Mastodawn

Steve Geee 🤘Oct 6, 2023

My YES Vote is on its way back home to be recorded. #Yes23 #VoteYesAustralia #VoteYes

Steve Geee 🤘Aug 13, 2023

I'm not even through the first chapter and this book is fantastic! It's a really fun and interesting read, epsecially for the subject matter. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind", by Yuval Noah Harari.
#sapiensbook #greatreads

Steve Geee 🤘Jul 27, 2023

Karl Bode Jul 27, 2023

this story is wild. Tesla misrepresented the range of their cars for decades, then created a team specifically dedicated to undermining customer efforts to schedule appointments and get help

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters.

Reuters

Steve Geee 🤘Jul 26, 2023

Anirvan Chatterjee Jul 26, 2023

via @scalzi:

“Twitter was a place, with people…Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg”

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

Whatever

Steve Geee 🤘May 5, 2023

https://www.wired.com/story/land-ownership-morality-economics-georgism/

Land Ownership Makes No Sense

The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrong.

WIRED

Steve Geee 🤘Apr 25, 2023

Robert Reich Apr 25, 2023

Jeff Bezos reportedly purchased a $75 million "support yacht" with a helipad to trail his $500 million superyacht.

Meanwhile, Amazon doesn't want workers to organize for better pay and safer working conditions.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

Steve Geee 🤘Apr 23, 2023

It's a really bummer than a lot of people see a move to Mastodon as being difficult (it's not). By the time Twitter fully implodes I'm thinking Bluesky will draw many of them.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checkmarks-verification-lebron-james.html

Elon Musk’s Weekend-Long Masterclass in Business Failure

No one wants to pay for Twitter’s checkmark. It’s no mystery why.

Slate

Steve Geee 🤘Apr 23, 2023

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-blue-28-signups

Elon Musk's Twitter Blue sees a modest 28 new signups within a day of legacy checkmark purge

The removal of legacy checkmarks has been a spectacle to watch.

Mashable

Steve Geee 🤘Apr 13, 2023

Great article about the practicalities of Twitter vs. Elon's expectations and/or intentions.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-substack-free-speech.html

It Has Finally Become Clear What Elon Musk Wants Twitter to Be

Something it has never been before.

Slate

Steve Geee 🤘Mar 30, 2023

Blake Helms

Mar 6, 2023

For the people saying that Twitter was running fine even after the massive layoffs, this is what the impact to complex software systems looks like. It’ll work fine at first, then begin degrading worse and worse as new variables are introduced and those with the knowledge are no longer there to provide insight or proactively handle issues. Eventually all their time will be consumed just keeping things running. #birdsite #software https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/6/23627444/twitter-down-outage-images-links-error-message-api

Twitter’s links and pictures were broken, but now they’re not

A Twitter outage on Monday broke every link posted to the site, and many images stopped loading. The outage appears to be resolved, with Elon Musk complaining that the site he bought for $44 billion is “so brittle.”

The Verge

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