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Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy. I was (and am) blown away by how my words reverberated around the world; if anything, it proved to me that we honor King’s dream, by daring to dream big, and by, most importantly, daring to dream together. Only then will the loving fantasies of our better nature transform into reality. The work and fight for the dream persists, and what’s more, it is not just a fight, but fate—that perhaps we are as destined for this time as it is destined for us. What a worthwhile, powerful calling only we can answer. Here with you in the hill and the climb, and whatever light lies beyond, whatever light lies within.
-Amanda
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
Finally, #Google surpassed itself at #privacy washing with its new “ad privacy” feature, perhaps the most cynical name ever:
xitter.cf/ProtonPrivacy/status/1…
🧵6/7
A new low, even for #Google. Giving Google permission to share information about you with third-party websites is being falsely advertised as a "ad privacy feature". This is privacy washing at its most extreme. But it gets even worse. (1/2)
ALT A screenshot of the Google popup asking you to turn on their "ad privacy feature".
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
Is @AlpakaGear even a real company? Or a well known fraud only I didn’t know about? #UnresponsiveSupport
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
My brother’s girlfriend’s cousin and his family were caught in their vehicle in Maui while the wildfires suddenly erupted around them.
No cell service, so Apple Emergency SOS was the only way they could get in contact with first responders. Literally saved their lives.
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
Twitter revealed its algorithm to the world.
But what does it mean for you?
I spent the evening analyzing it.
Here’s what you need to know:
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption bbc.com/news/technology-6458…
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
Whatever Twitter tweaked, feed for whom I am "following" shows only small portion of accounts I do follow, plus app constantly reverts by default to "for you," which shows more, but both plagued by sponsored / promoted tweets, bulk of which I have zero interest in. @doctorow – at Toronto, Ontario
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
You should opt out of Adobe using your data for machine learning / AI purposes
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
A day after of the Taliban BANNED female university education, women & girls have come out on the streets of Kabul protesting against the decree.
They chant —“Either for everyone or for no one. One for all, all for one”
Amplify their voices.
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
I guess they were banned for revealing the location of where all the Twitter users are going.
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
It's not only impossible to link, via Twitter, to the actual banned journalists on M*st*d*n. You can't post links on Twitter to bot accounts impersonating those journalists on M*st*d*n. PEOPLE, LISTEN: IF YOU'RE A REPORTER, JOIN & GET YOUR HANDLE cc @oneunderscore__ @jeffjarvis
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
Trump comes back.
Trump at next rally: “Elon Musk, he called me. He said ‘Sir, sir, I need you to come back on Twitter. The company’s ratings have been terrible ever since you left.’ Elon Musk begged me like a dog. Sad! He begged me to come back.”
Musk bans Trump again.
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
i’m in a code review with elon musk. ive got the CSS for neopets.com on 3 monitors. my browser’s in dark mode so it looks cool. “this part?” he asks, pointing to code for the Giant Omelette. “caches tweets in the mainframe cyberhex,” i say. he nods. “as i suspected”
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
Pop songs don’t have key changes anymore.
tedium.co/2022/11/09/the-dea…
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
if you are not a software engineer and have not worked on consumer web scale distributed systems, consider that maybe you have no idea how they work
Henning von Vogelsang retweeted
12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet.
“Anyone know who owns this?”
“Unplug it. Someone will show up.”
Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”