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- Defaults and threat-model.md; Making a toaster, but societal institutions … Drawing not only on her experience managing and being an IC at places like Google, Twitter, and Lyft, she shares the wisdom from interviews with PMs, Designers and …
- It’s all vibes, until it’s not … Drawing not only on her experience managing and being an IC at places like Google, Twitter, and Lyft, she shares the wisdom from interviews with PMs, Designers and …
- What if they’re all right?; I didn’t make this; I write because … Drawing not only on her experience managing and being an IC at places like Google, Twitter, and Lyft, she shares the wisdom from interviews with PMs, Designers and …
- Technology is a tool and we have choices to make as a society; It’s magic … Drawing not only on her experience managing and being an IC at places like Google, Twitter, and Lyft, she shares the wisdom from interviews with PMs, Designers and …
- Tools are easy now, data is hard; Background culture; Tingly is a decision I have to live with; Uniqueness Index … Drawing not only on her experience managing and being an IC at places like Google, Twitter, and Lyft, she shares the wisdom from interviews with PMs, Designers and …
- Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory … In the first case, they did not build “a Twitter”. They built a toy model of a Twitter, a thing that looks like Twitter but -- just like the …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … But you’re likely mainly at Mastodon because a) you left Twitter when Elon bought it, or b) you care about open source as an ideology. One other …
- The first stage is denial … I would start writing about it on Twitter. I would probably try to be a bit funny. And then I might take that and then turn it into …
- Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different … There’s options like “only show them from my followers” or Twitter’s early “yeah, kind of don’t show me offensive ones” which would go into a …
- The Great Social Network Heist … While Twitter continues to implode, Bluesky and Mastodon are busy carving out their niches and Meta storms ahead with Threads, let’s talk about ways people might improve …
- It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy … While Twitter continues to implode, Bluesky and Mastodon are busy carving out their niches and Meta storms ahead with Threads, let’s talk about ways people might improve …
- You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms … You can choose between Twitter and how Twitter is managed and Reddit and how Reddit is managed . (Reddit is a more interesting example, which I’ll go into …
- How It’s Made; Blocking is Healthy, Actually … The Wire, but it’s Product Managers and Executives) 1.2 Blocking is Healthy, Actually Block Party [13] was an incredibly useful app when I was on Twitter …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … 1.2 A Financial Services Social Network? Elon "wants" the social network formerly known as Twitter to become some sort of financial services be-all/end-all app …
- Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity; Doing a Spreadsheets is Coding; Rotate 75 Degrees Around The Vertical … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Just put a fucking warning label on it So the social network formerly known as Twitter was fined …
- Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants … There is a good story here, though, and it's even one that involves the network formerly known as Twitter. Twitter still (and is legally bound, in some …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … Does anyone even remember when Instagram, Facebook and Twitter co-operated until it made more sense financially for them not to? The implosion of Twitter was an opportunity …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … government communication presence on Twitter ... on Facebook ... over SMS ... over emergency alert systems on Mastodon What Twitter and Facebook provide over SMS and emergency alert systems is the …
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes … The thing is, not even that many people use Twitter compared to that other self-proclaimed global public social network Facebook (formerly known as thefacebook for rating women …
- Hey, Ease Up; A Load-Bearing If-Statement … 1.2 Some tiny bits Zoē Schiffer and Casey Newton's piece on the continuing tire fire at Twitter [4] was a treasure trove of popcorn gobbling insider …
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace … In this particular case, Mastodon met a just-good-enough set of features (it exists, it is a bit like Twitter, indeed tongue-in-cheek referencing it, back …
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … I assume that the infrastructure of Twitter and Facebook and anything even approaching that size is custom-made toward implementing whichever "algorithm" or method has been chosen (and …
- Universal Basic Compute … What would make this different from existing ad-funded, free-at-the-point-of-consumption publishing services like Blogger, or Wordpress, or, well, Twitter? Or Mastodon? Wouldn't …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … I am still thinking about Mastodon, the thing that is not Twitter that might be the thing after Twitter, but if it isn't the thing after Twitter …
- Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch … In this way, Musk's acquisition of Twitter is a bit like accelerating two dense particles at each other and watching the resulting particle tracks, seeing whether they …
- This isn't an HBR case study, this is a hundreds of millions of dollars new campus of Look At This Fucking Guy … I have a theory that many of the people who thought Karen's purchase of Twitter would work out and would be a good thing have never had …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … How might you bump into other people, people whom you don't know, whom you aren't folloping? Well, in the Twitter Big City, the easy answer would …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … One thing was a conversation I had on Twitter about why news organizations on Mastodon might be a bad idea [3] . One strong opinion that the ActivityPub protocol …
- A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More … You wouldn't need Twitter (or anyone else, really) to verify that the UK Prime Minister's account is official, because you'd have following.gov.uk as …
- Duolingo, but for talking to ML Image Generators 0.0 Context Setting It's Thursday, October 27, 2022 in Portland, Oregon and I just downloaded an archive of my Twitter data because it's a good …
- Cheap, portable, shareable video has consequences but maybe not what you think … The long saga of "will Twitter let me share newsletter.danhon.com or even danhon.com today" continues. As of, uh, press time [sic], it is not letting …
- Weird VR or, Make VR Fun; Heated seats; You don't see the unsuccessful long tail … I can't find it, because it was on Twitter and I didn't bookmark it, but the essence of it was: forget all these whiteboards and everything …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … The Bird in the Room I noticed yesterday that the general plan , or as much a plan can be discerned, is that Elon completes his purchase of Twitter …
- Dying Slowly, and then All At Once; Scrollytelling … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention Dying slowly, and then all at once For the last 6 months or so, every now and then Twitter dot …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … early adopter "this is what I had for breakfast in the Bay Area/London in 2006 people who have written books Twitter tech media/journalist Twitter design twitter …
- Google Slides is a Feature, not an App; Choices; Here, take one of these … Best, Dan who is the ABSOLUTE DESTROYER who designed the Google Slides automated type sizing? , Cyd Harrell, Twitter, August 12, 2022 ↩︎
- We choose not to do the harder thing … Or I could post on my frankly ridiculous Twitter account on the off-chance that someone in the PDX area who happens to be looking is up for …
- The Ridiculously Complex, Subtle and Glorious Dynamic Context of Human Relationships … I did a thing where I write about it in a newsletter, then write about the newsletter in a Twitter thread, and a whole bunch of extra stuff …
- Technology and Being a Person … surveillance adtech expert journalist Shoshana Wodinsky and Kevin Hurler covered it for Gizmodo in Twitter’s New Privacy Policy Is a Video Game That Sucks . I mean, I …
- Community Content … I signed up for Twitter Blue, Twitter’s first subscription product, and the best thing about it so far is that I can remove the Spaces icon from …
- Another Place … I say Robin is a recluse because he is not on Twitter anymore, which is an outlier because Robin is a) a writer, b) an author and c …
- Didn't Organize, Only Moved; Context Collapse … One criticism/observation of Twitter is that by reducing "things" to URl-addressable chunks of 140 character (and then 280 character) text, the network reduces/collapses/eliminates context …
- Do Not Recommend … I do not want to tell Twitter that I don't like its recommendation for a web3 space. Because then Twitter would have that information about me and …
- A Short Conversation About NATO … Another recent example is midjourney on Twitter. Anyway, people are super impressed about the quality of images that DALL·E is able to generate to the extent that …
- Arrrgh, bees! … of TEDxSummerIsle [1] , a fictional TEDx from March 2013 that took place on Twitter and Tumblr, two social networking sites that were in use during the early days …
- Bringing your feelings to work and Reddit, Actually … James’ comments clearly stuck with me, because sometime today I wrote a little bit on Twitter that I’m going to revise and share here. It’s a …
- The Sky Above The Port; Snow Crashing, chapter 14, part 3 … opinion about everything, I wouldn’t get any work done.” which, you know, Twitter is a thing that exists these days and feels like another example of a …
- A New Hope … the floor and the feed Will Slack noticed that Twitter will let you know you have a notification, and that the notification is “ turn on notifications ”. This is …
- Three Things … for a critically acclaimed TV show on Twitter in the UK, but it was 2009 and there were, like, ten Twitter users in the UK at the time …
- An amateur with opinions … Dan Hon @hondanhon Idly imagining a world where Facebook and Twitter don’t exist, the world’s biggest social platform is Blogger.com with over three billion users …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … Twitter, well, I don’t know where Twitter are or what they’re doing, as they say, “as of press time”. I said I’d write more about …
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … enough to share a private experience with complete strangers? I give Facebook and Twitter a bunch of shit for their rhetoric about a global community (no, Facebook’s …
- The ATCR Boundary … imagine that the leaders at youtube, twitter, facebook, and instagram got together and decided that they would all stop suggesting/promoting content via algorithmic feeds for the next …
- Ambient information radiators; butter trucks; trains … 1.2 Some smaller things Agent-distributed computing to save the day In response to Jack Twitter proclaiming that he’d like to call forth some sort of …
- 1:9:90 … is Twitter a place where you’re supposed to be having conversations? If people aren’t having conversations with you, is that someone’s fault? Anyway, we got …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … And I see that as of today, Twitter has decided to spoil Facebook’s earning call by announcing their new policy on paid political speech, which is to …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … There’s no Twitter. No IRC, no Facebook, not even any text messaging. Hiro and Y.T. spend the rest of each other, I swear to god, making …
- An extra bit … it on in the background while I was most likely messing around on Twitter, and realized that the reason why I like TARS and CASE isn’t just …
- "Decentralized?!" … People were able to do this — and were doing it, although perhaps not on the scale enabled by Twitter and then Facebook — certainly in the early days of …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … Because I think huh, communal water well and then I think well yes, Twitter and Facebook are pseudo-communal water wells because they serve as a sort of …
- Some things … I mean, I had to learn about this from Twitter because obviously I do not TikTok. The gist is that you can’t tell when anything was posted …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … This is part of the reason why Mastodon instinctively appeals to me, over our current divine-right, monarch-based networks in Facebook and Twitter. With something like Mastodon …
- Firebreak Protocol … A friend and I were talking about moving from Twitter to Mastodon and how, when they’d deleted their Twitter account, they’d lost access to the Twitter …
- Probably Not Gutless … But I feel like Facebook and Twitter - with things like global search and Person Discovery, are... maybe not good things? Or maybe, what would it be like if …
- Judge social networks not by their DAUs but by the content of their CEO’s character … So I’m still a daily, monthly active user and count toward KPIs that Twitter reports to the street, but I’m no longer really increasing or creating …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … etc.) 1.2 Twitter and Google So, that stinking cesspit which is Twitter, or: I am Jack’s horible, no-good, spineless, lack-of-leadership leadership. In Casey …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … What made this *drama* though was when Twitter's CTO (unadvisedly) reminded everyone that Twitter wasn't under a duty to disclose this information but was doing so …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … On Twitter, @supersat dug up screenshots of a real EAS/WEA interface, which look like, well: if you're (quite) software literate, they look exactly how you'd …
- It's Not Safe To Go Alone, Buy This … EVEN WORSE, there's the non-zero chance that I only saw Sacha's tweet because it showed up in Twitter's In Case You Missed It product …
- I'm OK … First, via Twitter, Netflix is going to "trial technology that hands control to viewers", which is an amusing way of missing the lede that Netflix is in the …
- You can't say no … I quipped on Twitter that it'd be nice to talk to a psychologist about current patterns in app design like the Pattern Of Not Letting Someone Say …
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- The usual: nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there … numbers of our friends. Facebook means we don't have to remember birthdays. Twitter means we don't have to remember how mean people can be. A lot …
- The Surface Area of Being Consulted … That Has Been Taken Or Has Not Been Taken; the other avenue being Twitter) from Arlo Gilbert, That Time Tony Fadell Sold Me a Container of Hummus[3 …
- Dreaming of writing; Just some notes … Anyway, there's a whole bunch of this stuff and I put a whole load more into a Twitter account called @r_danhon[0] that tweets out snippets …
- What Twitter Should Do; CXO vs CUO; Shilling … 1.0 What Twitter Should Do Let's try and do this quickly, in bullet points. * The Ev Williams era of Twitter back in mumble mumble (it doesn …
- On Advertising. Again. … What's worse is that because of those YouTubes and Twitters and Facebooks and the fact that it's easier than ever before for culture to speak unto …
- Everything … I am thinking of a stupid Twitter account that at nicely spaced random intervals just reminds you to stand, because that's what Matt Haughey's documenting[11 …
- Never Forget; OK, One Thing Google Apps Does; Weird Notes … I've written about the stuff I look at during the day before, and it includes everything from two Twitter streams (one, my public account, follows a good …
- Noticings; Insecure; No Jobs But What We Make … Denise Wilton popped up in my timeline with an observation about the way Twitter was letting users know about some of its new features[2] ("Wonder how many …
- Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five: … Oh, and Twitter, I suppose. I have two Twitter accounts. One for friends - that holds quite steady at the Dunbar number - and a "public". Friends have said that …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … Which, with hindsight, kind of misses (at least some of) the success of things like Reddit AMAs and Twitter: that it's closeness-in-general, not physical closeness …
- Our Crap Connected Future; Oh My God More Advertising; Echo … Smart Jewelry for Personal Safety [3] https://twitter.com/iotwatch/status/530535180797497344 [4] https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/530548021738500098 [5] https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/530548834472960000 [6] https …
- It's Too Hot; Monitor This … Adrian Short's blog posts about Samaritans Radar, a "Twitter App" that does potentially naive keyword monitoring to alert you to potentially at-risk Twitter accounts you follow …
- Not Missing Out … The other way of looking at social networks - say, things like IRC or Twitter that are less identity based and more about *telling people things*, not finding out …
- How Are You?; Built It And They Will...; In The Gaps … I have a public Twitter account, a public Instagram account and I can't remember if my Foursquare, er, Swarm account is public or not. Sometimes my posts …
- WATCH; BERG … Why wouldn't they be? - I had quipped, on Twitter, that it looked like it was going to be a pain to get a WPA2 passphrase into a …
- Car!; The Robots Work For Tim Ferris; Diversity; 2014 (6) … But, it brings into question Twitter's methodology for determining gender as it does the makeup of Twitter's userbase in the first place, and even whether what …
- A Real Hunger; Will The Real Blue Ant; A Category Error … It's increasingly likely that Blue Ant finds himself disrupted by Facebook, Google, Twitter or any other number of Valley-based tech companies who will claim, ever increasingly …
- Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack … address book full of email addresses that people actually answer, public and private Twitter accounts, a private Stack Exchange, Dropbox business accounts, a bunch of Silent Circle BlackPhones …
- Probationary Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Blog Unbundled; A World of Connected Objects … Right now, it feels like it's more on Twitter than anywhere else. Unlike McNeill, I have a private Twitter account alongside my public account - a friends and …
- Allies; How Does This Even; Maximum Happy Imagination … 1.0 Allies There's a sort of Turing-lite test these days in the creation of Twitter bots. The most famous example to date is probably the …
- (Re-send w/formatting fix) Episode Ninety Eight: Engineering Serendipity; Genuinely Useful People Personalities; Hubris … 2.0 Genuinely Useful People Personalities One of my friends I follow on Twitter[1] called out the intensifying of some sort of local Douglas Adams field. References …
- Email Is Still A Killer App; Dubya Dubya Dee Cee … we think we have it all sorted out Ev will go and invent Twitter and then we'll all truly be fucked because who has the time to …
- Yet More Smarts; The Continued Tyranny; A Different Kind Of Overload … Clans as well as checking our email and hey did you see that Twitter push notification that just came in. I know it's a disingenuous argument, but …
- Recall; ATMs; … through - get this - "an RSS feed reader"; d) "The Droid Recall App" e) "Twitter: U.S. CSPC @OnSafety" For one, it's been ages since I've seen …
- The iPad; The Difficulty; Tools; Silly … So then things got a bit silly on Twitter[1]. Here's a tweaked prose version of what I was wittering on about: She was jacked into the …
- Kill Hollywood; Not That Worried; Healthbook; Webring! … I bet that Facebook (and to a lesser extent Twitter) account for a bunch of web activity through embedded web views. Gruber's got a rebuttal wherein he …
- Living In An Immaterial World; Snow Crashing 4; Odds … The last company to try this was Twitter, where you have a centralised network with a canonical application experience - the official Twitter apps - and an ecosystem built around …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … as opposed to just using a different app like Snapchat or WhatsApp or Twitter or Secret that comes with intrinsic contextual cues to being another place. Adams' research …
- Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central … Similarly, when Twitter first started its service, for the first fifteen thousand users, there wasn't really a need to have a private account. That changed, later. The …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … I said on Twitter that one of the irritating things about BERG is that when you see their documentation, they make what they do seem easy, and in …
- Literal Tone Of Voice, Presence, Networks, Applescript … https://twitter.com/tomcoates/status/435657750312267776 in yet another example of British whimsy 2. Presence There's a long history of presence on the internet: from commands like …
- Attention, Star Trek and Cars … Star Trek's Computing Infrastructure One of my friends tweeted the phrase "Nationalise Twitter" the other day and in an example of what I would previously describe as …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … Or, because this isn't Twitter, I don't have to have the argument or advance my position in increments of 140 characters that, ultimately, need to be …
- My Followers, Friends and Social Objects … And then, poof, ten years later, we have Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat and Google Plus and and and. Words mean things. Okay, that's a …
- Happy Birthday and Connections … What? After yet another exhortation to my followers on Twitter to subscribe to this newsletter, an interesting exchange[1] with Matt Haughey, Alexis Madrigal and Robin Sloan about …