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National Posting Service, Part 1 (feat. Mike Isaac) (Patreon)

Published:
2022-12-01 17:51:45
Imported:
2026-06

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This week, we're talking to Mike Isaac of the New York Times about Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. And, let's be real, his desire to be loved, his insane right wing tendencies, the slow grinding of the platform into the ground, and the bizarre tech-libertarian freak thought undergirding all of the PayPal Mafia's conception of the world. This is part one of two!

Comments

kiwi

It's always amazing the people y'all manage to get to come on the show despite it's...silliness. Awesome combo of informative and gut busting content

Zeroisanumber

Once dreamt of Alice. I was standing on the street near my house and she was riding by on a bike and flipped me the bird.

Violet

I appreciate you releasing a double-episode for me while pneumonia kicks my ass. Very thoughtful!

Kozma Prelevic

Musk entering twitter and waiting for the cutscene has eerie parallels to Jan 6 I feel

LifesAHaskell

This is the content I've been craving.

Andrew Davis

As someone who sort of did the "rich people flock to bunkers during the apocalypse" thing during the COVID-19 portion of 2020 (I'm just a flunkie), please do not ever accept this invitation in an actual apocalypse situation. The dumbest thing will get you killed.

Danh Nguyen

Tech CEOs are the living Skinner meme: "Am I out of touch? No it's the [Cathedral aka normal people] who are wrong"

Jeffrey

Consider: Seth green as American Hancock

Josep C.

It's the SCP one! If you mention him you will propagate his reach and extend the curse.

Rufus

If Hancock ends up getting a twee reality show I will only ever refer to him as straight portillo

Stuart Olsen

Re the discussion around 42:00 -- keep in mind that no small part of the software developer workforce comprises young, middle-class, socially awkward, politically illiterate white men who spent their teens and twenties socializing primarily with other computer nerds on usenet/slashdot/4chan/hackernews etc. The big players in tech have pushed _hard_ in the past five to ten years to distance themselves from that image in favor of Corporate Social Responsibility Black Lives Matter, but those guys are still there and they've got a persecution complex to boot. Elon Musk could staff Twitter twice over with Hacker News brain posters alone.

etienne

oh yeah I remember forever ago when twitter had problems with their Ruby on Rails being too hard to work on and slow and started porting services to Scala and it made their stuff even more slow and hard to work with and had to scale it back. the programming language landscape of 10 years ago was pretty weird

Cat Mara

Regarding the conversation about Twitter’s & other tech companies’ tendency to fix problems in the short term, this is indeed an industry-wide problem and there’s even a name for it: technical debt. Every decision to fix a problem in the short term at the risk of future problems down the road is akin to taking a loan that must be paid eventually. If the decision is made with that in mind, it can work, just as taking out a loan judiciously can help a company; but if the first instinct always is to favour the quick & dirty solution, eventually the technical debt becomes unmanageable and the code becomes impossible to to fix bugs or extend without the risk of introducing more bugs

Cat Mara

Twitter is no longer written in Ruby as it was difficult to make it scale. Nowadays, AFAIK, most of the back end is written in a language called Scala. For all the site’s faults, the Twitter engineering team have done some impressive work in keeping a site that gets circa 500 million new tweets per day usable

Ivy Morgan

Elon musk tulpa is too fuckin cursed