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David Sleight

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Publishing webgeek, reformed consultant, authorized person. Former senior design and product director at @ProPublica. Currently chilling on purpose.

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David Sleight
15 years
Dear Past Self: Future Self is now Current Self, and very upset with you.
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2 years
Still holds.
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3 years
Friends who are still on this platform: Why? (Seriously.)
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David Sleight
3 years
The sun in NYC just now.
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David Sleight
3 years
Thousands of New Yorkers mad at smartphones color correcting their apocalypse pics.
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David Sleight
3 years
This is not the dystopian hellscape we were promised. 😶‍🌫️
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magical realist wx
3 years
Forecast: Cloudy with a chance of lightning electrifying the graveyards and briefly activating dead brains with memories of a life forgotten by the world decades before.
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David Sleight
3 years
Enough enough ENOUGH!!
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David Sleight
3 years
“You might think your home town sucks sometimes, but that doesn’t mean you’re any happier watching an arsonist burn it to the ground.” Penned this earlier in the week. CEO or not, it still stands.
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Brief remarks on the death of Twitter as we knew it, and my digital whereabouts thereafter.
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David Sleight
3 years
📣⚡️Announcing @ProPublica’s new initiative to diversify the ranks of investigative editors: https://t.co/ROj8kVP5EA
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David Sleight
3 years
Oh please, please, please pretty please make a move that gets you kicked out of the App Store, Elon, pretty please.
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gizmodo.com
Twitter may force you to hand over location data and give consent for targeted ads if you want to keep using it.
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George Takei
3 years
Twitter talking about Twitter honestly is getting a little boring.
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David Sleight
3 years
If I never hear the tired 20-year-old line about the uniqueness of the printed page again it will be too soon. If you haven’t seen uniqueness online you haven’t been looking.
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nytimes.com
As a science fiction writer, Butler forged a new path and envisioned bold possibilities. On the eve of a major revival of her work, this is the story of how she came to see a future that is now our...
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David Sleight
3 years
Treat everything that isn’t end-to-end encrypted and/or run by a known shitlord like it’s a public channel, folks.
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David Sleight
3 years
Also, no one else is moving there except us journos. Please calibrate your urgency and act accordingly.
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David Sleight
3 years
Dear Journos: I know we’re all Mastodon-curious right now but please stop using your internal teams as Mastodon’s tech support. And *pretty please* stop expecting everything on a new, underdeveloped platform to work exactly the way it did on an entirely different one.
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David Sleight
3 years
“Hell is third-party vendors.” —Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944
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David Sleight
3 years
“I mean, you messed up, but it’s not like you bought Twitter.” —@mmayer344
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David Sleight
3 years
Elon is running Twitter as one gigantic scream test, except without the part where you fix the things that make people scream.
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David Sleight
3 years
Two roads diverged in a media wood: 1. “We will be transparent about our approach, even when it relies heavily on the subjective.” 2. “Source info? LOL WHO NEED DAT YOLO”
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