Tag: Twitter
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“Nobody below colonoscopy age remembers the expectation of paying for a news story to read the whole thing.” How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
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“he ends the memoir discovering instagram and finding purpose in being an asshole on there.” weekly retro #40
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Angel flying too close to the 10-Q.
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What is it about “founder” style, content, and intellectual aesthetics that makes me cringe so much? Is there something there, or is just that the stuff they post on Twitter and LinkedIn is over-dialed in engagement?
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Recently, in photos and video
Most of these are human-made, two were given to the robot as guides. The video is me as a kid, maybe six or so. I gave it to Twitter’s video thing, and there you go. Fantastic and freaky.
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“A man who had over the course of a week absorbed, as by osmosis, the Spirit of the Internet. And that is a foul, foul thing.” a slightly embarrassed announcement
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Slop might save us from social media
If true, this is probably great. Obvs people engaging with each other – with strangers – on social media is too risky for society: “People aren’t connecting or conversing on social media like they used to; they’re just wading through slop, that is, low-effort, low-quality content produced at scale, often with AI, for engagement.” (Via…
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Bluesky’s decline stems from never hearing from other side – ”When you never hear from the other side, it’s pretty easy to talk yourself into a political dead end. That might be enough for the political dead-enders. But it’s a terrible mistake for any political movement that actually hopes to rack up some durable victories.”…
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Trump cribs Musk’s “fork in the road” Twitter memo to slash gov’t workforce – Big layoff vibes for 2025.
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Hyping on Twitter Mostly Garbage Now
Comparing two years of Twitter engagement to a month of Bluesky engagement Like everyone else, I consider giving up on Twitter daily, especially with the US election bullshit. I don’t really read much on there anymore (I’ve tried all the tricks, even subscribing some months ago), but I still post things hoping to get the…
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LinkedIn is the new social media channel baseline – “You can see how much Twitter has fallen by how well LinkedIn performs in comparison.”
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idling insignificantly
How to survive giving a lot of presentations at conferences I think it was John Willis who told me that a long time ago. Relative to your interests What is Technical Debt? – “In practice, my observations are that most development teams, even in small companies, are too far separated from these types of financial…
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Surviving the New Social Media Startup Boom
The FFS Social Media Rebound Twitter Sinks. I got an invite to Blue Sky (thanks Ashley!). Now I have Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, some Slack channels, a newsletter, and a mostly dead blog – other stuff probably (what even is a “Facebook Page”?). I haven’t bothered with those other ones that popped…
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Twitter’s past self, kubernetes & dev tools markxetsizing, & not the usual nsense
Big one this week. My thoughts on Twitter; what to do with your past-self; CFP’ing; some music recommendations; as always, lots of links – some tasty ones on kubernetes market-sizing (a lot smaller than you’d think). Suggested epigraph: “I woke up this morning Didn’t recognize the man in the mirror Then I laughed and I…
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Urgency
I’ve started writing this bit two times (see the community one and the one on ICs vs. managers for what happened instead). If Twitter fails – or I stop using it – I’m looking forward to recalibrating my sense of urgency. One thought going around is that no one would want to rebuild Twitter (I…
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