Elon Tusk @srs@schelling.pt
Sad but true (very few exceptions). How might we change this?
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RT @geoffreylitt
@RobertHaisfield I don’t think I’ve ever seen a well designed UI product that was meaningfully open source. UI Design doesn’t seem amenable to loose distributed consensus the same way other kinds of programming are
https://twitter.com/geoffreylitt/status/1355293177029275648
RT @astralwave
@andy_matuschak There’s one huge unsolved area in content, which is price discovery. Web content is both non-fungible and mostly long-tail, which makes price discovery difficult.
Think of it as a baseball card or Pokémon card that has infinite supply. How does one price something like this?
Beautiful!
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RT @andy_matuschak
Also, I discovered the Web Monetization API via this wonderful @robinrendle essay on the magic of the web being left behind in the mad rush for newsletters: https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/newsletters, which in turn I found via @robinsloan's 💯 relaunched Society of the ‡: https://society.robinsloan.com
https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1355022028013588485
RT @andy_matuschak
No one's yet made a workable solution for web micropayments, but one aspirational design metaphor I like is an electricity meter.
I don't think about running my dishwasher as a transaction with a price and a receipt: I just do things, and I get a bill at the end of the month.
Elon Tusk
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I see the <GameStop short squeeze is actually about my political enemies*> takes are arriving.
* Well, not my actual enemies, but a caricature of my enemies that is simultaneously more dangerous and more pathetic.
@taroball AFAIR they're facing a cost for enabling each trade. (with what can ptob be seen as THEIR market maker) High volatility makes market making more risky and thus increases their cost. AFAIA their argument was that due to too high vola, those positions became too costly for Robinhood to offer.
Why are people making the Robinhood thing an issue of social justice so much more than an issue of a troll cult manipulating markets?
Could it be that the first narrative is just much more appealing?
You're not a creative type — A manifesto for a new age of anxiety.
First post on my blog!! 😄
@pareinoia Interesting Q: where does the public sphere begin? E.g., a public discord w/ lots of users and many pinned msgs might be seen as similar to a public webforum. My little fortnight channel - not.
Btw, it's m-isinfo, so they don't claim they're doing it intentionally. Not sure if relevant.
😌
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RT @balajis
FYI
1) Reddit did not shut down r/wallstreetbets
2) The mods shut it down bc they were overwhelmed
3) It’s now back, for now at least:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets
Source: senior Reddit administration official
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1354593032524361732
A person who understands very well what they are even doing. 🙃
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RT @_oshua________
@LilMoonLambo @elonmusk HOLD GME. NEVER SELL. FORCE THEM TO RIP THE SHARES OFF OUR COLD DEAD BODIES. WE ARE WINNING MEN #HoldTheLine
https://twitter.com/_oshua________/status/1354610284665720832
Elon Tusk
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I was wondering
if there's any way to get
this approved quicker
@jdp well I guess the lesson is, don't build your world-eating moloch on a proprietary platform.
@jdp btw, your pics aren't loading for me. Is this a known issue with mastodon federation?
@pareinoia Rel: HODL
@jdp waaaat?!?
@ejenk 😂😂😂♥🤦♂️
