Twitter C/D

I'm still wondering what his strategy is here. The conspiracy theories about a Saudi-funded trashing of the platform seem almost believable.

I honestly feel like history will see a lot of this era as a black hole/Dark Ages for information, all this wasted time discoursing in ephemeral space and not properly recording any damn thing will really damage.

yup, digital info just generally does not persist well, like maybe you have a photo of an ancestor from 150 years ago even tho it may have been the only photo taken of them in their lifetime, now we can take as many photos as we like but instead of printing them we put them on facebook which i suspect will not exist in 150 years

was thinking about this in regards to some old MP3 files I used to have on an old hard drive, some of those simply can not be found anymore and maybe just don't exist anywhere at all anymore

yeah theres no attic for someone to find them in, meanwhile you can purchase a record pressed a 100 years ago no problem

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/s3-as-an-eternal-service/

the attic to find them in exists. finding them is the problem.

you could probably still find an old 500MB hard drive with frogbs.mp3 in a 100 years, question is would you be able to read the hard drive (probably not)

you can purchase a record pressed a 100 years ago no problem

There might be a bit of degradation of the media, depending on if anyone ever played it. Victrola needles were a bit rugged in 1923 and the records were kinda brittle.

gotta start pressing all my mp3s to vinyl, damn

Record them on animal skins as strings of ones and zeroes.

one kinda cool and metal thing i didn't really know was a thing until recently is bit rot. so used to thinking of digital data being infinitely reproducible in bitperfect fidelity but sometimes a bit will just flip maybe because a gamma ray hit it. i think modern f/s have all sorts of safeguards against this. but still pretty cool.

Given quantum uncertainty, it's a wonder information is as stable as it is.

here's an idea so crazy it just might work! instead of ones and zeroes, how about using musical notation? not perfect, I know, but it would be a big savings in animal skins!

There's a better chance of some future civilization being able to interpret binary code than its being able to interpret musical notation.

When the doors of perception are really cleansed? Heat death.

'bit rot' would be a cool band name

some future civilization being able to interpret binary code than its being able to interpret musical notation.

eh, to interpret the binary code of an MP3 would require knowing either the algorithm that produced it or else the piece of music that was encoded, just as decoding Egyptian hieroglyphics required a Rosetta Stone with the same text in other, known languages. musical notation is a much cruder system of encoding to crack. mainly it would require guessing that it recorded musical notes and figuring out the notes were in the octave scale.

which musical notation, and what about jazz

there have already been revisions upon revisions of “we deciphered this ancient tablet and here’s what it says!” and eventually we get to what might have been

on another note, the thing about storage media and archiving is that we still have a healthy culture of reverse engineering. with six or seven sketchy adapters from alibaba and a bunch of weird file system drivers you can probably attach any random hard drive and get some data from it

why yes I do have the “best cd ripping drives ever” in a box in my basement and have considered a modern pci->legacy pci->scsi card from late 90s chain to get them back online

which musical notation, and what about jazz

these are important questions and must be answered in due course, but they can wait until we've addressed which animal skins we should use

Yeah, you can "read" binary easily enough but given it can be used to be encoding ANYT SORT OF INFORMATION AT ALL in ANY SORT OF ARBITRARY WAY you're not going to just interpret it easily at all. Whereas musical notation gives you some pretty obvious clues to start with (physically higher notes being higher, etc)

Optimistic to think there will be future civilizations

some other civilization from well beyond our galaxy find a single binary data stream in our burnt husk of a solar system billions of years from now and it turns out some Elon type of guy encoded the “all your base” meme into a stream of sequential rocks orbiting the one remaining gravitational mass

Civilization will be reduced to that Kevin James meme/pic and nothing more.

in college i did a film course where i shot on tri-x film, transferred to beta, edited on a computer (OS 8 iirc), then output to VHS for playback

i don’t know where any of that stuff is obv but i imagine the VHS tape would be barely viewable now

> animal skins we should use

UK laws were still recorded on vellum until 2016

why yes I do have the “best cd ripping drives ever” in a box in my basement and have considered a modern pci->legacy pci->scsi card from late 90s chain to get them back online

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, October 4, 2023 11:30 PM (yesterday)

which is it? i've got a box of CDs and a fresh download of exact audio copy ready to go

by best I probably mean “best at the time and have bizarre sentimental value”
plextor ultraplex drives iirc

uh guys can you post more on X please? I'm locking the doors now so you'll post more. No, I won't open them if you post more, you just have to get used to posting more. Forget you had another life once.

Interesting.

Our algorithm tries to optimize time spent on X, so links don’t get as much attention, because there is less time spent if people click away.

Best thing is to post content in long form on this platform.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 3, 2023

its known that links dont perform well on twitter anyway hes really scraping the bottom of the barrel

yeah that's why people post screenshots

lol yeah we meant to do that

never gave too much creedence to the theory that Elon is tanking Twitter on purpose but this move is so blatantly dumb that I'm starting to wonder

i think that hes tanking twitter in that he has an ideological project thats not aligned with making good business decisions, and then also his pure business decisions are very bad too, but i dont think hes thinking "haha im destroying twitter" i think hes thinking "im creating the twitter i want and obviously everyone else will like it too because im the best guy in the world"

reading Elon's tweet and lag∞n's post makes me think:

OI MATES SOME WOKE JOURNALIST IS ALL OVER OTHER NEWS SITES, I"M GONNA MAKE ME A 'ORRIBLE TWEET ABOUT IT TO ME BLUECHECK CHUMS, ALSO BLOOD DIAMONDS ARE DELICIOUS

right I mean I've said this before but Elon's lived the last two decades of his life getting to do everything he wants at all times and is constantly receiving credit for things he had nothing to do with, not only that but he actively removes everyone from his life who criticizes him in the slightest, and I think having a long period of that being your reality for so long actually does physically change your brain to the point where you've got more in common with lizard than man

entirely untrue and unnecessary lizard slander tbh

https://i.discogs.com/f1gbBornF29GmWggbEVdux4puWf_18-H5yDQhopGurI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:569/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0MDYx/NzQ0LTE1NjcwOTY3/OTktMjkzMy5qcGVn.jpeg

shd be noted too that tanking twitter is bad for him beyond all the money hes lighting on fire, most of the current valuation of his business is based on the idea that hes a singular genius, publicly demonstrating that hes not in fact a genius threatens that situation

I think he just overestimates the public's affection for free speech

Aww shucks

Elon Musk found dead at Twitter HQ of apparent suicide https://t.co/CwuEgpaPTA

— ACABylon Bot, LLC (@ACABylonBee) October 5, 2023

LOL are headlines back on Twitter now?

No, only on embeds, because nothing this cunt does works consistently.

this headlines thing is working opposite to its intent, i'm clicking on the pictures out of curiosity now whereas before i'd read the headline, roll my eyes and scroll on

Twitter/X will remove the ability to see interaction counts (likes, reposts and comments) from posts on the timeline. pic.twitter.com/Ee7d2YpvIT

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 6, 2023

check out the bootlickers in the comments

that's elon's martingale strategy

Plz let me know when Musk eliminates the ability for users to post content as the newest special feature of x.com

there are already enough posts tbrr