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Twitter’s U.S. Ad Sales Plunge 59% as Woes Continue

In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.

The New York Times
I left FB because of this. I left Twitter because of this too. I am not convinced that I want to devote thousands of hours to the fediverse yet, given the trolls.
People picked up those habits on Twitter, and they brought them to the Fediverse, hence why I am anonymous again. I don't want trolls to know my name.

RE:
https://mstdn.social/users/hkrn/statuses/110456473556157548
Hacker News (@[email protected])

Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization L: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941 C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36122016 posted on 2023.05.30 at 03:18:14 (c=0, p=3)

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@davidaugust The Fediverse is what the web should be, distributed. The web should never have a single point of failure. It should be like a hydra, but for good, not for bad, like in Greek mythology.
The web is (or at least was) meant to survive a nuclear blast.
My avatar is not a political statement. I was out for a walk and I saw a broken tree. I thought it looked interesting so I took pictures. I needed an avatar for this "new" account, on this instance that I preferred, so I used it.
I have been playing with Hugo and Pelican, two static website tools. I don't understand why people write threads on Twitter, the Fediverse etc, when a markdown document processed by a website static website generator would do the job better.
Remember that BRexit was anti-European xenophobia, by, among others, non-white brits. That xenophobia is on all directions at once and people are trying to give the impression that it is unidrectional. It is not.
PS. Guess who wants the race conflict.... The Far Right. Divide and conquer.

RE:
https://dair-community.social/users/KimCrayton1/statuses/110451940413120414
Kim Crayton ~ Her/She (@[email protected])

I’ve been thinking about a way to explain to non-Black folx why what has been happening on Bluesky [and has happened here] related to anti-Blackness is not only harmful to us but ALSO a warning for you & the only thing I can come up with is what I’ve ALWAYS said…the path to targeting “others” BEGINS with anti-Blackness

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@AlienAnomaly Replace "economy" with "lavishness". Those that are superrich want to pay less taxes, to live more lavishly. I think they should see paying taxes as "lavish" like their dutch precursors did around the mid middle ages and later.
@Hope4All I would tweak this. Poor migrants contribute to the economy. Super-rich migrants diminish it. I am a migrant everywhere I go.
@MozzieBytes I am under the impression that there are more crows at the moment around here. I don't know whether there are or not. In other news I watched two birds dogfight. The attackee managed to break away and survive to dogfight another day.