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English time @engIishtime on Twitter with AltTextCrew alt-text: INFORMAL versus FORMAL English terms

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/03

[Archive] Alt Text Crew on Twitter: “@jpluimers Repost parent tweet with extracted text in image descriptions https://t.co/OETTugffrm” / Twitter

INFORMAL FORMAL find out ascertain free release obtain get get in touch with contact It concerns purchase It's about buy keep leave out let retain omit permit examine look at make up fabricate need to required point out put off put up rack up ring up indicate delay tolerate accumulate call orry apologise appear establish seem set up show illustrate show up stand for arrive represent start commence think about consider

The original tweet [Archive] did only contained the image, so here is the OCR of the text:

INFORMAL FORMAL
find out ascertain
free release
get obtain
get in touch with contact
It’s about It concerns
buy purchase
keep retain
leave out omit
let permit
look at examine
make up fabricate
need to required
point out indicate
put off delay
put up tolerate
rack up accumulate
ring up call
orry apologise
seem appear
set up establish
show illustrate
show up arrive
stand for represent
start commence
think about consider

–jeroen

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Exclude replies from official twitter search widget (retweets now seem to be excluded by default)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/10

[Wayback/Archive] Exclude replies from official twitter search widget – Stack Overflow (thanks Willem de Wit):

I found an option to include retweets include:retweets so I tried to change that to exclude:replies and it worked!
My search-string is now: from:account_name exclude:replies

Note that there used to be exclude:retweets, but that seems to be the default for some time now, as per [Wayback/Archive] twitter – Is there a way to filter out retweets? – Web Applications Stack Exchange comment (thanks [Wayback/Archive] jxd):

Correction: the checkbox is missing because using advanced search by username now seems to exclude retweets by default.

–jeroen

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The big-4 eavesdropping myth explained

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/30

Interesting Dutch thread about the myth that Google, FaceBook, Apple and Amazon are eavesdropping on us in order to send advertisements.

[WayBack] Thread by @danielverlaan: De vraag die ik altijd gesteld krijg: “Luisteren Google en Facebook ons af? Ik had het gisteren over een vakantie naar Portugal, en nu krijg…

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[Archive.is] Daniël Verlaan on Twitter: “De vraag die ik altijd gesteld krijg: “Luisteren Google en Facebook ons af? Ik had het gisteren over een vakantie naar Portugal, en nu krijg ik er allemaal advertenties over!” Dit is een hardnekkig gerucht waar geen bewijs voor is. Hoe werkt het dan? Een draadje.”

Related: [WayBack] Virtual assistant: voice interaction – Wikipedia

–jeroen

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steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/16

For my link archive:

[Wayback/Archive] steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:” / Twitter

Oh, and there was this Mastodon fear from uncle Elmo [Wayback/Archive]:

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Migration from Twitter to Mastodon | ads’ corner

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/22

Yet another interesting post (I think it is via [Wayback/Archive] isotopp, but I cannot find the original message any more): [Wayback/Archive] Migration from Twitter to Mastodon | ads’ corner.

jeroen

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