Mastodawn

oldak

Jan 7, 2025

I haven't used this app in some time. I love the feedback vibrations (Android app).

oldak

Mar 19, 2024

Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-03-19/brexit-s-lasting-economic-and-financial-damage-looks-inescapable

Brexit’s Lasting Economic and Financial Damage Looks Inescapable

By almost every economic and financial measure, parting ways with the EU almost eight years ago has been disastrous for the UK. Is there no end in sight?

Bloomberg

oldak

Jul 14, 2023

Taylor Lorenz Jul 14, 2023

“[Musk]is censoring speech that he doesn’t like and amplifying speech that he does and he’s picking the people that he wants to have a voice on the platform and silencing others,” Rathbone DeBuys, a content creator in New Orleans https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme

The first beneficiaries appear to be high-profile influencers like Andrew Tate, DC Draino, Ian Miles Cheong, Benny Johnson and Ashley St. Clair.

The Washington Post

oldak

Jul 7, 2023

Trying out Threads in addition to this place: adamcrealock. Let's follow each other there too.

Planned Fediverse integration is good news, assuming they follow through.

oldak

Jul 7, 2023

How three amateurs cracked a 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets - Imogen Savage https://on.ft.com/3PIqzu4 via @FT

How three amateurs cracked a 445-year-old code to reveal Mary Queen of Scots’ secrets

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Financial Times

oldak

Mar 8, 2023

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Carl T. Bergstrom Mar 8, 2023

Who is this? @ethanz has a good summary that will catch you up on the last 36 hours of Twitter drama, in which he connects Musk's behavior and the adulation he receives for it to Adam Serwer's 2018 "The Cruelty is the Point" piece in the Atlantic and the concept of intimacy through contempt.

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/03/07/elon-musks-compelling-case-for-worst-human-of-2023/

h/t @RichStein

Elon Musk's Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023 - Ethan Zuckerman

There’s a saying that you never want to be the main character of Twitter. If you are, it usually means you’ve humiliated yourself in a particularly embarrassing way. The exception to this rule is Elon Musk, who seems to thrive on attention, positive or negative. As has been widely reported, Musk threw an epic temper… Read More »Elon Musk’s Compelling Case for Worst Human of 2023

Ethan Zuckerman

oldak

Jan 27, 2023

The pay package of Denise Coates, CEO of bet365, is more than 10x higher that of David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs

£213.4m vs $25m ($2m salary, $23m bonus)

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fe20e9cc-9c12-11ed-8757-da996e39a7f7?shareToken=8c6339c9dab43c3c3f4c6fb13ca4c662

https://on.ft.com/3kOlgvO

The Tax List 2023: the UK’s 100 biggest taxpayers revealed

A Moscow-born billionaire who recently renounced his Russian citizenship has topped this year’s Sunday Times Tax List, contributing more than £487 million to Br

The Sunday Times

oldak

Jan 20, 2023

"William Hague, former Conservative leader who also backed Remain in the 2016 referendum, blamed this week’s collapse of UK battery maker Britishvolt on #Brexit." - Jim Pickard, Chris Giles, @katie_martin_fx https://on.ft.com/3ku88vG

Ikea boss says Brexit has caused ‘chaos’

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Financial Times

oldak

Jan 9, 2023

Destruction of the climate is a solvable problem https://nyti.ms/3ilwO94

Restoration of the Ozone Layer Is Back on Track, Scientists Say

Rogue emissions from China of ozone-depleting chemicals had threatened to delay recovery by a decade. But the emissions were stopped, according to a U.N.-backed report.

oldak

Jan 1, 2023

Richard Murphy Jan 1, 2023

2023. It could very easily be worse than 2022. The Westminster government had some excuses in 2022. In 2023 it’s likely that everything that goes wrong will all be down to them. Good luck surviving their onslaught everyone, and let’s be sure to be ready to be rid of them.