

2022-10-22 16:24:40 @hondanhon cats are jerks, i'm sorry :(

2022-10-22 05:47:22 @atpfm i'm sorry for being creepy but it you google the address of the business that scammed @caseyliss (listed on the profile, anyway), the first result is this https://t.co/oGquW6owk4so it's not just lots of bad amazon reviews, but rises to the level of local news coverage

2022-10-22 05:38:08 @shengokai i swear i didn't make this, i just found it https://t.co/OXMNd0hzSa

2022-10-22 05:25:00 @shengokai jeff goldblum, on the proposal to clone and ultimately maintain yet more academic deadlines https://t.co/jY6peGjkkN

2022-10-22 03:35:08 RT @Alacranita: This hire at Brown when I was a grad student was incredibly painful &

2022-10-22 02:54:49 RT @MiaD: Here are 18 books that will radically change the way you think about AI, algorithms, and technologyBuy one for yourself and gi…

2022-10-22 01:35:19 RT @timnitGebru: Playdoh Flamingos needed majority vote from @uwcse for emeritus status. So its them we need to worry about not one person.…

2022-10-21 22:25:18 try not to be remembered for "some conversation where you were stupid back then as well"

2022-10-21 22:24:23 prelude to a guy getting blocked https://t.co/SPspN7hO81

2022-10-21 21:55:26 @npparikh if you don't understand the context of the conversation you're totally allowed to not comment dude lol

2022-10-21 21:03:33 @joeybean @crystaljjlee what makes me so sad is that if you told me ~15 years ago that i would be able to use "IRC with a GIF library" i would've thought that was so fucking cool. it still sounds awesome. so why is it not clicking for me??? maybe the pseudonymous part was crucial :(

2022-10-21 20:41:17 still thinking about UW giving that bigot a stage in front of a bunch of phd students. i heard from an alum that i should be less hard on the department because people might be quietly working behind the scenes. that was almost a year ago. glad i told him i didn't need his input.

2022-10-21 20:37:52 RT @levinishere: Sharing that room w/ former students &

2022-10-21 17:06:28 lmao i looked at the actual local timezones and i think i'm gonna turn into an owl for a week over here

2022-10-21 17:05:00 also very pleased that CSCW is going to be in a timezone that allows me to be comfy (anywhere on earth, via zoom)

2022-10-21 17:03:56 the CSCW 2022 program is live but as far as i can tell papers aren't available yet (some shared sporadically)i'm debating a partial rundown of the papers i'm interested in seeing talks for vs waiting till after the conference to link the ones i went to/liked (like i did here) https://t.co/7jQZlVvaFC

2022-10-21 16:46:53 RT @mer__edith: You can start by learning that "AI" is first &

2022-10-21 16:41:27 it wasn't something i would forget about by this morning https://t.co/8UusyuDZXt

2022-10-21 16:36:02 if you don't know anything about AI, you can still bring your experiences &

2022-10-21 16:36:01 here's why i'm making this point:a *worryingly* large group of AI researchers have no training, nor any inclination to learn, how to structure any thoughts about administrative power - how it marginalizes people, as in CREATES marginalization. not even talking about other harms

2022-10-28 18:27:59 @tinysubversions eeeeee

2022-10-28 18:21:44 @tinysubversions what, i thought we were leaving twitter

2022-10-28 03:55:03 @LibyaLiberty let's just say it's gonna stink around here pretty soon

2022-10-28 02:33:05 @davekarpf @verified just doesn't seem worth trying to get anymore tbh :(

2022-10-28 02:24:51 @SoulofDemocracy @sassycrass @duty2warn wow, in such a short time i almost forgot how much of a fucking dirtbag he is. all came rushing back.

2022-10-27 21:05:18 @broderick "what if no legs?" notwithstanding lol

2022-10-27 21:04:43 @broderick does the metaverse express any strong opinions that make it an interesting experiment of VR? it's surprisingly timid in experiential, user-facing features. but one has to imagine that a data architecture to capture every atom in this nascent universe must be an engineering feat

2022-10-27 20:58:17 @broderick i've been trying to workshop this way of thinking about the metaverse and i think my take is more cynical, but "the same universe, except with tracking instruments built into every atom of that copycat universe" keeps feeling sticky to me https://t.co/OO8yapA9u1

2022-10-27 20:44:38 @hondanhon https://t.co/vvuAtz8yGm

2022-10-27 20:20:06 @tante @foldingchable (according to google, operating all the disney parks globally costs ~$14B annually, by the way. but that's more like a silly coincidence - i still don't love the analogy lol)

2022-10-27 20:16:50 @tante @foldingchable it's a baffling waste of resources, and i'd have thought they'd *incidentally* build something that wasn't offensive to look at, but it's an order of magnitude less crazy that they spent $15B to build a panopticon (just that what they've done is several orders of magnitude crazy)

2022-10-27 20:13:17 @tante @foldingchable i don't love this analogy, but i sometimes think about it less as building GTA V and more as building a version of disneyland that instruments every food-wrapper, bench, article of clothing, etc... as tracking devices, and the backend architecture all that data necessitates

2022-10-27 19:53:33 @foldingchable @tante but identifying and communicating a reason for wanting to explore the metaverse has never seemed like a high priority, has it?

2022-10-27 19:52:33 @foldingchable @tante confidence in their ability to make the metaverse a place people *have* to be (eg for work) might be playing a role here. or they might hilariously think that they played a significant role in people using platforms they bought, like instagram and whatsapp lol

2022-10-27 17:12:30 @anthropologydp well, he is a rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

2022-10-27 14:14:46 @tante judging the metaverse primarily as an environment people might enjoy spending time in is probably wrong, regardless of how it's marketedthink of it as a project to build a universe with tracking and advertising built into every atom, and the visual cheapness makes sense

2022-10-27 03:12:50 https://t.co/4IKgIAqUKt

2022-10-26 20:52:12 RT @timnitGebru: Happening in 2 minutes. Join us.https://t.co/vDCO6n1cno

2022-10-26 03:48:54 in the future, we'll all be inundated by cheap-looking ads for cheap-looking games that belie their highly refined inner workings, carefully designed to get you to buy loot boxes or play tokens or whatever, via gimmicks made to distance you from the revelation that this is a scam

2022-10-26 03:38:14 when the app store launched in 2008 steve jobs said they took 30% because that was the bare minimum to keep the lights on, reviewing app submissionsthat was a long time ago

2022-10-26 03:30:58 @Def64Gamer @simonbs either the ads are ineffective or they're effective. in either case, for independent reasons, they should be removed.

2022-10-26 01:13:41 @anildash @tressiemcphd they should find a way to count "make available offline"

2022-10-24 03:57:31 never register with your edu account. no matter how sure you are you'll remember to move it. never.

2022-10-24 03:55:56 the replies to a lot of tweets doing big numbers these days increasingly look like the comments section of youtube videos or the answers from yahoo answers and that more than almost anything else makes me want to recover access to my mastodon account

2022-10-24 00:17:26 @MarzGurl lol imagine him just going for L after L in civil trials because his fans convince him each time he's got a chance

2022-10-23 01:25:14 @rinewithoutacat i was scrolling through the replies and people were making up complete nonsense and replying contemptuously to that nonsense. it was the goofiest and most embarrassing shit i've seen in a while

2022-10-23 00:10:53 if you follow academic twitter from outside of the field you might get the impression that we're fucking stupid based on the bad faith misreadings of totally mundane comments other academics will make about lending books to students ha ha wait what?

2022-10-22 17:17:56 proof of (mi)stake https://t.co/mXiRPbrtOH

2022-10-22 17:10:23 those first 35 built the foundation, so they didn't need to operate at the level of those next 15and once they built that foundation, there was no additional work to be done.that's called scalability please don't ask me about murders spurred by viral whatsapp messages

2022-10-22 17:04:48 based on this math those 15 additional engineers brought in 450 million users so uh...i guess you need to hire 15 more engineers just 17 or 18 times and you'll have the entire world :)

2022-10-22 17:02:33 comparing the needs of two different platforms on the basis of registered users and not actual usage, types of media and content, content moderation needs, etc... is actually hilarious. https://t.co/8XW6qGz8iV https://t.co/jZNcaPMPdn

2022-10-22 16:52:05 (it's not as though all these ideas sprang forth from nothing, shoulders of giants, etc... but you have to admit there's been a massive flourishing of work)

2022-10-22 16:50:20 the oldest book here is from like 2009, and i know many of these authors had been publishing bits and pieces in journals and stuff, but it's surreal to pause and think about how much the landscape of our discourse has changed and matured in like... literally less than 5-10 years https://t.co/PaO30VFIlE

2022-10-22 16:32:12 @FominayaC @ewrigleyfield @PamOliver1180 yeah but you have to earn trust to get people to come right out and say they found something impenetrable. like what if they were the only one who struggled? or if a friend of yours wrote it and you take it badly that they couldn't understand it? lots of risk for them to shoulder

2022-10-22 16:24:40 @hondanhon cats are jerks, i'm sorry :(

2022-10-22 05:47:22 @atpfm i'm sorry for being creepy but it you google the address of the business that scammed @caseyliss (listed on the profile, anyway), the first result is this https://t.co/oGquW6owk4so it's not just lots of bad amazon reviews, but rises to the level of local news coverage

2022-10-22 05:38:08 @shengokai i swear i didn't make this, i just found it https://t.co/OXMNd0hzSa

2022-10-22 05:25:00 @shengokai jeff goldblum, on the proposal to clone and ultimately maintain yet more academic deadlines https://t.co/jY6peGjkkN

2022-10-22 03:35:08 RT @Alacranita: This hire at Brown when I was a grad student was incredibly painful &

2022-10-22 02:54:49 RT @MiaD: Here are 18 books that will radically change the way you think about AI, algorithms, and technologyBuy one for yourself and gi…

2022-10-22 01:35:19 RT @timnitGebru: Playdoh Flamingos needed majority vote from @uwcse for emeritus status. So its them we need to worry about not one person.…

2022-10-21 22:25:18 try not to be remembered for "some conversation where you were stupid back then as well"

2022-10-21 22:24:23 prelude to a guy getting blocked https://t.co/SPspN7hO81

2022-10-21 21:55:26 @npparikh if you don't understand the context of the conversation you're totally allowed to not comment dude lol

2022-10-21 21:03:33 @joeybean @crystaljjlee what makes me so sad is that if you told me ~15 years ago that i would be able to use "IRC with a GIF library" i would've thought that was so fucking cool. it still sounds awesome. so why is it not clicking for me??? maybe the pseudonymous part was crucial :(

2022-10-21 20:41:17 still thinking about UW giving that bigot a stage in front of a bunch of phd students. i heard from an alum that i should be less hard on the department because people might be quietly working behind the scenes. that was almost a year ago. glad i told him i didn't need his input.

2022-10-21 20:37:52 RT @levinishere: Sharing that room w/ former students &

2022-10-21 17:06:28 lmao i looked at the actual local timezones and i think i'm gonna turn into an owl for a week over here

2022-10-21 17:05:00 also very pleased that CSCW is going to be in a timezone that allows me to be comfy (anywhere on earth, via zoom)

2022-10-21 17:03:56 the CSCW 2022 program is live but as far as i can tell papers aren't available yet (some shared sporadically)i'm debating a partial rundown of the papers i'm interested in seeing talks for vs waiting till after the conference to link the ones i went to/liked (like i did here) https://t.co/7jQZlVvaFC

2022-10-21 16:46:53 RT @mer__edith: You can start by learning that "AI" is first &

2022-10-21 16:41:27 it wasn't something i would forget about by this morning https://t.co/8UusyuDZXt

2022-10-21 16:36:02 if you don't know anything about AI, you can still bring your experiences &

2022-10-21 16:36:01 here's why i'm making this point:a *worryingly* large group of AI researchers have no training, nor any inclination to learn, how to structure any thoughts about administrative power - how it marginalizes people, as in CREATES marginalization. not even talking about other harms

2022-10-30 03:35:28 @MikeIsaac @kateconger @RMac18 @sheeraf sorry i mean this is obvious but maybe it's not to someone who thought it wouldn't be transparent that making employees print 50+ pages of code to walk through it like it's the 1970s is just a dumb scheme to try to get people to quit and forfeit compensation

2022-10-30 03:32:35 @MikeIsaac @kateconger @RMac18 @sheeraf there's no way elmo thought this was a good way to quietly get rid of them, is there? like there's no way any of them would walk away from >

2022-10-28 18:27:59 @tinysubversions eeeeee

2022-10-28 18:21:44 @tinysubversions what, i thought we were leaving twitter

2022-10-28 03:55:03 @LibyaLiberty let's just say it's gonna stink around here pretty soon

2022-10-28 02:33:05 @davekarpf @verified just doesn't seem worth trying to get anymore tbh :(

2022-10-28 02:24:51 @SoulofDemocracy @sassycrass @duty2warn wow, in such a short time i almost forgot how much of a fucking dirtbag he is. all came rushing back.

2022-10-27 21:05:18 @broderick "what if no legs?" notwithstanding lol

2022-10-27 21:04:43 @broderick does the metaverse express any strong opinions that make it an interesting experiment of VR? it's surprisingly timid in experiential, user-facing features. but one has to imagine that a data architecture to capture every atom in this nascent universe must be an engineering feat

2022-10-27 20:58:17 @broderick i've been trying to workshop this way of thinking about the metaverse and i think my take is more cynical, but "the same universe, except with tracking instruments built into every atom of that copycat universe" keeps feeling sticky to me https://t.co/OO8yapA9u1

2022-10-27 20:44:38 @hondanhon https://t.co/vvuAtz8yGm

2022-10-27 20:20:06 @tante @foldingchable (according to google, operating all the disney parks globally costs ~$14B annually, by the way. but that's more like a silly coincidence - i still don't love the analogy lol)

2022-10-27 20:16:50 @tante @foldingchable it's a baffling waste of resources, and i'd have thought they'd *incidentally* build something that wasn't offensive to look at, but it's an order of magnitude less crazy that they spent $15B to build a panopticon (just that what they've done is several orders of magnitude crazy)

2022-10-27 20:13:17 @tante @foldingchable i don't love this analogy, but i sometimes think about it less as building GTA V and more as building a version of disneyland that instruments every food-wrapper, bench, article of clothing, etc... as tracking devices, and the backend architecture all that data necessitates

2022-10-27 19:53:33 @foldingchable @tante but identifying and communicating a reason for wanting to explore the metaverse has never seemed like a high priority, has it?

2022-10-27 19:52:33 @foldingchable @tante confidence in their ability to make the metaverse a place people *have* to be (eg for work) might be playing a role here. or they might hilariously think that they played a significant role in people using platforms they bought, like instagram and whatsapp lol

2022-10-27 17:12:30 @anthropologydp well, he is a rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone

2022-10-27 14:14:46 @tante judging the metaverse primarily as an environment people might enjoy spending time in is probably wrong, regardless of how it's marketedthink of it as a project to build a universe with tracking and advertising built into every atom, and the visual cheapness makes sense

2022-10-27 03:12:50 https://t.co/4IKgIAqUKt

2022-10-26 20:52:12 RT @timnitGebru: Happening in 2 minutes. Join us.https://t.co/vDCO6n1cno

2022-10-26 03:48:54 in the future, we'll all be inundated by cheap-looking ads for cheap-looking games that belie their highly refined inner workings, carefully designed to get you to buy loot boxes or play tokens or whatever, via gimmicks made to distance you from the revelation that this is a scam

2022-10-26 03:38:14 when the app store launched in 2008 steve jobs said they took 30% because that was the bare minimum to keep the lights on, reviewing app submissionsthat was a long time ago

2022-10-26 03:30:58 @Def64Gamer @simonbs either the ads are ineffective or they're effective. in either case, for independent reasons, they should be removed.

2022-10-26 01:13:41 @anildash @tressiemcphd they should find a way to count "make available offline"

2022-10-24 03:57:31 never register with your edu account. no matter how sure you are you'll remember to move it. never.

2022-10-24 03:55:56 the replies to a lot of tweets doing big numbers these days increasingly look like the comments section of youtube videos or the answers from yahoo answers and that more than almost anything else makes me want to recover access to my mastodon account

2022-10-24 00:17:26 @MarzGurl lol imagine him just going for L after L in civil trials because his fans convince him each time he's got a chance

2022-10-23 01:25:14 @rinewithoutacat i was scrolling through the replies and people were making up complete nonsense and replying contemptuously to that nonsense. it was the goofiest and most embarrassing shit i've seen in a while

2022-10-23 00:10:53 if you follow academic twitter from outside of the field you might get the impression that we're fucking stupid based on the bad faith misreadings of totally mundane comments other academics will make about lending books to students ha ha wait what?

2022-10-22 17:17:56 proof of (mi)stake https://t.co/mXiRPbrtOH

2022-10-22 17:10:23 those first 35 built the foundation, so they didn't need to operate at the level of those next 15and once they built that foundation, there was no additional work to be done.that's called scalability please don't ask me about murders spurred by viral whatsapp messages

2022-10-22 17:04:48 based on this math those 15 additional engineers brought in 450 million users so uh...i guess you need to hire 15 more engineers just 17 or 18 times and you'll have the entire world :)

2022-10-22 17:02:33 comparing the needs of two different platforms on the basis of registered users and not actual usage, types of media and content, content moderation needs, etc... is actually hilarious. https://t.co/8XW6qGz8iV https://t.co/jZNcaPMPdn

2022-10-22 16:52:05 (it's not as though all these ideas sprang forth from nothing, shoulders of giants, etc... but you have to admit there's been a massive flourishing of work)

2022-10-22 16:50:20 the oldest book here is from like 2009, and i know many of these authors had been publishing bits and pieces in journals and stuff, but it's surreal to pause and think about how much the landscape of our discourse has changed and matured in like... literally less than 5-10 years https://t.co/PaO30VFIlE

2022-10-22 16:32:12 @FominayaC @ewrigleyfield @PamOliver1180 yeah but you have to earn trust to get people to come right out and say they found something impenetrable. like what if they were the only one who struggled? or if a friend of yours wrote it and you take it badly that they couldn't understand it? lots of risk for them to shoulder

2022-10-22 16:24:40 @hondanhon cats are jerks, i'm sorry :(

2022-10-22 05:47:22 @atpfm i'm sorry for being creepy but it you google the address of the business that scammed @caseyliss (listed on the profile, anyway), the first result is this https://t.co/oGquW6owk4so it's not just lots of bad amazon reviews, but rises to the level of local news coverage

2022-10-22 05:38:08 @shengokai i swear i didn't make this, i just found it https://t.co/OXMNd0hzSa

2022-10-22 05:25:00 @shengokai jeff goldblum, on the proposal to clone and ultimately maintain yet more academic deadlines https://t.co/jY6peGjkkN

2022-10-22 03:35:08 RT @Alacranita: This hire at Brown when I was a grad student was incredibly painful &

2022-10-22 02:54:49 RT @MiaD: Here are 18 books that will radically change the way you think about AI, algorithms, and technologyBuy one for yourself and gi…

2022-10-22 01:35:19 RT @timnitGebru: Playdoh Flamingos needed majority vote from @uwcse for emeritus status. So its them we need to worry about not one person.…

2022-10-21 22:25:18 try not to be remembered for "some conversation where you were stupid back then as well"

2022-10-21 22:24:23 prelude to a guy getting blocked https://t.co/SPspN7hO81

2022-10-21 21:55:26 @npparikh if you don't understand the context of the conversation you're totally allowed to not comment dude lol

2022-10-21 21:03:33 @joeybean @crystaljjlee what makes me so sad is that if you told me ~15 years ago that i would be able to use "IRC with a GIF library" i would've thought that was so fucking cool. it still sounds awesome. so why is it not clicking for me??? maybe the pseudonymous part was crucial :(

2022-10-21 20:41:17 still thinking about UW giving that bigot a stage in front of a bunch of phd students. i heard from an alum that i should be less hard on the department because people might be quietly working behind the scenes. that was almost a year ago. glad i told him i didn't need his input.

2022-10-21 20:37:52 RT @levinishere: Sharing that room w/ former students &

2022-10-21 17:06:28 lmao i looked at the actual local timezones and i think i'm gonna turn into an owl for a week over here

2022-10-21 17:05:00 also very pleased that CSCW is going to be in a timezone that allows me to be comfy (anywhere on earth, via zoom)

2022-10-21 17:03:56 the CSCW 2022 program is live but as far as i can tell papers aren't available yet (some shared sporadically)i'm debating a partial rundown of the papers i'm interested in seeing talks for vs waiting till after the conference to link the ones i went to/liked (like i did here) https://t.co/7jQZlVvaFC

2022-10-21 16:46:53 RT @mer__edith: You can start by learning that "AI" is first &

2022-10-21 16:41:27 it wasn't something i would forget about by this morning https://t.co/8UusyuDZXt

2022-10-21 16:36:02 if you don't know anything about AI, you can still bring your experiences &

2022-10-21 16:36:01 here's why i'm making this point:a *worryingly* large group of AI researchers have no training, nor any inclination to learn, how to structure any thoughts about administrative power - how it marginalizes people, as in CREATES marginalization. not even talking about other harms

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-20 23:22:10 @npseaver people say they prefer the supposed "no aslanrithm" timeline but studies show that doesn't improve engagement

2022-11-20 21:37:54 RT @niloufar_s: Towards the end of my PhD I was trying to figure out what next. I started to ask a range of people what they wanted from t…

2022-11-20 18:54:50 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain ... then that would be the same on mastodon. and basically everywhere. we're talking about if you get suspended and the suspension is never lifted.

2022-11-20 17:53:30 this is THE thing for me. social media has a particular kind of conversational property to it. of course there are other kinds of discourse that videos and movies are engaging in, but it's different from something like twitter or mastodon (or even blog posts (maybe a hot take)) https://t.co/wMTUUrJTZr

2022-11-20 17:07:38 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain like in theory an admin could delete an account, right? if that's what banning someone does - and that deletes all the data - that's pretty harsh. but it sounds like whatever the process, Parker was able to migrate stuff, so that's... hopefully good?

2022-11-20 17:04:56 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain i admittedly totally don't know what happens when someone gets banned on mastodon - is it informally agreed that an admin will give you a few days to export/migrate, or does a ban mean "your account is frozen

2022-11-20 16:27:01 @tante his neediness is the backdrop of every single social and cultural endeavor he pursues. i'm not even going to link to an SNL skit because it makes me cringe https://t.co/wj0yoJtHXN

2022-11-20 15:34:25 @MarlowNYC @so_treu elmo fans are like "man, it's so great that tesla takes such good care of us" as federally required recall notices land in their inboxes

2022-11-20 15:32:03 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain that makes no sense lol. if we were talking about a user being suspended from twitter, we wouldn't be able to follow Parker at all. and we would still be stuck with the transphobic journalist community. mastodon has neither problem now.

2022-11-20 15:24:08 a pachyderm never fucking forgets, huh https://t.co/Yhzo7HYV2H

2022-11-20 06:56:07 RT @traceyh415: My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn a…

2022-11-20 06:48:16 what's your favorite 2-minute segment of the movie "Hackers"? let me know in the replies https://t.co/PdWu2ukz66

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-22 05:04:00 like this before i delete it lol

2022-11-22 05:03:43 hahaha it is so funny i worked really hard despite a fucked up home life and here i am renting for the rest of my life ha ha ha

2022-11-22 05:03:06 i can't stop laughing at what a fucking boomer elno is in the same way that i can't stop laughing at how the boomers in my hometown in are the reason i will never be able to buy a home or make any meaningful plans for my future

2022-11-22 03:14:12 RT @CinKneph: And this doesn’t even get into the idea that having individuals send out of context snippets of what they’re working on will…

2022-11-22 01:10:15 RT @karamcnair: @_alialkhatib At least one of those emails is going to accidentally contain a secret because everyone leaks secrets eventua…

2022-11-22 01:06:11 paper printouts were legitimately probably less stupid

2022-11-22 01:05:34 hey besties, i don't know who needs to hear this, hopefully not the 20 or so engineers remaining at twitter, but email is not a secure messaging format and you shouldn't send sensitive material on it if you have a secure alternative like... uh... robust version control systems https://t.co/hM88v1BMTk

2022-11-22 01:00:22 any interpersonal advice the nyt posts is probably more anthropologically interesting than actionably useful.

2022-11-22 00:58:37 every NYT article about how to act at a dinner party should come with a disclaimer that this advice is not suitable with POC hosts and you should seriously just do what you should always do which is ask before you start pulling some "Chaotic Good" shit

2022-11-22 00:40:43 >

2022-11-22 00:39:25 im imagining someone doing this to one of my aunts or uncles and i'm honestly legitimately scared

2022-11-22 00:34:46 >

2022-11-22 00:30:02 bahaahhahahaha https://t.co/xvXZUoSH1v

2022-11-21 19:35:01 @TheStalwart other than your ability to competently address the growing scale of content moderation?

2022-11-21 17:32:47 people shouldn't have to attend every single town hall meeting and be an active mod on every single community they're a part of and become a leader in every single space they want to exist MERELY to ensure that these spaces don't become oppressive. think about what you're asking.

2022-11-21 17:27:36 you're telling people to take on 100x work to build their own solution that's not racist whenever they encounter racism. what if they deal with racism 24 hours a day?

2022-11-21 17:26:39 i have my own instance and it's fine. i can have a doggo account

2022-11-21 17:22:47 i see people commenting to join better instances, or even to make your own 1. the amount of work you're telling people constantly harassed and abused like this to take on, simply to exist, is egregious 2. why wouldn't these admins block any instance that supports black people? https://t.co/sUzRjQKm39

2022-11-20 23:22:10 @npseaver people say they prefer the supposed "no aslanrithm" timeline but studies show that doesn't improve engagement

2022-11-20 21:37:54 RT @niloufar_s: Towards the end of my PhD I was trying to figure out what next. I started to ask a range of people what they wanted from t…

2022-11-20 18:54:50 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain ... then that would be the same on mastodon. and basically everywhere. we're talking about if you get suspended and the suspension is never lifted.

2022-11-20 17:53:30 this is THE thing for me. social media has a particular kind of conversational property to it. of course there are other kinds of discourse that videos and movies are engaging in, but it's different from something like twitter or mastodon (or even blog posts (maybe a hot take)) https://t.co/wMTUUrJTZr

2022-11-20 17:07:38 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain like in theory an admin could delete an account, right? if that's what banning someone does - and that deletes all the data - that's pretty harsh. but it sounds like whatever the process, Parker was able to migrate stuff, so that's... hopefully good?

2022-11-20 17:04:56 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain i admittedly totally don't know what happens when someone gets banned on mastodon - is it informally agreed that an admin will give you a few days to export/migrate, or does a ban mean "your account is frozen

2022-11-20 16:27:01 @tante his neediness is the backdrop of every single social and cultural endeavor he pursues. i'm not even going to link to an SNL skit because it makes me cringe https://t.co/wj0yoJtHXN

2022-11-20 15:34:25 @MarlowNYC @so_treu elmo fans are like "man, it's so great that tesla takes such good care of us" as federally required recall notices land in their inboxes

2022-11-20 15:32:03 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain that makes no sense lol. if we were talking about a user being suspended from twitter, we wouldn't be able to follow Parker at all. and we would still be stuck with the transphobic journalist community. mastodon has neither problem now.

2022-11-20 15:24:08 a pachyderm never fucking forgets, huh https://t.co/Yhzo7HYV2H

2022-11-20 06:56:07 RT @traceyh415: My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn a…

2022-11-20 06:48:16 what's your favorite 2-minute segment of the movie "Hackers"? let me know in the replies https://t.co/PdWu2ukz66

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-22 14:52:01 @Blackamazon i'm a little amazed at some of the hagiography tbh

2022-11-22 14:38:24 RT @CantonWiner: UCI’s grad student government has been trying to email grad students FOR WEEKS about their right to strike. Admin blocked…

2022-11-22 14:04:43 @jilliancyork he supposedly replied to someone asking about it, saying it's his "#1 priority", but i only saw a screenshot and haven't gone looking for it. even if it's real, it's more talk informed and backed up by nothing. so ... ???

2022-11-22 13:51:49 safety concerns? in the middle of cap hill?? the place right next to dick's???? safety concerns??????? https://t.co/VwTsRNYAje

2022-11-22 13:43:40 @Dieter75 @MarlowNYC @so_treu don't make me tap the sign https://t.co/MRp9eCm4S6

2022-11-22 05:04:00 like this before i delete it lol

2022-11-22 05:03:43 hahaha it is so funny i worked really hard despite a fucked up home life and here i am renting for the rest of my life ha ha ha

2022-11-22 05:03:06 i can't stop laughing at what a fucking boomer elno is in the same way that i can't stop laughing at how the boomers in my hometown in are the reason i will never be able to buy a home or make any meaningful plans for my future

2022-11-22 03:14:12 RT @CinKneph: And this doesn’t even get into the idea that having individuals send out of context snippets of what they’re working on will…

2022-11-22 01:10:15 RT @karamcnair: @_alialkhatib At least one of those emails is going to accidentally contain a secret because everyone leaks secrets eventua…

2022-11-22 01:06:11 paper printouts were legitimately probably less stupid

2022-11-22 01:05:34 hey besties, i don't know who needs to hear this, hopefully not the 20 or so engineers remaining at twitter, but email is not a secure messaging format and you shouldn't send sensitive material on it if you have a secure alternative like... uh... robust version control systems https://t.co/hM88v1BMTk

2022-11-22 01:00:22 any interpersonal advice the nyt posts is probably more anthropologically interesting than actionably useful.

2022-11-22 00:58:37 every NYT article about how to act at a dinner party should come with a disclaimer that this advice is not suitable with POC hosts and you should seriously just do what you should always do which is ask before you start pulling some "Chaotic Good" shit

2022-11-22 00:40:43 >

2022-11-22 00:39:25 im imagining someone doing this to one of my aunts or uncles and i'm honestly legitimately scared

2022-11-22 00:34:46 >

2022-11-22 00:30:02 bahaahhahahaha https://t.co/xvXZUoSH1v

2022-11-21 19:35:01 @TheStalwart other than your ability to competently address the growing scale of content moderation?

2022-11-21 17:32:47 people shouldn't have to attend every single town hall meeting and be an active mod on every single community they're a part of and become a leader in every single space they want to exist MERELY to ensure that these spaces don't become oppressive. think about what you're asking.

2022-11-21 17:27:36 you're telling people to take on 100x work to build their own solution that's not racist whenever they encounter racism. what if they deal with racism 24 hours a day?

2022-11-21 17:26:39 i have my own instance and it's fine. i can have a doggo account

2022-11-21 17:22:47 i see people commenting to join better instances, or even to make your own 1. the amount of work you're telling people constantly harassed and abused like this to take on, simply to exist, is egregious 2. why wouldn't these admins block any instance that supports black people? https://t.co/sUzRjQKm39

2022-11-20 23:22:10 @npseaver people say they prefer the supposed "no aslanrithm" timeline but studies show that doesn't improve engagement

2022-11-20 21:37:54 RT @niloufar_s: Towards the end of my PhD I was trying to figure out what next. I started to ask a range of people what they wanted from t…

2022-11-20 18:54:50 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain ... then that would be the same on mastodon. and basically everywhere. we're talking about if you get suspended and the suspension is never lifted.

2022-11-20 17:53:30 this is THE thing for me. social media has a particular kind of conversational property to it. of course there are other kinds of discourse that videos and movies are engaging in, but it's different from something like twitter or mastodon (or even blog posts (maybe a hot take)) https://t.co/wMTUUrJTZr

2022-11-20 17:07:38 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain like in theory an admin could delete an account, right? if that's what banning someone does - and that deletes all the data - that's pretty harsh. but it sounds like whatever the process, Parker was able to migrate stuff, so that's... hopefully good?

2022-11-20 17:04:56 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain i admittedly totally don't know what happens when someone gets banned on mastodon - is it informally agreed that an admin will give you a few days to export/migrate, or does a ban mean "your account is frozen

2022-11-20 16:27:01 @tante his neediness is the backdrop of every single social and cultural endeavor he pursues. i'm not even going to link to an SNL skit because it makes me cringe https://t.co/wj0yoJtHXN

2022-11-20 15:34:25 @MarlowNYC @so_treu elmo fans are like "man, it's so great that tesla takes such good care of us" as federally required recall notices land in their inboxes

2022-11-20 15:32:03 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain that makes no sense lol. if we were talking about a user being suspended from twitter, we wouldn't be able to follow Parker at all. and we would still be stuck with the transphobic journalist community. mastodon has neither problem now.

2022-11-20 15:24:08 a pachyderm never fucking forgets, huh https://t.co/Yhzo7HYV2H

2022-11-20 06:56:07 RT @traceyh415: My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn a…

2022-11-20 06:48:16 what's your favorite 2-minute segment of the movie "Hackers"? let me know in the replies https://t.co/PdWu2ukz66

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-24 16:45:54 from what i've been hearing, a lot of the people who signed on for more of this by clicking "yes" are here on visas, which means they'd have 60 days to find another job if they left mocking these people for signing on for more of this bullshit would not be a good look right now https://t.co/H0XmhCklcl

2022-11-24 16:29:34 @unangbangkay @mikepuchol @doctorow @YouTube it's remarkable how confident they can be. nothing coded into their script to bail out if the user uses words like "scam" or "scammer". it's fine to have this run right into the spotlight and be seen by everyone, because they know there's no meaningful enforcement to worry about.

2022-11-24 16:20:46 not sure if arxiv has a lot of papers about twitter because there's a lot of interest or because everyone doing research involving twitter data is trying to get their papers out before reviewers start commenting that the data you've been collecting over the past few weeks is sus.

2022-11-24 03:23:12 FYI bonafide masks is doing a black friday sale (30% off) if you're looking to stock up on masks THX30 (been hearing boat style masks are good, so i'm gonna try them out )

2022-11-23 23:52:04 sounds like i can still get it, still get long covid, and still get other people sick or is that just noise? https://t.co/BsX1GotJXz

2022-11-23 20:04:53 hey dril if you wanna co-author a paper, uh... lmk

2022-11-23 20:03:51 this comment on sentiment analysis in @TaylorLorenz's interview with @dril is... surprisingly apt for a conversation where dril later begs to be elno's disgusting dog. https://t.co/pyrBOrGsTi https://t.co/jJJ6uY6qGR

2022-11-23 19:40:57 @abelinasabrina :( hope things are okay

2022-11-22 14:52:01 @Blackamazon i'm a little amazed at some of the hagiography tbh

2022-11-22 14:38:24 RT @CantonWiner: UCI’s grad student government has been trying to email grad students FOR WEEKS about their right to strike. Admin blocked…

2022-11-22 14:04:43 @jilliancyork he supposedly replied to someone asking about it, saying it's his "#1 priority", but i only saw a screenshot and haven't gone looking for it. even if it's real, it's more talk informed and backed up by nothing. so ... ???

2022-11-22 13:51:49 safety concerns? in the middle of cap hill?? the place right next to dick's???? safety concerns??????? https://t.co/VwTsRNYAje

2022-11-22 13:43:40 @Dieter75 @MarlowNYC @so_treu don't make me tap the sign https://t.co/MRp9eCm4S6

2022-11-22 05:04:00 like this before i delete it lol

2022-11-22 05:03:43 hahaha it is so funny i worked really hard despite a fucked up home life and here i am renting for the rest of my life ha ha ha

2022-11-22 05:03:06 i can't stop laughing at what a fucking boomer elno is in the same way that i can't stop laughing at how the boomers in my hometown in are the reason i will never be able to buy a home or make any meaningful plans for my future

2022-11-22 03:14:12 RT @CinKneph: And this doesn’t even get into the idea that having individuals send out of context snippets of what they’re working on will…

2022-11-22 01:10:15 RT @karamcnair: @_alialkhatib At least one of those emails is going to accidentally contain a secret because everyone leaks secrets eventua…

2022-11-22 01:06:11 paper printouts were legitimately probably less stupid

2022-11-22 01:05:34 hey besties, i don't know who needs to hear this, hopefully not the 20 or so engineers remaining at twitter, but email is not a secure messaging format and you shouldn't send sensitive material on it if you have a secure alternative like... uh... robust version control systems https://t.co/hM88v1BMTk

2022-11-22 01:00:22 any interpersonal advice the nyt posts is probably more anthropologically interesting than actionably useful.

2022-11-22 00:58:37 every NYT article about how to act at a dinner party should come with a disclaimer that this advice is not suitable with POC hosts and you should seriously just do what you should always do which is ask before you start pulling some "Chaotic Good" shit

2022-11-22 00:40:43 >

2022-11-22 00:39:25 im imagining someone doing this to one of my aunts or uncles and i'm honestly legitimately scared

2022-11-22 00:34:46 >

2022-11-22 00:30:02 bahaahhahahaha https://t.co/xvXZUoSH1v

2022-11-21 19:35:01 @TheStalwart other than your ability to competently address the growing scale of content moderation?

2022-11-21 17:32:47 people shouldn't have to attend every single town hall meeting and be an active mod on every single community they're a part of and become a leader in every single space they want to exist MERELY to ensure that these spaces don't become oppressive. think about what you're asking.

2022-11-21 17:27:36 you're telling people to take on 100x work to build their own solution that's not racist whenever they encounter racism. what if they deal with racism 24 hours a day?

2022-11-21 17:26:39 i have my own instance and it's fine. i can have a doggo account

2022-11-21 17:22:47 i see people commenting to join better instances, or even to make your own 1. the amount of work you're telling people constantly harassed and abused like this to take on, simply to exist, is egregious 2. why wouldn't these admins block any instance that supports black people? https://t.co/sUzRjQKm39

2022-11-20 23:22:10 @npseaver people say they prefer the supposed "no aslanrithm" timeline but studies show that doesn't improve engagement

2022-11-20 21:37:54 RT @niloufar_s: Towards the end of my PhD I was trying to figure out what next. I started to ask a range of people what they wanted from t…

2022-11-20 18:54:50 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain ... then that would be the same on mastodon. and basically everywhere. we're talking about if you get suspended and the suspension is never lifted.

2022-11-20 17:53:30 this is THE thing for me. social media has a particular kind of conversational property to it. of course there are other kinds of discourse that videos and movies are engaging in, but it's different from something like twitter or mastodon (or even blog posts (maybe a hot take)) https://t.co/wMTUUrJTZr

2022-11-20 17:07:38 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain like in theory an admin could delete an account, right? if that's what banning someone does - and that deletes all the data - that's pretty harsh. but it sounds like whatever the process, Parker was able to migrate stuff, so that's... hopefully good?

2022-11-20 17:04:56 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain i admittedly totally don't know what happens when someone gets banned on mastodon - is it informally agreed that an admin will give you a few days to export/migrate, or does a ban mean "your account is frozen

2022-11-20 16:27:01 @tante his neediness is the backdrop of every single social and cultural endeavor he pursues. i'm not even going to link to an SNL skit because it makes me cringe https://t.co/wj0yoJtHXN

2022-11-20 15:34:25 @MarlowNYC @so_treu elmo fans are like "man, it's so great that tesla takes such good care of us" as federally required recall notices land in their inboxes

2022-11-20 15:32:03 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain that makes no sense lol. if we were talking about a user being suspended from twitter, we wouldn't be able to follow Parker at all. and we would still be stuck with the transphobic journalist community. mastodon has neither problem now.

2022-11-20 15:24:08 a pachyderm never fucking forgets, huh https://t.co/Yhzo7HYV2H

2022-11-20 06:56:07 RT @traceyh415: My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn a…

2022-11-20 06:48:16 what's your favorite 2-minute segment of the movie "Hackers"? let me know in the replies https://t.co/PdWu2ukz66

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-25 23:40:09 idk man, you might wanna stick to working at physical scales you already don't do very well https://t.co/2ZdxUI5bhX

2022-11-25 23:37:03 https://t.co/Sreal9hxkM

2022-11-25 05:28:36 @MikeIsaac you're so close to 3.14 pies at that point, i mean-

2022-11-24 16:45:54 from what i've been hearing, a lot of the people who signed on for more of this by clicking "yes" are here on visas, which means they'd have 60 days to find another job if they left mocking these people for signing on for more of this bullshit would not be a good look right now https://t.co/H0XmhCklcl

2022-11-24 16:29:34 @unangbangkay @mikepuchol @doctorow @YouTube it's remarkable how confident they can be. nothing coded into their script to bail out if the user uses words like "scam" or "scammer". it's fine to have this run right into the spotlight and be seen by everyone, because they know there's no meaningful enforcement to worry about.

2022-11-24 16:20:46 not sure if arxiv has a lot of papers about twitter because there's a lot of interest or because everyone doing research involving twitter data is trying to get their papers out before reviewers start commenting that the data you've been collecting over the past few weeks is sus.

2022-11-24 03:23:12 FYI bonafide masks is doing a black friday sale (30% off) if you're looking to stock up on masks THX30 (been hearing boat style masks are good, so i'm gonna try them out )

2022-11-23 23:52:04 sounds like i can still get it, still get long covid, and still get other people sick or is that just noise? https://t.co/BsX1GotJXz

2022-11-23 20:04:53 hey dril if you wanna co-author a paper, uh... lmk

2022-11-23 20:03:51 this comment on sentiment analysis in @TaylorLorenz's interview with @dril is... surprisingly apt for a conversation where dril later begs to be elno's disgusting dog. https://t.co/pyrBOrGsTi https://t.co/jJJ6uY6qGR

2022-11-23 19:40:57 @abelinasabrina :( hope things are okay

2022-11-22 14:52:01 @Blackamazon i'm a little amazed at some of the hagiography tbh

2022-11-22 14:38:24 RT @CantonWiner: UCI’s grad student government has been trying to email grad students FOR WEEKS about their right to strike. Admin blocked…

2022-11-22 14:04:43 @jilliancyork he supposedly replied to someone asking about it, saying it's his "#1 priority", but i only saw a screenshot and haven't gone looking for it. even if it's real, it's more talk informed and backed up by nothing. so ... ???

2022-11-22 13:51:49 safety concerns? in the middle of cap hill?? the place right next to dick's???? safety concerns??????? https://t.co/VwTsRNYAje

2022-11-22 13:43:40 @Dieter75 @MarlowNYC @so_treu don't make me tap the sign https://t.co/MRp9eCm4S6

2022-11-22 05:04:00 like this before i delete it lol

2022-11-22 05:03:43 hahaha it is so funny i worked really hard despite a fucked up home life and here i am renting for the rest of my life ha ha ha

2022-11-22 05:03:06 i can't stop laughing at what a fucking boomer elno is in the same way that i can't stop laughing at how the boomers in my hometown in are the reason i will never be able to buy a home or make any meaningful plans for my future

2022-11-22 03:14:12 RT @CinKneph: And this doesn’t even get into the idea that having individuals send out of context snippets of what they’re working on will…

2022-11-22 01:10:15 RT @karamcnair: @_alialkhatib At least one of those emails is going to accidentally contain a secret because everyone leaks secrets eventua…

2022-11-22 01:06:11 paper printouts were legitimately probably less stupid

2022-11-22 01:05:34 hey besties, i don't know who needs to hear this, hopefully not the 20 or so engineers remaining at twitter, but email is not a secure messaging format and you shouldn't send sensitive material on it if you have a secure alternative like... uh... robust version control systems https://t.co/hM88v1BMTk

2022-11-22 01:00:22 any interpersonal advice the nyt posts is probably more anthropologically interesting than actionably useful.

2022-11-22 00:58:37 every NYT article about how to act at a dinner party should come with a disclaimer that this advice is not suitable with POC hosts and you should seriously just do what you should always do which is ask before you start pulling some "Chaotic Good" shit

2022-11-22 00:40:43 >

2022-11-22 00:39:25 im imagining someone doing this to one of my aunts or uncles and i'm honestly legitimately scared

2022-11-22 00:34:46 >

2022-11-22 00:30:02 bahaahhahahaha https://t.co/xvXZUoSH1v

2022-11-21 19:35:01 @TheStalwart other than your ability to competently address the growing scale of content moderation?

2022-11-21 17:32:47 people shouldn't have to attend every single town hall meeting and be an active mod on every single community they're a part of and become a leader in every single space they want to exist MERELY to ensure that these spaces don't become oppressive. think about what you're asking.

2022-11-21 17:27:36 you're telling people to take on 100x work to build their own solution that's not racist whenever they encounter racism. what if they deal with racism 24 hours a day?

2022-11-21 17:26:39 i have my own instance and it's fine. i can have a doggo account

2022-11-21 17:22:47 i see people commenting to join better instances, or even to make your own 1. the amount of work you're telling people constantly harassed and abused like this to take on, simply to exist, is egregious 2. why wouldn't these admins block any instance that supports black people? https://t.co/sUzRjQKm39

2022-11-20 23:22:10 @npseaver people say they prefer the supposed "no aslanrithm" timeline but studies show that doesn't improve engagement

2022-11-20 21:37:54 RT @niloufar_s: Towards the end of my PhD I was trying to figure out what next. I started to ask a range of people what they wanted from t…

2022-11-20 18:54:50 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain ... then that would be the same on mastodon. and basically everywhere. we're talking about if you get suspended and the suspension is never lifted.

2022-11-20 17:53:30 this is THE thing for me. social media has a particular kind of conversational property to it. of course there are other kinds of discourse that videos and movies are engaging in, but it's different from something like twitter or mastodon (or even blog posts (maybe a hot take)) https://t.co/wMTUUrJTZr

2022-11-20 17:07:38 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain like in theory an admin could delete an account, right? if that's what banning someone does - and that deletes all the data - that's pretty harsh. but it sounds like whatever the process, Parker was able to migrate stuff, so that's... hopefully good?

2022-11-20 17:04:56 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain i admittedly totally don't know what happens when someone gets banned on mastodon - is it informally agreed that an admin will give you a few days to export/migrate, or does a ban mean "your account is frozen

2022-11-20 16:27:01 @tante his neediness is the backdrop of every single social and cultural endeavor he pursues. i'm not even going to link to an SNL skit because it makes me cringe https://t.co/wj0yoJtHXN

2022-11-20 15:34:25 @MarlowNYC @so_treu elmo fans are like "man, it's so great that tesla takes such good care of us" as federally required recall notices land in their inboxes

2022-11-20 15:32:03 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain that makes no sense lol. if we were talking about a user being suspended from twitter, we wouldn't be able to follow Parker at all. and we would still be stuck with the transphobic journalist community. mastodon has neither problem now.

2022-11-20 15:24:08 a pachyderm never fucking forgets, huh https://t.co/Yhzo7HYV2H

2022-11-20 06:56:07 RT @traceyh415: My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn a…

2022-11-20 06:48:16 what's your favorite 2-minute segment of the movie "Hackers"? let me know in the replies https://t.co/PdWu2ukz66

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-27 07:12:01 business school students see this nonsense and think they're being clever as shit

2022-11-27 07:11:08 these x axes are suspicious as fuck https://t.co/AsVfN0IwoP https://t.co/kOXKBoSf2D

2022-11-27 03:03:23 @cwarzel his usual attention to detail at the scale of smartphones... can't wait! https://t.co/hfVyNiBMLx

2022-11-27 03:00:35 RT @Grady_Booch: The new owner of @Twitter is a white supremacist and Nazi supporter. https://t.co/l3xV6OHf6S

2022-11-27 02:39:35 https://t.co/8JLe1ma2Fo

2022-11-27 02:37:49 sometimes i check and i'm like "wait, you still follow me??? even after all that??" and i get scared i'm gonna say something stupid and stop posting for a few days

2022-11-27 02:36:27 the worst thing about this hellhole is that some people i look up to follow me here, and leaving this piece of shit app run by an emerald mine heir with no sense of humor means losing those totally incredible connections that feel so improbable that i will never get that again :(

2022-11-27 02:32:17 @abelinasabrina @FoodNetwork i wasn't prepared for this juxtaposition but ... we stan a smol queen?

2022-11-27 02:25:18 RT @GAFollowers: BREAKING: There’s been a shooting at Atlantic Station on 17th street. Reports coming in say several people have been shot.…

2022-11-27 01:34:48 not all heroes wear capes, but if this one did it would be billowing https://t.co/0P555e8xkX

2022-11-27 01:23:22 RT @timnitGebru: Everyone in Georgia please vote.

2022-11-27 00:44:33 @MikeIsaac *trying to think which place that is* is it on the north side in berkeley? https://t.co/nr1y6uIjfd

2022-11-25 23:40:09 idk man, you might wanna stick to working at physical scales you already don't do very well https://t.co/2ZdxUI5bhX

2022-11-25 23:37:03 https://t.co/Sreal9hxkM

2022-11-25 05:28:36 @MikeIsaac you're so close to 3.14 pies at that point, i mean-

2022-11-24 16:45:54 from what i've been hearing, a lot of the people who signed on for more of this by clicking "yes" are here on visas, which means they'd have 60 days to find another job if they left mocking these people for signing on for more of this bullshit would not be a good look right now https://t.co/H0XmhCklcl

2022-11-24 16:29:34 @unangbangkay @mikepuchol @doctorow @YouTube it's remarkable how confident they can be. nothing coded into their script to bail out if the user uses words like "scam" or "scammer". it's fine to have this run right into the spotlight and be seen by everyone, because they know there's no meaningful enforcement to worry about.

2022-11-24 16:20:46 not sure if arxiv has a lot of papers about twitter because there's a lot of interest or because everyone doing research involving twitter data is trying to get their papers out before reviewers start commenting that the data you've been collecting over the past few weeks is sus.

2022-11-24 03:23:12 FYI bonafide masks is doing a black friday sale (30% off) if you're looking to stock up on masks THX30 (been hearing boat style masks are good, so i'm gonna try them out )

2022-11-23 23:52:04 sounds like i can still get it, still get long covid, and still get other people sick or is that just noise? https://t.co/BsX1GotJXz

2022-11-23 20:04:53 hey dril if you wanna co-author a paper, uh... lmk

2022-11-23 20:03:51 this comment on sentiment analysis in @TaylorLorenz's interview with @dril is... surprisingly apt for a conversation where dril later begs to be elno's disgusting dog. https://t.co/pyrBOrGsTi https://t.co/jJJ6uY6qGR

2022-11-23 19:40:57 @abelinasabrina :( hope things are okay

2022-11-22 14:52:01 @Blackamazon i'm a little amazed at some of the hagiography tbh

2022-11-22 14:38:24 RT @CantonWiner: UCI’s grad student government has been trying to email grad students FOR WEEKS about their right to strike. Admin blocked…

2022-11-22 14:04:43 @jilliancyork he supposedly replied to someone asking about it, saying it's his "#1 priority", but i only saw a screenshot and haven't gone looking for it. even if it's real, it's more talk informed and backed up by nothing. so ... ???

2022-11-22 13:51:49 safety concerns? in the middle of cap hill?? the place right next to dick's???? safety concerns??????? https://t.co/VwTsRNYAje

2022-11-22 13:43:40 @Dieter75 @MarlowNYC @so_treu don't make me tap the sign https://t.co/MRp9eCm4S6

2022-11-22 05:04:00 like this before i delete it lol

2022-11-22 05:03:43 hahaha it is so funny i worked really hard despite a fucked up home life and here i am renting for the rest of my life ha ha ha

2022-11-22 05:03:06 i can't stop laughing at what a fucking boomer elno is in the same way that i can't stop laughing at how the boomers in my hometown in are the reason i will never be able to buy a home or make any meaningful plans for my future

2022-11-22 03:14:12 RT @CinKneph: And this doesn’t even get into the idea that having individuals send out of context snippets of what they’re working on will…

2022-11-22 01:10:15 RT @karamcnair: @_alialkhatib At least one of those emails is going to accidentally contain a secret because everyone leaks secrets eventua…

2022-11-22 01:06:11 paper printouts were legitimately probably less stupid

2022-11-22 01:05:34 hey besties, i don't know who needs to hear this, hopefully not the 20 or so engineers remaining at twitter, but email is not a secure messaging format and you shouldn't send sensitive material on it if you have a secure alternative like... uh... robust version control systems https://t.co/hM88v1BMTk

2022-11-22 01:00:22 any interpersonal advice the nyt posts is probably more anthropologically interesting than actionably useful.

2022-11-22 00:58:37 every NYT article about how to act at a dinner party should come with a disclaimer that this advice is not suitable with POC hosts and you should seriously just do what you should always do which is ask before you start pulling some "Chaotic Good" shit

2022-11-22 00:40:43 >

2022-11-22 00:39:25 im imagining someone doing this to one of my aunts or uncles and i'm honestly legitimately scared

2022-11-22 00:34:46 >

2022-11-22 00:30:02 bahaahhahahaha https://t.co/xvXZUoSH1v

2022-11-21 19:35:01 @TheStalwart other than your ability to competently address the growing scale of content moderation?

2022-11-21 17:32:47 people shouldn't have to attend every single town hall meeting and be an active mod on every single community they're a part of and become a leader in every single space they want to exist MERELY to ensure that these spaces don't become oppressive. think about what you're asking.

2022-11-21 17:27:36 you're telling people to take on 100x work to build their own solution that's not racist whenever they encounter racism. what if they deal with racism 24 hours a day?

2022-11-21 17:26:39 i have my own instance and it's fine. i can have a doggo account

2022-11-21 17:22:47 i see people commenting to join better instances, or even to make your own 1. the amount of work you're telling people constantly harassed and abused like this to take on, simply to exist, is egregious 2. why wouldn't these admins block any instance that supports black people? https://t.co/sUzRjQKm39

2022-11-20 23:22:10 @npseaver people say they prefer the supposed "no aslanrithm" timeline but studies show that doesn't improve engagement

2022-11-20 21:37:54 RT @niloufar_s: Towards the end of my PhD I was trying to figure out what next. I started to ask a range of people what they wanted from t…

2022-11-20 18:54:50 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain ... then that would be the same on mastodon. and basically everywhere. we're talking about if you get suspended and the suspension is never lifted.

2022-11-20 17:53:30 this is THE thing for me. social media has a particular kind of conversational property to it. of course there are other kinds of discourse that videos and movies are engaging in, but it's different from something like twitter or mastodon (or even blog posts (maybe a hot take)) https://t.co/wMTUUrJTZr

2022-11-20 17:07:38 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain like in theory an admin could delete an account, right? if that's what banning someone does - and that deletes all the data - that's pretty harsh. but it sounds like whatever the process, Parker was able to migrate stuff, so that's... hopefully good?

2022-11-20 17:04:56 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain i admittedly totally don't know what happens when someone gets banned on mastodon - is it informally agreed that an admin will give you a few days to export/migrate, or does a ban mean "your account is frozen

2022-11-20 16:27:01 @tante his neediness is the backdrop of every single social and cultural endeavor he pursues. i'm not even going to link to an SNL skit because it makes me cringe https://t.co/wj0yoJtHXN

2022-11-20 15:34:25 @MarlowNYC @so_treu elmo fans are like "man, it's so great that tesla takes such good care of us" as federally required recall notices land in their inboxes

2022-11-20 15:32:03 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain that makes no sense lol. if we were talking about a user being suspended from twitter, we wouldn't be able to follow Parker at all. and we would still be stuck with the transphobic journalist community. mastodon has neither problem now.

2022-11-20 15:24:08 a pachyderm never fucking forgets, huh https://t.co/Yhzo7HYV2H

2022-11-20 06:56:07 RT @traceyh415: My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn a…

2022-11-20 06:48:16 what's your favorite 2-minute segment of the movie "Hackers"? let me know in the replies https://t.co/PdWu2ukz66

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-28 22:57:52 on a related note: my DMs are a garbage fire now. i've given up on dealing with spam messages, which have seemingly gotten dramatically worse. if you're in there, sorry

2022-11-28 22:56:26 love it. love. it. https://t.co/EkJ84r48hh

2022-11-28 22:54:41 i was going to say maybe they left their AWS API credentials exposed somewhere and some crypto scammer found it and started using it, but i guess they got ahead of me on that https://t.co/DwADjmdjUU

2022-11-28 22:51:30 @shinrowse @MikeIsaac tried to find a gif of that scene with the rollerbladers from better call saul but i gave up, imagine it here [insurance_scam.gif]

2022-11-28 22:50:28 @shinrowse @MikeIsaac guy buys a whole birdapp and then turns its entire monetization scheme on its head within a month for the sole apparent purpose of getting into a legal fight w/apple (one that... resembles the epic fight?). seems a little like he's throwing himself in front of a car for a $$ scam

2022-11-28 22:42:00 @shinrowse @MikeIsaac thanks - i only saw the one where he @'d tim cook, which seemed to be him whining about advertising i wonder if this is going to force more discovery around elmo's purchase of twitter and lead to more texts. seems kinda relevant that he'd have known about the 30% thing going in.

2022-11-28 22:21:47 @MikeIsaac ... is space karen seriously asking to speak to the manager after apple stopped running ads on twitter?

2022-11-28 21:55:37 RT @alexnpress: incredible to see the rail carriers say they’re “very focused on taking every step necessary to avoid a work stoppage” when…

2022-11-28 19:25:00 still slightly laughing at the guy who got real funding from real idiots with real money who went out like "hey, here's a super principled position i'm going to announce despite a gun not being held to my head: i'm deprioritizing accessibility" like who are you saying that for?

2022-11-28 19:21:55 meanwhile there's studies showing that dudes with covid running around outside demonstrably passed covid to folks, like it's that transmissible now (hey, yes, that was evident in like... june, but who's counting)

2022-11-28 19:18:32 why is the white house doing this get boosters as often as is appropriate given your medical situation and especially given any variants that have AND WILL emerge over time.

2022-11-28 16:44:04 @its_a_me_lucy holy shit thank you. i couldn't bring myself to look very closely because it just made me super uncomfortable and sad for him

2022-11-28 16:40:40 i'm just gonna say i hope he doesn't blow his fucking brains out

2022-11-28 02:59:34 @CutForTime if apple didn't want me to sweep that notification away defiantly, they shouldn't have made it so satisfying to do.

2022-11-27 23:46:39 the people behind post looked at mastodon with its bullshit about civility and making white people feel comfortable and somehow decided they could innovate and BY GOD THEY'RE DOING THEIR BEST https://t.co/uuwf7xf8A6

2022-11-27 23:34:39 "blockheads get it through their heads that accessibility is neither a flourish nor a charity - but directly on the critical path of development" challenge (impossible)

2022-11-27 23:30:21 >

2022-11-27 19:16:05 @Christophers91A @IBJIYONGI "... and then, about 9 hours later or whenever, i'll SPRING THE TRAP and ask people to consider buying my book" you figured it out. the most cunning advertising campaign, hinging on a tweet that could, almost, arguably be misconstrued as a passing thought someone actually had https://t.co/ULDyhBRmNf

2022-11-27 18:54:48 RT @MoreAndAgain: Imagine thinking a slave owner had to be recruited into white supremacy. White people are collectively unequipped to acc…

2022-11-27 18:45:06 @IBJIYONGI i'm sure a lot of people think they're real sleuths for seeing through your cynical ruse to earn goodwill by talking about bright car headlights and then segueing that into advertising a book you wrote years ago

2022-11-27 18:33:27 "i can't believe i'm defending a strip mall," you think to yourself, "but at least it was a place to go... in the 90s, i guess..."

2022-11-27 18:32:18 loser buys a strip mall, talks about making it better than ever with laser tag across all the stores, and every time you check in there's just more pests and grifters, and all the stores are ending leases, which is usually bad. he keeps saying there's never been more foot traffic

2022-11-27 18:22:52 people commenting "i still see you here" like we all walk by a building that got condemned and not wanna poke our heads in every time to see how its desolation is proceeding https://t.co/AmKdVimhuX

2022-11-27 07:12:01 business school students see this nonsense and think they're being clever as shit

2022-11-27 07:11:08 these x axes are suspicious as fuck https://t.co/AsVfN0IwoP https://t.co/kOXKBoSf2D

2022-11-27 03:03:23 @cwarzel his usual attention to detail at the scale of smartphones... can't wait! https://t.co/hfVyNiBMLx

2022-11-27 03:00:35 RT @Grady_Booch: The new owner of @Twitter is a white supremacist and Nazi supporter. https://t.co/l3xV6OHf6S

2022-11-27 02:39:35 https://t.co/8JLe1ma2Fo

2022-11-27 02:37:49 sometimes i check and i'm like "wait, you still follow me??? even after all that??" and i get scared i'm gonna say something stupid and stop posting for a few days

2022-11-27 02:36:27 the worst thing about this hellhole is that some people i look up to follow me here, and leaving this piece of shit app run by an emerald mine heir with no sense of humor means losing those totally incredible connections that feel so improbable that i will never get that again :(

2022-11-27 02:32:17 @abelinasabrina @FoodNetwork i wasn't prepared for this juxtaposition but ... we stan a smol queen?

2022-11-27 02:25:18 RT @GAFollowers: BREAKING: There’s been a shooting at Atlantic Station on 17th street. Reports coming in say several people have been shot.…

2022-11-27 01:34:48 not all heroes wear capes, but if this one did it would be billowing https://t.co/0P555e8xkX

2022-11-27 01:23:22 RT @timnitGebru: Everyone in Georgia please vote.

2022-11-27 00:44:33 @MikeIsaac *trying to think which place that is* is it on the north side in berkeley? https://t.co/nr1y6uIjfd

2022-11-25 23:40:09 idk man, you might wanna stick to working at physical scales you already don't do very well https://t.co/2ZdxUI5bhX

2022-11-25 23:37:03 https://t.co/Sreal9hxkM

2022-11-25 05:28:36 @MikeIsaac you're so close to 3.14 pies at that point, i mean-

2022-11-24 16:45:54 from what i've been hearing, a lot of the people who signed on for more of this by clicking "yes" are here on visas, which means they'd have 60 days to find another job if they left mocking these people for signing on for more of this bullshit would not be a good look right now https://t.co/H0XmhCklcl

2022-11-24 16:29:34 @unangbangkay @mikepuchol @doctorow @YouTube it's remarkable how confident they can be. nothing coded into their script to bail out if the user uses words like "scam" or "scammer". it's fine to have this run right into the spotlight and be seen by everyone, because they know there's no meaningful enforcement to worry about.

2022-11-24 16:20:46 not sure if arxiv has a lot of papers about twitter because there's a lot of interest or because everyone doing research involving twitter data is trying to get their papers out before reviewers start commenting that the data you've been collecting over the past few weeks is sus.

2022-11-24 03:23:12 FYI bonafide masks is doing a black friday sale (30% off) if you're looking to stock up on masks THX30 (been hearing boat style masks are good, so i'm gonna try them out )

2022-11-23 23:52:04 sounds like i can still get it, still get long covid, and still get other people sick or is that just noise? https://t.co/BsX1GotJXz

2022-11-23 20:04:53 hey dril if you wanna co-author a paper, uh... lmk

2022-11-23 20:03:51 this comment on sentiment analysis in @TaylorLorenz's interview with @dril is... surprisingly apt for a conversation where dril later begs to be elno's disgusting dog. https://t.co/pyrBOrGsTi https://t.co/jJJ6uY6qGR

2022-11-23 19:40:57 @abelinasabrina :( hope things are okay

2022-11-22 14:52:01 @Blackamazon i'm a little amazed at some of the hagiography tbh

2022-11-22 14:38:24 RT @CantonWiner: UCI’s grad student government has been trying to email grad students FOR WEEKS about their right to strike. Admin blocked…

2022-11-22 14:04:43 @jilliancyork he supposedly replied to someone asking about it, saying it's his "#1 priority", but i only saw a screenshot and haven't gone looking for it. even if it's real, it's more talk informed and backed up by nothing. so ... ???

2022-11-22 13:51:49 safety concerns? in the middle of cap hill?? the place right next to dick's???? safety concerns??????? https://t.co/VwTsRNYAje

2022-11-22 13:43:40 @Dieter75 @MarlowNYC @so_treu don't make me tap the sign https://t.co/MRp9eCm4S6

2022-11-22 05:04:00 like this before i delete it lol

2022-11-22 05:03:43 hahaha it is so funny i worked really hard despite a fucked up home life and here i am renting for the rest of my life ha ha ha

2022-11-22 05:03:06 i can't stop laughing at what a fucking boomer elno is in the same way that i can't stop laughing at how the boomers in my hometown in are the reason i will never be able to buy a home or make any meaningful plans for my future

2022-11-22 03:14:12 RT @CinKneph: And this doesn’t even get into the idea that having individuals send out of context snippets of what they’re working on will…

2022-11-22 01:10:15 RT @karamcnair: @_alialkhatib At least one of those emails is going to accidentally contain a secret because everyone leaks secrets eventua…

2022-11-22 01:06:11 paper printouts were legitimately probably less stupid

2022-11-22 01:05:34 hey besties, i don't know who needs to hear this, hopefully not the 20 or so engineers remaining at twitter, but email is not a secure messaging format and you shouldn't send sensitive material on it if you have a secure alternative like... uh... robust version control systems https://t.co/hM88v1BMTk

2022-11-22 01:00:22 any interpersonal advice the nyt posts is probably more anthropologically interesting than actionably useful.

2022-11-22 00:58:37 every NYT article about how to act at a dinner party should come with a disclaimer that this advice is not suitable with POC hosts and you should seriously just do what you should always do which is ask before you start pulling some "Chaotic Good" shit

2022-11-22 00:40:43 >

2022-11-22 00:39:25 im imagining someone doing this to one of my aunts or uncles and i'm honestly legitimately scared

2022-11-22 00:34:46 >

2022-11-22 00:30:02 bahaahhahahaha https://t.co/xvXZUoSH1v

2022-11-21 19:35:01 @TheStalwart other than your ability to competently address the growing scale of content moderation?

2022-11-21 17:32:47 people shouldn't have to attend every single town hall meeting and be an active mod on every single community they're a part of and become a leader in every single space they want to exist MERELY to ensure that these spaces don't become oppressive. think about what you're asking.

2022-11-21 17:27:36 you're telling people to take on 100x work to build their own solution that's not racist whenever they encounter racism. what if they deal with racism 24 hours a day?

2022-11-21 17:26:39 i have my own instance and it's fine. i can have a doggo account

2022-11-21 17:22:47 i see people commenting to join better instances, or even to make your own 1. the amount of work you're telling people constantly harassed and abused like this to take on, simply to exist, is egregious 2. why wouldn't these admins block any instance that supports black people? https://t.co/sUzRjQKm39

2022-11-20 23:22:10 @npseaver people say they prefer the supposed "no aslanrithm" timeline but studies show that doesn't improve engagement

2022-11-20 21:37:54 RT @niloufar_s: Towards the end of my PhD I was trying to figure out what next. I started to ask a range of people what they wanted from t…

2022-11-20 18:54:50 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain ... then that would be the same on mastodon. and basically everywhere. we're talking about if you get suspended and the suspension is never lifted.

2022-11-20 17:53:30 this is THE thing for me. social media has a particular kind of conversational property to it. of course there are other kinds of discourse that videos and movies are engaging in, but it's different from something like twitter or mastodon (or even blog posts (maybe a hot take)) https://t.co/wMTUUrJTZr

2022-11-20 17:07:38 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain like in theory an admin could delete an account, right? if that's what banning someone does - and that deletes all the data - that's pretty harsh. but it sounds like whatever the process, Parker was able to migrate stuff, so that's... hopefully good?

2022-11-20 17:04:56 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain i admittedly totally don't know what happens when someone gets banned on mastodon - is it informally agreed that an admin will give you a few days to export/migrate, or does a ban mean "your account is frozen

2022-11-20 16:27:01 @tante his neediness is the backdrop of every single social and cultural endeavor he pursues. i'm not even going to link to an SNL skit because it makes me cringe https://t.co/wj0yoJtHXN

2022-11-20 15:34:25 @MarlowNYC @so_treu elmo fans are like "man, it's so great that tesla takes such good care of us" as federally required recall notices land in their inboxes

2022-11-20 15:32:03 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain that makes no sense lol. if we were talking about a user being suspended from twitter, we wouldn't be able to follow Parker at all. and we would still be stuck with the transphobic journalist community. mastodon has neither problem now.

2022-11-20 15:24:08 a pachyderm never fucking forgets, huh https://t.co/Yhzo7HYV2H

2022-11-20 06:56:07 RT @traceyh415: My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn a…

2022-11-20 06:48:16 what's your favorite 2-minute segment of the movie "Hackers"? let me know in the replies https://t.co/PdWu2ukz66

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-11-29 07:21:02 @mattbc it's a real doozy

2022-11-29 07:18:38 the p-hacking crisis has progressed faster than i expected

2022-11-28 22:57:52 on a related note: my DMs are a garbage fire now. i've given up on dealing with spam messages, which have seemingly gotten dramatically worse. if you're in there, sorry

2022-11-28 22:56:26 love it. love. it. https://t.co/EkJ84r48hh

2022-11-28 22:54:41 i was going to say maybe they left their AWS API credentials exposed somewhere and some crypto scammer found it and started using it, but i guess they got ahead of me on that https://t.co/DwADjmdjUU

2022-11-28 22:51:30 @shinrowse @MikeIsaac tried to find a gif of that scene with the rollerbladers from better call saul but i gave up, imagine it here [insurance_scam.gif]

2022-11-28 22:50:28 @shinrowse @MikeIsaac guy buys a whole birdapp and then turns its entire monetization scheme on its head within a month for the sole apparent purpose of getting into a legal fight w/apple (one that... resembles the epic fight?). seems a little like he's throwing himself in front of a car for a $$ scam

2022-11-28 22:42:00 @shinrowse @MikeIsaac thanks - i only saw the one where he @'d tim cook, which seemed to be him whining about advertising i wonder if this is going to force more discovery around elmo's purchase of twitter and lead to more texts. seems kinda relevant that he'd have known about the 30% thing going in.

2022-11-28 22:21:47 @MikeIsaac ... is space karen seriously asking to speak to the manager after apple stopped running ads on twitter?

2022-11-28 21:55:37 RT @alexnpress: incredible to see the rail carriers say they’re “very focused on taking every step necessary to avoid a work stoppage” when…

2022-11-28 19:25:00 still slightly laughing at the guy who got real funding from real idiots with real money who went out like "hey, here's a super principled position i'm going to announce despite a gun not being held to my head: i'm deprioritizing accessibility" like who are you saying that for?

2022-11-28 19:21:55 meanwhile there's studies showing that dudes with covid running around outside demonstrably passed covid to folks, like it's that transmissible now (hey, yes, that was evident in like... june, but who's counting)

2022-11-28 19:18:32 why is the white house doing this get boosters as often as is appropriate given your medical situation and especially given any variants that have AND WILL emerge over time.

2022-11-28 16:44:04 @its_a_me_lucy holy shit thank you. i couldn't bring myself to look very closely because it just made me super uncomfortable and sad for him

2022-11-28 16:40:40 i'm just gonna say i hope he doesn't blow his fucking brains out

2022-11-28 02:59:34 @CutForTime if apple didn't want me to sweep that notification away defiantly, they shouldn't have made it so satisfying to do.

2022-11-27 23:46:39 the people behind post looked at mastodon with its bullshit about civility and making white people feel comfortable and somehow decided they could innovate and BY GOD THEY'RE DOING THEIR BEST https://t.co/uuwf7xf8A6

2022-11-27 23:34:39 "blockheads get it through their heads that accessibility is neither a flourish nor a charity - but directly on the critical path of development" challenge (impossible)

2022-11-27 23:30:21 >

2022-11-27 19:16:05 @Christophers91A @IBJIYONGI "... and then, about 9 hours later or whenever, i'll SPRING THE TRAP and ask people to consider buying my book" you figured it out. the most cunning advertising campaign, hinging on a tweet that could, almost, arguably be misconstrued as a passing thought someone actually had https://t.co/ULDyhBRmNf

2022-11-27 18:54:48 RT @MoreAndAgain: Imagine thinking a slave owner had to be recruited into white supremacy. White people are collectively unequipped to acc…

2022-11-27 18:45:06 @IBJIYONGI i'm sure a lot of people think they're real sleuths for seeing through your cynical ruse to earn goodwill by talking about bright car headlights and then segueing that into advertising a book you wrote years ago

2022-11-27 18:33:27 "i can't believe i'm defending a strip mall," you think to yourself, "but at least it was a place to go... in the 90s, i guess..."

2022-11-27 18:32:18 loser buys a strip mall, talks about making it better than ever with laser tag across all the stores, and every time you check in there's just more pests and grifters, and all the stores are ending leases, which is usually bad. he keeps saying there's never been more foot traffic

2022-11-27 18:22:52 people commenting "i still see you here" like we all walk by a building that got condemned and not wanna poke our heads in every time to see how its desolation is proceeding https://t.co/AmKdVimhuX

2022-11-27 07:12:01 business school students see this nonsense and think they're being clever as shit

2022-11-27 07:11:08 these x axes are suspicious as fuck https://t.co/AsVfN0IwoP https://t.co/kOXKBoSf2D

2022-11-27 03:03:23 @cwarzel his usual attention to detail at the scale of smartphones... can't wait! https://t.co/hfVyNiBMLx

2022-11-27 03:00:35 RT @Grady_Booch: The new owner of @Twitter is a white supremacist and Nazi supporter. https://t.co/l3xV6OHf6S

2022-11-27 02:39:35 https://t.co/8JLe1ma2Fo

2022-11-27 02:37:49 sometimes i check and i'm like "wait, you still follow me??? even after all that??" and i get scared i'm gonna say something stupid and stop posting for a few days

2022-11-27 02:36:27 the worst thing about this hellhole is that some people i look up to follow me here, and leaving this piece of shit app run by an emerald mine heir with no sense of humor means losing those totally incredible connections that feel so improbable that i will never get that again :(

2022-11-27 02:32:17 @abelinasabrina @FoodNetwork i wasn't prepared for this juxtaposition but ... we stan a smol queen?

2022-11-27 02:25:18 RT @GAFollowers: BREAKING: There’s been a shooting at Atlantic Station on 17th street. Reports coming in say several people have been shot.…

2022-11-27 01:34:48 not all heroes wear capes, but if this one did it would be billowing https://t.co/0P555e8xkX

2022-11-27 01:23:22 RT @timnitGebru: Everyone in Georgia please vote.

2022-11-27 00:44:33 @MikeIsaac *trying to think which place that is* is it on the north side in berkeley? https://t.co/nr1y6uIjfd

2022-11-25 23:40:09 idk man, you might wanna stick to working at physical scales you already don't do very well https://t.co/2ZdxUI5bhX

2022-11-25 23:37:03 https://t.co/Sreal9hxkM

2022-11-25 05:28:36 @MikeIsaac you're so close to 3.14 pies at that point, i mean-

2022-11-24 16:45:54 from what i've been hearing, a lot of the people who signed on for more of this by clicking "yes" are here on visas, which means they'd have 60 days to find another job if they left mocking these people for signing on for more of this bullshit would not be a good look right now https://t.co/H0XmhCklcl

2022-11-24 16:29:34 @unangbangkay @mikepuchol @doctorow @YouTube it's remarkable how confident they can be. nothing coded into their script to bail out if the user uses words like "scam" or "scammer". it's fine to have this run right into the spotlight and be seen by everyone, because they know there's no meaningful enforcement to worry about.

2022-11-24 16:20:46 not sure if arxiv has a lot of papers about twitter because there's a lot of interest or because everyone doing research involving twitter data is trying to get their papers out before reviewers start commenting that the data you've been collecting over the past few weeks is sus.

2022-11-24 03:23:12 FYI bonafide masks is doing a black friday sale (30% off) if you're looking to stock up on masks THX30 (been hearing boat style masks are good, so i'm gonna try them out )

2022-11-23 23:52:04 sounds like i can still get it, still get long covid, and still get other people sick or is that just noise? https://t.co/BsX1GotJXz

2022-11-23 20:04:53 hey dril if you wanna co-author a paper, uh... lmk

2022-11-23 20:03:51 this comment on sentiment analysis in @TaylorLorenz's interview with @dril is... surprisingly apt for a conversation where dril later begs to be elno's disgusting dog. https://t.co/pyrBOrGsTi https://t.co/jJJ6uY6qGR

2022-11-23 19:40:57 @abelinasabrina :( hope things are okay

2022-11-22 14:52:01 @Blackamazon i'm a little amazed at some of the hagiography tbh

2022-11-22 14:38:24 RT @CantonWiner: UCI’s grad student government has been trying to email grad students FOR WEEKS about their right to strike. Admin blocked…

2022-11-22 14:04:43 @jilliancyork he supposedly replied to someone asking about it, saying it's his "#1 priority", but i only saw a screenshot and haven't gone looking for it. even if it's real, it's more talk informed and backed up by nothing. so ... ???

2022-11-22 13:51:49 safety concerns? in the middle of cap hill?? the place right next to dick's???? safety concerns??????? https://t.co/VwTsRNYAje

2022-11-22 13:43:40 @Dieter75 @MarlowNYC @so_treu don't make me tap the sign https://t.co/MRp9eCm4S6

2022-11-22 05:04:00 like this before i delete it lol

2022-11-22 05:03:43 hahaha it is so funny i worked really hard despite a fucked up home life and here i am renting for the rest of my life ha ha ha

2022-11-22 05:03:06 i can't stop laughing at what a fucking boomer elno is in the same way that i can't stop laughing at how the boomers in my hometown in are the reason i will never be able to buy a home or make any meaningful plans for my future

2022-11-22 03:14:12 RT @CinKneph: And this doesn’t even get into the idea that having individuals send out of context snippets of what they’re working on will…

2022-11-22 01:10:15 RT @karamcnair: @_alialkhatib At least one of those emails is going to accidentally contain a secret because everyone leaks secrets eventua…

2022-11-22 01:06:11 paper printouts were legitimately probably less stupid

2022-11-22 01:05:34 hey besties, i don't know who needs to hear this, hopefully not the 20 or so engineers remaining at twitter, but email is not a secure messaging format and you shouldn't send sensitive material on it if you have a secure alternative like... uh... robust version control systems https://t.co/hM88v1BMTk

2022-11-22 01:00:22 any interpersonal advice the nyt posts is probably more anthropologically interesting than actionably useful.

2022-11-22 00:58:37 every NYT article about how to act at a dinner party should come with a disclaimer that this advice is not suitable with POC hosts and you should seriously just do what you should always do which is ask before you start pulling some "Chaotic Good" shit

2022-11-22 00:40:43 >

2022-11-22 00:39:25 im imagining someone doing this to one of my aunts or uncles and i'm honestly legitimately scared

2022-11-22 00:34:46 >

2022-11-22 00:30:02 bahaahhahahaha https://t.co/xvXZUoSH1v

2022-11-21 19:35:01 @TheStalwart other than your ability to competently address the growing scale of content moderation?

2022-11-21 17:32:47 people shouldn't have to attend every single town hall meeting and be an active mod on every single community they're a part of and become a leader in every single space they want to exist MERELY to ensure that these spaces don't become oppressive. think about what you're asking.

2022-11-21 17:27:36 you're telling people to take on 100x work to build their own solution that's not racist whenever they encounter racism. what if they deal with racism 24 hours a day?

2022-11-21 17:26:39 i have my own instance and it's fine. i can have a doggo account

2022-11-21 17:22:47 i see people commenting to join better instances, or even to make your own 1. the amount of work you're telling people constantly harassed and abused like this to take on, simply to exist, is egregious 2. why wouldn't these admins block any instance that supports black people? https://t.co/sUzRjQKm39

2022-11-20 23:22:10 @npseaver people say they prefer the supposed "no aslanrithm" timeline but studies show that doesn't improve engagement

2022-11-20 21:37:54 RT @niloufar_s: Towards the end of my PhD I was trying to figure out what next. I started to ask a range of people what they wanted from t…

2022-11-20 18:54:50 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain ... then that would be the same on mastodon. and basically everywhere. we're talking about if you get suspended and the suspension is never lifted.

2022-11-20 17:53:30 this is THE thing for me. social media has a particular kind of conversational property to it. of course there are other kinds of discourse that videos and movies are engaging in, but it's different from something like twitter or mastodon (or even blog posts (maybe a hot take)) https://t.co/wMTUUrJTZr

2022-11-20 17:07:38 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain like in theory an admin could delete an account, right? if that's what banning someone does - and that deletes all the data - that's pretty harsh. but it sounds like whatever the process, Parker was able to migrate stuff, so that's... hopefully good?

2022-11-20 17:04:56 @ispeakspider @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain i admittedly totally don't know what happens when someone gets banned on mastodon - is it informally agreed that an admin will give you a few days to export/migrate, or does a ban mean "your account is frozen

2022-11-20 16:27:01 @tante his neediness is the backdrop of every single social and cultural endeavor he pursues. i'm not even going to link to an SNL skit because it makes me cringe https://t.co/wj0yoJtHXN

2022-11-20 15:34:25 @MarlowNYC @so_treu elmo fans are like "man, it's so great that tesla takes such good care of us" as federally required recall notices land in their inboxes

2022-11-20 15:32:03 @DigiAtlas @xanatax_ @JenYetAgain that makes no sense lol. if we were talking about a user being suspended from twitter, we wouldn't be able to follow Parker at all. and we would still be stuck with the transphobic journalist community. mastodon has neither problem now.

2022-11-20 15:24:08 a pachyderm never fucking forgets, huh https://t.co/Yhzo7HYV2H

2022-11-20 06:56:07 RT @traceyh415: My friend gave birth in prison while shackled to the gurney. They let her hold the baby for 45 mins then took her newborn a…

2022-11-20 06:48:16 what's your favorite 2-minute segment of the movie "Hackers"? let me know in the replies https://t.co/PdWu2ukz66

2022-11-20 03:58:46 @Wolven i considered getting an inhaler the next day. i laughed so hard at some of the tweets i saw i got worried i would wake up the neighbors. i guess i'm saying i still don't have an inhaler and my body is not ready

2022-11-20 03:56:09 @Wolven do you remember twitter the night the news came out that he had covid?

2022-11-20 03:51:44 @histoftech uh. UH.

2022-11-19 23:28:54 i wanna say to everyone who held the line and never posted Black Panther spoilers: you're all excellent people and to the rest of you: turns out i'm so out of touch with everything that i didn't see your spoilers anyway, so who's the loser now?

2022-11-19 23:15:15 also taking advice from calacanis should immediately get your keys taken away from you all of your keys. car keys, house keys, mailbox keys. every key.

2022-11-19 23:14:26 dunno how i feel about jack spending every other day publicly, desperately trying to convince elmo not to fundamentally break twitter while elmo wakes up every day and decimates whatever platform and team is left from the previous day's decimation.

2022-11-19 16:20:49 @CubicleApril @IBJIYONGI @elonmusk he's going to say he doesn't see gender or something incredibly stupid. i just need to put that down here

2022-11-19 14:38:43 it's a lot of neat boxes and lines, but does it look like the product of a detailed conversation in the weeds of fixing a service that's gone sideways? i mean, i don't want to dwell on the tea leaves

2022-11-19 14:36:14 can't help thinking about the conversations/arrangements that go into photos sometimes how did elmo's whiteboard pic happen? it's so lacking in detail in any single topic that it's functionally useless. it's what you sketch for someone who asks why all the teams at twitter exist

2022-11-19 14:08:49 @sassycrass i think @anildash said in a podcast conversation with @gruber that he has a boomer's sense of humor. he's the guy from the comic with no self-awareness or irony whenever i look down the well of how pathetic he is, i only see where light fades off. if it's not endless, it's close https://t.co/y1bPhOKrZ3

2022-11-19 14:01:30 @IfeomaOzoma @Blackamazon i wasn't prepared for where that sentence went right from the start

2022-11-18 18:56:57 RT @MistressSnowPhD: this is how it’s worked, like, forever. jackass. also shadowbanning ≠ content moderation. I assure you that simply “d…

2022-11-18 18:51:34 forgot who said it but someone predicted that elon would just converge on the exact same policy twitter had before he acquired it, in an ongoing state of "oh, so that's why they had that policy..." and uh https://t.co/vzRpEzPyDZ

2022-11-18 18:31:07 @lolkat i literally laughed out loud at the reference in the latest hbomberguy video btw

2022-11-18 18:29:02 @ylecun @Abebab not a lot of people know this Yann but "demo" is etymologically related to the word "demonstration"

2022-11-18 18:26:07 by the way, don't go to the 10th floor to meet a megalomaniacal billionaire in a moment of crisis. you're gonna get thrown out a window. demand he meet you on the ground floor, or at least in a windowless room.

2022-11-18 18:24:35 @lepcyrus i bet he eats lunch there every day because he loves being called "boss" without having to ask

2022-11-18 18:21:43 all the nav systems in the Teslas in SF are being sent an override command to make them all converge on elon's location. there's gotta be an engineer in some of those cars

2022-11-18 18:19:44 elon is running from one person to another all the way down market street grabbing people by the shoulders and screaming "CAN YOU HACK? CAN YOU HELP ME OPEN THE BUILDING DOOR?" through people's headphones.

2022-11-18 18:16:37 @veenadubal i feel like stanford's "when" is well-documented through the general use permit negotiations (GUP), although stanford is weird for a million reasons. would love to know how the landscape of this process looked/looks across the country

2022-11-18 18:14:54 @veenadubal the "why" would be a very short paper unfortunately :/

2022-11-18 18:11:46 i wish i could just observe this person through the course of their day.

2022-11-18 18:10:21 i would really like to speak to any tweeps heading to an airport right now. i have... just... SO MANY questions. https://t.co/NneiXa3A08

2022-11-18 07:41:01 send both of them to mars, jfc https://t.co/3ikO0F3WiC

2022-11-18 07:22:35 @sd_marlow @timnitGebru reminds me of david graeber's writing about how people w/power approach bureaucracies as a kind of game because they ultimately have control over it and can walk away when they want. most of us can't, so it's not "having fun". the bureaucracy-AI link keeps feeling compelling :/

2022-11-18 07:09:50 @skinnylatte a bunch of elon fans are going to converge on twitter hq like zombies, murmuring "epic" and "to the moon" monotonously under their breaths. none of them will have brought computers

2022-11-18 06:05:22 serious question: without twitter, how am i going to find out when/if i can order free covid tests and shit like that via the USPS site? like do i just check the USPS site for new deals every few days now?

2022-11-18 05:54:15 ok i'll try the algorithmic timeline just for tonight. since i know this app loves that shit

2022-11-18 05:48:40 @jowens510 @swodinsky i keep thinking about what could right this ship, and... "elon unwinds his decisions and promises to never meddle in twitter anymore"? maybe? but he's already decimated the company. entire teams were laid off long enough ago that they're moving on. that damage can't be unwound.

2022-11-18 05:42:34 @jowens510 @swodinsky sense i've been getting is that people are leaving to get away from elon, who.. doesn't seem like a competent boss. i'm not sure what stock options elon could offer that would help. feels a little like a cruise line offering vouchers for a future vacation as you board a life raft

2022-11-18 05:34:19 it might be a good idea to share some backup channels and secure your account, whether you're leaving or not. email hi@al2.in mastodon https://t.co/e4gwmwviki instagram https://t.co/UadDRxPzP3 signal [reach out] if all else fails https://t.co/NQR2heN4Nn stay safe, everyone.

2022-11-17 20:10:20 @atpfm @marcoarment @siracusa PS: made a @linode account this week (thanks for the referral link btw lol) to spin up my own mastodon instance. it was genuinely surprisingly straightforward with Cloudron, and while i agree most people won't want to do this, it was one click once i entered login/API token info

2022-11-17 20:03:22 @atpfm i think @marcoarment is also 100% right about mastodon being so similar to twitter that it misleads users. in particular, mastodon should rename "DMs" because it's functionally inconsistent with the shared definition most platforms implicitly agree upon (as @siracusa described)

2022-11-17 19:59:04 @atpfm i really liked your mastodon discussion. it sounded like you were all saying there are no iOS apps besides the official one, but there are a few: Metatext (free) &

2022-11-17 17:47:01 RT @_alialkhatib: @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 17:45:00 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom oh my god i'm gonna die laughing https://t.co/w5rZYzCrSc

2022-11-17 12:40:02 @Melnyiam_ @LisaBloom lmaooooooooo https://t.co/pyp1XNf0ek

2022-11-17 02:55:13 RT @dowellml: I’d happily join a professional organization that never holds F2F conferences. Seems like the first step toward inclusion. Th…

2022-11-17 02:54:22 @miriamkp makes me so happy that he spent like $100m to be a loser. don't love how close it got

2022-11-17 02:50:16 i had fucking thought caruso won so i had been going around all sad for like a week. this is awesome

2022-11-17 02:49:28 !!!! https://t.co/Y9EJ0OW0Du

2022-11-16 17:50:55 i learned in grad school that an excellent way to get people to come together is to provide free food and i get that but this entire overarching circular system where you don't pay people enough to make ends meet and then they show up because that's dinner for them is just fucked

2022-11-16 17:50:54 i'm still figuring out how to filter emails but i got this listserv email from my old grad program and i was immediately reminded that most grad students genuinely have to budget around the hope of occasional free food, and how fucked up and toxic this entire system is https://t.co/n5b3VmFzLm https://t.co/Pj7a5TL9Wr

2022-11-16 17:43:15 @WillOremus "planned to sleep on the floor at Twitter until the organization was fixed" hot take/theory: elon just wants to have a sleepover since nobody wanted to hang with him at his emerald mine as a kid, and thinks it's just barely bearably pathetic to coerce employees to sleep at work

2022-11-16 17:22:35 @leahculver i mean https://t.co/ilEIRa1BS9

2022-11-16 17:18:14 you know the saying, right #tweeps? the best time to form a union was 16 years ago. second best time is now.

2022-11-16 17:14:03 @Grady_Booch @taylorswift13 https://t.co/xtNKAe0sPD

2022-11-16 17:11:44 @sharonodea 3/2 you either have those discussions privately, publicly, or not at all. evidently he's not okay with public discussions as recent firings revealed

2022-11-16 17:08:30 @sharonodea maybe to put it a way elmo might (pretend to) understand: when you're working on a nebulous or complicated coding task, sometimes you need to put code on the screen that you know is garbage so that you can iterate on, closing in on the right design/approach 2/2

2022-11-16 17:07:27 @sharonodea not an internal comms person but when an org is doing something ill-advised or just wrong, but the issue with that strategy is difficult to crystallize, people need to be able to discuss it to pinpoint the boundaries of the critique. outlining a problem with precision is hard /2

2022-11-16 16:59:12 reminds me a bit too much of those thin client PCs i used in school. like... aesthetically it kinda looks like a desktop interface, but nothing looks, feels, or clicks quite right... https://t.co/5CZusDpvgA

2022-11-16 16:52:51 he's like 2 late night 4chan browsing sessions away from getting pulled over and arrested on the side of a highway as he yells that he's a sovereign citizen https://t.co/tzV1xAvZgx

2022-11-16 16:43:04 @so_treu in 30 rock @AndyRichter played a guy who never retained memories after some skiing accident in 1985, stuck emotionally and culturally in the 1980s at age 15 or something i can't help wondering if elmo ever went skiing in the mid-2000s and his brain got stuck in an edgelord phase

2022-11-16 16:33:31 he's probably going to claim that more tweets are "reviewed" now than before he showed up, by flagging more tweets algorithmically and claiming the algo is doing the reviewing. or maybe claiming the user is the reviewer. either of which would be utterly delusional

2022-11-16 16:31:32 i've been getting more of these lately. used to not see them at all lol did he decimate the content moderation team thinking this would be as good?? https://t.co/ZKBVKP2kNN https://t.co/NKXWx1mgaT

2022-11-16 16:29:31 @gaywonk he wants "exceptional performance" except nobody can contradict or otherwise disagree with him in public while he tweets factually incorrect bullshit about their work. exceptional sycophancy

2022-11-16 16:24:30 @mcwm >

2022-11-16 16:09:48 RT @_alialkhatib: @mattbc in a few months virtually everyone with a checkmark is going to be a desperate grifter with crypto nonsense in th…

2022-11-16 16:09:42 @mattbc WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!‽????? omgggg how did that happen??? https://t.co/LWKuPiV0OB

2022-11-16 16:06:38 @tante is that ... a single seat?? has the design team spoken to anyone who knows laws related to trucking in the US or EU...?

2022-11-16 16:01:12 "Twitter is a software and servers company" jeff bezos woke up last night briefly thinking he got bit by a mosquito https://t.co/fBuVW0FhAp

2022-11-16 01:03:08 this is why you all gotta unionize also, lmao. https://t.co/yMdgAi4sdw https://t.co/CGPzZx2eRQ

2022-12-08 00:51:18 "looks like a hotel room" sounds like a cry for help feels like a labor violation smells like elon's musk https://t.co/gQ5kPxvUSt

2022-12-08 00:47:56 this is your reminder that most experts agree you should be changing your sheets every week, 2 at at a stretch. and also, not living in a commercial building. https://t.co/LppjqjgTjc

2022-12-08 00:51:18 "looks like a hotel room" sounds like a cry for help feels like a labor violation smells like elon's musk https://t.co/gQ5kPxvUSt

2022-12-08 00:47:56 this is your reminder that most experts agree you should be changing your sheets every week, 2 at at a stretch. and also, not living in a commercial building. https://t.co/LppjqjgTjc

2022-12-08 22:40:05 RT @AAUPTNS: The students are now occupying University Center at the New School

2022-12-08 00:51:18 "looks like a hotel room" sounds like a cry for help feels like a labor violation smells like elon's musk https://t.co/gQ5kPxvUSt

2022-12-08 00:47:56 this is your reminder that most experts agree you should be changing your sheets every week, 2 at at a stretch. and also, not living in a commercial building. https://t.co/LppjqjgTjc

2022-12-09 05:43:01 RT @karen_ec_levy: https://t.co/gUYly0wuJa

2022-12-09 05:33:04 RT @BamaParrott: Friends, spread the word: We have 2 tenure-track assistant professor positions opening at Alabama for Fall 2023. Details s…

2022-12-09 04:32:46 a month ago i felt like this was a "substantial amount of account access" i no longer feel like it's an extraordinary amount more access than elon seems to be willing to give people otherwise unaffiliated with twitter and with a documented history of harassment

2022-12-09 04:32:45 i'm avoiding starting private conversations on twitter now except to immediately trade signal contact info to let me switch to that. if there's even a tiny chance that deleting my DMs actually means deleting them still, then there are tools. https://t.co/EGKBtkSS5Y

2022-12-09 04:32:44 this is a good question. both i don't trust that twitter is deleting things i ask them to delete. i believe they're removing them from view, but i expect any of elon's friends who get access over the years will probably have access to anything that ever touched twitter's servers https://t.co/t1ARidlL7u

2022-12-09 04:22:28 love the spam on this platform. it makes spending less time here easier

2022-12-09 04:20:11 i check and sometimes post here every so often, but i've moved a lot of my time over to mastodon. you can follow me there if you wanna see photos of my dog and also commentary on things. https://t.co/e4gwmwviki sorry things are so shit :(

2022-12-09 04:20:10 for what it's worth: i use signal. i trust signal emphatically, probably more than i trust any other service or system out there i donate to signal. oh right, donate to signal if you can: https://t.co/Guf3Nilo7X (reach out privately somehow if you want to contact me via signal)

2022-12-09 04:20:09 i know i have followers who don't live in tech. i have no idea why. it baffles me. is it my dog? here's a pic of him anyway, if you haven't been keeping up with twitter management drama, the tldr is i wouldn't trust any data stored on twitter. get your convo's off this platform https://t.co/bya2QfXY3p

2022-12-09 03:44:49 >

2022-12-08 22:40:05 RT @AAUPTNS: The students are now occupying University Center at the New School