“The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.”
— Lieutenant General David Lindsay Morrison AO
Upon reflection, I have determined that my values are inconsistent with those of Twitter’s post-acquisition by Elon Musk.
Rather than continue to use the service - even within my safe #NBL23 bubble - I believe the correct and appropriate action is to cease use of the platform.
I am available on Mastodon @canion@social.lol and micro.blog @canion 🫡
Microblogvember 2022, Day 24: As I get older the challenge to retain my hair becomes greater.
Lunch date at Parliament House, with Hannah and, uh, Benji’s lion.
Microblogvember 2022, Day 23: With the doom of Twitter, I have enjoyed being able to focus on a daily update of my micro.blog site — this content I own.
Microblogvember 2022, Day 22: When I was a kid I would constantly have a graze somewhere on my body. Fortunately, I survived.
I’ve always been an RSS completionist. Since the days of Bloglines, which was before Google Reader. I have a few hundred feeds and I work through them — usually on a daily basis — to ensure they are read and down to ‘inbox zero’.
I achieve this with Inoreader and a combination of NetNewsWire and Reeder.
I’m wondering though, should I be using FraidyCat? I tried it years ago and it didn’t stick. Maybe I should try again?
Microblogvember 2022, Day 21: It is late November and our swimming pool is still as cold as ice. I don’t like it.
Tipped 100% for this round of #NBL23. Thanks Shaun Bruce of Sydney Kings for knocking down the end game triple to steal that one.
Microblogvember 2022, Day 20: As a parent, I find I have to repeat myself quite often.
Recent events have almost — but not quite — destroyed musk sticks for me.
It’s good to see new accounts and activity on micro.blog. I hope a reasonable proportion stick around.
The best thing to remember about micro.blog is that it is a personal blog host as much as it is a social network. Blogs are a permanent place for your writing, and in my opinion, this makes them more weighty, and less transient, than tweets. It provides an opportunity to build a corpus of thoughts in the form of text, pictures, video and audio over time.
Slowly but surely you end up with years of posts that you can look back upon - and link to.
Micro.blog is not Twitter, it’s not Mastodon, and that is its strength.
Microblogvember 2022, Day 19: I used to read a novel quite regularly. Nowadays, I still read a lot, but it’s mostly short-form articles and news. I should re-focus attention on books.
Ed Zitron has published “The Fraudulent King”, a marvellous explainer on the latest happenings at Twitter, but at the same time, outlined what a petulant, unimpressive person Elon Musk is — and how the world now knows it.
There were so many great lines in this article, it was hard to know which to highlight as an extract:
…we are in the process of watching said timeline wholesale reject Elon Musk and his ideology. Musk has paid $44 billion to purchase a website that has all told him to go fuck himself.
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Under the largest spotlight in the world, Musk has proven himself to be a petty charlatan who lacks any meaningful skills necessary to run a company. While we may have been able to fool ourselves that Musk could have successfully run three or four companies at once, the truth is more likely that SpaceX and Tesla have survived his tenure as CEO rather than thrived under his leadership.
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When given absolute power and the world’s undivided attention, Elon Musk has managed to economically destroy his company, publicly (and repeatedly) humiliate himself, ostracize most of Silicon Valley’s engineering talent, and dispel any belief that he is a Tier 1 Genius Operator.
Honestly, read the entire article.
With all the Twitter stuff, can we please get one more season of Silicon Valley?
Why have I woken at 5am? It’s Saturday! 😩
It is amazing how quickly @neatnik can roll out a new feature. His opt-in address directory at omg.lol was an idea I threw out during @HemisphericViews E071. Listen to the podcast and check out the directory!
If anybody finds Instagram isn’t loading on wifi, try disabling IPv6. That worked for me with my Eero 6. This will please my wife.
This sounds frightfully Trumpian:
In a tweet Thursday evening, Musk said: “The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried.”
Source: Hundreds of Twitter employees resign after Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum - The Verge
Microblogvember 2022, Day 18: I’ve knocked off 18 consecutive microblogvember posts. I will not tire before I reach 30.
Elon Musk walked into Twitter HQ carrying a sink; in hindsight it should have been a toilet, because Twitter is now circling the bowl.
Elon Musk eases return-to-office order - The Washington Post
One Twitter staff member said the numbers of employees seeking to leave had alarmed Twitter’s managers, who had formed “war rooms” to determine which employees should be asked to stay on.
Resignations and departures were already taking a toll on Twitter’s service, employees said. “Breakages are already happening slowly and accumulating,” one said. “If you want to export your tweets, do it now.”
Hate speech and other abuse was also likely to spike, employees said. Most of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, consisting of up to 40 people, was expected to resign.
Is it surprising that engineers are opting to leave and take a 3-month severance package, as opposed to staying where they have to work extensive hours for a mercurial owner, without the joy of working with colleagues?
Musk really doesn’t seem to understand that employment is a two-way street. These people are not indentured servants. If the deal isn’t good, they can/should/will walk.
Last one out, please switch off the lights.
What’s the bet that in a couple of months, Twitter is employing remote-work engineers working out of India?