@RizomaSchool Hi. Please, please keep up the DO effort!!!! The optimism part is so important. Both victimhood and saviorism are two sides of the same coin; maladaptive responses to the feeling of doom. DO points towards realistic and adaptive responses.
@shagbark_hick Also, the cars/driving analogy yields some interesting ideas.
Driver’s licenses => basic building training expected as a rite of passage for most teenagers?
Just food for thought
@SonnyBunch Texcoco wasn’t just an outlying subjugated people. In the 1400s, already a mature city but taken to the next level under the leadership of Nezahualcoyotl, it was the founding member of the Aztec triple alliance.
They all practiced human sacrifice. It was part of the alliance.
@SonnyBunch Extra context:
Cortes et al were initially welcomed by Tenochtitlan (one of 3 allied city states, led by Moctezuma).
Moctezuma used Cortes to exert political pressure on Texcoco, another city state. This dynamic lasted ~6 months before falling apart in spring 1520.
#TweetDeck being hastily shoved behind the paywall is kinda the last straw. That's the only way I kept up with anything I cared about.
Bye Twitter! Thanks for all the fish.
What I mean by “product hostility”: this paywall doesn’t even TRY to sell Tweetdeck back to me.
Tweetdeck has nothing to do with blue checkmarks, or bold/italic text, or prioritized rankings.
C’mon Twitter, what value are you adding for users like me?
Yes, I could just keep up via directly bookmarking lists and searches. Which makes it even more bizarre. It’s one of many desperate attempts to pay the bills.
Quitting Twitter is more about the pattern and, frankly, the product’s hostility.
Well, I didn’t realize that Twitter was possibly DDOS’ing itself, which is frankly a rookie mistake, or a “CEO underestimated system complexity and gave rushed directives” mistake…
If that’s true, then my analysis may be wrong. But my evaluation is the same (“LOL”).
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
I pity Twitter during this period. It’s a little amusing, but mostly I don’t care, because the internet (and real life) is SO MUCH BIGGER than Twitter. Valuable info & connections can be found elsewhere.