[asfgjfkgjnfkjgnkfjg]

Remember.

TumblrClan is no place for a fox-hearted Twittypet like Elon Musk. 

[mobliterated]

[brightlotusmoon]

[noctude]

sorry professor i did not do this asisgnemtn becuase i was too sad! NO consequences please. goodbye

[orcboxer]

Should go without saying but never date a cop and christ never marry one. Rule of thumb if he's legally untouchable he's ethically unfuckable. You don't like that cop, you like buff men in tight clothing. I can show you more of those, better ones. Take my hand.

[lavendarbruises]

Back after 4 years as I watch twitter collapse in real time

[ke5trel-deactivated20211114]

[spookcataloger]

[silly-slacker-person]

[sugarcoatednightshade]

Holy Trinity

[designpatternpirate]

Best content

[womaninterrupted]

Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history

What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?

[surroundedbybooks]

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.

[ndcirque]

This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.

Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.

So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.

That is not good.

[macleod]

In cyber and academic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I wrote on the subject a few years ago linked below. There is a Wikipedia article on the concept.

It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.

This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.

DNA Data Storage: A Solution for the Digital Dark Age? (2019)

[zeravmeta]

watching twitter implode in realtime is definitely funny but also anyone else utterly disgusted at the fact that one billionaires temper tantrum cost thousands of people their jobs, countless more across its userbase and is destroying what is one of the biggest websites on the internet? one guy. literally one single fucking guy who couldn't just admit to a fuck up and is taking the whole thing down with him because of his big mouth. its one guy and he has enough money to just tear down the website. one guy.

[the-football-chick]

[brnsknsol11]

Deadass

[bigspender]

if I ever say I hate men just remember it’s only bc men have hated me first, more prominently, cruelly, and violently than I’d ever dream of doing

[tittled]

[susa-maru]

[elodieunderglass]

oh NO

[justtrustmeokay-deactivated2021]

[brbjellyfishing]

[secret-aardvark]

The corporate version of “hey OP what the FUCK does this mean”

[leaflicker]

I Died In 2010 and Was Replaced By Someone With Absolutely No Motivation and Complete Emotional Unavailability, a conspiracy thread

[mankillercalledbunny]

Someone: *is talking*

Me: oh. I should be processing this right now. Huh.

[rainfallinhell]

[sixpenceee]

When nervous, fawns’ instinct is to lie down in the grass and keep an eye on threat. But sometimes, they’ll do it in plain sight and think they’re hidden. (Source)

[cassiepanicked]

This is all I ever needed to know

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[queenaboleyna]

“As my dad used to say, it’s only a walk of shame, if you’re capable of feeling shame.”

- Elizabeth I at some point, probably