Rob Knight @robknight

Web Developer, and full-time geek for @UCSC. NOT a world-renowned gut microbiome researcher. Also here: @[email protected] robknight.net Santa Cruz, Ca Joined December 2006

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Rob Knight @robknight

2 years ago

Despite having all the riches in the world, the billionaire felt empty inside without any real friends to share his life with. He longed for genuine connections but his wealth attracted only sycophants.

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Jacob Silverman @SilvermanJacob

3 years ago

Many of the VCs bragging about how they passed on FTX or saw through SBF have invested in other crypto companies and benefited enormously from an industry that has fleeced retail traders.

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rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac

3 years ago

so Elon spent six months in court saying Twitter was riddled with bots, was forced to buy the company, said he was going to create a moderation council for all content decisions, and has thrown all that out of the window for a "vox populi" poll that could be easily gamed

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Noel @noelbaron

3 years ago

wish Elon had bought Jira instead

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Rob Knight @robknight

3 years ago

After Michael Brown was murdered in 2014, I began following the organizers of the protests. Then I followed the people they retweeted. It became my habit to seek out the people *directly* involved in those conversations and pay less attention to media narratives about them.

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Peter Clowes @peterclowes

3 years ago

To be clear I love hard work, I do well with chaos, but I like doing it with people I like, for a mission I care about and ideally with significant upside potential (financial or otherwise) to balance downside risk.

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Rob Knight @robknight

3 years ago

Someone on here lamented that it’s possible, and profitable for EM to make Twitter into AM radio: allow almost anything and have awful, bottom-feeder advertising. Seems quite likely it will go this way.

Peter Clowes @peterclowes

3 years ago

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Tammy Gordon @Tammy

3 years ago

“Given all that madness, the need for critical thinking is obvious. But so is the need for critical ignorance — the skill, tuned over time, of knowing what not to spend your attention currency on.” niemanlab.org/2022/11/whats-…

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Rob Knight @robknight

3 years ago

If there is a silver lining to all of the Twitter mess, it is that very smart people are talking about big software engineering problems in the open. These issues affect ALL teams.

claire vo 🖤 @clairevo

3 years ago

If there is a silver lining to all of the Twitter mess, it is that very smart people are talking about big software engineering problems in the open. These issues affect ALL teams.

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Manton Reece @manton

3 years ago

Ten years ago I stopped posting to this account because I was ready to move beyond Twitter. I think we've built something unique over at Micro.blog. An open platform based on blogs, community principles, that peers with Mastodon too. Made by people who love the web.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates

3 years ago

@elonmusk @MKBHD Yes. It will mean that someone who *is* the leader of a country will be considered just as ‘real’ as someone who is called ‘Musk’s nuts’, and dresses in a police uniform despite being a sexual predator. Great leveling, Elon. We’re all really impressed.

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Rob Knight @robknight

3 years ago

The more I see DeSantis, the more I am convinced he would never succeed at the national level. He's all asshole, no charm. He's like a animatronic bag of right wing talking points.

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Rob Knight @robknight

3 years ago

Discovered this in a box of old (1920’s) things that belonged to my great grandparents. Thinking of @MaintenancePod

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follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__

3 years ago

My @NBCNews colleagues and I spent the last month finding the root of America's hottest, dumbest urban legend: Schools are leaving out litterboxes for kids who identify as furries. Despite what Joe Rogan says, it's not true. But its origins are grimmer than you'd ever imagine.

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Dan Mall @danmall

3 years ago

I recently met someone who described themselves as “quiet and easygoing.” In a world that’s increasingly loud and argumentative, this was a breath of fresh air. How do you describe yourself that’s counter to popular culture?

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Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke

3 years ago

I love working at Facebook. Yeah, it's a bummer we got called back to the office and I have a 2 hour commute again. But, I'm sorry: you just aren't going to get this close collaboration with your teammates if you're working from home.

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Rob Knight @robknight

3 years ago

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Professor Peter Arenella @arenella1

3 years ago

6]national security documents that Trump unlawfully possessed can continue. While Trumps' attys do their best to throw legal wrenches into the criminal justice machinery, diligent and hard working DOJ lawyers understand that most of the public blames them for not indicting Trump