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Bracing for impact

New post: fluffy rambles: Bracing for impact beesbuzz.biz/blog/11570-Bra… #Kitchen #Remodel #Life
Rel-Me Profile Link Verification on WordPress for Mastodon and Other Services: dshanske.com/b/1hn
I’m back from my vacation, where I spent a lot of time field-testing my venue code. As far as I can tell, it is working perfectly, but field-testing is what allows me to figure out the tweaks I need to make the experience better, so there will be some… dshanske.com/t/1hi
I have to choose my health insurance tonight and it feels like gambling. "Do I want to risk that there will be no in-network EPO doctors and I'll have to pay everything out of pocket, or do I want to pay a $500 deductible to see my doctor, with a higher chance she's in-network?"
NEW: Days before the launch of paid verification, Twitter’s trust & safety team sent Elon Musk a 7-page list of risks and recommendations on how the feature could be abused. But Musk refused to adopt any change that would delay the launch. We got the docs: platformer.news/p/elon-only-tr…
Toxic philosophy that promotes a myth of 10X heroes that usually just turn out to be loud, privileged egomaniacs. This isn’t building a team. It’s building a cult. I dislike Elon more every time he opens his mouth. twitter.com/u/status/15922…
Elon Musk just sent Twitter employees a memo saying that he is going to base stock compensation off how he does it at SpaceX, where “exceptional amounts of stock will b...
You really don't want to miss this one 😬
Today’s @platformer is full of scoopy new details about Musk’s Twitter takeover. And it’s gonna be FREE to all subscribers — click here to get it in your inbox ...
so Elon 1. Fired half of the company, without determining whether they were necessary employees 2.Shut down 80% of microservices, without determining what was actually necessary for site operation Looking forward to him believing he can remove the useless 90% of his brain.

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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)

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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

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