And lo, as the prophecy foretold, California's digital license plates are totally hackable, giving away GPS location and user info:
https://jalopnik.com/researchers-hacked-californias-digital-license-plates-1849966295
“I’m not gonna suppress my views to help the stock price.”
Amazing that the CEO of a public company said that. The raw hubris — as if moderating your own views in a work setting is somehow strange or unusual, even when it’s *not* about an issue that’s extremely important to a lot of people.
I gotta write a book or something once all this is over so future archeologists can understand what happened here.
Re: https://mastodon.social/@lrhodes@merveilles.town/109552108127349128
Another important warning from the pawoo acquisition: The purchaser, Mask Network, is a cryptotoken company that pushes the "web3" myth and openly runs NFT scams*. A lot of people comment that when Twitter started failing it was ActivityPub that wound up being the decentralized way forward, not blockchain tech, but blockchain scammers have a financial interest in making it look otherwise. (1/2)
* Explaining this comment to ward off lawsuits: all NFT sales are scams.
Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.
It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.
This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony
https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/