Finder of Impossible Things#Journal, Day 1457
Friday, 15 March 2024
Ukraine War: Day 752
Hamas-Israel War: Day 160
Mass shootings in the USA in 2024: 75
#piday #pizza #allergies
#lovebirdegg #birdsofmastodon
#sickbird #weekendvibe
Steve@georgetakei
When scraping social media for quotes, could your staff stop citing Xitter? Sure, some sources still post there out of habit. And some don't even crosspost.
But if there's any way to get a citation without citing Xitter, even if it's Threads, cite the other site.
Citing Xitter just encourages the holdouts there to stay, and slow its descent into fascist oblivion.
#SickBird #Twitter #X
Facebook screen shot from "sweary historian" #JamesFell:
"#Elon says he's bringing in a paywall. Speaking of paying, I'm not a billionaire douchetuba and actually wrote a book worth buying. Get ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY SHIT WENT DOWN at JamesFell.com/books.
"Will you pay to use the X?
"I will not pay for I am vexed.
"I do not like this Elon Musk.
"I will not pay to use this husk.
"I will not buy him another boat.
"I will not pay a single note.
"I'll give no funds to Phoney Stark,
"Who killed this platform on a lark."
Two questions:
1. Isn't it more common to formally declare bankruptcy before actually announcing a bankruptcy auction?
2. What's the minimum bid for Linda Yaccarino's dignity?
If I calculated correctly (by multiplying someone's per share book value estimate by a published number of shares), the Sick Bird had a "book value" of about $6 billion based on its last financial statements before the buyout.
Book value is, more or less, the total value of tangible assets, so it should represent roughly the value of a company if it is broken up in bankruptcy. It's a complicated thing to calculate.
Fidelity owns a small stake in Twitter and is required to periodically estimate the value of its stake as part of its obligations as a public corporation. Dividing its valuation of its stake by the percentage of the whole that its stake represents, the whole is worth about $15 billion.
1/3
https://www.reuters.com/technology/fidelity-marks-down-value-twitter-stake-again-2023-05-30/
@jolantruchng
I an fortune that I developed very few connections on the #SickBird. I had a few follows who I wish would switch. I occasionally peek back into the swamp for the sake of follows like the #JackSmith parody account, but less and less often.
I an fortune that I developed very few connections on the #SickBird. I had a few follows who I wish would switch. I occasionally peek back into the swamp for the sake of follows like the #JackSmith parody account, but less and less often.
Photodraft📷 📐✏️ 
This gull is much improved since last September. It had very poor coordination.
Attempts to release it last year resulted in short lived flights. It's been overwintered in the Sussex CentrePark for gulls, (My greenhouse).
It's a lot better, walking, eating, preening and taking short flights. Despite having avian UVB lamps it has moulted.
What can help its feathers grow? When is the best time of year to release it?
#Gull #HerringGull #SickBird #Feathers #Ornithology #WildlifeRescue #Seabird
@MrBerard @rchusid
The #WaybackMachine is preserving a lot of #SickBird content anyway, so when Twitter dies (or becomes even less relevant than #Myspace), it will be preserved in the archive.
Digression:
That makes me curious about whether Wayback archived other dead sites, such as Yahoo Answers. My guess is that the only people likely to find value in dead sites like that will be master's students with thesis titles like, "The evolution of early twenty-first century question and answer web sites", but I think there are researchers with even more obscure interests who _wish_ someone had archived their favorite subjects.