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@caseynewton and @zoeschiffer have dug up comedy gold from Twitter’s Slack channels once again. This could have been a Dril tweet.

Everyone: Hey, it’s Adele at the Super Bowl!

Me and the people I follow: Eddy!

Ivory by Tapbots is launching today.

This app marks the beginning of a new era for Mastodon clients on Apple platforms. It raises the bar in this category, but there’s still work to be done.

I reviewed Tweetbot 1.0 on MacStories in 2011; 12 years later, here is my review of Ivory 1.0:

Ivory for Mastodon Review: Tapbots Reborn https://www.macstories.net/reviews/ivory-for-mastodon-review-tapbots-reborn/

Ivory for Mastodon Review: Tapbots Reborn

There’s an intangible, permeating quality about Tapbots apps that transcends features and specs: craftsmanship. With Ivory, launching today on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, you can instantly appreciate that level of care and refinement that the Texas-based duo is well known for after more than a decade on the App Store. But there’s

Ivory is out! By far and away my favorite Mastodon app.

Before @ivory, Mastodon felt like a Twitter clone that I wasn’t really “getting”, bouncing between apps and not finding any that fit me.

With Ivory, Mastodon became not only a drop-in replacement for Twitter for me, but an upgrade that’s actually so much better than Twitter that I don’t think about it at all anymore.

I immediately subscribed to the highest Ivory plan. They deserve our support!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274?l=en

Even the bootlickers got tossed out like yesterday’s garbage. Get in bed with a dog and all you get is fleas.

Almost 24 hours later and still no official/unofficial info from inside Twitter. I'm going to continue as if this was all done on purpose.

What now? Ivory goes into hyper mode with just the absolute minimum 3-4 things that have to be done finished up and then off to Apple. Probably going to be a bunch of things I'm not super happy with but I guess we'll fix it in post.

Hopefully everyone knows what we're capable of and can live with some, hopefully not long lived, rough edges/missing features.

My 10th grade English teacher, Dr. Schnell, told me you can tell if you're going to like a book by it's first sentence. Take, for example, this kickoff from the forward to Hacking Capitalism by @nova

"I had discovered four hits of San Francisco LSD a few hours before the insurrection began to unfold."

Seems I'm gonna like it a lot.

https://hackingcapitalism.io/

#writing #books

Hacking Capitalism | A Guide To Exploiting The Tech Industry

This is an independently published book about modeling the tech industry as a system. Particularly this book will model computers, humans, and money and their subsequent relationships. Understand the alarming state of the tech industry for better or for worse.

https://hackingcapitalism.io
*stares at this forever* I..... ok wow
Before New York schools banned ChatGPT, I wrote this about writing as exclusion and the need to reconsider literacy:
https://medium.com/whither-news/writing-and-exclusion-16d4d98a27a
Writing and Exclusion - Whither news? - Medium

In The Gutenberg Parenthesis (my upcoming book), I ask whether, “in bringing his inner debates to print, Montaigne raised the stakes for joining the public conversation, requiring that one be a…

Whither news?
I always assumed that when I finally got booted from twitter it would be for something way funnier than having a username in my bio