“They didn’t give a shit about journalism; they just wanted prime real estate
that they could develop. And news organizations had it in the form of buildings
in the middle of town. So financiers squeezed the news orgs until there was no
money to be squeezed and then they hung them out to dry.”
posted 12/7/2022 8:28pm ∞
“For all the grandiose talk about The Light Of Consciousness and The Future Of
Humanity that has come out of Silicon Valley during its ascent, what it has
delivered has mostly been spectacularly useless, lifeless, and anti-human. In
this sense, it reflects its owners perfectly.”
David Roth ,
Everything Is Silicon Valley Now
(Defector ,
November 14, 2022 ,
via Nick Heer )
posted 11/21/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Twitter encourages a very extractive attitude from everyone it touches. The
people re-publishing my Mastodon posts on Twitter didn’t think to ask whether I
was ok with them doing that. The librarians wondering loudly about how this
‘new’ social media environment could be systematically archived didn’t ask
anyone whether they want their fediverse posts to be captured and stored by
government institutions.”
Hugh Rundle ,
Home invasion
(November 8, 2022 ,
via Andy Baio )
posted 11/16/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Twitter wanted all of the credit for the innovation and none of the credit for
the impact, when the reality was the other way around. Time after time, they
came right up to the limit of acknowledging that, always to turn away at the
last moment.”
posted 9/17/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Okay, wild! We guessed someone else’s tweet ID ! And as
the ID s are time-dependent that means they were met with an
instantaneous retweet—creepy. Also, it seems like Twitter doesn’t actually care
about the username and just resolves
URL s based on the tweet
ID .”
Oisín Moran ,
How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
(September 27, 2020 )
posted 3/27/2021 9:39pm ∞