After the arrests in the US and Estonia yesterday of the FSB shipping contraband technology, a good backgrounder on the larger issue on Russian tech smuggling to skirt sanctions.

https://www.ft.com/content/6c01e84b-5333-4024-aaf1-521cf1207eb4

I'm officially done with Twitter. I won't delete my account, hoping against hope the company can somehow shake MusQ, but I will not be participating.

Join me on Mastodon. @marklemley

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html

RT @[email protected]

The Twitter Files is a good lesson in how you can report out the goings on of any decent sized organization, and if you use the right tone, cite “documents,” and make it seem like you’re breaking news, you can make even the most mundane shit seem scandalous to the right audience.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/1601036230460067841

One thing I appreciate about @Popehat 's writeup on exiting Twitter is that it captures something most articles in this genre only indirectly allude to:

It's not just that these platforms (and other things in our lives) are transitory, or that they can change. It's that we change, too. And maybe we don't always realize how much of a mismatch there is between who we are 𝘯𝘰𝘸 and what we once enjoyed, until the latter suddenly becomes something fundamentally different.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter