Meliorist.
@mpt@mastodon.nz
Joined July 2007
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Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"To build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0,
we will need to be extremely hardcore."
Nothing beside remains. Round the office
on Market street, open-concept and bare,
The lone and empty desks stretch far away.
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
Everything that @elonmusk has done publicly so far to Twitter seems like exactly what I'd do if I wanted to ensure the entire platform ran straight into the ground, and fast. His actions and words make it really hard to see how this isn't actually his plan.
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
Free idea: Setup a site called "Unverified(.)me" which links to ideas for better things you can do with $8/$20 per month than Twitter. Include print papers & magazine subscriptions, artists, and other creators. Also have a section for charities which could do with the cash too.
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
Twitter's impending doom isn't looking good for me. too old to learn to use another social media network, too young to go back to Facebook
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
Conway's Law in full force at Google, with today's Gmail-on-the-web update.
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
So apparently the TSB banking app is failing, and users are being presented with an error message “Not enough good slaves” - which, to non-technical users, is unexpected.
I do feel that the move a few years ago to remove master/slave terminology from computing was the right one.
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
i can't believe jacinda ardern met with boris johnson and now his cabinet is resigning. is there anything she can't do.
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
Tell me you worked for Canonical without telling me you worked for Canonical
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
Alexander Nezorov with a hilarious and uncannily accurate prediction of how Russia's war in Ukraine would turn out. youtu.be/OutvYSl_TLc
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
NEW: I’m not sure people appreciate quite how bad the Covid situation is in Hong Kong, nor what might be around the corner.
First, an astonishing chart.
After keeping Covid at bay for two years, Omicron has hit HK and New Zealand, but the outcomes could not be more different.
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
For the second pandemic anniversary, I wrote a plausible what-if.
What if the world reacted quickly to the available information, like Taiwan or South Korea did?
Lancet calculates ~18 million lives lost to Covid. Many, maybe all, could have been spared.
nytimes.com/2022/03/11/opini…
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
Latest 3-shot vaccine effectiveness data vs omicron, summarized
✓ ~50% against infections
✓ ~90% against hospitalizations
✓ ~95% against deaths
Anyone who thinks that vaccines aren't working against Omicron might want to review the data
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-s…
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
completely free product idea, you're welcome @twitter
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
2 years ago this tweet helped transition what could initially be a more localized problem that could be solved in months into something that is *still* lingering on.
Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China🇨🇳.
Matthew Paul Thomas :: @mpt@mastodon.nz retweeted
An NFT is like being the Foursquare Mayor of a JPEG
