Twitter C/D

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What’s interesting is Q (Ron Watkins) said Jason Sullivan was able to rebuild this type of tool after Twitter was supposedly able to ban it https://t.co/XLjwt0jEtL

— Bennett Tomlin (@BennettTomlin) August 25, 2022

“X will literally do y rather than go to therapy” has been sent to my Twitter phrase banlist

I'm super fascinated by this idea people have that "therapy" is some kind of trump card sneer that automatically wins all arguments.

Definitely makes an winning tweet tho, and that's what it's all about, right? https://t.co/YUxvdM3EJy

— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 31, 2022

they all need ~better~ therapists is my suspicion. (mine is great. what?)

I've only ever seen that where X is men and..well..

its a joke? which is not actually about going to therapy lol

Tell me you’re x without telling me you’re x

Okay

dunking on someone isn’t the same as “winning an argument” it’s just goofing imo

A couple weeks ago my account was locked for 24 hours because I tweeted "someone should hang for this" in response to a tweet talking about how an 80s cult film currently isn't available for streaming anywhere or in print on DVD.
Yesterday I reported someone for a tweet in a thread about the jackson water crisis where they used the ableist r slur in reference to black mayors and said they were all city killers and twitter said the post was fine.
Elon might as well already own the site.

it usually takes weeks to hear back about reporting someone

i think i've done it about a dozen times, i remember feeling good about it later twice or so, the other times they either didn't respond or i missed it or something

ok the fact that Amtrak can just post "trains" and get 1000x more likes than their average tweet is deeply funny to me

trains are pretty cool tho? there's even a term for people who are really into trains; it may even predate twitter

a dude weeping about lobsters and carbs and getting 1000x likes is a new phenomenon, however, and presents a clear challenge to president joe biden and his liberal agenda

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22274294-letter-decision-resolving-the-joint-motion-of-craft-ventures-man

In other circumstances, I might view entirely duplicative subpoenas served for such tactical purposes as problematic. Where, as here, the subpoena recipient Tweets the subpoenaing attorneys the middle finger and a video of someone urinating on subpoenas, I am less bothered by it.

Queen Elizabeth II Death Twitter is the worst Twitter.

Everytime somebody dies it’s like tweeters resume their arms race to come up with the most galaxy brain nonsense

ugh it's unusable right now, i've already muted 'queen' what more do they want from me

lol its good imo

Today was the first day I was actually tempted to scroll my TL since giving up Twitter a month ago. Like, this is what Twitter is for!

i'm british, i follow quite a lot of british people. but i would say 80% of the tweets i saw about the queen were because i follow lag00n.

Everytime somebody dies it’s like tweeters resume their arms race to come up with the most galaxy brain nonsense

i love days like this: it's iron chef twitter, where everyone gets the same ingredient and has to make something out of it. really shows you something.

— Slade (@Slade) September 8, 2022

i'm british, i follow quite a lot of british people. but i would say 80% of the tweets i saw about the queen were because i follow lag00n.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, September 8, 2022 7:14 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

some good tweets today!

Shrek’s Adventure! London joins millions of mourners around the UK and the world in paying tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II.

United in our loss – we give thanks for a life of extraordinary service to this country, the Commonwealth and the wider world.

— Shrek's Adventure! (@ShreksAdventure) September 8, 2022

@Slade otm

this would be fun if i didn't find every single aspect of the topic gruelingly boring and predictable.

yeah usually this shit annoys me but it’s actually cracking me up today, idk, it’s like the gong show or something

I was hoping that was Slade the band.

Has this been posted yet
https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/what-will-actually-happen-when-the

today in “the internet is physical and also you can’t just accumulate infinite data and expect it to always be available” https://t.co/JL5c8PxQcu

— Talya Cooper (@talya_cooper) September 12, 2022

absolutely no idea what that tweet means.

the server farms are in danger of overheating

today in server farms are real farms

xp i'm talking about the retweet. i work at twitter. i understand the story. i worked on the outage all last week.

It is the equivalent of every time someone on ilx says, "That's why I'm glad I still purchase physical media."

so they're saying "don't forget twitter.com is not a big book"?

i think its saying people think the internet is some magical always on thing but really its subject to the physical world, which is maybe true but doesnt really warrant the sage insight tone, i mean who gives a shit if twitter goes down really, except for caek who has to do some prob annoying work on it

I dunno. Maybe they mean climate change could wipe out the vast store of valuable tweets just like the Library of Alexandria was destroyed.

I think they mean that data doesn't float around in an actual magic cloud, it lives in servers that are subject to environmental impacts just like everything else.

the one area imho people should think more about this is photographs, if theyre purely digital theyll be gone sooner than later, print them out if you want future generations to be looking at their great great grandmother

it's nothing to do with climate change fwiw.

the headline says it is, the story doesn't, and the story is right.

the story says:

"Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers"

So the extreme heat has nothing to do with climate change?

the failure of an air conditioning system (that every data center needs, even if you put the data center at the north pole) is nothing to do with climate change.

don't put data centers at the north pole btw

Are we reading a different story?

“On September 5th, Twitter experienced the loss of its Sacramento (SMF) datacenter region due to extreme weather. The unprecedented event resulted in the total shutdown of physical equipment in SMF,” Carrie Fernandez, the company’s vice president of engineering, said in an internal message to Twitter engineers on Friday.

like I know you have inside knowledge, but the story does talk about weather and extreme heat

Ultimately: were climate change conditions responsible for the cooling system failure or did it just fail regardless

ah, yeah sorry, skipped the quote from comms. "due to extreme weather" is ... arguable. can't say more. anyway yes, it's an interesting story! it's not interesting because “the internet is physical and also you can’t just accumulate infinite data and expect it to always be available”

i think its saying people think the internet is some magical always on thing but really its subject to the physical world, which is maybe true but doesnt really warrant the sage insight tone, i mean who gives a shit if twitter goes down really, except for caek who has to do some prob annoying work on it

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

I get the sense from tech people that data will always be safe and available until the end of time (or the end of twitter).

So here we have a story where climate change is saying nope.

i don't think anyone in tech thinks that.

I do.

tech is full of the weirdest long termist / thought experiment / prepper people. these people are mostly insane, but you can't accuse them of blithely assuming that datacenters will never go down. they worry about a list of thing that includes asteroids.