I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I'm not getting more liberal, but I am definitely getting more anti-"conservative," as that term is degraded and debased by the modern Right.
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/tyre-nichols-wasnt-murdered-because
Cannot reiterate this enough:
PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.
It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.
https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/
Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]
I love closing out the year with this. 😊
On December 31, 1995, exactly 27 years ago today, legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson published his final 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip.
How beautiful and appropriate it was, and a timeless reminder of what we have before us in 2023. ❤️
Happy New Year, ya'll!
"Twitter has been taken over by the equivalent of a stoned ChatGPT (very confident, but very wrong)."
You write a line that good, I'm gonna boost you.
@mmasnick's latest banger is, well, a banger.
So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…
NEW: Elon Musk sent a Signal message ordering his staff to aid in the Twitter Files: "please give Bari [Weiss] full access to everything at Twitter. No limits at all.”
That triggered a frenzy inside Twitter, which was under a decade-old FTC order. IT staff refused to onboard Weiss, worried Twitter would be breaking the law.
Days later, two executives were fired.
"These guys did amazing damage,” a former employee told me of the Musk subordinates running the company.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla/
Family: *starts fighting*
Me, *sobbing*: Can we please not do this now, during Honda's Biggest Sale of the Year?
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