Ugh, Twitter is getting Musked again and BlueSky is down so it’s back to Mastodon again. Which needs to get over itself and allow quote retweeting.
Robert Cruickshank
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Vice-Chair of Sierra Club Seattle. Director of Digital Strategy for @cayimby. Was a Californian, am now a Cascadian.
Jay RosenClown car hearings exploit a weakness in mainstream journalism's source code, which gives no clear instructions for how to report truthfully on events that are themselves false, meaning they spring from a propagandistic intent and taking them seriously only furthers the scam.
And yet: They can't be ignored because they show what the Republican party does with its power.
Former Twitter execs tell Republicans they erred on Hunter Biden laptop story
Former Twitter executives told a Republican-led U.S. House committee on Wednesday that they made a mistake by blocking tweets about a laptop said to belong to President Joe Biden's son Hunter but said government officials were not involved.
Driving the 9 year old home from school today and listening to the radio…
9YO: “Dad, they made really good music in the ‘80s.”
Me: “yeah, but a lot of people who lived through it thought the music from the ‘70s and ‘90s was better.”
9YO: “No, the ‘80s was the best. Can you turn it up? This is my favorite Guns N Roses song.”
I hope Mastodon gets easier to use because by the end of 2023 Twitter will likely be dead.
Taylor LorenzTwitter’s new policy: never tweet
So I guess I really have to use Mastodon now
Dan AnconaIf I was Elon and saw the responses to the #SOTU and the R joke hearing about Hunter Biden's laptop, I probably would have gotten mad and turned it off too.
Issac Kelly
Clinical RawlsianI was born in 1980, and for my entire adult life the tech industry in general and "founders" in particular have been celebrated as wizards whose genius and dedication have brought about countless wonders, with endless more wonders yet to come.
The last few years has shown this to be utterly false. Most tech companies turned out to be one trick ponies, only capable of creating one or two great products from scratch with that product often based on publicly funded research.
We’re probably going to need to hold a mass protest in Olympia in the next few weeks to avoid huge cuts to public education. Democratic legislators do not give a fuck about our schools or kids and they won’t change unless we shake things up.