@caseynewton great article Casey! I did try it during the first week but stopped when they implement the wide area EU block. As a frequent traveler, everytime I travel to Europe the app becomes unresponsive, it is too disruptive so I stopped using it.
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SRE @ Google, Grew up in Los Angeles (Go Lakers!), Living in Switzerland 🇨🇭
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#nba monty williams fired
"Williams had been the coach with the fifth-longest tenure with his current team entering Saturday — just four years. Gregg Popovich has been coach in San Antonio since 1996, Erik Spoelstra in Miami since 2008, Steve Kerr in Golden State since 2014 and Michael Malone in Denver since 2015."
4 years was the fifth longest tenure - sorry but that's just plain stupid
Ja Morant flashing a gun on IG again after being suspended for doing the exact same thing 2 months ago. I guess he didn't learn much from it.
@caseynewton Great pod but now can you talk about I/O without mentioning ducks with lips Casey! I still have nightmares about it 😂
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Game 1 of the second round goes to the Los Angeles @Lakers as they take a 1-0 series lead over the Warriors 117-112.
@caseynewton
Great episode, the part about the AI Sims are fascinating, it basically prove Yuval Harari's gossip theory in Sapien where it claims that gossip, based on judgments, began our rule of the planet. Before we began gossiping with other Homo sapiens, we were merely another mammal in the food chain.
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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show, Bellingcat's Aric Toler on tracking down the Discord leaker. PLUS: an unfortunate series of events at Tw*tt*r, and I learn a valuable new Google Docs skill https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/podcasts/hard-fork-discord-leaker.html
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I had hoped by now that the media would have begun to divorce Twitter. Instead, some journalists are doubling down.
Some thoughts on why:
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-journalists-cant-quit-twitter
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Barbara Walters shattered all the ceilings to cheer and ire
In 1965, Gloria Steinem said of Walters "The shift from the old 'Today Girl'—who was usually a coffee-server and amiable lightweight—to Barbara Walters is the television industry's change of attitude in microcosm"
And a better (accidental) tribute would come from Walter Cronkite who found Walters' salary "sickening.”
Barbara Walters was worth every penny she earned and more
She was 93 when she passed away in her New York home today.
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RIP P-22
"The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save California’s threatened puma population, has died."
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Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:
Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell
Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan
Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa
Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee
Tony Webster
@tony
Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder
@caseynewton Thanks for an amazing episode Casey but please keep your day job, you two really can't sing 😂
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It's Hard Fork Friday! On this week's show, Kevin and I discuss SBF's arrest, exchange 2023 predictions, and take your questions from the mailbag. Plus ... Kevin made ChatGPT write a Christmas carol 😩 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/podcasts/bankman-frieds-arrest-2023-predictions-and-your-questions-answered.html
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If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending
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Public Service Warning
Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.
It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.
We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.
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