queer and doing some adventures. former @Techcrunch culture editor. now: 🔮?? based in pdx 🌲
i’m traveling in japan for the next month and posting some very serious reviews of 7-eleven treats in my new newsletter (it’s a pyramid scheme so best to subscribe early)
it’s going to be my all purpose newsletter for my writing later but for now boy is it snacks https://taylorhatmaker.ghost.io
Holy crap, @xoxo starts today?! Opening party and Arcade tonight, doors open at 7pm! See you there, #xoxofest! https://xoxofest.com/2024/schedule/
whooo is at xoxo this week 👀
@andybaio wooooo
New: X has now for two days blocked all searches for Taylor Swift, one of the world's biggest superstars, during a very newsy weekend for her, because it couldn't stop AI-generated sex images of her and had no other ideas. A blunt and desperate measure to accomplish a basic content-moderation task - made tougher since X, under Elon Musk's leadership, fired 80% of its workers and most of its "trust and safety" team
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/29/taylor-swift-ai-pictures/
@taylorlorenz inspiring!
got my first round of test prints back! i’m selling photo prints at a little holiday craft fair in a few weeks but maybe i’ll get my online store back up soon too 🌌
NEW: As the war in Gaza continues, internet connectivity is getting worse and worse.
“The evidence of the crippled internet in Gaza is not hard to find. By every metric of internet connectivity, things are in bad shape,” internet monitoring expert Doug Madory told us.
NetBlocks and IODA are reporting that NetStream, a Gaza ISP, has an almost complete outage, and other ISPs aren't doing much better.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/27/internet-access-in-gaza-is-collapsing-as-isps-fall-offline/
Leaving Twitter. And thriving. A true story 🐦👋🏼
“as a platform becomes less reliable — either editorially or technically — staying becomes more fraught. And as NPR has demonstrated, you may not be giving up all that much if you walk away.”
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports
i don’t know who needs to hear this but cats start really very small before becoming less small (over time)
If you wanted to read my story about men who play D&D on Texas death row, but stumbled on the NYT paywall -- here's a free version, on The Marshall Project site -- with even more photos and illustrations than the Times version: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dungeons-and-dragons-texas-death-row-tdcj
@zackwhittaker adding this to my french repertoire
no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring
@paddyduke thank you! you can't see my glazing mistakes in the photos but you know what i'm still new to this
@ablaze thank youu
@zackwhittaker yes!!!
