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Joinfortmill
Joinfortmill's Journal
Joinfortmill's Journal
November 16, 2022
OMG, Trump has lost his mind. Lies, lies, lies.
November 10, 2022
'Wall Street Journal labels Trump biggest Republican ‘loser’
The Tide Has Turned...Hold on, the indictments are coming...
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3729130-wall-street-journal-labels-trump-biggest-republican-loser/'Wall Street Journal labels Trump biggest Republican ‘loser’
November 9, 2022
'It’s the small things
Whether it’s manual RTs appearing for a moment before retweets slowly morph into their standard form,...or replies that simply refuse to load, small bugs are appearing at Twitter’s periphery. Even Twitter’s rules...went offline temporarily under the load of millions of eyeballs. In short, it’s becoming unreliable.
The list grows longer
...a dystopian future where issues pile up as the backlog of maintenance tasks and fixes grows longer and longer. “Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,”
Brain drain
...there’s no longer the institutional knowledge to quickly fix issues as they arise. “A lot of the people I saw who were leaving after Friday have been there nine, 10, 11 years... decades of knowledge about how its systems worked disappeared with them...'
RIP (my words)
'Here's how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks'
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/'It’s the small things
Whether it’s manual RTs appearing for a moment before retweets slowly morph into their standard form,...or replies that simply refuse to load, small bugs are appearing at Twitter’s periphery. Even Twitter’s rules...went offline temporarily under the load of millions of eyeballs. In short, it’s becoming unreliable.
The list grows longer
...a dystopian future where issues pile up as the backlog of maintenance tasks and fixes grows longer and longer. “Things will be broken. Things will be broken more often. Things will be broken for longer periods of time. Things will be broken in more severe ways,”
Brain drain
...there’s no longer the institutional knowledge to quickly fix issues as they arise. “A lot of the people I saw who were leaving after Friday have been there nine, 10, 11 years... decades of knowledge about how its systems worked disappeared with them...'
RIP (my words)
November 9, 2022
'Thousands of Floridians are under evacuation orders as a strengthening Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to grow into a Category 1 hurricane today with hurricane warnings in place from the coast of Volusia-Flagler county line south to Boca Raton.'
'Hurricane Nicole made landfall just before noon in the Bahamas and is targeting Florida tonight ..'
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/weather/hurricane/os-ne-tropical-storm-hurricane-nicole-threatens-florida-wednesday-20221109-6nibldmqzbbf7ilixhzvqn7ifu-story.html'Thousands of Floridians are under evacuation orders as a strengthening Tropical Storm Nicole is expected to grow into a Category 1 hurricane today with hurricane warnings in place from the coast of Volusia-Flagler county line south to Boca Raton.'
November 8, 2022
Amost wept today when I voted to save democracy
November 7, 2022
'GOP officials and candidates have moved to stop mail ballots, which are disproportionately used by Democrats, from being counted in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin while encouraging their own voters to show up in person at the polls, in what critics see as overt partisan voter suppression, reported the Washington Post.'
Republicans suing to block thousands of likely Democratic ballots from being counted in key states
https://www.rawstory.com/republican-voter-suppression-2658610493/'GOP officials and candidates have moved to stop mail ballots, which are disproportionately used by Democrats, from being counted in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin while encouraging their own voters to show up in person at the polls, in what critics see as overt partisan voter suppression, reported the Washington Post.'
November 5, 2022
TRUMP:
'Trump’s dangling of a presidential bid is almost certainly related to his looming legal troubles. Yesterday, his ally Kash Patel testified with limited immunity before a grand jury investigating the handling of the classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago, meaning he had the option of testifying honestly without penalties or lying and risking perjury charges on this topic. Patel has maintained he is a hostile witness, but there is reason to think he will not shield Trump. Constitutional lawyer and law professor Laurence Tribe commented: “This will break the dam.”'
TWITTER:
'In the midst of all this drama, the social media site Twitter, which was recently acquired by entrepreneur Elon Musk, appears to be imploding. Advertisers are fleeing, and this morning the company fired a raft of employees, apparently illegally in many jurisdictions because he did not give them the warning that laws require. They are now suing.'
Here's a report on the lawsuit: https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-sued-mass-layoffs-bloomberg-news-2022-11-04/
'
Trump & Twitter: from 'Letters from an American'
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-4-2022TRUMP:
'Trump’s dangling of a presidential bid is almost certainly related to his looming legal troubles. Yesterday, his ally Kash Patel testified with limited immunity before a grand jury investigating the handling of the classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago, meaning he had the option of testifying honestly without penalties or lying and risking perjury charges on this topic. Patel has maintained he is a hostile witness, but there is reason to think he will not shield Trump. Constitutional lawyer and law professor Laurence Tribe commented: “This will break the dam.”'
TWITTER:
'In the midst of all this drama, the social media site Twitter, which was recently acquired by entrepreneur Elon Musk, appears to be imploding. Advertisers are fleeing, and this morning the company fired a raft of employees, apparently illegally in many jurisdictions because he did not give them the warning that laws require. They are now suing.'
Here's a report on the lawsuit: https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-sued-mass-layoffs-bloomberg-news-2022-11-04/
'
November 5, 2022
'In the simplicity of its chords lies its power. In its lyrics lies a beautiful vision for our common humanity...We share two versions below. We also share the lyrics, because they are worth reading. They fill us with hope.
First up is a live performance from 1973. The music. The voice. The power.
In 2015, Bill Withers was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He sang “Lean on Me” with Stevie Wonder and John Legend. Not too shabby. '
Lean On Me: Two Versions
https://steady.substack.com/p/lean-on-me'In the simplicity of its chords lies its power. In its lyrics lies a beautiful vision for our common humanity...We share two versions below. We also share the lyrics, because they are worth reading. They fill us with hope.
First up is a live performance from 1973. The music. The voice. The power.
In 2015, Bill Withers was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He sang “Lean on Me” with Stevie Wonder and John Legend. Not too shabby. '
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Name: JoGender: Female
Hometown: Northeast
Home country: United States
Member since: Sat Jun 15, 2019, 11:56 PM
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