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10 votes
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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence'
20 votes -
US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
10 votes -
US President Donald Trump has accused Twitter of "completely stifling free speech" after the social media company flagged some of his tweets with a fact-check warning
42 votes -
If Trump kicks out Twitter, there's always Germany
7 votes -
Twitter allows new tweets to restrict replies to "everyone, people you follow, or only people you mention"
14 votes -
This graph shows that measuring #SARSCoV2 levels in municipal sewage almost perfectly predicts forthcoming #COVID19 cases with a full week's notice (R=0.994)
@brennanspiegel: This graph is amazing. It shows that measuring #SARSCoV2 levels in municipal sewage almost perfectly predicts forthcoming #COVID19 cases with a full week's notice (R=0.994). It's one of several discoveries in this new study from @Yale: https://t.co/hZVdXebx2D. C-19 is #InThePoop
15 votes -
Season 2 of Tuca and Bertie is premiering on Adult Swim in 2021
@adultswim: Let the party begin. A new season of Tuca and Bertie is coming to Adult Swim in 2021. @aliwong @TiffanyHaddish @lisadraws
8 votes -
Nearly half of accounts tweeting about coronavirus are likely bots
12 votes -
Interview with Elon Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch
7 votes -
Investigate bugs together
@b0rk: investigate bugs together
5 votes -
Twitter thread about Doug Geisler, an astronomy grad student who was at Manastash Ridge Observatory forty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded 140 miles away
@emsque: Exactly #40YearsAgo Doug Geisler was asleep atop Manastash Ridge Observatory. An astronomy grad student, he'd just logged his first excellent night at the telescope for his PhD thesis. He was the only person on the summit, ~90 miles from #MountStHelens... #MSH40
9 votes -
Nitter, JS free interface for Twitter
15 votes -
Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever
16 votes -
SCOPETREX vector gaming on your oscilloscope!
@tubetimeus: announcing the SCOPETREX -- the vector gaming console for your oscilloscope or XY monitor! ever wanted to buy a Vectrex, but can't afford the high prices on auction sites? well now you can build your own! full design files at https://t.co/hHAbFwwePE
4 votes -
Elon Musk tweets "Tesla stock price is too high imo", shares fall
34 votes -
The Apple Watch is five years old today: Original Apple Watch designer Imran Chaudri shares facts about its development and origins
@imranchaudhri: here's a reproduction of my original sketch for the home screen. the shape of the circular icon was driven by the clock that lived in the centre of what i originally called the dock. the crown gave the home screen a dimensionality, allowing you to scrub through layers of the ui.
7 votes -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey donates $1 billion for COVID-19 relief worldwide
13 votes -
Twitter removes privacy option, and shows why we need strong privacy laws
17 votes -
Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox
4 votes -
The difficulties of moderating COVID-19 misinformation when even statements from official sources are questionable
7 votes -
Why you should not put garlic in your vagina, as a treatment for yeast or anything else
@Jennifer Gunter: Why you should not put garlic in your vagina.A thread.Garlic contains allicin, in THE LAB it MAY have antifungal (i.e. anti yeast) properties. This is in a lab, not even in mice. Just a dish of cells. Your vagina is not a dish of cells. #vaginaisanogarliczone 1/8
15 votes -
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield shares his experience managing growing user demand during the COVID-19 pandemic
@stewart: My day job (also: night job) is CEO of Slack, a publicly traded company with investors to whom I am a fiduciary, 110k+ paying customers of all sizes, and thousands of employees I care about very, very much. The last few weeks have been 🤯😳😢 Here's what it's been like.
7 votes -
A woman dies. How does her community pay tribute when they are social-distancing?
@buailtin: Yesterday we buried a lovely woman. Due to #Covid19 there was no wake & our community couldn't enter the church. But the entire parish came out & lined the 2km road to graveyard to say goodbye to Betty Ryan. Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine #WestKerry https://t.co/Sns99qUSad
7 votes -
COVID ( @UCSF ) Chronicles, Day 2
@bob_wachter: COVID (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 2 The response to post #1 was gratifying, so I'll make this a daily digest...of life inside @ucsf/@ucsfhospitals as we begin managing growing # of #COVID19 pts. Pic below: a few principles I'll follow for these posts. Today's issues follow...(1/10)
4 votes -
Mozilla's outgoing content design lead is tweeting his artwork
@mart3ll: My Mozilla Design Journey ________________ Alright folks, this thread will travel through 141Gb of design files from 2006-2020. Some of the early work will be cringe-worthy, but hopefully this will show how a designer's skills progress over time. Let's get started!
14 votes -
US FDA turns to Twitter to help track testing supply shortages
4 votes -
"I'm not an epidemiologist, but..." - When Twitter engagement decides who's in charge of distributing public health information
3 votes -
Drive-through nation
@skybrian: You know what we need right now? Drive-through nation. Imagine @Walmart and Costco converting to drive-through only. You put in your order somehow and wait in the car. Workers wearing masks and gloves take stuff off shelves. It would actually create jobs.
4 votes -
Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix has been cancelled
@f1: Formula 1 and the FIA, with the full support of the Australian Grand Prix Corporation (AGPC), have taken the decision that all Formula 1 activity for the Australian Grand Prix is cancelled
7 votes -
Päivi Räsänen is facing new police investigations for citing Bible verses on social media to object to the Lutheran church's participation in an LGBT pride event
4 votes -
Major League Baseball suspends all operations indefinitely
@pwsullivan: Passan reports MLB suspending operations indefinitely.
9 votes -
NBA to suspend season following tonight's games
@nba: NBA To Suspend Season Following Tonight's Games
18 votes -
Elliott Management’s Paul Singer seeks to replace Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
9 votes -
Twitter starts testing its own version of Stories, called "Fleets," which disappear after twenty-four hours and can't receive likes, retweets, or replies
10 votes -
Hank Green - The "38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer" reported by CNN is misleading
10 votes -
Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
5 votes -
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
19 votes -
The story of how Saudia Arabia influenced two well-liked Twitter employees to access thousands of users' private information and pass it to the Saudi Royal Family
10 votes -
Half-Life: Alyx's release date is March 23, 2020
@valvesoftware: Half-Life: Alyx, available March 23, 2020 https://t.co/NCOLWqSp3e
13 votes -
Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview
@aissn: Add-on support was just merged into Firefox Preview. Thanks @gabrielluong https://t.co/cXOCB00tKk
23 votes -
How Twitter's default settings enabled a security researcher to discover phone numbers for over seventeen million accounts
10 votes -
A pro-Trump blog doxed a Chinese scientist it falsely accused of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon
19 votes -
Visualizing disinformation networks on Twitter: Watch six decade-long disinformation operations unfold in six minutes
4 votes -
The Yang Gang and its bots
14 votes -
Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen
5 votes -
Play Chess against GPT-2
@theshawwn: I am preparing to release a notebook where you can play chess vs GPT-2. If anyone wants to help beta test it: 1. visit https://t.co/CpWrFvtnY2 2. open in playground mode 3. click Runtime -> Run All 4. Scroll to the bottommost cell and wait 6 minutes If you get stuck, tell me.
5 votes -
The last tracker was just removed from Basecamp.com
16 votes -
Sonos's “recycle mode” intentionally bricks devices so they can't be reused
@atomicthumbs: Sonos states on their website that "sustainability is non-negotiable," and that they design products to minimize impact, but I work at an e-waste recycler and have demonstrable proof this is false. Sonos's "recycle mode" intentionally bricks good devices so they can't be reused.
33 votes -
JK Rowling's Maya Forstater tweets support hostile work environments, not free speech
27 votes