Mitch_Deadberg

@mitch_deadberg
0 Followers
5 Following
18 Posts

In the 1860s and 70s #chicago, fish (or just pieces of fish) would sometimes spray out of fire hydrants and kitchen taps.

#history

So does this street sweeper only go on the North side?

Is it ever deployed in less Cub-friendly areas? Just curious.

#chicago

I 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...

A thread đź§µ

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/

Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills

Twitter evicted in Boulder, Colo., still faces unpaid-rent suit at HQ in California.

Ars Technica

“Where did you buy this extremely cursed .zip domain?”

“From a mysterious little shop that wasn’t there anymore when I went back”

https://twitter.com/killedbygoogle/status/1669465621342605312?s=46&t=spNohg4fl-t0xQSoCWXxww

Killed by Google on Twitter

“I am absolutely shocked. lmao https://t.co/vofwTNeFVQ”

Twitter

Social media’s job is to show you posts from the people you follow, but social media’s business model is to charge news companies to reach their subscribers. That’s a bad deal for everyone (except the platforms’ owners!)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/save-news-we-need-end-end-web

To Save the News, We Need an End-to-End Web

This is part five of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here. Part three, about banning surveillance ads, is here. Part four, about opening up app stores, is here. Download this whole series as a single PDF.Once, news...

Electronic Frontier Foundation