ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

There are lost people who actually love seeing this. They, and the people behind this cruel busing tonight, will probably be going to church tomorrow to commemorate the birth of another refugee.

CNN is reporting that two busloads of migrants, including children, were dumped in front of Vice President Harris’ residence tonight. During this freezing cold weather.

Texas’ Greg Abbott has been doing this for some time as a political stunt, but it’s not yet confirmed who is behind tonight’s busing, happening on Christmas Eve.

Like DACA recipient Astrid Silva tweeted, evil doesn’t rest.

Lawmakers are pretty upset that TikTok spied on my friends and me!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/23/lawmakers-outrage-tiktok-spied-on-journalists/

Smart piece on my colleague @drewharwell and other journalists who remain shut out of Twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/23/musk-twitter-journalists-suspended-elonjet/

I had switched to another service a couple years ago, but stupidly never deleted my LastPass account, so I just had to spend all day changing hundreds of passwords and finally was able to nuke LastPass.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

We’ve advised journalists to set up their own Mastodon accounts and servers. This kind of federated social media puts people and communities in control. It can guarantee journalistic freedoms, which #ElonMusk and #Twitter have demonstrated are precarious in their centralised, monopoly products. #fediverse https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/16/twitter-elon-musk-suspension-journalists-sets-dangerous-precedent-un-warns

Actually cannot believe this. After 13 years, Sony/BMG have decided to take down Rick Astley's "Never gunna give you up" due to a dispute with Youtube over ad royalties.

It's completely blocked globally. Actual end of an era.

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

Elon #Musk ‘orders Twitter to remove suicide prevention feature’ - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/23/elon-musk-orders-twitter-to-remove-suicide-prevention-feature "sources with knowledge of his decision declined to be named because they feared retaliation.". how hated does he want to be?

@ct_bergstrom I spend a ton of time documenting why people are so wasteful and destructive and yet I still get blindsided by it all the time. Studying an illogical thing doesn't mean it won't continue to chafe against your logic regularly ❤️

NEW: Twitter is shutting down its data center in Sacramento and downsizing another in Atlanta by early Jan, likely as a cost saving measure. This means a huge amount of traffic will be shifted to its remaining data centers, which could result in increased instability.

if 6.5 million people had been eaten by tigers and there was suddenly a new wave of super-tigers that could evade all existing anti-tiger precautions, people would think you'd lost the plot if you declared that the tiger problem was basically over

every detail of this is astonishing - a lost Mayan civilization found in the rainforest

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-huge-year-old-mayan-civilization-northern.html

#Musk puts too much faith in #AI at #Twitter. It will fail him. He needs good people & policies. He fired the people & broke the policies.
#Jetsons #Uniblab

.@zoeschiffer reports that Luke Simon -- one of Elon Musk's top lieutenants at Twitter -- appears to be out. He's been deactivated on Slack. Luke is the manager who bashed laid off engineers calling them lazy and potentially disloyal to Musk
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #elonmusk #technology #news

I rarely saw journalists use quote tweets. And many journalists were on twitter but not actually on twitter.

Their empoyers rely on the public to quote tweet articles - ie doing the marketing for free. Many people did do responding to the click-bait headings; rarely reading the articles. Quote tweeting media fed people's rage, anxiety, distrust, and clout-chasing. And because media/journalists rarely monitor quote tweets or replies, there were threads full of racism, bigotry, abuse, trolling, harmful sealioning, and more.

Speaking as a freelance writer with bylines, who was too plugged into twitter: media organisations & journalists now have an opportunity to adopt more ethical, people-focused communication. And leave the bad practices behind.

Just to prove that quote boosting can be done on the Fediverse (although not on Mastodon) here's screenshots of me quote boosting @taylorlorenz post!

@antares @boazbaraktcs@sigmoid.socialoh, wow. i'm aware of Kiwi Farms and their aggressive harm. This is a great #usecase of how #Mastodon is being built and for whom.

setting up shop here is like marrying into a family—there's history! learn it.

as opposed to star gazing at celebrities on the bird site—and pining for attention and an autograph.

So, with the Fediverse being all open source and all, someone could conceivably create a widget that shows how many times you've tooted, displayed as a rolling mechanical counter: the mastodometer.

#Buffalo the view from my kitchen window of my garage. Maybe 30 feet?