just googled runway twitter hq and looks like its just a coworking space thats in the twitter building
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 December 2017 06:43 (six years ago) link
Jack Dorsey is def a Nazi tho
― .oO (silby), Friday, 8 December 2017 07:17 (six years ago) link
otm, he's chill with those dudes and is undoubtedly one of the nazi-adjacent tech libertarian types who sees "freedom" as the strongest thing about the internet
I was thinking about this recently after watching the Halt & Catch Fire tv show. Lots of people who were early adopters of the internet and were hanging out on newsgroups, irc, whatever back in the early 90s were happy that there was a place where you could be whoever you wanted, express yourself and talk about your nerd music or experiment with your image, talk to people of different backgrounds and sexualities even if everyone near you was a total norm.
so it was an easy sell to a lot of us to talk about freedom of speech and personal liberty. beut you know what also was there? Moderation. Newsgroups were nearly all moderated with the exception of the alt.* ones. If your ISP or usenet admin thought some groups were vile, they didn't get mirrored. IRC channels? moderated by whoever started the discussion
twitter is almost like someone said "ok, we'll rebuild irc but instead of finding specific channels for discussion, we'll let you see absolutely everyone's message and YOU build the list of people you want to see content from". which is fine in theory, but a complete design failure when it comes to moderation. the thing that was completely lost in assuming the ethos was always about "freedom" is that most of the time, it was about *caring about a community you built*
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
good post
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
imo you should 51 that post for irony
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
D
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 December 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
otm
― .oO (silby), Friday, 8 December 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
every alt-right or gamergate dipshit is acting as an ad hoc moderator because of the way twitter's reporting system works -- the people and tweets that are reported the most are the ones that get attention, so the ability to direct all your flunkies to report things because you're trying to fuck with someone pretty much gives you that power
there's no real "community moderation" otherwise, because communities are transient and without real dividing lines. it's not completely flat because affinity groups do form, but the ability to moderate is flat. I could tweet about music and never interact with any of these people and one day, someone could decide that they don't like me and cherry-pick one tweet to hammer. I think the only reason this doesn't happen more is because these ad hoc mods think they have agendas, and the juicier targets are verified so the reporting queue is different
there's no real political or social agenda in that behavior, eventually any popular account becomes a target because knocking people off a pedestal is the most juvenile version of fun. that simple joy of just knocking someone offline because they made the mistake of being popular
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
again, it reminds me of IRC -- even with irc moderation the older networks had no concept of channel ownership, if the channel was empty and you joined, you'd be able to take it over. there were entire parts of the internet that would be jacked up pre DDoS days, you'd just do a not-so-distributed denial of service attack by ping flooding users on slower connections or the weaker servers, get them disconnected or desynched, all so you could get mod powers for some community you probably didn't give a shit about, because wrecking someone else's shit was fun
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
ha thats prob a felony now
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 December 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
there was a moment in the very early 00s when some cybercrime law was passed and it was retroactive. I explained it to my roommate at the time and we were like”whoa we have done many crimes”
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
i kinda miss irc, shit was wild
just realised my first irc experience would have been almost exactly 23 years ago *gulp*
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
that's a real slap to the face with a large trout
― frogbs, Friday, 8 December 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
ah memories
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
i met my first serious girlfriend on irc ffs
There should probably be an IRC reminiscing thread.
― Jeff, Friday, 8 December 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
Or a buzzfeed listicle, “you know you’re an IRC kid when...”
― Jeff, Friday, 8 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
an iirc kid afaic
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
There's an interesting new Twitter rule coming up soon.How much you want to bet that it will apply to guillotine jokes, but not, say, bombing Yemen. pic.twitter.com/oJBVLawicG— Cindy Stew Who (@voicehaver) December 12, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
you sure y'all on the same page? https://t.co/8c2d7xusmH— 💔 (@lexwatchmeflexx) December 22, 2017
one of my least favorite parts of twitter. when your drag gets 3x as many retweets as the other person has followers. basically cyberbullying
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 December 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
yeah. but at least no one involved has which sports teams they root for in their bios
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 December 2017 03:21 (six years ago) link
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/opinion/digital-nazi-hunter-trump.html
good website
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
Twitter sided with the Nazis.SHOCKED, SHOCKED etc
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
still though
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
Can we fast forward to the part where it turns out there are a bunch of top level Twitter people with secret alt right online lives
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 December 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/368126-sen-warner-disappointed-with-twitter-about-russian-election-meddling
“I’m disappointed. I’ve been disappointed throughout this,” Warner told reporters. “Twitter has been often times the slowest to respond. Most of their work was derivative to the Facebook work. The other companies met the deadline which was way over a month from when they testified.”
Warner is currently pursuing legislation he co-sponsored with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) that would force tech companies to be more transparent about who is purchasing political advertisements on their platforms.The Honest Ads Act would hold companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to similar political ad transparency standards as TV and radio outlets.“[Tech companies] want to continue this approach of self-policing. I think that at the end of the day, that doesn’t cut the mustard,” Warner said on Tuesday.He said if companies continue to fight legislation now, down the road they may “wish they could have taken the Honest Ads Act as opposed to where this policy discussion may lead us.”
The Honest Ads Act would hold companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to similar political ad transparency standards as TV and radio outlets.
“[Tech companies] want to continue this approach of self-policing. I think that at the end of the day, that doesn’t cut the mustard,” Warner said on Tuesday.
He said if companies continue to fight legislation now, down the road they may “wish they could have taken the Honest Ads Act as opposed to where this policy discussion may lead us.”
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
Marriott International respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China. We don’t support separatist groups that subvert the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China. We sincerely apologize for any actions that may have suggested otherwise.— Marriott Rewards (@MarriottRewards) January 11, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
Excuse me
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
lol love it
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
one wld assume this related to some mention of tibet hong kong or taiwan
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
They liked the wrong tweet
― badg, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
luv2see #brands desperately prostrating themselves before governments on social media, very cool
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
just wait for govts prostrating themselves before brands, coming soon to a social medium near you! #trench
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
btw how the fuck can i have blocked someone's retweets on this gd piece of trash website and i still get their likes randomly dropped into my feed??
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I went down the rabbit hole
apparently this is what set it off
Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan. pic.twitter.com/SXKWb20v3e— Friends of Tibet (@friendsoftibet) January 9, 2018
― mh, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
oh snap
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
oops lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
the rare trifecta
this is extremely good
The Hierophant: exploration of sacred truthTAke a look, y'all: pic.twitter.com/dY14XIlPwY— matt 💀 lubchansky (@Lubchansky) January 16, 2018
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
this too https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/twitterstorm-2018?utm_term=.kybv2bbA6#.cswg7PPwY
― stet, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Joanna Whatley · London, United KingdomBut, ummm... many of these tweets are dated March 2018, which make the whole thing a scam since it’s only January. Or have I fallen into a parallel universe?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
wow that's surprisingly good
"buckle up, it's time for some bayesian inference"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
i did particularly lol @ that
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
that article is the best black mirror episode yet
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
staggeringly good article. sometimes buzzfeed rises above being buzzfeed.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
ugh that sounds wankier than i expected it to
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
it sounded as wanky as i expected
― flopson, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
amazing, including the made up tweets, twitter handles, everything spot on
― k3vin k., Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
i didn't even pick up on the joke til Fergus McContrary, founder of an online journal looking sceptically at facts
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
need a trigger warning for satire plz
― flopson, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link