Tag: twitter

HBO’s Chernobyl And Possible Plagiarism – A Deep Look

Yesterday I wrote about an email I had received regarding an article I had written well over a year ago about the Chernobyl Disaster. More specifically, the article shared a video I had found which had a visual effect of Ukrainian text for what was spoken in actual recordings of calls made to fire dispatch […]

YouTube Is Back Up. That Only Took A Solid Hour And In That Time The Internet Had A Field Day!

After well over an hour of being down effectively globally, YouTube is back up and running as… er, well… as ever. While I’ve not yet seen any info on what the cause of the issue was, it does look like it was resolved, so we can all go back to watching whatever absurd junk we […]

Hey Google, Ya Mind Not Letting YouTube Go Down For Damn Near Everyone?

It’s not every day that one of the top visited websites in the world seems to go down for most everyone, but when it does, it’s kind of incredible. In this case, as I type these words it’s 8:30 in the evening central time and YouTube has decided to go down. Well, not completely, you […]

The Idiocy Of The “Millenials Not Having Kids Killed Toys R Us” Argument

Apparently a few days ago, the higher ups at the corpse of a company that is Toys R Us made a statement claiming that “millenials not having kids” is what killed their company. Not just that, but quite a few news agencies and “reputable” business sites are repeating this narrative in what seems like a […]

Space Industry Fanboys, Credibility Claims, And Cherry Picking – Dissecting A Twitter Discussion

Yesterday proved to be a bit interesting for me on Twitter. I was giving my own comments on the Delta IV launch yesterday, one of which was my typical congratulations tweet to United Launch Alliance, the operators of Delta IV, and the CEO of the company,  Tory Bruno. At the end, though, I left a […]

Vine To Make A Return? Dear God, No!

My buddy Prince Watercress linked me to an engadget article yesterday discussing how Vine founder Dom Hofmann seems to have teased a “Vine 2.0” if you will – he tweeted just an image in the classic Vine colors that showed “V2.” and.. that’s it. https://twitter.com/dhof/status/938469576052011008 This comes, of course, following him talking some about bring a […]

XadaraCast Episode 3 Is Out Now! NES Classic Edition, Phone Scammers, Twitter, Pirated Pokemon, and Redbox Porn?!?

[UPDATE – THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN ABANDONED. THIS IS A LEGACY POST] XadaraCast Episode 3 is out now. In this episode we cover quite a few subjects, from the NES Classic release, various subjects regarding twitter, and at the end, a hilarious case of someone renting a movie from redbox for it to be porn! […]

Twitter Is Shutting Down Vine – Good Riddance

Apparently Twitter is losing money at a rate large enough for them to not only lay off 9% of its total staff, but it’s killing off Vine, it’s video sharing service for 6 second looping video clips. Good riddance I say. Sure, some people used vine for more interesting clips; Voice actress Tara Strong, for […]

You Asked For It

Social media, by design, is an outlet for people to express themselves, and share their opinions. Anyone with any active social media presence will inevitably see someone, somewhere “complaining” about something, and if you are the average person, it probably annoys you. Hold that thought, for a moment. Them sharing their opinion annoys you, does […]