Twitter C/D

i appreciate your + joe's dissections, and you're right that I personally don't care as much about the who's-who-sociology/media criticism aspect of it that is what gets ppl riled up. blogging is too often just the act of finding the One Specific Way Someone Was Wrong Today and smugly refuting it, and the short-sightedness and lack of context that often engenders is bad

just don't think it deserves to be intentionally misrepresented by "Kevin Drum doesn't give a shit if you die" (iirc KD supports single payer but has been less than sanguine about its electoral odds, which is imo not an un-useful perspective). even if the post is 'bad', i still think one should represent it honestly

he said the pub, not kevin drum because editorial worth shit would check tone

the worst of the twitter mob scene is when they find some terrible rando and get all riled up owning them for an afternoon then immediately forget about them

by worst i mean funniest

by funniest i mean lol this fallen world

this is about MJ publishing tone-deaf shit

https://mobile.twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/status/867480585710653441

there was a tweet the other day where someone found an old chait article from obamas first term being all dont pick on joe leiberman and put it next to a brand new piece of his saying leiberman wld be a trump patsy as fbi director lol, these centrist pundits are being dragged left kicking and screaming

clara jeffery the god dang editor of the magazine has some truly horrific tweets in her archives my god

xps- also more generally, *on a personal note* (lol), i've been feeling down on twitter lately, and am trying to root out some of the cynicism and meanness and laziness it's poisoned in me and re-capture the earnest disposition i have trace memories of from my youth

twitter is def a cesspool that drives ppl insane not sure how anyone cld argue otherwise

tho the other day i successfully convinced someone w 'libertarian opinion columnist from Georgia' in his bio that an anti-immigration right wing economist did hack work, so it ain't all bad

I get the impression that lots of people use twitter in a very different way than I do

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lol

always argued for this and i'll say it again, best thing is to close your twitter account and never look back

am trying to root out some of the cynicism and meanness and laziness it's poisoned in me

losing game

i deleted it off my phone last week (as documented upthread) but then i started going on mobile.twitter.com thru the browser app D:

damn steven dennis wins the bad twete award

similar to when i downloaded StayFocusd (free version of Freedom) on my work computer after getting in trouble for slacking/browsing online but then just started using incognito to get around to my block sites :'(

baby steps my man

if only we cld delete our bad habits.......

Nuzzel is a good way to get some of the value out of Twitter w/o having to sit on it all the time.

http://nuzzel.com

Don’t install it right now, though, something’s fucking shit up. lol

if only we cld delete our bad habits.......

― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 6:04 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya can someone get on this

silicon valley is

but u hav to upload yr brain to the kloud

Freedom blocks in incognito mode.

It's still glitchy though -- sometimes it just doesn't start up on my phone unless I actively open the app.

I keep deleting smoking and drinking but the notifications are still showing up

is there a way to turn off seeing 'likes' from people you follow of other folks holy shit that's annoying

@YourKickstarter @kshipwhitecat Finally, the perfect account, divided evenly between shitting on harmless art projects for existing, and Adam Sandler fandom.

— J Corwin 🏴 (@outlawpoet) May 24, 2017

some ppl say twitter is bad now but a dude with the @ 'outlawpoet' getting mad online about ppl making fun of steampunk kickstarters is extremely good to me

the official announcement will be forthcoming but just wanted to give you guys a heads up ill be launching a podcast where i review the most pitiful and hilarious gofundme medical pleas

do Likes expire? lately i've seem some tweets get RTd onto the tl that i KNOW i liked the first time around, but the heart isn't red. what gives?

yeah same

gives you the chance to retweet/relike again which could lead to more retweets and likes

thank you twitter for this opportunity in reliking

i thiiiink when you RT it generates a "shell tweet" that carries the original in your tl. you can sometimes see it if you grab the url? and, twitter being pretty junky, likes don't get picked up with their full detail

idk i really like all of the conspiratorial shit about twitter functions that are 100% just the thing sucking

twitter.com continues to innovate

what's up with 'internet hippo' account, that seems like really basic dumb shit that everybody should hate but it's always getting rewteeted by folks. did somebody buy it after they got a bunch of followers

mh otm from the noize board twitter c/d thread, back when the pickle bar was a thing

I do not understand nerds following what other nerds are doing, especially when they have never met them before.

― mh, Friday, 2 November 2007 16:26 (nine years ago) Permalink

also my poll options here were amazing

CIO/KIU: using ilx like twitter

my virus scanner flares up twice opening that ^^ thread tbh

sadly unsurprising

I understand it now tho

tbf that was when twitter was mostly web-only, the iPhone had no third-party apps, and the web was an order of magnitude less responsive

and back then it was literally "what's up I'm at the tech conference, here is what a speaker is saying right now"

the fact that the inventors of twitter intended the —status update— to be literal is a delightful historical curio

the current use is a lot different from the original intended use!

I think my first twitter update was something like "ok about to leave work!"

this account is funny https://twitter.com/VeryOldTweets it RTs the first 90 days of twitter

good shit

anybody ever seen this kind of message before?

https://d2ppvlu71ri8gs.cloudfront.net/items/423G09441C30241K1W2g/ClouDrop%206%20juin%202017%20à%2023%3A49%3A09%206%20juin%202017%20à%2023%3A49%3A09.png

Yes. Amber Harrison has a few withheld in Australia.

is it because those governments are requesting they be censored?