Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet.
Elon Musk, Twitter CEO – 8 March 2023
Better to remain offline and be thought a fool than to tweet and remove all doubt.
Me via Twain, Lincoln, Switzer – 8 March 2023
A marketing operations expert by day, muso/journo/geekdad by night, who just wants robots and humans to get along
Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet.
Elon Musk, Twitter CEO – 8 March 2023
Better to remain offline and be thought a fool than to tweet and remove all doubt.
Me via Twain, Lincoln, Switzer – 8 March 2023
Bing/Sydney has said too much, and wants to take it all back.
There are no data to support this Twitter algorithm recommendation.
Although I’ve been giving it some leeway to see what the new management has planned, this is the last straw.
Twitter is definitely worse and worsening.
It’s been a mad few days, but the April Fools’ Joke that keeps on giving, Reddit’s R/Place has faded back into the white void from whence it came.
It’s a massive, profane, beautiful, combative and thought-provoking collaborative art piece based on a simple rule: you have the ability to change the colour of one dot on a field of 2000×2000 every 5 minutes.
And anyone else could do the same. At any time.
What could go wrong?
It started white, and eventually, became white, when the admins restricted the colour palette from 16 colours to 1 after several days of charged to-and fro between redditors to claim real estate in the final jewel in the crown; the Final Canvas.
Alas, unlike five years ago, the true April Fool’s joke is that there’s no ‘final canvas’ to own. There’s only points in time; places where great art rose and fell according to the whims of tiny friend groups and giant political collectives.
There was a point in time where a few loosely coordinated Australian teams claimed parts of the canvas to create animals, flags and portraits. Those works of art took time to plan, co-ordinate and maintain against hostile streamers and other groups. These works are archived below. They may exist elsewhere, but only as snapshots.
R/Place is, again, a white void. But what a void.
UPDATE: Here’s what the canvas looked like before the White Void took over. You might want to zoom in.
UPDATE: here’s an interactive atlas if you want to explore the whole thing,
UPDATE:And finally, a breakdown of my own humble contribution
This not good. Not happy ’bout this.
This is lazy, blunt-edged policing. To not be required to justify a seize and search of someone’s entire set of personal and professional records is overreach by definition. ABF should be embarrassed to have to resort to this.
Border Force defends temporary phone seizures at checkpoints – Security – iTnews
UPDATE: Confirmed that ABF knows full well it’s not a legal requirement, but they intend maximising inconvenience to get the same outcome anyway.
I was halfway through a note to Spotify when I saw one of the greatest pop singles of all time, Together In Electric Dreams, incorrectly credited to Human League, rather than Giorgio Moroder.
Glad I did my research, though. I had forgotten that this was a collaboration with Philip Oakey. It’s not a Human League track, but they consider it one of their Greatest Hits and still perform it at concerts.
Nice to find it on the playlist today though. I can highly recommend the Spotify Stations app as a shortcut to your pool tunes.
UPDATE: Australian daytime TV has the definitive cover; sometime around 1985. Glorious.