ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

*golf clap* heckuva job Elon. Vox populi, vox dei!

“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.” -- Musk

So Jason Calacanis wants the job but Elon (correctly) notes he can't do it. Some other people could do it, but aren't interested. Maybe Elon really will hand it over to https://twitter.com/dril!

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/lorenz-added-list-journalists-banned-twitter-95502482

The longer it takes to indict, the more it empowers the authoritarians.

Michelson and Morley knew what they were looking for and how to measure it; it just wasn’t there. But faced with this null result, which Michelson and Morley continued to refine, physicists still clung to the idea of an aether. How else could you have waves?

Here is a page from "Lessons in Physics," a textbook written by Lothrop Higgins in 1903 – over 15 years after the Michelson-Morley experiment! – that presents the aether as a matter-of-fact.

For anyone wondering, I'm still unable to access Twitter until I delete this tweet, which is factual journalism that doesn't even break the location rule Twitter enacted a few days ago. The account isn't marked as suspended anymore, but I can't use it or see tweets from people I follow. Using Mastodon exclusively for now and actually really enjoying it.

Further proof that #NewYork needs, and does not now have, a functioning Democratic Party. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html

You know the academic publishing model is fucked up when you use #SciHub to access your own paper. @academicchatter #academia #openaccess

We all need to get very sharp on the fact that the internet, very much and especially social media, is not just a play space.

It *is* real life.

For a lot of homebound folks in disabled community, it's the ONLY place they're able to exist in sustained, supportive community.

And with this pandemic, a lot more disabled and vulnerable folks are trapped and isolated.

@Twizznit Yeah, I've been doing that. But after thinking about it for a long time what I really miss about quote boost is the feeling of collaboration. Of making a mash-up. Combining my ideas with art, or seeing someone give the perfect line to make one of my drawing into a hilarious meme.

By making posts these isolated articles that are more difficult to contextualize it's hard to create something NEW that is better than either post would be on it's own.