Vladimir Putin meets Xi Jinping arrives in China for security summit – Ukraine war live

Russian president and his Chinese counterpart shake hands as more than 20 world leaders attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin

the Guardian

@lrreynolds This is an old article (April 2017) and I'm wondering if it was part of what made me try out Mastodon the following year.

Even better is the article linked to, Six Reasons Mastodon Won't Survive (https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive): "There is nothing intrinsically wonderful about Mastodon aside from the fact that it's not Twitter."

Which, it turned out, might be enough; but most of those reasons have been remedied.

#Prognostications

Six reasons Mastodon won't survive

The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.

Mashable

Don’t Trust the #Election #Forecasts.

The #data doesn’t #support the #obsession with #presidential #prognostications.

— It is important that people vote even if the media paints your side as winning or losing. Or that one side or the other has no chance.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/03/election-forecasts-data-00176905