#41
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of course twitter is failing. it cant possibly compete with the tried and true best way of discussing things Online, the forum
#42
Poronto
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tpaine posted:

oh sorry piss! if only he'd used something you'd be more familiar with, like a grimes song or the latest taylor swift ditty!



to tune of blank space: anarchy dad anarchy, dad anarchy anarchy dad, anarchy dad anarchy, anarchy ana narchy dad, anarchy dad anarchy dad, anarchy dad dad dad, anarchy dad anarchy dad dad, ANARCHY DAD

#43
"Jpg." - Hank Hill
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ilmdge posted:

If you mostly just follow the idiot fuckers from here, and are looking for something a little more refined and sophisticated, might I suggest @McCaineNL?



mccaine should be writing technical manuals for toaster ovens, not revolutionary philosophy

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RedMaistre posted:

A Self-identified "zombie killer" (i.e. enemy of the people) thinks Twitter=French revolution (or rather the Charles Dickens/Edmund Burke caricature of the same), and that biggest problem facing the web today is not government surveillance or corporate monopolization but "abuse."

https://medium.com/bad-words/why-twitter-s-dying-and-what-you-can-learn-from-it-9ed233e37974



same

#45
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The "Twitter is dying" narrative is apparently at least a year old, existing even at at time when the company's earning were on the uptick:

"Something is wrong on Twitter. And people are noticing.

Or, at least, the kind of people we hang around with on Twitter are noticing. And it's maybe not a very important demographic, this very weird and specific kind of user: audience-obsessed, curious, newsy. Twitter's earnings last quarter, after all, were an improvement on the period before, and it added 14 million new users for a total of 255 million. The thing is: Its users are less active than they once were. Twitter says these changes reflect a more streamlined experience, but we have a different theory: Twitter is entering its twilight."

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twitter/361339/
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"But maybe there's a better question to ask first: Which Twitter did we lose?

Looking back, 2013 Twitter was basically a hangover to 2012 Twitter, when we could imagine leaving the platform some day but not anytime soon. Or maybe we're chasing the ghost of 2011 Twitter. It was a hectic feed then, a staticky mess of affiliate notifications, manual retweets, and Foursquare checkins. Remember 2010 Twitter? The year it seemed everyone had finally caved and signed up. The Arab Spring made people optimistic about the platform as a transformative force. Roger Ebert and Rob Delaney ruled. 2009 Twitter is a blur and the disjointedness of 2008 Twitter is hard to remember at this point. Before that, people weren't even having conversations on the platform. Not really."
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lmao
#48
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(Note that that article was written in April 2014, well before the protests in Ferguson bought back some of that 2011 elan to social media 'activism' )
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tpaine posted:

is twitter dead yet so we can finally move on



Nobody: Did you kill the white man who killed you?
William Blake: I'm not dead. Am I?

#51
Online
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http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/dreaded-anime-avatar-explained.html

What particularly interests me about the anime avatar is that it was initially (as I first encountered it, at any rate) a metonym for a weird-internet-politics group about as distant from Gamergate as you can find: a loosely affiliated community of hard-left self-proclaimed Maoists.


Of course anime avatars are now more strongly identified with Gamergate and its various surrounding reactionary communities, a group no less weird (by the standards of mainstream meatspace American politics), but much larger and, frankly, scarier.


But why anime avatars? What do Gamergaters have in common with Twitter Stalinists? As noted above, in some ways anime avatars are the equivalent of a fedora or a leather duster or transition lenses, a quick public signal of someone’s (proud) nerdom. If egg avatars are signs of Twitter, and likely internet, novices, anime avatars would seem to be the opposite: the signs of people who have spent, or are spending, too much time online.

This kind of too-much-time-online nerdiness seems to be correlated in turn — and I’m just speculating here; I have no data — with an outgrowth of new, weird, fascinating kinds of outside-the-mainstream or extreme politics, like effusive 21st-century Titoism. Or like Gamergate.

#52
Online
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the rhizzone: proudly anime-free since twenty thirteen (smell ya later tug lesions!!!!)
#53
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Your and my avs are both examples of western anime or western cartoon art created in direct response to Japanese animation or anime.
#54
Online
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So, examples of sanity in an insane world. The levees man builds to keep the pounding oceans from overwhelming us all. That is us. Together we stand to keep the Mongols at bay.
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ilmdge posted:

the rhizzone: proudly anime-free since twenty thirteen (smell ya later tug lesions!!!!)



False; we proudly Uphold Animè in our line as per the wise instruction of GF (getfiscal)((The Don)))

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twitter cant shut down til me and my friends are all making $150 a week writinng listicles for playboy.com and living in an apartment in chiang mai.
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mt.real
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ilmdge posted:

http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/dreaded-anime-avatar-explained.htmlWhat particularly interests me about the anime avatar is that it was initially (as I first encountered it, at any rate) a metonym for a weird-internet-politics group about as distant from Gamergate as you can find: a loosely affiliated community of hard-left self-proclaimed Maoists.

Of course anime avatars are now more strongly identified with Gamergate and its various surrounding reactionary communities, a group no less weird (by the standards of mainstream meatspace American politics), but much larger and, frankly, scarier.

But why anime avatars? What do Gamergaters have in common with Twitter Stalinists? As noted above, in some ways anime avatars are the equivalent of a fedora or a leather duster or transition lenses, a quick public signal of someone’s (proud) nerdom. If egg avatars are signs of Twitter, and likely internet, novices, anime avatars would seem to be the opposite: the signs of people who have spent, or are spending, too much time online.

This kind of too-much-time-online nerdiness seems to be correlated in turn — and I’m just speculating here; I have no data — with an outgrowth of new, weird, fascinating kinds of outside-the-mainstream or extreme politics, like effusive 21st-century Titoism. Or like Gamergate.


oh wow lmao

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#60
Mike Nelson here.
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Personally I love Twitter. So many great jokes and I've made some good friends there.
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Kurdt
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discipline posted:

twitter blows and is useless and has caused me a lot of stress irl

come home to the zzone

#62
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It seems the cause of all these no doubt profound existential crises is the failure is to please advertisers, corporate sponsors, and advertising executives, not anything social
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with an outgrowth of new, weird, fascinating kinds of outside-the-mainstream or extreme politics, like effusive 21st-century Titoism. Or like Gamergate.



I showed someone how to type y o u t u b e and next thing he began demonstrating new, weird, fascinating kinds of outside-the-mainstream or extreme politics, like hating anita sarkeesian. no strong opinions about tito though

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UNUSUALY COOL
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there is not a single goddamn titoist on this forum and if there were i would find them and kill them with my bare hands
#65
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In the 3 years or so since I quit Twitter, I've gotten married and started a law degree. YMMV
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ilmdge posted:

the rhizzone: proudly anime-free since twenty thirteen (smell ya later tug lesions!!!!)



this isn't true, cman has an anime avatar. It's us. it's us it's inside of us

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Tito was badass imho
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tpaine posted:

Petrol posted:

In the 3 years or so since I quit Twitter, I've gotten married and started a law degree. YMMV

so quitting twitter ruined your life?


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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

Tito was badass imho



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Cars wut is your beef w tito
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What im saying is i understand the problem w 'Titoism' but just because he lived longer than Stalin doesn't mean we should attribute all the actions of one of the most 'diverse' Communist party to him just because he was a figurehead. That's exactly what people do to slander Stalin
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due to tito's policies yugoslavia had some pretty good punk bands
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<respectable liberal opinions shat on relentlessly by reds>
"Twitter is over. We can no longer build rhetorical control there."

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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

What im saying is i understand the problem w 'Titoism' but just because he lived longer than Stalin doesn't mean we should attribute all the actions of one of the most 'diverse' Communist party to him just because he was a figurehead. That's exactly what people do to slander Stalin



you have my axe

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Tito was definitely better than most Soviet statesmen (and weirdos like Hoxha, though he valiantly tried to fix a retarded country like Albania.)

Yugoslavia was more interesting and vibrant than the USSR as well in terms of cultural products, management of ethny, and domestic economic policy.

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COINTELBRO posted:

Tito was definitely better than most Soviet statesmen (and weirdos like Hoxha, though he valiantly tried to fix a retarded country like Albania.)

Yugoslavia was more interesting and vibrant than the USSR as well in terms of cultural products, management of ethny, and economic policy.



This is why they had unemployment in the double digits and collapsed into war within ten years of him dying

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When you have a NATO conspiracy against you, Slovene crypto-nazis with Poland Syndrome aspiring to be Central European (despite already being the richest in Yugoslavia, but that wasn't enough...), plus Muslim aggression despite Tito's thankless attempts to placate them and never retaliating... it was a pretty good run. The samoupravljanje economy would have survived to this day without covert NATO meddling, could the same be said for Soviet management? I don't know. Tito was as much a martyr as any 20th century politician could be.

e: no

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