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austerity is theft Jul 2, 2023

Casey Newton Jul 1, 2023

There are so many ways to break a website and by the time he is done Elon will have personally overseen all of them

austerity is theft Jul 1, 2023

the blue sky titanic lifeboats couldn’t handle the influx of attention, and that’s with a severely restricted user base because of the staggered signups. twitter is a disaster right now. reddit is going through turmoil hnder a CEO vowing to emulate Musk’s reign at Twitter. this place still seems functional, which is cool at least.

austerity is theft Jul 1, 2023

Max Kennerly Jul 1, 2023

LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

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austerity is theft May 2, 2023

@lukeoneil47 it’s almost been a year since the massacre at the tops in buffalo, and right afterwards they started sending out a lot of the leftover backstock from stock rooms people hid in to my town’s store, which was kind of a head trip when it started coming in, just made it all feel even more like a half click away

austerity is theft Mar 28, 2023

Mike Masnick ✅Mar 28, 2023

I see another influx to Mastodon in our future...

austerity is theft Mar 28, 2023

Casey Newton Mar 28, 2023

Every day is like "starting tomorrow only people who post ‘Elon is cool' will be eligible to have their tweets appear in English" and the entire press corps and all of my friends continue to post there like nothing has changed

austerity is theft Feb 17, 2023

please ffs just let us QT posts on here, because this is too stupid for words and deserves to be a TKO for that platform if implemented

austerity is theft Feb 17, 2023

Casey Newton Feb 17, 2023

This is completely false. We stand by our reporting

austerity is theft Feb 9, 2023

ryan cooper Feb 9, 2023

remarkable that the balance of opinion of the NYT on trans issues is to the right of like 2/3rds of the country https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/

Americans’ Complex Views on Gender Identity and Transgender Issues

Most favor protecting trans people from discrimination, but fewer support policies related to medical care for gender transitions; many are uneasy with the pace of change on trans issues.

Pew Research Center

austerity is theft Jan 18, 2023

Greg Greene Jan 18, 2023

Sure, Twitter’s taken a 40-percent revenue hit — but it’s nothing that can’t be fixed with the sale of $8 blue checks to the Taliban, hm?