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Like many people, I am departing Twitter for Mastodon; I am leaving the account up but won’t be posting here further. You can find me at mastodon.mit.edu/@ivanski.
~70% of US GDP is from blue counties but you want to turn this into a payments app after enabling right-wing shitposters and platforming Nazis.
This is gonna go just great.
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
Can’t believe that @PeterHotez fans are gathered outside Joe Rogan’s house shouting that they won’t leave until he submits a paper to a peer-reviewed journal.
Well, Georgia's “It's Euphoric” is getting some well deserved exposure #WWDC23
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
You do realize that “we are sorry you’re frustrated” is not an actual apology, right? Could you at least do “we are sorry our flight is delayed?”
Cc @SorryWatch
We're sorry to hear about your frustration. Flight 70 is now scheduled to depart at 10:30 pm. For rebooking options, send us a DM with the full name of each customer, six-letter confirmation code, and email. xitter.cf/messages/compose?recip…
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
I just learned that the first formula for calculating the n-th decimal digit of pi (without calculating all the preceding digits) has been found by Simon Plouffe in 2022 😲
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
Within a month of leaving prison, I was accepted into @UCBerkeley and received my bachelors with a 4.0. My felony record prevented me from finding work, even at my alma mater. A thread.
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
Our Administration has worked hard to lower the deficit by $1.7 trillion.
The first bill House Republicans brought to the floor would help wealthy people and corporations cheat on their taxes – increasing the deficit.
Their very first bill.
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
We’re aware that Twitterrific is having problems communicating with Twitter. We don’t yet know what the root cause is, but we’re trying to find out. Please stay tuned and apologies.
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
If you’re wondering how “For You” is going, today I was treated to some anti-vax content.
ALT A tweet from “Catturd” that says “It’s. The. Jab. Stupid.”
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
He toiled for two straight days, forcing himself to stay awake by telling himself: “In one hour I can make 30 blank documents. If I sleep for an hour 30 people will die.” nytimes.com/2023/01/09/world…
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
In 1959, 9yo Ronald McNair was told he couldn't check out his books from Lake City's segregated library. He went on to become Karate champion, earned an MIT PhD in physics, and became a NASA astronaut.
Today that library is named after him.
[read more: buff.ly/2A1lEA2]
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
not sure if you all caught the sunset last night but it was next level, these storms are bringing back so much of what makes NorCal amazing
ALT incredible sunset with the sun dropping behind buildings in San Francisco and the Bay Bridge silhouetted against a sky beneath a silver-lined cloud
Iván Cavero Belaunde (@ivanski@mastodon.mit.edu) retweeted
In 2025, San Francisco will likely no longer be represented by Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein. End of an era – at San Francisco, CA
Does Heidi Moore of the Guardian understand that a $1T platinum coin does not actually have to have $1T of platinum in it? 🤦🏽♂️ #MintTheCoin theguardian.com/business/201…
PSA for those of you who send @AmazonKindle books as gifts. Amazon has in the last year grossly broken the interface for dealing with unclaimed gifts and made it vastly harder to find books you've paid for but your recipients haven't redeemed. 1/n 🧵
All of these Dark Pattern design changes amount to making it much more likely that gifts you paid for remain unredeemed (eg email gets missed, or lands in spam, or there's a typo in the address) without you easily being able to notice and nudge the recipient. 6/n