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@talyaTheeEnby They look at circulation statistics, toots.

please get a library card even if you won’t use it because cities will look at library statistics and use that to decide to keep libraries open and properly funded

@textfiles Have you worked in Hollywood? Or a game company? Countless turds have shipped with fantastic, loving details in one area. Budget and energy and time run out at the end, not in the planning/honeymoon phase.

@ORG We part ways hard

Excited to see what absolutely blanded-out, shitheel anodyne garbage Pixar is going to turn out starting now (average movies take 3-4 to make there, so whatever braindead outlook this is won't appear until 2027-2030)

@textfiles That's typical Hollywood pre-production masturbation, though. Even small budget fare at the Hallmark Channel finds room for that stuff. Morale budget is cheaper than paying artists what they're actually worth.

CARS, which is one of the weakest films in Pixar's slate before CARS 2 showed up, still worked with engineers to make the individual car models accurately reflect the suspensions of whatever they would be in reality. It'll take decades to weed that quality approach out.

@EclipseGc Ah yes, Drupal. Where you can read 1,200 pleas for help going back ten years from people trying to get a sitemap.xml file generated. The intersection between solid technical people and a CMS that cannot generate a list of its own URLs correctly... good luck with that.

#Drupal folks. If you’re solid technically and are willing to move to Austin, TX… my team at Apple is hiring. I’d love to refer you in.

"Capitalism for me, but not for thee..." @sama @OpenAI

Nailed it.

@katiemattaini I know this site is a dumpster fire, but check out this horror show of a professor. ratemyprofessors.com/professor/96437

For the millionth time: "Rigor" does not make good teaching. So beyond frustrating to hear amazing students turned off of entire fields because they're being hazed instead of taught.

@textfiles All the amusing stuff winds up here google.com/search?q=%22de…

Enjoying the insightful comments and thoughts emanating from this Hackernews discussion... just kidding, it's a glorious world-class shitshow of half-baked keyboard dribble.

@dancohen Here's a link to an archival service that allows people to read this paywalled article against the wishes of the publisher, likely with unspoken support of the author. Who should solve that first, then opine on others. archive.is/Qnbq8

For The Atlantic, I wrote about last week’s ruling in an important case that may shape the future of reading—and likely diminish the role of libraries in that future theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@stalman This is little more than cultural strip mining. Not because it's AI or because you're leveraging someone else's brand for attention, but because it's low effort with an ugly result. You prodded a summarization tech to regurgitate forum posts. You need to be uphill from this.

I used GPT-4 to generate a Kodak Portra 400 Film Emulation preset for Lightroom

Approaching peak NFT. @garyvee @gimmesomecandy

@jakeaspey @hankgreen @LenPeralta @jonathancoulton Blip.tv issued a press release saying they'd run with it but imploded. Feedburner was going to partner but got bought by Google. @davidmarcus couldn't herd cats to get it going at PayPal when he was CEO, though they lifted some ideas.

@jakeaspey @hankgreen The GimmeSomeCandy concept, implementation and tech was my creation. Each creator got a custom theme designed by brilliant @LenPeralta. Ze Frank got duckies and did a great job running with it. @jonathancoulton succeeded with bananas, monkeys and robots. zefrank.com/thewiki/Gimme_…

Twitter testing tipping but tying tips to individual accounts rather than individual tweets is, it me, a miss. Show people a tweet that has received love...make a whole other like button, and let people (if they want) display the tweets they've tipped.

@hankgreen What the fuck is a Ze Frank "Duckie"

It's inexcusable that Ze Frank launched duckies in 2006 and Reddit has had Gold since 2010 and every other platform was like, "Nah, let's lean into datamining our users so people can sell them sandals."

@whitneyarner @zefrank The Org was what Facebook never managed to be.

today is also the 15th anniversary of the start of The Show with @zefrank, which shaped how the internet is today more than you probably know. I've rewatched it day by day 5 years in and 10 years in and boy, it gets weirder to look back every time. youtube.com/watch?v=VxyiRM…

This guy gave multiple TED Talks.

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@gerstenzang Built tons of innovative payment systems (GimmeSomeCandy, patronage sites, software rentals, cruise ship bookings...) and I can't tell you how far you missed the mark with Stripe Checkout.

One objection I had: the iPad project was *not* a startup within Apple. Occasionally, you have small, independent still-being-defined products and teams that can change the shape of a company (like ahem *cough* Stripe Checkout). But it's not a startup.

Really insight interview with two people who shaped the iPad. Captures well how windy and strange developing new things can be. inputmag.com/tech/the-ipads…