@TheBlueMeme

Former blogger/RawStory columnist. Child of refugees. Raver. Seer of visions. Now on Post at TheBlueMeme

Joined January 2017
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As we all think about how to deal with the purchase of Twitter by Musk, it is worth looking back to the beginnings of this kind of website and what made it different from what came before. Because I think that history helps clarify how we should respond. 1/9
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I’ve been reflexively blocking ads here, but not this one. Hey, @DIRECTV — do it! I’m much more likely to sign up for your service if I’m not enriching Rupert Murdoch.
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Terrifying
Yaneer Bar-Yam
@yaneerbaryam24 Nov 2022
Important! Share this article with everyone. It is outstanding I will post excerpts 1/ You May Be Early, but You're Not Wrong: A Covid Reading List, by @JessicaLexicus open.substack.com/pub/jessic…
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Basel Musharbash
@musharbash_b24 Nov 2022
1. In 2009, Obama’s antitrust chief Christine Varney invited poultry farmers to a public hearing in Alabama. 100s came to tell her about how the meatpackers abused them. When one said he worried about retaliation, she gave him her direct line. The room erupted with applause.
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Basel Musharbash
@musharbash_b24 Nov 2022
1. In 2009, Obama’s antitrust chief Christine Varney invited poultry farmers to a public hearing in Alabama. 100s came to tell her about how the meatpackers abused them. When one said he worried about retaliation, she gave him her direct line. The room erupted with applause. – at Paris, TX
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Ryan Grim
@ryangrim23 Nov 2022
“My regulator at the CFTC, I bribed—I asked…” One of the funniest moment on cable in a long time xitter.cf/moreperfectleft/status…
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It is a tribute to the quality of the work Twitter engineers did pre-Elon that despite the body blows of the last few weeks, the site staggers on, mostly functional.
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Elon Musk, Sooper Geenioous.
Alex Cohen
@anothercohen18 Nov 2022
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
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While a number of people in the replies are taking this literally, this is a joke. Just a few days earlier, this same user claimed to have been laid off by a different company: twitter.com/anothercohen/s…
Mr. Hardcore spends more energy policing loyalty and shitposting than figuring out what would make his $44B toy avoid bankruptcy.
Nico H@pnikosis16 Nov 2022
Replying to @pnikosis @GergelyOrosz
Since people are asking
We sent what appeared to be identical emails to all, but each was actually coded with either one or two spaces between sentences, forming a binary signature that identified the leaker.

ALT We sent what appeared to be identical emails to all, but each was actually coded with either one or two spaces between sentences, forming a binary signature that identified the leaker.

But the CEO can still reply tweet to someone named catturd, so there's that.
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kodiak149@kodiak1496 Nov 2022
Replying to @littledeekay @elonmusk
@littledeekay @elonmusk
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“Siri, what’s a death spiral?”
Hoodlum 🇺🇸
@NotHoodlum5 Nov 2022
General Mills, CVS, United Airlines, GM, Audi, Mazda, Porsche, VW, American Express, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, Spotify, Ford, Dyson, Forbes, DIRECTV, Nintendo, Unilever, and PBS have all suspended ads on Twitter.
I’m planning to try this soon. Already set up a profile on CounterSocial.
John Bull@garius5 Nov 2022
Right. As a heavy tweeter/content creator who is now maintaining BOTH a Twitter and Mastodon presence, here is a short guide to what I have set up, how to do it and lessons I've learned, for others. TLDR: It's been WAY less hassle than I expected thanks to tips from followers /1
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Eric Idle
@EricIdle2 Nov 2022
So you're allowed to steal but you wish to charge us to verify who we are? Good luck with that then.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk2 Nov 2022
Replying to @elonmusk
Totally stole idea of charging for insults & arguments from Monty Python tbh m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5g…

Argument - Monty Python

Argument by Monty Python with some scenes cut

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This is a picture of an under-appreciated artist from the golden age of jazz. He worked with some of the most famous stars of his time. But he was undone by his addiction to heroin. His name was Elmo Hope.
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This is a picture of an over-appreciated con artist from the golden age of social media. He hung out with some of the most famous and infamous stars of his time. But he will be undone by his addiction to impetuous trolling. His name is Elmo Hopeless.
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