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Alen The Guru Mar 8, 2023

PCMag Mar 7, 2023

Twitter's CEO Elon Musk is now mocking a fired employee, who was unsure whether his job had been terminated. “But was he fired? No, you can’t be fired if you weren’t working in the first place!” Musk wrote. https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-uses-twitter-to-humiliate-fired-employee-guy-did-no-actual-work

Elon Musk Uses Twitter to Humiliate Fired Employee: 'Guy Did No Actual Work'

Musk holds an awkward, public exit interview with Haraldur Thorleifsson, who was uncertain whether he'd been fired or not. Musk at one point replied with laughing emojis.

PCMag

Alen The Guru Mar 7, 2023

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Africa Center Mar 3, 2023

Similar trends can be seen in #Mali's neighbor #BurkinaFaso, and for the same reasons.

Militant Islamist violence in #Africa remains concentrated in 5 theaters, each comprising distinct local actors and context-specific challenges. The #Sahel alone—with its unaccountable #coup leaders and deteriorating security partnerships—now accounts for 40% of all militant #Islamist violence on the continent.

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Fatalities from Islamist Violence in Africa Up Nearly 50%

Continuing a decade-long trend, Islamist violence in Africa increased by 22 percent while fatalities surged by 48 percent over the past year.

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Alen The Guru Mar 7, 2023

@savvykenya hey you! It's been a minute

Alen The Guru Mar 7, 2023

@MariaSTsehai use your influence to get Tanzania on board with #Mastodon! Twitter is going down! Please start a #MariaSpaces in here.

Alen The Guru Mar 7, 2023

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Eugen Rochko Mar 6, 2023

Fastly and Datadog who both sponsor us by providing us a free service were instrumental in analyzing and mitigating the attack. Shout out to our own team as well, glad I don't have to do this alone anymore!

Alen The Guru Mar 7, 2023

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Eugen Rochko Mar 6, 2023

Everything is back to normal now. Yes, it was an attack, not legitimate traffic. No, we don't know who was behind it. I agree the timing with Twitter being down was unfortunate.

Alen The Guru Mar 7, 2023

Eugen Rochko Mar 6, 2023

We've been hit by a massive DDoS attack. The site may not work as expected. We're working on mitigating the attack. Fastly are helping us. If in doubt, check status.mastodon.social for information.

Alen The Guru Mar 7, 2023

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Leonardo Di Ottio Mar 7, 2023

@mathewi A couple of months ago some people started referring to #Twitter as $8chan and they might have been on to something.

Alen The Guru Mar 7, 2023

Jack Sweeney Dec 14, 2022

Elon gave me no warning.... plus he suspended all of my accounts, half of which track aircraft (NASA aircraft, experimental aircraft, weather, airforce etc). not people including my personal