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kevin // epic poetry for machines and humans // programming team lead @AvalancheSweden NYC // @FourHorsemenVN // all words only my own // he/him

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Instead of tweeting these over and over, I am going to pin them.

1. Don’t treat real people like fictional characters nor characters like real people.
2. Never trust someone to explain their enemies.
3. I will try to respect your pain. I will never respect your resentment.

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Wish I could say it's been real, but nothing about this site ever was.

Take it away, Elton John. Peace.

https://t.co/jvzhrGvGEw

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@PsEG It was good to reconnect with you, even if it was only for a brief time.

I'll always have fond memories of Lazer's Java Chat and #gameswebzine on IRC. Still have some logs from back then, even.

[neoltitude @ctrlcreep]

The apocalypse wasn't as bad as you expected—blankets remained soft, and there were plenty of them; fire remained warm, and there was plenty of it; and more than anything, hiding from the vast monsters reminded you of childhood

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The first Twitterers never asked to be international arbiters of truth, bearing responsibility for the fate of nations. They were just building a cute little website where people could tell everyone what they had for lunch.

https://t.co/Hu3iowTRV0

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I feel genuinely bad for Jack Dorsey. It’s hard to imagine now, but you know, Twitter used to be the most innocent, whimsical, frivolous web toy conceivable, run by young engineers with big, improbable dreams.

Sometimes success is worse than failure.

[jack @jack]

I am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter. I don't expect that to be mutual in this moment...or ever…and I understand. 💙

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I’m friends with some guys who helped build early 4chan, who all bailed when the site went full Nazi. When the Charlottesville thing happened, one of them was inconsolable.

“We never wanted any of this, man,” he said, choking back tears. “We just wanted to see some anime tiddy.”

[jack @jack]

nobody knows anything

[Ruth 💤 @RuthZakarin2]

@kyliebytes Here’s what kills me - there are amazing people doong amazing grassroots work who get no funding and no resources. But people invest gobs of money in this guy’s businesses. For what? This? 🤬

[Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 @mattdpearce]

If this bird app goes down because all the workers keeping it alive quit over crappy working conditions, just know this: 🫡

[Brian Kirby @DriveInMob]

#driveinmob https://t.co/RTJhOpC8eA

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@e_vb_ every week Twitter laughs at rich losers, but this one is particularly good for it

[📸Trevor Mahlmann🚀 @TrevorMahlmann]

If there was one sound-activated image to have worked, this is the one I hoped for. A super-telephoto view of the business end of NASA‘s Space Launch System rocket lifting off from LC-39B this morning sending Orion to the Moon & beginning the historic #Artemis I mission🚀🌕

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For all the real idiocy in local news site comment threads and print editorials, it's telling that a certain style of idiot is peculiar to reader responses to politically embarrassing viral mainstream media articles on FB and Twitter.

"No one could possibly be that dumb." True.

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I've noticed a slow drop in both quantity and convincingness of clueless replies to US journalists' Twitter threads since March, and a rapid drop since late September.

It's almost like a big chunk of the paid sockpuppet labor pool just...vanished. 🤔

https://t.co/5zYW0I7bxt

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@hondanhon Yeah, looks like his spurious objections were projection all along.😆

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@hondanhon Bots imply they're automated. These are people who signed up for a morally bankrupt job.

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Authentic Elon brown-nosers usually have actual tech industry experience.

Rule of thumb: If you find yourself arguing tech with a tech professional on Twitter who doesn't know the tech at all, and covers by attacking your credibility, you've blown an underpaid PR shill's cover.

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I had my suspicions, but didn't expect they'd be confirmed by a single Google search.

https://t.co/uRpBbKiwNg

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It's one thing to see the usual Silicon Valley techbro simps (like the ones on Reddit), it's another when every viral thread about him is hounded by a horde of Johnny Bunchofnumbers with randomly generated profiles who are clearly not paid enough to even read a Wikipedia page