I’m not actually a registered Twitter user, because there’s only so many hours, but obviously I reuse it quite a lot. (I’m given to understand embeds count when their advertising rates are set, so fair use, IMO.)
Up until the beginning of last week, I read my favorite tweet threads on what I suspect was an obsolete ‘desktop’ version, which gave me the default-out choice of ‘Include media’ and ‘Include previous (threaded) tweet’ when I hit the Embed button. I’ve been switched, without consent, to a much more sprawling version that doesn’t seem to include these important-to-me functions… which means I can’t clip down embeds to avoid big blocks of extraneous data, random gifs, or repetition of the same ‘foundation’ tweet in multiple-tweet threads.
So, question for you media tech experts: Is there a way I can switch back to my preferred (desktop?) version? If not (I’m guessing), is there a secret hidden setting where Jack Dorsey’s minions have hidden the ‘Include media’ and ‘Include previous tweet’ editing tools? (I haven’t been able to find one, but their help functions are notoriously un-helpful.)
(I suspect the answer is no, but hope springs eternal… )
If I ran twitter, I would introduce the concept of premium words. You have to pay money to use the premium words. This would not make the website profitable, it would simply be used as a social engineering tool to reduce words that are used too often.
eg: $20 to use gaslighting
— Starfish Ready To Vote Joe To Make It Stop (@IRHotTakes) January 23, 2020
You can use “lying,” “deception,” or “misdirection” for free, but twenty bucks for “gaslighting.”
— Starfish Ready To Vote Joe To Make It Stop (@IRHotTakes) January 23, 2020
(In a better world, the funds would be used to pay down the national debt.)
strong choice of dollar amount
— counterfactual (@counterfax) January 23, 2020
Optics, $500
— Peter Harris (@ipeterharris) January 23, 2020
Commodifying is a premium word too
— Owain James (@aprinceofwhales) January 23, 2020
$50 bucks for feckless
— anti-malarkey aktion (@sadshitcentral) January 23, 2020
"why is no one talking about this" will cost a literal arm and a leg. https://t.co/H2SP7URD4R
— all the work while crying (@Pasha_Spider) January 23, 2020
debbie
Yeah, suddenly my Twitter thinks I need everything in larger type. If there’s a downward carat at the top right corner of the tweet, click on that to get “Embed tweet.”
debbie
Also, goddamn NPR. Day #2 of unlistenable garbage about the Great Democratic Disaster looming over us all. I just sent an email to On Point, a joint production with WBUR:
I thought WBUR would be better than this.
danielx
If I was a Twitterite I’d want to be paid if I called William Barr a douche rocket.
Yutsano
@debbie: Only thing I can think of is because Ohio. But the sudden pivot on a dime? No clue other than a directive from on high.
debbie
@Yutsano:
I agree, but I was too Old NPR to accuse them of that in plain words.
NotMax
What a toffee-nosed wrinkle.
westyny
“Literally” garners your first born.
NotMax
@NotMax
To allay confusion, was referring to the concept regarding words, not to AL.
robmassing
“authentic”: $1,000
Juice Box
@debbie: My long-time hobby has been studying languages. You can’t believe how fortunate this is. I like to listen to the news, so I can listen to it from around the world. I just change the channel any time I hear the “T” word. Sadly, he pops up in just about every news show sooner or later. However, Wilmer makes far fewer appearances.
The European countries even have reporters following the primaries. The last Italian reporter I saw reporting from New Hampshire looked uncomfortably cold.
Yutsano
@Juice Box:
Must have been Sicilian. :P
joel hanes
“feckless” is a perfect word to describe many of our political actors, and their decisions.
I think it’s here being libeled.
joel hanes
@westyny:
“Literally” garners your first born.
Only when used to mean “not literally”.
Butter Emails
Shouldn’t you need to pay to gaslight as opposed to calling it out?
Aunt Kathy
I don’t know if this will solve the twitter problem, but Firefox has a “good twitter” add-on that forces your browser to use old twitter. I couldn’t live without it.
Steeplejack
@Anne Laurie:
After you select “Embed tweet,” click “Set customization options.”
Below the question “Would you like to limit context in this tweet?” click “Hide conversation.” That will get rid of everything except the particular tweet you are embedding. (But, of course, readers can see the context if they click on the embed to go to Twitter.)
If you are wanting to get rid of graphics inside the chosen tweet, I’d have to do some cipherin’ on that.
NotMax
Those who use gaslighting must be fuming, and could become incendiary.
RSA
What’s the objection to gaslight1ng?
JaySinWA
@NotMax: Illuminati?
Jay
https://mockpaperscissors.com/2020/02/11/baby-both-sides-dont/
chris
@Anne Laurie– Yeah, Twitter changed it’s public face and as a reader but not a user it kinda sucks. Maybe try signing up with a throwaway account and see if that makes a difference?
Speaking of twitter, David Frum sucks! But this thread is fun and made me want to weep at the same time.
Jay
jl
@Jay: Sounds like Wray didn’t plan out the code language well enough he needed to report honestly about what his agency is doing. Anyone not completely corrupted by Trumpsterism has to be careful not to rouse the Trumpsters.
So, what Wray said sounds incoherent and the terminology is weird, and he had to backtrack.
I’m just guessing.
JaySinWA
@Jay: The pro-choice cement milkshakes are coming any day now.
The Fascist/Antifa equivalence is moving on out to any conflict that can be skewed politically.
jl
@Jay: Well assuming that the Clinton plane episode did hide wrongdoing (though no evidence of that), it meant that he had to go deliver a message in person.
With the extremely corrupt Barr, he just needs to get wind of his boss’ tantrums and he scurries off, quick like a bunny, to do the deed. No real paper trail or footprints remain to uncover.
jl
@RSA “What’s the objection to gaslight1ng?”
Burns down the house. Often with people inside.
JaySinWA
@jl: A good assistant anticipate his boss’s needs.
JaySinWA
I believe it was more common to suffocate the inhabitants when it the flame went out, at least before adding a distinctive odor became common. /pedant.
But the real answer is that Gaslight’ng drives people nuts. Sort of like fluorescent bulbs. /random-non-sequitur-rumor
Jay
@jl:
@JaySinWA:
it’s Trumpistan, so 1/4 of the FBI’s Domestic Terrorism Task Force is going to spend all it’s time, money and manpower, hunting down the deadly Pro-Choice Cartels.
Being It’s Trumpistan, the FBI and disBarr’s DOJ, I am sure they will find enough fake cases to please the Evangelicals and ruin some more good peoples names, lives and finances.
Mnemosyne
@chris:
I love their shock and horror at the revelation that Obama referred to his ex-girlfriend using a pseudonym in his autobiography, and probably also changed some identifying details about her to protect her privacy. Shock! HORROR! ?
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Makes it harder for them to harass her.
BGinCHI
Well, this finally explains why I can never find you on twitter, AL.
Amir Khalid
A Twitter tax on trendy turns of phrase is easily avoided by anyone with a wide enough vocabulary or a thesaurus. What Twitter should do is fine people for ungrammatical and incoherent tweets. It would see explosive revenue growth fueled by Trump, his crime family, and his base.
Patricia Kayden
chris
@Mnemosyne: Road Island made me LOL.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: I’ve never been able to listen to On Point. Can’t tell you why, it just grates.
WaterGirl
Does anyone else here have Steve Benen in an RSS feed? My feed for Benen stopped updating on Monday and I’m wondering if anyone else has an issue.
I tried to poke around the MaddowBlog and did a quick search for RSS, but that site makes me crazy so I admit I didn’t spend a lot of time looking
edit: I searched for the following feeds and came up empty: rachel maddow, steve benen, maddowblog.
If anyone uses RSS and wants to test the feed that has worked for years, but stopped working late monday, and can let me know if it works for you:
http://www.msnbc.com/feeds/rss/byline/steve-benen
khead
Yesterday in WV from “Coach” Justice:
“They’re a bunch of thugs”
Baud
@WaterGirl: The last thing in my feed was from two days ago.
Jay
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Usually it’s the guests I’m interested in hearing, but it’s been political reporters 24/7.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Same here. The last thing I have is the Monday mini-report at the end of the day.
Jay
Jay
PT&S
High-premium word: “weaponized”.
MomSense
I had to turn my notifications off. I replied to a tweet and then got retweeted and liked about a thousand times. I thought my poor phone would overheat. I’m going back to just lurking and liking.
chopper
@westyny:
literally. literally, they take your first born child.
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: What did you say?
Percysowner
@Aunt Kathy: Chrome also has the “good Twitter” add-on I can’t find one for Safari or Android.
trnc
$1,000,000 to use Trump, since it’s obviously the best and most premium word.
Geminid
How about “plethora” for $5?
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
I had a mini rant about this whole establishment Dems nonsense.
Patricia Kayden
NotMax
@Patricia Kayden
Fair bet more than 100 newspapers have folded since then. Competition can serve as an inspiration for boldness (note I did not say rationality).
Geminid
Never mind.
PsiFighter37
Iowa party chair resigns. Called it, and very well-deserved.
Amir Khalid
@Patricia Kayden:
I have to take issue with Boehlert here. Trump didn’t turn Bill Barr into his consigliere. Barr sought the US Attorney-General job intending to use its powers to serve Trump as consigliere.
JCNZ
(In a better world, the funds would be used to pay down the national debt.)
Haha!
Redshift
@WaterGirl:
Damn, I hadn’t noticed it had stopped working, but yeah, the last thing I got was on Monday. That’s also when the new format debuted, so I’m betting whoever they got to do that was clueless about rss. ?
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Since the Clinton presidency?
I think you are severely underestimating the death spiral of the newspaper industry.
WaterGirl
@Redshift: Maybe someone here will have a login to comment on the Benen blog and can let them know. Or maybe tweet. I do neither, so it can’t be me!
I had no idea that they rolled out a new format, so thanks for that information!
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: Was it the Hasan Minaj tweet?
John Revolta
@Amir Khalid: This is correct, and it marked a turning point. When Barr came on board, Trumpf’s administration began its “pivot” from a bad joke to a serious threat to democracy in this country.
Kent
@Brachiator: A lot of them don’t fold per se. They get bought up by big chains, stripped of their assets, all the local reporting staff get let go, and then they continue to live on basically publishing recycled wire service copy along with Dear Abby and the baseball standing and comics for the oldsters, and mostly get used as wrapper for the local grocery store and big box store ads.
That’s what has happened to a ton of local papers around here. They still exist “on paper” but mostly just come in the mail on Weds as wrapper for the grocery ads.
Redshift
@WaterGirl: I tweeted at him. They removed commenting months ago, with a message that it would be coming back soon with a great site update. Feh.
Kent
Why are there not already House Judiciary Committee and Oversight Committee investigative hearings happening on this. This is what makes me fucking crazy about the Democratic Party. The Republicans would already be on their third set of hearings and would be screaming into every TV microphone they could find. 24/7. They know how to do this shit. And all the members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee have been through this stuff endless times when in the minority.
Are they all like Susan Collins and they think that Trump will just behave if they look the other way?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Kent:
and their voters respond to their screaming
Bernie Sanders just spent probably five minutes with the adoring Chris Hayes. Did he mention it ? Genuine question, I couldn’t watch. I gather the great cause in BernieWorld today is beating down the NV Culinary union for opposing BernieCare.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I only caught bits and pieces but I didn’t hear it come up.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Warren is on now and talking about it.
ETA: Talking about impeachment Barr.
Steeplejack (phone)
From an immigration lawyer:
In the thread it is noted that Mizelle is an ally of Stephen Miller.
Also in the thread is another interesting tweet with a link to a (slightly old) story about how Trump’s executive branch is being staffed:
chopper
@Geminid:
nice, long as “a veritable cornucopia” is still kosher.
Skepticat
If you haven’t already seen this from Political Wire, please check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=-Ue5F57dZMU&feature=emb_logo
Manxome Bromide
@Kent:
This happened yesterday. It hasn’t even been 24 yet, so doing anything 24/7 is not really in the cards. Schumer and Nadler have already announced their outrage and their intention to get to the bottom of it.
We are hamstrung, of course, because they’re presumably going to actually, you know, attempt to get to the bottom of things, and not just come up with excuses to hurt their political enemies. Those are much easier to hand and can be stockpiled in advance.
chris
@Baud: Yay! SPW said the “A” word. Authoritarianism. About time someone did.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Barr will be appearing before the House Judiciary Committee on March 21, btw
MisterForkbeard
@Manxome Bromide: What bugs me about Nadler is that they’ve confirmed they’re having Barr testify about this… in 6 weeks.
No. Get him in front of the house NOW. Next week at the latest. If he wants to whine about not being given enough time, Democrats can tell him that maybe he shouldn’t be blatantly politicizing the DOJ.
MomSense
@schrodingers_cat:
yup
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MomSense: I am intrigued….
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
I’m old enough to remember when Bill Clinton bumped into Loretta Lynch at an Arizona airport and the corporate media went nuclear 24/7 until Lynch recused herself.
Today, Dump obstructing justice, we get a meh by the very important people.
rikyrah
chris
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Bolton’s book is coming out on March 17. (Maybe.)
MisterForkbeard
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Right? Now we want a link to MomSense’s twitter profile. :)
guachi
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Six weeks from now? Useless.
Soprano2
@debbie: Ugh, Mehgna the Interrupter. I want to like her, but after the 10th “I’m sorry to interrupt” just when a panelist or caller is making a point, I want to slap her and yell “Shut up, we don’t want to hear you!” I usually listen to 1A at that time, but sometimes I grit my teeth and listen to “On Point” because they have a guest or a topic I’m interested in.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
March 31, according to the committee.
Mai naem mobile
@debbie: you don’t have to listen to.NPR.. Download the tune in radio app in your phone whatever and listen to other stuff. They have a free version and the ads are no worse than NPRs sponsor ads. I was a pretty big NPR listener – I even pledge to my local station because of stuff like This American Life , Moth Story and local stuff etc. but I find myself listening less and less to the news coverage.
Mai naem mobile
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: I am old enough to remember when Janet Reno had to appoint a Republican prosecutor for Whitewater and that wasn’t good enough because the first guy came back with nothing and they insisted on siccing Ken Starr on Bill Clinton.
Sab
@Yutsano: Didn’t Bush stuff the NPR Board with his people, who are now running things at the natioanl level?
My Cleveland OH station is still really good at the local level, but it is having fundraising problems because locals are so annoyed with the national shows ( Morning Edition, All Things Considered and whatever that thing they run in the afternoon.)
My Kent station is doing better financially. It’s a more rural audience. They don’t mind the national programming. Also the station intersperses NPR with a lot of PRI, and music on the weekends.
WaterGirl
@Redshift: thank you! and yes, that seems less than great. why eliminate commenting early and roll out without commenting being part of the new site?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@debbie:
eh, I realized something was off with NPR when I was listening to in my car at lunch one day some woman comes on breathless talking about how great it was mothers were teaching their daughters how to masturbate. All I could think was “and this is after listing for years women ridiculing men for masturbation?” But both sides are at fault, eh?