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9 votes
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Tim Sweeney - If Steam commited to a 12% take, we would stop buying exclusives
@timsweeneyepic: @GV_Delchev @riggedforepic @BeegorBucleor @MrAngryBates If Steam committed to a permanent 88% revenue share for all developers and publishers without major strings attached, Epic would hastily organize a retreat from exclusives (while honoring our partner commitments) and consider putting our own games on Steam.
7 votes -
Kosoko Jackson’s book scandal suggests YA Twitter is getting uglier
12 votes -
The key to glorifying a questionable diet? Be a tech bro and call it 'biohacking'
13 votes -
How a T. Rex named SUE became a nonbinary icon
8 votes -
Microsoft Edge's build system runs on Linux
@kylealden: @VOsikwemhe @MSEdgeDev Not yet - it's something we'd like to do eventually (our build system runs on Linux) but we're taking things one step at a time starting from Win10, and can't commit to Linux just yet.
5 votes -
RSS is better than Twitter
21 votes -
Multiple upcoming Bethesda games will be released on Steam, as well as Fallout 76 (currently exclusive to Bethesda launcher)
@bethesda: We're pleased to announce that RAGE 2, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot, and DOOM Eternal will be released on Steam as well as https://t.co/p0BARqmTBp. We will also be bringing Fallout 76 to Steam later this year.
10 votes -
The Happy Hob officially put a wrap on the entire Soulsborne series yesterday, just in time for Sekiro's release
@the_happy_hob: We Did It!!!!! All 5 Soulsborne games back to back, No hits taken. Just in time for Sekiro. #destinyrun @sekirothegame @DarkSoulsGame
6 votes -
Boeing 737MAX, a software engineers perspective
@trevorsumner: Some people are calling the 737MAX tragedies a #software failure. Here's my response: It's not a software problem. It was an * Economic problem that the 737 engines used too much fuel, so they decided to install more efficient engines with bigger fans and make the 737MAX.
11 votes -
Twitter has ambitious plans to change the way we tweet by limiting snark and improving the "health" of interactions, but so far it's gone nowhere
15 votes -
For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
@jeremyburge: For years Facebook claimed the adding a phone number for 2FA was only for security. Now it can be searched and there's no way to disable that.
43 votes -
15 non-obvious HPC experts to follow on Twitter
2 votes -
All Medium paywalled stories are now free and unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter
@ev: All @Medium paywalled stories are now free and unmetered when you're coming from Twitter.
20 votes -
SEC asks judge to hold Elon Musk in contempt for violating settlement related to Twitter usage
17 votes -
A silly Google Maps origin story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”
@btaylor: Here's a silly Google Maps origin story about how "Satellite" was almost named "Bird Mode
9 votes -
Message for Maduro? Rubio tweets image of bloody Gaddafi, killed after US intervened
7 votes -
By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers
@jensimmons: By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers, strengthening privacy without your having to do a thing." https://t.co/cqpQbSe9Ko
69 votes -
Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages
4 votes -
Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted how difficult it is to follow a conversation on Twitter
10 votes -
Wendy's Twitter and gatekeeping a company mascot
@wendys: @THEONLYKOH @Michaelramos227 @EvanFilarca @GailSimone You wanna do this? We got time. Saga is on hiatus. It's not really bandwagon when you've been reading for decades.
10 votes -
The Knight Foundation commissioned a study to analyze bot accounts that spread fake news on Twitter. This is what they found.
13 votes -
‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.’ — This historian wasn’t afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed
@nowthisnews: 'It feels like I'm at a firefighters conference and no one's allowed to speak about water.' - This historian wasn't afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed https://t.co/TiXSJZd89M
22 votes -
BuzzFeed slashes Australian workforce as boss makes Twitter gaffe
6 votes -
Twitter's Android app disabled "protect my tweets" when other settings were changed, potentially making private tweets public
12 votes -
Jack Dorsey Has No Clue What He Wants: A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists.
11 votes -
Tom Scott warns viewers that Brave donations do not reach him
@tomscott: This warning is prompted by a company called Brave, who've been taking cryptocurrency donations "for me", using my name and photo, without my consent. I asked them not to, and to refund anyone who's donated; they said "we'll see what we can do" and that "refunds are impossible".
33 votes -
Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women
20 votes -
Twitter is considering removing its "like" button
28 votes -
Time is different now
12 votes -
The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
8 votes -
An error message in Windows 10 is a mistake from 1974
@foone🏳️⚧️: It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974.This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, dates back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. pic.twitter.com/pPbkZiE57t
32 votes -
What does the online / social media world look like to you, what would you want?
Some of you may have heard that Google+ will be shutting down in August, 2019. Though much criticised (including by me), the site offered some compelling dynamics, and I've reflected a lot on...
Some of you may have heard that Google+ will be shutting down in August, 2019. Though much criticised (including by me), the site offered some compelling dynamics, and I've reflected a lot on those.
I'm involved in the effort to find new homes for Plussers and Communities, which has become something of an excuse to explore and redefine what "online" and "social" media are ("PlexodusWiki").
Part of this involves some frankly embarrassing attempts to try to define what social media is, and what its properties are (both topics reflected heavily in the recent-changes section of the wiki above).
Tildes is ... among the potential target sites (there are a few Plussers, some of whom I really appreciated knowing and hearing from there), here, though the site dynamics make discovering and following them hard. This site is evolving its own culture and dynamics, parts of which I'm becoming aware of.
I've been online for well over 30 years, and discovered my first online communities via Unix talk, email, FTP, and Usenet, as well as (no kidding) a computerised university library catalogue system. Unsurprisingly: if you provide a way, especially for bright and precocious minds to interact with one another, they will. I've watched several evolutions of Internet and Web, now increasing App-based platforms. There are differences, but also similarities and patterns emerging. Lessons from previous eras of television, radio, telephony, telegraphy, print, writing, oral traditions, and more, can be applied.
I've got far more questions than answers and thought I'd put a few out here:
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What does online or social media mean to you? Is it all user-generated content platforms? Web only? Apps? Email or chat? Wikis? GitHub, GitLab, and StackExchange?
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Is social networking as exemplified by Facebook or Twitter net good or bad? Why? If bad, how might you fix it? Or is it time to simply retreat?
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What properties or characteristics would you use to specify, define, or distinguish social or online media?
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What emergent properties -- site dynamics, if you will -- are positive or negative? What are those based on?
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What are the positive and negative aspects of scale?
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What risks would you consider in self-hosting either your own or a group's online presence?
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What is/was the best online community experience you've had? What characterised it? How did it form? How did it fail (if it did)?
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What elements would comprise your ideal online experience?
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What would you nuke from orbit, after takeoff, just to be sure?
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Are you or your group seeking new options or platforms? What process / considerations do you have?
I could keep going and will regret not adding other questions, but this is a good start. Feel free to suggest other dimensions, though some focus on what I've prompted with would be appreciated.
19 votes -
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Good use for Twitter?
I hear a lot about how Twitter is a bad concept, because the character limit means things can be oversimplified, taken out of context, and posted without a source. I've never used it myself, but...
I hear a lot about how Twitter is a bad concept, because the character limit means things can be oversimplified, taken out of context, and posted without a source. I've never used it myself, but recently I've been wondering if it can be useful to me. For example, some bloggers I follow might post some insights on Twitter that they don't anywhere else, and help me discover other interesting blogs.
Have you found a good use for Twitter besides as a social network or news aggregator?
13 votes -
"Dear Transphobes", "Dear Disablists", a new campign from the Scottish Government
@jaivirdi: Don't give hate a place to exist. This is a new campaign launched by the Scottish government and police. This is how it should be done. https://t.co/95yY0tf6Y4
13 votes -
Saudis’ image makers: A troll army and a Twitter insider
7 votes -
Jamaica qualify for their first ever FIFA Women's World Cup after beating Panama in a penalty shootout!
@foxsoccer: HISTORY! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 Jamaica qualify for their first ever FIFA Women's World Cup after beating Panama in a penalty shootout!
8 votes -
Twitter makes datasets available containing accounts, tweets, and media from accounts associated with influence campaigns from the IRA and Iran
8 votes -
Belgium has regional elections on Sunday, voting machines use USB sticks and store votes on a Linux partition which users will be prompted to format when using Windows, deleting all the votes
@rubenvanassche: Belgium has it's regional elections this sunday, the voting machines are using USB sticks and store the votes on a separate Linux partition. But the stick should also be used on windows which wil ask the users to format it and so it will delete all the votes. 😮
32 votes -
US judge asks Tesla's Musk and SEC to justify fraud settlement as 'fair and reasonable', while Musk continues tweeting complaints about SEC
21 votes -
Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and influence campaigns on Twitter
13 votes -
'Last Jedi' hate tweets were "weaponized" by Russia, says study
10 votes -
The future of GOG: Mod support, Steam rivalry and problematic tweets
23 votes -
Elon Musk accused by SEC of misleading investors in August tweet
20 votes -
BBC investigation of Cameroon killings
@bbcafrica: THREAD In July 2018, a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. 2 women & 2 young children are led away by a group of soldiers. They are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. #BBCAfricaEye investigated this atrocity. This is what we found...
17 votes -
Twitter's return to a chronological timeline won't be enough to recapture its original magic
7 votes -
Man mocked on Twitter for shaving on train says he was homeless and trying to clean up
15 votes -
Mastodon is better than Twitter: Elevator pitch
32 votes -
Nearly 600 Russia-linked accounts tweeted about the health law
9 votes -
Twitter bars Alex Jones, citing harassing messages
16 votes