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Ponzi scheme? 🤔
Twitter will start paying creators... if they pay Twitter first!
Elon Musk says that Twitter will share revenue with content creators *only if* they subscribe $8/month to Twitter Blue.
In other words, Twitter gets paid when they recruit enough suckers...err, "downline distributors".
This sounds a lot like Amway!
Or worse -- one of those shady crypto schemes!
They've been replaying this tired argument for decades. Whether its stands for Assault Rife, Automatic Rifle, or Armalite is totally irrelevant.
It fires comparatively small projectiles at high velocity, so it can have a larger magazine capacity for the weight and still cause massive internal injuries. It can also be fired as quickly as the trigger can be pulled (almost full auto if you bump fire).
Any engineer can grasp these facts with a few minutes research.
There is no practical scenario where these characteristics are appropriate in civilian society.
It's all just gun porn.
From Luke O'Brien:
Twitter just restored the account of lead Stop the Steal architect Ali Alexander, who used this platform to organize an anti-democratic movement to overthrow American democracy.
Alexander is a violence-endorsing far-right fanatic and serial ToS violator. https://twitter.com/lukeobrien/status/1612480421417177088
For 2 years nothing will be done, but maybe we should start a company to sell theater chairs?
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Why show the photo of The Blue Hole in Belize? That is nothing like the Challenger Deep.
George Santos' fun first day in Congress:
"For long stretches of time, no one sat directly next to him. His nearest seatmates were the squirming children of members-elect. Santos alternated between staring at his phone and glancing quickly around the chamber, the proverbial school cafeteria. He yawned a lot. He scratched his chin, his cheek, his lips. He fidgeted. He wiped his left index finger around the rim of his right nostril."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/03/george-santos-first-day-in-congress/
Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."
Conservatives. Is that what they are?
John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:
"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."
Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"
Is MAGA conservative?
Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?
We will have to wait and see how this movie turns out.
FWIW, my expectation is that the Fediverse will evolve differently from previous Internet technology cycles.
To me, the big new factor is the growing maturity of open source technologists and developers around the world.
IMO, the hegemony of the Silicon Valley VC billionaire bros is up for grabs.
Mastodon is the work product of a German developer. The next killer app design iteration may come from Kazakhstan, Mexico or Nigeria.
If this occurs, the legal issues will be more complex ... maybe impossible to enforce.
A kick ass Kazakh server technology could become a huge factor if it were quickly embraced by India, Phillipines and South America. Or any combo like that.
Then who sets legal policy?
Right now, the monolithic SV companies are driven by US law and, increasingly, EU law.
But that could change.
I know a lot of those spotless F150 owners and most of them fantasize how they will pull the trailer with the boat they haven't bought yet, or bring the load of timber for their planned home addition, or disappear into the backwoods for the Turkey hunt they haven't gone on for 10 years.
To many Trump supporters, an F150 isn't a vehicle, it is a state of mind.
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