31–40 of 44 posts
I hadn’t noticed. I am slightly proud of that.
I hadn’t noticed. I am slightly proud of that.
It is an end (albeit temporary) to lack of social contact (because they are too busy to meet in person or talk to me face to face), but with an ironic boom, I only hear how miserable they are because the social media is down.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/characters/nm0696512
> Since then, the site’s importance to global politics and culture has grown, and a long-lasting outage could even have had a material effect on the Conservative party’s leadership election, where runners and riders have been trading barbs since Boris Johnson announced his resignation last week.
This is downright dystopic and people don't get it. A countrys exceptional situation where a they get a new leader which is not being democratically decided by the people, but a minority of Tories that have the time to read "barbs" on Twitter. It is insane to think that the availability of a tech platform like Twitter has a material consequence on how the Tories elect their new leader. But if it is true that it has consequence on the result, a minority that have the time to write and read Twitter instead of working for the people(like the politicians are supposed to) are deciding the result of their leadership.
Unrelated but I'm surprised Twitter hasn't booted Elon Musk until he pays up
Hypothetically, what do we think the effect would be if twitter went down and never came back?
The level of vitriol, hate, and performative outrage has reached up to the gods on Twitter. The valuable signal that comes out has long been overwhelmed by the noise.
There are other platforms that largely fulfill the same purpose.
Unrelated but I'm surprised Twitter hasn't booted Elon Musk until he pays up
Twitter execs are smart - let him continue using twitter and keep digging his own ego driven grave. After all that's all he has done all these years on that platform.
Hypothetically, what do we think the effect would be if twitter went down and never came back?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter execs are smart - let him continue using twitter and keep digging his own ego driven grave. After all that's all he has done all these years on that platform.
Except he's mocking them and posting poop emojis at them. I guess he thinks the Twitter board and executive team consists primary of doormats
IIRC, they used exactly that behavior as evidence in their lawsuit.
From the article: > Since then, the site’s importance to global politics and culture has grown, and a long-lasting outage could even have had a material effect on the Conservative party’s leadership election, where runners and riders have been trading barbs since Boris Johnson announced his resignation last week. This is downright dystopic and people don't get it. A countrys exceptional situation where a they get a n…
That's not dystopian, it's just how that system of government works. Literally no system will satisfy everyone, and direct democracy has its own well-known flaws.
For what it's worth, a lot of US liberals are currently fetishising parliamentary systems like the UK's.