This tweet is not a headline for the attached article, which describes Twitter’s plans to remove headlines from article links.
This tweet is intended as satire to showcase the flaws of this new Twitter implementation.
fortune.com/2023/08/21/elo…
The pseudocode my children run on:
10: Find new Thing
20: Take Thing to new Place for important reason
30: Deposit Thing at Place
40: GOTO 10
50: Play with Thing at Place
TIL that the London Underground is evolving its own species of mosquitoes, exhibiting different behaviors from surface dwelling mosquitoes. There are even genetic differences between mosquitoes in different rail lines.
I’m listening to an 80s playlist and my 4yo daughter keeps asking “What’s this song about?”. I tell her it’s about “a boy who loves a girl” but really most of them are about doing copious amounts of cocaine.
[peers out a crack in the curtains]
“Children, come look! It’s the bright star from the tales of yore!”
“Is is dangerous daddy?”
“No child, not according to legend. Come, let us frolic on the backyard astroturf like our ancestors once did!”
I regret to inform you that the JavaScript that was going to completely rewrite Twitter Search including the ranking algo will not in fact be shipping. I know this comes as a shock.