Elon Tusk @srs@schelling.pt
RT @cankerwort_
@element_hq I once got an abusive email, so they should immediately ban Gmail, Outlook and Protonmail.
Elon Tusk
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Counterexamples:
- vim and end (very much not community efforts)
- firefox (but you can't really mess up a browser UI)
- atom
- I heard Eclipse is quite usable
- gimp and inkscape are awesome, but UI is behind Adobe.
- uhm... anything else??
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.
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!! 😄
😌
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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
We should use the word "stupid" with different colors or flavors, like the power rangers, say, or the spice girls.
This thread, for instance, is woke stupid.
(The question is obviously ambiguous and highly sensitive to inferred context)
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RT @hankgreen
Hey @Google, this is...real weird.
https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1353784705989046272
Image of Ursula von der Leyen flagged as sensitive content! 😂
RT @ben_golub
New game:
Make an economist angry by adding the word "neoliberal" to a book or paper title.
For example: "The use of knowledge in neoliberal society" https://twitter.com/KiaThomasEdits/status/1353690112572477443
😂♥️🤦♂️ this was fun! Now let's talk about bitcoin!
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RT @ShaanVP
If you're out of the loop - this is the (hilarious) story of a subreddit (wall street bets) taking down a multi-billion dollar hedge fund... get your popcorn ready 🍿
https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1353951035224694785
Regarding values and given the historic responsibility of our country in particular, China's approach should've really fallen out of fashion by now. - Like building concentration camps for a sub-cultural and religious minority.
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RT @vonderleyen
The EU has the largest single market in the world. We are open for business but we are attached to reciprocity, level playing field & values.
Today, the EU & China concluded in principle neg…
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1344268974444441600
