which of FAANG will end up purchasing twitter
My preference would be Jeff Bezos, World's Richest Humanoid. He would then drown Twitter in a bucket just to spite Donald Trump, who would consequently become increasingly isolated.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
of course, if you ever want to entertain revenue-generating ideas i have this really bold plan that involves a pyramid scheme, cryptocurrency, and a minimum of 4 hectares of reasonably secure and well-drained land
but until then i'm very glad to donate as much as i can, as often as you need it, and i know that's true for many many others as well
xp
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
I've never even seen a hectare
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
anyway irc still functions, it's literally easier than ever to stick some html on the internet, everyone has access to secure private group chats on their phones, and no one forum needs to take over the world to be good. Discord is probably gonna turn out to be evil at some point but the spirit of irc is strong on there to a certain extent
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Hectare? No, we never even kissed
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby)
hell, Discord is probably evil _now_, I've heard stories about white nationalist communities. that's the risk of adopting the old "decentralized" model - no corporate hegemony, but also little in the way of functional oversight. it's a mess and it's inconvenient and everything is whispers and shadows, finding things is reaching out blindly in the dark, and every five months the community falls apart or a corporation buys it to destroy it and you have to move on to something else. it reminds me of piracy, honestly, the life, but nobody's trying to break a law that's been written, we're just trying to have an honest conversation without it being turned into a fucking shoe commercial
i don't mind the _idea_ of monoculture, it's just that the people in charge of the Majors are all manifestly bastards, probably how they got in charge in the first place. no, no, i do mind, because i've seen it, community just doesn't scale. probably one reason i keep going after bands only three people listen to, god you think i can have a discussion on the internet about _radiohead_?
― Agnes Motörhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
my partner spent a lot of time on Radiohead's own weird web 0.9 technology messageboard in high school and the one rule there was not to talk about Radiohead
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
:) ask your partner if they remember feedback, HeadOfState, or penisfingers on that board. for a couple years i was in the top 5 posters (by quantity, not quality)
i actually found ilx through the rhmb!we actually talked about radiohead all the damn time
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
top poster by quantity not quality by poster penisfingers #humblebrag
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
:D
feedback was my main name. penisfingers was my first sock!
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
i learned a lot on that board, about how to a complete weirdo on the internet
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Ah, the glory days!
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
my man :D
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
jia is proof that platform is 90% of intellectual success these days, which feels related to the vertical internet phenomenon
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
otm
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
maura is that a burn on jia? :(
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
she’s bad, sorry
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
actually i’m not sorry but
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
she's good
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
no
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
she’s an adderall-fueled solipsist with boring arguments
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
:,(
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
i gotta be me
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
Adderall-fueled solipsist makes me shrug and doesn't mean a whole lot. The boring arguments though, that's def true.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
I like Jia sry I guess
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
and boring is a fake idea
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
i should have said banal instead, you’re right
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
a friend of mine once summarized tolentino’s work as “clever but not smart” and that reads 100 percent correct to me. everything i’ve read by her on any subject i have remotest knowledge of has had its routine incidents of bullshit and received wisdom. she is good at affecting an intellectual surface through sentences. she’s done some good reporting too
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
anyway it’s fine to like her, so many people agree with you
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
I have very little confidence in my own taste, if someone on a messageboard posts that a thing I think is good is bad actually I get all kerfuffled
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
:O if i ever kerfuffled you i'm sorry silby!
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
Silby! <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
she's the one from the hulu fyre fest doc?
― 10,000 mani-gecs (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
i should also say i like exceedingly few modern writers, probably because i am one, adjust for inflation
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
i still consider myself a late 90s writer, protoblogger
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
brad posts for me / i get anxious when i dislike stuff a lot of people are into, so
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
'Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting': An Oral History of Y2K
― blatherskite, Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link