Haunted by #plums
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 4 December 2017 13:33 (six years ago) link
forgive mefor plums contain natural mellowing agentsand I have been so anxious, and so.. full of anxiety
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Monday, 4 December 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
left none plums tweets great
plum tweet haters ain't
― j., Monday, 4 December 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
guys i've done a little research and read some of the baby shoes tweets and they're bad, sorry
― k3vin k., Monday, 4 December 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
I feel the shit account tour bracket is generally a symptom of horribleness but as an annual way for me to notice and understand the badness of certain tweetspheres it’s illuminatingsadly this year I recognize 2/3rds of the people and.... ok they’re fucking horrible
― mh, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
This sounds like bullshit to me?
PSA. For anyone beset by Nazi and brownshirt bots: I changed my Twitter address to Germany at the suggestion of a shrewd friend, and they vanished. Germany has stricter hate-speech laws.— Virginia Heffernan (@page88) December 4, 2017
― just sayin, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 07:31 (six years ago) link
It's a nod to this new law, though obv it's still a reactive thing. Can't imagine her not seeing swastikas etc at all any more.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 07:39 (six years ago) link
yet the laws still let her username through!!
― j., Tuesday, 5 December 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
Ha!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
I think they don't necessarily trust the location you've set, but yeah, if you're "in Germany" it screens out a shitload of accounts that espouse values and symbols banned in Germany
― mh, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
But oh, you'll get so many new bdsm accounts following you.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
& Sprockets promos
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
I'd take both of those over white fascists any day
hell, I'd take them even if I have to deal with the white fascists
― mh, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
My account got a 12 hour suspension for an old tweet quoting Drive Like Jehu lyrics (which accompanied my live video of the band performing said song/lyrics). They made me cough up my phone # (I used a burner #) and then make me brute-force delete the tweet before my 12 hours began counting down.
I searched for the same lyric on twitter and found multiple references, mostly from inactive accounts.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 7 December 2017 23:59 (six years ago) link
wait...what the hell
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 December 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
What lyric?
― JRN, Friday, 8 December 2017 00:05 (six years ago) link
From "Luau":
"Wipe the last haole the fuck off our turf"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 December 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
Kinda nuanced and obscure, but I could see how an alt-right brah-zi would be offended (most of my tweetage is progressive/liberal likes/retweets).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 December 2017 00:16 (six years ago) link
DID YOU KNOW: The city of San Francisco Republican Party election night event was held at the Twitter Corporate HQ?
https://www.facebook.com/events/1814569718802103/
Small group of @SFGOP gathering @twitter HQ #Runway for viewing party #right now. #vote2016 #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/vXFUFx6WLU— Lisa Amin Gulezian (@LisaAminABC7) November 9, 2016
Food & beverage set up underway at Runway inside @twitter HQ building for official @SFGOP party. #GOP @KTVU #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/VD4XhHFTtI— Cristina Rendon (@CristinaKTVU) November 9, 2016
Official @SFGOP watch party will be held inside Runway @Twitter HQ building. Party starts at 6:30 p.m. @KTVU #electionday #ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/EOmc44GxJF— Cristina Rendon (@CristinaKTVU) November 9, 2016
Join the SFGOP for an Election Watch Party at Twitter HQ. https://t.co/yQYJ0pwxc3— San Francisco GOP (@SFGOP) May 26, 2016
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 8 December 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
tf
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 December 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
just googled runway twitter hq and looks like its just a coworking space thats in the twitter building
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 December 2017 06:43 (six years ago) link
Jack Dorsey is def a Nazi tho
― .oO (silby), Friday, 8 December 2017 07:17 (six years ago) link
otm, he's chill with those dudes and is undoubtedly one of the nazi-adjacent tech libertarian types who sees "freedom" as the strongest thing about the internet
I was thinking about this recently after watching the Halt & Catch Fire tv show. Lots of people who were early adopters of the internet and were hanging out on newsgroups, irc, whatever back in the early 90s were happy that there was a place where you could be whoever you wanted, express yourself and talk about your nerd music or experiment with your image, talk to people of different backgrounds and sexualities even if everyone near you was a total norm.
so it was an easy sell to a lot of us to talk about freedom of speech and personal liberty. beut you know what also was there? Moderation. Newsgroups were nearly all moderated with the exception of the alt.* ones. If your ISP or usenet admin thought some groups were vile, they didn't get mirrored. IRC channels? moderated by whoever started the discussion
twitter is almost like someone said "ok, we'll rebuild irc but instead of finding specific channels for discussion, we'll let you see absolutely everyone's message and YOU build the list of people you want to see content from". which is fine in theory, but a complete design failure when it comes to moderation. the thing that was completely lost in assuming the ethos was always about "freedom" is that most of the time, it was about *caring about a community you built*
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
good post
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 15:11 (six years ago) link
imo you should 51 that post for irony
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 15:22 (six years ago) link
D
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 December 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
otm
― .oO (silby), Friday, 8 December 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
every alt-right or gamergate dipshit is acting as an ad hoc moderator because of the way twitter's reporting system works -- the people and tweets that are reported the most are the ones that get attention, so the ability to direct all your flunkies to report things because you're trying to fuck with someone pretty much gives you that power
there's no real "community moderation" otherwise, because communities are transient and without real dividing lines. it's not completely flat because affinity groups do form, but the ability to moderate is flat. I could tweet about music and never interact with any of these people and one day, someone could decide that they don't like me and cherry-pick one tweet to hammer. I think the only reason this doesn't happen more is because these ad hoc mods think they have agendas, and the juicier targets are verified so the reporting queue is different
there's no real political or social agenda in that behavior, eventually any popular account becomes a target because knocking people off a pedestal is the most juvenile version of fun. that simple joy of just knocking someone offline because they made the mistake of being popular
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
again, it reminds me of IRC -- even with irc moderation the older networks had no concept of channel ownership, if the channel was empty and you joined, you'd be able to take it over. there were entire parts of the internet that would be jacked up pre DDoS days, you'd just do a not-so-distributed denial of service attack by ping flooding users on slower connections or the weaker servers, get them disconnected or desynched, all so you could get mod powers for some community you probably didn't give a shit about, because wrecking someone else's shit was fun
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
ha thats prob a felony now
― lag∞n, Friday, 8 December 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
there was a moment in the very early 00s when some cybercrime law was passed and it was retroactive. I explained it to my roommate at the time and we were like”whoa we have done many crimes”
― mh, Friday, 8 December 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
i kinda miss irc, shit was wild
just realised my first irc experience would have been almost exactly 23 years ago *gulp*
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
that's a real slap to the face with a large trout
― frogbs, Friday, 8 December 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
ah memories
― straightedge is just volcel for vegans (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 December 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
i met my first serious girlfriend on irc ffs
There should probably be an IRC reminiscing thread.
― Jeff, Friday, 8 December 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
Or a buzzfeed listicle, “you know you’re an IRC kid when...”
― Jeff, Friday, 8 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
an iirc kid afaic
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 8 December 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
There's an interesting new Twitter rule coming up soon.How much you want to bet that it will apply to guillotine jokes, but not, say, bombing Yemen. pic.twitter.com/oJBVLawicG— Cindy Stew Who (@voicehaver) December 12, 2017
― Google Murray Blockchain (kingfish), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
you sure y'all on the same page? https://t.co/8c2d7xusmH— 💔 (@lexwatchmeflexx) December 22, 2017
one of my least favorite parts of twitter. when your drag gets 3x as many retweets as the other person has followers. basically cyberbullying
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 December 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
yeah. but at least no one involved has which sports teams they root for in their bios
― mookieproof, Sunday, 24 December 2017 03:21 (six years ago) link
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/opinion/digital-nazi-hunter-trump.html
good website
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
Twitter sided with the Nazis.SHOCKED, SHOCKED etc
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
still though
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link
Can we fast forward to the part where it turns out there are a bunch of top level Twitter people with secret alt right online lives
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 December 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/368126-sen-warner-disappointed-with-twitter-about-russian-election-meddling
“I’m disappointed. I’ve been disappointed throughout this,” Warner told reporters. “Twitter has been often times the slowest to respond. Most of their work was derivative to the Facebook work. The other companies met the deadline which was way over a month from when they testified.”
Warner is currently pursuing legislation he co-sponsored with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) that would force tech companies to be more transparent about who is purchasing political advertisements on their platforms.The Honest Ads Act would hold companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to similar political ad transparency standards as TV and radio outlets.“[Tech companies] want to continue this approach of self-policing. I think that at the end of the day, that doesn’t cut the mustard,” Warner said on Tuesday.He said if companies continue to fight legislation now, down the road they may “wish they could have taken the Honest Ads Act as opposed to where this policy discussion may lead us.”
The Honest Ads Act would hold companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to similar political ad transparency standards as TV and radio outlets.
“[Tech companies] want to continue this approach of self-policing. I think that at the end of the day, that doesn’t cut the mustard,” Warner said on Tuesday.
He said if companies continue to fight legislation now, down the road they may “wish they could have taken the Honest Ads Act as opposed to where this policy discussion may lead us.”
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
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― mookieproof, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
Excuse me
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Friday, 12 January 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
lol love it
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
one wld assume this related to some mention of tibet hong kong or taiwan
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link