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The Steelcase Vintage Quidditch Chair: boffosocko.com/?p=55811553
The Twitter engineering director just addressed his leaked messages during a staff meeting and said sorry 🙃
Deleted my quote tweet of the screenshot of a Twitter manager calling the engineers he was rehiring weak and lazy bc I don’t think naming someone at his level is necess...
Next time someone says: “both sides are the same…”, only one side has signs like this up in Georgia. #WarnockforSenate
NEW: Twitter has lockdown it’s code base, freezing production changes to Twitter systems until further notice. Exceptions made if Elon explicitly says so, according to an internal email. 1/
Looking at some rough statistics for the Fediverse tonight and it appears that since November 4 that there are now 1,785 more instances or nodes in the network. About 60 of those are WordPress-based sites! (boffosocko.com/?p=55811538)

Are you rocking the boat during eternal Caturday?

Our #CSCW2022 paper, “Maintaining Values: Navigating Diverse Perspectives in Value-Charged Discussions in Open Source Development” is now available on the ACM DL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3555550

No (Open Web) Regrets

Max was kind of a jerk though, no?
Just now catching up on the GP, and very pleased with a strong finish by Carlos and Charles. One more race to defend P2 in both championships. #F1
Our #CSCW2022 paper, “Maintaining Values: Navigating Diverse Perspectives in Value-Charged Discussions in Open Source Development” is now available on the ACM DL: doi.org/10.1145/3555550
I successfully navigated the timezone changes to London and back and didn't lose my Duolingo streak, AMA 🔥
Live now on youtube youtu.be/Z8-jOIE5QEk
Scheduled tweets still working or has all the infrastructure on twitter collapsed? I'm live in 1 hour over on youtube to talk student loan forgiveness youtu.be/Z8-jOIE5QEk
Twitter laid off roughly 4,400 of 5,500 contractors yesterday, per Casey: twitter.com/caseynewton/st…
Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content modera...
Twitter contractors are also losing their healthcare on Monday — with roughly 48 hours notice. Workers with ongoing health conditions, and some who are pregnant, are scrambling. Information about COBRA is going out via snail mail. twitter.com/caseynewton/st…
Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear t...
omg it’s actually happening. Twitter’s tech stack is so fragile it’s unwinding features. technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/106…
jack the nonabrasive https://twitter.com/karabaic
I kinda hope twitter gracefully degrades, losing feature after feature until users are forced to SMS an obscure phone number.