Twitter C/D

sk1 has breached the ilx wall

@tinynietzsche does a fine blend of depression/humour

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/19/twitter-down-over-web-and-mobile

I have nothing to do on my commute. :(((((

ha just noticed adblock removes the moments tab

i too am wondering why swarthyv was suspended. MIAC represent.

https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/689220093994123264

https://threatpost.com/twitters-silence-deafening-on-state-sponsored-attacks/115937/

The consensus among those who were notified is that Twitter’s silence is likely because of a gag order imposed by a National Security Letter, a powerful tool used by the U.S. government and law enforcement to compel telecommunications companies, technology providers and Internet service providers to turn over customer data. In December, a gag order on a 2004 NSL imposed upon Nicholas Merrill, owner of defunct ISP Calyx was lifted and for the first time the scope of a NSL was revealed. In Merrill’s specific case, the FBI not only sought detailed personal subscriber information, but browser history, IP addresses the subscriber connected to, email addresses, screen names and online aliases associated with the account, plus six months worth of online purchases. The FBI also sought a radius log, which includes cell tower-based tracking information.

http://mashable.com/2016/01/25/twitter-darkest-hour

from mordy's link

"They can survive as a public company even with a low valuation and even with annoying shareholder pressure," says Kathleen Smith, principal at Renaissance Capital. But, she adds, "at a low valuation may have strategic value to companies such as Google, Facebook, and NewsCorp."

so why did swarthyvillain get banned?

He's back under a different name. Greenwald was also asking Support about this, oddly.

There's speculation it's partly because he writes a lot of stuff about Saudi regime marketing bros but that seems a massive stretch. He does actively troll / harass people but no worse than a million other accounts.

"troll / harass" in world where these words no longer have any meaning

kk that's what i figured

even though i'm a #berniebro, i kinda can't wait for him to lose and for this idiotic social media battle to end

#berniebros v #hillarymen in the battle for americas soul

its been dumb to see the #alt journos circle the wagons on him

https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/www.friendster.com/img/friendster_announcement.jpg

alt journos were always just the next gen mainstream

yeah. isn't that depressing? the ironey mainstream is a depressing af idea to me

I get Ta-Nehisi Coates's point but retweeting every asshole who tweeted at him over Bernie was a bit much.

i just listened to doug henwood interview adolph reed and wow reed's disdain of TNC is boundless

yeah I saw that, eesh. i was pissed at TNC too but Reed sounds like such a bitter crank

here's a transcript of the interview for folks who want to check it out

http://johnhalle.com/outragesandinterludes/?p=741

sounding like a bitter crank while being otm has been reed's stock in trade for a while, but yeah, he goes pretty deep here

wait, who are the #alt journos precisely?

RE Reed and TNC: all the "he thinks he's baldwin, but HE'S NOT BALDWIN and he has NOTHING TO SAY" stuff just makes him sound dumb. the thing that pissed me off about the TNC sanders reparations piece wasn't so much the reparations thing (although IMHO he should have included the obama quotes on reparations from 2008 in the text of the original article), it was starting from the position that Sanders is completely unelectable and should just be a washboard for our wildest policy dreams. and like, TNC is such a good writer and makes you sit back all contemplative, feeling smart for having considered all the possibilities... but it's primary season, man, and the actual effect of him writing that piece is a bunch of smug fence-sitting libs feeling vindicated for backing hillary

bernie is obvs a huge risk electability wise and i dont think its unclean to point that out, also if he did win via being matched up v trump that his presidency cld be a huge disaster is worth thinking abt at least, tnc and krugman calling him a fraud is weird tho like hes def less of a fraud than most politicians which is not to say he is without fault but their criticism seems to exist in some sort of weird bubble where hes not running against the people hes running against

I don't see the problem w tnc's piece really

But I'm prob a smug fence sitter who wd be ok w backing Hillary

i am too, idk the article just incensed me cause it seemed to take the position of, 'well this guy is unelectable and can ask for anything he wants so why doesn't he ask for this policy which is infinitely more unpopular than anything else on his already controversial and legislatively impossible platform and that i also wrote a masterful longform essay calling for (well except that said essay wasn't really a straightforward argument pro reparations but more of a complex historical tour of factors causing racial wealth inequality since slavery and i even admit in the essay itself the political impracticality of the policy in the near future)' when like, idk bernie is probably thinking he has some kind of a shot, genuinely wants some kinda revolution and is polling pretty good numbers. like it's amazing he has as much of a shot as he does on the platform he has, saying he should go even further is like those communists who immediately denounced Syriza

how is Twitter reacting to TNC clobbering Clinton today over her Confederate take on Reconstruction?

Clinton's presidency being a huge disaster is also worth thinking abt at least (as well as her 'electability' christ what an asshole word)

morbs how did u find the election talk inside the twitter thread

i clicked on this is bcz being *on* Twitter is bad enough, i couldn't imagine what you have to say about it.

do u have a twitter account if so what is it

https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin

http://adequateman.deadspin.com/twitter-drove-me-crazy-so-i-stopped-using-it-1754598896

haven't read the actual body of that piece but i could've written the headline at any point in the last three years

it p good tbh

guys there is a thread for dismantling white supremacy (obv!!!!) please bring your tnc etc thorts there

rolling thread for the dismantling of white supremacy

i thought deadspin was sports

lol

is like those communists who immediately denounced Syriza

otm, you mean?

not sure that analogy really holds

idk if you get points for being right for the wrong reason in hindsight

http://adequateman.deadspin.com/twitter-drove-me-crazy-so-i-stopped-using-it-1754598896

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 26, 2016 9:43 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from your dumb article:

tweets are like toxic potato chips

from you:

twitter as junk food is the most common entry level ass face criticism

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 20:12 (7 months ago) Permalink

lol

that whole article is undermined by this idea, though:

Twitter isn’t where I made memories. On the contrary, it’s a void that sucked up opportunity to form them. There’s nothing tangible about that.

she just sounds confused.

luck for her twitter is going to shit, so it's cool, she won't need help deleting it

“she”

s/he

pulling one sentence fragment out and attempting to construct an own out of it is the most twitter ass face thing one cld do

feel like the conclusion he comes to ("now i am EXPERIENCING the splendor of nature UNINTERRUPTED") is not actually my experience with quitting twitter

rather it is what everyone tells you happens when you unlock yourself from an app or whatever

also contrasting twitter with a movie made very carefully over a long period of time feels kinda silly

he def over sold it but hes right abt the annoying things ppl do on there and that they are annoying and lame

thing is, the writer isn't even saying s/he quit twitter. it's that s/he didn't curate her timeline and now s/he just uses it a little less. it reads like a stream of conscious creative writing piece, with little coherence