Erin Sparling

Day job: @google; usually: @cooperunion; always: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 @ms_marlita. You can't be in two places at once, but… @[email protected] (he/him)

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@inck @colealan When can I sign up for the TestFlight?!

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@GalaxyKate Currently imagining the “Fediverse Connector“ overlay, which shows a high-speed maglev train network with stops on each nation. Only challenge is how does one shoot for Europe as an ideal for train usage, and not say… Snowpiercer.

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@golan Pretty sure when they show up they’ll send you Packing.

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@Stryfe_Ryder @rpilocator This is the right answer.

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@tomcoates FFS is right. I love that each Mastodon server lists out their ban policies, the servers they have banned and why. But I also don’t get a sense of like… what is the right number? I imagine reputable lists will surface… but in the meantime we all suffer.

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@yeemachine I think about that one exhibit with the gigantic film strip so much. The one that shows the entire film, with a few lightbulbs around the case illuminating different points in time. So good!

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@jcn And RSS.

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@rjstelling Just got mine after 3-4 days.

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@simonbs My Embody was life-changing. Took a while to dial in all of the adjustments, but it’s perfect now.

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@saylor @elonmusk You’ve literally just described one of the plot points in Dave Egger’s The Circle and The Every novels, which are NOT roadmaps for a healthy world.

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@_MemoryMod_ @SuperchiefNFT @seeonawhim Oh good point, I should get this on my @electricobject e02!

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@stuartathompson I wrote a dns redirect to help with this: 💰.realtwitter.com shows only people you follow that are Twitter Blue.

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@molleindustria That Cathedral of Learning! :chefskiss:

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@pimoroni @bvksn 💖💖💖

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Remember when ”paid blue checks” were the biggest controversy we had to talk about? Well, this week you can use the new quit.* prefix to view everyone who has quit Twitter in real time.

https://t.co/9X2t7vMWeE
🫡💙.realtwitter.com also works if you’re emoji-inclined.

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As per usual, when a new Twitter trend erupts, https://t.co/HbzPaWB2fX is there for you:

✅.realtwitter.com
Only non-“Blue” (aka traditional) verified accounts you follow

💰.realtwitter.com
Only people you follow who now pay for their “check”

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@joshu @edwk Hell.

Or more optimistically

Gr.

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@tomcoates You know if it weren’t for this thread I never would’ve realized that I joined right during or after SXSW 07. I didn’t go until 09, so I must’ve heard about it through the grapevine then.

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@ftrain What a coffeescript burn.

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“Web3” gets so much flack, but one of my favorite examples was from last year when hicetnunc imploded and… a new server spun up the next day, re-ran the OSS code and just started reading and writing back to the same blockchain. Imagine if we could do that for Twitter.

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If it were a game of 4D chess, maybe the point of destroying Twitter would be to convert $44b of debt to Tesla shares, bringing in a new class of significant, angry shareholders to vote him out of the CEO role? Seems easier to just quit, but then stock price would go down, so…?

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My LambdaMOO character is >25 years old, followed by my Amazon and eBay accounts at >20 years, and then probably Flickr at 18. I was really hoping Twitter was going to keep going, but I suspect like the original SMS shortcode that it’ll 404(04) soon enough.

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What I can’t stop thinking about though is: what does one do with a $44b broken toy? For all the trouble it’s been through, at least Flickr has stayed up through so many resales.