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• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2022 @ 03:31pm

  I'm going to remind you that you're: a) wrong and b) the only self-righteous turd in this thread. You continue to be a snob and make base assumptions because you're full of shit and turd is all you're made of. Join the great shitsplosion in the toilet and flush your shitberg of opinions into the sewer where you belong, turdsack. I'll leave you with one last thought since you have none of your own, being a shit-for-brains: Twitter is a hellish and unenjoyable place that I neither have an account on, nor use. I've repeatedly said that on TechDirt, so it's not a new viewpoint for me. However, based on this thread I KNOW you should use Twitter because it's full of shitheads like you. If anything, it's made by and for shitheads like you, owned by a shithead by you, and shitheads like you are part of why Twitter is so awful. Because even without you personally, your ilk put as much shit in that sandwich as they could fit. Toodles.

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2022 @ 03:23pm

  You have shit for brains, shit shit shitty shit brains. Nothing but poo, up in your head. No matter what you do, no matter how you wipe ever word you type; just another shit stripe! No body gives a shit about your gripes, since all you have to say is tripe. Yikes! Don't tell me to grow up when your express thought-free bullshit opinions as truth. Nothing you have to say is remotely coherent or worth giving a serious answer to. You said you weren't horny, but here you are jacking off to Trump in the comments while you fellate Musk. Who the fuck should ever give a shit about your love of bigots? After all, you're full of all the shit and clearly have plently.

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2022 @ 03:18pm

  You're really good a projection; probably almost as good as you are at shitting your own pants. But nothing takes the cake like your ability to juggle turds on your tongue. It's like magic! Oh, but wait, you're a shit-for-brains scatomancer, so it must be magically shitlicious!

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2022 @ 03:15pm

  Yeah okay, sure.

• On the post: Yes, Elon Musk Is Fucking Up Twitter; But No, The Government Has No Business Getting Involved

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2022 @ 06:31am

  And a tellingly unintelligent comparison; Twitter (for all it's many flaws and issues) was much more like an unending (or intended to be) tapestry than it was like a person, and you can't rape a tapestry even you can do your best to destroy it. To make such a comparison is at best an admittance of the writer's desires. Instead every user was a weaver, even if simply observing the action of warp and weft from the sidelines. That it outgrew the ability of the weavers running the loom to keep if from fraying apart was obvious to some, but easily ignored by most in how entrancing the nearly-magical way different threads knitted together to create not just portraits of the users, but landscapes of whole communities, triptychs of current events, and so on. Then some troll who fancied himself a brilliant smith became not just entranced with tapestry as so many others had, but addicted to the power it made him, just as many others had. So he took his army of weak automatons, brain-washed cultists, treasure-hoarding dragons, and sung the battlehymns of the Troll-in-Chief (which sound a bit like Tucker Carlson's worst gastric distress). And having often tried to become weavers in the past despite being frustrated by their inability to grasp that the point was to weave instead of rend, that army declared triumph and began to 'weave' in earnest, never having learned from their previous failures at such a seemingly-simple task. And so those trolls sit in burned and torn strands, thinking themselves won. While the weavers have certainly not been idle, instead increasing creating new tapestries after having learnt so much from this one. This may be a battle the weavers lost, but in our exodus a diasporic diversity of approaches has arisen while our former tormentors are trapped in their own pyrrhic 'victory' in an increasingly flame-ridden dumpster fire that was once intended to be something more. In my years on Twitter, I learned so much; I also learned that the 'value' in social media is created by me, whether I'm creating content or consuming it. That means I have the power and not the trolls who are busy masturbating to the most useless scraps of what the weavers of words left behind and thinking it's... something. Often a violent and disgusting power fantasy like turdop's above, because at heart the trolls are all incels. And from the scraps we brought with us elsewhere to establish new tapestries, we're already making beauty and creating more than Twitter really allowed for. Personally I've decided that blogging suffers from the same issue of often being linked to some kind of feed like Facebook and Twitter (and Mastodon, I guess), as well as generally being too short-form; this is a personal preference since I prefer to reading to podcasts and videos, and I prefer books to magazines. However as a writer (aka a weaver of words), I also know some of my intended audience only reads bite-size chapters of serialization typical in modern webnovels as much as other readers in my intended audience may prefer to hold a book made of dead trees in their hands like I do. Blogging might sometimes be able to meet the former need, but Twitter never could. And instead of blogs, there are dedicated webnovel apps where writers can publish. Instead of writing a novel's worth of tweets just to try to engage people, I can spend my time writing actual novels and planning a serialized publishing strategy. I was giving away free labor to Twitter and getting nothing in return, now I've finally found a way to take the typing practice I got there and put it to good use weaving my own tapestries. And the trolls won nothing by my leaving Twitter, because nothing they do is winning. It's just losing increasingly loudly, while everyone else goes back to actually getting things done.

• On the post: Yes, Elon Musk Is Fucking Up Twitter; But No, The Government Has No Business Getting Involved

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2022 @ 05:40am

  It's not so much an irony, as finally being held to a minimum standard that's still lesser than what their victims are held to. They've been given countless inches and they're mad that they don't get the whole mile. It's more terrifying than anything, because these are the assholes who go and buy guns, then encourage each other until one of them goes on a shooting spree. Twitter fed them by allowing them relatively-unchecked hatespeech for so long, then one of them bought it, which makes sense because the line for civil speech has always been drawn unevenly in their favor. They cannot treat people like people, because they don't see their victims as people. Both social media and the popular press feed their viewpoint by treating it as a valid opinion worthy of giving time and debate to. And when their victims rightly tell these bigots where to shove it after getting piled-on all day, we're the ones who get banned. And that further reinforces their impression they're right. That they don't have total impunity to oppress people feels actually wrong and unfair to them, and Twitter fed that feeling in them for years. The feeling of being entitled to hate at scale instead of meeting the same end that all Nazis must.

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2022 @ 04:38pm

  I'm more capable of complex thought, of feeling, of knowing, of caring, of being a worthwhile human (giving you the benefit of the doubt there) than you'll ever be. And that's my worst compared to your best, you're certainly not worth even giving much complex thought to though. I'm being dismissive of you because you're a piece of shit and all you deserve is to be repeatedly informed of that until you go and eat shit. It's telling that you have no reading comprehension and that you make specious arguments based on your worthless farts that you try to pass of as opinions instead of overripe gas from your shit-bloated inner self.

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2022 @ 04:32pm

  You're a snob who likes to make assumptions about other people, about what they like, and about their intelligence. All while often being provably wrong. You are full of shit, not knowledge or intelligence. Certainly you're more full of shit than of having a sense of taste. I pity your existence and your confidence in your competence, since the former is pointless and the lattermost (competence) is entirely lacking. Aka you have shit for brains.

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2022 @ 04:29pm

  So you went and proved you're full of shit. Hurrah, Scatomancer! No really, fuck right off a building into a dumpster where your constantly-flaming ass belongs.

• On the post: The Electric Car Could Finally Put AM Radio Out To Pasture

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2022 @ 04:23pm

  In general broadcast radio in the US seems to be circling the drain. Maybe with a resurgence of interest in understanding electronics people will want to run more educational and informational radio on a smaller scale. The FCC doesn't really make that easy, nor do existing broadcasters.

• On the post: The Electric Car Could Finally Put AM Radio Out To Pasture

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2022 @ 04:15pm

  You clearly misunderstood the intent of my comment as well as the meaning, but that's just as funny as anything.

• On the post: Raspberry Pi Shows How Not To Mastodon

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2022 @ 06:15am

  Bye-bye, Raspberry Pi...

  Glyn, Thanks for this article; a lot is built on Raspberry Pi including what are called "Pi-holes" (I didn't name it), a small 'Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server,' (according to Wikipedia, which in this case sounds entirely correct to me). While that can run on other boards AFAIK, users feeling some concern about a (former) police spy working for Raspberry Pi feels more than reasonable. So let's ditch Raspberry Pi, since there are alternative SBCs! Certainly there are direct Raspberry Pi clones, but many are not. And I propose going a step further: those of use who are electronics tinkerers (whether hobbyists or on a professional level) should design more. Raspberry Pi may have a proprietary processor build from TSMC, but the ARM CPUs are obviously more widely available than just in Raspberry Pi flavor. We should all endeavor to roll our own and provide options for others to do the same. In the process we'll all learn a lot!

• On the post: The Electric Car Could Finally Put AM Radio Out To Pasture

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2022 @ 05:26am

  Karl, I love this headline, "The Electric Car Could Finally Put AM Radio Out To Pasture"; not because it's particularly brilliant, but because of how inspirational it is. Obvious the cause is RF interference (good call on pointing that out as a design problem, though); and that makes me wonder how susceptible electric cars are to directed-energy weapons... Could a strong enough AM radio send electric cars to the junkyard?

• On the post: The Electric Car Could Finally Put AM Radio Out To Pasture

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2022 @ 05:21am

  Should keep better track of relics like that. I suggest a searchable tagged database.

• On the post: Yes, Elon Musk Is Fucking Up Twitter; But No, The Government Has No Business Getting Involved

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2022 @ 05:17am

  Well, you've been picking at the flaws in EU's content regulation for some time now. I think this is a good thing, not because the EU is making good choices , but because they're fucking up and will be forced to have a 'learning experience' because of it. The motivation to address problems in online communication is understandable, but the plan I saw mentioned from Germany seemed better: stop relying on social media to distribute important government content! The same applies to journalism, being reliant on social media is a dead end and not doing so offers a chance to revitalize actual news and reporting. Meanwhile, Elon Musk's actions are the trash (Elon) taking himself out: he's shown himself to be a boldfaced hypocrite and liar to everyone whose support he's ever courted. I guess there's yet another poll (or three? or more?) asking about reinstating the journalists; supposedly 'the people' have required the banned journalists to be reinstated already. Maybe he'll save some 'free speech' face that way, maybe not. Meanwhile the rest of us can be motivated towards actually sharing content of length and quality on longer-form sites and blogs. TechDirt is an obvious example, but it's not like we can't all fediverse our way into creating more lasting and impactful content than blips on an infinite scrolling/refreshing/random feed.

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2022 @ 05:00am

  Like who are the people that, "..take posted poll...fill out surveys...prefer threaded lists and ordered forum style."? You're a joke.

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2022 @ 04:58am

  One: You're full of shit, so your skill in Scatomancy makes sense. Two: What the fuck is my demographic, you bottom-feeding dweeb? Three: Fuck right off.

• On the post: Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2022 @ 04:46am

  That's not new information to me, though it is incomplete on your part; I've known about 'safe spaces' for well over a decade, before that term became widely mocked by people like Elon Musk. My point is that while people people may (foolishly) mock those spaces they exist to facilitate speech instead of stifle it. More importantly they exist to facilitate communication with specific, meaningful, and important functions. And that can apply just as much to being a specialist, having niche hobbies, or political views as it does to marginalization and trauma. That means Mastodon will always provide more functionality that Twitter has, in a similar way to how Discord provides so much functionality for people now. In contrast, during the decade I was on (and off, then on, then off, etc) Twitter it's felt like many of the people who posted in the highest amounts and used it regularly (like myself) have always been looking for and using Twitter alternatives to have more meaningful conversations off of Twitter (which has never been suited for that). Since roughly 2017 that need became much more apparent to more people I think, but it's always been there as a need. When I've used Twitter for work instead of for personal use, I've found it's terrible for communicating in an efficient manner. You essentially have to spam your own posts to 'build an audience', and other forms of communication that can be done better on an actual blog or website. Clearly I'm incredibly burned-out from that decade of using the hellsite (and still reading it even when my accounts weren't in use) and it's made me much more crass and much less patient with others on the internet. I know it's not just me; personally I feel it's contributed to more toxic habits in online discussions, which become cultural norms in online communication. Mastodon has the functions required to be (at least part of) a healthy antidote to that, by allowing for setting new norms based that make communicating on the internet somewhat worthwhile again instead of just a virtual minefield. Creating safe spaces that facilitate communication is more worthwhile than simply driving engagement. People can mock that and favor wide-open free speech, but while they may still have meaningful conversations without safe spaces they exist in definitionally unsafe spaces that tend to be driven by gamification instead instead of anything worthwhile. And as a result conversations will be much less meaningful, productive, and worthwhile on places like Twitter where it's a free-for-all.

• On the post: The Electric Car Could Finally Put AM Radio Out To Pasture

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2022 @ 03:57am

  Wild idea:

  Instead of focusing on the transition from gas automotives to electric automotives, we transition to transportation infrastructure that doesn't break at scale and waste so much fuel (regardless of what's powering it? Since it seems to be my favorite word on TechDirt lately: fuck cars.

• On the post: Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

  

  defunct & ditched account ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2022 @ 12:23pm

  Why? No one is as skilled in scatomancy as you.

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