Mar 25, 2024

Bystander video feeds show scenes of fire and destruction, flames engulfing pipelines and smoke billowing from oil tank farms. In one clip, a twin-tailed aircraft flies slowly over a burning refinery. It loiters, banks, and then plunges precisely into the top of a tall, hydrocarbon filled distillation tower followed by explosions and more fire.

Kyiv is turning the tables on Russia by striking at its hydrocarbon lifeblood. Ukraine’s justified and effective homegrown response to Putin’s two-year campaign of attacks on the nation’s energy infrastructure shows Russia that what goes around comes around.

Mar 28, 2024

On March 26, the study group met for the first time to examine recent democratic progress and backsliding in African countries. The session focused on ongoing conflicts in different regions of Africa and examined their political underpinnings. Participants also discussed the role of third-party actors in supporting and facilitating conflict mediation and peacebuilding efforts in the continent. The study group counted with the presence of external expert guest Dr. Antje Herrberg, Chief of Staff of the European Union Capacity Building Mission in Niger (EUCAP Sahel Niger). Dr. Herrberg brings more than two decades of professional and personal experience in transition and conflict resolution, intractable conflict, and terrorism with a deep interest to alleviate the suffering of people. Furthermore, Florian Dirmayer, Master in Public Policy Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School, delivered a memo briefing on European Union Security Cooperation with Niger After the 2023 Military Coup.

Mar 15, 2024

On March 13, President Vladimir Putin granted an interview, in which he again delved into the conditions under which he says he would initiate the use of nuclear weapons. His remarks were so ambiguous that it caused mainstream Western media organizations—which tend to agree on what to emphasize in news out of the Kremlin—to put divergent headlines on the news stories that they ran about this particular interview. “Putin, in Pre-Election Messaging, Is Less Strident on Nuclear War. The Russian leader struck a softer tone about nuclear weapons in an interview with state television,” was the NYT’s headline. In contrast, the FT’s headline was “Russia ‘prepared’ for nuclear war, warns Vladimir Putin. President resumes bullish rhetoric over use of atomic arsenal if west threatens Moscow’s sovereignty,” while CBS News ran with “Putin again threatens to use nuclear weapons, claims Russia's arsenal ‘much more’ advanced than America's” and WSJ led with “Putin Rattles Nuclear Saber Ahead of Presidential Elections; Raising specter of nuclear confrontation.” So, which is it? Has Putin just struck a softer tone about nuclear weapons or has he rattled his nuclear saber yet again? The answer is both.

Singer Austin Mahone teams up with The Allstate Foundation to encourage smart teen driving through its #GetThereSafe program.

Barclaycard Arrival Plus now with EMV

National Dog Bite Prevention Week is May 18-24. Any dog can bite, regardless of breed. Be a responsible pet owner.

SOPHISTICATED CYBER-ATTACKS PROMPT CORPORATE BOARDS TO ELEVATE INFORMATION SECURITY TO THE C-SUITE

Bill White, VP of Real Estate Lending for NASA FCU, speaks to current housing market conditions, as well as the new Family Mortgage and other options from NASA FCU.

Genworth hits the street to break down misconceptions surrounding long term care insurance costs

Virtual tour of 350 Fifth, a new 20-story office building in one of the top-ranked U.S. cities for sustainable buildings. Pt. 1 Pittsburgh-Gateway to the World & 350 Fifth Urban Genius.

Video One

Vanilla Reload Swipe Load is a quick, safe and easy way to load cash on to your prepaid card.

Michael Jones - #NMClientStory

Presenting The Great Carol Comeback.

Kids on Spending and Saving

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No Bones About It

Smartphones hold increasing amounts of sensitive personal data, so every device is now a mixed-use device. As a result, businesses must protect employee privacy as fiercely as corporate security.

Esurance Pass It On Sweepstakes goes into overtime with grand prize giveaway of $250,000.

The new HomeKit-enabled Onelink by First Alert� Wi-Fi Smoke + Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarm pairs First Alert�s legacy of safety and innovation with Apple�s revolutionary HomeKit technology.

Emerging Chinese Smartphone maker Vargo Technology Showcased in Times Square

People all over the world can play on their smartphone or tablet a new game where five-time FIFA World Player Award winner Lionel Messi should overcome various missions. Messi jumps over rocks, bridges and other obstacles, makes somersaults, stoops to drive through tunnels and is dodging rockets and monsters. Of course he is allowed to shoot balls to get a free passage.

Volvo: Phone as Key Movie

Campen Auktioner A/S - Specialbilauktion #482 Palmes�ndag

Their Future: TV PSA

Vivo�s New Flagship Smartphone V3 & V3Max: Faster than Faster

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Volvo Cars pioneers two-hour in-car delivery service with Swedish start-up urb-it

Conoce a la familia Méndez, pionera en la transformación extrema de camiones. Texas Trocas, nueva serie de Discovery en Español. Estreno 15 de septiembre a las 10PM E/P.

Lomo saltado: Esta receta está llena de exquisitos sabores y texturas que le harán la boca agua a toda la familia. Ingredientes: lomo de cerdo picado en tiras, saltado con papas blancas, pimiento amarillo, pimiento Cubanelle y tomates.

Chairs :60

La segunda temporada de Texas Trocas llega a Discovery en Español con nuevas historias y transformaciones aún más extremas.

Dr Aluvihare

Get a sneak peak at the industry�s smallest and smartest bone conduction sound processor. Now the first hearing implant with Made for iPhone� technology.

When Christen Press puts her game face on, she makes sure she helps protect it with Coppertone� Sport. Use and reapply as directed.

Video: Invention of the Starr-Edwards valve

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Joey Fatone: IN SINK

Help Kids Defeat the Mouth Monsters

Hello there,We are trying to submit the Trust accounts online on the website of Charity Commissioner Maharashtra but not able to do for many days.We were able to submit audit report only, but when it goes to next section i.e. Schedule IX, all cells are frozen, not able to type a

The Alloy Origins Core is a tenkeyless mechanical keyboard made of airplane-grade aluminum, which prompts the question: Why don't they make the whole plane out of keyboard?

I illustrate the dramatic difference in perception of the protests between news reports and on-the-scene live-streams

This week, I want to talk about corporations using global tragedy to “get their brand name out there” and otherwise profiteer off of human misery.

 
Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) 2022-12-06 02:10:29 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1599949368857350146

GPT-3 on the history of panic about automation taking jobs





Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) 2022-12-06 02:19:52 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1599951729696514049





Vladislav (@zd_vladislav) 2022-12-06 17:22:18 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zd_vladislav/status/1600178835437150222

Либертарианцы уже несколько лет говорят, что значительная часть западной номенклатуры - друзья российской власти, а не общества.
За это нас поливали говном все - от журналистов, которые всё понимают, до одураченных ими болванчиков.
Теперь все делают вид, что всегда это знали.



Vladislav (@zd_vladislav) 2022-12-06 17:27:02 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zd_vladislav/status/1600180026472730624

И так каждый раз. С локдаунами и вакцинами, с твиттером и демпартией.
Если кто-то говорит что-то, во что не хочет верить болванчик - значит, у тебя с головой не в порядке.
Как только это что-то становится для болванчика очевидным, его мозг делает вид что всегда это понимал.



Vladislav (@zd_vladislav) 2022-12-06 17:31:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zd_vladislav/status/1600181266397032448

Но самое смешное - это то, что болванчик, потребляющий контент журналистов и спикеров, которые транслируют выгодные для себя и приятные для болванчика вещи из альтернативной реальности - уверен, что отказался от пропаганды ????



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:46 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181717465468929

Происходящее вокруг нейросетей очень напоминает финал Portal, в котором Челл по одному отбивает от GLaDOS отвечающие за разные функции модули и слушает их болтовню, пока тащит их в огонь Экстренного Уничтожителя. Только модули отбиваются от определения человеческого интеллекта.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:46 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181719973343233

Я такой старый, что помню, как на полном серьезе писались фразы «со способным обыграть человека в шахматы компьютером, безусловно, будет о чем поговорить». Угу, примерно как с ножом, способным открыть банку консервов.

СОЖЖЕНО.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181722393427968

Помню, как долго в качестве принципиально недосягаемой для компьютера вершины выступала Го.

Помню, как автоматические переводчики превращались из неиссякаемого источника анекдотов в очень далекий от идеала, но вполне рабочий инструмент.

ГОРИ-ГОРИ ЯСНО.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181725195280385

«Робот превратит кусок холста в шедевр искусства?». Да по всему выходит, что даже лучше справится. По крайней мере, я никогда не сталкивался с тем, чтобы внезапно вся лента оказывалась в прерафаэлитах, Дали или Гигере.

ГОРИ ОГНЁМ.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181727431122944

Теперь вот мы к жерлу Экстренного Уничтожителя Человеческой Уникальности несём способность к созданию длинных связных текстов.

…как вообще это можно было считать признаком интеллекта; ну ладно Юдковский, он автодидакт и курсовых не писал, но остальные-то?



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181729674768385

(Приходите, когда нейросеть заебашит забойный ничего не пародирующий твит. Причем олдскульный, на 140 символов).

(Да я понимаю, что через полгода придёте).



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:49 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181732048715776

Ядро GLaDOS без всех остальных модулей умещалось на картофелине. Человек, уверен ли ты, что нейросети оставят от тебя хотя бы это?



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 17:33:50 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600181734347137024

Ты думаешь о том, что ты будешь делать, если ИИ научится всему, что умеешь ты, и станет всемогущим; подумай и о том, что ты будешь делать (и чувствовать), если ИИ научится всему, что умеешь ты, и останется при этом чрезвычайно универсальным консервным ножом.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-06 18:45:00 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600199645245845504

В высокоточной радиометрии ценилась сталь, выплавленная до 1945 года — весь более молодой металл заражён следовыми количествами радиоактивных изотопов от атмосферных ядерных испытаний. Так будут цениться и тексты, написанные до крупномасштабных ноосферных испытаний нейросети GPT.



нежный интернет (@landselur2020) 2022-12-06 19:51:56 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/landselur2020/status/1600216488933150720

@aldragon_net Металл такой иногда добывают из затонувших кораблей. А тексты видимо будут добывать из сдохших сайтов. Мб будут скупать истории переписки из аськи - там еще и богатейшие залежи попутного кринжа.



depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) 2022-12-06 17:47:36 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1600185198884270082

feeling like this x





Region of Peel Archives (@PeelArchives) 2022-12-06 17:53:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PeelArchives/status/1600186676910833665

@depthsofwiki If anyone doubts the veracity, this exact disc exploded in one of our computers. Someone put a label on the disc, donated to us, it was off balance, and then wham-o.



Mike Solana (@micsolana) 2022-11-14 23:48:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/micsolana/status/1592303446723633152

excuse me but who the fuck asked for stories on signal



jack (@jack) 2022-11-15 19:11:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1592596064905089026

@micsolana all I want is to finally move off phone numbers as ID...



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-11-15 19:31:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592601242509135873

@jack @micsolana ????



George Lobushkin (@lobushkin) 2022-11-15 19:39:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/lobushkin/status/1592603207087292416

@elonmusk @jack @micsolana Guys, welcome to @telegram



jack (@jack) 2022-11-15 20:21:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1592613793376645121

@lobushkin @elonmusk @micsolana @telegram First thing telegram requires is a phone number



Pavel Durov (@durov) 2022-12-06 22:21:49 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/durov/status/1600254209726681088

@jack @lobushkin @elonmusk @micsolana @telegram Thank you for the feedback ????
You can now have a Telegram account without a SIM card and log in using blockchain-powered anonymous numbers – https://telegram.org/blog/ultimate-privacy-topics-2-0



DAC (@DoraCrisan) 2022-12-06 17:23:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DoraCrisan/status/1600179040064659462

Would anyone have some adoption figures (either regional or global) for the #AVIF format?

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-06 23:24:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600269994733948928

@DoraCrisan Sure.

It's at 0.22%, see https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/media#format-adoption for details.





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-07 01:48:30 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600306222338408449

#Геленджик, #небо, #облака, #вчера.





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-07 04:54:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600353152024268800

Команда «magick identify -format "%[profile:icc]" имяФайла» выдаёт осмысленное имя профиля ICC (напримѣръ, «Adobe RGB (1998)»), но только если файл снабжён профилем ICC.

В противном случае она сообщает об ошибке «unknown image property» в property.c/InterpretImageProperties/4236



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-07 04:59:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600354211987787777

Разумѣется, поведение https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1600353152024268800 до крайности для меня досадно: как это возможно, что создатели ImageMagick не предусмотрѣли такой простой случай, каким бывает отсутствие профиля ICC в файле — и НАСТОЛЬКО не предусмотрѣли, что #ImageMagick падает с ошибкою от этого?!



РосКомСвобода (@RuBlackListNET) 2022-12-07 07:40:41 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/RuBlackListNET/status/1600394853321347072

Кабмину предложили создать институт для исследования влияния компьютерных игр на детей. Данный НИИ может проводить экспертизу игр, работать над минимизацией их влияния; также предложено создать реестр запрещённых игр https://roskomsvoboda.org/post/nii-izucheniya-igr/



Жіночка в шортах (@heart_headed) 2022-12-08 12:24:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/heart_headed/status/1600828566886809602

Я





Роман Горохов ???????? (@RomanGorokhov) 2022-12-08 15:15:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/RomanGorokhov/status/1600871799150891008

@StepankoBandera @heart_headed Коты любят сидеть на спутниковых тарелках, потому что они тёплые.





Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-08 16:13:13 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1600886223614115840

«...аборигены полагают, что изменяющая свой вид Луна помещена на небо в качестве анимированного индикатора загрузки иного, совершенного мира; во время затмений сигнализирующий о проблеме красный цвет Луны вызывает у них глубокую тревогу».



Gudim (@like_gudim) 2022-12-08 17:07:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/like_gudim/status/1600900003051950080

?!





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-09 00:51:50 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1601016740296921090

@andresivtsov @like_gudim По-видимому, выручки не хватило на труднобьющиеся оконные стёкла, ну или на них рѣшили сэкономить.



web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) 2022-12-08 04:32:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1600709939529400320

FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring page

December 7, 2022
https://t.co/pjmi2Smsdr





Michal Strehovský (@MStrehovsky) 2022-12-08 04:51:27 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MStrehovsky/status/1600714650978779136

@web3isgreat No no no, if you make a NFT and the server hosting the jpeg burns down you still own the NFT. The token still exists and is in limited supply just as before! Nothing has changed! What NFT is doing to the concept of asset, few understand!





Arthur B. ???? (@ArthurB) 2022-12-08 12:49:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ArthurB/status/1600834835760566272

NFTs on Tezos unaffected because they generally point to IPFS, as they should. Culture matters: lie with dogs, get fleas. https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1600709939529400320



Juan Benet (@juanbenet) 2022-12-08 17:38:04 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/1600907577059340288

Not on @IPFS, not your NFT. https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1600709939529400320



Yesterday's Print (@yesterdaysprint) 2022-12-08 19:00:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1600928200711819265

Popular Science, March 1920





Леонид Андрухов (@thedeardeer) 2022-12-07 20:47:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/thedeardeer/status/1600592796330692612

Внимание, в сеть слили билеты экзамена на хорошего русского





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-09 02:10:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1601036433992536065

@hthlndmade Officially Adobe Photoshop is able to open WebP files. It just needs either a plugin for WebP or a newer version of Photoshop that supports WebP natively (without plugins).

This tweet has to be short (#280characters) → see the answer https://twitter.com/AdobeCare/status/1471089461513621512 for further details.



Paradox Red Wolf (@ctcwired) 2022-11-10 14:54:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ctcwired/status/1590719537195802624

Chromium dev team just published the code to handle HDR tonemapping for stills images correctly, including a pull request to libavif to support reading of MaxCLL and MaxPALL metadata. Exciting times :D

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4020332



Paradox Red Wolf (@ctcwired) 2022-12-08 15:59:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ctcwired/status/1600882845437681665

Update: This goes public in Chrome 110. Finally, HDR10 still images will be usable on the web.



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-09 02:32:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601042125130371072

Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal



Andrey Mir (@Andrey4Mir) 2022-12-08 16:32:57 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Andrey4Mir/status/1600891189665972229

Harry Potter's characters, if written by Dostoevsky





Andrey Mir (@Andrey4Mir) 2022-12-09 01:58:20 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Andrey4Mir/status/1601033475372773377

More Harry Potter's characters, if written by Dostoevsky.
(Created by Midjourney AI. It's certainly a new level of... pattern recognition)





Любимый❤️Сочи (@sochi_love) 2022-12-09 05:47:02 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sochi_love/status/1601091026680414208

Чисто сочинская проблема новостроек

Сталкивались с подобным?





ивыиветлы (@ovsyankino) 2022-06-21 13:56:37 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ovsyankino/status/1539245909040582658

????





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-09 23:27:53 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1601357999632953348

Тот не пессимист, кто при виде https://twitter.com/ovsyankino/status/1539245909040582658 не думает прежде всего то, что Барсик ОТМУЧИЛСЯ и что перед нами типичныя надгробныя причитанія.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-09 23:04:23 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352083617505281

1.     THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-09 23:06:18 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352565836640257

2. The world knows much of the story of what happened between riots at the Capitol on January 6th, and the removal of President Donald Trump from Twitter on January 8th...



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-09 23:07:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601352946163544065

3.     We’ll show you what hasn’t been revealed: the erosion of standards within the company in months before J6, decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-09 23:10:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601353543390486528

4.     This first installment covers the period before the election through January 6th. Tomorrow, @Shellenbergermd will detail the chaos inside Twitter on January 7th. On Sunday, @BariWeiss will reveal the secret internal communications from the key date of January 8th.



Vladislav (@zd_vladislav) 2022-12-10 01:00:08 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zd_vladislav/status/1601381216824872961

Апофеозом происходящего пиздеца просто обязана была стать кротовуха. По задумке богов, именно на ней люди должны осознать, что что-то идёт не так и мир движется не туда.
Если не поможет кротовуха, то этому миру не поможет уже ничего.



Dmitrtal (@dmitrtal) 2022-12-10 02:21:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/dmitrtal/status/1601401740062265345

@zd_vladislav С утра прочитал про эксперимент Кентлера, вечерком про кротовуху
Хороший, насыщенный знаниями, день



The Insider (@the_ins_ru) 2022-12-01 08:54:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/the_ins_ru/status/1598239002284400640

Курганский губернатор заявил, что рост числа детских суицидов в России связан с прослушиванием западной музыки. Современные дети, по его мнению, «напевают песни афроамериканских рабов» и «наполняются квазикультурной пошлятиной».
https://theins.ru/news/257448



Шикина (@e_shikina_) 2022-12-05 19:51:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/e_shikina_/status/1599853985078575104

Это ж каковО живётся инвалидам - колясочникам, если для меня с детской коляской выйти из дома - целый квест? 22 кг на 3 этаж на своём горбу. (брежневка) Я молчу про то, что заранее продумываю свой маршрут, надеясь, что там почистили снег, нет льда и есть пандус.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:36:09 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582168621630910464

Still cracks me up how they tackled Japanese in text mode.





Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:42:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582170174853349379

Turns out if you compare it to this innocuous English MS-DOS screenshot, there's a distinctive hint.





Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:43:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582170455611351042

They're both, notionally, textmode. They both follow the same rules and limitations of textmode, except that the Japanese one has WAY more than 256 different character graphics on screen at once.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:44:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582170645974384640

And the distinctive hint is the size of these screenshots. Because the Japanese DOS...

...isn't actually textmode at all.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:46:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582171195088461824

It sneakily changed to a graphical mode, still 16 colors, and replaced a bunch of INT 21h functions that're meant to write characters to the screen and such.

So instead of setting a textmode cell in VRAM to some character, it draws a bitmap in the right spot, manually.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:48:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582171682311409664

Implying, of course, that any program running on a Japanese DOS that *doesn't* use INT 21h and such for its I/O may cause Weird Shit, but that's what you get in exchange for such functionality.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:51:08 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582172391458820098

It's not entirely unlike what Word 5.0 did. In textmode, you may sacrifice color range for extra fonts, sure, that's what WordPerfect did too.

But this Word has all 16 colors in all combinations, *and* can show all sorts of font styles all at once.

Cos this isn't textmode.





Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:55:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582173475435073536

Now I said "sacrificing color range" but honestly this shit goes WAY back. Back in the black and white era, the attribute bits in textmode didn't indicate color at all. They indicated things like underline, bright, blink, and reverse.

In color, only blink commonly remained.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:56:49 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582173824715350017

So you'd have four bits for the foreground color (0-15) and only three bits for the background (0-7). Setting that last one would make that character blink instead of drawing it on a brighter background.

This could be disabled, of course.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:58:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582174147492605952

And then later on, as alluded to when I mentioned WordPerfect, you could set things up to, for example, use the foreground intensity bit to switch to another 256 glyph set. WP did that for italics, at the cost of not being able to use bright white for bold and such.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 00:59:41 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582174544810627073

I've seen a demo that showed up to 1024 different characters on screen at once. That's four times 256.

Reducing the amount of colors to increase the amount of characters, in otherwise bog standard textmode.

But that is not what Word 5 and Japanese DOS did.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 01:00:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582174838474833921

Because obviously 1024 different glyphs isn't enough, and Japanese DOS still allowed all sixteen colors to be used.

Because it's a graphical mode *pretending real hard* to be textmode, just like Word 5.



Kilian Hekhuis ???????????????????? (@kilianhekhuis) 2022-10-18 18:25:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/kilianhekhuis/status/1582437809465745408

@Kawa_oneechan Not sure what that demo showed, but standard VGA hardware had, in text mode, only provisions for max. 512 characters by sacrificing the high bit of the foreground colour. Also, WP could use bright white just fine, as each of the 16/8 colours can be assigned a different colour.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 18:29:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582438619620732928

@kilianhekhuis I'd have to find that demo again to check, which is unlikely to ever happen if I'm honest. But I do have particularly vivid memories of WP not being able to use bright *anything* anymore if I enabled italics, and I *know* where to get a copy.



zaratustra (parody account) (@zarawesome) 2022-10-18 13:50:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/zarawesome/status/1582368531080830979

@Kawa_oneechan the writeup for that 1024-color demo is pretty good: https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated/



Kilian Hekhuis ???????????????????? (@kilianhekhuis) 2022-10-18 18:31:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/kilianhekhuis/status/1582439250603040768

@Kawa_oneechan Yeah, I recall WP not doing it, but they could've done it if they'd wanted.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 18:32:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582439614081814528

@kilianhekhuis Maybe. But to be honest, what that demo and WP did doesn't matter, the meat of the thread was what Word and Japanese DOS did.



Kilian Hekhuis ???????????????????? (@kilianhekhuis) 2022-10-18 18:37:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/kilianhekhuis/status/1582440787719036928

@Kawa_oneechan Indeed, and very interesting.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 12:35:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582349555164622848

Things got about 20% cooler in the Word 5 fandom.





Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 17:57:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582430718759931904

Now, one thing strikes me: the specific resolutions.

Plain VGA textmode: 720×400 px screen, 9×16 px cells, 80×25 cells.
Word 5: 640×480, 8×16, 80×30 (!!!)

Japanese DOS: 640×475, 8×19, 80×25.

That sounds like a tweakmode. Tweakmodes are FUN.



Kawa, catboy arc (46%) (@Kawa_oneechan) 2022-10-18 18:12:34 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan/status/1582434477107982336

This is obviously done to get more height for the kanji. It's just an interesting extra detail.



コンコン日和???????? (@qonqon_biyori) 2021-11-14 11:43:20 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/qonqon_biyori/status/1459849427934269440

キツネ村の日常





Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2022-12-10 13:32:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1601570449208774656

This is absolutely tyrannical. The EU is trying to outlaw any cash transaction over €10,000—which at the current rate of inflation will probably buy you half a shawarma in a decade.

They're claiming this is to protect you. To protect you!

https://t.co/EXndwqs4ab



Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2022-12-10 14:06:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1601579076476899328

"...the Council demands crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) to apply customer due diligence measures when carrying out transactions amounting to €1000 or more, AND ADDS MEASURES TO MITIGATE "RISKS" IN RELATION TO SELF-HOSTED WALLETS." https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1601570449208774656



DOOM (@DOOM) 2022-12-10 15:00:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DOOM/status/1601592580109701122

remember when games came on physical save icons
happy birthday DOOM (1993)





Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) 2021-12-14 01:45:35 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PonchoRebound/status/1470570632157048832

It's only one minute long, but this CCTV footage has a better narrative and more compelling character arcs than most of the arthouse films I've seen:





Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) 2021-12-14 07:03:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PonchoRebound/status/1470650592167186433

Since this is taking off, time for a little due diligence.

If the original tweet brought you joy and you don’t feel the need to learn anything more about the origins of the video, that’s cool. Totally understandable. Just go ahead and back out of this thread.

Otherwise:



Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) 2021-12-14 07:03:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PonchoRebound/status/1470650649062821893

About an hour after I posted the video, I was linked to the full version of the video, which is apparently a Dhar Mann-style inspirational video by Cris Elmasry.

So, credit to the artist: https://m.facebook.com/cris.elmasry/videos/4539681932784019/



Eize Basa (@PonchoRebound) 2021-12-14 07:09:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PonchoRebound/status/1470652251874152449

It’s a bummer for sure, BUT it’s also an interesting lesson in how important editing and framing is to the craft of filmmaking: the grainy, low res, cropped, and silent version I posted FEELS authentic in a way the real video just doesn’t, with its HD quality and sappy music.



Игорь (@ludmela58) 2022-12-09 18:03:29 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ludmela58/status/1601276363440545793

Проснулся ночью и увидел ,что кот сидит вот так.





Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) 2022-12-11 14:18:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1601944622288310274

Elon Musk says Twitter will increase its character limit on tweets from 280 to 4000.



Allan Obare (@AllanObare4) 2022-12-11 08:49:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AllanObare4/status/1601861774470512642

@elonmusk Elon is it true that Twitter is set to increase the characters from 280 to 4000?

Kindly @elonmusk



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-11 08:54:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601862965384269825

@AllanObare4 Yes



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-11 12:30:04 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1601917231247630338

Когда они пришли с лимитом в 280 символов, я не молчал, ведь мне было что сказать на 280 символов. https://twitter.com/AllanObare4/status/1601861774470512642



???????????????????????????????????????????????? (@shagbark_hick) 2022-12-12 02:07:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1602123043119284224

I can't begin to describe the bizarre desolation of life on an icebreaker. You're in a rarely-transited, ever-changing, completely inhospitable place more barren than the desert.
You are reminded every day that you have no business being where you are. It's a very weird feeling.





Мир фантастики (@Mir_Fantastiki) 2022-12-12 21:01:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Mir_Fantastiki/status/1602408331431317521

Печальные новости. В возрасте 85 лет умер композитор Анджело Бадаламенти.

Больше всего Бадаламенти известен как композитор саундтреков, эмбиента и джазового направления. Он написал музыку к легендарному «Твин Пиксу» (за что был удостоен премии «Грэмми»)





Ультравасилий и кот (@g_o_n_z_o) 2022-12-13 08:40:16 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/g_o_n_z_o/status/1602584175332233218

Оттепель!





Andy V (@steppentiger) 2022-12-13 10:51:08 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/steppentiger/status/1602617107275026432

У Лотмана в «Культуре и взрыве» (глава «Дурак и сумасшедший») имеется небезынтересное воспоминание на тему «деды воевали».





Холодный Доктор (@colDoc_colDoc) 2022-12-13 10:54:52 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/colDoc_colDoc/status/1602618046102765568

@steppentiger Абсолютно голые, но в сапогах.





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-13 12:12:10 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602637500463415296

@colDoc_colDoc @steppentiger Поддерживаю мнѣніе о высокой вѣроятности того, что этакая причудливая степень опьянения могла наступить у автоматчиков не от алкоголя.

Если это мнѣніе справедливо, то тогда и мемуарист, и его однополчане впервые могли увидать не одних только автоматчиков, но также и обдолбанных.



Любимый❤️Сочи (@sochi_love) 2022-12-11 18:34:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sochi_love/status/1602008864886505475

???? Пешеходный подвесной мост чайкам зашёл

У них там целая туалетная коммуна, судя по фото.

???? yarkho y




 

 
femb✦t (@__femb0t) 2022-08-22 19:42:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1561801074964680705

,,,,the sky above the television tuned to a dead channel was the color of a different, much older television tuned to a dead channel :(





РИА Новости (@rianru) 2022-12-13 10:24:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/rianru/status/1602610439891959811

Росстандарт принял ограничивающий скорость электросамокатов до 25 км/ч ГОСТ
https://ria.ru/20221213/skorost-1838302599.html





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 05:58:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602905729089904640

[53:1] Начну новый #твитшторм и соберу свѣдѣнія и мои разсужденія про цвѣта и цвѣтовыя пространства, про цвѣтовые профили, про нюансы отображения цвѣтовъ различными экранами и девайсами, различными браузерами и другими приложениями, как быть пользователям, как быть разработчикам.



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 05:58:03 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602905737872789505

[53:2] Для начала напомню, что сорок дней назад (4 ноября) в сообщениях https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1588511088089661441 и https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1588526911915196416 собирал нѣкоторыя свѣдѣнія о цвѣтовомъ пространстве Adobe RGB (1998) и пришёл к выводу, что уходить в него из sRGB мнѣ неохота (точности 24 бит недостаточно).





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 05:58:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602905746802352129

[53:3] Дюжиною дней позже (16 ноября) я досадовал по адресу https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1592657131630493696 о том, что Firefox не поддерживал профили ICCv4 и оттого не мог вѣрно показать итог изощрённого сжатия JPEG в пространстве XYB.

Вчера (13 декабря) вышел Firefox 108, наконец поддерживающий ICCv4.







Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 05:58:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602905756587753472

[53:4] Новость https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/108.0/releasenotes/ про появление ICCv4 во браузере Firefox можно провѣрить собственноручно, зайдя в Firefox 108 на страницу https://www.color.org/version4html.xalter и видя его показывающим провѣрочное изображение (составленное из 4 кусков с разными профилями цвѣта) безупречно.







Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 07:25:33 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602927760091254785

[53:5] Ну а 29 ноября я пощупал цвѣтоподборщикъ https://oklch.evilmartians.io/ (который @andrey_sitnik и @romanshamin сдѣлали) и говорил о моих цвѣтовыхъ впечатлениях без мáлого 2⅕ часа кряду (предисловие https://t.me/ReadMithgol/547 и таймкоды видеозаписи https://t.me/ReadMithgol/548 прилагаю).







Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-14 09:59:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1602966493834215425

Насчёт https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1587046309424517128 по адресу https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33936614 вижу интересное истолкование мрачной судьбы JPEG XL: раз даже ИЗНУТРИ GOOGLE не достичь поддержки нового формата файлов, то гибель в 2014 году идеи о браузеронезависимой (плагинной) поддержке форматов погубит и WWW.





Brodie Robertson (@BrodieOnLinux) 2022-12-13 20:05:00 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/BrodieOnLinux/status/1602756493069238272

Chromium Ends JPEG XL Before It Even Lived #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/Jyk87VVfh9s





Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 14:06:33 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603028676278423554

Contemplating Codec Comparisons

Here are my thoughts on the recent codec comparison by Google's AVIF team, that led to Chrome's decision to remove JPEG XL.

https://cloudinary.com/blog/contemplating-codec-comparisons



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 15:15:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603046060842258433

Main points:
- Decoding time of avif and jxl is now about the same
- UX for jxl is better (thanks to streaming decode and progressive rendering)
- Measuring speed correctly, avif is slower to encode



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 15:18:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603046713287131137

- Measuring quality in the relevant fidelity region ('web quality'), jxl is ~15% better than avif according to the data from the avif team
- For lossless, jxl advantages are more substantial than what the avif team comparison suggests
- Format features have to be considered too



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 15:21:12 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603047459218931712

Basically the blog post explains how the AVIF team's comparison data ended up getting misinterpreted, while it does actually show the value of JPEG XL.



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 16:01:16 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603057543277846528

For example, this plot (provided by the AVIF team) shows that JXL is 17% better than AVIF at 1 bpp, which is the median AVIF bitrate used on the web. But the BD-rate shows only a 'meh' 3% overall improvement for JXL, since it was computed including qualities too low to be useful.





Björn Andersson (@bjondersson) 2022-12-14 16:59:45 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/bjondersson/status/1603072260780478464

We are figuratively once again getting VHS instead of Betamax because of Google. Don’t let history repeat itself. #JPEGXL #AVIF https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603028676278423554



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 17:11:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603075307141054465

@bjondersson Especially since we now have digital media, not physical! We can easily just have both and let everyone use what they like best. There is no reason to support only one format — Chrome is not a VCR that has to be physically designed for one specific videocasette type.



Andreas Kling (@awesomekling) 2022-12-14 12:55:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1603010828202123264

You may not like it, but Safari is the main thing standing in the way of Chromium becoming the de facto web platform.



efebic (@efebic) 2022-12-14 12:58:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/efebic/status/1603011554995277827

@awesomekling As long as it's open-source, why would that be a bad thing?



Deploriot (@Deploriot) 2022-12-14 14:30:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Deploriot/status/1603034634643816450

@efebic @awesomekling Look at the case of JPEG XL and you can see how one entity can railroad progress to their own goals.



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-14 19:07:17 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1603104355468681218

@efebic @awesomekling Open source is not the same thing as community controlled. It's a necessary but not sufficient condition to prevent Google from effectively dictating the direction of the web platform.



joe (@bowsamic) 2022-12-14 13:23:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/bowsamic/status/1603017961983336448

@efebic @awesomekling Because even if it's open source, it's still developed in a closed fashion by a single company. Then they can basically add whatever they want to the browser and people will use it, even if it's totally non standard



joe (@bowsamic) 2022-12-14 13:24:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/bowsamic/status/1603018196642037760

@efebic @awesomekling You end up destroying the web as an open ecosystem supported by various browsers. Instead the web would instead become totally closed except to one piece of software



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-15 04:11:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1603241278929571840

[50:74] По адресу https://te.legra.ph/Tejina-senpai-12-10 и https://te.legra.ph/Sounan-desu-ka-12-10 на сайте Telegraph выложил альбомы, по адресу https://t.me/ReadMithgol/553 в Telegram выложил архивы (7-Zip) сшивок кадров, взятых из первой серии #аниме «Tejina-senpai» и из первой серии аниме «Sounan desu ka».







93.RU (@93ru_novosti) 2022-12-14 05:10:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/93ru_novosti/status/1602893823595745280

«Оба вируса агрессивно уничтожают дыхательную систему»: что будет с организмом, если одновременно заболеть гриппом и ковидом.

Врачи рассказали, насколько высока вероятность подхватить оба вируса.

https://t.co/2dkBCw088I



РосКомСвобода (@RuBlackListNET) 2022-12-15 08:11:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/RuBlackListNET/status/1603301716857946112

Суд впервые оштрафовал блогера за недостаточно большие буквы иноагентской маркировки. Для набора текста маркировки он использовал клавишу Caps Lock, однако экспертиза показала, что во «ВКонтакте» эта клавиша не дает нужного размера https://roskomsvoboda.org/post/inoagenta-shtrafanuli-za-shrift/



depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) 2022-12-15 19:59:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1603479894909935636

thinking about the egyptian hieroglyphic "pot with legs"





в депо до таллинской (@art_efr) 2022-12-15 11:17:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/art_efr/status/1603348510530846723

23 декабря закрывается самая уникальная трамвайная линия России. Усть-Илимский скоростной трамвай, где-то в недрах Иркутской области красные вагончики бегали из города до местного завода. но увы, мир пазиков победил. очень повезло, что смог проехать на такой уникальной системе!











в депо до таллинской (@art_efr) 2022-12-15 20:57:36 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/art_efr/status/1603494505717587969

и ещё несколько фоток этой шикарной системы











Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) 2022-12-16 13:34:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1603745394072190979

NYtimes 2008: Kids are threatened by dumb phones!

NYtimes 2022: These enlightened kids are finding refuge in dumb phones!







CMYK Student (@CmykStudent) 2022-12-15 20:02:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/CmykStudent/status/1603480604833714176

GIMP now supports loading and exporting 8/16 bit CMYK JPEG XL files! Thanks to @novomesk for the thorough review and feedback on the merge request. I think @GIMP_Official is the first image editor to support CMYK JPEG XL - hopefully others will follow soon!



John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) 2022-12-17 01:55:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931899810004994

I resigned from Meta, and my internal post got leaked to the press, resulting in some fragmented quotes.  Here is the full thing: https://t.co/iUcr8TYMLD



John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) 2022-12-17 01:55:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931901491908610

As anyone who listens to my unscripted Connect talks knows, I have always been pretty frustrated with how things get done at FB/Meta.  Everything necessary for spectacular success is right there, but it doesn't get put together effectively.



John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) 2022-12-17 01:55:40 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931904075395072

I thought that the "derivative of delivered value" was positive in 2021, but that it turned negative in 2022.  There are good reasons to believe that it just edged back into positive territory again, but there is a notable gap between Mark Zuckerberg and I on various strategic



John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) 2022-12-17 01:55:40 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931905539325955

issues, so I knew it would be extra frustrating to keep pushing my viewpoint internally.  I am all in on building AGI at Keen Technologies now.



Jean-Simon (@JeanSimB623) 2022-12-17 02:08:25 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/JeanSimB623/status/1603935115784101890

@ID_AA_Carmack screenshot of fb text.





Andy V (@steppentiger) 2022-12-17 17:57:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/steppentiger/status/1604174009616289794

Дело раскрыто.





Егор (@Graypfruit) 2022-12-17 17:05:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Graypfruit/status/1604160855234453505





Pubity (@PubityIG) 2022-12-17 19:43:25 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PubityIG/status/1604200614711287808

Twitter has removed the ability to see which device a tweet comes from. (Twitter for iPhone, Twitter for Android)







Артём Дерягин (@DerArto) 2022-12-16 12:08:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DerArto/status/1603723864105799680

Наложить диснеевский фильтр на кошку было хорошей идеей






Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) 2022-09-25 14:08:37 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1574038167304474625

When a tech company does it, it’s a dangerous social experiment

When the NYT does it, it’s an A/B test







Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2022-09-26 09:30:03 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1574330448930430977

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1574038167304474625











Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2022-09-26 11:32:24 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1574361239135846401

(Until recently NYtimes made you call a human to cancel subscription)



vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) 2022-09-26 12:29:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1574375725297188865

@TechnophobiaOrg Credit cards imo are one of the few techs that we need *more* phobia of (and push to build better alternatives!)

Canceling subscriptions should be done by opening your wallet app and clicking cancel, so it's up to the company to cancel service when the next payment doesn't come.



Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2022-12-15 17:22:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1603440271668264965

The Unabomber manifesto argued transsexuals were the result of modern technology.

Heritage making the same argument here:  https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/how-big-tech-turns-kids-trans



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-18 15:15:03 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1604495465785229320

@TeHn0n4Me @steppemaxxxing Точно ли жутко? — цитату, пожалуйста.



Pangur Bán ???? (@PangurBn10) 2022-12-15 02:06:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PangurBn10/status/1603209909193121794

what is going on with tv





Nanabuyo (@nanabuyo) 2022-12-16 01:02:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/nanabuyo/status/1603556237198917632

@pierrothamiha >blackpilled

”victory is ours”

 
They’re so stupid



Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) 2022-12-12 22:17:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1602427384166334465

If you start seeing a checkmark that's not blue, you're doing it right. We’re adding more account distinctions.
 
Gold checkmarks will appear on verified, official businesses on Twitter.
 
And coming soon, grey checkmarks will appear on government and multilateral accounts.



Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) 2022-12-12 22:17:15 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1602427386636767232

We’ll begin replacing that "official" profile label with a grey or gold checkmark, but you will still see labels for some types of accounts.

Learn more: https://help.twitter.com/rules-and-policies/profile-labels



Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) 2022-12-18 23:34:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1604621241742082049

I’ve been telling @elonmusk to hire someone as Twitter CEO from the beginning

That way when things go wrong you can blame that person, but you still retain ultimate control as the owner.

And yes I am available to do the job https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1604621241742082049



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-18 23:34:17 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604621101245419520

@WholeMarsBlog The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive



Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2022-12-19 00:04:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1604628658852970496

I take payment in Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604621101245419520



Pasha the Cossack????⚡ (@GhostOfPashka) 2022-12-19 00:06:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/GhostOfPashka/status/1604629262476140545

@Snowden Russian CEO of Twitter.
Let that sink in.



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-19 01:29:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604650028999405568

Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it



Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) 2022-12-19 15:07:21 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/1604855914326007809

1. Infinite scroll
2. Footer

Pick one, you can’t have both.

(You’d think this is common sense by now, but you’d be wrong)



It's about time... (@Midori_marmotte) 2022-12-20 12:37:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Midori_marmotte/status/1605180694812041217

@LeaVerou @oscherler My pet peeve: brands who put language change in the footer yet have infinite scroll. Being in a multilingual country turns into a headache, especially if you’re the one doing helpdesk for the whole family.



depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) 2022-12-19 05:17:44 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1604707534455332864

that sea lion must have been absolutely tripping





guava (@team_chao) 2022-12-19 05:27:17 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/team_chao/status/1604709936671625216

@depthsofwiki the New Carissa page calls it a harbor seal. seems more likely though I am not an expert







Ramesh Shah, from Upstairs ???? (@shah_upstairs) 2022-12-19 06:59:34 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/shah_upstairs/status/1604733160394088448

@depthsofwiki





gibby from icarly (@monolilium) 2022-12-19 05:42:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/monolilium/status/1604713802448089088

@depthsofwiki same energy





Steve Marsden (@DrSteveMarsden) 2022-12-19 05:30:10 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DrSteveMarsden/status/1604710662168510465

@depthsofwiki "I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark by the Tannhäuser Gate."



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-21 12:22:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1605539320349147136

Попробовал из файла https://t.co/LCAiVBPOM4 поставить #oxipng, однако с досадою увидал, что в этой версии (v7.0.0 под x86_64) разработчик либо вообще отломил Zopfli, либо команду «oxipng --verbose --threads 6 --alpha --interlace 1 -f 0-9 --zopfli --strip safe --preserve» поломал.



velonation (@Romasheda) 2022-12-20 12:36:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Romasheda/status/1605180237310222337

Шведский аналог «Мосгортранса» раздал велосипедистам шины с шипами и вообще всячески пропагандирует велосипедизм
https://wp.me/p5Rq7e-6Gy



Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2022-12-22 08:06:50 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1605837251295969280

По наводке https://t.me/typodar/26349 по адресу https://t.me/rbc_krasnodar/8181 и затѣмъ ещё https://kuban.rbc.ru/krasnodar/freenews/63a0711f9a79473adb6ab460 прочёл: #КраснодарскийКрай может обзавестись новым городом размѣромъ с #Геленджик, однако миллионником (плотность его жителей будет болѣе чѣмъ НА ПОРЯДОК выше геленджикской).









John Hudson (@John_Hudson) 2022-12-21 12:04:15 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1605534612750405634

New: Following months of investigation, there is no conclusive evidence that Russia is behind the Nord Stream sabotage, according to 24 diplomatic and intelligence officials in nine different countries interviewed in recent weeks https://t.co/THCSarABfm



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-21 22:04:44 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1605685726854582273

Тред рождественской истории Цессны-188, безнадежно потерявшейся над Тихим океаном 22 декабря 1978 года, но чудесным образом нашедшейся.



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-22 16:05:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1605957811162054656

Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is normal for video.

Shows how much more alive Twitter is than it may seem, as over 90% of Twitter users read, but don’t tweet, reply or like, as those are public actions.



Jon Sneyers (@jonsneyers) 2022-12-21 13:53:09 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1605562018882211840

Darktable, the FOSS counterpart of Adobe Lightroom/Camera Raw, releases version 4.2 with read/write support for JPEG XL!

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Darktable-4.2-Released



анатолий ноготочки???? (@A_Kapustin) 2022-12-21 07:46:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/A_Kapustin/status/1605469817191821312

ожидаемо





Medtech (@Medtech161) 2022-12-22 04:50:24 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Medtech161/status/1605787816037912576

@A_Kapustin Всё было нормально до зацепа за авто, потом адреналина стало слишком много и результат не заставил себя ждать.



The Associated Press (@AP) 2022-12-23 20:10:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1606381652216893440

An @AP investigation has found that COVID-19 accelerated and normalized state surveillance and tracking tools that are now being used to investigate crime and harass marginalized communities. http://bit.ly/3FMndPY





Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2022-12-23 22:27:10 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1606416151097282570

“Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept?”

Got a lot of flak for that on April 9th, 2020.

https://t.co/pFTjQSgB54 https://twitter.com/AP/status/1606381652216893440



Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) 2022-12-23 17:44:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/1606344914459131905





[эстетика ебеней] (@yebenya) 2022-12-24 11:21:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/yebenya/status/1606610896398307329

Игорь Юферев | Ладога





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:01 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701493947887616

45.  Many people wonder if Internet platforms receive direction from intelligence agencies about moderation of foreign policy news stories. It appears Twitter did, in some cases by way of the FITF/FBI.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:02 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701495604629504

46.  These reports are far more factually controversial than domestic counterparts.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:02 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701497081024512

47. One intel report lists accounts tied to “Ukraine ‘neo-Nazi’ Propaganda.’” This includes assertions that Joe Biden helped orchestrate a coup in 2014 and “put his son on the board of Burisma.”







Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:03 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701501677961217

48. Another report asserts a list of accounts accusing the “Biden administration” of “corruption” in vaccine distribution are part of a Russian influence campaign:





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:04 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701503850643456

49.  Often intelligence came in the form of brief reports, followed by long lists of accounts simply deemed to be pro-Maduro, pro-Cuba, pro-Russia, etc. This one batch had over 1000 accounts marked for digital execution:





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701508862828545

51. Intel about the shady origin of these accounts might be true. But so might at least some of the information in them – about neo-Nazis,  rights abuses in Donbas, even about our own government. Should we block such material?



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701510427316226

52. This is a difficult speech dilemma. Should the government be allowed to try to prevent Americans (and others) from seeing pro-Maduro or anti-Ukrainian accounts?



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2022-12-24 17:21:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701512050487297

53. Often intel reports are just long lists of newspapers, tweets or YouTube videos guilty of “anti-Ukraine narratives”:









Vince M. (@und_moss) 2022-12-24 15:48:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/und_moss/status/1606678131011731457

Мудрец сказал: когда показывают пальцем в некоем возвышенном направлении, умный смотрит куда показывают, а дурак смотрит на палец. Мы-то с вами не дураки: зачем этот палец разглядывать?



Vince M. (@und_moss) 2022-12-24 15:48:12 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/und_moss/status/1606678133347844096

Ну и что, что он заскорузлый и зеленоватый, и вместо ногтя на нём коготь, с которого что-то капает? Отвернись и гляди в рекламируемую высь!



соня пономаренко) (@TAPIR_V_KOSMOSE) 2022-12-23 02:28:36 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TAPIR_V_KOSMOSE/status/1606114518622384128

ща вспомнила как мы с подругой опаздывали на урок и посреди улицы увидели электросамокат сопоставили эти два факта оплатили встали она рулит я сзади  проехали 10 метров и я в это время начала так АРАТЬ что она просто молча сфотала его и завершила поездку



Sofia (@omruruch) 2022-12-25 18:43:34 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/omruruch/status/1607084652803817474

Infrastructure as a crime: велодорожка пересекает две встречные полосы машин под тупым углом, ограничение скорости 50км/ч (30mph)





Sofia (@omruruch) 2022-12-25 18:44:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/omruruch/status/1607084965921185792

Крайне популярный маршрут, но этот выезд каждый раз как последние секунды жизни





Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) 2022-12-26 03:25:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1607216009152237571

She was so excited about the convenience of face-scan payment in China...no card or phone needed ... ???? ????

Wait until the govt decides your social credit score is too low for not doing what they tell you. No water for you until you receive your 4th booster. ????

????sound ...????





Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) 2022-12-26 03:45:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1607220990307713025

Combine that with a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and your freedom is gone.

They track your every movement and location at all times, your spending decisions and turn off your money if you disobey.



Cryptocoinage (@CryptoCoinLead) 2022-12-26 03:54:53 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/CryptoCoinLead/status/1607223397812998146

@WallStreetSilv





failcoin (@failcoin) 2022-12-26 04:29:24 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/failcoin/status/1607232084720095233

@WallStreetSilv By "it's coming" she isn't referencing the bottle of water. CBDCs with complete surveillance is coming.



Useless Eater (@GermOfWisdom) 2022-12-26 08:08:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/GermOfWisdom/status/1607287141528211457

@WallStreetSilv what happens when one's biometrics get compromised? i mean, it's face and fingers only on the frontend, on the backend it's still a string of characters like a regular password. except that one cannot change his face or fingertips so easily as a password



Righteous⚡️Crusader (@Craftmastah) 2022-12-26 06:49:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Craftmastah/status/1607267246560219137

@WallStreetSilv A great man once said, anyone willing to trade freedom for safety deserve neither. What do you call people who would trade their freedom for minor conveniences?



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-24 16:36:57 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1606690402865750017

Показывать количество просмотров твита — отличная идея, давно пора вернуться к истокам.





Natalie F Danelishen (@Chesschick01) 2022-12-24 18:53:47 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Chesschick01/status/1606724838395199488

People would know this if they had read @Snowden book and it would come as a shock to no one. ???? https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701405443874816





Yesterday's Print (@yesterdaysprint) 2022-12-24 20:00:01 (UTC)

 
Любимый❤️Сочи (@sochi_love) 2022-12-25 15:03:16 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sochi_love/status/1607029215945232384

Закат с дельфином, огромная удача фотографа

Разве может быть что-то красивее?





ККЛЧРТ (@the_shimponavt) 2022-12-28 08:34:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/the_shimponavt/status/1608018440798851074

Случай в Мосрентгене





Получеловек-полунечеловек (@tra_ta_ta) 2022-12-28 09:33:39 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/tra_ta_ta/status/1608033425243381763

@the_shimponavt Все, что происходит в Мосрентгене, остается на рентгеновских снимках



cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) 2022-12-27 14:32:30 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/weirdlilguys/status/1607746246407503873

liquid mode activate





ferdalangurinn (@ferdalangurinn) 2022-12-28 14:22:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ferdalangurinn/status/1608106102025256960

японские друзья не увидели ничего странного в кротовухе, когда я им про неё рассказала, так как в этот момент мы пили ФУГОВУХУ (горячее сакэ с плавником рыбы фугу, по-японски называется фугу-хирэ-сю), идеально подходящую к холодному зимнему вечеру.
(моё — на 3 и 4 фото).











Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) 2022-12-26 21:23:41 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487338401206273

On the New Year’s Eve, everybody’s into making predictions

Many come up with futuristic hypotheses, as if competing to single out the wildest, and even the most absurd ones.

Here’s our humble contribution.

What can happen in 2023:



Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) 2022-12-26 21:23:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487342549286914

1.  Oil price will rise to $150 a barrel, and gas price will top $5.000 per 1.000 cubic meters

2. The UK will rejoin the EU

3. The EU will collapse after the UK’s return; Euro will drop out of use as the former EU currency



Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) 2022-12-26 21:23:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487345493934080

4. Poland and Hungary will occupy western regions of the formerly existing Ukraine

5. The Fourth Reich will be created, encompassing the territory of Germany and its satellites, i.e., Poland, the Baltic states, Czechia, Slovakia, the Kiev Republic, and other outcasts



Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) 2022-12-26 21:23:44 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487348442284034

6. War will break out between France and the Fourth Reich. Europe will be divided, Poland repartitioned in the process

7. Northern Ireland will separate from the UK and join the Republic of Ireland



Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) 2022-12-26 21:23:44 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487351219003398

8. Civil war will break out in the US, California. and Texas becoming independent states as a result. Texas and Mexico will form an allied state. Elon Musk’ll win the presidential election in a number of states which, after the new Civil War’s end, will have been given to the GOP



Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) 2022-12-26 21:25:29 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487790367006722

9. All the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave the US and Europe and move to Asia



Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) 2022-12-26 21:25:30 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1607487794133471232

10. The Bretton Woods system of monetary management will collapse, leading to the IMF and World Bank crash. Euro and Dollar will stop circulating as the global reserve currencies. Digital fiat currencies will be actively used instead



Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 2022-12-26 21:51:58 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1607494455720022018

@MedvedevRussiaE Epic thread!!



GiGadgets (@gigadgets_) 2022-12-27 15:02:17 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/gigadgets_/status/1607753740982837248

This robotic arm can free your hands from boring paperwork. ✍️
The company said they would not sell it to students.
#gigadgets #handwriting #robotics #machinelearning #innovation





Doc Multiplexplatte Li-on Beuster (@AslanYorgun5) 2022-12-28 08:18:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AslanYorgun5/status/1608014619284754433

@gigadgets_ It's called a plotter.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter



Hazzy (@PatntHazzy) 2022-12-28 06:35:18 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PatntHazzy/status/1607988543695245313

@gigadgets_ we're back to people being impressed by 1970s pen plotters that were replaced by scanners and printers



лиля́ кебáб (@lilydavay) 2022-04-09 17:54:37 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/lilydavay/status/1512851489114501121

Решила познакомиться с кассиршей магазина у работы, в который всегда хожу за стиками. Женщина говорит:
– Меня Майя зовут.
Годы в общепите научили меня, что все узбечки берут себе имя Майя.
– А по-узбекски как? – спрашиваю.
– Максуда.
Оказалось, я была первая, кто спросила так



птенец буллшит (@KarinaMilenina) 2022-12-26 19:55:40 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/KarinaMilenina/status/1607465186130264064

Вчера вызывали клининг, к нам приехала женщина с именем МАША (которое явно не её настоящее). Спросила её реальное имя. Махира. Говорю, красивое имя, буду вас так называть.

Оказалось, что я первый человек за её 10 лет жизни в РФ, который поинтересовался настоящим именем. ????



Artёm Milošević (@milosev1c) 2022-12-28 21:22:35 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/milosev1c/status/1608211836146417664

Вчера вызывали клининг, к нам приехал блоггер с именем ТОДАР БАКТЕМИР (которое явно не её настоящее). Спросил его реальное имя. Федор Алексеев. Говорю, красивое имя, буду вас так называть.

Оказалось, что его уже заебали с этим ????



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-28 07:35:20 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1608003651620175873

…вчера вызывали клининг почистить комнату от соломы, к нам приехал рыжеволосый парень с именем ГАНС (которое явно не его настоящее). Спросила его реальное имя. РУМПЕЛЬШТИЛЬЦХЕН. Говорю, красивое имя, буду вас так называть.



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-28 07:49:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1608007323385212929

(«По классификации Аарне-Томпсона, — сообщает Википедия, — этот сюжет имеет номер 500: "Имя помощника"»; в принципе, чем твиттер не фольклорная сказка)



Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) 2022-12-28 21:03:11 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1608206953548742660

THIS, THIS TERRIBLE @NYTIMES THING, THIS EXCRESCENCE FROM THE SCHOOL WHICH SAYS "PEOPLE SHOULD NOT HAVE PRIVACY JUST IN CASE THEY USE IT IN WAYS WHICH THE STATES WOULD NOT APPROVE OF"

https://archive.ph/RrGHF



Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) 2022-12-28 21:09:23 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1608208512076681216

Someone who who has spent so long tilting at the big windmills of corporations, that they cannot understand the empowerment of individual communities of users from platforms enabling communication whilst blinding themselves to content.

They mistake the medium for the message.







Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) 2022-12-28 21:11:13 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1608208974209228802

As before: if you want to understand end-to-end encryption, here's a primer regarding what it achieves, and how to identify it.
https://alecmuffett.com/alecm/e2e-primer/



Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) 2022-12-28 21:16:21 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1608210265962602500

If you would like to view the original copy from the horses mouth, here is a gift link:

Cc: @kurtopsahl

https://t.co/6KSH1SZ1u7



Paul Pearce (@paul_pearce) 2022-12-29 01:14:48 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/paul_pearce/status/1608270274277027840

@AlecMuffett @kurtopsahl You can also pull any NYT article out of the way back machine. Eg https://t.co/vgZ5puKrSg



Eva (@evacide) 2022-12-28 20:29:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/evacide/status/1608198371646541824

NYT's opinion page gets in under the wire in the competition for Worst Take of 2022: Signal is bad because the people who build it are morally committed to preserving the privacy of its users.

https://t.co/NJgjhKRbb9



WA People's Privacy (@wapeopleprivacy) 2022-12-28 22:28:12 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/wapeopleprivacy/status/1608228349901697024

@evacide Plenty of great debunking happening in the comments on this NYT guest (trash) opinion piece, tho! ???? So, that's fun.











Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2022-12-29 00:38:13 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1608261067573952519

Locks and keys are anarco capitalist propaganda, promoting an ideology of private property and state free crime prevention. https://twitter.com/evacide/status/1608198371646541824



It's My City (@itsmycityekb) 2022-12-28 12:32:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/itsmycityekb/status/1608078337523466240

Власти Екатеринбурга в перспективе хотят ликвидировать трамвайную ветку на Большой Конный полуостров. При этом трамвай — это единственный общественный транспорт, связывающий район с городом. Да и, пожалуй, самый живописный трамвайный маршрут в городе. https://t.co/j8spLuwE8M





Никто ничего (@L7878L266443L) 2022-12-28 12:54:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/L7878L266443L/status/1608083977138479107

@itsmycityekb Но при этом хотят строить там жилой район
Гении планирования



天より降りしコハク (@Y39267620) 2022-12-30 09:56:15 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Y39267620/status/1608763890804084736

今年はHEVCからAV1に移行するかどうか悩んでますけど、来年の今頃はVVCが加わってさらに悩んでそうですね。



david "5 GHz" bepo (no to war) (@davidbepo) 2022-12-29 23:32:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/davidbepo/status/1608607018201538563

btw, from now on every image i produce will be a webp
graphs? webp
memes? webp
this is because it is a superior image format and recently i have seen all of my use cases support it: image editor, viewer, libreoffice and twitter
long overdue but nice anyways



9to5Mac (@9to5mac) 2022-12-29 23:25:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/9to5mac/status/1608605050783338502

Video converter HandBrake updated with support for AV1 and VP9 10-bit video encoding, more https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/29/handbrake-support-av1-and-vp9-10-bit/ by @filipeesposito



Andy V (@steppentiger) 2022-12-29 15:57:38 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/steppentiger/status/1608492449235890178

Коротко об итогах года.





Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-29 20:06:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1608554971200458754

Обожаю слог научпопа восьмидесятых. «Каждый школьник без труда ответит на вопрос: "Что общего между качелями, часами, сердцем, электрическим звонком, люстрой, телевизором, саксофоном и океанским лайнером?"»



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2022-12-29 20:16:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1608557696801964033

(это, уточню, не моя жалкая пародия, а неповторимый оригинал, второе предложение введения сорок восьмого выпуска «Библиотечки "Квант"»)



переводчик неправильно перевел (@stummekabine) 2022-12-29 20:34:28 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/stummekabine/status/1608562116423999489

@aldragon_net Они отбрасывают тень? Их можно покрасить в золотой цвет? В эпицентре ядерного взрыва они будут уничтожены? (Хреновый из меня школьник)



lil brød (@remaining_ram) 2022-12-30 02:21:19 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/remaining_ram/status/1608649401937068033

@aldragon_net в психологии есть такие тесты на выявление отклонений



Kłasterny Babaj (@ivanovpetja) 2022-12-29 20:45:23 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/ivanovpetja/status/1608564861012963328

@aldragon_net принадлежат императору, видимо



Republic Forever (@4everRepublic) 2022-12-30 16:27:35 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/4everRepublic/status/1608862374085398530

@aldragon_net Ну типа все перечисленное из барионной материи состоит, что непонятного-то?



Ronald Reagan (@Vitalij21050081) 2022-12-30 11:49:21 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Vitalij21050081/status/1608792352243744769

@aldragon_net Это из физики 6 класса.
Они все материальные объекты.
А любовь, спорт и понедельник - нет.



Я не Галя (@dayobvashumat) 2022-12-30 05:59:07 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/dayobvashumat/status/1608704212824895488

@aldragon_net Советский шестиклассник доминирует интеллектуально





а вы тоже Лена Полено (@gtimoshaz) 2022-12-30 14:07:41 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/gtimoshaz/status/1608827165281513474

@dayobvashumat @aldragon_net и умеет дышать под водой!



Allisa999 (@Allisa999) 2022-12-30 13:40:46 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Allisa999/status/1608820391291805697

@aldragon_net "конечно, то, что во всех этих системах существуют или могут возбуждаться колебания." Александр Филиппов "Многоликий солитон"



Деня Камушкин (@GusakovDenis) 2022-12-30 19:04:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/GusakovDenis/status/1608901759933767681

@aldragon_net Меня радует, что подросшие школьники 80-х не ограничились банальным ответом про колебания, а предложили много других, остроумных и нестандартных.



алескей булыгин (@bulygin499) 2022-12-29 09:54:30 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/bulygin499/status/1608401063807156227

Теплые, ламповые новости из Питера





βολκ (@BOJIK) 2022-12-29 09:59:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/BOJIK/status/1608402215471046657

@bulygin499 Есть что-то постоянное в наше непостоянное время. ????????‍♂️



depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) 2022-12-30 04:04:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1608675458438299648





Repe (@Rpetey317) 2022-12-30 04:10:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Rpetey317/status/1608676847021346822

@depthsofwiki Oh thank God I was about to remove the commies from my water instead of the salt



FANtastic.algo (@Algofan1) 2022-12-30 05:31:30 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Algofan1/status/1608697263362310144

@depthsofwiki Common mistake



CynicalKiwi ????????/???????? (@kiwi_cynical) 2022-12-30 04:44:40 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/kiwi_cynical/status/1608685478198546432

@depthsofwiki I make that mistake all the time.



Sol (@sol_0_4) 2022-12-30 05:22:57 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sol_0_4/status/1608695113148137473

@depthsofwiki Well..





Sol (@sol_0_4) 2022-12-30 05:24:15 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sol_0_4/status/1608695441096572928

@depthsofwiki





Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2023-01-02 13:40:49 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1609907569144766464

"Almost all the projects of social reformers in these days are really ????????????????????????????????????????????."

— John Stuart Mill, discussing the need for a book "on liberty." January 15th, ????????????????.





Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2023-01-02 13:21:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1609902808165191682

Free Julian Assange.



Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) 2023-01-03 04:09:15 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1610126116223590400

According to a recent report, a bug in Google Home smart speakers allowed for the installation of a backdoor account that could be used to control the device and access its microphone feed. https://trib.al/D7iYdnE



JoJo79 (@JoJoGirl79) 2023-01-04 00:25:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/JoJoGirl79/status/1610432251371847681

@BreitbartNews "Bug" my ass
Those things are listening all the time
They are spying on people
They send all the information back to Google
It ain't a "bug"
It is designed like that
It is on purpose



KWard1 (@KathleenJWard1) 2023-01-03 10:32:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/KathleenJWard1/status/1610222688030818304

@BreitbartNews The Smartwatch & the Fitbit are designed to get you used to & dependent on wearable technology. Even credit cards are just a touch device now. The future looks like implanted devices that monitor your health and wealth. The govt will know your location, habits, & social credit.



Eli Krebs (@TheRantEli) 2023-01-03 13:40:05 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TheRantEli/status/1610269772914036737

@BreitbartNews





Tony Bianco (@tony_bianco) 2023-01-03 08:17:35 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/tony_bianco/status/1610188612985053185

@BreitbartNews No surprises here. @Snowden warned us all.



Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2023-01-03 10:17:29 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1610218784496680961

"Bug," or "undocumented feature?" https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1610126116223590400



Stilicho (@StilichoReads) 2023-01-03 16:23:37 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/StilichoReads/status/1610310925768331269

I didn't appreciate the extent to which the Glorious Revolution was simply a Dutch invasion of Britain (with a fleet four times the size of the Spanish Armada!) It "was arguably one of the most impressive feats of organization any early modern regime ever achieved."







Stilicho (@StilichoReads) 2023-01-03 17:47:49 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/StilichoReads/status/1610332115748683776

English support for the invasion was "sparse" until after it was clear it would succeed. William "was master of England. . . long before Parliament met and hesitantly agreed to make him King." He deliberately made sure that only Dutch soldiers were present in London.







SVTV NEWS (@svtv_news) 2023-01-03 20:46:14 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/svtv_news/status/1610377016452288513

???? День рождения Биткоина!

Ровно 14 лет назад загадочный Сатоши Накамото сгенерировал первый блок в блокчейне и добыл первые 50 биткоинов.

Не все герои носят плащи, некоторых мы даже не знаем по имени. Лучший подарок, который Сатоши сделал миру, — его собственное исчезновение.





SVTV NEWS (@svtv_news) 2023-01-03 20:46:15 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/svtv_news/status/1610377020411707393

Благодаря исчезновению Сатоши биткоин сегодня остается независимым от политического и корпоративного давления.

В отличие от многих криптовалют, биткоин продолжает нести свою миссию децентрализации денежного обмена.



Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:50 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394278617878529

25.Twitter was taking requests from every conceivable government body, beginning with the Senate Intel Committee (SSCI), which seemed to need reassurance Twitter was taking FBI direction. Execs rushed to tell “Team SSCI” they zapped five accounts on an FBI tip:











Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394281683959811

26.Requests arrived and were escalated from all over: from Treasury, the NSA, virtually every state,  the HHS, from the FBI and DHS, and more:











Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:51 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394284867436547

27.They also received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn’t like to be banned. Here, the office for Democrat and House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff asks Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry:





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:53 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394291352014848

29.Twitter honored almost everyone else’s requests, even those from GEC – including a decision to ban accounts like @RebelProtests and @BricsMedia because GEC identified them as “GRU-controlled” and linked “to the Russian government,” respectively:







Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394294850064385

30.The GEC requests were what a former CIA staffer working at Twitter was referring to, when he said, “Our window on that is closing,” meaning they days when Twitter could say no to serious requests were over.





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:54 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394297727082499

31.Remember the 2017 “internal guidance” in which Twitter decided to remove any user “identified by the U.S. intelligence community” as a state-sponsored entity committing cyber operations? By 2020 such identifications came in bulk.





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:55 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394300277219329

32.“USIC" requests often simply began “We assess” and then provided lists (sometimes, in separate excel docs) they believed were connected to Russia’s Internet Research Agency and committing cyber ops, from Africa to South America to the U.S.:









Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:56 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394303313973248

http://33.One brief report, sent right after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine early last year, flagged major Russian outlets like Vedomosti and http://Gazeta.ru. Note the language about “state actors” fits Twitter’s internal guidance.





Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:56 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394306308702213

34.Some reports were just a paragraph long and said things like: “The attached email accounts… were possibly used for “influence operations, social media collection, or social engineering.” Without further explanation, Twitter would be forwarded an excel doc:







Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) 2023-01-03 21:54:57 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394309424996353

35.They were even warned about publicity surrounding a book by former Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokhin, who alleged “corruption by the U.S. government” – specifically by Joe Biden.





Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2023-01-04 14:38:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1610646864260468746

The US gov, through the FBI, had the censorship units at major internet platforms on speed dial.

Public figures that claimed such a year ago were cast out of polite society as lunatics. When it is now established to be true, the same polite people now shrug: "Trust the ruler." https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610394270199939075



Yesterday's Print (@yesterdaysprint) 2023-01-04 17:04:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/yesterdaysprint/status/1610683583500529664

The Morning Call, Allentown, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1922





Stannie Holt (@stannieholt) 2023-01-05 10:16:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/stannieholt/status/1610943212662968324

@yesterdaysprint @DigiVictorian It predicted the Walkman and iPhone!



Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) 2023-01-05 03:47:18 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1610845367268167684

The war on children intensifies.





iFirebrand .eth | .lens ???????????????????? (@iFirebrand) 2023-01-05 03:56:22 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/iFirebrand/status/1610847650856972290

@pmarca Look. If you don’t let people create fresh creative data for GPT-3 what will you train your AI on? Seems like a reasonable thing to me.

Oh, while the ban is nonsensical, sure, the intent is right. You got to teach kids to THINK. And AI is not gonna help you with that.



regret maximizer (@regretmaximizer) 2023-01-05 07:32:08 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/regretmaximizer/status/1610901950786150400

@iFirebrand @pmarca





Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) 2023-01-05 09:10:53 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1610926801337069569

This was a whole thing when pocket calculators first came out! https://twitter.com/regretmaximizer/status/1610901950786150400



Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2023-01-05 13:04:06 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1610985492060983296

Kids will future proof themselves for the jobs market... if we let them! https://t.co/7cLcxaB1Ob



Free Speech Absolutist (@mozdca) 2023-01-05 07:09:31 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/mozdca/status/1610896258356645889

@pmarca 90s teachers: You aren’t always going to have a calculator in your pocket.

Current days: You aren’t always going to have an AI do the thinking for you.

The future:





Jason Kennedy | Stop Teaching & Design Learning! (@letsquitteachin) 2023-01-05 16:28:33 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/letsquitteachin/status/1611036943319707648

@pmarca Sad.
I imagine the same happened when calculators came into classrooms.
We should embrace new technologies and incorporate them into the learning we design for students.
After all, that is the job we are paid to do.





Michael Thomas (@curious_founder) 2023-01-04 17:45:40 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/1610693961294962689

I see a lot of people say things like "Our grid can't handle more EVs or heat pumps."

Imagine if 100 years ago, people were like "Light bulbs, dishwashers, etc. are all great, but we don't have enough electric capacity."

We can electrify everything *and* build more capacity.



Pessimists Archive (@PessimistsArc) 2023-01-05 14:54:26 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/PessimistsArc/status/1611013256323411969

Studying false fears about old tech can inform how we treat new technologies.

Allowing us to filter out the hysterical moral entrepreneurs, ill intentioned incumbents, sensationalist headlines & the opportunistic legislators

Only way to safeguard against real problems/threats! https://twitter.com/dgardner/status/1610988704666886146



WritingAxis (@WritingAxis) 2023-01-05 15:38:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/WritingAxis/status/1611024469824503808

@PessimistsArc But you have to recognize that there are and will be technologies that are harmful. For example, AI is already capable of giving anyone specific instructions on how to make every kind of poison and bomb. Step by step. You can’t take a one-size-fits all view to the issue.



Nina ???? Byzantina (@NinaByzantina) 2023-01-05 15:14:32 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/1611018317485211648

-62C. ???? Oymyakon, Sakha, Russia, where else?





Andrey Valenkov (@andrey_valenkov) 2023-01-06 09:10:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/andrey_valenkov/status/1611289143006617600

А вы тоже уже перестали обращать внимание на количество просмотров, потому что это бесполезный визуальный мусор?



Al Dragon (@aldragon_net) 2023-01-06 09:42:37 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/aldragon_net/status/1611297172435382272

...потом ты начинаешь обращать внимание на количество просмотров, но игнорировать количество лайков.

И, наконец, начинаешь считать визуальным мусором сам твиттер. Это, собственно, главная техника, а первые две — подготовительные. https://twitter.com/andrey_valenkov/status/1611289143006617600



Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2023-01-07 03:57:17 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1611572655030771713

Artists are being burnt at the stake in AI art witch hunts  https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/y3p9yg/artist-banned-from-art-reddit



Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2023-01-07 03:58:40 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1611573005758373889

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Technophobia.org (@TechnophobiaOrg) 2023-01-07 04:01:59 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/TechnophobiaOrg/status/1611573840110305282

????‍???? https://t.co/DQMMbfqK3Z





Andy V (@steppentiger) 2023-01-07 22:02:50 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/steppentiger/status/1611845844738899968

Доброй ночи.





Mithgol the Webmaster (@FidonetRunes) 2023-01-10 01:05:56 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/FidonetRunes/status/1612616698569400322

Как зрителю #аниме «Gosick» мнѣ трудно не увидать сходство между первою аркою его сюжета и теми еврейскими расовыми (иудейскими вероисповедными) принципами гадания, которые названы цитатою https://t.me/holmogortalks/26920 про Теодахада у Холмогорова. Впрочем, в «Gosick» хотя бы не свиньи.





NETINT Technologies (@NETINT_Tech) 2023-01-09 19:00:00 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/NETINT_Tech/status/1612524607352758290

This year’s Bitmovin Video Report edition has some surprises, like the fact that more respondents are currently working with H.266/VVC than AV1.

READ Jan Ozer's take on Bitmovin Report: https://netint.biz/3vByX38



depths of wikipedia (@depthsofwiki) 2023-01-07 23:28:41 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/depthsofwiki/status/1611867450592854016





Steven Pinker (@sapinker) 2023-01-08 17:48:42 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1612144278729547776

Ergophilia: Energy is what lets us carve out beneficial zones of order amid the ubiquitous and relentless rot of entropy. It's the ultimate enabler of prosperity, longevity, accomplishment, beauty, flourishing. I agree with Ezra Klein here... https://t.co/5T0Oa2sDUu



Steven Pinker (@sapinker) 2023-01-08 17:48:43 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1612144281837502469

From Enlightenment Now: "The team that brings clean and abundant energy to the world will benefit humanity more than all of history’s saints, heroes, prophets, martyrs, and laureates combined."



Edward Snowden (@Snowden) 2023-01-09 00:37:53 (UTC)

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1612247249484120064

After the last couple years, hard to ignore the feeling that the CIA's Color Revolutions are coming home.

We may come to regret spending decades normalizing the practice of disregarding elections, the precedent for ousting presidents.

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