Deji Bryce Olukotun

Thrilled my short story "Between the Dark and the Dark" was included in 2020 Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited author of Outlander Diana Gabaldon! #scifi #space @johnjadams johnjosephadams.com/best-american/…

I'm taking a 6 week break after the Twitter buyout until (hopefully) the chaos quiets. If it doesn't, I'll leave for good. I have friends on this platform I've never met, but who I love to hear from. Will miss you. It's not hard to find me.

I’ll never get tired of jacaranda trees like this on the street.

Downloading my Twitter data. Will see how exportable the data is and how I can reuse it. Really disgusted with what's happening on the platform.

Batman 2: Man Batter

I spent Drive My Car thinking about the car, because I used to have the same model (900 S, not the Turbo). The real Saab was super loud and poorly insulated - though a beautiful machine. I don't know how they recorded the dialogue in all those scenes.

There are some dark patterns out there but placing a hair on the screen to get the user to swipe is next level

Key role to watch at Twitter is what happens to Vijaya Gadde, General Counsel. She has been both a passionate defender of free expression and also integral to weeding out vitriol on the platform. If Musk kicks her out, get ready for a rocky ride.

@mariannedh Here's a little background. Thanks for your insights here. techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/quo…

@olutron I have no recollection of Parlio at all. Which goes to show 😂 I have some qualms with Mastodon’s content moderation model, and I’m not closed to trying it, but I currently don’t see the value and I wonder what’s the tipping point in terms of value, precisely

everyone and their mother opened an account yesterday… and then came back here to talk about it because here’s where the rest of the people is

@mariannedh I hear you, but I'd be willing to try it. Remember Parlio? That had potential and then was sold to Quora as soon as it got to any sort of scale.

The network effect is unavoidable –I’ve spent a decade building a community of trust here, am I about to invest that time and energy somewhere else if there’s no possibility of interoperability? Very likely, only if I’m *certain* that’s the next thing. And I’m not.

So the open source alternative to Twitter is Mastodon. But I don't know anyone who actually uses it. (Part of the network effects problem - very hard to start a new club at scale.) Anyone tried it? joinmastodon.org

Just to be clear this is for that other platform and not Twitter. Maybe could do both?

We've all blamed someone else when a relationship falls apart. I just hadn't heard someone else come up with *this* excuse.

Did I get into an argument with him? No, I just walked over right next to him and grabbed a drink from the cooler. And he got quiet.

Went to a party this weekend and listened to a man loudly declare that he broke up with his girlfriend because of BLM. Claimed the LA looting tore them apart. Not because of anything he did in the relationship, no. It was "BLM" that did it.

I'm trying to understand Musk taking over Twitter. It feels punitive, in the same league as his former Paypal colleague destroying Gawker. The SEC challenged him on his use of Twitter so he wants to buy it. You don't like how I drive? I'm going to buy the road.

@ryanwtaylor @RadPowerBikes I've noticed it's kids who are too young to drive who have them. Middle school through 15 or so. See a lot more of them downtown traveling in packs. Don't seem to mingle much with the wheelie kids.

@RadPowerBikes are a platform for freedom and self expression. Skateboards gave us freedom and agency, but todays kids have skateboards AND these bikes. Dreaming of how much simpler the 4 mile skate to the only park in Fresno would have been with this.

I would like to invest in Rad Power Bikes immediately please.

Just picked up Disco Elysium and the creepy voice acting literally scared my wife out of the room. It is DARK.

My debut fantasy SPICE ROAD has: 🫖 Tea magic 👻 Monsters inspired by Middle Eastern folklore 🗡️ A fierce girl with a blade, & ⚡️ Enemies-to-??? It also has an official release date! ✨ January 24, 2023 ✨ You can add it on Goodreads here: bit.ly/3rL6hmP

@maiya_ibrahim @aliettedb Oh cool and congratulations!

@saibellanyc In California, we call it cloud nectar.