# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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you know how brands will name themselves like "BLAHBLAH NYC" ? they should do that everywhere. "blahblah Seattle". "blahblah St. Paul". "blahblah San Luis Obispo"
when we got to the point where people are trying to make themselves look good by jeering at other people trying to make themselves look good, we should have figured out a way to at least filter this content
how are the nft fursonas this bad
https://about.facebook.com/meta/ it's facebook, it's just facebook, never let them tell you otherwise, don't start changing your use of "meta" to accommodate their attempt to squat an important term
i'm gonna scream i'm gonna scream i'm gonna scream
"your text may contain issues" oh word counter application, you have no idea
the wattpad commentariat know that without a specified pay period, the acceptability of a wage cannot be determined
rituals of divination help get one in a witchy mood. do druids instead Touch Grass
labor organizing in wattpad comments
on nextdoor people are rabid about whether you should be blowing all the sidewalk leaves into the street (read: bike lane)
i think sometimes media folks see tech stuff they don't understand and assume it's bullshit, where what they really need to be scrutinizing are the business aspects they assume are normal because Capitalism Is Fundamentally Fine, Right?
i wish i wrote about tech stuff less but mostly i wish non-techie people wrote about it *better*
for the record Hannah Gadsby is funny
so even if there have been really successful tactics of foot dragging and sabotage, the powers what be don't want you to learn about them (even outside how they also hate e.g. labor history being taught)
conspiratorial speculation: the powerful love telling the average folks to Engage Through Discourse to change Official Policy re: the things they disagree with because then they can identify you *and* control the narrative, whereas they don't have nearly the power to stop ppl on the ground from Just Doing Shit
has anyone written something good about the difference between "let's work in good faith towards reform from within" and "let's strategically sabotage from within" because there are definitely situations where the former seems deeply head-ass yet the latter might get good results...but I have not read enough about the latter to feel confident talking about it.
in those cron scripts, tiddlywiki \\--save "[tag[]]" "[addsuffix[.md]]" rm -f /output/Draft* is how I get particular sets of files to work with -- where "tiddlywiki" is the node app command
keyword blocklist aggressively. stop thinking "well someone *might* have something interesting to say about X". once you get to the point where social media discourse on a topic feels like a mosquito whine, just cut it all out. private discussions with friends or blogs you like or whatever will cover it if it's important.
so there is a verse in the bible (bear with me here) "for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" but from the vulgate latin it is *impossible* not to read as "for where your thesaurus is, there will your heart be also"
mgmt's "when you die" works really well because it kind of sounds like "in the house, in a heartbeat" from 28 days later, but, you know, bouncy
my brother's response: 'lol you palette swapped your dog'
spooky scary CSS. why let merveilles have all the fun? :) .accountavatar-overlay-overlay, .accountavatar-overlay-base, .accountavatar { filter: saturate(0) contrast(500); mix-blend-mode: multiply; } .detailed-statusdisplay-avatar, .statusavatar, .avatar{ background: orange; background-clip: padding-box; border: 4px transparent; border-radius: 4px;} .navigation-bar > a {background: orange; background-clip: padding-box; border: 4px transparent; border-radius: 4px;}
she is too cute for me to even be embarrassed about this
I think i want insincere "thank you for your service" replies from them
every time I have to send emails to Very Important People about the quotidian failures of our systems, I am reminded of my two predecessors who explicitly left because of ops
the 9.9% are responsible for the political will behind all the shitty stuff he talks about, but Iiiiiii still bet you the 0.1% is getting more out of it
https://www.fastcompany.com/90687984/the-dark-truth-behind-what-makes-a-good-neighborhood the policy criticisms are Correct, but like... "But 60% of this corresponds to the mortgage interest deduction, which benefits only the 7 million or so households with more than $100,000 in income. The bigger the house, the more they get. A further $32 billion per year goes to covering the exclusion of capital gains taxes on inherited homes. [..] All but a few rounding errors land in the pockets of the 9.9%—every year." Really? You excluded the 0.1%? No, you didn't.
"the most attractive X I've ever seen" would have been the most attractive X out of, like, max 300, including people of all ages/sexes. we should talk more about how weird it is that we are constantly exposing ourselves to beautiful freaks now, *no matter what your standard of beauty is*
yeah lots of you are posting that you've blocked them, but how many of you have they blocked, huh? huh?? (shh don't tell me, I want my moment of pretending this gives me cred)
i believe in *us*, evanaa. i believe we can make this crazy thing work
note that I do not know .. uh... why
we have a static ip and the real site still loads on phones, soooooooo
UPDATE: I can report I have finished the speedrun to being blocked by truthsocial.com
why would you bother setting up a fake analytics company? like, why? or was this, like, some epik employee's teenage nephew saying "oh I can run matomo for you guys no problem". is there some greasy kid in sammamish somewhere trying to figure out how to flex his ill-gotten gains without explaining to his peers that Behind the Great Success of Bonsa He Playing Role
let's do a WHOIS lookup (on the first google result, as is only appropriate) so if they're using dreamhost there's no point looking for other stuff at that IP, but... interesting that this is... brand new?
Evanaa, I take it all back. Whatever they're paying you, it isn't enough.
you know what, I'll look up that address -- wait, what's this?
Wow, time to give these guys a call! At one of these numbers! From their contact info! That they have listed as phone numbers!
We love to see coworkers supporting each other with helpful feedback!
What's this? A blog link, you say?
I *only* trust my analytics with the tier of provider who knows that 2005 + 15 = 2021=
Evanaa babe the pandemic has been hard for all of us but you gotta get it together
Ah, really puts my mind at ease seeing their experience with Thousand of Comapnies
And these exparts' attention to dotail, you gotta sea it to believe it
Business growing service! Sounds nice. Like gardening.
the trump social website is Innovative and technically sound and I'm definitely not looking forward to some data nightmare coming out of it because it's been put together in a super high quality way with attention to detail so I'm sure their security is also top notch
who is the producer for SKYND and have they done other projects that seem less ethically questionable
hecuba supra faustum scandit.
"pray, read, read, read, reread, work, and you shall discover" seems about right
tiny? inconsequential? petty? yes but also i do not know this person
margaret atwood once made my mom feel bad so i am choosing to schadenfreude on the backlash
https://hollywoodagegap.com/ dumb q but... this isn't real *life*, is it? like... i don't know a bunch of twenty-somethings dating forty-somethings. does data on that even exist
"falsifiability? sounds like a village in switzerland"
"yes hello i have never read even a single sociology"
any time someone uses the phrase "virtue signaling" for anything directed at any target I lose a little respect for them
I read about this because someone was trying to analyze how big a deal alcohol use during pregnancy really is, and it turns out it's really really really hard to disentangle from all the other stuff people aren't supposed to be doing while pregnant.
there's also a complication with blah blah education blah blah class blah blah trust in authorities blah blah people who were more likely to have good material circumstance... but you would still have this same problem even without that complication, which is *wild*.
that's because as long as *most* health advice isn't absolute garbage, people who follow it in *aggregate* are going to have better *outcomes* in aggregate than those who don't. so now in our example, avoiding gummy vitamins is statistically tied up with all the health advice that *isn't* meaningless.
now, before that point, we'd expect gummy vitamins to have basically 0 association with health during pregnancy. after my hack, though, the association will appear, clear as day, in all the relevant data.
well, let's say I hack into all the CDC websites and tell everyone that gummy vitamins are very dangerous during pregnancy, very dangerous, and must be avoided. I get someone to go on Oprah about it. the advice is Out There.
a fun thing, and by fun I mean kind of cursed, is that once something reaches the canon of public health advice, it's never possible to measure its effect using simple latitudinal surveys ever again. why?
this seems *different* somehow than the long-feared "but what if my boss sees my weekend partying". that's someone outside the intended audience seeing it. instead it's about... not even clearly intending an audience to communicate to, I guess, because of how stochastic it all feels
I guess the key here is that most of the time, functionally, it *is* only that small circle seeing it... there's just... a slight chance otherwise
tiktok seems really prone to this since 100% of discovery there is algorithmically mediated, but I remember getting the sense of this in tumblr days. you could tell sometimes there'd be something cringey about a response where a person was writing as if they expected to go viral, to have thousands of reactions back them up, but... they were just some kid, you know? and yet, they *might have.*
my theory is that there's something particularly psychologically stressful about having to deal with Schrodinger's Audience: when you put something out there, you have to adopt a tone of humility appropriate to only a few people, maybe your close contacts seeing it... but you also have to communicate as though you might be talking to Absolutely Everyone. and you don't really control which.
but of course we know that in practical terms, people don't *use* social media as if the context were absolutely everyone in their lives seeing it. that's why it's always awkward when a Bad Tweet goes viral and it's clear the tweeter was using Twitter to chat within their social network, with a thicker context, where more subtle ironies and such might be expressed.... but actually they were posting publicly also
people have talked about context collapse before, where your internet presentation isn't able to be segmented into what you'd show church people, employers, peers, family, etc., and it's all just one context
I have a theory about an attribute of social media and I want to bounce it off ppl to see if it seems like A Thing to y'all
there is a youtuber kid i will put on muted in a background tab because i want him to succeed. good luck kid!!!!!
a lot of the time when people armchair quarterback engineering choices, they're willingly ignoring a lot of constraints, but come on........
a remote that needed a 70 dollar official replacement was replaced with a 6 dollar version. *the 6 dollar knockoff is better.* tactile buttons, not specific areas of a flat surface to replace. lighter weight.
so white I unironically enjoy mushy peas
zoe kravitz maybe? i do not know the youths
two things are really working for me this inktober: the desire to make it so everything will go sequentially on maya.land/inktober without gaps, and completely giving up on nice scans / photos of things. office lens + b&w filter is Good Enough
so i have a page about latin on my website and it needed a little somethin'
has anyone written the piece arguing against calling spiritual practices "work"? i want to read it
damn maybe i *should* plan to go live in the woods