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@LilNasX ("nope 👶🏾") wrote:

INDUSTRY BABY but its just my voice https://youtu.be/0imhOmhRgfI

@33mhz ("Arse Decider") wrote:

God withheld electrical engineering skills from me to prevent me from bringing a 3.5" floppy drive with an m.2 connector into the world

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

Right. This is what I mean by extra layers of editorial. We live in a new world where it’s impossible to tell if what one person sees is what everybody sees.

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@sangster ("Ben") replied to a tweet by @braedon:

@braedon @polotek 24h caching, IIRC.

That said, there’s also extra complications in that news sites often A/B test headlines / metadata, and can serve different meta tags based on your referer, UA string, or other data.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") wrote:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/31/eviction-moratorium-rental-assistance-biden-501917

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

So the gathering data to try to show malfeasance gets muddy. It’s easy to deny and discredit. Meanwhile it opens up space for an alternate narrative. The publication argues that they have a process for updating headlines which is the best anyone can expect from them.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") replied to a tweet by @MattBaume:

@MattBaume I'd watch

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

What’s harder to understand is how this basic problems starts to compound. When the editor who writes the clickbait headlines says “look how much money we’re making! I’m good at my job.” But when you do a canvas of the headlines to prove clickbait, they’ve all been changed.

@Maryxus ("Maryxus Maddly") wrote:

I'm more surprised that it's only a quarter

https://www.mediaite.com/news/one-quarter-of-republican-men-have-favorable-view-of-white-nationalists-up-sharply-since-capitol-insurrection/

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@CrispyCreative ("A Long Journey to an Uncertain End") wrote:

Our dev update for July is out just in time for #screenshotsaturday! Check it out on our Kickstarter or Discord!

https://bit.ly/LJ-July2021Update
https://discord.com/invite/7NvTjh8pek

#LongJourneyGame #gamedev #IndieGameDev

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

And the human systems have evolved to support this dissonance. One person’s job is to write the clickbait headline. Another person’s job is to respond to complaints and change the headline to something more reasonable. Everybody’s doing their job, it’s nobody’s fault.

@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:

@madocactus ("🌵🌸 mado - cactus fairy VTuber 🌸 🌵") wrote:

bump
(while we all wait for the announcement - come and watch me draw today!!!!

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@madocactus ("🌵🌸 mado - cactus fairy VTuber 🌸 🌵") replied to a tweet by @madocactus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxd066b3S7k
stream link here!!!!!!!

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

Right. What I’m suggesting here is gonna sound petty to people. A lot of y’all wanna assume positive intent. What I’m saying is that they do this on purpose. They know the early clickbait headlines are what will make it out onto the web. So they can safely change it later.

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@JasonPunyon ("Jason Punyon") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@polotek What we see in the card isn't even the original headline which was much more baity...

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@lunasorcery ("Luna 💙") wrote:

oh gosh, here I go coding silly jokes again

https://github.com/lunasorcery/miette

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

For the nerds reading this, I did look at the meta tags in the page. From what I can see, all of the metadata has been updated to the new headline. So the link expansions *should* be updated as well. Could be a caching thing. But there could also be other editorial layers here.

@33mhz ("Arse Decider") replied to a tweet by @33mhz:

someone in an irc channel told this dev at a young age that he could see naked ladies by hitting alt-f4 and he never recovered

@zkat__ ("kat marchán") wrote:

hello, world

@33mhz ("Arse Decider") wrote:

holy shit this the most annoying possible response to hitting alt-f4

@taralx ("JP Sugarbroad 🐺") replied to a tweet by @taralx:

Near A10 (coffee place). A8 is fine.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

This is very common with large news publications in my experience. I think it’s one of the many ways they try to straddle the line between clickbaiting and trying to maintain their reputation as a credible news source.

@taralx ("JP Sugarbroad 🐺") wrote:

Hey @flySEA, I'm in the A gates and I can't understand a word of these announcements. You might want to turn them up a little.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

But the other detail to note is that the headline we see in the twitter expansion is also not the headline you see when you click through. On the article it says “Breakthrough Covid cases: Data shows how many vaccinated Americans have tested positive”

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

But the lede is often not shown in twitter link expansions. A missed opportunity to reduce the impact of clickbait headlines.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

There are two details worth noting here. One is that the lede of the story is often more helpful and more useful than the headline.

“The 125,682 ‘breakthrough’ cases in 38 states represent less than .08 percent of the 164.2 million-plus people fully vaccinated since January.”

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

There is a whole conversation about the process around stories like this. The journalist who published the story is defending their data. While others point out that the journalist doesn’t decide on final headlines. Editors do.

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@strickdc ("Laura Strickler") replied to a tweet by @KevinMKruse:

@KevinMKruse From my story:

"The 125,682 "breakthrough" cases in 38 states found by NBC News represent less than .08 percent of the 164.2 million-plus people who have been fully vaccinated since January, or about one in every 1,300."

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

I ran into this link from the below tweet. And in the replies, people are upset that the headline is misleading. I tend to agree. There are a lot of people who want to deny the efficacy of vaccines. The headline seeks to draw those people in. Regardless of the data.

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@KenDilanianNBC ("Ken Dilanian") wrote:

Exclusive: At least 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans tested positive for Covid https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/breakthrough-covid-cases-least-125-000-fully-vaccinated-americans-have-n1275500 via @strickdc

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@femm3bot ("ayiam") wrote:

doordash workers are going on strike today (july 31st, 2021). they’re demanding tip transparency and a base pay of at least $4.25 per hour. don’t cross the picket line.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

The cases of vaccinated people getting covid is small but not zero. But I’m trying to see something else here.

When twitter expands this link, it shows the headline “Breakthrough cases are on the rise among the vaccinated”.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/breakthrough-covid-cases-least-125-000-fully-vaccinated-americans-have-n1275500

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:

@BoldBebo ("Bebo") wrote:

@jwz ("j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜") retweeted:

@mtsw ("Michael Tae Sweeney") wrote:

Wow who could've predicted the most selfish people in our society would simply lie rather than be mildly inconvenienced.

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@mawilner ("Michael Wilner") wrote:

Exclusive: @CDCDirector Rochelle Walensky tells us that federal mask guidance was reversed because unvaccinated people refused to mask up as the delta variant spread. Our new interview. https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article253156748.html

@zkat__ ("kat marchán") wrote:

ugh, the diagnostics, config, and command systems we came up with for orogene are really amazing tbh. I should make them into some library/framework for CLI tools