What are you talking about? How much personal / private interaction are you planning on having with randos on Twitter that you need to carefully vet their behavior?

Or maybe that script didn’t get run during the deploy and they ran it as a patch.

I didn’t even have the setting until the middle of the afternoon, so it looks like it was being rolled out to servers in waves, not all at once. It’s pretty easy to miss a script in the build and then re-run it. Shit like this happens all the time in software deployment.

What else do you need to know other than someone is sending you spam or abuse? That’s pretty much the definition of untrustworthy.

::drool::

It was NEVER ON. Its opt-in, what is so difficult about this concept? If you don’t want it, you don’t have to have it. Other people do want it, so they can have it.

It’s *opt-in*! The feature is disabled by default. You have to choose to turn this on. If you don’t want total strangers to DM you, DON’T TURN IT ON.

I’m not sure why you think I’m “afraid” of anything, since you know diddly fuck about me. My conscience is clear, which is good because I just bought a ticket to an Afrofunk show with a band comprised of nine white dudes from Holland. I’m dancing already!

It’s opt-in. Jesus Christ. Unclench, will you?

OK, so I need to publish my voting record and my financial transactions so you can see where my charity and political support money goes, so you can measure the strength of my conviction? Is there a sliding scale?

OK, so I can listen to Afrofunk played by white dudes if I post some political screed in the Gawker comments section? Cool beans. Is there an exchange rate, and does it correlate with the success of the artist? Like if its just some guy who plays West African-inspired tunes at an open mic night on Tuesdays can he…

No, they actually do think you're full of shit.

I grew up there and haven't been back in years, but I assume "yes" since its national epicenter of female Humanities and Social Science professors, who almost to a woman really dig their flowy clothing, and also we have a lot of muck in the Spring so rainboots and/or duckboots are pretty much a requirement.

You're not from Western MA, are you?

Yes. Welcome. We wear comfortable clothes that look good on our changing/aging bodies, listen to whatever the hell music we want (I was singing both One Direction and the Stray Cats this morning), and shake our heads ruefully at Kids These Days.

I think the sushi-eating falls slap into that definition.

I don't think people are missing your point, I think they're calling bullshit on your point.

What? Its insane for someone like Paul Simon to work with Ladysmith Black Mambazo because... why again? Monstanto? Oil companies? The minerals industries?

I’ve been sitting at my desk laughing over this til I cry. This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Madonna, you were edgy 30 years ago. Now you’re just kind of tragic, and I say that as middle-aged lady desperately clinging to my own youth. I’m still deluded about many things, but I have a pretty good sense…

Word. Two weeks ago I switched from my shitty-weather Docs to my nice-weather Chucks and my back hurt for three days as my whole body adjusted to wearing kicks that were not rigid and molded to my feet.