Tech question. Would it be easy to create a bot that scrapes twitter and reposts messages to Mastodon, Bluesky, etc. Or would such a bot be easy to defeat by X’s engineers or lawyers?
Ditto for a bot that posts to multiple platforms.
It would be easy to create such a bot, and fairly easy for Twitter to block it once their engineers figured out what was going on.
There’s an app in beta right now, Yup, that will allow you to cross post to bluesky, Twitter, and I forget where else. Though posting in multiple places isn’t the tricky part, apparently it also integrates those platform feeds into the app so you can see interactions.
Is it called WUPHF?
Didn’t they all get fired?
Just the woke ones!
Clearly the ones left are still sleeping.
Looks like Elmo hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Scunthorpe Problem.
Nazis good, kinks bad. Sounds about right for that platform.
But what about Nazi kinks? Are they good or bad?
Sam was defending a position, not weighing evidence. Under Galef’s terminology, he was thinking like a soldier, rather than like a scout seeking an accurate map.
I had wondered about a board member resigning due to Elon’s drug use. It’s a little clearer now: she also didn’t want to be pressured into taking illegal or abusive substances, or so I speculate. That and due diligence concerns.
Naughty skinks can be fun.
(Also, new band name!)
Poor Smapti, what will you do now that your favorite musician is taking a page out of Musk’s playbook?
Odd that, according to that Wikipedia article, Galef uses Musk as an example of the scout mentality.
“Favorite” is pushing it. That’d probably be Pete Townshend. Tay-Tay is definitely in the Top 10, though.
I’d say she’s exaggerating the risk here. The location of her jet is available to anyone with a Flightradar24 account whether or not this kid tracks it on Twitter or not, and there isn’t much a deranged stalker would be able to learn from it that they couldn’t already learn just by paying attention to her tour schedule, media appearances, etc. Knowing that her jet handed at, let’s say, O’Hare this afternoon doesn’t tell you where she’s staying, what kind of car she’ll be in, what her route will be, or anything else that would help you track her down in a city of that size.
I think if the stalker who was arrested recently is shown to have used that specific site to know when she was in town, she might have a case to make. I do think, given the timing, that it’s tied to that specific stalker.
Fuck, Musk fanboys are petty little asshats, eh?
I’d say so also (in both cases). Ultimately, this is public information, even if it’s usually hidden from plain view (as compared to stalkerish attention). Still, broadening availability of this kind of info is making things weird. Celebrities now, maybe non-celebrities tomorrow. What happens when someone applies machine learning to a network of public webcams to track anyone’s license plate anywhere?
That’s kinda rich as a response in an 8800-post thread to a post that’s really just “you know, Taylor Swift, generally perceived to be ‘authentic’, might actually just be another out-of-touch billionaire willing to pick on some college student”.