@urlyman

Hypothesis:

One purpose of algorithm-driven social media is to create and reward clout, thus giving those sorts of people what they need so that they stick around.

@pheonix

Satya Nadella, 2014: "Microsoft needs to refocus on security for ordinary users and get that right before we even think about adding gimmicky features."

Satya Nadella, 2026: "...But what if we added more unsecured attack surface?"

@futurebird @waitworry

I think a lot of people describe being good as cringe not because they dislike the idea of being cringe, but because they dislike the idea of being good.

@pvonhellermannn @violetmadder

Vote for the party candidate, unless they're someone with actually progressive politics. Then don't vote for them because they're unelectable.

After all, you don't want someone unelectable getting elected. That would be bad.

@pvonhellermannn

It looks like Mark Fisher was right about "there is no alternative" being a last-ditch thought-stopping technique for adherents of the failing centrist order to prevent themselves from having to think hard about possibilities.

@mcc @glyph

You may have something there.

Librarians: "we should learn from the past."
Programmers: "I dunno, try rebooting it, see if it works properly this time."

@Catriona

Yeah, absolutely this.

I get very annoyed by senior leadership types who use "divisive" to mean "disagreeing with me", ignoring their own instances of genuinely divisive behaviour.

@Iwillyeah @alicemcalicepants

@Iwillyeah @alicemcalicepants

*whisper back*

Alice is being extremely clever.

The original launch video for Facebook's Metaverse VR idea, the one that led to them renaming themselves Meta, featured people that only existed from the waist up because legs are hard to do in VR.

"It doesn't have legs" is a casual way of saying "the idea didn't work."

@alicemcalicepants

This has me giggling. Beautiful wordplay.