YabosMcGee @YabosMcGee@social.cleverlibre.org

People explaining The #StreisandEffect to the guy that coined the term is the funniest thing to happen all week.

@mmasnick, I tip my hat to you, sir, for the easy stride you took in dealing with this.

#Mastodon #Elon #Twitter #JournalismPurge

Toot Post 🔗 : https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/109521067778012965

🔗: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

NYT's statement:

"Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action."

Statement from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee:

#cats #printers

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

A story in 3 acts
#twitter #musk #elon #twittermigration #twitterexodus #tech #technology #news

Having #Elon run a communications plattform is like having 12.000 mice in a trenchcoat run a cheese shop.

Running up the score on Twitter before I too am banned.

TikTok is a National Security Risk, Not A Privacy One - An analysis of the threat posed by TikTok and why we need to weigh our options carefully.
https://malwaretech.com/opinions/tiktok-is-a-national-security-risk.html

After a week using only this letterpress-type-case-inspired keyboard, I doubled my WPM from 10 to 20!

...but I'm still switching back to my good old Model M now.

Are Elon's antics impacting the resale value of Teslas? Used car sale prices have been dropping, but looking at other luxury brands, Teslas seem to be dropping... by a lot more.

Elon is really an ideal test subject for my theory of the IIED-proof plaintiff, whereby it is impossible to demonstrate that conduct is outrageous as pertains to them, based on how they act towards others, and that their baseline emotional Divorced Guy distress level is so high that any additional distress is de minimis.

1. The criminal and civil charges filed against @SBF_FTX@twitter.com allege that his tens of millions in political donations was a central component of his crimes and misconduct.

We contacted the 98 campaigns and 24 PACs that received money from SBF, FTX and other FTX execs

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How it started, how it's going, etc. etc.

Small scoop that I'm breaking here first. InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to
build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the
private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than
80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum.
Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members
through the InfraGard portal online -- using a new account under the assumed
identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/fbis-vetted-info-sharing-network-infragard-hacked/

So, yeah, not only may Twitter be screwed, but Musk himself may be in somewhat more trouble than people have realized...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/elon-musk-has-deep-regrets/ar-AA1581Tx?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=af5132c879b5419789e63e04fa7eb365

This article, yet again, suggests that Elon's Twitter is in for a world of hurt. He's slashing the legal team, including his main legal advisor, just as he's deliberately taking on that much more liability, deliberately trying to not pay money he owes... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html

Rome falls slowly, then all at once:

NYT: "To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks, three people close to the company said. Twitter has also refused to pay a $197,725 bill for private charter flights made the week of Mr. Musk’s takeover, according to a copy of a lawsuit filed in New Hampshire District Court and obtained by The New York Times."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html