Tried to update my Twitter profile (which already says to find me here) to be clear that I'm done posting and reading there.

Update was rejected because Musk and his minions now want you to believe mentioning and/or linking to my Mastodon account constitutes "malware".

He's panicking, which is good.

He still controls one of the most important media companies in the world, which is bad.

NASA and other government agencies doing business with Musk should be thinking hard, right now, about what kind of person they're doing the public's business with.

Meanwhile, anyone who bought stock in Tesla during the past year should be cursing the name Musk.

Any journalist or news organization remaining on Twitter is now participating in Musk's mockery of free speech.

You cannot have this one both ways, journalists. You are with him, and his rancid extremism, or you are not.

Please choose to do the right thing for yourselves, if no one else.

Similarly, government agencies that remain on Twitter are endorsing a company that increasingly promotes extremism and demonstrates contempt for fundamental principles of democracy.

Maybe that's fine for Florida's regime. It should not be for most governments, especailly the federal government.

@dangillmor There is little doubt that Musk is a jackass. BUT he is also a user.

I don't follow his feed closely. I've seen some stupid stuff he's RTed and Tweeted. But beyond the pale in the public square of an open society? I haven't seen any. Do you have an example in mind?

As to racist or anti-Semitic speech, I've seen ONE example so far post Musk take-over. I'm not at all sure that is a higher rate than normal.

On the other hand I follow mostly fairly sane people.