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Ed Bott

In case you have any lingering beliefs that Matt Taibbi is a journalist, @emptywheel is here to show you why he is absolutely, positively not.

emptywheel.net/2022/12/11/elon

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Kai Ryssdal

I often agree with @dandrezner

I do now, too
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I’m beginning to think it’s time for a Twitter sabbatical. Staying on this site right now feels like it’s enabling this kind of behavior. washingtonpost.com/technology/
twitter.com/dandrezner/status/

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Steven Beschloss

“Trump was evicted nearly two years ago, but a return to more innocent, less toxic times seems farther and farther away. Elon Musk is part of the problem.” My latest: america.substack.com/p/to-kill

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Ted Corcoran :mastodon:

I would love to rebuild our community of veterans.

If you are a veteran, drop me a hello in the replies.

Maybe a hashtag would help too.

#VetsConnect

(If I don't follow you right away, just give me a day or so)

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Ed Casabar

My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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, Eastern Highlands
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people

See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.

If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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AmberWavesoFlame

Just saw an anti-vax ad on the bird site. And then realized with a sinking feeling that reporting it probably won’t do anything. It’s hard to look away from train wrecks, but this might be the sign I need to turn my back on it.

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@DaveOfThings I see you head a robotics team. I was in one in high school and I really do miss those days.

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David Wheeler

I find it hard to post things on Mastodon. This being a new account, it feels like posts should be more worthy. And nothing really makes the cut.

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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦:verified:

Just gonna put this out there. Post Investor joining the Q level crapshow. This is not a good look for Post either given he's a major investor.

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So Marc Andreessen, one of the founding investors of Post.News is about to get involved in the whole Twitter Files fiasco.

I think I'm going to stay the heck away from Post.News, especially if it means it benefits him in some way.

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Jake_Vig

Stop giving free passes to notoriously awful people who happen to entertain you.

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Jim Stewartson :toad:

Um. A founding investor of Post.news is going to participate in #QElon’s “Twitter Files” #psyop.

This seems problematic.

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Ryan Schultz

It’s hard to beat Sam Bankman-Fried getting arrested…

Binance: hold my beer.

coindesk.com/markets/2022/12/1 (US$900 million run on Binance as crypto investors panic)

Tomorrow is shaping up to be an EPIC day for the cryptosnarkers!

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Joe Uchill

Anyway, this was my day on Twitter:

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Joe Uchill

Big thread on Mastodon links being blocked on Twitter. Basically, it’s not the link - it’s text mentioning Mastodons paired with any link (even a link about something with no mastodons).

Specific phrasing matters and, notably, some obvious phrasing is not filtered out in a way that makes me question whether this is intentional on Twitter’s part.

mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/109

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Dave Lane 🇳🇿

This: rnz.co.nz/news/national/480529 actually makes me extremely angry. Our Gov't is protecting the (dubious) 'commercial interests' of foreign corporations who have an exploitative relationship with our country, pay little-to-no-tax, refuse to abide by our legislation in many cases, and hold huge amounts of our citizens' data off shore. And the Gov't is doing this *in preference* to working Aotearoa-based and owned tech businesses, whose services they've actively snubbed for decades.

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Prostasia Foundation

"KOSA wouldn’t make kids safer online. Instead, it would subject kids and teens to more surveillance, make them more vulnerable to hackers and creeps, and cut them off from valuable online resources and communities." buff.ly/3Bfa8gH

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Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

COVID-19 has erased two decades of life expectancy growth in the US. Yet, leaders are still trying to gaslight us into believing that the US had one of the best responses to the pandemic.

healthsystemtracker.org/chart-

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

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Laffy

#Iowa Court Blocks State's 'Fetal Heartbeat' Law From Being Reinstated | HuffPost Latest News

huffpost.com/entry/iowa-blocks

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I've long said that Twitter's character limit is way too small, and I've also long seen that Fediverse and Mastodon are fine with instances having very high limits. (My current instance has over 16 times Musk's new limit, for example. We also have Markdown for text formatting)

*That being said*, Twitter is not Fediverse, where there's a history of posts of all different sizes going around. People are used to the small character limit, and are averse to anything that would change it. Going from 280 to 4000 in one go — rather than an incremental approach or even collapsing longer texts by default *à la* Octodon Social --- is going to be a culture shock to existing users.

Plus, I'm pretty sure Musk isn't going to implement Markdown anytime soon. I'm not even sure he knows what Markdown is! Why waste $8/month for 4000 characters on a desperate billionaire's dying platform when you can sign up to Qoto (or if you don't like that for some reason, a Pleroma, Misskey, or Akkoma instance) and get more characters *and* versatile text formatting for free?

mashable.com/article/twitter-c

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