Rod HiltonI want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of #Twitter from their Boulder, Colorado office.
The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes...
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Deb ChachraA friend pointed me to a TED talk by a Swedish architect who proposed a massive environmental intervention in Africa -- using bacteria to fix Saharan sand in place to create a 'wall' and so halt desertification -- while freely admitting that he didn't know any of the details and it made me realise: neocolonialism driven by anthropogenic climate change is really going to be a thing.
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stephen judkinsThe best thing I've seen written on Musk and Twitter is this random YouTube comment (that I can't find a way to link to directly)
JPAnd on the pedestal, these words appear:
"Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."
Nothing beside remains.
"Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."
Nothing beside remains.
Aaron Ross Powell ☸️My kids’ elementary school is having a lockdown drill today, so this is a reminder that, even with the school shootings you hear about in the news, school is by far one of the safest places children can be, there’s zero evidence that lockdown or active shooter drills improve safety, and their main effect is in traumatizing children by convincing them that school in fact isn’t safe. It’s shameful that schools do this to kids and parents should demand they stop.
Dan LuuOne of the things that I think is sad about the decimation of Twitter eng is that Twitter was doing a lot of interesting (and high ROI) eng work that, at younger companies, is mostly outsourced at great cost.
A few examples off the top of my head:
The now gutted HWENG group was so good at server design that, in a meeting with Intel, the Intel folks couldn't believe the power envelope Twitter achieved and Google thought we were lying about our costs during cloud price negotiations.