Twitter C/D

having thousands of people with full twitter admin privs is terrible, doesn't mean those people had any ability to log into underlying systems, and tbh any org above a certain size, unless they've baked in upgrades and patches from day one is going to have internal systems that lag on security patches, etc. and companies "mitigate" it by just having very few things available outside the internal network and a layer of web app firewalls, etc. and then the auditors call it a day

this is still wrong and something an actual security engineer should scream about but eventually you get hoarse

information wants to be free

I meant it’s true because Mudge has serious bipolar energy not because he’s an expert or whatever.

haha fair

what does the wombot know

https://i.imgur.com/R7RbZRx.jpg

Mudge Zatko is such a Pynchon name.

― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Tuesday, August 23, 2022 10:16 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Mudge Zatko is absolutely a made-up Pynchon name, come on

— 宋宇游 (@BenjaminPepys1) August 23, 2022

confirmed

oh shit, I didn't realize Mudge was part of Beto's old hacker group

the hackers who wrote essays about computers or whatever

CDC! It makes me mad when I remember that Beto is cool.

https://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/posters/sneakers-1992-directed-by-phil-alden-robinson_u-L-Q1E5G560.jpg?artHeight=900&artPerspective=n&artWidth=900

lmao

Jack’s dereliction of duty here is amazing pic.twitter.com/iyFuyoY2d3

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) August 23, 2022

jack is a pimp lol

I've gone through mudge's redacted whistleblower complaint and there are some really spicy sections that relate to ad tech + privacy + foreign intelligence... brief thread of what I think is most interesting (link to documents in tweet below)🌶️🐦🌩️⚖️🧵 https://t.co/IesSlGVFBd

— Zach Edwards (@thezedwards) August 24, 2022

idk how someone could be the ceo of two massive public tech companies at the same time

kinda wild how he invented twitter and square

Lmao

cyber

What’s interesting is Q (Ron Watkins) said Jason Sullivan was able to rebuild this type of tool after Twitter was supposedly able to ban it https://t.co/XLjwt0jEtL

— Bennett Tomlin (@BennettTomlin) August 25, 2022

“X will literally do y rather than go to therapy” has been sent to my Twitter phrase banlist

I'm super fascinated by this idea people have that "therapy" is some kind of trump card sneer that automatically wins all arguments.

Definitely makes an winning tweet tho, and that's what it's all about, right? https://t.co/YUxvdM3EJy

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 31, 2022

they all need ~better~ therapists is my suspicion. (mine is great. what?)

I've only ever seen that where X is men and..well..

its a joke? which is not actually about going to therapy lol

Tell me you’re x without telling me you’re x

Okay

dunking on someone isn’t the same as “winning an argument” it’s just goofing imo

A couple weeks ago my account was locked for 24 hours because I tweeted "someone should hang for this" in response to a tweet talking about how an 80s cult film currently isn't available for streaming anywhere or in print on DVD.
Yesterday I reported someone for a tweet in a thread about the jackson water crisis where they used the ableist r slur in reference to black mayors and said they were all city killers and twitter said the post was fine.
Elon might as well already own the site.

it usually takes weeks to hear back about reporting someone

i think i've done it about a dozen times, i remember feeling good about it later twice or so, the other times they either didn't respond or i missed it or something

ok the fact that Amtrak can just post "trains" and get 1000x more likes than their average tweet is deeply funny to me

trains are pretty cool tho? there's even a term for people who are really into trains; it may even predate twitter

a dude weeping about lobsters and carbs and getting 1000x likes is a new phenomenon, however, and presents a clear challenge to president joe biden and his liberal agenda

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22274294-letter-decision-resolving-the-joint-motion-of-craft-ventures-man

In other circumstances, I might view entirely duplicative subpoenas served for such tactical purposes as problematic. Where, as here, the subpoena recipient Tweets the subpoenaing attorneys the middle finger and a video of someone urinating on subpoenas, I am less bothered by it.

Queen Elizabeth II Death Twitter is the worst Twitter.

Everytime somebody dies it’s like tweeters resume their arms race to come up with the most galaxy brain nonsense

ugh it's unusable right now, i've already muted 'queen' what more do they want from me

lol its good imo

Today was the first day I was actually tempted to scroll my TL since giving up Twitter a month ago. Like, this is what Twitter is for!

i'm british, i follow quite a lot of british people. but i would say 80% of the tweets i saw about the queen were because i follow lag00n.

Everytime somebody dies it’s like tweeters resume their arms race to come up with the most galaxy brain nonsense

i love days like this: it's iron chef twitter, where everyone gets the same ingredient and has to make something out of it. really shows you something.

— Slade (@Slade) September 8, 2022

i'm british, i follow quite a lot of british people. but i would say 80% of the tweets i saw about the queen were because i follow lag00n.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, September 8, 2022 7:14 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

some good tweets today!

Shrek’s Adventure! London joins millions of mourners around the UK and the world in paying tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II.

United in our loss – we give thanks for a life of extraordinary service to this country, the Commonwealth and the wider world.

— Shrek's Adventure! (@ShreksAdventure) September 8, 2022

@Slade otm

this would be fun if i didn't find every single aspect of the topic gruelingly boring and predictable.

yeah usually this shit annoys me but it’s actually cracking me up today, idk, it’s like the gong show or something

I was hoping that was Slade the band.

Has this been posted yet
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/what-will-actually-happen-when-the

today in “the internet is physical and also you can’t just accumulate infinite data and expect it to always be available” https://t.co/JL5c8PxQcu

— Talya Cooper (@talya_cooper) September 12, 2022

absolutely no idea what that tweet means.

the server farms are in danger of overheating

today in server farms are real farms

xp i'm talking about the retweet. i work at twitter. i understand the story. i worked on the outage all last week.

It is the equivalent of every time someone on ilx says, "That's why I'm glad I still purchase physical media."

so they're saying "don't forget twitter.com is not a big book"?

i think its saying people think the internet is some magical always on thing but really its subject to the physical world, which is maybe true but doesnt really warrant the sage insight tone, i mean who gives a shit if twitter goes down really, except for caek who has to do some prob annoying work on it