Twitter C/D

Now I want a smssy logo t-shirt

imagining an alternate world where twitter is bought by gen x icon jane pratt and turned into sasser

It is patently clear that Musk is incompetent. He has also become socialized in the right wing echo chamber where they are still desperately clinging to the notion that the public actually has a silent majority of fervent Nazi sympathizers, they just need a coherent outlet for a new 21st century tech-friendly fascism. He probably does legitimately believe there’s a solid customer base for this nonsense — and frankly the way Reddit has captured so much of random online culture as it is literally taken over by the alt-right indicates there may be something to that.

However it’s also possible that some of these notions are being fed to Musk by more clear-thinking members of the 88 club, or yes even by those with some actual experience at destroying open and democratic media. It really does seem like a concerted effort to take down good faith public discourse, whether that’s wisdom Musk accidentally received from the detritus of decades of attacks on the ‘liberal media’, or whether it’s more directly targeted, is a conundrum. I will say Musk like Trump seems to me an almost ideal mark for psychological manipulation, if some agents of anti-democratic interests were so inclined.

I agree with a lot in this post, but I truly want the idea that social media sites are "a town square" or a place for "public discourse" to die. These companies, all of them, are privately owned, operated for profit, and virtual, and aren't designed to serve the public, but the coffers of large corporations. I'm tired of this small rhetorical flourish continuing unabated as conventional wisdom when it is demonstrably false.

Twitter is a town square where only 10% of the town actually shows up, and even then, half of *that* is just snake oil salesmen and the rubes the frequent them

tbf that's how town square things work, too

Sometimes you get a Church of the Sub-Genius guy

lol yeah it's easy to overromanticize actual town squares. In ours, you typically get one guy playing musical saw reasonably well, one guy playing Middle Eastern fiddle not so well, random preachers condemning people for letting their daughters out of the house wearing shorts, assorted panhandlers, the steel drum guy, and farmers' markets twice a week. It is not a place of high-minded discourse, except for the occasional political march or rally.

one guy playing musical saw reasonably well

Is that where you're locked in a room and forced to listen to Dave Matthews?

"i wanna play a SONG"

deleted my 2 accounts. first full day without twitter in a while (I had an account for many years but only started really actively using it around 2018). does this mean I have to go to primary sources for my news now and not get it delivered to me by angry 12 year olds?

“I don’t like being harassed at my private home. I’ve been doxed so many times by the left and right, I have a constant flow of people pulling over, taking pictures, even leaving death threats in my mailbox,” Buchanan wrote.

NEW from me: I spent five days in Wewahitchka, Florida, the home of Catturd. There I learned that the mysterious MAGA influencer is essentially unknown in his own backyard--and heard from the man himself, Phillip Buchanan

The debut of Hi-Res at @dailydot https://t.co/Ha4lWHPEHv

— Claire Goforth (@claire_goforth) July 25, 2023

his followers are claiming the writer "doxxed" him.

...

litterdoxxed

Ok what

Eventually he fronted a rock band with an extremely silly, fruit-themed name, which gigged at establishments like Bullwinkle’s Saloon in Tallahassee and Bubba’s Pizza in Panama City Beach, and was reportedly on the radar of the Dust Brothers, producers who worked on Beck’s Odelay.

Surprised(?) RS would publish this without confirming with the source!

wondering where this was reported

app keeps crashing on my phone, they must be trying to push an update for the logo

It's common to have "shita" in a Japanese name, so naturally people use it for their account name.

Apparently "X" didn't take that in account when they decided to mass suspend users that has "shit" in their account name and so many Japan users are getting suspended. pic.twitter.com/oXtJRQcNoh

— ハイガイ / AJ (@highgai) July 25, 2023

why would they be banning that at all?

Does anyone know a really, really good copyright lawyer

lol

booming

hahahaha

Waitwait so "cat turd" is fine but "shit" is not? FFS.

Banning "shit" in user names after 17 years of it being fine is exactly the kind of BS I would expect from this "free speech" advocate.

make my words

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F16-dY6acAEJGoo?format=jpg&name=medium

I am become X. Destroyer of birds.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/hxIAAOSwj1Njy40I/s-l1200.webp

I'm guessing the "shit" ban came after he saw a post by @ElonShit or some such

the twitter bird may be gone but we’ll always have our state bird 🖕

— New Jersey (@NJGov) July 25, 2023

looks like Elon just gifted the original @x with this snazzy brand new, easy to remember handle https://t.co/lTiJyPY11Z pic.twitter.com/mLmpOqDbds

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 26, 2023

Weird to read a blue tick correcting a piece.

Oh my god. The @Guardian needs to issue a correction here, as quickly as possible, for this sloppy reporting.https://t.co/J6AOSw5Azt

— Dr. Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) July 25, 2023

idgi, why is that weird?

Not 2025, studies suggest 2050

I understand Foley's critiques of the article, what I don't understand is why it's weird to see a "blue tick" issue them. (Fwiw, Foley was verified before Elon came along.)

Weird because 99.99% of blue ticks are insane climate deniers who wouldn't know a fact from a cat turd, is what I think xyzzzz is getting at.

yeah that's the nu-blu-tick and not OG-tick though, which she is, I guess. I dunno because again I deleted my profile and hate X. why am I even reading this thread still?

Man, calling it "X" and that logo are like the most basic bullshit I've ever seen. It looks like a first year college graphic design/marketing project.

best case scenario was that people slowly forgot Elon owned the site and continued posting, this ain't exactly helping the cause

like seriously everyone knows what a Tweet is in fact like half the value of that company is how it just entered the common vernacular. you could say "did you see what LeBron James tweeted", because "tweeted" is an accepted verb. no normal person is gonna say "did you see what LeBron posted on X", in fact you can't even really refer to the app at all now without sounding like a dipshit. oh and you took one of the most recognized app logos and replaced it with something that looks like a link to a porno site. this is like Nathan For You level shit.

It'd be akin to changing "photoshop" to "picblaster3000" and insisting everyone start calling them "blasties".

oh and you can also use it to order groceries online

mods pls hatdump all future references to tweets into BLASTIES!

This would rule tbrh.

I understand Foley's critiques of the article, what I don't understand is why it's weird to see a "blue tick" issue them. (Fwiw, Foley was verified before Elon came along.)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Weird because 99.99% of blue ticks are insane climate deniers who wouldn't know a fact from a cat turd, is what I think xyzzzz is getting at.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink

What James said. My understanding is that you have to pay to keep your blue tick. Many people verified before have lost their blue tick.

Not 2025, studies suggest 2050

He also says it’s also not the Gulf-stream that may collapse, but something called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The thread goes into details.

Without twitter we might have Blue Sky or Mastodon but there aren't enough posters.

These couple of posts by Tracey Thorn made me think that the bad Guardian Obit might have been one of the few sources of 'tribute'.

I think what's so hateful about that Guardian Sinead obit is the way it frames her whole life in negatives - "she lacked the obsessive drive needed…never had another hit…inability to edit her pronouncements...constitutionally unable to compromise…" Talk about removing agency😡

— Tracey Thorn (@tracey_thorn) July 27, 2023

if they don't use the name 'twitter' for a certain amount of time, do they lose the copyright?

Oh it's an AI lmao pic.twitter.com/eBGK2zjnpN

— Tyler Glaiel (@TylerGlaiel) July 26, 2023

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1-bcbyaYAALsO0?format=jpg&name=large

when do we change the thread title