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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • On purpose.

    Only clearer by the day that this was all an exercise to intentionally kill Twitter to the benefit of billionaires, fascists and other extremists.

    Twitter existed as a relatively free and open public space to communicate, organize and assemble to take actions for and against things at scale before musk (e.g. The Arab Spring, a terrifying moment for the Saudis especially - the second largest shareholder behind musk).

    When people collectively laughed at elon and his cringe, inbred, emerald boy antics or his humiliating divorce and other routine failures, Twitter was the bullhorn.

    Now elon and his desperate far right Toadies will work to try to rewrite reality so they can eventually have this conversation:

    "Twitter? What’s a Twitter? Wait, are you talking about blork? A bird? No, blork’s logo is a dinosaur with chainsaw arms… and everyone wants to be his best friend… and it’s against the law to divorce him… and he’s cool… and…"

    What an everlasting tool history will remember you as, elon. If they remember you at all, it will be to laugh at you - you’ll never outrun that.


  • Only clearer by the day that this was all an exercise to intentionally kill Twitter to the benefit of billionaires, fascists and other extremists.

    Twitter existed as a relatively free and open public space to communicate, organize and assemble to take actions for and against things at scale before musk (e.g. The Arab Spring, a terrifying moment for the Saudis especially - the second largest shareholder behind musk).

    When people collectively laughed at elon and his cringe, inbred, emerald boy antics or his humiliating divorce and other routine failures, Twitter was the bullhorn.

    Now elon and his desperate far right Toadies will work to try to rewrite reality so they can eventually have this conversation:

    "Twitter? What’s a Twitter? Wait, are you talking about blork? A bird? No, blork’s logo is a dinosaur with chainsaw arms… and everyone wants to be his best friend… and it’s against the law to divorce him… and he’s cool… and…"

    What an everlasting tool history will remember you as, elon. If they remember you at all, it will be to laugh at you - you’ll never outrun that.



  • “Folding Ideas” does amazing work on YouTube around exposing grifters in well structured, long form explanations of their grifts.

    One of their videos looked into a group of growth hustler type folks, a pair of twins. Part of their scam was automating the process of creating fake books like this from start to finish to sell them online for passive income.

    Highly recommend anything this channel creates. Worth your time to have a focused sit to watch the journey unfold (especially if interested in the main subject of this post).

    https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw



  • It actually does get solved with other systems. I can tell you that because I worked within Google platform for over a decade in the same industry, add with differs companies/environments and probably invested a total of 1-2 hours collectively in thought and setup deliberately for that system. It worked, and it improved over time.

    Especially when outlook does things like give a notification that you’ve replied to a thread on a given date, but clicking that text doesn’t jump to that mentioned reply AND the reply in question is not shown in line with the message you responded to.

    I’m the last person to champion Google, but in comparison, Gmail handles conversational email threads intuitively and without deliberate setup or skill required. It follows the logical human expectation for the course of a natural conversation between parties. It also collapses less recent messages and surfaces more recent, relevant ones on longer term threads. But everything is logical and accessible.

    I have a list a mile long of little features that have blocked me day to day in outlook mail and calendar that break productivity flow compared to gmail. They require deliberate setup and a learning curve to get something that feels close to usable and even then, glaring omissions in the product.

    If your work isn’t very complex and you don’t communicate often (i.e. You’re coding all day or reading/responding jira tickets), I can see you having that take. If you’re forced to interact with these systems constantly though, it is objective trash. It’s stale and afraid to change due to enterprise malaise and already approved workflows with said broken system.

    I fucking hate it every day.






  • I can’t imagine there is a good business, that communicates effectively, that is room in Microsoft Outlook.

    I never appreciated Google’s productivity software until I was forced to use Microsoft’s at a large company. People just openly accept this broken system and the fact that they’ll miss important communications and spend far too much time accounting for the SW’s shortcomings.

    FUCK Microsoft Outlook. The executives making decisions for the team’s designing and maintaining that product are committing crimes against humanity.


  • How is a rant about billionaires and greed ever a thing to shy away from? The class war and it’s associated wealth inequality/endless growth mentality are essential drivers to the climate change problem that’s keeping you up at night. You can’t disconnect the two if you actually want the problem addressed.