Mary the Swamp Monster

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[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

Hey everyone I’m not deleting Twitter, but I made an account on @cohost_org and it’s cool

https://t.co/m7T9VumhG4

Anyone else on it who I can follow?

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

@RizomaSchool Thank you for doing it! I listen semi regularly and it’s always a boost.

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

@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.

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

@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

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

@shagbark_hick World C might look like A on the surface, but world A is not necessarily C

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

Argh, i’m back on https://t.co/dgOdKaJIJG

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

@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.

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

@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.

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

@BlissfulMun Oh damn, they rebuilt it too? This is the definition of “enshittification”

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

#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.

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

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?

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

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.

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

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”).

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

Congrats everyone. Your tweet archive is gonna be the food source for the next generation of AI models.

https://t.co/190Y33yOIR

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

Meanwhile, y’all are paying for twitter but you’re STILL the product, not the customer. 🤡

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

Congrats everyone. Your tweet archive is gonna be the food source for the next generation of AI models.

https://t.co/190Y33yOIR

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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

[Mary the Swamp Monster @musicalcomet]

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.