Increasingly, I believe that the destruction of Musk's Twitter is crucial for the preservation of American democracy. I was neutral on this until the past few days. But it's now obvious that his intentions -- and actions -- are aimed in part at promoting right-wing extremism.

The Murdoch family is still the greater threat, but Musk looks set to supersede them as a force for evil.

#TwitterTakeover

@dangillmor I agree save for one point. The Murdoch family is still constrained by the need for advertiser revenue so they cannot go monkey shit. Musk has no such constraints.

@ablackcatstail @dangillmor

But the bottom line is Twitter was not a profitable business before the buyout. That means they were surviving on cash flow to pay bills and employees - musk has killed that cash flow in a huge way.

No ad sales / cash flow means bills don’t get paid and I don’t think any of his investors are going to float him cash to get through the month… and their credit rating is crap now too.

Unless he’s going to start writing checks the sh!t is gonna hit the fan shortly

@kbsez @dangillmor I kind of hope it dies. Personally, I'd like to see Gopher make a come back. I miss the Gopher protocol. I know ... I am dating myself here. 😹
@ablackcatstail @kbsez @dangillmor I thought Gopher would win because at the time I was communicating with the Internet via a telnet gateway and it looked so much better than the early web did on that and was easier to navigate.
@edlin @ablackcatstail @kbsez @dangillmor I do not remember Gopher. I remember irc, though.
@JohannasGarden @ablackcatstail @kbsez @dangillmor irc still exists, it's used a bit in the Linux community though it's being replaced a bit by discord sadly.