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Ah, actually twelve years. I had to create a second account and swap it with this one when I joined Twitter, so this is the vestigial account. I was really just trying to stop the persistent notification about my Twitter anniversary, but it didn’t work. I still get notified. #Bug
It’s been eleven years since I joined Twitter. My intention was to put my toe in the water for network security positions, but I ended up getting approached by Twitter themselves! I landed the next three jobs, including my current one, by Twitter as well. #MyTwitterAnniversary
When you flush your phone during a drunken stupor insurance ships you a new phone pronto; but when, after years of gentle use, something stops working without obvious damage it’s kind of like trying to talk your way into the cool kids party when you just got a scoliosis brace.
It’s been eleven years since I joined Twitter. My intention was to put my toe in the water for network security positions, but I ended up getting approached by Twitter themselves! I landed the next three jobs, including my current one, by Twitter as well. #MyTwitterAnniversary
OK, so the “Prince William is the World’s Sexiest Bald Man” thing is an intentional PR stunt, but can I just take a moment to say how unfair it is that Patrick Stewart hasn’t been trending more in this discussion? I mean, talk about aging with class...
I’m back after a mysterious account suspension. Even my cat’s account was suspended. The mysterious powers that be behind the Twitter curtain have reinstated the account without further explanation. I hope it was just an errant algorithm.
First Amazon, now Foxconn. When are local governments going to wake up to the fact that giving huge subsidies to private companies is just that, a subsidy, and not an investment? This one was particularly bad because it was Trump’s harebrained scheme. wsj.com/articles/foxconn-tor…
I’ve flown 4 out of 15 of these now-defunct airlines. I miss Pan-Am and TWA for their full-service approach, and I miss Continental for being on-time, unlike United. popularmechanics.com/flight/…
ESRGAN stands for Enhanced Super Resolution Generative Adverserial Networks, and this A.I. technique can impressively make old 3D game textures high-resolution. gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-l…
For future reference, you can expect to see a lot of Op-Ed’s and editorials picking apart every one of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statements for literal truth, while huge misstatements of fact by establishment politicians go unchecked. It’s a man’s world. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
AT&T is either misleading customers by calling enhanced LTE “5G Evolution”, or the entire 4G/5G paradox is misleading. I vote for the latter. Same thing happened with “4G”. theverge.com/2019/1/7/181723…
Zuckerberg San Francisco General is the only level-1 trauma center in San Francisco metro area—and they aren’t in-network with a single private insurer! That means HUGE surprise bills for everyone not on Medical/Medicare. vox.com/policy-and-politics/…
@CenturyLink has a network outage in 15 data centers, affecting emergency services. That can only be a failure of network architecture and insufficient redundancy.
washingtonpost.com/technolog… zdnet.com/article/centurylin…
Tesla owes a lot of the apparent success of the Model 3 to Federal corporate welfare in the form of huge tax breaks. As that ends, Tesla finds itself in trouble. forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/…
Elon Musk wants cave rescuers defamation suit dismissed. If this happens, it means that defamation doesn’t count if it’s on Twitter. That doesn’t sound right to me. apple.news/AikYZzr8XRYygQeg8…
Facebook is literally leading to the fall of civilization, and The Zuck can’t stop patting himself on the back. apple.news/AVkGF15BkQ5yrqu9I…
Sure, we could require that everyone on food stamps work, or we could require that employers pay a living wage and reserve food stamps for those who are too old, disabled, or disadvantaged to work. If everyone who needed food stamps could work, they would. salon.com/2018/12/20/trump-p…
Buried in this article about how terrible Juul is for making a product that appeals to teens is the fact that teen smoking has been cut in half in three years. That’s a massive improvement! apple.news/AdWiQ7IJNT0OIl5WN…
Should Apple remove WhatsApp from the App Store because people use it to transmit child porn? Why not remove Safari at the same time? I hear there are lots of nasty webpages out there... techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/wh…
Trump claims he made a trade deal that definitely hasn’t been made yet. This is like throwing a baby shower because someone agreed to have coffee sometime. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
