Lucian Nicolescu

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Good morning to NO ONE except MY GODDAMNED MAN Joseph Robinette Biden who successfully took on the thieves at big pharma and FORCED THEM to negotiate the prices of 10 drugs through Medicare.

The media doesn’t care but I do. You’re like Robocop but much slower.

1. ABOUT LAST NIGHT

I participated in a Twitter space hosted by @[email protected] w/a lot of journalists

When I joined @[email protected], one of Musk's apparatchiks, was badgering @[email protected], a suspended reporter, and Jack Sweeney, the guy behind the accounts that tracked jets

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The Minneapolis Police officer who sprayed mace out of her squad car as she drove by protesters in May 2020 left the department with a $150,000 workers’ compensation settlement and now runs a frozen banana food truck in Arizona. https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/12/07/the-minneapolis-police-officer-who-maced-protesters-and-bystanders-is-unmasked-by-court-documents/
The Minneapolis police officer who maced protesters and bystanders is unmasked by court documents - Minnesota Reformer

The identity of a Minneapolis police officer who sprayed a huge blast of mace at protesters and bystanders during George Floyd protests in downtown Minneapolis has now been revealed in court documents.

Minnesota Reformer
The whole debate over free speech and moderation really always just comes down to "what are the rules, who sets them, and enforces them". Everything else is always just instrumental to that question.
Underreported story (more about it tomorrow). The WTO said Trump national security tariffs were illegitimate; the Biden administration (!) told the WTO to stuff it 1/ https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/09/wto-ruling-trump-tariffs-violate-rules-00073282
WTO says Trump's steel tariffs violated global trade rules

The Biden administration strongly condemned the decision, which it said was further proof that the WTO dispute settlement system is in need of fundamental reform.

POLITICO

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration @fediverse

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it