1/ Just want to put today’s Twitter horror in plain language for people.

Senior people at Twitter have resigned in the last 48 hours, including the CISO. We now now why. They said in private Slack channels that Elon musk is so desperate to recoup his money, he’s taking crazy risks with every Twitter user’s privacy and safety.

By way of #Introduction, I’m Dan. I’m the author of the Galactic Cold War series of the #Scifi spy novels, the most rece nt installment of which is THE NOVA INCIDENT (available in bookstores electronic and physical wherever fine books are sold).

I’m also a #technology journalist for Six Colors and columnist at Macworld, where I mainly write about #apple, which I’ve been doing, all in, for about sixteen years.

And I do a whole bunch of #podcasts on technology and pop culture!

I'm a fairly new Mastodon user. I've been here less than a week.

Earlier I promised a more thought out explanation on why it seems to me that the Mastodon model can cure the worst evils of social media and create a genuine and workable public sphere.

A draft is here:
https://terikanefield.com/can-the-mastodon-model-cure-the-worst-evils-of-social-media/

It's a draft because there is SO much I don't know.

Now available! 

My in-depth comparative review of eight Mastodon apps for iPhone

Please boost (or share on Twitter) 🙏

https://transponderings.blog/2022/05/21/eight-mastodon-apps-for-iphone/