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
that's really a good piece
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 January 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
This style of political tweet-writing is so awful:
Okay, politikids. Grab thyselves a beverage and settle in.I just careened through 180-pages of House Intel Committee testimony by Fusion GPS and it was just chockablock with tasty bits.Let's hit the buffet.1/— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 19, 2018
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
five tweets in and I'm still not sure if it's a parody of that style or real
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
subtle if parody
The Hoarse Whisperer@HoarseWisperer#StableGenius. I've seen this movie up close. A clinical narcissist in the White House is a profound danger which all Americans must stand and #resist.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
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― lag∞n, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
Curious how ILX formats this;
The Capitalist Pyramid. 👑 💪💰 🎩🎩🎩 🐷🐷🐷 📈📺📰📡📉 🐂🙈🙉🙊🐻 😌😴😄😪😑😋 👔👔👔👔👔👔 👮💂👮💂👮💂👮 🔰🔫🔰🔫🔰🔫🔰🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧🚧 😮😫😓😔😞😟 😣😥😨😩😬😧😦😡😰😮😥😵😟😤😱 (✊)— 🌐 IPM 💯🏧💍🌈🚀🚩 (@IPM_Tweets) January 22, 2018
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Monday, 22 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
damn I didn't realize monkeys and large mammals were that powerful
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 22 January 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Smiled at that twitter user choosing 🔰 to represent military when it's just a magnet that beginning drivers slap on the hoods and trunks of their cars in Japan to alert other drivers of their lack of prowess.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
I think that's the badge for the cops above
― somebody toucha my fgti (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
The first 10 lines represent five things with two lines each
― somebody toucha my fgti (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 05:32 (six years ago) link
i have moved Twitter off my home screen and am loving it so far tbh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:01 (six years ago) link
Zing is the only social app left on my home screen now
― stet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link
@youtubeartifact is a good bot to follow
― marcos, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
i wanna start a twitter art history bot that posts images from this 16gb torrent of paintings that i use as my screensaver
― flopson, Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
Wow did someone scrape Artstor
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
This is one of worst genres of tweet.
Congrats, guys. You invented a MFing bus. https://t.co/D2QO59FGqe— Chris Wetterich (@ChrisCinciBiz) January 26, 2018
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Friday, 26 January 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
It's a microgenre that I can't believe everyone hasn't seen by now in its many, many repeats.
― Alba, Friday, 26 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
whenever I see “you invented a X” I hear it as a movie title like “we bought a zoo”(have not seen that film so not sure if this holds up)
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
they did buy a zoo
― lag∞n, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
In pretty much every case it’s a new invention/technology. I’m the case of “Organic Pools?? No dummy that’s a pond” a few people explained how it was an actual thing in the replies but were ignored.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Friday, 26 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
*In the case of
imo the progenitor was uber or whatever actually proposing a very large carpool that went along a set route and they did, in fact, reinvent the idea of a bus route
any further references are just joking off of that, pretty sure the one you linked is a self-driving bus
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
i invent a bus every day
― flopson, Saturday, 27 January 2018 06:51 (six years ago) link
there was a startup in boston that was essentially a “reinvention” of buses - the only differences were the avoidance of lower income areas and the smaller vehicles. (and the price of course.) i would think that silicon valley’s sheltered boy geniuses “reinventing” services that they refused to use because they didn’t want to get poor on them would be more annoying than the tweets about them but i guess ymmv
― maura, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
yuuuuuup
― mh, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
i disregard all accounts that don't list the owner's favorite sports teams in the bio
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
yeah that's a pretty good indicator. even worse is a team's record as display name
― k3vin k., Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
if someones not a dad and a thinkfluencer frankly ive got no time for em
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara)
for real what is with constantly converting my numbers to scientific notation CUT IT THE FUCK OUT
sorry i don't have anything to say about twitter beyond "it sucks"
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
it sucks but its so good
― k3vin k., Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
Surprised this story hadn't been added here yet
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/27/technology/social-media-bots.html
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
Needless to say, read it; Twitter's hardly the only one with the issue but they're the understandable focus.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 January 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
it would suck to have your name/photos repurposed by a bot, but for the rest of it i don't really care
if you or your late-capitalist economic system are 'influenced' by numbers of followers and retweets, fake accounts are merely a symptom
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
It's less that they're the symptom, more that the thirst for them is.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 27 January 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
I’d like to buy about 10 followers.
― Jeff, Saturday, 27 January 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
i made abot but it got banned https://twitter.com/trending_mishap
― lag∞n, Saturday, 27 January 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
lol noo
― flopson, Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
John Leguizamo? lol
― calstars, Saturday, 27 January 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link