I'm feeling disagreeable so here goes:
I think the narrative that "Silicon Valley broke its own bank and it's another example of how tech is broken" is complete hokum, and exonerates the actual villains here.
Bank runs happen all the time.
They are what happen when you have insufficient bank regulation.
The bipartisan bill of 2018 that let SVB dodge good banking rules is the actual problem here.
This is not a tech issue, it's a banking one.
Another thing I'd like to add: There is a *ton* of content on Mastodon, especially, that passes for "analysis" that is just thinly-veiled partisanship / bias that gets shared and re-shared because it fits the readers' preconceived notions.
Mastodon is better than Twitter in a lot of ways.
But, like all social media, they have *a lot* in common.
Mostly: They're both echo chambers of half-baked takes.
@mimsical I just did a reassessment of my mastodon follows. I now use two clients on my iPhone for two separate accounts. On Ivory I follow a small number of Apple oriented tech people who I find share an interesting range of opinions and links. On IceCubes I follow mostly “fun" people. Ice cubes I'll look at far less frequently.
I like to be a completist on some core folks and having those two groups combined just wasn't working and the volume of “fun" people toots was overwhelming
@Chuck_ORourke @mimsical It's a pity the private note feature can't be extended to add colour coding of toots / badges to people.
Maybe integrated with the lists feature somehow.
Would be a handy way to accomplish something similar but with more granularity.
Christopher Mims
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