Nilay’s piece on Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is as good as it gets. There’s a reason everyone is linking to it.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation
Welcome to hell, Elon
Elon Musk now owns Twitter — and a huge number of impossible political problems around speech, content moderation, and trying to make money.
I have essentially no experiences here that motivate me to log in and participate more actively, and this is almost entirely due to the fact that this is not the right instance for me.
Mastodon would be better if instance discovery and migration were better, and we actually had many distinct smaller communities versus everyone being like me and jumping on a big one that's easy to find and generalized.
When I think of the tremendous amount of scaffolding required to learn what I consider “basic” computer skills it’s pretty daunting. It makes teaching what I know a real challenge– there’s no curriculum for “grow up in the late 90s and early 2000s messing with computers”.
The best person sent me pastrami, corned beef, rye, mustard, coleslaw, pickles, knishes, and rugelach.
The new iCloud Shared Library feature is pretty slick. I was very impressed with the choice of “shared moments” with another person– it flagged about 2800 photos for me to share with Elsa, and I only found one “false positive”.
Gearing up for CDMX in a couple of months and my only thought is “I can’t wait to go to Contramar every weekend for lunch.”
“Recovery is going great!” he says, as the fatigue sets in and he starts falling asleep on the couch at 630pm.
I have two core ideas about how I want the system to work, neither of which seem to be at play in our current state of play:
The government should be able to do things.
The people should be able to hold them responsible through elections.
I think part of the reason this absurd uprising on the right in America about teaching about racism in K12 education has never resonated is that I learned about these issues from an early age in Hebrew school.
