Thanks to the Internet, I now know I’m not alone in hearing the line “I’m not talking ‘bout moving in” as “I’m not talking ‘bout Millenium”
For the longest time I thought this was a weird oblique reference to Han Solo’s and Princess Leia’s courtship.
Also, from now on, I will hear the line “…but there’s a warm wind blowing / the stars are out…” as “…but there’s a wormhole blowing the stars around….”
There’s something about this song that makes me think of the first zone of the original Sonic the Hedgehog game on the Sega Genesis.
There have been a slew of posts documenting how Twitter is struggling. These are a couple of them.
Twitter’s darkest hour is now • 2016 Jan 25 • Seth Fiegerman • Mashable
Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It) • 2015 Oct 13 • Umair Haque • Medium
The problem of abuse is the greatest challenge the web faces today. It is greater than censorship, regulation, or (ugh) monetization. It is a problem of staggering magnitude and epic scale, and worse still, it is expensive: it is a problem that can’t be fixed with the cheap, simple fixes beloved by tech: patching up code, pushing out updates.
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The social web became a nasty, brutish place. And that’s because the companies that make it up simply do not not just take abuse seriously… they don’t really consider it at all.
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Q&A in technology is considered an issue of code — not conduct. Technology as a culture is so out of touch with reality doesn’t even understand what business it’s really in: not the code business (what is this, the 1980s?), but the enterprise of social interaction. That is not merely a matter of bits and bytes — but of norms and values. Hence, technology no longer understands the notion of quality in any meaningful way at all. “Quality” isn’t merely error-free code — but abuse-free interaction.
See also: Sturgeon’s Law