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vi Jul 26, 2023

DaWolfBearJedi Jul 25, 2023

I saw this on Twitter and decided to copy it off.

• X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men.

• Black Panther is about colonization. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Black Panther.

• Captain America literally fought nazis. He is the embodiment of fighting the alt-right. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Captain America.

• The Empire in Star Wars is fascist. The Rebel alliance are Anti-Fascist. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get Star Wars.

vi Jul 25, 2023

John Bull Jul 25, 2023

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology

vi Jul 24, 2023

I hate living in a place where it’s 107°F and 25% humidity and I go “Ah the weather is pretty nice today”

vi Jul 24, 2023

David Gerard Jul 24, 2023

BUYOUT NEWS: The beleaguered and heavily indebted social network formerly known as "Twitter" is acquired by the X Org Foundation, a 501(c)3 scientific charity

"Fixing Twitter will be easier than finishing Wayland," said a spokesdroid

vi Jul 23, 2023

I feel kinda stuck on Mastodon lately. I really like the platform conceptually, but I keep running into issues. For example, when I used smaller instances (I've gone through many of them in my time using Mastodon), I like the tighter community, but I feel like they never quite fully federate right, and I miss a lot of stuff, especially when searching tags. But now that I'm on the big instance, I see everything, but there's no community. Not sure how to solve this problem!

vi Jul 23, 2023

I can't wait for #Bally to die in #Arizona. I've stopped paying for it, but now I can only listen to #dbacks #baseball on the radio. Allegedly next season they'll be off Bally, and I'm hoping they do a local broadcast deal like the #Suns did, and not become exclusive to some other service

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vi Jul 22, 2023

Regardless, *something* needs to replace Reddit, and it shouldn't be another centralized system, and it definitely shouldn't be unsearchable Discord threads. But I'm also not convinced the fediverse model works for something like forums, so idk

vi Jul 22, 2023

Part of me hopes that with #reddit going downhill, we'll see a revival of old school #forums, because I miss the tighter communities there. But the other part of me remembers how absurd and intense the flame wars and fights got in such tight communities, and I think maybe that's not a great idea.

vi Jul 22, 2023

I got an invite to #Bluesky so I’ve been checking it out for a few days and all I can tell so far is that it seems like there’s not a ton of people there, and most of the people who *are* there are really into angry discourse-posting. It’s a pretty bad time imo

vi Jul 21, 2023

🐙🐇🐝Pointed Sarah🐞🐡🐧Jul 21, 2023

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is

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