Flaviu Vescan @flaviuvescan@social.cleverlibre.org

Let's check in with Jonathan Swan for his reaction to the Trump announcement...

Elon gave me no warning.... plus he suspended all of my accounts, half of which track aircraft (NASA aircraft, experimental aircraft, weather, airforce etc). not people including my personal

YEAR IN REVIEW 2022, 4
My most influential political pamphlet: this is not a war between two nationalities, but between two centuries.

https://medium.com/incerto/a-clash-of-two-systems-47009e9715e2

A friendly reminder that this exists:::

https://learngenomics.dev/

@elonjet Heh. And as someone point out, while the ElonJet at Twitter was banned, the BezosJets account (run by the same guy) was allowed to remain. It's almost as if Elon's content moderation is perhaps less than principled.

The power of hot #coffee on the porch in the winter.

Dave Chappelle may be a comedy legend, but Elon Musk getting booed for 10 mins is objectively the funniest thing to happen on that stage last night.

#elonmusk #elon #Musk #chappelle #davechappelle #booed #twitter #funny #gig #comedy

"For some reason..." 😂

Clearly, it was deleted to "save the future of humanity."

#davechappelle #chappelle

Amazing. When I checked this story (about #Musk getting #booed on stage at a #Chappelle gig) a couple of hours ago it had 3 embedded #Twitter videos of the booing on it. Since then Musk has had all 3 removed and had the account that posted them deleted —not suspended, deleted—completely.

There's no longer any pretence of it being a free, pluralistic platform.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chappelle-sf-boo-1849881192

Portugal's infrastructure minister gets it:

“If we simply replace all combustion cars with electric cars, we will end up with the same kind of congestion, the same huge amount of lost time in traffic, the same unsustainable levels of road accidents, and the same struggle for public space."

“The car overwhelmed city life and it is something that must change.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/electric-cars/news/shift-to-electric-vehicles-will-not-solve-urban-transport-woes-says-portuguese-minister/

Wisdom tooth is quite a generous name for something that can't even figure out the right direction to grow.

I bought a vacuum cleaner six months ago and so far all it's been doing is gathering dust.

Holy moly this thingy is sick!

It's actually pretty amazing that a open source product developed by a tiny non-profit, running on a network of servers self-funded by volunteer administrator and moderators has managed to absorb some portion of one of the world's largest for-profit social networks.

It's a miracle the whole thing didn't collapse or catch fire.

Great job everyone.

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

I forgot the captions so here it is

Elon Musk did not found Tesla, nor did he invent the car.

Tesla was founded and built originally by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

Elon Musk isn't why SpaceX is successful, either.

That would be the real genius behind the rocket.

His name is Tom Mueller.

And Tom Mueller designed the successful rocket.

Elon Musk is not a genius, and he invents nothing.

He just buys companies and steals all the credit.

Beautiful blog post reviewing the cognitive capacity of multiple animal species. Their work focuses on #animalwelfare and #cognition. #cognitivescience #behavior #physiology
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tnSg6o7crcHFLc395/the-welfare-range-table