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Ex NetTech, ex stage hand, no I won’t fix your computer tee shirt wearer. I understood at a young age the early 21st century would be different. I was still wrong.
Watching a recording of the WHCD. Biden namechecks NYT Pitchbot. "I love that guy." So do we all.
When one indulges in this kind of nostalgia, it's time to retire.
Newsrooms were journalism's greatest mechanism of exclusion: 'We're in. You're not.' Good riddance....
Dowd, of course...
Requiem for the Newsroom https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/29/opinion/journalism-newsroom.html?smid=tw-share
Opinion | Requiem for the Newsroom

Nobody’s going to make a movie about reporters at home with their cursors.

The New York Times
It's been six months since Elon took over Twitter. I have some thoughts on the "Twitter diaspora" and the current decentralized alternatives: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/28/six-months-in-thoughts-on-the-current-post-twitter-diaspora-options/
Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

Techdirt
Hillary Clinton Gave Nate Silver A 71.4% Chance He'd Keep His Job. Ouch!

He never saw it coming!

Wonkette

Judge issues warrant for Ammon Bundy, who has ignored St. Luke’s lawsuit for nearly 1 year

https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/04/18/gem-county-sheriff-declines-to-serve-legal-notices-to-former-idaho-candidate-ammon-bundy/

Judge issues warrant for Ammon Bundy, who has ignored St. Luke's lawsuit for nearly 1 year - Idaho Capital Sun

St. Luke’s Health System is asking the Idaho Supreme Court to force the Gem County sheriff to serve legal summonses to Ammon Bundy.

Idaho Capital Sun

“This is not who we are”
“This is ‘un-American’”

Are 2 of the most dishonest phases used to describe the terror that is the “American” systems, institutions, and policies DESIGNED to privilege whiteness at the expense of Black bodies and lives…it’s literally the justification AND foundation on which this nation was built

I love you guys at #Mastodon and all but this shaming of people who still use #Twitter have to stop.

1) it's obnoxious
2) do you realise how immensely privileged you sound to people of the global south when you say, "you have to quit, cos facism"?

I will say this until I'm blue but other parts of the world do not see #Twitter the way north Americans do. A lot of times, many of us rely on it to survive.

Also, Internet access is not the same down here. Ugh this deserves an essay or something.

We Did It, Y'all! Texas Observer Will Remain Open!

"Thanks to the extraordinary success of the staff’s fundraising this week," the publication's board of directors voted to rescind layoffs and shutdown.

The Texas Observer
Evangelical Christians urge #Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu to scuttle proposed legislation that would punish Christians from soliciting potential converts in the Holy Land. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-03-21/ty-article/.premium/evangelical-christians-urge-netanyahu-to-scuttle-bill-banning-christian-proselytizing/00000187-04d4-d6c8-adb7-56dfbec20000