why not fire 75% of engineering and just make money off of merely hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue
― petulant dick master (silby), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
too easy
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
shareholders in the 21st century don't give a shit about profitable, dividends are for chumps, what matters is GROWTH so you can sell your shares to some idiot when the company peaks. BTW shareholders are not allowed to be the "some idiot" in this scenario; company peaks are never in the past.
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Friday, 29 January 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
i only skimmed this piece but i can tell its bad im sensitive to bad tech punditry smell http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-end-of-twitter
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
For instance, new users might be confused about what a retweet is, or the difference between that and a “quote tweet” (where you say more about something you’re re-posting). And they surely might not understand the need to place a period before the handle of a user, when that handle is at the very start of a tweet you compose, yet not elsewhere in the tweet.
Maybe? But this took me, max, 3 days to figure out? And I am not some kind of social media genius. I am 100% legit OK with Twitter not being dominated by people who can't handle this, though Twitter, as a business, is probably not OK with this.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
If Twitter’s real-time feed is its most powerful asset (and it is), it’s not difficult to see a future in which Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, or even a newcomer like Peach (yes, I am citing Peach) focus enough on real-time news that they obviate the need for Twitter’s narrow, noisy, and oft-changing ideas on social interaction.
ppl been saying this abt twitter since like a month after it launched
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Don't use twitter guys its bad
― broderik f (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
i'm told that the children do not use facebook
one of the few things that makes me optimistic about the future
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
Sometimes u gotta own being right and im stepping up right now and saying that's me
― broderik f (darraghmac), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
i am friends w some teens on facebook and they seem to use it some, i mean some ppl use facebook as in posting commenting browsing etc but a lot of ppl seem to use it in the sense that its the place that everyone can be found, thats its basic utility
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link
yeah imagine feeling the need to go to the same website every single day and enter 100 pithy messages into a box to get approval from strangers.
xpost
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
is linkedin useful for . . . anything?
that's the one that mystifies me the most
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
afaict LinkedIn is useful for meeting other people who care about LinkedIn
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
linkedin is useful if you like sending spam messages to everyone you know regarding linkedin
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
an acquaintance's teenage daughter recently sent me a linkedin request; freaked me the fuck out
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
linkedin is good for getting jobs if you are extremely lazy and have certain technical skills highly valued in the tech industry
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
linkedin also good for latently keeping track of people you used to know and if they might be useful to you
― petulant dick master (silby), Friday, 29 January 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
the slightly less lazy version lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
linkedin is good for networking in yr [my] industry tbph
― Mordy, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
should i join peach
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
like it has def brought in business to my company w/out question. nb it's obv annoying as hell but xp
― Mordy, Friday, 29 January 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Peach_(Super_Mario_3D_World).png
― its subtle brume (DJP), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
I found my current job on LinkedIn. It's definitely a useful job-hunting tool. Its "social" aspects are virtually nil - part of my job is to post news related to my industry on our LinkedIn page, and Nobody Gives A Fuck.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
can't believe the kendzior mess is back. in passing i like sarah jeong ok; i'm always surprised when people turn out to hate each other but i guess i shouldn't be
what do you all make of the molly crabapple vs tankies feud? no idea on that one either, jesus
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:06 (eight years ago) link
you're just making up words and putting them together into sentences now aren't you
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 January 2016 20:08 (eight years ago) link
i googled it and found this article that said: "But nowhere has the backlash been worse than on Stalinist Twitter: a peculiar mélange of social justice paraphernalia, Komsomol Manga, and Red Army porn." is there really such thing as Red Army porn??
― Mordy, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
lmao what a world
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
what do you all make of the molly crabapple vs tankies feud? no idea on that one either, jesus― goole, Friday, January 29, 2016 8:06 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― goole, Friday, January 29, 2016 8:06 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
emma rules and imo molly belongs with the sarahs in the Exploit Misunderstanding To Get A Bigger Outrage Audience column
im told molly is v cool and nice irl and i'm really impressed by her art, but like, doxxing an aid worker in a warzone bcz she said something you didn't like on line is beyond the pale imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
it seems kind of rude but: https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/406dyp/molly_crabapple_doxes_a_twitter_communist_to_get/
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
fucking seriously
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
http://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/a-twitter-account-that-denies-people-are-starving-in-syria-i#.ahP3q0ynR
I also just learned what "tankies" are, what a world
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 20:34 (eight years ago) link
idk someone who works helping syrians resettle in canada tweeting about how she doesn't think ppl in syria are actually starving... ppl should have some option for anonymity, but that's... rude
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Q76F2B5.png
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
hehe
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 20:37 (eight years ago) link
why do you guys care so much about these randos caught up in twitter beefs, are they important ppl?
― k3vin k., Friday, 29 January 2016 20:41 (eight years ago) link
nope
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
if you follow enough people in left twitter you see these factional+personal feuds flare up eventually
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^^ and if you follow or know enough of them these feuds can even take up your whole TL & fuck up irl friendships
amber f, who wrote articles that started both Jacobinghazi and the Molly/Emma battle, is a good friend of one of my housemates--she refused to stay at our house while visiting the city because she thinks i'm an asshole
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
and like, who the fuck am i, even
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
MC's art is p bad imo
xp huh she's written some things i've liked in the past but she seems like a huge asshole herself. not that there's anything wrong with that.
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
i couldn't possibly comment
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
i side w/big hoos, i've got your back if twitter war comes to town
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
unless it involves slam poetry or something, then you're on yr own
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
seems like high school x-post
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
it is like high school
or like a certain message board which shall remain unnamed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
distinctly remember her criticizing jeet heer for being a knowitall who would be shouted down if he were a woman (a half-ok argument imo), respondees saying he gets a ton of racist harassment as it is, and her saying he deserves the harassment he gets (i can't find that last turn anymore, could be deleted)
xp and yes this is like high school
really a lot of people like to fucking rip into ppl in the most egregious ways; you just want to slap your palm on the desk and shout YOU ARE NOT DOING THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS HERE
― goole, Friday, 29 January 2016 21:10 (eight years ago) link
jeet heer is really wordy and sometimes interesting in storify form, he has a pretty limited audience outside twitter afaik
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
There's a guy who'd welcome a 10,000 character limit.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 29 January 2016 21:14 (eight years ago) link