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.
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.

Clown 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.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-panel-probes-twitter-block-hunter-biden-story-2023-02-08/

#uspolitics #uspol #journalism

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.

Reuters

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.
@Jeremy ugggh
@ravenmc he must have seen the low take up rate for Twitter Blue and decided to try and force even more people to buy it
@ravenmc less! Just absurd clown stuff from Elon.
Twitter’s new policy: never tweet
So I guess I really have to use Mastodon now
If 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.