Bad Justin

@michael_nielsen Sounds like you’ve surrounded yourself by the wrong people

One of the weirdest phrases in common use in Silicon Valley: "deep dive". As far I can tell it means: "I read a few articles, maybe one or two books, and now confuse myself for someone who knows something about this subject".

@anothercohen It’s nice that Twitter is still running but doing so at a loss for over a decade doesn’t sound like A+ work to me

The fact that Twitter is still running should tell you all you need to know about hiring tenured Twitter engineers who were just laid off. They are A+

@naval A great redo of the home timeline would be to simply set the depth of the follow graph + choose from algorithm or chronological

Network effects are incredibly hard to break and Twitter, built on a follow graph rather than on a friend graph, has the most powerful network effect in social. Twitter isn’t going anywhere unless they shut the site down and keep it off.

@ggwhiting What are you talking about?

Why are MacBook the generally preferred laptop? I just can’t work out why they’re so bloody popular with devs on here? Give me a secondhand Thinkpad with a reasonable keyboard and Linux and my tools of choice and I’m happy as Larry!

@wongmjane Pretty sure that’s exactly what Elon said the new free speech policy is

Yooo, what if there’s a social media platform where if a user is suspended, they get swapped into a world of AI chat bots without telling them. So they think they’re still replying to their friends, but it’s just bots instead

@petrillic Not even close

@elonmusk Let Blue users configure the buttons under each tweet. I want a block button next to the share button that doesn’t ask me if I’m sure

What should Twitter do next?

@rabble Employees all millionaires, users and society all still have Twitter because of the deal. Shareholders made a garbage 2% YoY return over a decade. You can’t possibly be more wrong.

The thing that pisses me off is the board and Parag were doing the “right” thing by selling for maximized shareholder value that then destroyed everything they’d built. How is this ok? The twitter shareholders got a payday but employees, users, and society all lose.

@erinkwoo This has been known since 11/10 btw

Robin Wheeler, Twitter’s ads exec, appears to be out:

@ChrisJBakke And at Facebook why they need 70K engineers to run their php website without mentioning tech debt

Now that Twitter has 7 hardcore engineers left and seems to still be working fine, somewhere a Google SVP is nervously writing a memo about why they still totally need 150,000 people.

@Austen Happy to see influential leaders finally speaking up that you don’t need 7500 people to keep a website from “going down”. The engineering takes on Twitter have been awful.

People are saying twitter is going to go down as if the way servers stay up is a bunch of infra engineers sitting in the back room pedaling stationary bikes to power the racks

@Austen Now do the study again but with stimulants

There may be other similar studies, but there's clearly an entire cottage industry of taking this stuff out of context. You can look at that data for yourself: docs.iza.org/dp8129.pdf

Someone referenced the notion that you can't work productively for more than 5 hours/day, and I realized I had always heard that but had no idea what the notion came from. Googling around you find and endless number of sites linking to each other, but eventually found the study.

@historyinmemes They’re wearing Heelies

In the Russian dance Berezka, women move with short steps, so short that they look like they're floating.

@Aella_Girl Feel like the choices should be Yes even better Yes same thing No unacceptable

Assume in a world of elder gods, and you're trying to raise one via ritual virgin sacrifice. Would a sacrifice of gold star lesbians work?

@jimmyfallon $8

Elon, can you fix this? #RIPJimmyFallon

@GergelyOrosz Yes

@elonmusk @business Less than $150B or not in talks?

@business False

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in talks to raise funds valuing the rocket-launch and satellite company at more than $150 billion trib.al/ARnz2zl

@primomcprimo @matthuang It was only about $.57 of real money per customer speculating about shitcoins, 10b in Monopoly money. Nothing of value was lost

@matthuang I love how these multi millionaire guys come on Twitter and apologize and then say but now we’ll do better. Casually glazing over the 10b in customer funds vanished, gone where? Somebody’s pocket.

We are shocked by the revelations about FTX, Alameda, and SBF.

@medus4_cdc Didn’t realize one of the Twitter microservices was powering half the internet, oops.