wisprabbit

puzzle + interactive fiction bnuuy

hello! i make logic puzzles and interactive fiction games. i'm good and nice


twitter (not used much anymore)
twitter.com/wisprabbit
crosshare (crossword blog, still active-ish)
crosshare.org/wisprabbit
puzz.link (logic puzzles, defunct because those bitches at twitter ate the api)
puzz.link/db/?via=wisprabbit

thewaether
@thewaether

if you're not on twitter RN you will have missed out on elon musk begging stephen king for money this morning


Codarobo
@Codarobo

Sure man whatever. $8. Glad we could hash this out.


nicky
@nicky

this incredible business tactic we call "negotiating against yourself" is being employed by the same man who recently said he was too smart for chess. truly remarkable stuff


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in reply to @thewaether's post:

King raises a critical point here: The nature of Twitter is the top users are providing the product, IE, they write the content many/most "normal users" come to read. Probably they should be getting paid. This goes right over Musk's head.

I hear one of the spaghetti-at-wall ideas Musk had for how to grow Twitter again was to bring back Vine. Actually, that is the one of Musk's "Twitter Ideas" that might actually work, and it's even almost timely (just maybe a year or two late, given TikTok). However what Musk probably doesn't know (as he doesn't seem to do "deep understandings" of subjects, any subject) is that a big inflection point toward Vine's downfall was that the top content producers tried to unionize. ( See: https://www.businessinsider.com/vines-biggest-stars-tried-saving-company-2016-10 ). The high-value users wanted to get an actual contract where they would produce content at a certain rate and quality level and in exchange get defined sums of money from the company. When Vine said no, those creators went elsewhere. Musk as an individual doesn't... seem to deal well with people forming unions. Imagine MuskTwitter produces a half-assed Vine revival (though with a reduced pool of engineers, working on shorter deadlines, due to Musk-related management). Among the various competitors this will face are TikTok and YouTube Shorts, both of which have a mechanism for paying creators. So now imagine a new site, which starting out lacks the captive audience of Instagram or TikTok, except on this one if you reach the point of making professional-tier content instead of it producing a revenue stream now you pay $240/year for account verification. Hm

It gets even better... after King didn't bother to reply, Elon CAME BACK 10 minutes later with "I will explain the rationale in longer form before this is implemented. It is the only way to defeat the bots & trolls."

(This on top of the rumor that he gave the team a 1-week deadline to get it done)