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taylor hatmaker
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queer and doing some adventures. former @Techcrunch culture editor. now: 🔮??
based in pdx 🌲
i do miss the vibes on here though... is it still good? how are we mastodoning these days?
i’m traveling in japan for the next month and posting some very serious reviews of 7-eleven treats in my new newsletter (it’s a pyramid scheme so best to subscribe early)
it’s going to be my all purpose newsletter for my writing later but for now boy is it snacks https://taylorhatmaker.ghost.io
Andy BaioHoly crap, @xoxo starts today?! Opening party and Arcade tonight, doors open at 7pm! See you there, #xoxofest! https://xoxofest.com/2024/schedule/
whooo is at xoxo this week 👀
Drew HarwellNew: X has now for two days blocked all searches for Taylor Swift, one of the world's biggest superstars, during a very newsy weekend for her, because it couldn't stop AI-generated sex images of her and had no other ideas. A blunt and desperate measure to accomplish a basic content-moderation task - made tougher since X, under Elon Musk's leadership, fired 80% of its workers and most of its "trust and safety" team
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/29/taylor-swift-ai-pictures/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/29/taylor-swift-ai-pictures/
got my first round of test prints back! i’m selling photo prints at a little holiday craft fair in a few weeks but maybe i’ll get my online store back up soon too 🌌
Lorenzo Franceschi-BicchieraiNEW: As the war in Gaza continues, internet connectivity is getting worse and worse.
“The evidence of the crippled internet in Gaza is not hard to find. By every metric of internet connectivity, things are in bad shape,” internet monitoring expert Doug Madory told us.
NetBlocks and IODA are reporting that NetStream, a Gaza ISP, has an almost complete outage, and other ISPs aren't doing much better.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/27/internet-access-in-gaza-is-collapsing-as-isps-fall-offline/
Claes de Vreese ☑️Leaving Twitter. And thriving. A true story 🐦👋🏼
“as a platform becomes less reliable — either editorially or technically — staying becomes more fraught. And as NPR has demonstrated, you may not be giving up all that much if you walk away.”
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports
i don’t know who needs to hear this but cats start really very small before becoming less small (over time)
