i don't want Another Twitter i want digital infrastructure that i know will still be around in 15 years
I haven't had to think about rate limits since the good old days when I tweeted an entire genome and had to be very careful to stop them from putting me in Twitter jail. And then I had several genomes going at once bwahaha. It was an art. As quick as possible but only just. And they tried everything to stop me making accounts but I have about 80 lol
it's cool to see twitter breaking a major function of cross-platform info sharing by killing off-site embeds in exactly the same way google did by killing reader, the same way apple did by killing flash
the enemy of all infrastructural stability online is the corporation's irrational hunger for profit at all costs. just because the head of today's dragon is a fucking court jester doesn't change the fact that this will only keep happening as long as the web is a playground for venture capital
yes yes yes elon is a divorced capitalist pig who abuses his workers and demands unquestioning loyalty from his fans and loved ones, everybody laugh, it's a funny spectacle
but he isn't The problem. he is to online infrastructure what trump was to the us presidency: a walking talking exposé on how much the essential power structures that define our society run on verbal agreements and vaguely defined norms. absolutely everything we rely on is designed to be bought and plundered sooner or later
I'm streaming Hitman in 5 minutes 🐟
https://www.twitch.tv/foxquirk
Just calculated how long my YouTube watch later playlist is and... I use my watch later playlist as a place for videos I *will definitely* watch, so seeing that it's grown to 30 hours is... concerning.
I used to have a strict rule of no more that 8 videos or total of 4 hours of watch time in my watch later playlist. I guess I just don't have as much time to watch videos anymore and I need change how I think about this.
How did this happen?
Well, I can't send SMS text messages with my new phone because it doesn't have a SIM card, it's still in my old phone, but I did try it in my new phone so the google messages app is set up with my number
My old phone has a different SMS app
So, I send an SMS text from my old phone to my partner, and when my partner replies using google messages app it sees that I'm available in chat and so sends the reply as a chat message which is received by my new phone
"Chill chaos is the vibe for 2023."
- John Green (in the comments)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iKFPtkJEVI
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess