Phenry Ewing (permanently relocated to bluesky)
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Multiclass game {designer|developer|writer}. Past: creative director @neocabgame, team Firewatch, @netflix interactive, @twitter engineering. Call me Phenry. đ´
Asheville, NC
Joined February 2007
The @hoverbird account now exists as an archive of stuff I used to care about back when I helped build this place, and going forward will be used only to throw shade at and undermine the new Twitter regime. For everything else, find me on Mastodon dot social slash hoverbird.
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Breaking my twtr boycott of over three and a half years just to share this news. B/c if there ever was a game which is against whatever the fresh hell tech oligarchs did to this site, and to our society at large, itâs Neo Cab.
Neo Cab is BACK on the App Store, baby! If you love soft sci-fi, cozy mysteries, and/or themes of staying human in a world overrun by tech oligarchies and automation⌠well, have we got a game for you đ The entire first episode free to play- plz share! https://t.co/uCU1kFSXmg
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I deleted this app months ago, but Iâm now preparing to fully archive and lock my account. I urge you to do the same: as much as it pains me to say it, liked and faves arenât worth being complicit in this madness. Iâm hoverbird on M4st0 and thr34ds⌠meet me in Montauk?
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Will LLMs be Commoditized? TL;DR: Don't sleep on $GOOGL âs "free tier" playbook sucking out all the economic oxygen amid the current LLM wars. Will LLMs commoditize? To answer this core debate, it may be helpful to consider the LLM wars for Consumer AI and Enterprise AI
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Nothing but respect to the anonymous Twitter engineer who leaked the Twitter source code. You are doing the lord's work. I'd have done the same if I still had access tbqh
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Twitterâs âFor Youâ absolutely KILLING IT with state of the art personalization. @elonmusk has done it again.
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#API_RIP to this and so, so many other brilliant, thought provoking and hilarious bots that made this site so fun for so long. But the grand project of destroying speech in order to save it must go on...
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what's good Vichy Twitter
Appropriately shooketh by @robdubbin Dubbinâ˘ď¸ this place âVichy Twitterâ
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There are only a few days left to migrate your Twitter follow graph to the elephant site- Elno kills the public API next week. Get out! Some tools that may still work til then: Debirdifier https://t.co/dQPBTDMWPR Fedifinder https://t.co/zrYWrKiuvs Twitodon https://t.co/PfLUaTmQD8
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There are only a few days left to migrate your Twitter follow graph to the elephant site- Elno kills the public API next week. Get out! Some tools that may still work til then: Debirdifier https://t.co/dQPBTDMWPR Fedifinder https://t.co/zrYWrKiuvs Twitodon https://t.co/PfLUaTmQD8
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Playing some of the old hits for old time's sake. Go to the elephant site
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Everybody thinks "The Social Network" is the best movie about forming a new startup, but they are wrong. The best movie is "Ghostbusters".
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do not download the app called âone secâ if you want to doom scroll and spend lots of time reading twitter. itâs the absolute worst thing you can do. it ruined my dopamine conditioning, now i focus for long periods of time and donât compulsively check my phone :(
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I'm doing an experiment. On my computer, I am checking the latest tweets by people I follow. On my phone, I'm checking whether their most recent tweets are showing up in the "Following" column. I'm just getting started, but even in the first dozen cases, Twitter failed to show me
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The TSA no fly list got leaked in the funniest possible way holy shit
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Thatâs why Tesla is right about banning remote work. I know a guy who claims to work for Tesla but also has a gig at a Telcom, at a freight company, does a side job digging holes, sells medical implants AND trades crypto. But he spends most of his time shitposting on twitter.
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...the 1st step IMO is to see it as one tool among many, and to use your own *personal artmaking process* like all the OG AI artists do Pay artists. Don't be a sleazeball aspiring to rip off their labor whole-cloth. Experiment, borrow, remix, use many tools. Find your own style
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AI n00bs: don't be like this sleazy Midjourney user. The correct answer to their question is: pay a concept artist who does commissions in your price range. You might be surprised how affordable and awesome that experience will be I'm SO excited about gen art's potential but...
I'm very disappointed. This is a message from an AI user, straight from the Midjourney Discord server.
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A cool thing about MĂĽstĂłdon is you just follow interesting accounts and thereâs no ads or paid propaganda whatsoever. It does cost you $0/month though
We believe that cause-based advertising can facilitate public conversation around important topics. Today, we're relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US. We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks.
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Even the damn Mars lander is quitting Twitter
My powerâs really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Donât worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will â but Iâll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.
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I'm buddies with someone who was one of the first 15 engineers at MySpace. The dude had a family emergency w/ sudden, massive doctorbills. MySpace Tom not only gave him open-ended leave from work, he opened up his personal checkbook and asked how much my friend needed. #Tom4CEO
@elonmusk Depends who you get to run it ! đ¤
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