Iván Cavero Belaunde (@[email protected])

Like many people, I am departing Twitter for Mastodon; I am leaving the account up but won’t be posting here further. You can find me at @ivanski" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.mit.edu/@ivanski.

@TheOmniZaddy @ryxcommar People’s Front. The Popular Front people are splitters.

@ryxcommar Popular front, not populist (at least traditionally)

uncool annoying normie resist shitlibs who had 🌊 emojis in their display names in 2020 just pulled off one of the biggest antifascist victories in American history and some people still won't accept that they're the populist front against right-wing extremism.

@Lubchansky @LemieuxLGM You’ve been rate limited.

i try to access my savings account and the ATM screen only displays a crying laughing emoji. it spits out a receipt that there are only two genders. i call customer service and they forget where they put my money but it was “somewhere epic”

@erikbryn @Noahpinion Surely you’re joking.

It will be epic. It will inspire millions of kids to love science. And it will be written by @Noahpinion

~70% of US GDP is from blue counties but you want to turn this into a payments app after enabling right-wing shitposters and platforming Nazis. This is gonna go just great.

@DrEricDing This is when Zuck should respond with “how confident are Dewey Cheatham and Howe that you’re going to pay them”?

📍BREAKING—Twitter just formally wrote Zuckerberg & threatened to sue #Meta over #Threads. ✉️Letter’s text: Dear Mr. Zuckerberg: I write on behalf of X Corp., as successor in interest to Twitter, Inc. ("Twitter"). Based on recent reports regarding your recently launched "Threads" app, Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta") has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property. Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees. Twitter knows that these employees previously worked at Twitter; that these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information; that these employees owe ongoing obligations to Twitter; and that many of these employees have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices. With that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta's copycat "Threads" app with the specific intent that they use Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Meta's competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees' ongoing obligations to Twitter. Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information. Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice to prevent any further retention, disclosure, or use of its intellectual property by Meta. Further, Meta is expressly prohibited from engaging in any crawling or scraping of Twitter's followers or following data. As set forth in Twitter's Terms of Service, crawling any Twitter services - including, but not limited to, any Twitter websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, widgets, ads, and commerce services - is permissible only "if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file" available at x.com/robots.txt. The robots.txt file specifically disallows crawling of Twitter's followers or following data. Scraping any Twitter services is expressly prohibited for any reason without Twitter's prior consent. Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies or iniunctive relief without further notice. Please consider this letter a formal notice that Meta must preserve any documents that could be relevant to a dispute between Twitter, Meta, and/or former Twitter employces who now work for Meta. That includes, but is not limited to, all documents related to the recruitment, hiring, and onboarding of these former Twitter employees, the development of Meta's competing Threads app, and any communications between these former Twitter employees and any agent, representative, or employee or Meta. Very truly yours, Alex Spiro cc: Elon Musk Jennifer Newstead

@medialab How about mastodon.MIT.edu?

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Can’t believe that @PeterHotez fans are gathered outside Joe Rogan’s house shouting that they won’t leave until he submits a paper to a peer-reviewed journal.

@sandofsky VC is also failure-protected if they follow trends. If you as a partner lose your shirt in a crypto bet, it's not - as it should be - a career-impacting failure if everyone else did too.

Venture capitalists needed to keep funding “the next big thing,” whether or not it was real. It’s like when banks ran out of safe mortgages, they had to get into sub-prime lending.

@RonaldCrossPeru 21 de Junio de 1978, 6-0 ante Argentina, eliminando a Brasil. Yo si creo, como muchos Brasileros, que nos vendimos. Una gran vergüenza como nunca.

El peor día en la historia de la selección peruana es el 12 de octubre de 1997 y no acepto peros.

Well, Georgia's “It's Euphoric” is getting some well deserved exposure #WWDC23

@DougJBalloon Deep cut.

Opinion | The next six months will be critical for the Ron DeSantis campaign. by Tom Friedman

@JetBlue @durjoy You do realize that “we are sorry you’re frustrated” is not an actual apology, right? Could you at least do “we are sorry our flight is delayed?” Cc @SorryWatch

@durjoy We're sorry to hear about your frustration. Flight 70 is now scheduled to depart at 10:30 pm. For rebooking options, send us a DM with the full name of each customer, six-letter confirmation code, and email. twitter.com/messages/compo…

@samthielman Why can’t it be? All words are made up.

I just learned that the first formula for calculating the n-th decimal digit of pi (without calculating all the preceding digits) has been found by Simon Plouffe in 2022 😲

@jacksonhvisuals 😬

Look at… look at their teeth 😳

Within a month of leaving prison, I was accepted into @UCBerkeley and received my bachelors with a 4.0. My felony record prevented me from finding work, even at my alma mater. A thread.

@rafrasenberg Big Mac, fries, coke.

Name a more famous combo than Ctrl C + Ctrl V

Our Administration has worked hard to lower the deficit by $1.7 trillion. The first bill House Republicans brought to the floor would help wealthy people and corporations cheat on their taxes – increasing the deficit. Their very first bill.