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Day job: @google; usually: @cooperunion; always: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 @ms_marlita. You can't be in two places at once, but… @everyplace@mastodon.social (he/him)

 Pittsburgh, PA
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Remember when ”paid blue checks” were the biggest controversy we had to talk about? Well, this week you can use the new quit.* prefix to view everyone who has quit Twitter in real time. quit.realtwitter.com 🫡💙.realtwitter.com also works if you’re emoji-inclined.
Erin Sparling@everyplace10 Nov 2022
As per usual, when a new Twitter trend erupts, RealTwitter.com is there for you: ✅.realtwitter.com Only non-“Blue” (aka traditional) verified accounts you follow 💰.realtwitter.com Only people you follow who now pay for their “check”
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“Web3” gets so much flack, but one of my favorite examples was from last year when hicetnunc imploded and… a new server spun up the next day, re-ran the OSS code and just started reading and writing back to the same blockchain. Imagine if we could do that for Twitter.
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My LambdaMOO character is >25 years old, followed by my Amazon and eBay accounts at >20 years, and then probably Flickr at 18. I was really hoping Twitter was going to keep going, but I suspect like the original SMS shortcode that it’ll 404(04) soon enough.
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What I can’t stop thinking about though is: what does one do with a $44b broken toy? For all the trouble it’s been through, at least Flickr has stayed up through so many resales.
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If it were a game of 4D chess, maybe the point of destroying Twitter would be to convert $44b of debt to Tesla shares, bringing in a new class of significant, angry shareholders to vote him out of the CEO role? Seems easier to just quit, but then stock price would go down, so…?
As per usual, when a new Twitter trend erupts, RealTwitter.com is there for you: ✅.realtwitter.com Only non-“Blue” (aka traditional) verified accounts you follow 💰.realtwitter.com Only people you follow who now pay for their “check”
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These have plaintext aliases too at verified.realtwitter.com and elon.realtwitter.com, but obv the emoji urls are way better.
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Cc @waxpancake and @jessamyn
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Subscribing to the print edition of @2600 has got to be one of my best decisions of the year: an artifact of my youth, unchanged and yet with up-to-date articles. I can smell the magazine rack from long gone alternative stores in the seedier college dive neighborhoods.
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Erin Sparling retweeted
Jeremy Bowers@jeremybowers8 Nov 2022
Good luck and Godspeed to all the news nerds working on elections tonight. May your scrapers run true, your caches stay full, and your queues stay empty.
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thefarside.com/2022/11/08/0
Please go vote
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Erin Sparling retweeted
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@disco_lu27 Oct 2022
New favourite font 🚨 "Atkinson Hyperlegible Font" It has been designed and optimised specifically for low vision readers from the team at the Braille Institute (@BrailleInst) 😍 Accessibility! brailleinstitute.org/freefon…
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Is this ironic? Like is this the center of a venn diagram whose three circles are Infinite Jest, Artwork by @cory_arcangel and The Butlerian Jihad? – at Pittsburgh, PA
A screenshot of two LinkedIn friend requests that are, when seen together, obviously generated by a spammy lead-gen company.

ALT A screenshot of two LinkedIn friend requests that are, when seen together, obviously generated by a spammy lead-gen company.

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Related: r/dune banning generative AI was a great PR move. It’s like step one towards a rebirth of the classic “The Beast” ARG. – at Pittsburgh, PA
A screenshot of two LinkedIn friend requests that are, when seen together, obviously generated by a spammy lead-gen company.

ALT A screenshot of two LinkedIn friend requests that are, when seen together, obviously generated by a spammy lead-gen company.

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