Twitter C/D

A callout of SDL led to discourse about the term "PAWG". During that discourse, @APunishedBill found himself disagreeing with the "PAWG is racist" folks.

This, imo, can be considered the inciting incident. 1/?

— Nae Bumayé, PAWG Discourse Historian (@naebumaye) July 10, 2022

I literally cannot parse that at all.

I mean, I could click on it to try to work it out, but why would I punish myself like that?

That’s kind of the point
It’s a torturous history of the “Anne Frank had white privileged” mess

Just realized that a $1b breakup fee from Musk (were Twitter to get it) would represent more in net income for Twitter than it has made in aggregate in its lifetime as a company

— Tanay Jaipuria (@tanayj) July 12, 2022

if it were net income

lol

it really is quite a thing (pointed out by matt levine in bloomberg/the other thread) how the twitter board is kinda bound by its duty to its shareholders to demand its own destruction

usin twitter like it’s facebook you love to see it

https://twitter.com/william79739990?s=21&t=vPQV8BbSUpxuU5tFD_wc_A

Trending in United Kingdom
Jizz

As a result of Truss's new campaign slogan, Jizz for Liz.

oh, I see, people want a piece of Jizz Hornkamp again. thankfully his manager has already asserted that “Jizz is not for sale”.

the corrupt Forest chairman will have been illegally tapping up Jizz for a while now going by previous behaviour.

this is how you get people to engage with your content on twitter.

how can you defend this?

how can someone convince another person that this is good music?

because apart from the last few seconds, this is unlistenable, i fully believe that bjork bribed reviewers to write good reviews. pic.twitter.com/cF6voYxICc

— CO ☕ (@emanchiji) August 2, 2022

i know i'm a particularly old 34 because i just can't find any upside to the way music is discussed/argued/reviewed on twitter/youtube/reddit. it's atrocious and i never want to witness it.

so I guess the question would be, can a piece which is intentionally striving in all ways to attain the state of being 'anti-music' simultaneously be considered a piece of music? sounds like a job for the Magic 8-Ball (tm).

the Bjork track hardly seems like "anti-music", it's just a bit noisy in places

lol that was amazing bait, just Bjork army catnip

song rips btw

worst part is all the replies backing up their blatantly wrong position, but this is yet again an example of "someone says something stupid on the internet" being treated as noteworthy.

is this person blaspheming "Pluto"?

if so, the sentence is death

you never have to care about what some random person on the internet says. that’s a fact

lol true

"Pluto" rules

If your goal is to become Twitter's main character for the day you've got to take a shit on Taylor Swift or BTS, '90s Bjork isn't going to get enough traction.

Yeah, I honestly don't think this person was trolling. I looked at his feed and the previous tweet was a QT of someone else saying essentially the same thing about the same clip. The rest of his tweets are stanning for Ariana Grande.

this is probably biased because of my bubble (media twitter) but i feel like hating on taylor swift just isn't remarkable enough to go viral.

bjork makes perfect sense to me though. like she has always been a bit of a line in the sand for basic pop fans and she's a big enough star that everyone, especially media types, has an opinion about her.

it's weird i've seen a few different tweets slamming "noisy" music today, including a tiktok showing some teens doing like a bare bones prurient performance and the tweeter saying it was the worst thing they've ever seen, lol.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/twitter-says-musks-spam-analysis-used-tool-that-called-his-own-account-a-bot/

that tweet is almost exactly how I felt (minus “the last 3 seconds”) when I saw post Malone on snl

Hating on 25 years old tracks by Bjork is the pop equivalent of classical philistines still complaining about serialism from 1922.

tons of weird promoted tweets touting emmy nominations lately — am i really supposed to be psyched to watch star trek picard because it was nominated for an ‘outstanding prosthetic makeup’ award

Really, this app is proof you can have everything to be happy, and yet.

The self-destructive drive that this app/website encourages in people is really spectacular. For no reason at all, and under little provocation, people just log in and self-immolate.

— Zito (@_Zeets) August 15, 2022

I actually think my mood has improved markedly since I deleted my Twitter account. Seriously.

Oh I love it. That's an observation on blue ticks/Profs/main characters.

Counterpoint: my mood improved when I abandoned all social media *except* for Twitter.

yuh oh

"In an explosive whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post, former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleges the company misled regulators about lax security and spam." - @josephmenn, @lizzadwoskin & @Cat_Zakrzewski exclusive:https://t.co/3XVA3sSvZx

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) August 23, 2022

Mudge Zatko is such a Pynchon name.

He’s an interesting guy!

its interesting how this complaint intersects with the mucks sitch

New: Twitter's former head of security, the renowned hacker Mudge, has come forward with an explosive set of disclosures to Congress and law enforcement agencies. One of those: that Twitter is lying to Elon Musk about the platform's bots https://t.co/XVsAKcygCv

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) August 23, 2022

They put “spam” in the headline to imply that but he’s a straight up security guy so I’d be surprised tbh

In the complaint, the lawyers for Peiter Zatko, widely known as “Mudge,” referred to a claim by Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal who said in a Twitter thread that less than 5 percent of users are spam or fake.

cld def see this whole public spectacle pushing him over the edge

there are of course less charitable readings

or more charitable idk maybe he doesnt want musk to own twitter

funny situation to try to read the tea leaves cause theres obvs a huge annoying security guy dynamic at play too

idk why I imagine Mudge is this guy

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/geZoES9KQ-Q/mqdefault.jpg

This is absolutely wild. I assume it’s true since it’s Mudge. But, for some perspective, for _anyone_, regardless of position, to use personal data, you need to generate your query, submit it with a questionnaire about the use and need for approval, and then you’ll get access for an extremely limited time. This entire process is all public to Meta employees and anyone can flag any request as questionable. I assumed Twitter would have something similar since I assumed the only reason we did this was because it legally mandated or something.

wasnt theres some minor scandal with facebook workers easy access to user data a while ago

2015: At the time, more than 16,000 employees had access to users' private data, the book said. Stamos suggested tightening access to fewer than 5,000 employees and fewer than 100 for particularly sensitive information such as passwords. He proposed requiring employees to submit formal requests for access to private data but received pushback from executives. Zuckerberg said changes on the matter were "a top priority" and tasked Stamos with finding a solution and giving an update in a year, the book said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-fired-dozens-abusing-access-user-data-an-ugly-truth-2021-7

This is absolutely wild. I assume it’s true since it’s Mudge.

I didn’t get the impression this thread was an unusual view internally when he was fired

I remember when Mudge had us send Twitter kernel and OS reports to a rando buddy of his in Texas.

— Ian Brown (@igb) August 23, 2022

He’s a very interesting guy though!

Hypothetically:

If you got fired for poor performance,

Disagreed,

And then wrote 200 pages about how poorly your team performed and how you didn’t fix problems your were hired to fix,

Is that just a regular self-own, or an autobiography?

— Tom Hauburger (@thauburger) August 23, 2022