Silicon Valley startups: We're libertarian, hate government regulation and oversight, and believe every person and business should be accountable for its own decisions and mistakes.

Also Silicon Valley startups: OMG,
#SVB has failed. The government better do a bailout, and the FDIC must protect all our assets expediently!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/10/investing/svb-bank/index.html

This is your regular reminder that mainstream pro-democracy political parties do not make a point of reminding people that they are not in favor of their country being a democracy*

*Please, stop this nonsense and read a book: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-constitution-democracy/616949/

You can smell it through the app

RT @[email protected]

Twitter janitors strike-->Elon fires them--> so-->

"the smell of leftover takeout food and body odor has lingered on the floors...bathrooms have grown dirty...and some workers have resorted to bringing their own rolls of toilet paper from home."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/technology/twitter-elon-musk.html

Impressive restraint to not declare himself Speaker

RT @[email protected]

George Santos posts press release on official House website citing having taken the oath & being sworn in today. No members were sworn in today. There is no Speaker of the House. https://santos.house.gov/media/press-releases/taking-oath-office

OK this is interesting. Mozilla starting a Mastodon instance next year...

"Now is the time, as we’re living through the consequences of 20 years of centralized, corporate-controlled social media, with a small oligopoly of large tech firms tightening their grip on the public square."

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

Two excellent, in-depth guides to Mastodon, which should answer many of your questions, are here:

1. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon by joyeusenoelle: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

2. Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit#heading=h.j95atvlbfrn5

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