2022-11-02
Well that was fast. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Twitter's Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette “resigns”; sources say ad company IPG recommended that clients pause Twitter spending over moderation concerns
> Today, more than 40 organizations signed a letter to Twitter's major advertisers urging them to commit to pulling ads if Musk follows through with promises to roll back community...
2022-09-07
Well said, @CaseyNewton, well said. (and very similar to the arguments I & co-authors have advanced at https://nocloudflare.com/ for why Cloudflare's “too big to fail” argument is bullshit) https://twitter.com/...
Platformer
Cloudflare belatedly banning Kiwi Farms demonstrates the “stochastic terrorism loophole”, offering groups cover as long as no one explicitly calls for murder
On platforms and the stochastic terrorism loophole — I. — Kiwi Farms is a nearly 10-year-old web forum …
2022-09-01
KF would be unable to keep their images and videos (esp of Christchurch and Buffalo Tops shootings) online from a bandwidth and cost perspective without Cloudflare supporting them. https://twitter.com/...
VICE
After an outcry over serving anti-trans stalking forum Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare says denying security services due to “despicable” content is the wrong policy
what's worse is LITERALLY YESTERDAY the same people they protect in Kiwifarms and their fellow travellers were busy denial of service attacking the Trevor Project's chat and phone lines, causing wait times to rise and clients to not receive help. https://twitter.com/...
VICE
After an outcry over serving anti-trans stalking forum Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare says denying security services due to “despicable” content is the wrong policy
Hey @Cloudflare, are you paying for a private security guard for @keffals given the recent attempt on her life directly caused by one of the sites you proudly support? Or are you all talk, and no money when it comes to compensating for providing free service to hate sites?
VICE
After an outcry over serving anti-trans stalking forum Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare says denying security services due to “despicable” content is the wrong policy
2022-06-28
Google caves to Republicans demanding it platform them https://twitter.com/...
Axios
Filing: Google asks the US FEC to green light a program that would exempt campaign emails from spam; the GOP alleges Gmail unfairly flags its emails as spam
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to steer my ship.” Tweets: Nate Silver / @natesilver538 : I barely use email tbh and this might be the thing to get me to swear of...
2022-03-03
“Last year, a service that Friends With Benefits used to create its tokens was hacked. $FWB's value plunged 99 percent. The community voted to issue a replacement token and avoided a total collapse.” so it's _not_ actually code and crypto is law, who would have thunk? https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
A look at Friends With Benefits, an a16z-backed DAO with a buzz-fueled social club, which attracts artists and investors but faces problems with its elitism
Friends With Benefits is a V.I.P. lounge for crypto's creative class. Is it empty hype or the future of friendship?
2022-02-26
there is a special place in Hell for these people. https://twitter.com/...
Input
Some Instagram meme pages are turning into “war pages” that repost unverified footage without context, often claiming to be run by journalists in Ukraine
there is a special place in Hell for these people. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
In a letter, Ukraine's vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov urges Tim Cook to halt Apple's product sales in Russia and shut down its App Store in the country
Mykhailo Fedorov, who serves as Ukraine's vice prime minister and oversees digital operations, urged Apple Inc. to halt product sales …
2022-02-11
Fuck The Work Number, and also fuck Apple's HR department for doing this shit to its employees. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Apple confirms it changes every ex-employee's job title to “associate” in job verification databases, after #AppleToo leader Cher Scarlett's SEC complaint
2021-12-13
interesting nugget: if you were multi-region but needed to push DNS to swap regions, you were SOL. “Route 53 APIs were impaired from 7:30 AM PST until 2:30 PM PST preventing customers from making changes to their DNS entries, but existing DNS entries were not impacted” https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
AWS blames its hours-long Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, plans to revamp its status page to address complaints about updates and support cases
2021-12-12
interesting nugget: if you were multi-region but needed to push DNS to swap regions, you were SOL. “Route 53 APIs were impaired from 7:30 AM PST until 2:30 PM PST preventing customers from making changes to their DNS entries, but existing DNS entries were not impacted” https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
AWS blames its hours-long Tuesday outage on network devices overloading, plans to revamp its status page to address complaints about updates and support cases
- A major Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday started after network devices got overloaded, the company said on Friday.
2021-12-01
Want to join us in seeing the results first-hand? https://t.co/j5E3pVG0KK #reInvent #Graviton2 #Graviton3
TechCrunch
AWS launches its ARM-based Graviton 3 processor, claiming it will be 25% faster than Graviton 2 and three times faster for ML workloads
Want to join us in seeing the results first-hand? https://t.co/j5E3pVG0KK #reInvent #Graviton2 #Graviton3
CNBC
Goldman Sachs partners with AWS to provide its market data and software tools to hedge funds and asset managers as a new service, GS Financial Cloud for Data
Hugh Son / CNBC :
2021-10-16
Netflix acting like absolute trash. Firing black trans folks because they think they're less likely to be able to fight back. Show them that's not the case, you come for the most marginalized of us, you come for all of us. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Netflix fires a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing a walkout, for allegedly leaking metrics related to the Dave Chappelle special
The company suspects they leaked metrics about the Dave Chappelle special to the press — Netflix has fired a leader …
2021-09-17
Maybe folks should have been more concerned about Facebook than Backpage heh https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Internal docs show Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug cartels using its platform for recruitment in developing countries
Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding
2021-07-29
everything old is new, apparently. those of us who worked on Whirled or Second Life don't matter, apparently! https://twitter.com/...
Facebook
Facebook reports Q2 revenue of $29.08B, up 56% YoY, MAUs of 2.9B, up 7% YoY, headcount of 63,404, up 21% YoY; stock down ~3% on warning of revenue slowdown
“We had a strong quarter as we continue to help businesses grow and people stay connected,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
2021-06-12
ps as with the Bitcoin superspreader conference, please please please hold off longer on holding in-person events. come on, folks. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Gizmodo
Some attendees of Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, which had no mask or proof of vaccine requirements for its 12K guests, say they tested positive for COVID-19
I'm guessing a lot of them were anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers/denialists. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Sekniqi / @kevinsekniqi : The absolute craziest thing I'm finding out is that pe...
This. This is the proper framing. “The fired workers have said the information they found wasn't confidential but publicly accessible to any of Google's more than 100,000 employees, and that they only shared the information internally at the company.” https://twitter.com/...
Vox
NLRB expands its complaint against Google to add three more fired workers who say the company retaliated against them for protesting against its work with CBP
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox :
2021-06-09
I truly empathize with this. A configurable system that must be globally consistent is damn hard, and subtle issues can trip bugs weeks or months later. — the incident commander for https://status.cloud.google.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Associated Press
Fastly, which was hit by a major outage on Tuesday, says the problem was caused by a bug that was triggered by a customer configuring their service
LONDON (AP) — Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world's top websites to go offline briefly this week …