REMEMBER: “Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx in #Gizmodo

https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788

#Hyperloop #ElonMusk #California #Rail #cars #cities #urbanism #transit #transportation

Lol. The Guardian wrote about Elon responding to a user about Twitter outages saying "works for me" except because it's not working the tweet embed in the article breaks, and it fails over to the text replacement (what happens when twitter embeds don't load).

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/29/twitter-users-report-global-outage-with-many-unable-to-log-into-website-or-app

How DARE you monsters make fun of George Santos. Poor man lost his mother... twice.

#uspol #politics #santos #georgesantos #lies #tweets #fromtwitter

Really late to this piece from George Lakoff on what happens when a distraction artist like Trump or Elmo gets access to the algorithms.

It doesn't address the role of the wildly misleading propaganda campaign "Twitter Files" Musk has gotten a handful of propagandists to engage in, which is rotting the brains of tens of thousands of people.

https://georgelakoff.substack.com/p/algorithm-warfare-how-elon-musk-uses

"I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.

I know that facts don't matter so much during a moral panic, but I'll just say that I teach a class every year at Stanford that tackles hate speech, violence, terrorism, child exploitation, suicide and other really difficult topics and use a lot of these words with no difficulties.

I do give my students a talk up front about the content of the course and the need to be resilient if you want to make a positive impact in this field, but so far no complaints.

https://reason.com/2022/12/21/stanford-elimination-harmful-language-speech-karen-american/

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

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NYC mayor Eric Adams is demanding city libraries to cut their budgets by $13.6 million by the end of fiscal year 2023, and another $20.5 million over the next 3 fiscal years. This will be devastating for the services and operations of the library system.
https://jacobin.com/2022/12/eric-adams-new-york-public-library-budget-cuts-austerity/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1604189691867176969