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9 votes
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Nauka module docks with ISS and performs uncommanded thruster firings, bringing ISS 45 degrees off nominal attitude; crew was never in danger
@Chris Bergin - NSF: Rob Navias with the NASA TV overview.ISS went 45 degrees out of attitude. SM (automatically reacted) to the issue, and then Progress thrusters were commanded to place the ISS back in the proper attitude.30 mins to the ability for MCC-M to command the safing of the thrusters. pic.twitter.com/5XIiJInVub
10 votes -
18-year-old member of online harassment group sentenced to five years in prison after "swatting" the owner of a desirable Twitter handle, resulting in a fatal heart attack
31 votes -
How Twitter can ruin a life: The story of Isabel Fall
19 votes -
Did Twitter break young adult fiction?
10 votes -
Twitter is shutting down Fleets, its expiring tweets feature. In its place at the top of the timeline will be Spaces, Twitter's live audio chat rooms.
9 votes -
You really need to quit Twitter
21 votes -
Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google
14 votes -
Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment
16 votes -
Five Nights At Freddy's creator, Scott Cawthon, announces his retirement
12 votes -
President of Nigeria bans Twitter as retaliation for deleted Tweet, human rights groups condemn this as restriction on free speech
9 votes -
Playdate Update - 6/8/2021
@Playdate: Hi. Are you ready for a ✨#PlaydateUpdate✨?We have a lot to catch up on. Our first-ever video update has details on Season One, future games, some surprises and info on future pre-orders. Please join us!🗓 Premieres Tuesday, June 8th at 9:00 AM PDT➡️ https://t.co/cfSNsgTqeQ pic.twitter.com/dSClZQmkUy
11 votes -
How Twitter turned Kimmy Schmidt into a ‘KKK Queen’
14 votes -
Twitter may be working on Twitter Blue, a subscription service that would cost $2.99 per month
14 votes -
Scroll has been acquired by Twitter
4 votes -
FOSS and UX (twitter thread)
@Kavaeric: Let's walk through this, shall we?Say we've decided to make a new FOSS word processor. Call it, I dunno, Libra-Office or O-Pan-Office. Just a thought. Word processors, as you might guess, are also a fairly entrenched market.Who's our target audience?
26 votes -
Elon Musk announces that Tesla will no longer accept Bitcoin for vehicle purchases citing the energy demand required to maintain the cryptocurrency
@Elon Musk: Tesla & Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/YSswJmVZhP
27 votes -
China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media
13 votes -
Twitter has acquired Scroll, a subscription for news sites, and intends to integrate it into their own upcoming subscription service
11 votes -
Florida bill would fine social media platforms for banning politicians— with exemption for Disney
14 votes -
twtxt - a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers
6 votes -
Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme
@Nassim Nicholas Taleb: WHAT WE WANT CRYPTO & CURRENCY FOR:1) Currency w/o a government2) Stable/reliable for contracts3) Inflation indexed store of value -- basket of items representative for me.4) Rapid transactionsCan we do it? #BTC failed to be currency, open-Ponzi speculative game. 1/n
10 votes -
$7.5B in stolen Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex hack has just been moved
@Mr. Whale: WTF! $7.5 Billion In Stolen #Bitcoin from the 2016 Bitfinex Hack has just been moved for the first time in 5 years. pic.twitter.com/WJJ3smY8dc
12 votes -
YouTube experimenting with removal of public dislike count
@YouTube: 👍👎 In response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we're testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count. If you're part of this small experiment, you might spot one of these designs in the coming weeks (example below!). pic.twitter.com/aemrIcnrbx
23 votes -
A story about losing $10M on a to-do list startup
@Andrew Wilkinson: This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.Ten. Million. Dollars.Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.That's enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.Here's what happened...
14 votes -
Greta Thunberg has mocked climate change deniers by citing research that claims human penises are getting smaller because of increased pollution
6 votes -
Twitter: Calling for public input on our approach to world leaders
14 votes -
Teen Vogue editor resigns after fury over racist tweets
13 votes -
AstraZeneca NL factory is not producing any vaccines. People are trying to figure out why.
@Dave Keating: Some astonishing new revelations here.The #AstraZeneca facility in Netherlands isn't producing any vaccines for EU because AZ hasn't submitted paperwork to start.With the UK contract blocking export from the 2 UK sites, EU is getting supply from only 1 of the 4 sites promised https://t.co/9UboEcdold
19 votes -
Jack Dorsey: Bids reach $2.5m for Twitter co-founder's first post
8 votes -
How Big Tech helps India target climate activists: Companies such as Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian environmental campaigners
6 votes -
Spoonbill—a change-tracker for Twitter bios—offers a glimpse into the unseen effort with which we express our identities online, and how the uncanny feeling of being watched informs our sense of self
8 votes -
No, Mr Potato Head is not going gender neutral
@farhad manjoo: press release vs reporting. what happened here? They are not at all making it gender neutral. Did they make a quick change or did all the reports get it very wrong? pic.twitter.com/sMPGswjknA
5 votes -
ResetEra, a gaming forum, has banned all promotional content for Harry Potter games
@Jason Schreier: ResetEra, one of the largest video game forums, is enacting "a total ban on threads for promotional media" from the new Harry Potter game in the wake of JK Rowling's transphobic views and the recent discovery that one of the game's lead designers is a pro-Gamergate YouTuber pic.twitter.com/D5Wpoi4WpM
7 votes -
CD Projekt Red's internal systems were compromised, attacker left ransomware and a threat to release their data, including the source code of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3
@CD PROJEKT RED: Important Update pic.twitter.com/PCEuhAJosR
18 votes -
Avant-garde perfume recommendations
@C Thi Nguyen: If you're looking for some weird aesthetic exploration to fight off the COVID boredom blues, can I recommend: avant-garde perfume. No, really. First:1. Not all perfume is cloying mall crap. There's world of indie, experimental weird-ass perfume. 2. It's cheap.Thread:
14 votes -
SpaceX Starship SN9 high-altitude test - crash on landing
@SpaceX: Live feed of Starship SN9 flight test → https://t.co/Hs5C53qBxb https://t.co/ioM0D5J91I
9 votes -
Google has suspended the Element Matrix client from the Play Store due to abusive content (It's back)
@Element: Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://t.co/aaZ9qXz69W but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
31 votes -
NHS staff create videos in many different languages to discuss the importance of covid vaccination for people with diabetes
@Partha Kar: To tackle the issues of #Vaccine uptake in those from ethnic minority population,I am joining hands with many colleagues to create a series of videos - specifically for those with #Diabetes First up? @alkapandey08 in Gujarati 🙏🏽Please use and cascade as you can pic.twitter.com/PpAY49lj6l
11 votes -
Who do you follow on Twitter?
(Asked mainly because I just made an account there and there are only a handful of twitter profiles which immediately come to my mind as profiles to follow.)
7 votes -
Jimmy Bernot PhD - Heres the story of how I volunteered to be infected with fifty parasitic worms (hookworm) for a year as part of a research study
@Jimmy Bernot PhD 🦐🪱🏳️🌈: Heres the story of how I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms (hookworm) for a year as part of a research study. Check out this thread & follow me for more #parasite & marine biology content [t]#ScienceTwitter imgs: https://t.co/hH5YsfS0ay https://t.co/kVurE6BbTS pic.twitter.com/l75h5XcNfl
10 votes -
How do you prepare for people dying, and dying, and dying?
@Dawn Foster: Really difficult to watch this short video of people in their 20s with no underlying conditions on ventilators with Covid pic.twitter.com/AHH0hKXSoI
8 votes -
Twitter has acquired the Revue editorial newsletter service, made Pro features free and reduced the fee for paid newsletters to 5%, and will start integrating it into Twitter
7 votes -
Twitter announces Birdwatch, a community-based approach to misinformation
21 votes -
European Court of Human Rights upholds rights to self-determination around gender
@Paul Johnson: Very important trans rights case in ECtHR today. The case concerns the situation of two trans people who were refused recognition of their gender identities because they had not undergone gender reassignment surgery.The Court held this to be a violation of the ECHR (Art 8). pic.twitter.com/9bUvYg156L
14 votes -
Twitter should immediately and permanently ban Trump
16 votes -
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
50 votes -
Tether Price Manipulation Thread
@Jacob Oracle: Tether Price Manipulation Thread:Tether has been manipulating #Bitcoin's price upwards for years now by printing unlimited, and unbacked $USDT.This thread will cover the controversial aspects surrounding Tether, and how it will eventually meet its demise. pic.twitter.com/vMwJxG35gF
12 votes -
Generative artist Dimtri Cherniak
3 votes -
Twitter requests deletion of three inciteful tweets from Donald Trump. If tweets remain undeleted, account will remain locked.
@Twitter Safety: As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy. https://t.co/k6OkjNG3bM
35 votes