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Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
I want to recognize Brian Lamb for giving us the ability to watch this without some asshole yelling in our ears.
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
Oh, I see. This is clearer now. Elon and his mum think we're all their employees. xitter.cf/mayemusk/status/160455…
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
IMPORTANT: Those at-home tests you’ll be able to order next week won’t arrive by Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or New Year’s. BUT! If you have private insurance you can walk into most drug stores and get 8 free at-home tests at no cost PER INSURED PERSON, EVERY 30 DAYS.
ALT Four boxes on Binax Now
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
Obviously the point of moderation isn't to please me personally. But I do wish it were easier to actually avoid toxic content, instead of having it delivered in a shell of "I do not approve of this toxic content that I'm nonetheless sharing."
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
Interesting. The AI totally fails the cognitive reflection test. It gives the intuitive but incorrect answer every time.
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
A notable departure from @Twitter: one of the oldest, most robust open government & civic technology websites in the USA has signed off.
@govtrack remains on the open Web: govtrack.us/ & continues to be social on Mastodon, Instagram, Patreon, & Github.
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
Not like we wrote a paper about that or anything which we got fired for.
What COULD go wrong?🤔
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3…
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
Hearing tonight's news out of Twitter reminds of a two-year study Google conducted. It found that high-performing teams have five specific traits:
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
I remember the old saying, “Better to be thought a fool than to buy Twitter and remove all doubt.”
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
I guess from now on we'll just have to read our weird tweets out loud, maybe on some kind of podcast
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
Also at risk in any Twitterpocalypse, a critical piece of archival infrastructure: the Twitter link shortener.
Every link anyone has ever posted on Twitter has been shortened to a t.co link. Only Twitter’s systems know where that link goes.
Link rot at scale.
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
!!! “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet.
“Anyone know who owns this?”
“Unplug it. Someone will show up.”
Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
I never imagined a “Why don’t you just” noob would be running this site, yet, here we are.
Steve Bogart 🎵 retweeted
This is what micromanaging from the top looks like, when the CEO *thinks* they can tell the source of the problem and how to fix it, just by looking at it.
It’s incredibly frustrating when it happens to you. It’s rare to see it this public.
Good luck to engineers in the weeds.
