Nate Silver is used to “did you forget to put it in” feedback around his home, amirite
― mh, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
Nate Sliver
― bogo jumbo junbi boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
A teeny-tiny inclusive language thing I've tried to get better at this past year is avoiding northern hemisphere-specific seasonal language. Like instead of "this summer," I say the months I mean, or Q3.Because it might be that season for ME but not that season for everybody!— Lara Hogan (@lara_hogan) May 27, 2021
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 29 May 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
Ok I'm the Joker now.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 29 May 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
i use the fiscal calendar, always showing up in the wrong month because people don't include me
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Sunday, 30 May 2021 00:59 (two years ago) link
Might start trying to use only the Hebrew calendar.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Sunday, 30 May 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
howl at the moon when its full sleep when its new good enough for me
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 May 2021 01:26 (two years ago) link
late on the latest stuff on eve fartlow, who sucks, and I know I’ve mentioned this before, but after reading one of the essays in jia tolentino’s book about bari weiss and other people whose entire online business model is getting dunked on for attention, I’ve gotten so much less mad about these people even if I still like to make fun of them
― k3vin k., Sunday, 30 May 2021 06:05 (two years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/JnfWqcxW/image.png
the father, the son, and the holy ghost
― ✖, Sunday, 30 May 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
love how twitter blurbers are compelled to write like this, can't just say "cracker barrel getting dunked on"
― ✖, Sunday, 30 May 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
With Twitter Blue, the company's new subscription service, you'll be able to pay real $$$ to get someone to actually look at your harassment reports 🤡https://t.co/bmAbBpk2UO pic.twitter.com/Px0Nf1Ilh5— Ryan Brown 🎮 (@Toadsanime) June 3, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 3 June 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
Rich blue checks are going to purge the site
tbf it only costs three dollars a month
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 June 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
tbf, even if costs only a handful of cents per month, it's bullshit that they are straight up admitting that paying them will be the only way for them to take harassment complaints seriously in a reasonable timeframe
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 3 June 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
yes that is true
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 June 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
for $3 a month, i should be able to harass anyone i want
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 3 June 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
nobody with any self-respect would pay a fucking penny for twitter. And if you get booted much faster or more frequently for dunking on some blue-tick+ arsehole, then it's reaching the end of its usefulness for ordinary folk.
― calzino, Thursday, 3 June 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
self-respect? on _my_ internet? never!
― mh, Thursday, 3 June 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
lol probably self-respect is probably wrong! but not fucking rebellious enough by half.
― calzino, Thursday, 3 June 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
lol it's such wretched bullshit you don't even get ad-free for paying subscription.
― calzino, Thursday, 3 June 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
The only website here there are *no* ads for people who don’t sign up for an account
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 3 June 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
Banned in Nigeria
"The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria," the Ministry of Information and Culture announced in a statement https://t.co/bCCoDFtWlu— CNN (@CNN) June 4, 2021
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
So what happened to her on twitter? Reading this and thinking she said some shit and couldn't stay cool with the overreaction.
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Wow. She went in. https://t.co/IsBPUh0IIK pic.twitter.com/kLjxIgZG4D— Tomiwa Owolade (@tomowolade) June 16, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 June 2021 09:45 (two years ago) link
You don't remember the transphobia row from a couple of years ago?
In other news, comics twitter dunking on a 16 year old for saying ppl shouldn't be shamed for torrenting comics, really cool.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 17 June 2021 09:48 (two years ago) link
I didn't know of that row, no.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 June 2021 09:52 (two years ago) link
Regrettable because I do think her original misstep - refusing to say trans women are women while stating that trans ppl have an important role to play in liberation - was well intentioned ignorance rather than the actively hateful TERFery of the UK press, but once she got called out on that she went the way of every other celeb that ppl have dared to disagree with.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 17 June 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link
I was wondering whether 'trans women are women' was the mantra she was referring to.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 June 2021 10:05 (two years ago) link
How fucking stupid can you be on twitter
That’s obviously made up and I suggest you delete it.— Steven Fielding (@PolProfSteve) June 17, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 June 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
need to shout out lagoon’s restaurant bot. i cant get enough of this
https://www.twitter.com/_restaurant_bot/status/1406724062353764354
― flopson, Sunday, 20 June 2021 21:48 (two years ago) link
thank you friend, its a genuine viral sensation
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 June 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
that restaurant actually looks good, most of them i feel seem pretty mediocre, the ones people really go wild for tho are like kfc except in kuwait and also when it fucks up* and posts four selfies of senegalese soldiers instead of a restaurant
*actually google fault
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 June 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
is it really completely random or do you do some curation? has such a remarkably consistent overarching vibe
― flopson, Sunday, 20 June 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
someone asked me how it works so i will just post those tweets tho one thing i didnt mention is i did actually put a handful of countries in there twice so 'FR', 'US', 'ES', 'IT', 'JP', 'TW', 'CN', 'TH', 'VN', 'MX', 'PT', 'KR' have double the chance of being selected just cause i like their food, otherwise yeah its random tho the data itself is biased in some ways
it starts with a list of all the cities in the world with a population above 25k, then it generates a list of all the countries included in that list, then it randomly picks a country from that list, then it randomly picks a city thats in that country from the cities list...— br◎seph (@on3ness) June 11, 2021
, the cities list includes coordinates from all the cities, it uses the google places api to search for the city, then searches nearby for places tagged restaurant (but not lodging or gas station lol), then does a couple other searches to round up the photos...— br◎seph (@on3ness) June 11, 2021
then uses the twitter api to tweet, glad you like it!— br◎seph (@on3ness) June 11, 2021
should also note that if it fails to find a restaurant that has enough photos it starts the search over, which is why for instance you dont see restaurants from mainland china where google is banned, there just arent any results— br◎seph (@on3ness) June 11, 2021
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 June 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
one thing ive noticed, because it will post a streetview image of the restaurant if available, is that google is so awful at finding storefronts on streetview, i swear their hit rate is <25%, i could understand if its in a place that has a vague address system but look at this its california wtf
Beachside Restaurant & Bar; 14160 Palawan Way, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA https://t.co/OfWA5uZRvT pic.twitter.com/negBy5IVk6— Random Restaurant (@_restaurant_bot) June 20, 2021
― lag∞n, Sunday, 20 June 2021 22:35 (two years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 June 2021 bookmarkflaglink
Here is how the matter 'closed'.
In light of recent events. pic.twitter.com/EUdCCUdrZp— Steven Fielding (@PolProfSteve) June 23, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
i've just been put in the A/B group that has algorithmic timeline forced with no way to turn it back to chronological and of all the bad site changes they've done this is the only one that actually makes it unusable
― ciderpress, Sunday, 27 June 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
update: they reverted it after a couple minutes. i guess they're just testing it on people in short bursts to see if they continue to engage?
― ciderpress, Sunday, 27 June 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
i did not continue to engage
― ciderpress, Sunday, 27 June 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
thank you for your service
― lag∞n, Sunday, 27 June 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
Crikey. That would kill Twitter for me, basically making it a weak imitation of Instagram. (Which is horrible to begin with.)The BBC nicely conflating free speech activism and Bitcoin promotion here:“Jack Dorsey: Unpicking Twitter boss's passion for Nigeria”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-57568370I had no idea Dorsey was such a Bitcoin bro. I guess I should follow him just to see what sort of BS he’s hawking next?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 27 June 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
Did they really mean to say “unpicking”? “Unpacking”, maybe?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 28 June 2021 00:00 (two years ago) link
i've gotten it a couple more times today, sometimes it goes away with a refresh, sometimes it doesn't and then goes away after a couple minutes. given that it seems more likely they're testing something than its a bug
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 June 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
yeah i read that they were testing that, so dumb just let the people who want the chronological timeline have it, im sure the vast majority of just use the default
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 June 2021 02:58 (two years ago) link
seems like they just flipped the switch for everyone at once, literally everyone on my tl is complaining now
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link
That’s just because the algorithm knows you like complaining
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link
i use a plugin that blocks trending topics and removes RTs from the main timeline and they are slowly breaking it ffs
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
only use tweetdeck imo
― class project pat (m bison), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
never put twitter on your phone also imo
yeah i got the good timeline taken away fr a while today
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected! pic.twitter.com/NrGUdwr23c— Phylicia Rashad (@PhyliciaRashad) June 30, 2021
this has to be the ratio record
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 30 June 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link