@buzz

Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr, @bkcc), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Mail: buzz at https://xitter.cf/t.co/Acf3wgk0lo

 Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2006
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I don't even want to know
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Guess this isn’t a very controversial statement anymore.
[email protected]@buzz10 Apr 2021
Replying to @jomc
I have long had the theory that sustained, historically low interest rates are one of the under appreciated things driving the current dystopian tech boom. Returns in safer assets suck, driving money into increasingly crazy tech stuff, consolidating economic power with big tech.
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Welcome to distributed systems, moron cnn.com/2023/03/06/tech/twit…
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Gonna start producing music under the name The API.
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Someone just emailed to offer me $100 for my Twitter account, so I figure I’d better tweet something to keep my account active.
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Reminder that Twitter was nowhere near bankruptcy in May. Q2 loss of $244 million. Around $2.7 billion of cash in the bank. Obviously not a healthy biz. But not close to a bankrupt one. s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/file…
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Just wanted to make sure everyone over here was aware of this – at Los Angeles, CA
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As always people should read @juliandibbell's MY TINY LIFE for a window into how this has been an active problem for *decades* before social media even existed. Governance is not a technical problem, ever. *Everything* on the net started out technolibertarian. All of it evolved.
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I guess they were banned for revealing the location of where all the Twitter users are going.
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I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
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As I said back in April. – at Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]@buzz30 Apr 2022
Every media organization should set up a Mastodon instance right now IMHO.
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I think one thing that pundits aren’t considering enough is the possibility that Musk, having blundered his way into a horrendously bad deal, is acting entirely impulsively and out of pure narcissistic injury. nytimes.com/2022/12/13/techn…

Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs (Published 2022)

Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.

nytimes.com
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Stand by this – at Los Angeles, CA
[email protected]@buzz8 May 2021
I think I’ve finally managed to crystallize exactly what it is I find so obnoxious about Musk: in his glib trollishness, he powerfully exemplifies the nightmare of unchecked billionaire power. Imposing his will on humanity for the lulz.
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Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk rummaged through millions of emails & Slack messages from pre-Musk Twitter & all they found was employees deliberating & consulting w/each other about how to fairly apply & enforce rules. But I get it.. To a rich white man, that seems very oppressive
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Moderation – at Los Angeles, CA
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So yeah, it's basically just cringey Neil Stephenson-ism driving all this.
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@jack13 Dec 2022
Replying to @jack
1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control. 2. Only the original author may remove content they produce. 3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.
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Once I'm ensconced in my underground tweet bunker, no one will be able to stop me from posting Hunter Biden's dick, as god intended.
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But it’s cool, because thanks to perfect algorithmic filter bubbles, only other Hunter Biden dick pick enjoyers will be forced to engage with my content. – at Los Angeles, CA
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