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💯 agree about the absurd harassment of #Fauci.

'"You have to be fluent in crazy conspiracy theories to start trying to answer.... But even to try to debate on the merits is to have already lost." from Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner

https://steady.substack.com/p/thank-you-dr-fauci

By @zephoria's definition of failure, I think Twitter does not, as of yet, appear to be failing. Most of the people I see active on here I still see being active on there (yours truly very much included). Yet I must admit that even if Twitter keeps going, and even aside from the Musk aspect, I hope that the boost the Fediverse has been given proves to have permanently put it on a growth trajectory. I really do prefer the model.

Hacking the WordPress ActivityPress plugin for fun and formatting.

The ActivityPub plugin for WordPress is a super-great way of integrating existing blogs with fediverse clients like Mastodon. Unfortunately, the way it displays posts is bad. Like… super-duper bad. Good news, with just a few quick, ill-advised hacks, you can fix it.

#activitypub #php #wordpress

Who wants to do some not-extremely-hardcore backend mastodon coding (paid)? #getfedithired

Years ago, the Wikipedia page about me got deleted, never to return, saying I wasn't notable. So, now that Twitter is saying I may or may not be notable, I'm just like "yeah, I'm used to that."

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Mastodon is amazing! @dangillmor makes a post about how he now sees Twitter’s failure under Musk as essential for democracy and three comments later people are talking about Gopher licensing.

As a security professional, not much scares me. I've seen my personal data stolen numerous times, watched nationstate hackers spray zerodays across the internet, and I'm a shameless user of TikTok. But now you have someone sitting on top of the personal data of several billion users, someone who has a long track record of vindictive harassment, someone who has the ear of the far right, and someone who has just shown us his willingness to weaponize internal company data to score political points. That scares me a lot.

Remember that Times story about how Musk’s politics were complicated? He might not really be “conservative” but might be “independent” or “part of the center”? That was yesterday.

How’s that working out? https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/12/11/elon-musk-tweets-my-pronouns-are-prosecutefauci-heres-the-response/

That's how you get to conclusions like "Elon's Jet twitter account should be visibility restricted, but anti-vaxxers, far-right pundits, and anyone who pays me $8 should not"

There's no philosophical principle behind it beyond the guy in charge setting the rules based on his own interests.

You might disagree that he *shouldn't*, but the corporate and constitutional structure of America means he *can*, and that's what the site has become, and why it's unlikely to correct course in the future.

I’m truly concerned that our country doesn’t take decisive action against those internal forces that are planning for its failure.