Sounds healthy.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-tesla-crisis-mood-intensity-2023-2

Elon Musk ordered major changes to the Twitter ranking algorithm this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.

Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system

This meme has been rattling around in my head for at least a year and I only just now finally bothered to write it down

(click to expand, it has the full 5 panels)

More strange Mastodon reporting. This time from @thurrott, who claims "I’ve been using Mastodon since December, but the interaction there is almost non-existent compared to Twitter."

Dude, you follow 22 people. Try following more people. The "non-existent" interaction is *up to you*.

I've found WAY MORE interactions and engagement here than I ever had on Twitter. Plus fewer death threats.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users

Recall it? An investigative reporter in Vegas, Jeff German, was stabbed. A bureaucrat was charged with his murder. German was working on a story about the bureaucrat. Thing is, was working on other stories too.

To continue German’s work, and as an act of solidarity, "The Washington Post teamed up with his newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, to complete one of the stories he’d planned to pursue."

He had heard about a Ponzi scheme. Now it's published.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/01/mormon-ponzi-scheme-vegas-fbi/

#journalism

Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important *because* it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.

"A third laid-off Google employee told Insider that a team midway through an off-site at the Chicago office discovered that two of their team members had been laid off when they were unable to badge into the office with the rest of the group."

Companies act like this to people and then folks get offended that employees don't feel like giving their employers 2-weeks notice and putting themselves at risk anymore.

https://boingboing.net/2023/01/25/some-google-employees-found-they-were-laid-off-only-when-their-badge-didnt-let-them-into-the-office-inhuman.html