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Twitter side-effect #2: If you’re trying to get a doctor, dentist, or eye appointment…

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With the various layoffs in the San Francisco Bay Area (I have to specify, since I live in “The Other Bay Area”), it’s going to be difficult to book a doctor, dentist, or eye appointment for any time earlier than weeks into the new year — people are trying to see their doctors and dentists while their insurance is still in effect. Still, book your appointments now, unless you want to wait even longer.

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Twitter side-effect #1: If you use Twitter to log into other software, sites, or systems…

If you use Twitter to log into non-Twitter software, sites, or systems, do this as soon as possible: Sign into that software, site, or systems and set up an alternate way to log in — whether via another service, such as Google, Facebook, or your Apple ID, or via good old-fashioned username and password.

As one techie at Twitter put it, “Entire teams representing critical infrastructure are voluntarily departing the company.” If accurate, it means that it would be a very bad idea to rely on Twitter as your only means of logging in.

Check your accounts!

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Current Events Editorial Humor

The current contender for “Most pathetic Tweet of the day” (so far)

Two-panel meme.

Panel 1: Michael Guimarin’s tweet: “Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up.”

Panel 2: Captioned scene from “King of the Hill”: “You know what’s not cool, Booby? Simping for billionaires on the internet.”
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Here’s the tweet:

I’m sure he imagines himself as a hero gathering a rag-tag team to save a village being attacked by monsters and not, as one astute tweeter put it:

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A brutally awful article about Elon’s management style

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Elon Musk’s Brutally Honest Management Style reminded me of a line from this think piece from way back:

“…soft and sentimental people– particularly the chair-bound geek variant– often idolize brutality.

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Career Current Events Humor

Twitter employees: Today’s the day!

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Choose wisely.

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Current Events Humor

“’ello, I wish to register a complaint!”

Thanks to Brandon Smith for the find!
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Career Current Events

The options for Twitter employees, “Star Wars” style!

It’s official: Elon Musk sent out an email to the remaining staff at Twitter, offering them this choice…

  1. Stay and be “hardcore,” committing to long hours at high intensity, where “only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade,” or
  2. Leave and take three months’ salary.

If you’re a regular reader of this blog and a fan of Star Wars: Andor, you already know which choice I recommend.