sounds like folks need to spend less time on social media
— George Jackson (@logicb4politics) February 16, 2022
There’s a defensive style of writing where you can tell someone has spent too much time on Twitter.
You write a normal sentence, then ask yourself how an asshole could interpret it in bad faith and use it to attack your reputation publicly. Then you add caveats.
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) February 12, 2022
I literally LOL’d, because it’s not *just* Twitter…
2/ That statement is not meant to attack people with clinical personality issues, which we need to destigmatize.
3/ Also, I don’t mean to imply there are “normal sentences,” which could be seen to “other” people with dyslexia and other sensory processing issues.
4/ I also don’t mean to disrespect to vital work of consciousness building through Twitter critique, which makes us all better. The beauty of this app is it’s all made us aware of other people’s perspectives.
5/ I also don’t want to imply that there is a thing as “too much time on Twitter.” I know that social media addiction is a real thing, and one that psychological professionals are finding ways to treat.
I know I’m not a professional and cannot judge.
6/ I’m sorry to imply that “writing” is the default, as I know people with disabilities need alternate ways of inputting text. I’ve publicly supported work of Apple to increase accessibility options, and have lobbied tech companies to be more robust with speech-to-text options.
7/ I do apologize if the above caveats could be seen as “sarcastic,” or “a joke.” I know that these issues are serious and need to be acted upon.
8/ Anyway, you can tell when someone has spent too much time on Twitter because it breaks their ability to express ideas clearly.
Baud
I see the Dems made it safe for people to vote Republican again.
Also, too, that chart confirms that the Supreme Court choose poorly in 2000.
Miki
Cartoon of the day.
Baud
I keep my reputation in the toilet to avoid this problem.
Steeplejack
@Miki:
“Content not available.”
Cermet
I’m certainly happy how things are going. My car (350,000 miles) refused to start – got five error codes and one is a ‘fatal’ error code about the transmission module. A new one $817 (& $40 labor); a used, junk yard one: $40 (w/tax and shipping.) Thanks to USPS I got it in three days, took all of five minutes to install and the car runs just fine, and no error codes at all. May all one’s problems be so easy to know and fix at little cost or trouble (at least for electro-mechanical devices … .)
OzarkHillbilly
I don’t have time to read all of this post and understand everything it is about, but I have read enough to invoke Jim Wright’s
OzarkHillbilly
@Cermet: Damn, you are my hero. I usually just shoot the damn thing at that point.
Miki
Trying again.
Baud
@Cermet:
Wow.
MomSense
@Baud:
I see the Dems made it safe for people to vote Republican again
Fuck. Inconvenient and fucking brutal truth.
SiubhanDuinne
@Miki:
Takes me to my own FB page.
Miki
@SiubhanDuinne: The second link, too? I tried to link directly to Sack’s page instead of to my share.
Shoot me. It shouldn’t be this hard no matter how much wine I’ve had.
Other MJS
I sometimes write LLOL, but I’m afraid of ruining it. Then we’d need LLLOL, etc.
Betty
@Miki: It took me to the page, but didn’t show the cartoon. I can see the comments so it is apparently mocking Putin.
SiubhanDuinne
@Miki:
Second link wants me to log in to FB. I have no idea what my 12-year-old password is, so I’m just going to take your word that it’s a great cartoon
:-)
Steeplejack
@Miki:
That works!
MagdaInBlack
@Miki: It’s ok, I can’t post a link here to save my life, so I quit trying. But I see the cartoon at the second link you posted.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
It’s Putin pointing a bunch of guns at Ukraine and saying, “Don’t provoke me.”
WhatsMyNym
@Miki: It gets right to the point
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
I tracked it down through my Google-fu superpowers. But thanks.
Steeplejack
@Miki:
Some “subscription” sites present linking issues, because they presume that you are a “member” if you arrive at one of their pages. If you’re not a member you may or may not get a blocking/error message.
Your link-fu was okay. The problem was with Facebook’s gatekeeping.
zhena gogolia
@Miki: Nice!
Geminid
Mangy Jay made some perceptive and funny comments about Twitter last month. The standards applied on the site, said Ms. Jay,
Gin & Tonic
Ukraine not seeing evidence of the Russian troop withdrawals widely (credulously?) reported this morning. FYI.
Sure Lurkalot
@MomSense: @Baud:
The yo-yo memory of the American electorate is really something. Even a kid learns which house hands out the best Halloween candy.
Old School
@SiubhanDuinne:
And yet you didn’t share a link to a non-Facebook option?
Roger Moore
@Sure Lurkalot:
It’s not that people don’t learn; it’s that they want contradictory things. On the one hand, they want the country to recover from recession. They seem to either understand that the Democrats offer a better chance of that, or at least they get fed up with the people in charge and vote in someone else, and it just coincidentally happens that the Republicans are in charge when everything goes to hell. On the other hand, they want to stay ahead of Those People, and they know the Republicans are much better on that score than the Democrats.
RSA
I take this to be an extended riff, but on this point…
I’ve worked with persons with vision impairment (to use a common technical term), friends who used screen readers that translated text into audio. They called the process “reading” and I had no reason to think of it as anything else. (In fact, a couple of friends can read with a screen reader significantly faster than I can read with my eyes.)
I don’t know anyone who uses speech-to-text as their main modality for text input, but I’m wondering whether they might describe it simply as “writing” as well. By analogy, the distinction between typing and longhand writing has largely gone away when we talk about writing.
Sure Lurkalot
@Roger Moore:
True that, but you can only bite your nose off to spite your face so many times before you can’t breathe.
Baud
@RSA:
I often to refer to what I do here as “talking.”
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Oh, so that’s what you call it.
RSA
@Baud: Yes! I do that too. “I was talking (texting/emailing/etc.) with so and so…”
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: I hear you.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
I know, you call it trolling.
Another Scott
@Old School: I assume this is it:
StarTribune – Steve Sack
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
phdesmond
@Miki: i saw the cartoon when i used the second link.
BruceFromOhio
And you don’t even have to produce any twats, either. You can just scroll and scroll and scroll that shit, no end to it.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … GovExec:
The text of the bill is not on Congress.gov yet.
Ending grandstanding and threats to the world economy is good, but it would be good to see the details. What happens if a RWNJ wins and refuses to raise the limit? What happens if a Democrat nominates someone for Treasury Secretary but the Senate refuses to hold confirmation hearings?
The trouble with bomb-throwers and people who want to break the government and who ignore norms is that there are never enough rules to constrain them. This is probably a decent interim step, given the insanity of the GQP, but the best solution is to go back to the Gephardt Rule and “deem and pass” the ceiling increase and stop this nonsense forever.
Cheers,
Scott.
Lyrebird
@RSA: Yeah I figure the tweeter was going over the top to prove a point, but what you say certainly fits with my limited experience working with colleagues who are blind.
Years ago I got to see a really well done movie, The Ten Commandments of Communicating With People With Disabilities.. oh hey they have a summary version, though not as entertaining as the video:
I usually loathe corporate training. The movie really was good!
laura
@Cermet: My gawd, you’ve told a positive story of success and overcoming adversity, and I appreciate it? I had a catastrophic transmission failure on the Bay Bridge in a storm with a coworker on our way to the airport for a business trip to Hollywood FL in time for an iguana-dropping cold snap in late January 2020. Since then, anytime I see transmission, “Slowly I Turned, step by step.”
Geminid
@BruceFromOhio: If you follow the right people on Twitter you can find some very well expressed, concise thinking.
Omnes Omnibus
@Geminid: Or you could follow me.
Old School
@Another Scott: Thanks!
Citizen Alan
This actually applies to me. Personally, things are as good for me right now as they’ve ever been. And yet I’ve never felt so despairing of the nation as a whole. I think it probably has something to do with sharing a country with 72 million fascist death cultists. I would not be at all surprised to see America having a real life Purge in another ten years or so.
Geminid
@Roger Moore: I think a factor in the low number of people satisfied with the direction of the country is Democratic PTSD. For example, people on this site are virtually all Democrats and it’s gloomy as hell here. I would expect Republicans to be dissatisfied, but many Democrats assume that while we may be out of the frying pan, we’re surely headed into the fire.
Not that they couldn’t be right. But I don’t recall this level of pessimism a year into Clinton’s or Obamas first terms, and I think this may depress the poll number.
Jeffro
It’s funny…actually I mean ‘odd’…that yeah, for most of us life is good and getting better by the week, yet we keep seeing crazy shit on social media and our wacky-ass “news” channels that makes us believe the world’s just a hair away from going to complete shit.
“I love my life! But dammit, I’m about to lose everything to these crazy GQP loons/the stock markets/yet another f-ing weird virus/Putin/etc!”
I think I need to go back to:
Also, America: READ A *REAL * NEWSPAPER EVERY DAY, even if it’s That Horrible NYC Paper. Anything but reading whatever FB puts in front of you.
topclimber
I have long liked the idea that brevity is the soul of wit. Twitter lacks such soul more often than not. PLUS somebody came up with the threading thing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Geminid: I agree with you, but I am not sure how to deal with it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and some people seem to get angry if you express any optimism. I wouldn’t even describe myself as “optimistic”, more “grimly determined to cling to the possibility that we can still set things right’
Geminid
@Citizen Alan: If you personally are happier now, at least you are better able to have a positive effect on the world. Even small ones are important.
Speaking of positive effects, have you seen New York Harbor from the Staten Island Ferry yet? That had a positive effect on me when I rode it.
RSA
@Lyrebird:
It’s funny you mention that, because I remember having just that feeling using idiomatic phrases. I can’t remember what they were now, but we do use variations on “seeing” in a lot of metaphorical ways.
Miss Bianca
@Cermet:
I’m glad that’s all that was the problem.
satby
@Baud: “dissatisfied with how the country is going” is not a default good for Republicans. The majority of people on this here blog are pretty dissatisfied with a lot of the ways things are going, but none of us would vote Republican because we blame them for it.
Timill
@satby: Most of my dissatisfaction with the country is down to the failure of the Republican Party to implode and be cast into the Outer Darkness…
Geminid
@Timill: Well, they’re working on it.
mrmoshpotato
@Jeffro:
So easy without a FaceBastard account.
Martin
That split makes sense to me. Things are pretty good for me, and I think the government is doing a good job, but I think the GOP is going to throw us into violence. That’s not captured by the questions.
Jager
Off-topic, but there may be trouble ahead for Elon Musk, in the first road test of the Mercedes all-electric EQE, the tester said, “This car makes a Tesla S feel like an antique.” And it’s cheaper.
Dopey-o
what are you driving that has lasted 350,000? I may need to get your advice offline.
the pollyanna from hell
Let the death march pause for a picnic. (But not today. Denver is socked in.) Let’s say, let it pause for a cup of hot cocoa.
Jager
@Dopey-o:
A friend of my wife has a 73 Dart convertible (her mother bought it new) with 320k on it, the drive train has never been rebuilt, just regular maintenance and three convertible tops, shocks, tires, and brakes. Looks like shit but runs good, and no it’s not her daily driver. My yard guys have an ancient Toyota pickup, 289k on it. It’s had about 5 owners and regular maintenance.
espierce
@Cermet:
Yeah, Lada’s aren’t what they used to be
@Cermet:
BruceFromOhio
@Geminid: hard pass, thanks