Twitter C/D

i appreciate that someone shows pity on my worst tweets but who is ka11en 1aw

for those of you in academia who also tweet - i'm tweeting about an aspect of my professional work that I've been thinking about in the context of recently published research by a colleague in my field. she is active on twitter professionally, tweets often about her research. when i give attribution to her work in my tweet, do you think it's better to 1) @ her 2) cite her w/ a link to the published paper, 3) or both? the etiquette of @ing some is not something i really understand. i want to give her credit for her work but in a way that won't annoy her, but like i could also see her being like "im on twitter why didnt you @ me"

if she is active on twitter professionally, use her @

if you don't otherwise have a link in your tweet you can link the paper but if your tweet is mainly to link something else you can leave out the link, imo

thank you silby! i ended up @ and also linking :)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-24/twitter-analysts-don-t-see-quick-rebound-as-stock-dives-20

Twitter Inc. shares plummeted on Thursday, after the social-media company reported third-quarter results that came in well below expectations and gave an outlook that was seen as weak.

The stock shed as much as 20%, erasing more than $4.5 billion from the company’s valuation. Thursday was the biggest one-day percentage loss for the stock since July 2018, and the sell-off took shares to their lowest level since March.

https://i.imgur.com/jZHIE8J.jpg

it looks like 20% of all twitter accounts are going to be deleted in order to cut costs - in order to keep your account, please email me your handle and password by friday end of day, thank you

1st couple days or 2 sans Twitter I was reflexively picking up phone to check it etc. But since then I haven't even thought about it and am glad to have that time-waster out of my life.

.@jack says he'd be "very sad and depressed" if he was on his deathbed and all of Twitter was just people "dunking."

— Ashley Carman (@ashleyrcarman) October 24, 2019

sorry but twitter rules

Twitter is fucking great! Soooooo much better than Facebook. The key is to not follow depressing people.

There's some sort of analogy between all my liberal friends constantly retweeting the president and Ben Shapiro, and the Pic Pedant constantly retweeting that photo of the jaguar with aquamarine airbrushed eyes.

i've been enjoying twitter a little more lately

I apologize, it's an ocelot, not a jaguar.

just gonna keep adding to this thread every time it shows up in my list, I sure don't think @jack sees it https://t.co/thyE2tjVcs

— PicPedant (@PicPedant) October 25, 2019

I'm considering getting back into twitter. with the proviso that i would just curate the hell out of my feed so i didn't get anyone talking about trump or posting "another day on the hell site" etc.

I think I still have all my filters in place from the last election, which helps

not sure what people are saying about politics because i have every related word muted but there's some good fried plantain memes today

I'm considering getting back into twitter. with the proviso that i would just curate the hell out of my feed so i didn't get anyone talking about trump or posting "another day on the hell site" etc.

― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, October 25, 2019 6:06 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I dunno man... That sounds a bit like having your AA meeting in a liquor store. I don't think it can be done.

haha

you're right! one day at a time

God speed my friend :) If you pull it off I want you to show me how you did it!

(I quit twitter and it's... a great relief tbh)

yeah #DeleteTwitter
it's essentially socially acceptable bullying for the most part

it's essentially socially acceptable bullying for the most part

u guys are in abusive relationships w your feeds. step 1 is to recognize that

lol

It's estimated that the Gates foundation has saved 6 million lives, and this was a few years back. They've basically undone the holocaust. Yeah, I'm ok with calling him a hero, Scott.

— Podracer (@StonksOnHigh) November 7, 2019

incredible

loool

all that AND he gave the world clippy

Wow what a prick

Lol is that a reverse Godwin?

I haven’t been paying attention. Why are we supposed to be mad at Bill Gates now?

could have got more out

He apparently said he would support Trump over Warren

because no, i never want to save my documents to fucking OneDrive

Gates's robber baron era has given way to his mellow philanthropic era, rather like Andrew Carnegie, after he stopped shooting his workers and started giving away libraries.

bill gates has too much money, hope this helps mr. snrub; but otoh his successfully prosecuted (!) antitrust violations over bundling a shitty browser with his operating system do seem quaint in our era of feeling intense catharsis when a congresswoman speaks unusually sternly to one of the three guys who own the internet

He apparently said he would support Trump over Warren

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:26 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not exactly.

"'I’m not going to make political declarations,' Gates said. 'But I do think no matter what policy somebody has in mind … whoever I decide will have the more professional approach in the current situation, probably is the thing I will weigh the most. And I hope that the more professional candidate is an electable candidate.'"

I mean, the crux of what people are mad at him about is this:

"If I had to pay $20 billion, it’s fine,” Gates said. “But when you say I should pay $100 billion, then I’m starting to do a little math about what I have left over.”

Sorkin asked Gates if he’d consider sitting down with the Massachusetts senator.

“I’m not sure how open minded she is — or that she’d even be willing to sit down with somebody who has large amounts of money,” Gates said.

I’m starting to do a little math about what I have left over.

yr head iirc

oh ffs

https://live.staticflickr.com/4034/4676228175_3ec3b75b07_m.jpg

“Hello citizens! Could someone explain the problem with evil billionaires? They seem fine to me, an ordinary person!”

Hahahaha!!!

both twitter & instagram doing this feed auto-refresh thing that i thought they killed off before because everyone hated it?

xp lol good username/post combo there

dud btw

i wish the emotional labor and YA clusterfucks did not invade literally all of my other internets last week including ilx but it did bc twitter's boundless suckitude draws all other internet spaces into it

it was p funny tho

jack's moving to africa next year to get his head together and just, like, jam and shit, y'know? really just feel it

Sad to be leaving the continent…for now. Africa will define the future (especially the bitcoin one!). Not sure where yet, but I’ll be living here for 3-6 months mid 2020. Grateful I was able to experience a small part. 🌍 pic.twitter.com/9VqgbhCXWd

— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) November 27, 2019

tweet, pay, love

lmao

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