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
There's really only one German word that perfectly encompasses a specific feeling that hasn't been verbalized in English, you can stop asking for every dumb feeling you come up with.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 1 July 2021 09:21 (two years ago) link
i think i….. like the algo
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 July 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
the new taboo
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 July 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 4 July 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
to me, it’s more about what’s in the tweets than the order they’re presented in
― flopson, Sunday, 4 July 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
🐾 We are heartbroken over the tragedy in Surfside FL, so many hoomans perished.. Some of the survivors’ pets are trapped in the rubble too. These are Mia, Daisy and Coco. Not pictured, Binks (same condo as Daisy), another cat Hippo and a chameleon named Grimlock. pic.twitter.com/C1j7OJqX6b— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 DOTUS Fans (@TheOvalPawffice) July 2, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 5 July 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
There's,apparently cats stuck on the 4th and 10th floors that they can't get to, and a possible dog in a crate.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 5 July 2021 02:32 (two years ago) link
no idea where to put this apart from here - they found more Japanese fake baseball players!
We found additional pages of them! If you’d not seen them, you’re welcome!I’ve wanted to get a Mets jersey with “Balloon” for a while now… pic.twitter.com/xzB4BVs5vO— Shane Duggan (@SB_Duggan) July 15, 2021
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 July 2021 10:30 (two years ago) link
jim milliams
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 July 2021 14:55 (two years ago) link
SUGGEST GARY BANPS
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 16 July 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
dave glark
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 July 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
these are all gold, incredible batting average, if you will
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 16 July 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
Fighting Baseball for Super Famicom: A League of Fake Americans POLL
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
ugh, the post going around about the pizza place in ohio with the owner that gave all the workers the "profit" (spoiler: it was not the profit) from the day to the workers, who then earned $78/hour for that day, leading to the conclusion that the owner could pay their workers that much every day if they really wanted to
all of that, so much of it veering toward something that is the truth, but it's all based upon shitty reporting, shitty headline writing, a screengrab of the article rather than a link to the real one, and social media.
If only someone had written some sort of theory, about labor and even maybe about value….a labor and value theory or something like that…ah! But alas! pic.twitter.com/Mjd1B3bIIs— Middle Tennessee DSA 🌹 (@MidTNDSA) July 16, 2021
i looked at the original story to confirm that the headline was wrong. it was not the "entire day of profits", it was the entire day of revenue: sales + tips. this single paragraph tells you all you need to know to make an estimate for how much business they usually do and about how many workers they have:
On a typical Monday, they do about 100 orders. This week, they did 220 orders, which translated to over $6,000 in sales and over $1,000 in tips, all of which went back to the employees. Each worker made about $78 an hour for that shift.
why does this matter? because i've seen at least 3 people on twitter today, 2 that i know, saying this is a great example for the left, with "concrete numbers" that "prove" things bla bla bla. uggggggh, no, no. i mean, it is a good example, but it doesn't mean what you think it means, and $78/hour is
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
is....
is..
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
Trying to point that kind of error on Twitter is zero fun, partly because you look like a dick and partly out of fear of people thinking you're in favour of shitty wages. The social part of social media means it is not accuracy's friend.
― Alba, Friday, 16 July 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
the rare success story! the person I pointed it out to was very nice about it, just now! which is very rare! i was like "sorry, i feel like a wet blanket..."
because
partly because you look like a dick and partly out of fear of people thinking you're in favour of shitty wages.
this is absolutely true.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
I think some Tweeters indulge a fetish by inviting public abuse.
Hey, @DoorDash, I had a really cool interaction with a Dasher yesterday. They showed how unprofessional and inconsiderate they are, and they represent your company. Top notch service. #DoorDash #delivery pic.twitter.com/ADXljOSQMj— TanMan (@tannerburks) July 16, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 17 July 2021 14:49 (two years ago) link
Tan Man
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 17 July 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
Wow, now that’s a ratio
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Saturday, 17 July 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Tan Man whole timeline is retweets of basketball clipsSeems like a bro
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Saturday, 17 July 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
the tanman has predictably deleted the tweetit blows my mind when people think the delivery person has anything to do with it. I ended up getting a wrong order last year, texted the deliverer to make sure they hadn’t accidentally dropped off the wrong bag, and they said that was the only delivery they’d picked up from that restaurant. end of interaction! absolutely nothing else has to do with them
― mh, Monday, 19 July 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link