@realcaseyrollins @dpp Yes! The last multihour outage was SIX YEAR PRIOR to Musk's purchase. Twitter had continuously improved its infrastructure and was a technical leader, sponsoring basic language and tooling improvements that served the rest of us very well. Musk killed all that. He is so efficient. 1/
@realcaseyrollins @dpp Of course there were small and partial outages. But they got much worse post-Musk. Here's a graph from CISCO. Unfortunately, its axes are unlabled. If Y is count and X is duration, you can see this story very directly. But it might not be so, since X is entirely unlabeled, grains of salt. But though X has muddled through, quality of service has consistently suffered post-Musk. Today is a cherry on top. https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/internet-report-twitter-to-x-outages-performance
@realcaseyrollins @dpp here's https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
it's an order of magnitude worse an outage than anything over the five years pre-Musk. it's worse than the 2016 outage. it's comparable to the a 2012 outage that took Twitter down for more than 2 hours.
these were problems Twitter had solved. X has unsolved them.
let's see what's next. because when you burn down the house for fuel, the lean-to you build for shelter might prove to have disadvantages.
@Phil you use the pollster that most reinforces your priors, and rely on that pollster alone. you justify that because it called a coin-flip election right, so it's accurate.
@realcaseyrollins no, it didn't. it had multi-hour fail-whale glitches in its early days, then people like @dpp helped them rewrite it and build an extraordinarily scalable and resilient infrastructure.
for the six years prior to Musk's purchase of the site, major outages were extraordinarily infrequent. in July of 2022 (pre-Musk), a 45 min outage was the longest in years. it's last multihour outage had been in 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-experiences-longest-global-outage-in-years
post Musk, it's gotten substantially worse.
x.com down again.
you should think of DOGE as the management style that brought us boeing but on steroids. Musk does in years what took decades at Boeing.
(a bit ironically DOGE's is prosecuted by people who fancy themselves engineers but wreaking mayhem ultra vires.)
@Phil you read only the media that tells you what you want to hear. https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-approval-ratings-speech-123829814.html
@Phil your informational bubble is the rest of our catastrophe.
https://X.com down again.
you should think of DOGE as the management style that brought us boeing but on steroids. Musk does in years what took decades at Boeing.
(a bit ironically DOGE's is prosecuted by people who fancy themselves engineers but wreaking mayhem ultra vires.)
@Phil His approval rating last I looked was under 48%, so a bit worse than his, um, landslide. But I think it might see a landslide pretty soon. Because what he is doing, what you are supporting, is destruction. Removing muscle not cancer. We'll be lucky if he only nicks heart.
But you and he mean well.
People in blue states are people as much as people in red states, whose voice matters just as much in our democracy. Or do you disagree with that?
@Phil not if Trump keeps on governing as, um, effectively as he is right now.
the voters mostly voted against Donald Trump. he won a plurality, not a majority. he's the legitimate President, because that's the Constitution. he'll be legitimately impeached, because that's the Constitution.
imagining you can run a second revolution most people detest because your man got just under 50% of the vote, now that is hubris. i'm not predicting, but i am hoping, it meets nemesis.
impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
can ghosts read our minds?
Musk's management style creates pain in the short term, but in the long term the pain recedes with the calm surrender of collapse.
X.com is down for me again, second outage today. Not a great sign for the American state.
pretty soon the only allies we’ll have left are israel and rhodesia.
the Venn diagram between what i take from the Jewish tradition and what ADL takes from it is just two circles, very very very far away from each other.
when “deep research” surfs the web for you, does it do the CAPTCHAs?
people with idiotic politics demand we deport people for having idiotic politics.
“the customer is always right” is a relic of that world before success in business meant establishing monopoly.
nowadays, the customer is always plankton.
@Phil Romania hardly bans right wing candidates. ever heard of AUR? totally whack and terrible, fascist or close to it from my perspective (you’d take a different view), but never banned. you, my friend, are i suspect less informed about Romania than i am. i’ve spent, cumulatively, years there. in any case, the whole interview is quite good, give it a read.
@nholzschuch @Migueldeicaza vim and vigor!
[new draft post] Voice of a Maryland https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/voice-of-a-maryland/index.html
a romanian perspective. https://friendshipbridge.eu/2025/03/09/done-romania-crisis-en/
Text: And here I agree with the American Vice-President J.D. Vance who says that Romania and the United States of America no longer share common values. Yes, that is true. We no longer have common values to share. Romania is a European state, a democratic state, a state that respects freedom, respects the liberal-constitutional order, whereas the United States of America has abandoned these values and these ideals, sliding towards a form of authoritarianism and political oligarchism.