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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced a bold new strategy to combat antisemitism: checking people's Twitter feeds, reports NPR. But according to the puppy-slayer, antisemitism only counts when it comes with a foreign accent. The policy specifically targets immigrants applying for per...

The New Yorker's Kyle Chayka wrote about Bluesky and its CEO, Jay Graber. It's a useful and detailed history of the company and the social media context—and Graber's key role in securing independence for Bluesky from Twitter, from which it emerged. — Read the rest The post Profile of Bluesky and CEO...

Tobias Lütke, in a memo to employees at Shopify, re-posted on Twitter / X: Using Al effectively is now a fundamental expectation of everyone at Shopify. It’s a tool of all trades today, and will only grow in importance. Frankly, I don’t think it’s feasible to opt out of learning the skill of applyin...

Nintendo has unveiled the Switch 2 so we discuss, more MCP, and we vibe code non stop! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface ⭐⭐ Review Us (https://itunes.apple.c...

If I were designing a social network, I would implement replies differently. When you reply to a post, only the person who wrote the post sees it. If they want they can RT it. The way it works now on all twitter-like systems means most of the replies are basically spam, people using your post as a w...

I was reminded of this song by Terry Tyler, when she posted it on Twitter yesterday. https://terrytyler59.blogspot.com/ Released in 1965 when I was 13 years old, my dad got me a pre-release copy as his company was distributing the record. It was a popular hit at the time, and sold a million copies w...

A damp and gloomy sunrise. Juncos twitter in the tops of black birches. A cowbird’s liquid note.

A few years ago, whenever I published a new article here, I would just announce it on Twitter, but since the Muskover its importance has declined, and now I post updates to several services. To compare engagement on these services, I've looked at reposts, likes, and replies to two dozen of my recent...

My server has been coughing up hairballs tonight. It coughed up a link to this piece from two years ago, when Twitter pulled the plug on their API. It knocked everything I had built on the Twitter API off the air. Every thing. Just like that. That's what tonight was like here. It was just some of my...

I have just been looking at some of the April Fool posts on Twitter and they are most amusing. That reminded me of the famous BBC TV April Fool spoof that genuinely fooled hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest. Pinch, punch, first of the month. And no returns!

Court win for investors may sway SEC’s probe of Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase.

Ashley Smart in Undark: In the summer of 2022, Abdel Abdellaoui was set to give a keynote at the annual conference of the International Society for Intelligence Research. But when he learned he’d be sharing a speaker roster with Emil Kirkegaard, Abdellaoui announced on Twitter that he was cancelling...

Masterful gambit, sir. Twitter has been sold off yet again, with it leaving Elon Musk's hands to… end up back in Elon Musk's hands. Rather than selling it off to an outside buyer after its dramatic decline in value, Musk merged it with his own AI company, xAI, creating sort of a Frankenstein of mass...

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xAI buying Twitter / X seems pretty sketchy. In practice, I guess it means the platform will live on for a while. I would not bet on xAI’s long-term success, though… OpenAI has billions of dollars of real revenue. xAI has effectively none, I think, outside of Twitter itself.

Center Parcs, the chain of liminal forest resorts in Britain and Ireland, deleted its Twitter account in January. But it didn't realize that meant the name would become available for registration, and it was soon squatted. Fortunately for the company, the IT consultant who nabbed the handle, Carl Le...

If you're somehow lost as to why America has become the laughingstock of the world stage in recent years, look no further than the way we present ourselves on that world stage. Since Trump has taken office, control of the White House's Twitter account has been handed over to the exact kind of bloodt...

Kurt Wagner and Katie Roof, Bloomberg: Elon Musk said his xAI artificial intelligence startup has acquired the X platform, which he also controls, at a valuation of $33 billion, marking a surprise twist for the social network formerly known as Twitter. This feels like it has to be part of some kind ...

A couple of years after buying Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk announced that his AI business xAI has acquired the social media platform that’s now known as X. In a tweet, he described it as an all-stock transaction, valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, including $12 billion in debt i...

Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Niléane insists she’s not bringing another task manager, Chris has a new e-ink toy he loves, and the whole crew finds interesting ways to add some more text expansion to their lives. MacStories Unwind This week, Federico and...

When we flatten out the differences between the different social networks, we'll start with their RSS feeds, if it works, ultimately there will be no need for different social networks. And again, if it works, we'll bring back the features of the open web that Twitter left out. This is a much better...

GPT-4o got an another update in ChatGPT This is a somewhat frustrating way to announce a new model. @OpenAI on Twitter just now: GPT-4o got an another update in ChatGPT! What's different? Better at following detailed instructions, especially prompts containing multiple requests Improved capability t...

I've added a new content type to my blog: notes. These join my existing types: entries, bookmarks and quotations. A note is a little bit like a bookmark without a link. They're for short form writing - thoughts or images that don't warrant a full entry with a title. The kind of things I used to post...

Yours truly back in May 2023, in a thread on Mastodon (at the time, you needed an invitation code to get into Bluesky, and it was just a few months after Musk’s takeover and remaking of what was once Twitter): Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and M...

Current and former Social Security officials fear Elon Musk is focused on breaking Social Security so he can take it over and "fix it" like Twitter. "They're creating a fire to require them to come and put it out," said one former high-ranking SSA official who took an early retirement offer earlier ...

One of the unfortunate stories being written and rewritten lately is about how (wait for it), liberals/progressives/"the left" are in an information bubble because they've forsaken Twitter and canceled their subscriptions to the Washington Post. Supposedly, people like me are out of touch with the m...

One of the unfortunate stories being written and rewritten lately is about how (wait for it), liberals/progressives/"the left" are in an information bubble because they've forsaken Twitter and canceled their subscriptions to the Washington Post. Supposedly, people like me are out of touch with the m...

The Mac Observer is showcasing Monday App Finder: Journelly, a Twitter-Like Journal for iOS. Bemfica de Oliva does a wonderful rundown of Journelly's features and capabilities, much better than anything else I've posted before. They even mentioned Org markup and Emacs text editor, for those who want...

Musk is accused of securities law violations related to his purchase of Twitter.

SEC case over late disclosure of Twitter stock buy still moving ahead, for now.

Three million views in two days might sound like a lot – until you remember this is Kanye we're talking about. Avowed Nazi and acclaimed rapper/producer Kanye West's reputation has utterly tanked recently, likely due to that 'avowed Nazi' thing – if you haven't scrolled through his Twitter lately, j...

James has a great interaction with an etsy seller who collaborated on a design that was completely 3D printed for coffee equipment. We discuss. Opus Design Company: https://www.etsy.com/shop/OpusDesignCompany Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter...

Discovered: Mar 23, 2025 09:42 Lorenz:: halcy log:: Silly Mastodon apps based on mastondon.py plus other cool mastodon hacks <– mastodon.py in the browser is amazing! Gotta try this in the browser and from the command line. –> QUOTE: Just like used to be the case with Twitter, there are a lot of ver...

1. How Rickover built the US Navy. 2. My interview with Reason magazine. 3. The importance of stablecoins to the US Treasury market. 4. Another measure of how automatable your job is. And tweet thread. 5. New AI and economics model from Epoch: Twitter thread: https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/190...

I stopped posting on Twitter, now known as X, in November 2023. X isn't open, it throttles distribution, and devalues links. Simply put, it doesn't align with my values as a supporter of the open web.

Product Protocol Support Matrix. Notes Terminology: I don't thnk we should use the term social web until there actually is such a thing, so I invented a new term for these twitter-like services. Since Ghost is now supporting ActivityPub, I felt we needed to include Substack because the two products ...

A thread I wrote on Bluesky about how the RSS world, an earlier instance of the writer's web, was overtaken by Twitter and why, which boils down to this -- the reading platforms wouldn't work with each other. So Twitter made subscription one click. And RSS made sites include 25 buttons to give peopl...

It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a new entity that might mean something. I did a poll on Twitter and people preferred OK Computer to Kid A 78%!

A recent article here at CleanTechnica (written by an author I respect and like, to be clear) got a reaction from Elon Musk. Elon used to follow us on Twitter, and we used to get reactions to our content all the time, but when he started veering to the hard ... [continued] The post Sorry, Elon, But ...

Almost two years ago, Twitter launched encrypted direct messages. I wrote about their technical implementation at the time, and to the best of my knowledge nothing has changed. The short story is that the actual encryption primitives used are entirely normal and fine - messages are encrypted using A...

Twitter's logo used to be a big blue bird, and two 12-foot dimensional models of it were installed on the company's building in San Francisco. Removed and sold when the company was bought by Elon Musk, one of the 560-pound signs is up for auction again. — Read the rest The post 560lb Twitter logo re...

In Part 1 of this blog series, I shared my experience using Claude Code to resurrect a critical Trello card management tool that I’ve relied on for 6 years but hadn’t maintained in 2 years. After Twitter API changes broke my data pipeline and deployment issues plagued the application, I used Claude ...

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The dark web is full of mystery. Some of it’s just made up though. Chris Monteiro wanted to see what was real and fake and discovered a hitman for hire site which took him on an unbelievable journey. Chris Monteiro Twitter: x.com/Deku_shrub, Website: https://pirate.london/ Carl Miller Twitter: https...

Frank is all in on GitHub actions on his newly updated iOS & Android Apps with .NET 8 and .NET 9. Let's dive through his yaml! Follow Us Frank: Twitter, Blog, GitHub James: Twitter, Blog, GitHub Merge Conflict: Twitter, Facebook, Website, Chat on Discord Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventuref...

Slug: /7-things-this-week-172 A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ I’ve long wondered how folks did bold and italic text on sites like Twitter that didn’t support formatting. This website does it for you using ✨Unicode✨. (Mi...