Connected PlacesFediverse Report #113
this week's #fediverse news is quiet, with some academic research papers on Mastodon, some renewed interest in Mastodon from Taiwan, and more.
Norman
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Alex Wild@tinydoctor This wasn't real.
I mean, I'm sure real billionaires are talking about buying BS, but Ackman's spokespeople say he does not have an account there.
Eugen RochkoAug 10, 10 sign-ups from #Brazil. Aug 28, 152 sign-ups from Brazil. Today, 4.2k sign-ups from Brazil. Portuguese (Brazil) has already entered the list of top 8 active languages for the last 30 days.
Ken WhiteThis week on Serious Trouble: long sentences in January 6 cases, a questionable new RICO case against protestors in Georgia, Ken Chesebro and Sydney Powell are not mutual admirers, Donald Trump loses more in the E. Jean Carroll case, and Elon Musk yells about defamation and Jews.
@w7voa Dang, that's close. They need nine Republicans to vote to convict (his wife isn't voting but apparently still counts in the math).
Steve Herman#Texas Senate rejects all efforts by the state's attorney general to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/05/ken-paxton-impeachment-motion-votes/
Threads finally has a web interface. Though Instagram won't let me create an account--I tried twice and got instasuspended for my accounts being "fake". Yeah, if they're really gonna enforce anti-pseudonym rules this isn't gonna work.
#threads #instagram #threadsforweb #meta
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/22/23840441/meta-threads-web-app
Casey NewtonThree years of using expensive note-taking software doesn’t seem to be making me a better thinker. I wrote about why that is — and whether a new generation of AI tools can help https://www.platformer.news/p/why-note-taking-apps-dont-make-us
elledear god please let trump try to escape prosecution by fleeing the US in a yacht that is quickly met by 6-10 orcas who have just done cocaine