Favorite Rejects 2022-11-18

Jason Isbell @JasonIsbell

I watched 30-50 feral hogs glitter in the dark near the Tannhoüser gate. All these moments will be lost in time, like tweets in rain

Pete Haas @dimeford

Ex-Twitter employees pitching investors next week. #RIPTwitter

Mosquito Capital @MosquitoCapital

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?" As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

Kate Violette @qkate

I know this is probs the least of his offenses however is anyone else noticing he keeps talking about "writing code" and not about "who can read monitoring dashboards and go figure out why dbs are sad"? like writing more lines of code is not the main challenge right now dude

Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer

NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" 1/

John Gruber @gruber

So either (a) the offices aren’t closed until next week, or (b) getting to the 10th floor is an interview puzzle to keep your job?

Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer

NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" 1/

Charlie Stross @cstross

YES! AT LAST!

New York Times Music @nytimesmusic

Breaking News: The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the owner of Ticketmaster, whose sale of Taylor Swift tickets descended into chaos this week, focused on whether Live Nation has abused its power over the live music industry. https://t.co/bNAWGXhYyU

Ben Wetzler @bd_wetz

"Bad" for whom?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

One of the strengths of the YIMBY movement is it delivers insights that can be embraced by people from both parties.

Wyatt Gordon @yitgordon

Why aren’t we building more housing? Youngkin sees three problems: 1) regulatory burdens that restrict the supply of buildable land 2) permitting complications that delay & prevent developments 3) restrictive land use controls which limit property owners’ rights to build (4/7)