In some lighter news from Ukraine, beavers are helping fortify the border against possible attack from Belarus. Without the usual tourists, and with so many residents gone, beavers are being unusually active this winter and are creating more dams than usual. This is actually serious, because the Russian army is short on infantry vehicles and winter gear, making wide, cold streams legitimately dangerous

So thank you, beavers. From this day forth you can hold you heads with pride and say that when your country needed you, you did give a dam
#ukrainewar #animals #ukraine

Everyone hoping antitrust cases are going to solve the Twitter implosion are going to have an unhappy time.

The law isn't going to fix it. Antitrust requires finding that Twitter is market-dominant in the US, which is probably isn't, and the EU is very big but very slow.

I get it; it sucks. But there's no cavalry coming to fix it so you don't have to make hard choices. It lives or dies based only on whether enough users choose to leave to break its dominance.

A long-form discussion of why I think it’s important to be specific when we’re debating free speech. Are we talking law, culture, or decency?

https://popehat.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech-pedantry?sd=pf

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.