@neilk@xoxo.zone My nephew: “I heard that you work for computers”
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Canadian here. Historically speaking that is very untrue! Don’t get too cynical
Arguably your biggest problem is that you are too used to having a relatively free, open, and welcoming society. Many of you can’t imagine that it can be taken away
Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] retweeted
1/3 Here’s a plea to all of Twitter. If you agree, please retweet, because I think it’s important.
If you’re going to leave:
1) Don’t delete your account, because someone else could grab it.
2) Don’t delete your tweets, because they are part of a unique historical snapshot.
It’s been about a month since I went to Mastodon. It’s much better for me.
Also, I only follow people I’ve met. Without anyone with an agenda to engage me, my feed takes 3 minutes and all of it enriches my life.
Only coming back to ask: why are you still here?
I'm a little disappointed. Given the source, I think we have to be skeptical that the initiative is real, and we should be careful when he name-drops others to make it seem more real.
In particular, did you attempt to confirm this with @moxie?
You have to be trolling. What about “report to my office with screenshots of your code” strikes you as dev-driven
I wouldn't have found out about a lot of interesting tech stuff otherwise. Like @goodside, that's Only On Twitter
However, as Knuth (quoting Eco) said, "I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages" www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/…
I got a lot of value here from early-breaking news (like nearly 2 months advance warning for COVID) and alternative takes (masks are good actually!)
However, this comes at the cost of being driven somewhat insane the rest of the time
Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] retweeted
Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0
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legal and moral implications? unconscionable impacts to life and liberty of users and employees? you might get fined or testify before Congress?
has this stopped the guy before?
tbh I expect they are going to bumble along with a lot more downtime and the engs will get used to shutting down and restarting services in sequence, with throttled % of users
this is usually the last resort and it will become their 1st resort
This is all true, but don’t expect Twitter to just die suddenly
There are options – a lot more options! – once you are willing to accept the loss of some sleep, some users, some reliability, some metrics, some reputation, and some of your immortal soul
Thermopop. A good instant-read kitchen thermometer is life-changing. thermoworks.com/thermopop/
(It might be unethical if you're dragging norms down, but Musk already did that, and as CEO he actually has the primary responsibility to set norms)
It's definitely never a good tactic to harshly criticize anyone you work with in public, and I doubt anything was gained here.
But it's not inherently unethical or immoral.