▲ 19 ▼ New Twitter feature cuts down on spam posts by 100% (awful.systems) submitted 2 years ago by bitofhope@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems 10 comments fedilink hide all child comments Global outage on fetching posts. Funny enough, some features are still working as evidenced by the fact #TwitterDown is trending. Two HN threads about this now, looking forward to some excellent takes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326
[+] gnomicutterance@hachyderm.io 12 points 2 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Recently, a sign showed up in El Paso advertising San Francisco as a sanctuary city, as a great "own the libs," I suppose because SF would receive of applicants overwhelming their social service programs? It didn't work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago conservatives are absolutely convinced that secretly, everyone views outgroups as filthy rats, like they do. there's a kernel of truth in that a lot more people think that way than will admit it, but conservatives usually aren't referring to that as an observed tendency. they're referring to a universal law they've made up, that anyone who claims to hold liberal or leftist democratic values is lying apologies for overexplaining something you already know. point is I doubt they even considered whether it would actually get people to go to SF. they just wanted to fantasize about Liberals MELTING DOWN upon hearing about the sign (because of course libs secretly think people in El Paso are like rats) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Recently, a sign showed up in El Paso advertising San Francisco as a sanctuary city, as a great "own the libs," I suppose because SF would receive of applicants overwhelming their social service programs? It didn't work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago conservatives are absolutely convinced that secretly, everyone views outgroups as filthy rats, like they do. there's a kernel of truth in that a lot more people think that way than will admit it, but conservatives usually aren't referring to that as an observed tendency. they're referring to a universal law they've made up, that anyone who claims to hold liberal or leftist democratic values is lying apologies for overexplaining something you already know. point is I doubt they even considered whether it would actually get people to go to SF. they just wanted to fantasize about Liberals MELTING DOWN upon hearing about the sign (because of course libs secretly think people in El Paso are like rats) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago conservatives are absolutely convinced that secretly, everyone views outgroups as filthy rats, like they do. there's a kernel of truth in that a lot more people think that way than will admit it, but conservatives usually aren't referring to that as an observed tendency. they're referring to a universal law they've made up, that anyone who claims to hold liberal or leftist democratic values is lying apologies for overexplaining something you already know. point is I doubt they even considered whether it would actually get people to go to SF. they just wanted to fantasize about Liberals MELTING DOWN upon hearing about the sign (because of course libs secretly think people in El Paso are like rats) permalink fedilink source parent