Twitter C/D

lol that was amazing bait, just Bjork army catnip

song rips btw

worst part is all the replies backing up their blatantly wrong position, but this is yet again an example of "someone says something stupid on the internet" being treated as noteworthy.

is this person blaspheming "Pluto"?

if so, the sentence is death

you never have to care about what some random person on the internet says. that’s a fact

lol true

"Pluto" rules

If your goal is to become Twitter's main character for the day you've got to take a shit on Taylor Swift or BTS, '90s Bjork isn't going to get enough traction.

Yeah, I honestly don't think this person was trolling. I looked at his feed and the previous tweet was a QT of someone else saying essentially the same thing about the same clip. The rest of his tweets are stanning for Ariana Grande.

this is probably biased because of my bubble (media twitter) but i feel like hating on taylor swift just isn't remarkable enough to go viral.

bjork makes perfect sense to me though. like she has always been a bit of a line in the sand for basic pop fans and she's a big enough star that everyone, especially media types, has an opinion about her.

it's weird i've seen a few different tweets slamming "noisy" music today, including a tiktok showing some teens doing like a bare bones prurient performance and the tweeter saying it was the worst thing they've ever seen, lol.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/twitter-says-musks-spam-analysis-used-tool-that-called-his-own-account-a-bot/

that tweet is almost exactly how I felt (minus “the last 3 seconds”) when I saw post Malone on snl

Hating on 25 years old tracks by Bjork is the pop equivalent of classical philistines still complaining about serialism from 1922.

tons of weird promoted tweets touting emmy nominations lately — am i really supposed to be psyched to watch star trek picard because it was nominated for an ‘outstanding prosthetic makeup’ award

Really, this app is proof you can have everything to be happy, and yet.

The self-destructive drive that this app/website encourages in people is really spectacular. For no reason at all, and under little provocation, people just log in and self-immolate.

— Zito (@_Zeets) August 15, 2022

I actually think my mood has improved markedly since I deleted my Twitter account. Seriously.

Oh I love it. That's an observation on blue ticks/Profs/main characters.

Counterpoint: my mood improved when I abandoned all social media *except* for Twitter.

yuh oh

"In an explosive whistleblower complaint obtained by The Washington Post, former Twitter security chief Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko alleges the company misled regulators about lax security and spam." - @josephmenn, @lizzadwoskin & @Cat_Zakrzewski exclusive:https://t.co/3XVA3sSvZx

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) August 23, 2022

Mudge Zatko is such a Pynchon name.

He’s an interesting guy!

its interesting how this complaint intersects with the mucks sitch

New: Twitter's former head of security, the renowned hacker Mudge, has come forward with an explosive set of disclosures to Congress and law enforcement agencies. One of those: that Twitter is lying to Elon Musk about the platform's bots https://t.co/XVsAKcygCv

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) August 23, 2022

They put “spam” in the headline to imply that but he’s a straight up security guy so I’d be surprised tbh

In the complaint, the lawyers for Peiter Zatko, widely known as “Mudge,” referred to a claim by Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal who said in a Twitter thread that less than 5 percent of users are spam or fake.

cld def see this whole public spectacle pushing him over the edge

there are of course less charitable readings

or more charitable idk maybe he doesnt want musk to own twitter

funny situation to try to read the tea leaves cause theres obvs a huge annoying security guy dynamic at play too

idk why I imagine Mudge is this guy

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/geZoES9KQ-Q/mqdefault.jpg

This is absolutely wild. I assume it’s true since it’s Mudge. But, for some perspective, for _anyone_, regardless of position, to use personal data, you need to generate your query, submit it with a questionnaire about the use and need for approval, and then you’ll get access for an extremely limited time. This entire process is all public to Meta employees and anyone can flag any request as questionable. I assumed Twitter would have something similar since I assumed the only reason we did this was because it legally mandated or something.

wasnt theres some minor scandal with facebook workers easy access to user data a while ago

2015: At the time, more than 16,000 employees had access to users' private data, the book said. Stamos suggested tightening access to fewer than 5,000 employees and fewer than 100 for particularly sensitive information such as passwords. He proposed requiring employees to submit formal requests for access to private data but received pushback from executives. Zuckerberg said changes on the matter were "a top priority" and tasked Stamos with finding a solution and giving an update in a year, the book said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-fired-dozens-abusing-access-user-data-an-ugly-truth-2021-7

This is absolutely wild. I assume it’s true since it’s Mudge.

I didn’t get the impression this thread was an unusual view internally when he was fired

I remember when Mudge had us send Twitter kernel and OS reports to a rando buddy of his in Texas.

— Ian Brown (@igb) August 23, 2022

He’s a very interesting guy though!

Hypothetically:

If you got fired for poor performance,

Disagreed,

And then wrote 200 pages about how poorly your team performed and how you didn’t fix problems your were hired to fix,

Is that just a regular self-own, or an autobiography?

— Tom Hauburger (@thauburger) August 23, 2022

a chaotic and rudderless company beset by infighting, unable to properly protect its 238 million daily users including government agencies, heads of state and other influential public figures

which company isn't like this, though

I don't know if "didn't fix problems you were hired to fix" can be purely laid on one person if your team isn't given the wherewithal to actually make solid changes, though

also he could have been really bad at managing a team but really good at pointing out the issues

in any case, bringing back strong 90s memories and remembering the time I almost got into hot water for sending someone CDC backdoor tools packages as a fake executable as a teen

xp true but i do lay pretty much every problem (including comically bad leadership hiring decisions incl. this one) on jack. truly the stupidest tech ceo i have ever encountered. not even close. real iq of 85 vibes.

yikes mudge getting lit up

pretty mudge

having thousands of people with full twitter admin privs is terrible, doesn't mean those people had any ability to log into underlying systems, and tbh any org above a certain size, unless they've baked in upgrades and patches from day one is going to have internal systems that lag on security patches, etc. and companies "mitigate" it by just having very few things available outside the internal network and a layer of web app firewalls, etc. and then the auditors call it a day

this is still wrong and something an actual security engineer should scream about but eventually you get hoarse

information wants to be free

I meant it’s true because Mudge has serious bipolar energy not because he’s an expert or whatever.

haha fair

what does the wombot know

https://i.imgur.com/R7RbZRx.jpg

Mudge Zatko is such a Pynchon name.

― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Tuesday, August 23, 2022 10:16 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Mudge Zatko is absolutely a made-up Pynchon name, come on

— 宋宇游 (@BenjaminPepys1) August 23, 2022

confirmed

oh shit, I didn't realize Mudge was part of Beto's old hacker group

the hackers who wrote essays about computers or whatever

CDC! It makes me mad when I remember that Beto is cool.

https://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/posters/sneakers-1992-directed-by-phil-alden-robinson_u-L-Q1E5G560.jpg?artHeight=900&artPerspective=n&artWidth=900

lmao

Jack’s dereliction of duty here is amazing pic.twitter.com/iyFuyoY2d3

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) August 23, 2022