Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr, @bkcc), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Mail: buzz at andersen.buzz
Joined July 2006
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12 Mar 2023
Guess this isn’t a very controversial statement anymore.
10 Apr 2021
I have long had the theory that sustained, historically low interest rates are one of the under appreciated things driving the current dystopian tech boom. Returns in safer assets suck, driving money into increasingly crazy tech stuff, consolidating economic power with big tech.
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6 Mar 2023
Someone just emailed to offer me $100 for my Twitter account, so I figure I’d better tweet something to keep my account active.
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buzz@andersen.social retweeted
19 Dec 2022
Reminder that Twitter was nowhere near bankruptcy in May.
Q2 loss of $244 million. Around $2.7 billion of cash in the bank.
Obviously not a healthy biz. But not close to a bankrupt one.
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18 Dec 2022
Just wanted to make sure everyone over here was aware of this
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buzz@andersen.social retweeted
14 Dec 2022
As always people should read @juliandibbell's MY TINY LIFE for a window into how this has been an active problem for *decades* before social media even existed.
Governance is not a technical problem, ever. *Everything* on the net started out technolibertarian. All of it evolved.
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buzz@andersen.social retweeted
15 Dec 2022
I guess they were banned for revealing the location of where all the Twitter users are going.
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16 Dec 2022
As I said back in April.
30 Apr 2022
Every media organization should set up a Mastodon instance right now IMHO.
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14 Dec 2022
I think one thing that pundits aren’t considering enough is the possibility that Musk, having blundered his way into a horrendously bad deal, is acting entirely impulsively and out of pure narcissistic injury. nytimes.com/2022/12/13/techn…
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14 Dec 2022
Stand by this
8 May 2021
I think I’ve finally managed to crystallize exactly what it is I find so obnoxious about Musk: in his glib trollishness, he powerfully exemplifies the nightmare of unchecked billionaire power. Imposing his will on humanity for the lulz.
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buzz@andersen.social retweeted
10 Dec 2022
Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk rummaged through millions of emails & Slack messages from pre-Musk Twitter & all they found was employees deliberating & consulting w/each other about how to fairly apply & enforce rules. But I get it..
To a rich white man, that seems very oppressive
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14 Dec 2022
So yeah, it's basically just cringey Neil Stephenson-ism driving all this.
1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.
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14 Dec 2022
Once I'm ensconced in my underground tweet bunker, no one will be able to stop me from posting Hunter Biden's dick, as god intended.
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14 Dec 2022
But it’s cool, because thanks to perfect algorithmic filter bubbles, only other Hunter Biden dick pick enjoyers will be forced to engage with my content.
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