kevin // epic poetry for machines and humans // programming team lead @AvalancheSweden NYC // @FourHorsemenVN // all words only my own // he/him
Brooklyn, NY
Joined June 2010
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Instead of tweeting these over and over, I am going to pin them.
1. Don’t treat real people like fictional characters nor characters like real people.
2. Never trust someone to explain their enemies.
3. I will try to respect your pain. I will never respect your resentment.
Wish I could say it's been real, but nothing about this site ever was.
Take it away, Elton John. Peace.
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The apocalypse wasn't as bad as you expected—blankets remained soft, and there were plenty of them; fire remained warm, and there was plenty of it; and more than anything, hiding from the vast monsters reminded you of childhood
I feel genuinely bad for Jack Dorsey. It’s hard to imagine now, but you know, Twitter used to be the most innocent, whimsical, frivolous web toy conceivable, run by young engineers with big, improbable dreams.
Sometimes success is worse than failure.
I’m friends with some guys who helped build early 4chan, who all bailed when the site went full Nazi. When the Charlottesville thing happened, one of them was inconsolable.
“We never wanted any of this, man,” he said, choking back tears. “We just wanted to see some anime tiddy.”
The first Twitterers never asked to be international arbiters of truth, bearing responsibility for the fate of nations. They were just building a cute little website where people could tell everyone what they had for lunch.
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If this bird app goes down because all the workers keeping it alive quit over crappy working conditions, just know this: 🫡
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If there was one sound-activated image to have worked, this is the one I hoped for. A super-telephoto view of the business end of NASA‘s Space Launch System rocket lifting off from LC-39B this morning sending Orion to the Moon & beginning the historic #Artemis I mission🚀🌕
I've noticed a slow drop in both quantity and convincingness of clueless replies to US journalists' Twitter threads since March, and a rapid drop since late September.
It's almost like a big chunk of the paid sockpuppet labor pool just...vanished. 🤔
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I had my suspicions, but didn't expect they'd be confirmed by a single Google search.
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It's one thing to see the usual Silicon Valley techbro simps (like the ones on Reddit), it's another when every viral thread about him is hounded by a horde of Johnny Bunchofnumbers with randomly generated profiles who are clearly not paid enough to even read a Wikipedia page
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One of the things in visual representations of the past, especially a 'fantastic' past (e.g. fantasy medieval Europe) is the tendency to skip over the period when mail was the dominant heavy armor, from roughly the second century BC to the 13th century AD.
So let's talk mail. 1/
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Tech layoffs affect immigrants the most!
5–15% of the 100k+ layoffs are H-1B holders.
In 60 days (30-45 in practice), they must find a new job or be deported from the US.
Families who've been here 10+yrs are told "We don't need you anymore. Leave."
10+ tips to stay–
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For decades, social scientists questioned the ideological argument that there are "good" civic inclusive pluralistic and "bad" ethnic exclusive monistic nationalisms. It's been ironic to see how this binary got a second breath in relation to Ukraine
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My article is an essay about some of the uglier aspects of Ukrainian national identity: the Cossacks, Bandera, Azov, and how they coexist uneasily with the pluralistic liberal face Zelensky has put on the country during its war of resistance. strangersguide.com/articles/…
