Twitter C/D

honestly, give it 20 years, maybe you could fully inhabit these beeple creations as a videogame. it's already in a 3D space (either C4D or maya), with textures and 3D models and that shit. it's just a game that doesn't have any players. seems like it would be easy to hop into any of the characters in the one above and see what happens if you step out of line - with a flamethrower

i guess i did like this one, because it seemed to reveal something about them. i can't tell if the style of it is a parody of the kinds of paintings where jesus is helping a hockey player, or whatever, or not, but i guess that's good

https://i.imgur.com/CAgF3bl.png

since the blockchain is all about undoing the convenience and efficiency of already available technologies, perhaps they can add a sort of permanent damage tracked on a blockchain. So you can enter the 3D space and permanently torch it with a flamethrower. Or there could be random "acts of god" that destroy NFT art beyond repair.

Ask and ye shall receive

https://blog.chain.link/create-dynamic-nfts-using-chainlink-oracles/

Hey Panera, if you could take a break from making stale ass bread bowls for old white people and salt your sidewalk that’d be great. Almost cracked my skull coming in this morning.

— The Last Blockbuster (@loneblockbuster) February 18, 2021

nah

if you want to support my anti- NFT "art" mania, please like or retweet this:

Will you all be discussing hyperspeculation and how digital artists can accelerate it while also hopefully getting rich in the process?

— Zach_TBD (@weinventyou) March 17, 2021

there are a few very good artists on there, and people I've followed for a long time. they never gave a fuck about me, but i'm determined to register my discontent.

nothing is more annoying to me lately than the people who reply to Richard Nixon with "Sir". Give it up already.

Editor: You get those photos of Elliott Gould and Grover?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what pic.twitter.com/WbXJavjufu

— Chris Thorburn (@CBThorburn) April 17, 2020

It’s too early to say what led to the fatal shooting of Adam Toledo by Chicago police, but it’s also too soon to make him a cause celebre. It's never too early to stop pretending that 13-year-olds are inherently harmless, Eric Zorn writes. https://t.co/3NJqssG396

— Chicago Tribune Opinion (@chitribopinions) April 6, 2021

Made my quarterly tweet to tell this columnist that I hope his dick falls off and that he has diarrhea forever (carefully not wishing or threatening death upon him) and got a 12-hour ban.

also I hope he dies a miserable, long death and that his family rejoices when he's gone

jesus fuck i can't even

i think that before you are allowed to print that column you should be required to read it aloud in its entirety to the child's family in a small locked room

tribune media is such a garbage fire

What happens to Tronc???

this is real!

"Word up!" It is I, the Gray Lady, with a "shoutout" to all my hip young friends. Just wanted you to know I've added new specialized feeds.

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 21, 2007

"so, micro-blogging then" is one of the innocuous phrases from ilx that pops into my head the most often. so innocent

Is there a way to get it to stop suggesting topics to me? I'm really not liking this new "feature".

i don’t know but believe me i’ve looked! i thought notifications were sacred!!

it's not just notifications, they are now putting random Tweets in the timeline that relate to topics they think I might be interested in. I tried dismissing the topics, but that has led them to suggest more and more irrelevant topics instead.

Yep, that has been my experience. Dismissing those suggested topics just sort of fires up some sort of, "welp, then I don't know what the fuck you like so I'm going to just throw everything at you" response.

I feel like if I dismiss enough of them they will eventually just run out of topics

I think if you mute the phrase " suggest_activity_tweet " and/or " suggest_recycled_tweet_inline " that helps to remove most of the trash notifications you are referring to.

niiiice

Excellent!

Is this illegal?

*deephacks Twitter to improve user experience*

I understand why Twitter wants to do this for new users, to help them bootstrap a good feed. But I don't understand why tech companies aren't treating newbies and power users differently. (I am a techie but my industry puzzles me often.)

twitter doesnt have the most precise parsing of that sort of thing eg constantly suggesting i follow politicians who i just told to eat shit

Make sure you're in the Latest Tweets sort and not the Top Tweets sort

I think if you mute the phrase " suggest_activity_tweet " and/or " suggest_recycled_tweet_inline " that helps to remove most of the trash notifications you are referring to.

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, April 13, 2021 9:48 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

btw i do this + use the "latest tweets" timeline and dont get most of the stuff people complain about itt, i do get some suggested topics but theyre in the timeline not as notifications

ha, yes, I prefer latest tweets, but of course it switches back to top tweets periodically without asking

galaxy brain touched on this today
https://warzel.substack.com/p/its-not-cancel-culture-its-a-platform

Some people spend a lifetime trying to craft tweets that troll in the way the space/horror tweet did so effectively

the context collapse thing is a good point, because my first thought is "who would actually get mad at this", but you know there's some nerd or filmmaker out there who is legit "I've spent my whole life fighting the belief that horror can't be set in space and I have HAD IT"

the internet is mostly made up of people who have HAD IT these days

it’s just an aggressively dumb take!

you can do a desert movie or a horror movie, but horror in the desert is just a desert genre imo

is Dune a desert movie or a space movie?

what if we were the aliens all along

xp yes

I think if you mute the phrase " suggest_activity_tweet " and/or " suggest_recycled_tweet_inline " that helps to remove most of the trash notifications you are referring to.

Just checked, I had these muted already but they're still putting garbage in there.

it helped with my notifications but there are still random topics in my feed

Hilariously twitter doesn't even seem to be able to catalogue these random topics right - I just got "suggested topic: rap" and the tweet was some lefty shitposter joking that Femi's article caused Starmer's approval ratings to drop. Not every black person is a rapper, twitter.

https://i.postimg.cc/VkBZYc2n/image.png

so sick of this guy, not sure if he's real or one of those AI-generated imaginary people

im not a regular mom ceo, im a cool mom ceo

My favourite thing is scrolling past a load of tweets and then scrolling past exactly the same tweets again, this time with an "in case you missed it" heading at the top.

1.) Post tweet.

2.) "Oh, look! A notification of new tweets to be read."

3.) Scroll to top.

4.) It's the tweet I just posted.

I FALL FOR THIS. EVERY. TIME.

What type of world do we live in today, when the woke try & "cancel" Dr. Seuss, while ‘CyberPunk 2077’ is all the rage where "4 types of damage can be inflicted & resisted-Physical, Thermal, EMP & Chemical"

Clearly promoting great Woke wholesome values ?? https://t.co/NLlrLaIW5s pic.twitter.com/zXLIERXLAh

— Craig Kelly MP (@CraigKellyMP) April 24, 2021

^ shows clear symptoms entangled ganglia

https://thewire.in/tech/as-covid-19-crisis-deepens-twitter-takes-down-tweets-criticising-modi-government

Seems bad.

Twitter’s bad but of Twitter; covid-19, and Modi, I think it’s the least bad

"so sick of this guy, not sure if he's real or one of those AI-generated imaginary people"

That's Dan Price, CEO of payments compnay Gravity Payments that literally no serious ecommerce company uses. He got a bunch of press for lowering his pay and giving employees raises, but there have been serious questions about how true some of that was, plus, apparently he runs his company like a cult, and his ex-wife accused him of absolutely awful torture and abuse, and somehow that has been totally swept under the rug. I had to block him on linkedin in order to stop seeing his shit reposted by everyone I've ever worked with.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/03/gravity-ceo-dan-price-domestic-violence-accusations