Site and edit...still a little rough. But TIME TO GET GOING.
Site and edit...still a little rough. But TIME TO GET GOING.
➛Ftrain, by Paul Ford
November 2022
ask us anything, we'll do our best to advise you
ask us anything, we'll do our best to advise you
➛New podcast episode w/@richziade and I interviewing...
New podcast episode w/@richziade and I interviewing @matt_levine and @aaronlammer to try to make sense of FTX and crypto weirdness in general ziadeford.com/... x.com/...
➛Say what you will about Maggie Haberman but of all the...
Say what you will about Maggie Haberman but of all the journalists working today her name would sound the funniest if Scooby Doo said it.
➛oh my god
@bennyfactor oh my god
➛HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
The best ones had the name of the show, like Three’s...
@ItsTheBrandi The best ones had the name of the show, like Three’s Company.
➛one of the most gripping videos i've ever seen
one of the most gripping videos i've ever seen youtube.com/...
➛Thank god someone is saying it
@jamminjava6 Thank god someone is saying it
➛hurt lockers hurt lockers
hurt lockers hurt lockers
➛Argh my first guess.
@LouisatheLast Argh my first guess.
➛“Zombie” by The Cranberries is the only song that can...
“Zombie” by The Cranberries is the only song that can appear on both Halloween and Thanksgiving playlists.
➛Are you telling me a fedora left this tip?
Are you telling me a fedora left this tip?
➛The Posters are departing. Only Reply Guys remain.
The Posters are departing. Only Reply Guys remain.
➛LADIES…
LADIES…
➛He thinks he’s Culture but he’s actually Affront.
He thinks he’s Culture but he’s actually Affront.
➛MORE SERIOUSLY the one thing that's helped is having a...
@artificialnix MORE SERIOUSLY the one thing that's helped is having a ~/dev/ folder that's mirrored everywhere and I accept that if I find or start a project it goes into ~/dev/ (and *then* onto GitHub). So at least stuff is *somewhere*, even if I have no idea exactly what it is.
➛This is my utter disaster. Right now I’m working on a...
@artificialnix This is my utter disaster. Right now I’m working on a personal archiving project for projects and writing and I keep finding…past incomplete personal archiving projects.
➛godspeed John
@john_overholt godspeed John
➛The minute this CMS works I will write a post explaining my...
@clockwerks @photomatt The minute this CMS works I will write a post explaining my motivations in building the CMS.
➛I didn’t say “ship” a CMS, that’s EXHAUSTING.
@photomatt I didn’t say “ship” a CMS, that’s EXHAUSTING.
➛this is too good for here
It's kind a medium-sized-city stunner right? Some of my...
did you see this it's neat
@whitneymcn did you see this it's neat mojojs.org
➛Whitney we both know that no CMS is needed.
@whitneymcn Whitney we both know that no CMS is needed.
➛All I can tell you is that I have an urgent need to build a...
All I can tell you is that I have an urgent need to build a CMS, and for me that's like when someone with bursitis can feel the weather changing. Another phase shift is upon us. It doesn't look like this. AND THANK GOD. Humanity (“whom I love”) is not a plaything.
➛But urgency is going to have different shapes. Because the...
But urgency is going to have different shapes. Because the spell is broken and we are all bored. I don't know where. Not here though. Maybe people will subscribe to local papers again. Maybe those papers will be the Des Moines Völkisher Beobachter.
➛Maybe history will say that social media didn't enable...
Maybe history will say that social media didn't enable fascism but actually provided a space for a deeply polarizing society to fight proxy battles in the public sphere to exhaustion, when the collapse began, starting w Musk and ending with Facebook's purchase by Verizon.
➛Look. The site is gonna stay up but the spell is broken....
Look. The site is gonna stay up but the spell is broken. He'll let Trump back in then he'll kick him off and the NYT will cover it in all caps. There'll be another private jet handjob horse bribe incident. He'll make Calacanis CEO and fire him. &c. Everyone will care less daily.
➛people who are laughing at the FTX bankruptcy...did you...
people who are laughing at the FTX bankruptcy...did you consider that 10 million years in the future an AGI is crying
➛elon...relax...have another baby
elon...relax...have another baby
➛This is not amusing to me Kieran.
@quinnnorton @kjhealy This is not amusing to me Kieran.
➛He’s right!
Just being friendly.
@maureenflaherty Just being friendly.
➛I just want to say: You're all extremely cute.
I just want to say: You're all extremely cute.
➛the jokes can't even keep up with reality :/
@devgerred the jokes can't even keep up with reality :/
➛to be fair he did what you're supposed to do when you're...
to be fair he did what you're supposed to do when you're working on a website, he emptied his cash
➛Tweet
It was great.
@hondanhon @BreakingGovTech It was great.
➛c u on the ‘don
c u on the ‘don
➛Aww that's great I'm glad you're sticking.
@steph_colbourn Aww that's great I'm glad you're sticking.
➛live footage of the microservices being turned off
live footage of the microservices being turned off youtube.com/...
➛Check out my Soundcloud
I found the plans for the global town square.
this is what I like to see on here
Sigh
okay back to normal
okay back to normal
➛“A meme with text that reads: check urself before yourself....
@ChappellTracker “A meme with text that reads: check urself before yourself. Next to the text is an image of Shrek. His head has been manipulated to repeat thousands of times in succession so it looks like he has a weird, snake-like neck.”
➛Taylor you are actually an absolutely ideal user for this,...
@taylorkatebrown Taylor you are actually an absolutely ideal user for this, it's basically designed for you, PLEASE sign up and I think you would like the PF people very much and should meet them!
➛Okay I can change my name back. That was something else.
Okay I can change my name back. That was something else.
➛Vote! Please! Even if exhausted.
Vote! Please! Even if exhausted.
➛how do I unverify I can't figure it out
how do I unverify I can't figure it out
➛No no it's happening all over. It's completely real.
Tweet
Incredibly pleased to announce that in order to ensure that...
Incredibly pleased to announce that in order to ensure that Twitter is the global town square, I am no longer allowed to change my display name back and indeed get a message that says DENY, this is now a Paul Ford Parody Account SATIRE account.
➛Tweet
I mean if I'm going to unintentionally rip anyone off...I'm...
Breaking: Dozens dead in clown car collision (headshots of...
Breaking: Dozens dead in clown car collision (headshots of 40 clowns)
➛It looks like this.... (it can look like lots of things)
be cool if you retweeted instead of just complaining about...
be cool if you retweeted instead of just complaining about the new owners, also I put this on Mastodon stop asking
➛There's an org I love called Probable Futures that puts...
There's an org I love called Probable Futures that puts climate science in the world. They built a tool that lets you EASILY integrate/map YOUR data with climate data + predictions. Upload CSVs, use an API. They need ALPHA TESTERS! (I helped build it). probablefutures.org/...
➛Group weblogs with trackbacks. Lemmy is neat too, it's...
Exactly!
@DannyPage Exactly!
➛SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE...
SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE SATIRE
➛They just announced that Twitter is getting rid of the...
They just announced that Twitter is getting rid of the bluebird logo and replacing it with an owl to prove their dedication to free screech.
➛I'm really happy for both of you.
@artificialnix I'm really happy for both of you.
➛It's good that SOME chart looks like a hockey stick out...
seems solid and too
okay that was fast
okay that was fast
➛applying to join mastodon server we will see
applying to join tilde.zone mastodon server we will see
➛Oh no wait I have to delete I have a much better joke
Oh no wait I have to delete I have a much better joke
➛This has convinced me to start blogging again.
Future generations will have so much to post through.
Future generations will have so much to post through.
➛This whole thing is busted! From now I'm only going to work...
This whole thing is busted! From now I'm only going to work at a heroin factory that runs on free GNU software using volunteer labor.
➛It's a reminder of how many brain eels we share when you...
It's a reminder of how many brain eels we share when you notice that no one is saying, “Maybe I simply won't post through it any more.”
➛Dixie Flatline deserved his freedom
@feartomorrow Dixie Flatline deserved his freedom
➛I mean there could be a forever but he’s blowing up...
@MrShaneBreslin I mean there could be a twitter.com forever but he’s blowing up advertising revenue. x.com/...
➛you know we're allowed to not publish, we can go to the...
@toomuchnick @everestpipkin you know we're allowed to not publish, we can go to the park and stuff
➛oh wow no idea
@fivetonsflax oh wow no idea
➛that's all I ever wanted
@tcarmody @karenmcgrane that's all I ever wanted
➛Have a fantastic day! Congratulations!
@tcarmody @karenmcgrane Have a fantastic day! Congratulations!
➛Twitter is a place where I built tons of really good...
Twitter is a place where I built tons of really good relationships, with all kinds of people, from all over. That’s the value, for me, way more than having an audience. If you get laid off today—you helped build that, and I am grateful for your work. DM if I can help.
➛Don’t worry, everything will turn out alt right.
Don’t worry, everything will turn out alt right.
➛I wonder if in 2022 Hans Christian Andersen would have...
I wonder if in 2022 Hans Christian Andersen would have titled it “The Emperor's Whole Ass.”
➛I asked the AI for photographic proof that the mods are...
too risky in these confusing times
@cybergirlboss too risky in these confusing times
➛You should see the ones I don't post.
@JeromeHardaway You should see the ones I don't post.
➛I'm a little teapot, short and stout. That's my...
I'm a little teapot,
short and stout.
That's my cloaca,
Drink what comes out!
Been in drafts for three years.
➛short and stout.
That's my cloaca,
Drink what comes out!
Been in drafts for three years.
Not really but only because there were no jobs and we all...
@ChappellTracker Not really but only because there were no jobs and we all just smoked and sat on the roof for like two years.
➛right and wrong don't matter any more on here
@ilan_peer right and wrong don't matter any more on here
➛billionaires are dunking on billionaires on here, whatever...
billionaires are dunking on billionaires on here, whatever happened to class solidarity
➛Giving Project Gutenberg $10/month because they have been...
Giving Project Gutenberg $10/month because they have been there for me for 25 years.
➛Twenty years ago (!) my friend @sogrady and team founded...
Twenty years ago (!) my friend @sogrady and team founded the tech industry analyst firm @redmonk. @rstephensme pinged yesterday to ask if I had any thoughts—and I do. Happy anniversary, friends!
It’s a true marketplace
@jeffehobbs It’s a true marketplace
➛Revenue idea #5: Create a new form of blue check but...
Remember they did this with some mailing list and it was a...
Only one way to find out.
Calicanicoins
I have to finish my Wired article.
@richziade I have to finish my Wired article.
➛Or you could pay someone else whose computer solved the...
Wait, new revenue idea: The supply of verifications is...
Wait, new revenue idea: The supply of verifications is capped at exactly 10,000.
➛What I like about this path is that instead of trying to...
@richziade What I like about this path is that instead of trying to use smart product decisions to manage the fact that any mass aggregation of humans is intolerable, we're simply monetizing it until it bursts and sprays flaming viscera everywhere.
➛Exactly. Turn everything on here into a political campaign...
@richziade Exactly. Turn everything on here into a political campaign and keep all the donations. Finish the job.
➛The market wants what it wants Rob.
Yeah but if you could get people to campaign against each...
@richziade Yeah but if you could get people to campaign against each other on here to keep their blue checks you could make billions.
➛If you're going to kneecap T&S then stop pussyfooting...
If you're going to kneecap T&S then stop pussyfooting and go full seastead. Stop sucking up to brands, put the servers in Belarus, and turn this into the infinite pay-per-view wet market shitvista it urgently wants to be.
➛Yes you should be able to challenge any blue check and...
You could also market it as "true democracy" and give...
You could also market it as "true democracy" and give everyone a vote on who gets banned, which would push engagement absolutely through the roof as people run to preserve their blue checks. Twitter polls would allow this. It would lead to only bad things, which is the goal.
➛I would pay $10/month to ban myself. Easy decision.
I would pay $10/month to ban myself. Easy decision.
➛I mean they could funnel like 1/3 of the global digital...
@artificialnix I mean they could funnel like 1/3 of the global digital political ad spend into their bank account. An absolute nightmare of a product.
➛Is it worth a billion dollars a year to keep certain people...
Is it worth a billion dollars a year to keep certain people from Tweeting? IMO that's a bargain. That's a real product hiding inside of this exploding electric clown rocket.
➛IMO their best play would basically be cultural extortion....
IMO their best play would basically be cultural extortion. For example I would pay $10/mo to keep Trump banned. And it could be an absolute libertarian triumph: The market determines who loses their platform. Kind of an antipatreon.
➛I haven't confirmed this but I think the United Nations has...
I haven't confirmed this but I think the United Nations has said we're all allowed to have one Parliament Light and a Diet Coke for breakfast.
➛Twitter is sort of the anti-LinkedIn in that just about...
Twitter is sort of the anti-LinkedIn in that just about everything people do on here can get you fired.
➛