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Chuck Wendig Dec 16, 2022

New post at terribleminds --

THE BIRD SITE IS FUCKED

"Twitter right now is a live camera feed watching a highway in an ice storm — you tune in and watch car crash after car crash, the constant shriek of metal, the spinning out of vehicles, carfires burning effulgent in the whiteout blizzard, and when you get a clear moment, when you squint, you realize every last one of those burning cars is a fucking Tesla."

https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2022/12/16/the-bird-site-is-fucked/

The Bird Site Is Fucked

It is, I think, the sensation of a phantom limb: it itches, the limb that doesn’t exist anymore, and so I want to scratch it even though nothing will ever satisfy or resolve that sensation. I…

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jnfr 🇺🇦 🦋

@chuckwendig I'm going to respond here with what I said at your blog:

Speaking of old BBS systems, The Well still exists, well.com believe it or not. I’ve been hanging out there for nearly 30 years now.

We watched this whole internet thing get built from scratch. When I first got onto NSFNet as it was just turning into the corporatized internet we know today, you just got dumped at Unix prompt. There literally was no graphical web at the time, just plain old ASCii. 1/2

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jnfr 🇺🇦 🦋Dec 16, 2022

@chuckwendig ...
We built it all and we can do it again, if we want to. We can make it whatever we want it to be. Read Ben Tarnoff, https://www.wired.com/story/ben-tarnoff-socialist-internet/ He’s smart about this stuff. 2/2

The Internet Socialists Want: A WIRED Q&A With Ben Tarnoff

We asked 'Internet for the People' author Ben Tarnoff about why antitrust isn't enough, and whether profit motive is the root of all of Big Tech's problems.

WIRED