Twitter C/D

the small population has meant that even though I don't like those guys, I don't see their shit 100x times a day anyway requiring me to mute them

Phil Lewis (huffpo) seems to be the most active 'journalist' on there (in scare quotes because is huffpo journalism? is what he does journalism?) and luckily he does nothing but post links to stories, he doesn't bloviate on and on about his personal life all day long.

There is a bot set up to auto post BBC news stories.

my guess is that someone specifically mentioned the ADL to Elon (for reasons) and he has absolutely no idea who is or isn't boycotting him and is happy to do some casual anti-semitism

― mh, Tuesday, September 5, 2023 11:10 AM (six hours ago)

The ADL said as a matter of policy it does not comment on legal threats. But the organization noted it recently met with X leadership, including CEO Linda Yaccarino, who Musk hired to help revive ad revenue. Yaccarino thanked ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt following the meeting last week, saying in a post on X, “A strong and productive partnership is built on good intentions and candor.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/05/tech/elon-musk-adl-lawsuit/index.html

what is the audio version of the poop emoji

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4c8yWYTlE8

very cool that this dolt could lose $248 billion USD and still have enough money to last him 200 lifetimes

― c u (crüt), Tuesday, September 5, 2023 5:41 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

not if he keeps buying websites haha

someone X at him to do Facebook next

how is it still hard to get on bluesky? everyone I know who has heard of it has found an invite or is disinterested

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look how easy it is

thank you!

Reading about Egyptian cassettes, still gd.

60 years ago, today, the compact audio cassette debuted in Berlin. Lou Ottens, a dutch engineer and the head of product development for the Philips factory in Belgium, was behind the invention. But what happened once the #cassette traveled well beyond his hands? 🧵 pic.twitter.com/znrXPs0QYJ

— Andrew Simon (@simongandrew) August 30, 2023

this was a good thread yes (i am greatly interested in the marc masters book also)

so you can't read threads if you're not logged in now?

Yes, it's been that way for a while.

nitter.net is working again as a workaround

How low can he go?

Musk is collaborating with Tucker Carlson to promote a discredited, absurd, 15 year old conspiracy theory about Obama.

Of course its the @ADL's fault that major corporations don't want to advertise against this kind of content. pic.twitter.com/Nagt5Pj4lm

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 7, 2023

I like in that awful meme the captions from the two biggest dominos form a sentence.

Lmao yas. I didn’t notice who it was from at first tbh, was just skimming by it and thought it was too dumb to be real, had to be parody. Nope not too dumb for Elmo.

Guess they’re fine with supporting Nazism?

They don't see the Nazism as relevant to their corporate interests, so, yes, they are fine with it because they turn a blind eye to it.

that's just not how the domino meme is supposed to work

so you can't read threads if you're not logged in now?

jus a few from itt but eg

Twitter C/D

Twitter C/D

Twitter C/D

so helpful, thank you!

june 2: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-head-brand-safety-ad-quality-decides-leave-wsj-2023-06-02/

today: https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/second-x-brand-safety-head-departs-in-months

The right's erotic fascination with Barack Obama was one thing I hoped would fade with time.

This is a movement whose signature insult is stolen from racist porn.

Tucker can always sink lower, but that 'interview' is close to his nadir

Yeah I want to see Tucker dying inside

strike that last word

tucker really thought he was king shit on top of the world

the one week I completely am away from twitter the trueanon squad manages to convince people that ebola is spreading at burning man?!

were you at burning man?

e-bola is the most online virus

e-bola the letter

I was at bluesky, man

e-bola the letter

you get to CEO and your job is to post things this late on a friday night (and needing to edit it three times) because your CTO threatened to sue someone and is palling around with nazis in the comments.

X opposes antisemitism in all its forms. Antisemitism is evil and X will always work to fight it on our platform. And X is also always open to proactively working together in that fight with all groups.👇https://t.co/EoXEvrXbKx

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) September 9, 2023

you knew the replies would have some good shit

pic.twitter.com/4sPA6GOvp3

— Mr. California (@InternetHippo) September 9, 2023

that statement just reminds me how fuckin stupid the name "X" is

X looks like the same symbol you use to close a window, which is effective at reminding me what to do when I find myself using X

That said I’ve been following Medwyn’s parsnip odyssey and was delighted to see that he won 1st prize today

Arrived just after judging and the Foyer is now full of superb quality vegetables. I went straight for the parsnip class! pic.twitter.com/lsIocfSMEk

— Medwyn Williams (@medwynsofangles) September 9, 2023

I woke up last night smelling smoke - went outside and it was stronger, very triggering memories of NSW fucked up summer of bushfires a few years back - eventually found out it was hazard reduction burning (ie controlled)… but for the first time really missed Twitter as a quick go-to for community updates.

I mean I know it is still there but not on my phone it isn’t - and finding the right info seems kind of totally impossible anymore anyway

Had a somewhat similar experience last night when we were out walking. We could see and hear a big fireworks show going off on the other side of the San Gabriel Valley at the unusual time of 11:30pm - especially for that big of a show. Community twitterbots are all gone and all other social media was useless. Even got out my phone's compass and surveying app to figure out what park in El Monte it was coming from, but still nothing.

opened it a few times on NFL Sunday and was surprised by how dead it's become, half the people I follow just don't tweet anymore or do so infrequently. just doesn't seem there's much motivation to be "good on Twitter" anymore

yeah the numbers we keep seeing twitter ad revenue down 50% etc seem low, maybe awful new musk coded posters are picking up the slack some but if so that cant last theyre bad posters and will get sick of each other if no one else is around

barstool gets clever with the copyright infringement

Katz and Portnoy were filming a December 2020 episode of their online NFL gambling show, The Barstool Sports Advisors. Portnoy was struggling to remember the lyrics to MC Hammer’s song “U Can’t Touch This,” so his co-host played it on his phone.

After five seconds spent listening to the ’80s pop-rap hit, Katz announced, unprompted, “We’re going to have to put this on a burner now.” The music continued, and an off-camera participant can barely be overheard chiming in, “Yeah,” with a laugh.

Using the song on-air, even via Katz’s phone, could have been interpreted by the rights-holders as violating copyright law. The gambling show’s Twitter account spelled out the problem that night in a reply tweet. “Full video couldn’t be posted because of the music,” @BSSAdvisors wrote.

So how might Barstool avoid this pesky IP problem?

In a corner of the Barstool tweet, you’ll find a link to a much smaller Twitter account: @ChuckTamato. Clicking the link reveals that this account, which had no bio and only a handful of followers, had originally posted an unlabeled two-minute clip of the show, not Barstool.

Thanks to Twitter’s easy-to-use video-sharing function, @BSSAdvisers then uploaded and embedded what appeared to be a @ChuckTamato-created video, added text, and sent it out to their then-80,000-plus followers. The main Barstool Sports Twitter account, which had 2.6 million followers at the time, shared the same clip 10 minutes later, as did Portnoy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-dave-portnoys-barstool-built-an-empire-by-swiping-sports-highlights/

shd be noted that a lot of this stuff falls under fair use but big tech has created a more restrictive than the actual law regime

yeah, I don't think anyone is watching Barstool videos on the off-chance they'll get to hear some MC Hammer songs

speak for yourself

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there were crazy lightning strikes over the hills Saturday night and yeah normally I would have searched twitter to see wtf was going on but instead I read a bunch of lightning articles on wikipedia

twitter used to be so good for weird smells