Here’s what it is: I shouldn’t be forced to recognize the humanity and trauma of someone who would like me and many people like me to be dead, and who spreads vitriolic abuse invoking real violence against us all over the place, and in fact seems to get off on being a cruel person. I don’t envy anyone the position of having to decide to take a loved one off life support, and Aimless, I am sorry for your loss. But when someone displays their trauma for the world to see and then continues to inflict trauma of another sort on an entire population, then all bets are off. The cruelty is on the table, and it is not the job of trans or queer people to act like Jesus turning the other cheek when the validity of our very existence is being called into question.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Sunday, 19 March 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link
She does a good job of dehumanizing herself
Not nuking these fucking animals is the only restraint I expect and that's only because the cloud would hurt Israelis.— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) June 30, 2014
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 19 March 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
i agree with moodles and table on the subject of bethany mandel.
on reflection, i realize i was unnecessarily dickish to crut itt - i'm sorry for that.
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 19 March 2023 13:39 (one year ago) link
LMAO pic.twitter.com/hLJSpDLL7L— High Ter Kite (@H1ghTerK1te) March 19, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 19 March 2023 13:51 (one year ago) link
no worries map, no offense taken. i accept that many ilxors feel differently than i do about this and that they have their reasons for it
― c u (crüt), Sunday, 19 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
Our focal metric is hate speech impressions, not the number of Tweets containing slurs.Most slur usage is not hate speech, but when it is, we work to reduce its reach. Sprinklr’s analysis found that hate speech receives 67% fewer impressions per Tweet than non-toxic slur Tweets— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) March 21, 2023
"Most slur usage is not hate speech"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 20:51 (one year ago) link
non-toxic slur treats
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
So what does the loss of two-step authentication mean for most (super casual) users? I'm not sure, but I suppose the first sign of anything hinky is a signal for me to delete. Or at least change my password.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link
you can still use 2fa fwiw just not via sms which is a bad method anyway
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 13:57 (one year ago) link
I never used it, 2fa is a pain in the ass (I know it's more secure but it's also a pain in the ass so I avoid it when possible).
I created a new, 'professional' account (which uses the same handle I used to use before I started liberally telling people to go fuck themselves on twitter) and I see hardly any ads on it when I use the app on my phone. It is very strange. But my god does TWitter want to shove terrible people in my 'for you' now.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
I use two-step stuff for anything that has a linked credit card. otherwise, it's never seemed that important to me. but then, Twitter has never been important to me, or at least I don't use it for anything important.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
Use 2FA everywhere you can bc one way or another anything that gets compromised will be a vector to getting all your other shit wrecked sorry if this offends
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
Yeah, 2FA or bust, preferably through an authenticator.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
But I don't need this just to scroll twitter, do I? Otherwise I think I do use 2-step everywhere prompted.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
lol
My reach (impressions/tweet views) went down hugely, immediately after my blue check appeared - from tens of thousands per tweet to single digit thousands. I’m not thrilled. https://t.co/V8WEqcSMFY— Tweet (@tweet) March 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 March 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://t.co/gzpCcwOpLp Organizations can sign up for https://t.co/RlN5BbuGA3…— Twitter Verified (@verified) March 23, 2023
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 23 March 2023 23:56 (one year ago) link
They’re really going through with their suicide pact.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 23 March 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link
they’ll wait a bit and then introduce a dunce cap or something for national newspaper/magazine writers
― mh, Friday, 24 March 2023 01:07 (one year ago) link
eh, they were supposed to open source The Algorithm last week. Don’t hold your breath.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 March 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
I imagine the last remaining person on their security team was like "uh, wait a minute"
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 24 March 2023 04:06 (one year ago) link
cannot get enough of boring people complaining that [wokeness/an agorithm] has robbed them of the attention they are owed
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 March 2023 04:48 (one year ago) link
One thing I'm noticing now is that when I click on a trending topic all the 'Top' tweets are often several weeks (and sometimes months or even years) old, usually from a previous time that topic was trending.
― groovypanda, Friday, 24 March 2023 09:06 (one year ago) link
The account for sitting California Congresswoman Grace Napolitano got hacked by crypto scammers three days ago. Nobody has bothered to fix it. https://t.co/6aIig1ncQq— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 24, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 24 March 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
I, for one, like Twitter a lot more now. I always wanted an app that would show me a fresh video of a man dying immediately upon opening it, then 40 replies from hacked accounts trying to sell me adderall and shrooms. It's what I love about the world wide web.— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 24, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
lmao
Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame https://t.co/DjctZ6WwwD pic.twitter.com/of7zCjaekF— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) March 24, 2023
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
I always wanted an app that would show me a fresh video of a man dying immediately upon opening it, then 40 replies from hacked accounts trying to sell me adderall and shrooms. It's what I love about the world wide web.
To be fair, this does sound very internet 1.0 - it almost makes me nostalgic.
― emil.y, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:24 (one year ago) link
nostalgia for beheading videos
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 24 March 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
Some of you never hung out on rotten.com and it shows.
― emil.y, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
people don't remember finding the faces of death vhs series at the flea market
― mh, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:34 (one year ago) link
To make it like the old web, every tweet should take five minutes to load.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 March 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
I do find it odd that the Twitter algorithm seems to always want to show me videos of people being injured or maimed. I scroll past those as quickly as possible so I don't get to the part where someone gets hurt.
― o. nate, Friday, 24 March 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
i feel like i spend too much of morning blocking individual sports teams and Eurovision and marvel universe as subjects and then too much of my afternoons blocking the exact same tweets as accounts.
"yeah, we know you said not to show you Eurovision, but have you seen this from Ryland?"
(only a mobile web problem tbh, but then the phone is always just there)
― koogs, Saturday, 25 March 2023 07:53 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html?te=1&nl=from-the-times&emc=edit_ufn_20230326
sounds like they already open sourced everything
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 26 March 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
the only twitter alerts i now get sent as emails are tweets by deborah meaden of dragon's den (who i don't and will never follow)
― mark s, Monday, 27 March 2023 12:05 (one year ago) link
could it be some employee was just looking for help on StackOverflow because everyone he knew got fired
― frogbs, Monday, 27 March 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
good luck 2 u
Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations.The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link
What he actually means is that all their methods of hiding promotion of toxic spam aren’t sufficient so now they’re just going to brute force it. Standard reactionary victim-blaming tactics on his part.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
i wonder if he actually believes that or its just an excuse to pull another lever to get people to pay
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
i personally only see occasional spam on there
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:36 (one year ago) link
I think it's definitely mostly trying to get people to pay. "Overrun by bots" has been his excuse for almost everything with Twitter.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:37 (one year ago) link
A "it's all bots!"
B "only i can defeat bots!"
C "only YOU can prevent bots-- PAY ME!"
― liberal with a capital LIE (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link
don't see nearly as many bot accounts on twitter as i do ig
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:49 (one year ago) link
not sure the above is even as dumb as today’s change making RT’d replies render as discrete OPs
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:51 (one year ago) link
lol dril on there
New: For months, Twitter has maintained a list of VIP users, including LeBron James, Glenn Greenwald, Ben Shapiro, AOC, and Marc Andreessen, that it monitors and gives increased visibility to on the platform. 1/ https://t.co/PnXhb6dvth— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 28, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
i've def noticed more bots since elon took over, if you tweet the word "shrooms" you will get several replies trying to sell you drugs. for a while if you tweeted certain curse words bots would offer you "cheap glokks 4 sale."
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link
yeah the bots are out there but they target specific things. I'm definitely getting more DMs from bots.
Elon's brain seems like it's been completely devoured by worms by this point so "what he actually believes" may be basically nothing however the idea that "Twitter polls" mean anything seems like it may have came from Trump 'retruthing' some catturd Twitter poll
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
speaking of this loser said he was gonna abide by the results of a Twitter poll asking if he should resign
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 02:24 (one year ago) link
I hate this dipshit so naturally I think everything he does is dumb but it's really astonishing how bad every single idea he has is. not only is he making the site much worse he's hemmoraging money and also proving himself as one of the worst bosses in human history
― frogbs, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 02:56 (one year ago) link
its really something
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
if it sheds the scales from people's eyes regarding the titans of silicon valley being brilliant leaders of men deserving of our adulation then it will all have (not) been worth it
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 12:51 (one year ago) link