This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

In 2018 you as the customer apparently end up working as beta tester and Q&A for new products.

Out of the last 8 devices I bought, 6 were defect on arrival 😕

I can only assume that means it's a lot cheaper for companies to deal with disgruntled customers than implementing proper quality assurance.

Tengo un amigo gringo que renunció a aprender español porque lo considera dificilísimo. Me decía que nunca iba a ser capaz de darse a entender con nadie. En un centro comercial, yo le aposté $50 a que podía enseñarle a pedir la cena en 15 segundos. Aceptó. Le escribí algo en un papel e hicimos fila en un restaurante mexicano. Al llegar al frente le preguntaron qué quería. Yo le dije "Just read the words" :
- "Does - Stack- eat - those- can- free- hall- less"

Los $50 más fáciles de mi vida.

2055

*me, taking a space elevator for the first time*

Well, that escalated quickly