Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@44 The former is a bit more suspicious. It could mean that something was compromised and had to be rolled back to an earlier backup.

But even so, I'd still lean towards incompetence over malice.

@44 Has anyone reported something *they know they deleted* coming back? Or are random points of data coming back after mass-deletes?

Because the latter is consistent with caching failures that can be attributed to the incompetence of an overworked and directionless engineering department.

@44 To some extent, this can be attributed to caching.
I went through and deleted all my tweets ages ago, but each time I went back to check on something, I would see a couple that hadn't shown up when I was systemically deleting. This is also related to the API having a time limit for how far back it could mass delete tweets, and Twitter's search having trouble finding old tweets.

It's possible the directionless screwing with the algorithm has made this worse, but it's definitely not a new phenomenon and predates Musk's acquisition.

@pontulo @w7voa Having watched the clip, I now retract this.

That was definitely cringey.

@TheStormcrow @TheConversationUS Sure. Just as long as we use social cues and pressure instead of government force.

@M_C_B52 FWIW, "fire in a crowded theater" is a discredited trope and has been for 100 years. You can absolutely shout "fire" in a crowded theater under US law.

See here for more info: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackneyed-apologia-for-censorship-are-enough/

@RupertBBare The principled ones are, yes.

@medigoth @Runyan50 100% agreed. Much better as a museum piece surrounded by context.

@medigoth @Runyan50 Even by regular logic, why not? The point of remembering history is to learn from it so we don't repeat it.

That noose represents a very teachable moment.

@TMarie @w7voa Is he, though? She's only 51.

I mean, she doesn't seem like a particularly bright person to me, but who knows? Maybe this is her at her best.

@pontulo @w7voa "Prime" doesn't necessarily refer to "sexual prime". It can also refer to "intellectual prime" or "physical prime" or even "emotional prime".

In this case, context tells us he was probably talking about "intellectual prime", especially as Haley has been arguing in favor of competency tests for older politicians.