Anil Dash on the radicalization of tech tycoons
— VCs and big tech CEOs are living together in a reactionary bubble, insulated from people who might call them out via Paul Bausch #Legal Lullabies
— it takes over 50 minutes to read the Instagram Terms of Use out loud, an extremely effective sleep aid via Web Curios #Super Aja 64
— my new jam is MIDI versions of Steely Dan’s Aja, but with every instrument replaced by the Mario 64 soundfont #The Free Movie
— MSCHF made a site to “crowd pirate” a hand-drawn frame-by-frame recreation of The Bee Movie #Rest of World talks to outsourced workers forced to adopt generative AI to stay competitive
— they commissioned work made with and without AI from freelancers in Nigeria, Mexico, China, and the Philippines #Windows Defender
— elegantly designed free browser game, like Vampire Survivors but a group of windows defending a desktop via Naive Weekly #Tiny Awards finalists announced, public voting open until July 20
— I helped narrow down the 300+ nominees to 16 charming websites representing the “small, playful and heartfelt web” #Twitter bug causes self-DDOS tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits: “It’s amateur hour”
For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting “EXTREME levels of data scraping,” forcing them to bring “large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis” and enact emergency measures.
Yesterday, Twitter started blocking all logged-out access to Twitter, requiring signing in to view any tweet or profile. Elon Musk called it a “temporary emergency measure,” claiming they “were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”
Apparently, it didn’t stop the crush of traffic and, this morning, Musk announced they escalated their actions against supposed “extreme levels of data scraping” by rate-limiting the number of tweets you can view.
