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"Twitter now works and feels very much like An Elon Musk Production. It mirrors all of his signature, load-bearing defects to such an extent that it feels not so much like something he owns or makes but like him, himself: futuristic in the tackiest and ugliest ways, janky and vicious, overtly criminal and predatory, but finally so luridly overbearing and tiresome that it beggars belief." https://defector.com/linda-yaccarino-is-the-last-funny-twitter-bit-left
Linda Yaccarino Is The Last Funny Twitter Bit Left | Defector

Bad news about Twitter arrives with the dull regularity of junk mail. The site is bad and getting worse, and if that was always at least kind of true even during what now qualifies as its heyday, it is now bad and worsening in exceptionally unappealing ways. What was good about Twitter, when it was […]

Many EVs outperform EPA estimates in this real-world efficiency testing

18 drivers and 18 hybrids and EVs, tested on the same day on the same route.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/many-evs-outperform-epa-estimates-in-this-real-world-efficiency-testing/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

What happens when you test the real-world efficiency of hybrids and EVs?

18 drivers and 18 hybrids and EVs, tested on the same day on the same route.

Ars Technica

Spoke to a supporter this week who said, "I had a stroke 9 months ago. I'm now disabled & paying thousands a month despite having health insurance. I'm financially ruined."

Of all developed nations, such injustice only exists in the United States. This is the end result of our for profit health industry. Enough.

We Need Guaranteed Healthcare.✊🏽

And when I’m in Congress you can bet I’ll fight relentlessly for it.❤️

My name is currently trending on Twitter because I didn’t write positively enough about Elon’s new monetization scheme. Read my story here!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/
Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme

The first beneficiaries appear to be high-profile influencers like Andrew Tate, DC Draino, Ian Miles Cheong, Benny Johnson and Ashley St. Clair.

The Washington Post

How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)

Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/how-threads-privacy-policy-compares-to-twitters-and-its-rivals/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)

Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

Ars Technica

I'm not "toxic" or "hateful" or "mean."

I'm very sincerely religious, and I am asking that I be permitted to follow the demands of my conscience: that Christians must be torn apart and thoroughly digested by hungry lions in the Circus Maximus to please my God, the Divine Emperor. #1st Amendment

"I don't know why Mr. Armstrong woke up one morning recently and decided that trans athletes and 'fairness in sports' should be a topic that needs his public exploration, but I do have thoughts on all this and context for those without it."

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/when-lance-armstrong-speaks-why-does

When Lance Armstrong Speaks, Why Does Anyone Listen?

Listen now (13 min) | This is all quite obvious, is it not?

Charlotte's Web Thoughts
#DIDYOUKNOW If a publication runs a big headline reporting someone entered a not guilty plea at their first court appearance, as if that’s news, you are legally permitted to punch the managing editor in the crotch three (3) times
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