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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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539 points donohoe | 6 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | source | bottom
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leakycap ◴[09 Jul 25 15:17 UTC] No.44511088[source]▶
When I saw this news, my first thought was that she lasted about 1 year and 11 months longer than I expected after the first few weeks.

I know Twitter had many terrible aspects, but I do miss the world voice old Twitter provided for quotes that could be engaged with in an "everyone is here" kind of feeling that doesn't exist on any other platforms right now.

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kylebenzle ◴[09 Jul 25 16:46 UTC] No.44512181[source]▶
Of course I hate what Elon has done to Twitter but you're feeling previously that everyone was there was an illusion brought on by massive propaganda and manipulation of the conversation. The same thing has happened to Reddit now, well it feels more inclusive and open it's actually an incredibly controlled enclosed system that only allows one specific viewpoint. Now of course to the people inside that bubble it feels like freedom but to everyone else it looks like a liberal echo chamber.

For example, when the actual owner of the at Bitcoin handle wasn't pushing the narrative that Jack Dorsey wanted they hijacked the moniker and gave it to a pro b Blockstream (THE COMPANY THAT CONTROLS THE BITCOIN CODE BASE) individual. For most people that support Bitcoin and blockstream it looks like a victory of free speech but in reality they're just controlling more and more of the speech and kicking out anyone from the conversation who disagrees.

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1. kragen ◴[09 Jul 25 17:25 UTC] No.44512673[source]▶
Possibly leakycap is thinking about 02012 and you're thinking about 02018. In that case you'd both be right about Twitter.
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2. tonymet ◴[09 Jul 25 18:08 UTC] No.44513127[source]▶
this was my take as well. twitter nostalgia not reality. I put the egalitarian age at around 2009 but you're right Kony-2012 was a huge pivot for social media
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4. kragen ◴[09 Jul 25 22:35 UTC] No.44515392[source]▶
I was talking about reality. Twitter wasn't perfect in 02012 but it was before the reproductively viable worker ant.
5. numpad0 ◴[10 Jul 25 02:21 UTC] No.44516608[source]▶
OT but why isn't longnow format LSB(LS Digit) first? 8102, 2102, etc. The problem is that years as variables are often processed as left aligned fixed length MSB first, so it's hard to make year processing code robust over wide ranges of time. If it had been LSB/LSD first, overflow checks can be just a truncation.

8102 and 2102 clearly belong to same age, 5491 and 8391 are more far apart but it's visually apparent that they share two LSDs, and a C program that displays rate of return of a 01-year bond will only have to care at most "654" part of year 654321 entered by user.

"02012" is more perplexing and it can be longer by whole 16 bits[than regular notation] or so[on some systems].

edit: edited for basic clarity

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6. kragen ◴[10 Jul 25 02:31 UTC] No.44516653[source]▶
;)