Erin Sparling

@inck @colealan When can I sign up for the TestFlight?!

@colealan @everyplace

Spent some time reverse engineering a Sony app to figure out how the A7II sends photos over Wi-Fi. Why? Because I shouldn't have to use an app that forces sign up and tracking just to access my own photos.

@GalaxyKate Currently imagining the “Fediverse Connector“ overlay, which shows a high-speed maglev train network with stops on each nation. Only challenge is how does one shoot for Europe as an ideal for train usage, and not say… Snowpiercer.

we must go back

@golan Pretty sure when they show up they’ll send you Packing.

Waiting for the Algorithm Police to show up and cite my Voronoi violations

@Stryfe_Ryder @rpilocator This is the right answer.

@rpilocator I would do a bubble chart. X axis for days, y for occurrences, and bubble diameter based on volume. Then color code for each model. Would help weed out the "2 in stock" events

@tomcoates FFS is right. I love that each Mastodon server lists out their ban policies, the servers they have banned and why. But I also don’t get a sense of like… what is the right number? I imagine reputable lists will surface… but in the meantime we all suffer.

Another batch of the abuse I've received in the last twelve hours. As before, MASSIVE CONTENT WARNINGS. plasticbag.org/mastodon/IMG_3… plasticbag.org/mastodon/IMG_3… plasticbag.org/mastodon/IMG_3… plasticbag.org/mastodon/IMG_3…

Okay. Where to start. I have been posting the odd comment in reply to Elon Musk's mostly bullshit comments on Twitter. I got a lot of hate speech and abuse directed to me. I mostly moved to Mastodon. They followed me.

@yeemachine I think about that one exhibit with the gigantic film strip so much. The one that shows the entire film, with a few lightbulbs around the case illuminating different points in time. So good!

The cafe is a must

バルス✌️

@jcn And RSS.

I think an interesting byproduct of all this renewed interest in the fediverse / mastodon will be many more people realizing how much of the internet is just held together with duct tape, volunteer sysadmins, and crappy software running on un-backed up VPSes.

@rjstelling Just got mine after 3-4 days.

@simonbs My Embody was life-changing. Took a while to dial in all of the adjustments, but it’s perfect now.

And I really need a new chair. I’ve used my current one so much that there’s a whole in the fabric. Each time I sit down the foam falls out of the chair 😅

Tried the Herman Miller Embody this week and really liked it but I think I’ll miss a neck support. I wonder how Embody compares to Steelcase Gesture 🤔 Unfortunately, I can’t try the Gesture. The two chairs look similar but the Gesture has a neck support which I quite like.

@saylor @elonmusk You’ve literally just described one of the plot points in Dave Egger’s The Circle and The Every novels, which are NOT roadmaps for a healthy world.

@elonmusk With 116.6 million followers, your polls are starting to become statistically significant. What if Twitter had an "All Users" poll that you could push to every single twitter account to find out what the entire network is thinking, with no particular adverse selection? 🤔

Reinstate former President Trump

@_MemoryMod_ @SuperchiefNFT @seeonawhim Oh good point, I should get this on my @electricobject e02!

@SuperchiefNFT @seeonawhim WAGMi-san @everyplace

Can we talk about how amazing the @_MemoryMod_ collection looks on our @seeonawhim digital canvases??!❤️👏

@stuartathompson I wrote a dns redirect to help with this: 💰.realtwitter.com shows only people you follow that are Twitter Blue.

i will pay $8 per month for a service that blocks people who paid for Twitter Blue

@molleindustria That Cathedral of Learning! :chefskiss:

In the last couple of years I've been working on an open world comedy game set in a utopian future. Picture an ecosocialist midwestern GTA, with dialogues instead of car jacking. It's a big project and it's still very rough, but stay in touch for updates.

@pimoroni @bvksn 💖💖💖

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Remember when ”paid blue checks” were the biggest controversy we had to talk about? Well, this week you can use the new quit.* prefix to view everyone who has quit Twitter in real time. quit.realtwitter.com 🫡💙.realtwitter.com also works if you’re emoji-inclined.

@joshu @edwk Hell. Or more optimistically Gr.

@edwk i still own acio.us so maybe something with that

i guess i need to set up a mastodon

@tomcoates You know if it weren’t for this thread I never would’ve realized that I joined right during or after SXSW 07. I didn’t go until 09, so I must’ve heard about it through the grapevine then.

If you’re also a super old Twitter user let me know by DM if you’d like to participate. But you have to be super old or were involved in that early period. And maybe we can get a conversation going.

I joined Twitter sixteen years ago yesterday! I am user number 12,514. I actually interviewed at Odeo with Jack and Ev before they thought it up. I might do a twitter space tomorrow or on the weekend with other super old bastards to reminisce and talk about it.

@ftrain What a coffeescript burn.

“Web3” gets so much flack, but one of my favorite examples was from last year when hicetnunc imploded and… a new server spun up the next day, re-ran the OSS code and just started reading and writing back to the same blockchain. Imagine if we could do that for Twitter.

If it were a game of 4D chess, maybe the point of destroying Twitter would be to convert $44b of debt to Tesla shares, bringing in a new class of significant, angry shareholders to vote him out of the CEO role? Seems easier to just quit, but then stock price would go down, so…?

What I can’t stop thinking about though is: what does one do with a $44b broken toy? For all the trouble it’s been through, at least Flickr has stayed up through so many resales.

My LambdaMOO character is >25 years old, followed by my Amazon and eBay accounts at >20 years, and then probably Flickr at 18. I was really hoping Twitter was going to keep going, but I suspect like the original SMS shortcode that it’ll 404(04) soon enough.