Hot take: big tech exists only as a failure to create small (human-scale) tech. Facebook & twitter represents a failure to create & publicize p2p alternatives.
Huge MIT Study of ‘Fake News’: Fa… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/
A great thread about how to pronounce shibboleth: https://twitter.com/leftoblique/status/966353872502456321
The truth about social media and “influence”: it’s a scam we‘re al… https://theoutline.com/post/3443/devumi-twitter-bots-savviness-gap
A Mnemosyne Atlas of Cinema https://twitter.com/i/moments/963354503000023040
Rather than sending advertisements into outer space, it would be really nice if we made it so that Facebook and Twitter would run reasonably on six month old mid-market desktop computers. These JS timeouts are annoying.
GitHub - x0rz/tweetentropy: Twitter as an extra entropy source https://github.com/x0rz/tweetentropy
John McAfee Appears to Move … https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9knnpz/john-mcafee-twitter-coin-of-the-day-cryptocurrency-markets
Ask Dr. Time: Orality and Literacy from Homer to Twitter https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-orality-and-literacy
bowser ❌ on Twitter: "WSJ is quoting the Illuminatus Trilogy, what is ha… https://twitter.com/browserdotsys/status/943233927795355648
What it Means to Be an ‘Experimental Computer Poet’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8ppp/poetry-twitter-bots-best-twitter-bots-art-allison-parrish-everyword
Despite that, I’m still a big fan of the service and check it daily. It’s much more enjoyable than Twitter is, for sure, even with its drawbacks.
Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter – The New Inquiry https://thenewinquiry.com/taxonomy-of-humans-according-to-twitter/
A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/magazine/a-whimsical-wordsmith-charts-a-course-beyond-twitter.html##%E2%80%9CI+was+able+to+be+funny+and+natural+through+the+keyboard+and+awkward+and+quiet+and+weird+in+person%2C%E2%80%9D+he+told+me.+%E2%80%9CI+wonder+how+many+writers+of+this+generation+figured+out+how+to+write+through+chat.%E2%80%9D
‘I’ve never seen an artform that I didn’t want to try’: Harry Giles Talks Twitter Bots http://allthesenewrelations.com/harry-giles-on-twitter-bots
Can’t decide if https://github.com/binfalse/jabber-vs-twitter is crazy or genius. Probably both.
Oh dear. Has Twitter gone off the deep end?
RT @coltondrg@twtxt.coltondrg.com Weblog: Twitter Trust and Safety Council https://drg.li/-l1z9
Bridgy – WebMentions für Twitter und Facebook ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/t/1wi
Twitter Cards ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/1Bg