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I can't say I'm a fan of Grimes or ever will be one, but she's got my respect for causing the world's richest man to go off the deep end.
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waffle iron posted:Twitter unbanned two radical revolutionary leftists: the Krasensteins. When will the cruelty end
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Dec 11, 2022 16:10
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kazil posted:lol and lmao that elon is being radicalized As evidenced by him praising the work ethic of his Shanghai workers when they were literally locked in the factory by the government during the lockdown
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Dec 11, 2022 16:11
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Divorced, money poisoned AND internet poisoned. A powerful cocktail, and rare. Can't remember the last billionaire who spent a whole month posting through it. You could almost argue hard drugs would be a healthy improvement to his life, if it takes enough time away from his other vices. gently caress man I dunno. I think bill shakespeare woulda made a banger play out of this guys life. The ironic tragedy of having it all, but instead wanting (and failing) to be a poster, of all loving things.
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Dec 11, 2022 16:12
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priznat posted:These goobers are just showing it is basically an impossible problem to run a social network. On the one hand you have laws, social norms and advertiser expectations and on the other you have a bunch of rabid morons who convince themselves that any limitation of the poo poo they or their friends want to spew, regardless of how dangerous is somehow the equivalent to being oppressed by the Nazis. The funny thing is, twitter did a pretty good job with this before elon dismantled the whole company! They had a big moderation & safety team, and they weren't as enthralled with algorithm attention-boosting as facebook & google. They also did much less targeted data advertising than facebook & google. That's likely why they were so bad at generating a profit -- they made less money on ads because they didn't do the most lucrative ads with high conversion. They actually blocked advertisers out of the most granular type of targeting that allows ads to basically hit individuals. (Amusingly, Elon probably could have made the company more profitable and done the short turn-around IPO thing by just changing their targeted advertising policy to be the same as facebook. The employees wouldn't have liked it, and I still kinda doubt he'd have made much profit. But lmao it's not like he decided to go full redpill because twitter was dead no matter what.)
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Dec 11, 2022 16:17
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#ElonMuskIsaGiantTurd was trending and when I tried to take a screenshot it dissapeared, completely gone now.
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Dec 11, 2022 16:17
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kazil posted:lol and lmao that elon is being radicalized Typically these statements are followed up with some sort of evidence or argument as to these things, not just saying random poo poo and then nothing. Like next thing you know Elon is going to be telling us he's opening Al Capone's secret vault and everybody needs to be at their devices for the big moment.
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Dec 11, 2022 16:19
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I hope grimes gets full custody of the kid, zune-gizmondo-ngage. we are at the "pronouns" joke so we're almost reaching embarrassing conservative bingo. All that's left is appearing on Alex Jones or OAN and the other hack jokes like "LGBT-LMNOP" and "The Left Want Participation Trophies and Eat Tide Pods"
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Dec 11, 2022 16:26
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I do like that most of the mainstream media is ignoring the trolling and only seems to be doing stories on Elon when he actually presents something worth examining and likely debunking though. Like they're handling this overall better than I thought they would minus the New York Times of course. Indeed just posting random crazy poo poo and insisting that it's about to go down and then nothing for most of a day is not newsworthy.
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Dec 11, 2022 16:31
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Klyith posted:The funny thing is, twitter did a pretty good job with this before elon dismantled the whole company! They had a big moderation & safety team, and they weren't as enthralled with algorithm attention-boosting as facebook & google. Apparently 90% of Twitter's revenue was coming from ads so someone with half a brain would try to work on getting more revenue from them but instead of trying to improve Twitter by making it more appealing to advertisers he's basically in the process of ripping copper pipes out of the walls and selling them reimburse billions. Mr. Torrance fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Dec 11, 2022 |
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Dec 11, 2022 16:32
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https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1601935684415225860 I mean at this point just make it LiveJournal, why even stop at 4000 characters. I knew he wanted to raise the character count but I figured it would be 420 characters because lol so zany amirite? Was literally anybody even asking for this?
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Dec 11, 2022 16:36
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lol no way that cant be real
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Dec 11, 2022 16:38
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kazil posted:lol no way that cant be real I hope not, haven't seen it confirmed elsewhere yet and I have no idea how reliable PopCrave is but he has been saying he wants to raise it since the start
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Dec 11, 2022 16:40
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Steadiman posted:https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1601935684415225860 lmao no way
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Dec 11, 2022 16:43
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Solving the "problem" of long twitter threads by turning the entire concept of microblogging on its head, good job Elong 
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Dec 11, 2022 16:43
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Steadiman posted:https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1601935684415225860 e. This probably has a lot to do with the Twitter Files being absolutely garbage in the format in spite of Elon making sure Twitter retained first publishing rights.
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Dec 11, 2022 16:44
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Armitage posted:I can't say I'm a fan of Grimes or ever will be one, but she's got my respect for causing the world's richest man to go off the deep end. She is just as lovely in her own ways. From money, a complete narcissist with no regard for others. Also the raft thing. Which was funny. http://www.startribune.com/local/west/49134952.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue
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Dec 11, 2022 16:46
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Just a reminder in case it's been lost to the mists of time that the original limit of 240 characters was because Twitter started as an SMS gateway that you could post to by sending text messages to it and the SMS character limit was 240 There is no inherent reason for there to be a limit at all anymore But the fact that there WAS a limit was key to its taking shape as a structured form of creative expression, like ad breaks in a 30-minute TV show
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Dec 11, 2022 16:48
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Take away the limit and it becomes infinitely harder to just casually stroll through a timeline. The brevity of Twitter is probably it's strongest innovation tbh.
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Dec 11, 2022 16:52
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Noted creative expressions, TV ads
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Dec 11, 2022 16:55
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No I meant the 3-act structure coming about because of the 30 minutes being broken up by ads. You get dramatic pauses and cliffhangers and buildups of tension and poo poo Similarly comic books where you turn a page and suddenly there's a 2-page spread establishing shot, page-turning is key to the structure of the pacing in sequential art. That sort of thing
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Dec 11, 2022 16:56
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Data Graham posted:Just a reminder in case it's been lost to the mists of time that the original limit of 240 characters was because Twitter started as an SMS gateway that you could post to by sending text messages to it and the SMS character limit was 240 I think it was even less, like 180 characters (because the SMS had to add some extra stuff to tell Twitter what to do with it or something? I'm not technical). Also Elon fired the guy who came up with expanding it to 280 characters. And yeah the brevity is what made it funny to me, people working an amazing joke into 280 characters is great. It forced people to really craft their words and gave us incredible writing like "I will face God and walk backwards into hell"
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Dec 11, 2022 16:57
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Data Graham posted:Just a reminder in case it's been lost to the mists of time that the original limit of 240 characters was because Twitter started as an SMS gateway that you could post to by sending text messages to it and the SMS character limit was 240 it was originally 140 characters, dictated by the SMS character limit of 160 characters (leaving 20 for a header) but otherwise yeah they later doubled it to 280 which was completely arbitrary
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Dec 11, 2022 16:57
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The three act structure is about as old as drama.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Take away the limit and it becomes infinitely harder to just casually stroll through a timeline. The brevity of Twitter is probably it's strongest innovation tbh. Yeah, that was the reason it was fun. Short messages that you could quickly scroll through. If I want a bunch of long rambling blog entries there are literally a dozen better sites
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Gubbinal Girl posted:Yeah, that was the reason it was fun. Short messages that you could quickly scroll through. If I want a bunch of long rambling blog entries there are literally a dozen better sites But how else is Babylon Bee going to explain why their joke was funny?
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Dec 11, 2022 16:59
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I think there was a time when Musk did DMT for a month straight and began to espouse socialist viewpoints. I think it was Burning Man. Or maybe he went on a Safari. Kind of like when Grimes tried to be Tom Sawyer for a month and in the end just killed a bunch of chickens. I can see why the New York Times is confused. It is kind of complicated when you think about it.
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Dec 11, 2022 17:01
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goatface posted:The three act structure is about as old as drama. OK fine, whether there are ads in between acts in your Aristophanes play or not is irrelevant to my point which is that there IS a structure, and dividing it up into acts — dictated by whether you have ads to show people or not — is what gives the work its internal structure and the writers who use that format learn to use the structure to their dramatic advantage. I didn't think this would need this much explaining, geez. I am very bad at exploiting the inherent structure of the posting medium
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Fauci could talk about how in flu season to wash your hands and not openly cough on people and Conservatives would call for his head.
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Dec 11, 2022 17:03
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Data Graham posted:Just a reminder in case it's been lost to the mists of time that the original limit of 240 characters was because Twitter started as an SMS gateway that you could post to by sending text messages to it and the SMS character limit was 240 It's the same reason everyone loved Vine and wants it back. There are countless places you can upload video clips but the 6 second limit and inability to edit in post really pushed a new type of short content.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:She is just as lovely in her own ways. From money, a complete narcissist with no regard for others. Also the raft thing. Which was funny. http://www.startribune.com/local/west/49134952.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue What is "complete narcissist" about the boat story? Sure, it's a well-off 20-something being a complete ding-dong, but so what? Lots of 20-somehtings are complete ding-dongs. She was trying to have a dumb adventure, not hurt other people.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I'm no expert, but from what I've gathered the other times it's come up, a lot of visas require getting a job within your field, not just any job, and H1-B specifically involve a fair amount of paperwork on the employer's side. IIRC with the H1B since it's employer specific it's not transferable to a new employer so while someone on an H1B can get a new job while in the US (either before or within the 60 days after leaving their current job) the new employer has to basically put through a brand new petition for an H1B as if they were applying from outside the US again for the first time which isn't a guarantee of being accepted and also there's limit on the number offered in the US each year.
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Dec 11, 2022 17:05
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Steadiman posted:https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1601935684415225860 Gonna say this is very likely entirely an attempt to lure Trump back. You know he’s that desperate for the Trump appeal.
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Steadiman posted:https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1601935684415225860 So it's facebook lol
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can't wait to build elaborate ascii art ====++++++##### frames and poo poo for all my posts
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Dec 11, 2022 17:13
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"Mr Elton John sir, please don't leave Twitter sir, can you please provide an example of the misinformation you think is being spread?" one day later "Fauci deserves to be in prison for the covid hoax"
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It's quite funny to see that the only changes he's making are the ones he has an obviously pre-made control for. Someone made a setting in an admin panel somewhere that is like "MAX_CHARACTERS = 280" or whatever and he's like "oh cool I can just put in a different number here". It's not actually rolling out new software features, it's just twiddling existing knobs. Actually making substantive changes to the software is going to be what he would have needed all those employees he fired for. And it's what's going to be what results in actual catastrophic breakage. (Also it'll be even funnier if raising the limit to 4000 craters the attractiveness of Twitter as a platform because suddenly it becomes no more interesting or readable than Facebook or Livejournal, and everyone decamps to Reddit or something)
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Dec 11, 2022 17:16
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bobjr posted:Fauci could talk about how in flu season to wash your hands and not openly cough on people and Conservatives would call for his head. He could suggest it's a good idea to wash your hands after you poo poo and these buffoons would start proudly showing off their poo poo covered hands.
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Dec 11, 2022 17:16
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someone data-mined the new UI and it appears that long tweets will show the first 280 characters by default and you'll have to click through to see under the fold so they've invented tumblr
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kazil posted:lol and lmao that elon is being radicalized lol he's set deep in the feedback loop of receiving praise from one side and being yelled at by everyone else to quote trump: "like a dog"
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