Page 6627 – Amanda Unvarnished

Friendly reminder to be nice to your moderators and admins, but especially the moderators. Usually, they're not waking up each morning saying to themselves "how can I make people's lives difficult/fuck up their day today?" Moderation is hard, and the bigger the size of the server/platform the harder it gets, up to the point where it's impossible to do well at scale. Wrong calls/mistakes are going to be made. Best that can be hoped for is that mistakes are recognized and corrected quickly.

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Why ‘Russiagate’ Skeptics Are Cackling—But Shouldn’t Be by Cathy Young (thebulwark.com)

In claiming that the Trump-Russia story was nothing more than a sensation-driven media witch hunt, the revisionists downplay and distort a very ugly story.

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House Republicans Should Heed the Warning of Justice Scalia by Corbin Barthold (thebulwark.com)

What the conservative judicial icon can teach the GOP weaponization subcommittee—and Democrats—about the separation of powers.

They won’t though, because none of this was ever about the constitution.

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The DeSantis Soft Bois Can Dish It, But Can’t Take It by Tim Miller (Bulwark+)

Groomer slander for thee, but not for me.

Leopards, faces, &c

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Gaslighting Our Politics by Charlie Sykes (Bulwark+)

Flags, idols, culture wars, and crazies

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House Oversight Committee Wanted To Berate Twitter’s Old Management Over Hunter Biden’s Laptop; Instead, It Revealed Trump Censorship Attempts by

Mike Masnick (techdirt.com)

I have a confession. While yesterday the House Oversight Committee took up six hours (sorta, as there was a big power outage in the middle) wasting everyone’s time with a hearing on “Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story,” I chose not to watch it in real-time. Instead, afterwards I went back and watched […]

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Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count (Platformer)

Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

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· 18 Shevat 5783 (Thursday 9 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

I'd like to know who we blame for inventing UTM parameters so I can thank them for the special little joys I receive every time I strip them from URLs.

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· 18 Shevat 5783 (Thursday 9 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Thursday. It's rainy and thus damp here so we're trying to balance between not roasting in here and also not letting the indoor air get damp enough to seep into our bones. Good thing there are fuzzy blankets and soup.

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Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman@mstdn.social) (Mastodon 🐘)

Twitter is working again friendly FYI for those who care. Mastodon still undefeated in not being fucked up by a billionaire.