Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

If you want to delete all your old Twitter DMs (which I think is a good idea even if Twitter might retain copies of them somewhere), and also your historical likes, RTs, and any tweets you don’t want to keep, I made a Twitter app for that.
It’s called Semiphemeral and it’s pretty easy to use. I posted instructions for how to do it https://twitter.com/semiphemeral/status/1591258781098594304?s=46&t=L4aWvmyNxEFRL6eULgeO-A

Meanwhile, on Truth Social, Donald Trump baselessly claims that Democrats "stole the Electron" from Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters. #AZSen

Press critic has an exchange with the New York Times about election coverage:

Hounshell: Are you saying we didn’t do enough of this? Our polling has found that voters evidently have other priorities, even when they’re aware of the issues at stake.

Froomkin: Yes of course I’m saying you didn’t do enough. And the proof is right there in the poll results you use to defend yourself. If people are not alarmed about [democracy in peril] then you have failed to do your job...

https://presswatchers.org/2022/11/i-win-an-argument-with-blake-hounshell/

When Ray Parker Jr. wrote the lyric “Bustin’ makes me feel good,” was the expression “Busting a nut” a thing? Because if it was, that’s some great writing right there.

We're at a place where Democrats could win the House by 1-2 seats or Republicans could win the House by 1-2 seats.

What's certain is the final outcome is not going to be what the hyperventilating horse race media said.

They should've focused on issues far more than polls.

@drskyskull Every time someone reaches 666 followers on their Mastodon account, a troll gets a blue check on Twitter. 😈

One interesting thing about Mastodon is that (in some apps) boost/favorite counts aren't shown in the timeline, which encourages you to read the post and form an opinion before you see its popularity metrics, dampening the pervasive rich-get-richer dynamics of social media.

(That's not an accidental side effect — it's the official reason for this design decision. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/420)

I just heard that people are now calling Twitter $8chan and I'm ded, so ded, forever ded, and 100% doing this from now on.

Today Mastodon brought my attention to the importance of this date in German history. #9november is trending right now - many messages are written in German, of which I can only read fragments. Today is apparently a notable day in German history, including events like the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm, Kristallnacht, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_November_in_German_history

NBC News’ @KevinCollier@twitter.com reported that “a Russian-speaking hacker group” used a denial of service attack to flood the state websites with traffic that overwhelmed its servers, according to a senior CISA official.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29030/russian-hackers-take-down-mississippi-secretary-of-state-site-in-election-day-attack

It's always "Dems in disarray" and never "Fascism is bad"