Michael Crider

Un-banning Trump is my red line. It's an explicit endorsement of hatred and violence. I started this account for my job, and I'll keep it for occasional promotion. But if you want to post somewhere that isn't owned by garbage, hey, here's my Mastodon. @MichaelCrider" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@MichaelCrider

The best PC games of 2022 (that don’t need a graphics card) pcworld.com/article/143598… by @MichaelCrider

"Hey I've been claiming I'm gonna do this thing for months, and also I've admitted I can't control millions of bots. But I'm gonna make a poll to pretend it was somehow not my decision. "See, I'm not enabling violence and hatred, my users are!"

The dash clock in my car was one of the last ones in my life that couldn't automatically adjust itself for time zone or daylight savings changes. Apparently that's now fixed with some combination of GPS, mobile signal, and Android Auto. All eyes on you, microwave.

@shutupzac96 Always a second fiddle to Batman: TAS and X-Men in the retrospectives of 90s cartoons, but it was a really great introduction to the Marvel universe for kids.

My Spider-Man ❤️

@benjedwards Lucky. I haven't seen it anywhere in east PA.

@MichaelCrider We have Shiner Bock in the stores here in Raleigh

I had to drive 1100 miles to get a Shiner Bock Also I'm gonna see some family members later But seriously this is good beer

@benjedwards Not really, it's just a general Texas thing And apparently a not-at-all-anywhere-on-the-East-Coast thing

@MichaelCrider My mom is from a town near Shiner. Are you from around there?

“he’s donald trump for people who freaked out about szechuan sauce at mcdonald’s” i have literally never heard a better description of musk

The GeForce RTX 4080 would be a solid, if unspectacular upgrade at the same $699 as the RTX 3080—it's no major leap in performance like the 4090 was. But Nvidia charging $1199 for this—71% MORE—isn't just bonkers, it's insulting. Don't buy it. pcworld.com/article/137974…

@edzitron The world's first elective frontal lobotomy.

We are acting like twitter is going to die, when in reality it’s more like it’s going to go into surgery and we’re not sure it’s going to come out the other side the same person

@snakeappletree1 @ZoeSchiffer It sure does. For example, if you think a company that builds around 2 million cars a year is worth more than Ford, GM, Toyota, Hyundai, and Volkswagen, combined (with more than twenty times the output), then you have a very strange definition of value indeed.

@MichaelCrider @ZoeSchiffer It depends how you value value.

NEW: The designers leading Elon Musk’s Blue verified project are out, along with the lead web engineer. Many Twitter employees who maintained critical infrastructure have resigned. This is going to look like a very different company tomorrow.

@snakeappletree1 @ZoeSchiffer Yeah, that thing is called "owning a bunch of incredibly overvalued stock." When every auto brand has a $30K EV, try not to be the last one holding up Musk's personal fortune bubble.

@MichaelCrider @ZoeSchiffer If you’re the richest man on the planet, you are probably doing something more right than most people who don’t think like you and don’t do things your way.

@NexusBen He offered them a massive paycheck as a joke. Except the joke was a legally binding contract, and they called his bluff. You can't blame them for cashing a check from someone dumb and/or stoned enough to write it.

It's still crazy to think Twitter execs literally forced Elon to buy it. This all could have been avoided

@snakeappletree1 @ZoeSchiffer If you're incapable of working with 90% of your employees, your employees are not the problem. Remember this wise and ancient proverb: If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.

@ZoeSchiffer A process of flushing out the twats you can’t work with. Those who are dedicated to Twitter Users, Twitter company and the CEOs vision, will remain. Those who score less than 3 of those criteria would be a problem. It’s management. Elon Musk is not stupid. People are reactionary.

You know those clips of Star Trek actors, shaking their chairs and stumbling around a perfectly stationary bridge set, so it looks like the ship's getting hit when the camera wobbles? That's what our Twitter feeds are right now. Except there's an actual bomb underneath the set.

The creator of sonic the hedgehog is arrested. Today is relentless.

And on the homepage, these words appear: My name is Elon, Visionary of Visionaries; Look on my Startups, ye Pleebs, and be inspired! Nothing beside remains. Round the page Of that colossal Bird, whose engineers he fired All that echoes is a sad billionaire's rage.

Hey I'm driving across the country to see family for Thanksgiving, did I miss anything interesting on here? @MichaelCrider" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@MichaelCrider

Yes, almost all of my lifetime revenue has ultimately come from advertising, and I prefer to block ads as infrequently as possible but also two 30-second commercials before a movie trailer that is also a commercial is some bullshit

I got a free year of YouTube Premium with Google Fi, and lemme tell ya, my elaborate system of ad blockers and modded apps is really going to appreciate the break