#Networks

John Feminella 🌠

jxxf

The image below is the spec sheet circulating for Parler's entire hosting needs (via @th3j35t3r).As a cloud technologist who builds big distributed systems, some remarks on the infrastructure footprint: First,

Thomas Baekdal

baekdal

I have said this many times before, but it's worth repeating. I fully understand why publishers want to create their own ad networks to compete with Google ... and that's

Joanna Poole 💙

Jopo_dr

D-Dimer: D-dimers are a degradation product of fibrinogen, a mesh of fibrils that stabilises platelet plugs. They represent two D-domains of fibrinogen joined together, and a cleavage point in fibrinogen

Kate Starbird

katestarbird

I’ll leave discussion of the physical protests to others for now, but I’m really worried about infiltration of (online) activist movements by domestic provocateurs and foreign agents — who will

Build Soil: cultivar castaños comestibles.

BuildSoil

This is why efficiency is only putting costs elsewhere.https://twitter.com/buildsoil/status/1265526118435733504 Here are some notes I took from Odum a while ago on the relationship between efficiency and power in systems. Every

Ellen Coyne

ellenmcoyne

A senator says he’s going to have to go to the gardaí over a spate of online homophobic abuse. This week, Fintan Warfield was also harassed on the street while

Alexander McKay

ARmckay82

Mehdi Hasan is an interesting case study. He went from 10 years supporting Wikileaks and appearing with Assange at events to denouncing him to ignoring his show trial. That and

Big Meesh

LoveMeeshaa

There’s a lot of shit wrong with Twitter & this is all a result of them acting tooooo late to get this mf tr*mp out the paint, but I’m glad

Wookiee

dampwookiee

I got this book over a year ago.Get a copy.Never pay full price for something without serious evaluation.Stop giving your money away. #Fuckcorporations. They don't deserve your cash. Be local.

Justin on eurostar

EurostarJustinp

As promised, a thread about a rather special train, the TMST (Trans Manche Super Train). This was the project name for the high-speed train designed to link London, Paris and

Matthew Chapman

fawfulfan

THREAD: You might have noticed right-wingers all just sort of...stopped talking about Parler.That's because they realized it's actually a pretty crappy social network. To begin with the most obvious problem,

Joel Schopp

joelschopp

1/ Let's talk auction based online ad platforms. $GOOG, $FB, $TWTR, $AMZN, $PINS, $YELP, $SNAP. I am long $TWTR, $PINS, $YELP now and have been long $GOOG in the past.

Dr. Steven W. Thrasher

thrasherxy

Speaking of, I have been fascinated by the gentrification of these atomized media sites -- the ways in which celebrity culture is flooding alternative media spaces which were initially populated

Jena Griswold

JenaGriswold

ATTN NATIONAL MEDIA EXECUTIVES: Our democracy cannot be held hostage to a ratings race. If you care about our democracy, you will protect it. Full Stop. (thread) We are in

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

High-level overview on network effects (nfx):- Frameworks for thinking about them- Different kinds of nfx- Other forms of defensibility- Addressing bottlenecks to nfx- Misconceptions around nfxReferences @JamesCurrier @anuhariharan @ljin18 @DCoolican

Adia

adia_bhatia

COVID-19 Crisis in India - A thread India is currently witnessing one of the worst escalations of COVID-19 in the world. In the past 24 hours, we have recorded more