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SWE with a BA in Anthropology. Four decades on social media. From Bell Labs intern to Meta TL in Scaled Human Review (it doesn’t). Currently consulting. Previously nazgul, mooshjan, and coyotetoo (a long time ago) on Twitter. they/he
I don’t usually get to play along with #Caturday, but I've been taking photos of what I call "The Gate Dogs of #Guanajuato”; the dogs that guard the gates, or perch on the roofs and terraces of the city. And sometimes a cat or two sneaks in.
As always, description and context in the alt-text.
Reddit’s CEO, who claimed to want to emulate Musk, is doing an absolutely smashing job.
He forced some subreddits to open again, but of course he can’t force people to post what he wants.
r/steam users are now only posting articles about hot water vapor. r/pics users are only posting sexy photos of John Oliver r/gifs and r/Art are also limiting content to John Oliver.
I took a peek this morning and saw /r/videos is in on it now too.
> To that end, we will only be allowing the finest of videos to grace our subreddit’s queue ... Going forward, we will only allow videos featuring the one and only John Oliver. That’s right, Zazu himself is going to make up all of /r/Videos’ content going forward. We liked what our sister subreddit /r/Pics was doing, but in true /r/Videos fashion, we're going to do it 30 times per second instead.
@nazgul Ford had some cleverness (I'm not sure I'd give Elon even that) in designing and setting up factories to mass produce inexpensive but adequately reliable for the time cars, when that is exactly what the market of the time and place wanted.
One of his problems was that he thought whatever other notion that crossed through his head was brilliant, when often it was the opposite. This sometimes led to big failures. 1/2
Given that twitter is going to start charging for api usage next week, but has neglected to give anyone any info about rates, I recommend running https://www.movetodon.org/ one last time while you still can.
None of the migration tools will work after the 8th (give or take some timezones).
If Movetodon isn’t working for you, here’s a list of similar services.
Given that twitter is going to start charging for api usage next week, but has neglected to give anyone any info about rates, I recommend running https://www.movetodon.org/ one last time while you still can.
None of the migration tools will work after the 8th (give or take some timezones).
If Movetodon isn’t working for you, here’s a list of similar services.
I keep seeing articles, about people trying to violently overturn election results, that use phrases like “motivated by election lies”.
They aren’t motivated by lies, they are motivated by not liking the result. Repeating the lies just makes them feel powerful because it makes them part of the grift. They think they’re fooling people.
Blaming the lies lulls us into thinking that this is an education/disinformation problem which, if addressed, will eliminate the violence.
These folks aren’t deluded. They’ve learned from their leaders that violence and lying are the route to power.
For most of my life I thought these problems could be solved by education. I no longer do. As far as I can tell, about 30% of the population believes that getting away with grifts and bullying people is proof of power and leadership that should be respected, worshiped, and emulated.
We can’t educate these folks. We can only build a society that ensures that they cannot gain control. Unfortunately, the entire human race has largely failed to do so, and we’re suffering the consequences on a planetary scale.
Every day we act as though they don’t *know* that the elections were valid, is a day we risk losing the fight for democracy, equality, and a stable environment.
I keep seeing articles, about people trying to violently overturn election results, that use phrases like “motivated by election lies”.
They aren’t motivated by lies, they are motivated by not liking the result. Repeating the lies just makes them feel powerful because it makes them part of the grift. They think they’re fooling people.
@nazgul I don't think I agree. Even if the people are complicit in the lies, that's a cultural vector that can be impacted by changing the culture.
I mean, I'm not sure what other alternative there is, but the fact that these things come and go in waves shows that it's not a constant and can be affected by the surrounding culture.
The problem is that changing culture through education takes a generation, at best. You need short term mitigations, too.