Dease-Weitzel Walker
Hmm. Short display name field. I'm Daniel.
It's pronounced "Dace-Vhite-za" if you're wondering.
Joined Nov 2022
@Resister_Grandma No doubt. A lot of liberals lost a load of followers in the first week and many people were suspended.
@AJaythePedantic True enough!
@OldDude71 short cut to https://counter.social/relationships if you're using a browser.
@AJaythePedantic It always feels strange. It was 72°F here yesterday.
@nursefrombirth He mistakenly believed advertisers would support the brand by endangering their own image. He's only 51 and has created such a large gap between himself and the next generation - the future those advertisers rely on for sustainability - that he might as well be 151.
My apologies if anyone 151 or older is offended by this. 😊
@Resister_Grandma It could have been Cloudflare blocking something it deemed as an attack from your area (same Internet Service Provider, for example) and just blocked the net range (a range of internet addresses) for a time.
Cloudflare is a service that protects a website from an attack, but it may be triggered accidentally in some cases.
Sometimes you laugh and sometimes you cry, but most times, it's your choice.
Good night, all. 💤
His "Free Speech" platform allows me to trash him for free. 😂
@Nadinbrzezinski Quite amusing. The "great entrepreneur" didn't take himself into account as the cause of failure, just like he didn't do his due diligence in verifying the number of bots before signing off on the acquisition. 🤷♂️
@miinx I don't, but I would suggest you provide them feedback. The more interest in their product, the more likely they will expand their services.
@MeTheUnfiltered Oh, I know who you meant. ;) I was just being facetious. I subscribe to karma, so I'm ready to see it unfold. Sit back and enjoy the show. 😄
@MeTheUnfiltered I understand Musk, but who's the other one? 😉
Politics: Someone needs brain surgery and there's a surgeon who actually understands what's going on, and another surgeon who has loosely paid attention, but has no idea how to actually do it.
Regardless of the obvious choice, many patients will still choose the wrong surgeon. 🤷♂️
@vafer When I used to work IT for my own company, I had a customer named John, who was 96-years old and he had the most fantastic WWII stories, along with his Native heritage. The moment he was gone I felt like I'd lost a grandfather. Keep the connection; keep the memories, for you and for them. It's worth every moment.
Dease-Weitzel Walker
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I have weekly “tech support” calls with an old friend in NJ. He is paranoid schizophrenic, and nearing 80 years. We “fix his phone” every week, but it’s really just an excuse to spend time in a structure that works for his conversation patterns.
Tonight we found an old late-60s high school yearbook online, and for *a shining moment* the veil lifted and he told me some very lucid stories about his life in high school.
Rare, shimmering gift! — his thoughts are usually only circular.
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#Twitter trained us all to tweet a certain way - namely, in a way that emulated what we saw others wrote when they got "liked" a lot.
Twitter taught us how to subtweet, how to snarky quote-tweet, how to clapback and "this u?" and a host of other objectively bad behaviors that - nonetheless - our primate brains told us would get us "liked".
People didn't always tweet this way. It was a gradual evolutionary process. Hard to see it until you've been away from it for a while...
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(cont. 7h later because #dos)
#CoSo represents a true opportunity for us to "reboot" our primate brains and rid ourselves o f the bad behaviors #Twitter rewarded.
Without an algorithm to optimize for engagement, and without "like" counts to make it too easy to see who's writing what and getting the dopamine rewards, we can make this space something completely better, safer, kinder, and more reasonable.
So here's your homework, #CosoNauts :
@phase Great song. 👍
@UnitedPeople Exactly. I've asked the Twits umpteen times for an edit button. I mean, we're all human after all. Well, except for Twitter's 20% bots. 😂
Dease-Weitzel Walker
Hmm. Short display name field. I'm Daniel.
It's pronounced "Dace-Vhite-za" if you're wondering.
Joined Nov 2022