David Sleight
@stuntbox
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Publishing webgeek, reformed consultant, authorized person. Former senior design and product director at @ProPublica. Currently chilling on purpose.
Anywhere But Here
Joined July 2007
Dear Past Self: Future Self is now Current Self, and very upset with you.
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Thousands of New Yorkers mad at smartphones color correcting their apocalypse pics.
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This is not the dystopian hellscape we were promised. đśâđŤď¸
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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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âYou might think your home town sucks sometimes, but that doesnât mean youâre any happier watching an arsonist burn it to the ground.â Penned this earlier in the week. CEO or not, it still stands.
stuntbox.com
Brief remarks on the death of Twitter as we knew it, and my digital whereabouts thereafter.
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đŁâĄď¸Announcing @ProPublicaâs new initiative to diversify the ranks of investigative editors: https://t.co/ROj8kVP5EA
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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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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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Twitter talking about Twitter honestly is getting a little boring.
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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 havenât seen uniqueness online you havenât been looking.
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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Treat everything that isnât end-to-end encrypted and/or run by a known shitlord like itâs a public channel, folks.
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Helluva job, Elon. Helluva job.
nytimes.com
Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
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Also, no one else is moving there except us journos. Please calibrate your urgency and act accordingly.
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Dear Journos: I know weâre all Mastodon-curious right now but please stop using your internal teams as Mastodonâs 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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âI mean, you messed up, but itâs not like you bought Twitter.â â@mmayer344
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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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Two roads diverged in a media wood: 1. âWe will be transparent about our approach, even when it relies heavily on the subjective.â 2. âSource info? LOL WHO NEED DAT YOLOâ
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