I'll admit it. Sometimes I miss twitter.

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Carl T. Bergstrom

I'll admit it.

Sometimes I miss twitter.

@aedison

I wrote “l am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed itinto a photocopier. What | saw next has shocking implications 4

Like 25 Mar 2023 at 5:26 | Open on fediscience.org

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Denise G

@ct_bergstrom It may not be like you remember. I’m still there for work, but it’s a ghost town—most people, it seems, have left. So there’s really no point and posting anything there anyway. I miss the pre-Musk days when my people were there.

25 Mar 2023 at 5:32 | Open on ieji.de

Carl T. Bergstrom

@DeniseGutzmer I'm sorry -- and that's good to hear.

25 Mar 2023 at 5:33 | Open on fediscience.org

Stefan Scholl

@DeniseGutzmer @ct_bergstrom (361 followers)

Screenshot of a tweet from March 12, with the text "Twitter is still a ghost town.", view count 11. Picture in the tweet is a screenshot of a tweet from March 5 with the text "Twitter is a ghost town.", view count 7. Picture in this tweet is a screenshot of a tweet from February 26, text "Twitter is a ghost town.", animated GIF of a tumbleweed rolling over a desert road and view count 11.

25 Mar 2023 at 13:11 | Open on mastodon.social

JohnMashey

@ct_bergstrom
This is slightly reminiscent of an old computer tale, which actually may even have happened in 1960s, when I heard it:
Researchers were writing Fortran codes for scientific calculations. Some colleagues did not believe their results, so they added code that printed at the bottom of each page of output:
"These results checked by IBM 7090" (or maybe S/360).
After that, no arguments.🙂

25 Mar 2023 at 5:33 | Open on mstdn.social

Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette

@JohnMashey @ct_bergstrom

In the 90s, personnal computers became pretty common and started to be used by small accounting firms. But there was a problem: accountants didn't trust that the computer could instantly calculated everything so they would double check and triple check whatever the computer did.

So accounting companies added progress bars and sleep statements to make everything take several minutes. It fixed the Chair/Keyboard interface problem

25 Mar 2023 at 6:54 | Open on social.linux.pizza

Priya Chand

@ct_bergstrom damn that is really an excellent comparison

25 Mar 2023 at 5:37 | Open on wandering.shop

eagerpebble

@ct_bergstrom Oh, man. I saw a car the other day that said "clean me". Do you think it might be sentient? Maybe it'll try to convince me to leave my wife and run away with it.