Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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This is objectively very funny.
Twitter is falling apart. I currently can’t follow anyone or post anything. In the midst of this, Musk had a meeting to find out why his engagement is plummeting.
An engineer looked into the code, found no issues, and speculated it’s because he’s less popular.
Musk fired him on the spot. 👶🏼
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Judge slams January 6 rioter for 'threatening' a Black cop with a Confederate flag and sentences him to 3 years in prison
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Republicans- so afraid of a successful non-white person what we can’t even read about baseball anymore.
Florida school district pulls children's book about Roberto Clemente off shelves:
https://triblive.com/sports/pirates/florida-school-district-pulls-childrens-book-about-roberto-clemente-off-shelve/
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Sources: Musk fired a top Twitter engineer for telling him that his engagement numbers are down not because of a bug but maybe due to his waning popularity (Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
http://www.techmeme.com/230209/p23#a230209p23
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RT @jul1arock
Railroads lobbied for the right to carry hazardous & flammable materials on trains with Civil War-era braking systems, while slashing their workforces by 30%, leaving employees exhausted & rails understaffed...
Fast forward to 2023, East Palestine, Ohio
https://www.levernews.com/rail-companies-blocked-safety-rules-before-ohio-derailment/
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More great bird-site coverage from @caseynewton and @zoeschiffer, in which they break down how it's breaking down under Elon Musk's erratic reign:
“As the adage goes, ‘you ship your org chart,’” said one current employee. “It’s chaos here right now, so we’re shipping chaos.”
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
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OMG. @caseynewton @zoeschiffer this is amazing beyond amazing.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
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Somehow Missing From The Official ‘Twitter Files’: Twitter Had To Continually Respond To Trump’s & GOP Officials’ Demands For Taking Down Tweets https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/09/somehow-missing-from-the-official-twitter-files-twitter-had-to-continually-respond-to-trumps-gop-officials-demands-for-taking-down-tweets/
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Well, well, well… if it isn’t yet another example of how CONServatives & RepubliCONS use the #fascist playbook of projection… “accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” #Twitter #TwitterShenanigans #TwitterDisinformation #TwitterFiles #TwitterFail #TwitterHearing #censorship #GOPHypocrisy #GOPlies
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Looking over some of the responses to yesterday's House Oversight Hearing, I am perplexed, though not surprised, that many people are insisting it accomplished what it absolutely did not.
In actuality, it debunked the GOP talking points, and revealed that Trump wanted to censor people. Yet, I'm seeing people claim (falsely) that it proved how old Twitter censored conservatives.
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The FCC approves Amazon's plan to mitigate its Kuiper satellite internet system's orbital debris; SpaceX asked for stricter conditions on Kuiper's deployment (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-sides-with-amazon-clears-plan-for-project-kuiper-over-spacex-objections
http://www.techmeme.com/230209/p22#a230209p22
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The main thing #DeSantis needs to do to win is to have the national media continue to normalize him with horse race coverage & op-eds about his “maverick nature & his “unorthodox” style (https://mastodon.social/@mcopelov/109836144412351345), so that by the time we reach November 2024, and the inevitable coin flip that all presidential elections are in our system, voters have been primed to believe he is not also a far right authoritarian.
It’s 2015-16 all over again. Sigh.
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“Well, let’s be honest. We all knew that Matt Gaetz would never let the vote get to 18,” said Mace. The joke about Gaetz’s alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old drew shocked reactions from the crowd.
“I do have a message for Matt this evening. He really, really wanted to be here tonight, but he couldn’t find a babysitter — to be his date, I mean. Come on.”
lmao
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-mace-kevin-mccarthy-roast_n_63e48573e4b0063ccb23ce4e
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In which #BingAI admits to making up an answer because it sounded more interesting than the truth.
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GitHub lays off 10% of staff, or an estimated 300+ people; GitLab lays off 7%, or an estimated 114; report: GitHub will close offices and shift to remote work (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2023/02/09/github-gitlab-announce-job-cuts/
http://www.techmeme.com/230209/p21#a230209p21
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RT @AndrewJBates46
.@SenMikeLee "was also yelling, you know, 'liar, liar, house on fire' kind of stuff last night.'
Well, there's "a video of him saying, 'I'm here right now to tell you one thing you probably never heard from a politician: it will be my objective to phase-out Social Security.'"
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RT @rbreich
Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation. It was Reagan's SEC that opened the floodgates to their abuse.
Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.
They do one thing: Make corporate execs richer.
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Louis DeJoy plans to slash 50,000 USPS jobs.
Why in the world does Trump's postmaster general still have his job?
And how is this not a massive national scandal?
