We’ve all be taught that life began in the water before they got curious about land. Turns out some them went back to the sea hundreds of millions of years later and became the creatures we know as whales, dolphins, and porpoises. They share the same ancestors as cows, pigs, and camels.
Generational DNA mutations and alterations due to lifestyle and environment changes were inevitable.
I first saw Rent in Melbourne in 1999 which featured Aussie talents Christine Anu and Rodger Corser. It blew my mind and left a lasting impression even after all these years, so when I found out on Thursday night that there was going to be a production in Jakarta this weekend I snapped the tickets right away for their first show on Friday night. I wasn’t disappointed. Mostly.
I think the cast did very well in presenting the show for the local audience –they snuck in a couple of local references which were cute but I kinda wish they didn’t, took me out of the scenes – and they sang great. Although I love the addition of the impromptu Saman dance in the cafe scene. In the Melbourne show Angel was my highlight of the performance but in this one it’s Maureen who stole the show.
That the songs and the lyrics came rushing back and filled my head and got me to sing along throughout the entire show after not having listened to the tracks for a little while shows how much of a mark it left on me. I just wish the stage wasn’t so brightly lit, it took away the focus from the main performances vs the chorus or background.
PS: In one scene Angel hit Mimi in the face with a stick, I think it was an accident because it was quite a swing. The whole cast paused for a few seconds and I could feel the shock from the stage. She apologized and they all continued with Mimi holding her cheek.
The news social network was founded by former Waze CEO Noam Bardin shortly after he left the company in early 2021. The startup is being thrusted to the surface and forced itself to launch far earlier than expected thanks to Twitter’s dismantling from within, so it’s reasonable to expect many things not working, not available, or looked patched up.
NYU Professor and podcasting celebrity Scott Galloway is an investor on the site and has managed to get his podcasting partner Kara Swisher and plenty other Twitter big names to not only join but also promote the site.
However, there are concerns over the fundamentals of the site, which may or may not change in the future, but may alarm people regardless. The Washington Post’s Engineering Lead for Privacy and Security Compliance Aram Zucker-Scharff ran up quite a thread of the ones he’s come across.
Post.News makes publishers syndicate their stories to the site or publish directly there for them to be able to receive payments for articles. This means they don’t (yet?) actually act as a paywall partner with publishers and don’t direct traffic to the original site.
I’m on the fence about creating placeholder accounts for the actual news publishers but it’s incredible that you currently have to pay to read your own article that you publish there and they’re charging for wire stories that are freely accessible on the publisher’s website.
Aram said Post.News gives him similar vibes to Medium. There are several differences, though. Medium started with the blogging angle and charges a monthly subscription fee while Post started with the Twitter angle and charges fees per article.
Veteran tech journalist Dan Gillmor isn’t vibing with Post.News. He said,
Major Twitter influencers are pushing a supposed replacement called Post. It may be great (I’m not allowed to use it so far) but it’s yet another proprietary, closed (in terms of interoperability), centralized social network.
Great for the A list and vCs. Not great for me.
If I leave Twitter, which is plainly feeling the effects of too little engineering and too much right-wing poison, it will be for something like Mastodon (I’m http://mastodon.social/@dangillmor there). It will NOT be yet another centralized place where, someday, a sociopath CEO rules.
Of course he is guilty of the very thing he accused someone of
He lied about the death of his son for clout and got called out by his ex on his own social network. Does that mean he has no mercy for himself?
Massive Twitter data breach was far worse than reported, reveal security researchers
Several months ago Twitter acknowledged that someone had exploited more than five million user data that were stolen in the breach last year. Turns out multiple individuals had managed to get their hands on them.
The security researcher who tweeted this fact this week had his account suspended almost immediately.
9to5 Mac ended the story with a banger of a closing line:
We would reach out to Twitter for comment, but Musk fired the entire media relations team, so …
Good lord, where do I start with this? Jack, you’re a tech leader. Haven’t you at least heard of WebOS and Firefox OS before you asked that?
There have been so many attempts at making that OS that he wants I think he forgot until people started pointing it out to him in the replies. Firefox OS and WebOS were just two of the highest profile ones. Another “web-only” OS is Chrome OS which powers laptops.
His argument is the technology back then didn’t allow it but the web is advanced enough now to do it. But Jack, it has always been advanced enough for most of the apps you needed at the time.
If all he wanted was to release a social media app without having to adhere to platform rules and regulations, he can do that right now as web apps. In fact nobody will stop him from releasing such apps. Maybe he also forgot Twitter has been a web app for a long time.
WebOS was so far ahead of its time Apple and Google have been reintroducing its features on their respective platforms as new innovations in recent years.
The problem was not limited to the apps they wanted to build, that was the least of their worries. These attempts had so many other issues such as hardware spec, budget, marketing, determination, leadership, resources, resilience, developer outreach, public buy ins, and so on.
Many other attempts were little more than Android forks which is ironic because Google has always been a major advocate of web apps with their Progressive Web Apps efforts. All the web technologies built since 2008 have been moving towards making web apps as viable as native apps and many, if not all, have been adopted as web standards which will work on any modern browser.
Someone asked him how will people discover apps in a federated world. Bruh, there are things called directories! Anyone can build an app directory, any developer can promote them anywhere, there are social media platforms, YouTube channels, and this new thing called advertising, all the big brands are doing it, ever heard of advertising?
I think this is Jack projecting his insecurities and concerns that Apple and Google will soon boot Twitter off the stores for having no content moderation.
Twitter has plenty of porn, 13% of its content, in fact, according to a recent report, and they’re not censored. Even Reddit has content moderation. While certain keywords are currently blocked from Twitter search, porn is not very difficult to find there. The company’s former head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, penned an op ed for The NY Times on what could become of Twitter without content moderation, among other things.
There’s also the issue of payment processing. Both Apple and Google charge fees for purchases of digital items and Twitter’s new management wants to avoid that because they plan to generate the bulk of their revenue from subscription. Spotify, Netflix, and Amazon’s Kindle still have apps on Android and iOS/iPadOS but they don’t allow payments through the stores, only from their websites, to avoid that fee. They run what Apple calls “reader apps” , these are apps that don’t allow in-app purchases of digital items.
Twitter can do what Netflix and Spotify do, but if they plan to sell low cost high volume digital goods and services through the app, people will have to keep jumping to the web, quite an inconvenient barrier, to make those purchases. Those other companies only charge customers once a month so it’s less of an issue.
Difficult to describe it any better. Wil Wheaton perfectly sums up the entire situation with Elon Musk.
What do you mean @topherchris is no longer running @staff?
there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter
tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks… that website still lives on
truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that
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