Twitter C/D

nice, taking a page from Facebook (who took a page from Reddit of course)

as if retweeting shit that makes us feel good wasn't enough, now we can downvote all the replies we don't like!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

Interesting! (haven’t watched it all yet). Jumped on it because I was thinking about Wordle and Information Theory just yesterday, remembering that Warren Weaver in his introductory essay to Claude Shannon’s The Mathematical Theory of Communication had said the following:

It is most interesting to note that the redundancy of English is just about 50 per cent, so that about half of the letters or words we choose in writing or speaking are under our free choice, and about half (although we are not ordinarily aware of it) are really controlled by the statistical structure of the language. Apart from more serious implications, which again we will postpone to our final discussion, it is interesting to note that a language must have at least 50 per cent of real freedom (or relative entropy) in the choice of letters if one is to be able to construct satisfactory crossword puzzles. If it has complete freedom, then every array of letters is a crossword puzzle. If it has only 20 per cent of freedom, then it would be impossible to construct crossword puzzles in such complexity and number as would make the game popular. Shannon has estimated that if the English language had only about 30 per cent redundancy, then it would be possible to construct three-dimensional crossword puzzles.

(the mathematical theory of communication has some claim to be one of the most significant books of the 20thC, and is surprisingly accessible throughout; though Shannon’s presentation of the theory is more mathematically dense, it’s not impenetrable.

that guy is a cheat! Today was my first 6/6 and I swear if that would have broken my 100% record I was ready to break down in tears. A truly pathetic state of affairs to be in but when you are already getting defeated by life, can't be losing at wordle as well.

total cheat.

getting it in six is victory from the jaws of defeat and should be celebrated. i remember getting four letters at guess three and still being on a cliff edge at six. when i got it i was like “yaaaaarghh fuck you wordle, fuck you, i’m still the best. still the best” and went and punched a wall or something.

always opening with "crane" because your algorithm has worked out it is strategically the best opener is doing it wrong imo

lol might try it tomorrow though!

This is good not bad

every single tv show is just a terminally online writer doing twitter threads. https://t.co/5i3t24xybr

— Dahlia Zahava (@DahliaZahava) February 6, 2022

ah yes, the famous sjw and beloved-on-twitter writer James Gunn

why are so many of the posts on my TL today from suggested topics? I don't want to follow any topics

One annoying thing they should fix is how when someone posts a thread, as you're scrolling down the TL, you'll first see the whole thread, then some ways further down, you'll see the same thread again but minus the last post, then if you keep scrolling you'll see the same thread yet again but minus the last 2 posts, and so forth and so on.

xp

I guess twitter was a factor though:

The amount of bitching on Twitter & on stand-up stages about how much suffering dudes go through not using the R-word inspired that line. #Peacemaker #PeacemakerParty https://t.co/rHnU2l2l95

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) February 6, 2022

xp

yes, this drives me crazy, I hate seeing the same posts over and over

xp, well i think that just shows that he's awake!

Why is it so incredibly hard to find old tweets? For fuck’s sake Twitter I just want to search amongst my followers list to find a tweet from a couple weeks ago that mentioned ILM 2021 Tracks Poll winners Wet Leg.

There is literally no way to do this. All the top minds are working on it but it's been proven impossible. Once that tweet drops off your screen it's gone forever.
(I think you can fiddle with the search settings - but it still never finds what I'm looking for)

I don't find this hard, except when it's something someone I follow has retweeted, and then it's pretty much impossible.

Love how it sticks a large blue distracting button at the top of the screen saying "View latest tweets" when I am already doing precisely that.

i’ve been getting ads from canadian veterans affairs informing me that there’s support for former soldiers or mounties with ptsd. which is odd because i’m not a veteran, or canadian, or even in canada

We traded Jim Carrey for you back in ‘03

pic.twitter.com/2ZU6DrDCXW

— g0m (@g0m) February 22, 2022

Some will say that watching a beloved character die in a nuclear hellfire was traumatic for children, I think it toughens them up.

Dud

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/02/25/actress-shredded-over-vladimir-putin-poem-just-sing-imagine-next-time-1205491/

don't watch it. I did. it is exactly what those people criticizing it say it is.

i’ve been getting ads from canadian veterans affairs informing me that there’s support for former soldiers or mounties with ptsd. which is odd because i’m not a veteran, or canadian, or even in canada

― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 February 2022 08:39 (six days ago) link

my guess is you probably view content that originates from canada

xp - Not sure if Neanderthal is referring to that dumb actor's poem or the Arthur finale there. lol

war makes it a lot dudder than usual

ban all blue checks for the next month

Perhaps the biggest risk-calculation/moral dilemma of the war so far. A massive Russian convoy is abt 30 miles from Kyiv. The US/NATO could likely destroy it. But that would be direct involvement against Russia and risk, everything. Does the West watch in silence as it rolls?

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) February 28, 2022

We are witnessing the first geopolitical ‘cancellation’ of the 21st century.

— Jason Willick (@jawillick) February 28, 2022

oh god my eyes

The first columnist who can compare the Ukraine invasion to the UPenn swim team gets a no prize

ban all blue checks for the next month

🐦[Perhaps the biggest risk-calculation/moral dilemma of the war so far. A massive Russian convoy is abt 30 miles from Kyiv. The US/NATO could likely destroy it. But that would be direct involvement against Russia and risk, everything. Does the West watch in silence as it rolls?
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) February 28, 2022🕸]🐦

national tv correspondents are the source of so many of the very worst takes

if you get all your news online its easy to forget how bad tv is

Are you freaks just sitting around in the NBC Slack fantasizing about how bold it would be to start World War III https://t.co/UVsnjDSL0H

— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) February 28, 2022

I understand at least the frustration that this is happening and feeling helpless to stop it, but cosplaying an 80s action film with C Thomas Howell to your Twitterbase is a pretty bad look.

I'm a pacifist and I want there to be some simple way to solve this but it's naive to think it exists.

(Ukraine thread has been mega helpful the last few weeks)

"Remember, the Russians invaded Afghanistan back in 1980," Hillary Clinton says. "It didn't end well for the Russians...but the fact is, that a very motivated, and then funded, and armed insurgency basically drove the Russians out of Afghanistan." pic.twitter.com/iirtXI4vz4

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 1, 2022

The Internet’s Response To Ukraine Has Been Peak Cringe

Like a rich child opening presents on Christmas day.

More Stingers to Ukraine! More javelins! More drones!

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 1, 2022

Rare Pokemons!

pokemon go to war

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S06E01/1263278.jpg?b64lines=IE1PUkUgRlJJRU5EUyEgTU9SRQogQUxMSUVTISBNT1JFLCBJIFNBWSEgSEFORwogVEhPU0UgV0hPIFRBTEsgT0YgTEVTUyE=

Thanks Buzzfeed, now I know what a “thirst trap” is. I’m gonna go throw up.

that's an interesting reaction to learning what a thirst trap is

on the other hand i'm just discovering lil bubby child

https://twitter.com/lilbubbychild

I haven't noticed Raymond Pettibon tweet in a couple of years before the Ukraine invasion and hoo boy should he have kept that streak going.

feel like we’re getting meltdown may early this year. meltdown march!

I believe this is called ‘tweeting through it’

Their arguments reminded me of MLKs frustration with the "moderates" while he sat in jail in Birmingham. That's who I had in mind when I wrote that tweet. Let me quote him. 8/

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) March 3, 2022

omfg