Drew HarwellDec 16, 2022
One point I do want to make clear: Twitter is Elon Musk's website. He paid all that money and can ban whoever he wants. It's his right, just like it's our right to point out when he's spreading bad information and contradicting himself.
Show threadDrew HarwellDec 16, 2022

Because Elon has continuously misrepresented this:

The data used for flight-tracking accounts like ElonJet - called ADS-B data - are transmitted from nearly every plane in the sky.

The signals are unencrypted, and anyone with a $20 RTL-SDR radio can pick them up. Aviation hobbyists gather the data and put them on websites like ADS-B Exchange.

It's publicly available, legally acquired data of the kind Elon Musk said he'd allow, until suddenly he no longer did.

Show threadDrew HarwellDec 16, 2022

How The Washington Post has used flight data:

* To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA

* To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie

* To raise questions about Elon Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X

* To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M

* To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0

Plane carrying Donald Trump made emergency landing in New Orleans after engine failure over Gulf of Mexico

A plane carrying former president Donald Trump suffered engine failure late Saturday evening over the Gulf of Mexico, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in New Orleans shortly after taking off from the city.

The Washington Post
Show threadAmanda Finley Digs All Things

@drewharwell but the megalomaniac thinks we give a flip about where he is every minute of every day.

How soon can we render him irrelevant? Push him back into the shadows and not a threat to democracy?

Dec 17, 2022 at 12:46amWeb
Show threadlazystreet779Dec 17, 2022
@Rubyslippahs @drewharwell can we raise enough $$ to buy him out of twitter? Tho, just a few days ago I hypothesize that if we the interested people can play the right game we would own twitter and he would still have to pay the bills. Ideas!
Show threadAmanda Finley Digs All ThingsDec 17, 2022

@lazystreet779 @drewharwell oh, we don't need to raise a dime. Let the fool crash it, and we'll go clean it up when he takes the next space penis outta here to just the tip of space. Byeeeeeeeee.

I've cleaned up after a few tornados. We've got this.