NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts.
Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more, and more.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
From @zoeschiffer and me.
Last week, I started calckey.social, which is a general Calckey instance for casual chat.
Today, I'm inviting creatives of all stripes to join calckey.art.
Why specifically for art?
Because Calckey has incredible features that creatives might enjoy.
For example, it's got incredible support for galleries, and thus is an excellent space for curating your art.
It also has support for channels (a.k.a. groups). Which means that if you're a film enthusiast, you can create your own Film channel!
🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found:
Grace Tame & I stood together to call out social problems
@[email protected] & I have stood together to call out a medical one
All of us have experienced horrific abuse. From twitter to work email
Who could speak in this climate?
Who couldn’t speak, with so much at stake #auspol
Seasonal reminder: Alcohol is a completely legal drug that destroys lives, relationships and families. Don't make it hard for people who are trying to stay sober to enjoy festivities and functions.
(The author of the image is https://www.madsahara.com/illustration/)
I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"
What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.
Twitter was special. But it's time to leave
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time
Casey Newton
Chris Trottier
Rod Hilton
Billy Perrigo
nixCraft 🐧
Prof Gemma Carey
Mozilla
Katrin Bretscher 💛💙
Ken White
Pwnallthethings