There is no such thing as a coincidence:
3.17: Hunter admits laptop is his
3.18: Trump Manhattan indictment news
6.8: FBI doc says Biden/Hunter bribed with $5 MILLION
6.9: Trump classified docs indictment
7.26: Hunter sweetheart plea deal collapses
7.27: Additional Trump charges
7.31: Devon Archer testifies before House Oversight
8.1: Trump J6 indictment
8.2: Archer says Hunter put Joe on the phone for business
8.3: Trump arraigned for J6.
Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don't work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud solutions as my day job.
It is temporary. Twitter's rate limiting is not what everyone is thinking it is. It is not to punish non-paying users.
"Data scraping" is a big deal. This is where automated systems load the website or app and pull your tweets/data. It's a huge security issue. Automated systems are pulling every tweet/word/user account information to store in an unknown database somewhere else.
This could be state actors like China, the US Government, Australia, or other bad political actors like PAC's that are trying to gain access to everyone's information to analyze and use for nefarious things. Manipulating what is said on the site can be done at scale with data scrapping.
It could also be used to figure out the identity of Anons or to punish people in their country for what they tweet. Looking at you #Australia and #Canada and #UnitedKingdom
The temporary measures of limiting tweets is to protect users just as much as it is to protect the entire Twitter network from going down. They are currently scrambling to get ahead of this and tune their network security to block it from happening again.
It's also important to note that twitter has 500,000+ servers. That's not free. In cloud data centers, the companies that use them have to pay for what is called "ingress and egress" of data going "in and out" of the servers. A data scrapping event that is large enough for them to start limiting means that it was a MASSIVE event that could be considered an attack on the site. It would also put massive load on their servers and cost them so much money it could threaten the site's financial ability to keep running. It could be on purpose to put twitter out of business from cost alone.
Many people are misunderstanding why @elonmusk wants people to pay for twitter or for the twitter API (a programming interface that can pull data for other sites and apps).
The reason he wants people to pay is because if China or porn companies want to create massive bot farms of fake accounts, it is currently free. These bad actors are highly skilled and operate like a business. They have professional staff that continuously change their tactics and Twitter engineers have to fight 24/7 to stay ahead of them. If they have to pay for every account or pay to use the API, it would cost them A LOT of money. This limits the amount of people who could create bots, put automated porn on here, and the hacking/scrapping/DDOS attacks on the site. It protects you.
It also guarantees twitter will continue to exist without bloating it with tons of ads. This is all a part of the plan to create a free-speech place we can enjoy without being controlled by outside actors or advertising companies. I know $8 is a lot to some people but, it is for many reasons. None of the reasons are to hurt or punish people.
#TwitterDown #TwitterLimits #SolutionsArchitect #CloudSecurity #FreeSpeech
The mainstream media can’t risk covering #TwitterFiles. If they admit rampant collusion between govt agencies and Twitter, they’ll have to inquire about Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Google. The whole censorship regime would unravel. Better to pretend nothing’s happening! @elonmusk
The oldest Chinese-American association has announced a revolt against critical race theory. Many fled the Cultural Revolution in their home country—and they're not going to fall victim to the New Cultural Revolution in this country.
Welcome to the fight, friends. Swords up! ⚔️
I've been following this lovely homesteading family.
I am rooting for their success, watching #ROOTED.
It's a wonderful, inspiring story that I think any one can relate to, especially in these times. <3
https://t.co/9oAHNTDElN
A study was done on 25,000 school-aged children on the impact of masks.
- 53% increased headaches
- 50% difficulty concentrating
- 42% malaise
- 37% drowsiness
- 29% shortness of breath
- 26% experienced dizziness
- 1/3 had more issues sleeping
https://t.co/09QrLqzae7
Since the @nytimes has decided to shift away from journalism to this crazy phenomenon of post-journalism, audiences in search of quality reporting and thoughtful opinion will go to podcasts, @spectator, @WSJ, @CityJournal and other platforms.
It takes truly unhinged nihilists to cheer so exuberantly upon the realization they had stopped law enforcement from helping someone in need.
Yet Seattle continues to embrace Democratic leadership that panders to Antifa domestic terrorists. h/t @MrAndyNgo https://t.co/ECBHoEYIji
For the last year, when people have died of other health issues, they’ve labeled it a covid death. Now, when people die right after taking the vaccine, they swear up and down it wasn’t from the vaxx.
100%.
There is a mental health cost to all of this that we will only start to understand a decade from now when these kids become adults.
It’s changing the way they perceive and interact with others when their brains are their most impressionable.
Techie people tend to think of *intra-system* decentralization — e.g. BTC can function as p2p protocol therefore “decentralized”
I tend to think of trans-system decentralization — e.g. if BTC achieved “global standard” status you’d have a highly centralized global currency model