You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about. I have about five essays in my drafts folder about like, deep systemic issues and big bad shadows on the horizon. And I have like three jobs, all of which are screaming for my attention. But I cannot
It's been too fucking long since your last post, and then you drop this banger. I mourn my presence on Twitter. It was never perfect, great, or even good, but I had build friendships, and the product management community there was great (although after 2017, it lost a lot of its mojo).
I left Twitter in December when the ElonJet shit was happening with Musk being asinine to journalists. I missed it, but I got over it.
When I left Twitter, I added lines to my hosts file to essentially prevent my computers from accessing Twitter.
In 2017 when I left facebook, I began using the hosts file to block all the tracking and surveillance shit they hit you with. There was about 450 lines of servers, domains, ad trackers, ad distribution networks, and the like to block.
For twitter, I just redirect twitter.com and www.twitter.com to 0.0.0.0 and as far as I can tell, they do not have the web wide surveillance to block.
And that folks, is why I will NEVER in a million years be on Threads. It could be fucking awesome, everything Twitter was before the election of the Tangerine Mussolini, and I will not go there.
In many ways, I owe Musk a thanks for getting me off my social media addiction. Twitter was the hardest to leave. I put up with a lot of shit there the last few years, but Musk broke my habit.
I've been trying to get people to recall why so many of us chose to ditch Zuck and Faceplant in the first place as well as reinforce tgat he helped tank the 2016 election in favor of the orange faced fascist wannabe but I keep seeing "oh it so nice. Such a breath of fresh air!" b.s. Well ya know whay folks? If you've been hanging out in the catch trap of a park toilet a regular old fart seems like fresh air too. Tganks for putting into words what I've been feeling and for the kitten pucture!
This is the first post or article anywhere I’ve seen (not on Threads or Twitter though since I do have a soul, so I don’t go there!) that doesn’t fawn all over Threads and/or poopoo Mastodon. I’ve yet to see anyone sitting openly that Threads is bargain-basement Masto with a billionaire flare. You’ve put my anger and incomprehension about his whole situation into words (oh so many words! ✊).
Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only one who had avoided the Z-ray that was clouding people’s minds. I haven’t deleted my Facebook account because I *can’t* — it won’t let me. So I just haven’t touched it in years. And I have absolutely no intention of joining Threads because it is obviously the same thing, only with some sort of attractant poured all over it. But Face* actively aided and abetted at least 3 genocides (the Rohingya in Kenya and Myanmar, and the Uyghurs in China). There’s just no coming back from that.
Cat I love you. Somehow you tske the worst possible fucking thing that's happening, and give it words that make absolutely no sense and yet also perfect sense. It's amazing.
Thank you so much for this post. I actually hadn't known about the whole "abetted real world genocide" aspect of Zuckerberg. Sickening.
I like Mastodon. I am frustrated at how many brands et al are so happy to run into another walled garden owned by a monstrous billionaire who can burn it all down at a whim.
Wow. This is one of the best articles I have read on the subject. It's like Jaron Lanier downed some pre-workout and let the anger translator fly. Love it. Keep it up!
I am all in favour of Igor Murky and the Blandroid having a fistfight, as long as it doubles up as a lion wager. In the 19th Century, it was a common occurrence for people to perform all manner of strange things in a cage full of lions. For money, often, but also for a laugh. A very odd laugh, perhaps, but one with a certain frisson.
These lion wagers included dances, formal dinners, tightrope walking, and, yes, boxing matches. Mostly, the lions just gawped at the stupid primates being morons, but on rare occasion, some idiot got eaten.
Now, I'm not saying that the Fuckwit Fraters wouldn't milk this PR opportunity for all it was worth, but if they're going to relentlessly pursue good press (and they will, regardless), we may as well have the off-chance that they will be brutally devoured by a pride of hungry lions. The poor things will probably need their stomachs pumped afterwards, but I would still argue this would be a net benefit for all concerned.
Everything you said is true and bad, but I just want to emphasize one item from your long list:
"He happily ran ads advocating for rape, beheading, and genocide against the Rohingya."
AIDED AND ABETTED A LITERAL, REAL WORLD GENOCIDE, FOLKS.
Real.
World.
Genocide.
Just sayin'.
Also, in a just world, Mark Zuckerburg would in prison for a very long time for treason. But I'm old enough to know that's not how the world works.
It's been too fucking long since your last post, and then you drop this banger. I mourn my presence on Twitter. It was never perfect, great, or even good, but I had build friendships, and the product management community there was great (although after 2017, it lost a lot of its mojo).
I left Twitter in December when the ElonJet shit was happening with Musk being asinine to journalists. I missed it, but I got over it.
When I left Twitter, I added lines to my hosts file to essentially prevent my computers from accessing Twitter.
In 2017 when I left facebook, I began using the hosts file to block all the tracking and surveillance shit they hit you with. There was about 450 lines of servers, domains, ad trackers, ad distribution networks, and the like to block.
For twitter, I just redirect twitter.com and www.twitter.com to 0.0.0.0 and as far as I can tell, they do not have the web wide surveillance to block.
And that folks, is why I will NEVER in a million years be on Threads. It could be fucking awesome, everything Twitter was before the election of the Tangerine Mussolini, and I will not go there.
In many ways, I owe Musk a thanks for getting me off my social media addiction. Twitter was the hardest to leave. I put up with a lot of shit there the last few years, but Musk broke my habit.
I've been trying to get people to recall why so many of us chose to ditch Zuck and Faceplant in the first place as well as reinforce tgat he helped tank the 2016 election in favor of the orange faced fascist wannabe but I keep seeing "oh it so nice. Such a breath of fresh air!" b.s. Well ya know whay folks? If you've been hanging out in the catch trap of a park toilet a regular old fart seems like fresh air too. Tganks for putting into words what I've been feeling and for the kitten pucture!
This is the first post or article anywhere I’ve seen (not on Threads or Twitter though since I do have a soul, so I don’t go there!) that doesn’t fawn all over Threads and/or poopoo Mastodon. I’ve yet to see anyone sitting openly that Threads is bargain-basement Masto with a billionaire flare. You’ve put my anger and incomprehension about his whole situation into words (oh so many words! ✊).
I love you!
so fucking good. i will be sharing this with everyone i know.
Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only one who had avoided the Z-ray that was clouding people’s minds. I haven’t deleted my Facebook account because I *can’t* — it won’t let me. So I just haven’t touched it in years. And I have absolutely no intention of joining Threads because it is obviously the same thing, only with some sort of attractant poured all over it. But Face* actively aided and abetted at least 3 genocides (the Rohingya in Kenya and Myanmar, and the Uyghurs in China). There’s just no coming back from that.
We could fix so much by just not letting either of them out at the end of the cage match
Cat I love you. Somehow you tske the worst possible fucking thing that's happening, and give it words that make absolutely no sense and yet also perfect sense. It's amazing.
MZ's weird land of legless virtual sadness will probably occupy many Ph.D. theses on abnormal psychology/billionaire studies/sociopathy for decades.
The first thought that came to mind when I laid eyes on the Threads logo was... spirochete.
"Any of a group of spiral-shaped bacteria, some of which are serious pathogens for humans, causing diseases"
This is the god damn single best piece of writing I've read in 2023.
Thank you so much for this post. I actually hadn't known about the whole "abetted real world genocide" aspect of Zuckerberg. Sickening.
I like Mastodon. I am frustrated at how many brands et al are so happy to run into another walled garden owned by a monstrous billionaire who can burn it all down at a whim.
Wow. This is one of the best articles I have read on the subject. It's like Jaron Lanier downed some pre-workout and let the anger translator fly. Love it. Keep it up!
Bravo! And Thanks! A lot!
I am all in favour of Igor Murky and the Blandroid having a fistfight, as long as it doubles up as a lion wager. In the 19th Century, it was a common occurrence for people to perform all manner of strange things in a cage full of lions. For money, often, but also for a laugh. A very odd laugh, perhaps, but one with a certain frisson.
These lion wagers included dances, formal dinners, tightrope walking, and, yes, boxing matches. Mostly, the lions just gawped at the stupid primates being morons, but on rare occasion, some idiot got eaten.
Now, I'm not saying that the Fuckwit Fraters wouldn't milk this PR opportunity for all it was worth, but if they're going to relentlessly pursue good press (and they will, regardless), we may as well have the off-chance that they will be brutally devoured by a pride of hungry lions. The poor things will probably need their stomachs pumped afterwards, but I would still argue this would be a net benefit for all concerned.