Twitter: Bluecheck nazis and promoted dropshipping stores called Suvo and Blap Threads: Mr. Beast challenges Grimace to a boxing match on IG Live (sponsored by OralB) Bluesky: Leftists dunking on Twitter and Threads
Hello everyone! I haven’t quite figured out what to do with twitter or this or mastodon, but glad to see y’all here.
Do people even talk about their jobs and ideas anymore or is it just reaction-internet now?
Truly a strange feeling to have grown up with the internet being your refuge and cherished resource only to have it become utter shit and realize that maybe you don't need it and in fact can't use it the way you used to anymore
Tech people actively say shit like "what's the point of learning about history, only the future matters" and then in the next breath share deeply weird and incorrect interpretations of history.
remarkable how much worse the internet has gotten over the last 10 years. search sucks, websites clogged with intrusive ads, platforms are almost all shit or being torn up on purpose, linkrot, etc
A core tenet of good tech is that we can _reason_ about it. And a common pattern of abusers is that they act inconsistent & unreasonable. That's why it's a giant red flag that AI hype is about systems that we can't even reason about. https://www.anildash.com/2023/06/08/ai-is-unreasonable/
if loosely, design = marketing in a world where the barrier to creating an app or duplicate is so low, design could be the key for some businesses to really create a distinction
You should absolutely block anyone for any reason on any platform at all. You are responsible for curating your social media experience, and you are NOT obligated to be exposed to posts that rub you the wrong way. Block for any reason. Block for NO reason! It’s free to use!
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3y agoWe have tried the “blocking people should only be done in extreme cases” approach to social media for over a decade. And it has failed. This is exactly why I so strongly support making it socially acceptable for people to block anyone for any reason.
What is the state of the tech hiring market these days? It's definitely cooling in many areas. But by how much? Are there more inbound applications for the same role? If you're a hiring manager, I'd love to hear from you, and will share what others see: https://forms.gle/wVngYHWN4xCsfWH3A
There’s two extremes in tech: 1. absolutely no boundaries and “working” 16 hours a day 2. not shipping at all, for some fucking reason
Really should have yeeted my entire net worth into Nvidia, huh?
I want to be a golden retriever in the next life. Beautiful. Happy. Super dumb.
“They’ll teach twitter’s collapse in business schools” Maybe? I guess so. Probably less informative than you’d think though. You could also show Wile E Coyote cartoons as part of OSHA training but most workers probably weren’t planning to glue firework rockets on their roller skates
I keep hitting up against the realization that I’m always going to be a start-up employee. I have literally no patience for anything but execution.
going through pre-calc makes me proud of myself but also I want to die
ppl ask/tell my bf that being a bodybuilder is vain but I dunno it looks like being a judgemental twat is worse.
So my coworker is one of those math geniuses who got perfect on all the standardized tests and yada yada and super impressive but… I just slugged my way through quadratic formulas in pre-calc so suck on that
So, we thought, what would happen if we... made a content moderation simulator? And let everyone who thinks they know how it works... try out their assumptions.
A lot of tech people seem to want to solve social problems through a purely technical lens. But, unfortunately, to solve social problems like “trust” and “safety,” you need to make judgements that aren’t purely technical. It requires choices about politics and society. There is no avoiding it.
nat alison@tesseralis.site · 3y agobluesky: please ban the nazis bluesky team: merriam webster's defines "trust" as...
if we all actually told the truth: “Oh hey yeah I didn’t apply for head of design bc corporate America is filled with sociopaths and I’d rather make less to pretend less and go to bed at night peacefully than become one myself”
🥴 people’s hot takes on shopify are so bad amazon and shopify are philosophically different products amazon is a flea market for merchants to race to the bottom in exchange for marketing and volume the other isn’t
Enjoying the reptile content here. Will add my girlfriend Omelette.
