Twitter C/D

"Your dead kids don't trump my rights."

yeah but look at the verb he used -- prescient!

yea I think the thing cat turd gets, or maybe was lucky enough to stumble into, is the fact that modern day conservatism is anchored around the idea of feigning total idiocy towards everything. present yourself as the stupidest person alive and you're free to say whatever you want and no one will hold you to task when you're constantly wrong. who's even gonna argue with a dude who posts poop jokes all day? I think Tucker understands this, MTG and Bobo certainly do, probably Trump as well. it's the folks who try to have some sort of consistent ideology or actually try to use logic to prove their points who are constantly getting dunked on. as the article mentions with Kinzinger if you're a Republican who tries to acknowledge basic reality you wind up out of the party real fast.

I think this began with Limbaugh--who was rarely fact-checked or challenged in his most influential period--and when he was he just called you a moron and laughed at you.

Trump does love the poorly educated, iirc.

I said it years ago, we're living in a real life version of one of those snobs vs. slobs comedies. We're Dean Wormer, and the slobs are winning.

imo people hate when things seem publicly intellectualized whether they're actually difficult concepts or not

our version of tall poppy syndrome is specifically for people who "act smart"

to me that's one of the worst things about Trump as president, his whole shtick was that everything was easy, like my first day in office all the immigrants are gone, I'm gonna fix crime, you'll have the best healthcare, your taxes will be lower, we will have the cleanest air, bing bong bing bong so simple. no plan just some vague suggestion like "the deep state globalists are who's preventing everything from being great so I'm just gonna weed 'em out and it'll all be fixed", which is a style of thinking you associate with YouTube commenters or drunk dudes with trucker hats, not people who have actual, actionable power. but since he became President it all became legitimized, so "Fauci actually created COVID while he was torturing puppies" is now an actual viewpoint you can spout on a major network. I mean look at the Twitter bullshit, they made so much noise about how Twitter was censoring conservatives and trying to influence the election to the point where there's a Congressional hearing about it, during which it comes out that actually pretty much the exact opposite was true, and nobody is gonna get dinged for any of it. you're right this probably did start with Rush.

As President, I would simply pull the lever that says “low gas prices”, not “high gas prices” like all those other idiots

xp I think the thing that people forget is if others are saying fundamentally stupid things you can say that they're fundamentally stupid instead of being the "here's a snopes link" guy

obviously this isn't true across the board, but people want to have that feeling that their views, whether they're well-examined or not, provoke a reaction and are worth defending. and there are just so many things in this world that you can dismiss or not have a strong opinion on, because they're just really dumb

The site is only loading ~40 tweets total for my entire feed. Previously it was at least ten times that (as in before the latest outage or thereabouts).

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertiser-decline/index.html

Does everyone have a check now? I was reading the responses to this tone deaf tweet from the US Ambassador to Afghanistan and all these seeming randos had blue checks.

Are Afghans familiar with #BlackGirlMagic and the movement it inspired? Do Afghan girls need a similar movement? What about Afghan Women? Teach me, ready to learn. #BlackHistoryMonth @Beyonce @lizzo @ReginaKing

— Chargé d’Affaires Karen Decker (@USAmbKabul) February 15, 2023

On a related note i can’t believe a government official is taking this kind of cutesy tone when discussing the plight of Afghan women. After all the damage we did to that country—it’s unbelievable

Dear @elonmusk would @Twitter please stop putting warnings on everything from ‘the Kinks’. We are just trying to promote our Kinks music @TheKinks #thekinks60 pic.twitter.com/1sXC4CK4d4

— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) February 15, 2023

stab the amplifier

Musk has issues with "Lola", IIRC...

Looking into ithttps://t.co/MgMYUT4jR9

— wint (@dril) February 16, 2023

Pay 11.99 just to catch a dril block

— Connor (@Imskimzy) February 16, 2023

deleted the app last night in an insomnia fuelled fit of rage at being shown the same tweets over and over in an endless loop. I'll try and stay off this thread too, and the elon musk one. down with rent free mental tenants.

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... is this the longest thread on ILX?

pitchfork is dumb has 20k lol

as does why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

ILX: Discussing all the important issues.

pinching those pennies

NEW: Twitter is planning to unveil a new policy as soon as this afternoon that only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based two-factor authentication, according to company sources.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) February 17, 2023

tbf SMS-based 2FA is bad

its bad and prob almost no one really wants it but it also prob does help keep twitter a lil more secure and spam free which are things that are good for twitter the company

ppl are saying that there could be legal/regulatory problems with this too but idk what they mean

Coming soon: all non-“blue” subscribers must choose a password that rhymes with “password”

"assward"

for non-blue subscribers, if someone else tries to use a password that is already taken, it lets you know who it belongs to as well as their personal contact info so you can let them know that you would like to use their password that rhymes with password

Obviously this is a stupid idea, but I do agree that using an authenticator is more secure so I decided to switch. It logged me out of other sesssions, and I logged back in. It sent me an sms code anyway.

Just opened the app now to be met with "You must remove two-factor authentication by 19 March 2023 to avoid losing access to Twitter"

What a shit show.

the phone app is broken as fuck ime

Haha, yeah it's hit and miss if I'll ever get any more posts, lots of random clicking around until it updates

Gotta say twitter is accidentally been the best it's ever been. I am seeing less news -- it's gone to just about the right amount of news than the sorta overload it might've been -- and more of what some of the ppl I follow tweet. It's slowly becoming a less engaging app in a way, which is good but also surely means I will be surprised if it's left standing by the end of the year.

Like I've seen way less on the earthquake in Turkey and Syria than I would've done six months ago..

i've not had any new pr0n bots follow me now for a couple of weeks.
there was a few months when i had to remove 2 or 3 bots a day from following me.

bragging

yeah they nuked all the old ones too, i made a list of some of them trying to figure out what they were for but none of them even did anything except for post a few pics and follow some people then theyd go dormant, its weird, and now theyre all gone, all my friends gone

i assumed it was due to the API access shutdown.

afaict they havent actually changed anything with the api yet

problem with musks many ideas is he doesnt have anyone to implement them, because he fired everyone

also occurs to me that everything ive seen on social media bots/general manipulation is accompanied by people fucking with rooms full of phones ie theyre not using the api, which makes sense theres a greater verification/setup hurdle to using the api, and its prob easier to detect people fucking around with it

musk is trying to make this about bots but like with sms 2fa its really just him cutting off free services

Just a constant stream of "Cannot retrieve tweets at this time, please try again later" atm

yeah.
i have been trying to respond to a tweet and getting that issue.

Gotta say twitter is accidentally been the best it's ever been. I am seeing less news -- it's gone to just about the right amount of news than the sorta overload it might've been -- and more of what some of the ppl I follow tweet. It's slowly becoming a less engaging app in a way, which is good but also surely means I will be surprised if it's left standing by the end of the year.

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ya i kinda feel this. no idea if it’s true but i heard the algorithm is deemphasizing tweets with links to outside sites, which while it prob sucks for ppl who rely on twitter for self promotion (and also lol so stupid from a business pov) could be having a positive indirect effect if more tweets are self-contained

Thank u Elon

is this a serious problem? really? speaking for "real women" no one particularly wants to be naked in a locker room or anywhere with strangers or possibly with anyone anywhere at any time naked or not. cannot believe this is an issue in good faith. https://t.co/AeYksQ6hR6

— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) February 18, 2023

??? pic.twitter.com/MATiu4712h

— Drew Gooden (@drewisgooden) February 18, 2023

Yeah Karl Malone did it first, well played.

Drew Gooden is the poor man's Karl Malone