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

I don’t exactly miss the hourly emails but you’d think Raphael Warnock could at least see how I’m doing.

Someone asked me if it was worth losing a quarter million followers on Twitter by no longer posting original content.

Yes.

Besides the fact that I will never jeopardize my mental health for a social media account, it's a safety issue.

Two years ago, the FBI made an arrest after a serious threat was made against my family on Twitter. I no longer believe Twitter would assist an investigation if that occurred again.

I'm not feeding into that platform because of the hate it is fostering.

Fusion energy is always 15 years away. I remember a fusion company in Ann Arbor in the 70s.

Maybe now it will always be 14 years away.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/11/fusion-nuclear-energy-breakthrough/

#fusion

@joshuatopolsky It’s not just links to Mastodon. It happened to me just using the word mastodon in another context. My link was actually to a story about mastodon DNA being sequenced at the MIT Technology Review

If you’re wondering about Mastodon’s impact, Twitter is now automatically marking links to mastodon as “sensitive” (aka dangerous) and forcing users who get them to “appeal” the claim. In case Elon didn’t seem desperate enough for you already…

For the record, here are two recent Substack pieces I have done, on ProPublica's handling of a "lab leak" exposes.

1) Surprising sloppiness and credulity, in being rolled by GOP Senate staffers https://fallows.substack.com/p/on-that-propublica-chinese-lab-leak

2) Inexplicable refusal to accept questions on what happened https://fallows.substack.com/p/more-questions-for-propublica

Love ProPublica, but don't love this.

How do you *predominantly* access the Fediverse?

Please reshare for a wider sampling.

Feel free to add comments, of course. Just trying to get a sense of balance of interfaces to this place.

@jeffjarvis @lauren @captainslim

Note to self: start selling bumper stickers to Tesla owners that read “My next EV won’t run on hate.”

If you are on a smaller server and like to follow #hashtags, I recommend also following the same hashtag 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 via #RSS. In other words, follow (e.g.) mastodon.social/tags/[hashtag].rss in an RSS reader.

When you follow hashtags, the federated nature of Mastodon means you'll miss some qualifying posts from other instances. Tracking the same hashtag from a different instance than your home instance allows you to cast a broader net and miss fewer posts.

The sooner people stop trying to “save Twitter”, the happier they will be. It is now just a private online platform wholly owned by a billionaire who doesn’t care about losing money on it, and is using the platform to empower fascists, authoritarians, white nationalists, anti-LGBT bigots, and antisemites, under a phony veneer of “free speech”. The only reason to go back is to convince your followers to leave and rebuild on this or another platform. #twexit

*** Musk goes even more deeply evil with call to
"Prosecute Fauci" - businesses and governments should cease doing business with his firms ***

In a tweet this morning mocking pronouns, Musk said "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci".

Fauci is a hero. Musk is a POS. Any firm that continues to do business with any of Musk's businesses should be ostracized. The U.S. government should move immediately to end contractual work with any and all Musk-controlled firms including SpaceX as quickly as practicable. Depending on Musk going forward is a risk to national security.

Do all the people on Twitter using the platform to complain about Elon ad nauseum not understand that if they left the platform and stopped engaging, it would turn into Parler, lose its advertisers and die? It's just a private app that monetizes off of engagement. So don't engage.

My assessment from November 20, 2021 still stands.

"Bottom line: Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have allied with Putin and oil/gas interests to try to undermine the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, in a fascist bid to destroy the US and EU administrative states.

Pick a side."

I am excited to hear that as of today the user member count int he #UFoI has just hit a record high of ~400,000 user members! That gets us to about 5% fediverse coverage!

#UFI @ufoi

ICYMI:

"#Twitter's exodus continues, with three members of its Trust and Safety Council becoming the latest to leave. ... 

"We are announcing our resignation from Twitter's Trust and Safety Council because it is clear from research evidence that, contrary to claims by Elon #Musk, the safety and wellbeing of Twitter's users are on the decline," they wrote in a press release shared ... on Thursday."

https://www.businessinsider.com/3-members-twitter-trust-and-safety-council-quit-elon-musk-2022-12

Sick of being judged for my terrible actions and insane beliefs