Multiclass game {designer|developer|writer}. Past: creative director @neocabgame, team Firewatch, @netflix interactive, @twitter engineering. Call me Phenry. đ´
Joined February 2007
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The @hoverbird account now exists as an archive of stuff I used to care about back when I helped build this place, and going forward will be used only to throw shade at and undermine the new Twitter regime. For everything else, find me on Mastodon dot social slash hoverbird.
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Breaking my twtr boycott of over three and a half years just to share this news.
B/c if there ever was a game which is against whatever the fresh hell tech oligarchs did to this site, and to our society at large, itâs Neo Cab.
8 Sep 2025
Neo Cab is BACK on the App Store, baby!
If you love soft sci-fi, cozy mysteries, and/or themes of staying human in a world overrun by tech oligarchies and automation⌠well, have we got a game for you đ
The entire first episode free to play- plz share!
apps.apple.com/us/app/neo-caâŚ
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I deleted this app months ago, but Iâm now preparing to fully archive and lock my account. I urge you to do the same: as much as it pains me to say it, liked and faves arenât worth being complicit in this madness. Iâm hoverbird on M4st0 and thr34ds⌠meet me in Montauk?
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Nothing but respect to the anonymous Twitter engineer who leaked the Twitter source code. You are doing the lord's work. I'd have done the same if I still had access tbqh
as before, there will be a "housecleaning" of non-loyalist management, but this time the CEO will be "running" like 5 companies simultaneously, instead of just 2. and this time there will be no public accountability at all.
if I still worked here I would leak like a sieve tbh
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Phenry Ewing (permanently relocated to bluesky) retweeted
14 Feb 2023
Twitterâs âFor Youâ absolutely KILLING IT with state of the art personalization. @elonmusk has done it again.
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#API_RIP to this and so, so many other brilliant, thought provoking and hilarious bots that made this site so fun for so long. But the grand project of destroying speech in order to save it must go on...
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what's good Vichy Twitter
Appropriately shooketh by @robdubbin Dubbinâ˘ď¸ this place âVichy Twitterâ
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Phenry Ewing (permanently relocated to bluesky) retweeted
There are only a few days left to migrate your Twitter follow graph to the elephant site- Elno kills the public API next week. Get out! Some tools that may still work til then:
Debirdifier debirdify.pruvisto.org
Fedifinder fedifinder.glitch.me
Twitodon twitodon.com
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Everybody thinks "The Social Network" is the best movie about forming a new startup, but they are wrong. The best movie is "Ghostbusters".
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Playing some of the old hits for old time's sake. Go to the elephant site
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Phenry Ewing (permanently relocated to bluesky) retweeted
Everybody thinks "The Social Network" is the best movie about forming a new startup, but they are wrong. The best movie is "Ghostbusters".
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Phenry Ewing (permanently relocated to bluesky) retweeted
23 Jan 2023
do not download the app called âone secâ if you want to doom scroll and spend lots of time reading twitter. itâs the absolute worst thing you can do.
it ruined my dopamine conditioning, now i focus for long periods of time and donât compulsively check my phone :(
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Phenry Ewing (permanently relocated to bluesky) retweeted
21 Jan 2023
I'm doing an experiment. On my computer, I am checking the latest tweets by people I follow. On my phone, I'm checking whether their most recent tweets are showing up in the "Following" column. I'm just getting started, but even in the first dozen cases, Twitter failed to show me
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Phenry Ewing (permanently relocated to bluesky) retweeted
17 Jan 2023
Thatâs why Tesla is right about banning remote work. I know a guy who claims to work for Tesla but also has a gig at a Telcom, at a freight company, does a side job digging holes, sells medical implants AND trades crypto. But he spends most of his time shitposting on twitter.
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AI n00bs: don't be like this sleazy Midjourney user. The correct answer to their question is: pay a concept artist who does commissions in your price range. You might be surprised how affordable and awesome that experience will be
I'm SO excited about gen art's potential but...
I'm very disappointed. This is a message from an AI user, straight from the Midjourney Discord server.
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...the 1st step IMO is to see it as one tool among many, and to use your own *personal artmaking process* like all the OG AI artists do
Pay artists. Don't be a sleazeball aspiring to rip off their labor whole-cloth. Experiment, borrow, remix, use many tools. Find your own style
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A cool thing about MĂĽstĂłdon is you just follow interesting accounts and thereâs no ads or paid propaganda whatsoever. It does cost you $0/month though
We believe that cause-based advertising can facilitate public conversation around important topics. Today, we're relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US. We also plan to expand the political advertising we permit in the coming weeks.
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Even the damn Mars lander is quitting Twitter
19 Dec 2022
My powerâs really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Donât worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will â but Iâll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.
ALT Wide-angle photo from NASAâs InSight lander on Mars shows the area in front of the lander in the late afternoon sun. Two science instruments tethered to the lander rest on the sandy surface nearby. Part of the landerâs robotic arm is visible extending down from the top left. Distortion from the wide-angle lens bends the distant horizon into a curved shape, while low-angle sunlight causes a small bluish lens flare on the right side.
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I'm buddies with someone who was one of the first 15 engineers at MySpace. The dude had a family emergency w/ sudden, massive doctorbills.
MySpace Tom not only gave him open-ended leave from work, he opened up his personal checkbook and asked how much my friend needed. #Tom4CEO
19 Dec 2022
Depends who you get to run it ! đ¤
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