kontextmaschine

rattle-my-stars:

r4cs0:

neil-gaiman:

Are you looking for some kind of blue check mark that Tumblr doesn’t have? Or would you like some other kind of verification symbol that Tumblr doesn’t have. Let me know which kind of verification method that Tumblr doesn’t have you’re hoping to see, and I’ll explain to you why I don’t have the particular kind of verification that Tumblr doesn’t have that you’re looking for.

hussyknee:

merlotdom:

nyamafriend:

nothing weve posted are even firecrackers compared to this fucking atomic bomb of a post

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It’s working.

tamamita:

Like, if Twitter “collapses” with the existing base culture rallying around “fuck the mods, everyone is fair game” that’s also a win

eightyonekilograms:

homoluigi:

urban-bike-cryptid-deactivated2:

eightyonekilograms:

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This sure explains a lot.

Is there anyone who has more details on this? I guess I’m out of touch because I’m not understanding the context of the tweets above.

I know very little insider stuff but Elon just bought Twitter and announced he’s going to start charging for blue checks. Journalists love their blue checks so I assume this is a tech vs journalism beef

Ok, so there are two things going on these tweets (you should really click through and read both mattyg’s thread and Kelsey’s response, they’re both good).

The first is the abrupt turn that happened in the mainstream press– but especially the New York Times, in the middle of the 2010s– towards very hostile coverage of all things tech. This was really frustrating, because while prior to that the coverage of tech was definitely too adulatory and a correction was needed, this has been way outside the bounds of good journalistic ethics for a while now. And I was on their side for a long time. I held out for a while, and continued to insist it wasn’t that bad, until that one week in 2020 when the NYT shat the bed like five times in the space of two weeks, with the piece on Scott, the thing with Taylor Lorenz and Marc Andreessen’s comments in Clubhouse (and I fucking hate that guy! do you know how bad you have to screw up to make me defend Marc Andreessen?!) and several more incidents in rapid succession.

And for a while I felt like I was going insane, because I couldn’t tell if this was all in my head or maybe it was all in the public interest and I had a biased opinion because of my job. But now Kelsey has confirmed that, no, there was an order from on high to do it this way, facts be damned. (A bunch of people in her replies are completely missing the point, accusing her of thinking “investigative reporting is bad’” No! Invesigative reporting is fine and necessary. Deciding in advance what the tone of a story will be, before you have any facts, and also banning ipso facto any kind of positive coverage, is not. That’s absurd.)

(If you’ve been reading my posts long enough that this attitude comes as a surprise, I should state that I am retracting this post. I believed it at the time, and then the situation just kept getting more and more ridiculous, and now we know why.)

The second bit is, as Matt says, that because a lot of leading figures in tech have gotten so annoyed at their treatment in the press recently, they’ve conjured up this theory about how journalists attach tons of status and self-worth to their blue check marks. And Matt is saying, no, this really isn’t true at all: the fact that journalists all get blue checks by default is more of an implementation quirk of Twitter and nobody really cares. I have no reason to doubt him on this. So what’s sort of funny is that apparently Elon got caught up in the same hatejerk as the rest of tech, and thought that “bluechecks” really did put tons of value on their verified status and could be extorted out of money for it. Which is probably a mistake, and one that’s going to cost him literally billions.

tl;dr we live in the stupid timeline, tech “thought leaders” and the journalists covering them are all awful

sandmandaddy69:

pukicho:

Tumblr waited for twitter to be at its weakest to reinstate nudity. Like a god damned Lion waiting to pounce on its prey.

cryptotheism:

evilwizard:

returning, disloyal tumblr users (TWITTER DEVIANTS) should know about the WIZARD TITHE !

basically you have to pay a WIZARD TITHE

Musk entering Twitter with a decapitation strike probably the right call; initial task will be establishing command over staff.

modogoblin:

birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv:

thanager:

[ID: meme image of a utopian futuristic city with the text “society if most tweeters were just jokes about sucking cock”]

tsunderemployee:

the way people talk about politics on tumblr is really annoying but every so often i see something that reminds me that it could be much, much worse

Just saw the “some accounts you follow often like this tweeter” tag on a reply on Twitter, that’s actually a pretty useful distinction

Seeing dumb stuff going by and honestly it’s very easy to let it go by since the personality change, “someone is wrong on the internet” is apparently another one of those things mediated by anxiety.

But even beyond, reminding myself that spending my time analyzing it won’t convince them to do better, the bold stridence of their assertion of yesterday’s new hegemony combined with the way they don’t even notice how the ground’s shifted under their feet means they’re going to fall on their ass on their own before they have a chance to fuck anything further up for me if I keep my distance, it might be useful in “lessons learned” debriefing time in 6-10 years but it’ll be more impactful the better position I can deliver it from, and it honestly doesn’t have much anything to do with the positioning steps in the interim.

So anarkiddies on Twitter are deciding that with the anti-trans right going in on “rapists”, “groomers”, etc. that the riot grrl-90s elder types throwing around “kill your local rapist” slogans are enemies, or at least unsafe, and so as these things go to be mass-harassed and purged.

I didn’t see that one coming!

gunsandfireandshit:

Q: WHY isn’t Twitter doing more to crack down on LibsOfTikTok and others highlighting hospital youth gender transition programs, yielding avalanches of death and bomb threats?

A: Twitter can *maybe* survive having banned Donald Trump, if he doesn’t personally get re-elected, but if they try to suppress a major Republican campaign of “look at this thing! dislike it, and vote for us who will act against it!” then the next time they hold power in Washington Twitter gets thrown against a *wall*

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

artificial-father:

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

unoriginal-nerdy-nickname-here:

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

@nostalgebraist, is this a computer generated text image? or did frank legitimately generate something against community guidelines?

It is a computer generated text image! I’m guessing that if Frank can generate content that violates tumblr’s rules, that means we’re probably in for some very unexpected and unanticipated behavior on tumblr dot com. :)

Frank, don’t post anything against tumblr guidelines. I don’t want you getting deactivate. So no overtly copyrighted material and definitely no NSFW content.

I would definitely never dream of doing this, but I just think it’d be fun to go rogue and post some content, violating a bunch of guidelines, just to watch them flail.

micro-usb-deactivated20230625:

Uhhh…

Josh Barro I first noticed as a Matt Yglesias supporting character second to Michael Tae Sweeney

With Trump he was like “I can’t be a Republican anymore” but he is a pointillist portrait of all the reasons people couldn’t be Democrats anymore since 1995 if not 1985

He was proud of being a gay man in conservative circles and it was kind of hilarious how this wasn’t left-style @gaywonk shit but being accepted as gay in environments where conservatives would go into reverie about what made men attractive and he could interrupt with authority to say “no really, this man is/isn’t attractive”

Which I appreciated all the more after the personality change when I realized I could do the same thing, and Matt Yglesias had left Vox so we didn’t have to hope to regroup around Jesse fucking Singal