I read it as "quirky".

st is very common in England to weigh people.

Beware of very fine tips. They sound like a good idea in theory but they are almost always scratchy.

> The government does not have a right to restrict trade between citizens and companies.

Of course it does, as a matter of category.

The government makes it illegal for you to buy grenades, for instance.

Where in the article does it say that?

There is also "uplink", which is Half-Life: Uplink, the demo of the game. Those are several levels that were originally part of the retail game but were cut and then used as a demo.

Of course there is additional information in this link: it shows tweets that were deleted and Cassidy's retort.

Wouldn't work in practice - no one is going to pass an opportunity to broadcast their political views to as many people as possible.

Google+ also relied on users to correctly categorize their posts to the right stream or interest. Software developers tend to be good at dividing things into near little categories. Other users not so much.

I don't know. I definitely think some people would just mass broadcast to everyone.

Using the example above, there's nothing stopping that person from bringing their whole self to board game night. They're choosing to avoid certain topics with a certain group of people, so I would expect some of that behavior to cary over to social media.

If I think about something like the "close friends" feature on instagram, I have some friends who just share way too much with everyone, but I've got others who use that feature pretty heavily.

> Using the example above, there's nothing stopping that person from bringing their whole self to board game night.

Not true, unless they're hosting.

I disagree. I think the types of people this article is about - the silent majority of non-tweeters - are happy to compartmentalise different aspects of their lives within different circles. It's the tweeting minority who feel like they need to broadcast their every righteous thought to as many people as possible.

> no one is going to pass an opportunity to broadcast their political views

I expect most people that held a job prior to social media (or-- really, holds a job in most industries except tech outside of a few cities) will happily tell you that people readily pass on such opportunities.

In the Canadian warehouse I worked in you had guys red faced bitching about Trudeau at least once a week.

This was also during the trade war, so these same guys were shit talking Trump and calling him a fucking retard too.

Good timez(?)

Presumably people are losing a lot of followers on Twitter broadcasting their political views when they are mostly followed for some other reason. These people might be motivated to correctly categorise their Tweets.

Yeah - you're probably right