Twitter formalizes blocking of accounts and tweets that encourage readers to follow you on other social media sites, including Mastodon.
Specific examples of violating tweets given in the policy:
> “follow me @username on Instagram”
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy
Note that the following are *also* violations under the new policy:
* Circumventing the rule via technical methods (e.g. using a non-breaking space in the URL)
* Spelling out the handle explicitly (e.g. "I'm at username AT mastodon DOT social" is violation)
* Sharing a screenshot showing the handle.
Lol. Musk is seeing the exodus, so he's trying to bar the doors as everyone rushes for the exits.
No more linking to other social networks or sharing your username.
Such free speech.
Some of those are a bit bureaucratic, but that's the four big things I'll be watching for in the next two months (assuming projections hold and Rs take the House but not the Senate).
The Ukraine assistance fund in particular is going to be a bit weirdly structured, so you'll need to be a bit careful with the numbers.
But anyway, a longer version of what the midterms mean for US assistance to Ukraine, and what to watch in the lame duck
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/what-do-the-midterms-mean-for-us
Reading flamegraphs is hard. It takes practice. But here's one shortcut.Probably a day doesn't go by when I don't look at some kind of flamegraph or waterfall visualization, usually in Speedscope or Chrome DevTools.I teach how to read flamegraphs in a lot of my books and in my workshop, but it's something that I always see people struggle with. To some extent, reading and understanding these things is just a skill, and skills need constant practice.However, if I had to break down flamegraph-rea…
My new article in Slate: https://slate.com/business/2022/11/suv-size-truck-bloat-pedestrian-deaths.html
More and more Americans assume “safe car” means “bigger SUV than the other guy.”
That trend is a big reason US streets have grown more deadly. And road safety groups are enabling it.
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