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
Marriott International respects the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China. We don’t support separatist groups that subvert the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China. We sincerely apologize for any actions that may have suggested otherwise.— Marriott Rewards (@MarriottRewards) January 11, 2018
― 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
They liked the wrong tweet
― badg, Friday, 12 January 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
luv2see #brands desperately prostrating themselves before governments on social media, very cool
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
just wait for govts prostrating themselves before brands, coming soon to a social medium near you! #trench
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
btw how the fuck can i have blocked someone's retweets on this gd piece of trash website and i still get their likes randomly dropped into my feed??
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I went down the rabbit hole
apparently this is what set it off
Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan. pic.twitter.com/SXKWb20v3e— Friends of Tibet (@friendsoftibet) January 9, 2018
― mh, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
oh snap
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
oops lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
the rare trifecta
this is extremely good
The Hierophant: exploration of sacred truthTAke a look, y'all: pic.twitter.com/dY14XIlPwY— matt 💀 lubchansky (@Lubchansky) January 16, 2018
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
this too https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/twitterstorm-2018?utm_term=.kybv2bbA6#.cswg7PPwY
― stet, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Joanna Whatley · London, United KingdomBut, ummm... many of these tweets are dated March 2018, which make the whole thing a scam since it’s only January. Or have I fallen into a parallel universe?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
wow that's surprisingly good
"buckle up, it's time for some bayesian inference"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
i did particularly lol @ that
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
that article is the best black mirror episode yet
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
staggeringly good article. sometimes buzzfeed rises above being buzzfeed.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
ugh that sounds wankier than i expected it to
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
it sounded as wanky as i expected
― flopson, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
amazing, including the made up tweets, twitter handles, everything spot on
― k3vin k., Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
i didn't even pick up on the joke til Fergus McContrary, founder of an online journal looking sceptically at facts
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
need a trigger warning for satire plz
― flopson, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
Good piece!
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 January 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
Oh no, the liberals have been TRIGGERED again. pic.twitter.com/DXKIp1HsYv— The Liberated Brain (@Liberated_Brain) January 18, 2018
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 January 2018 05:25 (six years ago) link
that was pretty good
so is this but not as funny
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/01/12/birdcage-liners/
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
that guy is way more sanguine about the future than he probably should be
― maura, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
Well, he played a major role in the creation of Microsoft Excel.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
oh so that's the guy i need to put on my death list for excel-related crimes
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
I’m amazed he made an argument for longer posts providing better context, made a dumb dog analogy, and then used the details of a very specific twitter meltdown (“by the time you get off the plane in Africa..”)I’m no longer thinking of dogs at all, I’m thinking about this:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/pr-exec-fired-racist-tweet-aids-africa-apologylike yeah, you can fuck up context in 140 characters, but you just did it in thousands!
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
the best part about the buzzfeed piece is it's a sequel. apparently fergus mccontrary got fired from his columnist job.
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
as a guy who rage quit twitter in december this mike monterio post is..........................very relatable to me
https://medium.com/@monteiro/twitters-great-depression-4dc394ed10f4
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
One of the warning signs for me is when I can’t tell the difference between a big problem and a small problem. My brain stops prioritizing. Every problem comes at me at exactly the same size. This is depression taking away a major coping mechanism. And that’s exactly what was happening on Twitter. Every outrage was becoming the exact same size.
bingo
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Friday, 19 January 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link