Spoke to my wife while twitter was down. She seems nice. A nurse apparently
— Raheel (@raheels88) July 1, 2023
If you know the story up till now. this is perfect.
Downfall: Rate Limit Exceeded pic.twitter.com/90GS2KTbTF
— FriendlyKozak 🇺🇦 (@KvotheTheArcane) July 6, 2023
If not, Josh Marshall will catch you up.
The ups and downs of social media platforms aren’t usually a focus of my writing. But they interest me to the extent they intersect with politics and public conversation in this country. You may have heard that over the weekend Twitter went into a kind of extended meltdown, rapidly introducing a series of “rate limiting” restrictions because the platform was having a hard time staying online. Behind the jargon of “rate limiting,” this essentially meant the site was forced to start rationing Tweets and the ability to engage with them, an ominous move for a company whose business is literally selling engagement. The site’s owner, Elon Musk, later claimed that this was in response to various online bad actors overwhelming the site’s infrastructure. The site’s (for the moment) CEO later claimed that it was all done out of the blue to catch the online bad guys unaware and off guard. Giving any advanced warning (even to employees, it turns out) would have given the online bad guys a heads up and allowed them to escape.
This is all such transparent nonsense that it beggars belief that even a company as chaotic and mercurially managed as Twitter under Elon Musk would try to claim it with any kind of straight face. We don’t know the precise details of what happened under the hood at Twitter. But the big picture is pretty clear. And you don’t need to be too versed in tech to understand it at that level. Think of it this way: You have an amusement park with 10,000 visitors a day. You cut staffing and ride maintenance so you can only accommodate 5,000 visitors a day. What happens is elementary: Things start falling apart and you’re forced to limit how many people can come in the front gate. That’s your “rate limiting,” rationing tweets.
It should be noted that many saw this coming (and that a few did not).
Let's say you are a huge platform on AWS, like Twitter is, and you aren't paying your bill. The first thing they're going to do is meter your usage, then they're going to throttle your usage. So, what Elon is really admitting is that he DIDN'T PAY HIS F--KING AMAZON BILL. /2
— Rubin Safaya (@rubinsafaya) July 1, 2023
Truth Social works fine.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 1, 2023
When Devin Nunes is running a smoother operation than you, you ain’t doing things right.
For the first few days, Twitter's titular CEO was noticeably silent,
I love doing my job at Twitter, where I am CEO. My job is liking the tweets of my CTO, who is also my boss. I have made no formal statement about my company effectively shutting down on a holiday weekend, and have left this up to my CTO/boss, who seems confused all the time pic.twitter.com/3wE713ff03
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) July 2, 2023
We found it: the dumbest tweet of the past 24 hours. https://t.co/sONSpPPM8F
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) July 2, 2023
Let me get out my Niall Ferguson decoder ring.
“The childless have little stake in the future.”
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 3, 2023
George Washington, father of our country, and James Madison, father of our Constitution, would like a word. https://t.co/B5TIkHBhYr
One of the great ironies in the Musk fiasco is that I would have gladly paid for a better Twitter, and *a lot* more than 8 bucks. It would be worth it to me personally and professionally to pay for a well-functioning, secure, reliable Twitter. But this hot mess? Not one cent.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) July 4, 2023
Lol pic.twitter.com/sXD6s2QIJO
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 4, 2023
In the future, every Twitter alternative will be popular for 15 minutes.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 6, 2023
And it wasn't even erotic.
"In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck."
— Will Saletan (@saletan) July 4, 2023
Cause of death: self-asphyxiation https://t.co/y49gsN9zth pic.twitter.com/jTeMrodEWA
On to politics.
Scott Baio pic.twitter.com/iRP7dxl511
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 5, 2023
Graham spent years licking Trump's feet and turning on old friends and shredding any reputation he had - just to win over these exact people.
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) July 1, 2023
Hahahaha.
Even the people strategically arranged behind the podium are booing him. And it went on all speech. https://t.co/uCs1hXcqAd
I generally have a no Messenger policy but this was too good to pass up.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) July 3, 2023
🧵 Truth matters. When I took this job, I wasn’t pro-Hunter or anti-Hunter. I am pro-data and facts.
— Denver Riggleman (@RepRiggleman) July 5, 2023
Forensics make clear that considerable information linked to Hunter Biden is questionable.
1/2 https://t.co/a6KMtodonu
The question is: What do I have on everyone else?
— Denver Riggleman (@RepRiggleman) July 5, 2023
Have a nice day.
This damning quote says the quiet part out loud about No Labels funding: “Merritt, who added that he backs Trump over Biden in a two-person matchup. “I’d vote for anybody who would keep the Biden liberal bunch out of office.” https://t.co/ydcBizahin
— Joe Trippi (@JoeTrippi) July 3, 2023
Instagram post by Trump. pic.twitter.com/dCsvIWUm0W
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 5, 2023
Looks like it's time to reread Sontag's "Fascinating Fascism"
Weird thing is the first half of this ad is pure gay/trans bashing but then shifts into a kind DeSantis Full Official Beefcake/He Man weirdness. are Ron and RFK jr gonna do some gonzo scenes together? https://t.co/e4lPifu2jE
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 2, 2023
I considered leaving due to Elon’s incompetent hubris. But things like a George Santos-Ron Desantis feud over whether the men in Desantis’s ad are gay or alpha keeps me coming back. pic.twitter.com/Vm6PPRLDAD
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 2, 2023
For the folks here assuming that before 1977 when the Department of Energy was created that nuclear development was handled within the DoD...no, it wasn't.
— Bret Devereaux (@BretDevereaux) July 5, 2023
It was overseen by the Atomic Energy Commission, a civilian agency. DoD hasn't handled this directly since 1947.
This is how you do it, folks.
Cardona: Markwayne Mullin had more than $1.4 million in pandemic loans forgiven. He represents 489,000 eligible borrowers that were turned down today. Marjorie Taylor Greene had more than $180,000 forgiven. She represents 91,800 eligible borrowers who were turned down today pic.twitter.com/SUaHaYChGc
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 30, 2023
You love to see great journalism at embattled mid-sized dailies and Charleston's Post & Courier has a gem in @ClareFieseler. Read her piece on the effort by @VivekGRamaswamy to get red state pension funds to invest in his anti-woke asset mgt firm Strive. https://t.co/6zfCIkpIha
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) June 30, 2023
These poor Russian billionaires! What have we done???? https://t.co/w4k5PmIacW
— Gary Shteyngart (@Shteyngart) July 5, 2023
The PayPal Mafia's favorite military analyst...
March 2022, Macgregor said "The war is really over for the Ukrainians."
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) July 3, 2023
Sept. 2022, he said "Things are going very very badly" for Ukraine.
Now it's "Ukrainian forces are in the verge of collapse."
His prognostications are worse than worthless. https://t.co/5bhJkDJql2
The Russian Propagandist now on Twitter to add that to the lies he feeds right-wingers daily on Fox and podcasts. And they lap it right up. pic.twitter.com/tVhY29cMMU
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 3, 2023
Yup all of them. 🙄
— David Burbach (also @dburbach Mast/Post) (@dburbach) July 2, 2023
Just like Trump won in 2020 but for CIA/Italian meddling, which McGregor also claimed.
Not sure when McG went from breaking the phalanx to breaking his brain, but it's plenty broke https://t.co/vpwZHr7hog
Here are three real quotes. Use them. There are more. pic.twitter.com/UP8FMJtYph
— QuietFriend (@QuietFriend31) July 5, 2023
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 5, 2023
Not entirely sure context helps your case here.
At Moms for Liberty's Philadelphia event, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) says dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao are being taken out of context and promotes reading their writings.
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) July 5, 2023
"...It is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes." pic.twitter.com/TDXusaIUMZ
Wow. Right wing leaders continue to tout Stalin, Hitler and Mao as examples of the direction they want to take the country in.
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) June 25, 2023
Liberty University's Ryan Helfenbein at the Faith and Freedom coalition gala said: "What we're discovering as parents and conservatives is education… pic.twitter.com/2PBzNf7Dq3
Is anyone at all surprised that fist pumper Josh Hawley's wife, Erin Hawley, brought the FAKE 303 Creative case in front of the Supreme Court?
— Jo🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) July 3, 2023
They cloak themselves in Christianity, while they lie, cheat & subvert the rule of law in order to achieve their hateful agendas.
Sick. pic.twitter.com/9AA07dYrdZ
One hell of a damning thread, mostly in Vogel's own words.
Ken Vogel, formerly of Politico and now the NYT, is one of the worst, most misogynistic journalists. Vogel stalked Neera Tanden's 78 year old immigrant mother for a quote that made Tanden look bad, & lied to her that she was on the record. He never retracted the story. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/sYgXfx74V5
— Salad Shooter (@saladshooter9) July 6, 2023
It’s funny. Tech people and gold people love to talk about how the government manipulates CPI data, and that some private company with modern techniques could do a better job characterizing the real numbers.
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) July 3, 2023
And then a company does it and says inflation is just over 2% https://t.co/FJHRDP1gvf
New from @RenMacLLC. It's time for Wall Street's recessionistas to give it up: "Despite the year-plus in which analysts have been arguing that a recession is imminent, none of the arguments behind the predictions stand up to scrutiny."https://t.co/aafeJq8vPP
— Bob Bryan (@RobertBryan4) July 5, 2023
How to lie with...
Column: How Mississippi gamed its national reading test scores to produce 'miracle' gains https://t.co/KO6o0asJ7M
— Michael Hiltzik (@hiltzikm) July 5, 2023
We should move Independence Day to August, July is clearly a dangerous time to shoot off fireworks https://t.co/Jeoz1PbcQb
— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) July 5, 2023
assuming this article isn't sponsored content, MSNBC is apparently unaware that VR and Metaverse are two different things...? pic.twitter.com/a9eUjpnewO
— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) June 26, 2023
Is there a lesson here somewhere: "According to Insider, McKinsey claimed that the Metaverse would bring businesses $5 trillion in value. Citi valued it at no less than $13 trillion. There was only one problem: The whole thing was bullshit." @thenation
— Reed Hundt (@rehundt) July 4, 2023
The thing about goldbugs, crypto nuts, and some tech folks is that they inhabit this mindset where the state and entire economy are less than 24 hours from collapsing. And they've inhabited that mindset for decades despite all evidence to the contrary. Catastrophism is addictive.
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) July 3, 2023
The worst was the New York Times. Which I can only describe as completely economically and technically uninformed in their coverage. And willing to bothsides the most absurd of ideas https://t.co/9l798afmQZ
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) July 5, 2023
> "Did the “creative class” learn anything from buying into a product that was obviously destined to flop?"
— Stephen Diehl (@smdiehl) July 5, 2023
No. They'll do it again the next time around too.https://t.co/poZmRaYzO6
Sometimes the problem with innovation is that while an idea might be new, it is not actually very useful: it is a solution looking for a problem, says Jemima Kelly https://t.co/rpaP1qSRbN
— FT Opinion (@ftopinion) June 25, 2023
Most misconceptions about AI would be cleared if folks had a decent understanding of the distinction between skill and intelligence, and between memorization and generalization.
— François Chollet (@fchollet) June 30, 2023
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) June 23, 2023
Every number of the form ABABAB (basis 10) is divisible by 37
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) July 1, 2023
We had a neighbor who (we learned rather suddenly) kept his ammo with his propane so I'm hard to impress, but this is pretty good.
Outstanding. pic.twitter.com/0sBG802brF
— jamie (@gnuman1979) June 28, 2023
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