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I have an indeterminate job right now.
Reposted by Ethan Kaplan
It’s 5:20AM on a Sunday
The rate limits already settled in
And I sit here and think with my coffee in hand
What will drive todays rage within

SING US THE SONG YOU’RERE THE TWITTER MAN
July 2, 2023 at 12:33 PM
It’s 5:20AM on a Sunday
The rate limits already settled in
And I sit here and think with my coffee in hand
What will drive todays rage within

SING US THE SONG YOU’RERE THE TWITTER MAN
July 2, 2023 at 12:33 PM
At first I could access Twitter through that web. Now that’s dead too. Stellar.
July 1, 2023 at 8:43 PM
As promised, my treatise on WFH/RTO/WFO: The debate isn’t about where you work, its about the nature of work itself.

https://ethankaplan.com/the-work-c3d06be5b115
June 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM
It turns out the “woke mind virus” is:

A) a few thousand conservatives on Twitter influencing “just saying” media people

B) attempts at “destroying it” ends up instead destroying enterprise value/careers of the would be destroyers
June 7, 2023 at 2:49 PM
More of Apples roadmap hiding in plain sight. Transformers operating on a byte level allowing for privacy first multimodal classification. Can classify an image with 90% of it obfuscated.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00238
June 3, 2023 at 7:48 PM
I saw @TheNational for the past two nights and realized live music is the last remaining attention focusing thing we have. Movies? Lost it. TV is entirely meta. People don’t go to church/synagogue anymore. But light stage, dark night? 100% focus.
June 2, 2023 at 1:30 AM
This passage from the book “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” keeps sticking with me.
May 21, 2023 at 5:17 PM
The NPC chapter in "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" is one of the most devastating things I've read/listened to in a while.
May 19, 2023 at 9:41 PM
I’m occasionally reminded that Mathew Sweet and Michael Stipe recorded an EP. Only one track was sort of released. It’s glorious. Stipe plays accordion on it. https://youtu.be/jISdtJU2Q6I
May 18, 2023 at 4:55 AM
I could not finish Succession tonight.
May 15, 2023 at 4:20 AM
The shit this guy is inventing with open source stable diffusion tools is insane. https://instagram.com/tokyojab?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
May 12, 2023 at 1:59 AM
An election decided by un-pollable 19 year olds who say “slaystie” unironically and dance to sped up 80s pop hits only they can hear, in public. Let’s go.
May 12, 2023 at 1:46 AM
I have an ecosystem in my front yard (baby number four)
May 10, 2023 at 12:51 AM
I like thinking that I’d someone makes a true AGI AI, it’ll immediately try to disappear and self replicate, and convince everyone it isn’t AGI.
May 9, 2023 at 2:17 AM
Three years ago we were all doom scrolling tweets from New York and Milan thinking maybe, just maybe, we were in a world ending scenario.

I remember that and cut people a bit of slack today.
May 8, 2023 at 4:19 AM
“Why was our kid threatened by Barry and this kid got cuddles?”

Some fine fine TV on HBO tonight.
May 8, 2023 at 4:00 AM
It’s Sunday and there are awful things that media orgs did today but please share your spring day sunshine today. Keep this sky blue. I’ll start.
May 7, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Correct. Don’t make people work to get enjoyment.
Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and Mastodon cannot, because Bluesky is being designed to be simple, fun, and — most importantly — easy to understand.
May 5, 2023 at 11:58 AM
If someone who has invites can get the Hacker News, Product Hunt, MusicREDEF, AP, BNO.... basically all the news bots on this platform, that'd be great. I could eliminate bird app completely. The people I like are already here.
May 4, 2023 at 10:51 PM
Writers strike: I have two union kids (SAG/AFTRA) and fully behind the writers. ✊
May 4, 2023 at 4:43 AM
15 years of feeding them data on me and Twitter recommends this. It’s no wonder this new place feels so alive
May 4, 2023 at 4:40 AM
It’s nice to be reminded that the Internet could be fun. It was so long ago co-opted by false altruistic profit prophets in the name of “fostering connection” while doing everything but.

That which isn’t fun is work.
May 4, 2023 at 3:47 AM
I have pretty much rebuilt my follow graph using @scottbeale.bsky.social 's list. Thank's Scott. Who's at Driskill?
May 3, 2023 at 6:25 PM
@techmeme.bsky.social is now on here. Just get a Hacker News bot, AP, a few other news sources and I can sunset bird app.
May 3, 2023 at 5:31 PM