Zoe @ekg@librem.one

Yo LK99 is holding up so far
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“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”

This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.

Twitter’s death knell

No lies detected.

It’s probably a good idea to repost this incredibly prophetic cartoon from 2014 at regular intervals because every day I see people who still haven’t fully imbibed its message. Apologies if it’s old hat to you.

The Terrible Sea Lion.

https://wondermark.com/c/1k62/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondermark#Sea_lioning

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

Hi everyone, And here (it/it's). I have started a petition to get the death of a Jean, a transgender woman, investigated, as well as allegations of systemic mistreatment and discrimination against other transgender patients in Massachusetts's DMH hospitals.

This petition represents 1000's of hours of lived trauma by me and other transgender patients in MA and 1000's of hours of hard work by family, friends, and allies behind the scenes. Signing and sharing is doing A LOT!

The link to the petition is: https://change.org/justiceforjean

Please consider Boosting this toot!

Also please consider *temporarily pinning this toot to your profile for the next two weeks* It can help immensely with visibility.

We are over 200 signatures everyone! Let's shoot for 500 in the next two weeks.

♥️🙏🏿🧡🙏🏻💛🙏🏽💚🙏🏿💙🙏🏽💜

#justiceforjean
#transactivism
#transjustice
#transrightsarehumanrights

CalcKey, MissKey, PixelFed, Lemmy, and Kbin too.👍🏿

"We can't increase the number of Black people in tech! It's too difficult!"

"We can't fight the power structures preventing college athletes from getting paid! It's too difficult!"

"We can't reduce the number of people killed by cops! It's too difficult!"

But we're doing all of these things. And we started by ignoring the dudes who said the above things.

The 1st step is "accepting the challenge." People working together can accomplish a lot.

Some Tesla drivers are buying simple weights marketed to trick the car's detection systems into letting them drive hands-free for minutes. It has already led to serious accidents.

“Elon Musk’s saying it’s supposed to drive itself.”

“How do you think they’re going to behave?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/tesla-fsd-autopilot-wheel-weights/

#tesla #elonmusk #elon

I do not care about the "network effect" at all tbh. I'm willing to just, interact less with people stuck on shitty websites

If you have to be on threads for whatever reason and you see an account for me, no you absolutely did not. Mute, Block, and report that shit immediately.

Somebody should tell Jeff Bezos that all the *cool* billionaires have microblogging platforms.

Undra när tex våra företag och myndigheter släpper taget om twitter. Undra när våra myndigheter tar tag i att faktiskt tänka igenom sociala media, ägandet av information och värdet av att synas och finnas. Våra skattemedel har gått till Facebook (meta), via instagram också, och säkert twitter också. Vad finansierar vi för att myndigheter ska nå oss med information?

For example, I've almost stopped posting research on the financial sector here because most people who would like to read ten different studies from reputable sources on the "Too Big To Fail" problem in the banking sector just aren't on the Fediverse (yet). On Twitter, there was much greater interest in topics like this.

Similarly, I found it fascinating to watch virologists, epidemiologists, immunologists, and intensive care doctors discuss the covid crisis in real time on Twitter in 2020. 2/

musk is not working as twitter ceo/head twit/whatever comedy title he has.

he is amphetamine and ketamine numbed, twitching and sweating, reacting with goldfish memory in real time and issuing grand decrees 13 times a day to the 112 H1Bs that put up with his shit because they don't want to back to mumbai.

there is no leadership happening. this is hitler in the bunker tweaked out and screaming shit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-27/silicon-valley-is-on-drugs

oh look a place where you’re not rate limited on reads

Welcome back to all my Twitter friends. Stay here instead. It's not perfect but there's no Elon, and it generally works.

I'm not going to sit back here and be smug about how I warned everyone on Twitter, multiple times, over many months, that the site was going to get destroyed on a technical and social level by Elon Musk, and that they should start building up foundations on other social media services, only to be called a bitter jaded moralizing nerd by people who ought to have known better.

oh wait. no. I'm going to be smug as hell. I did the hard thing while so many others insulted me for it. I get to have this, for me. 🍵

Bird app doing the fun thing where it decides to implode.

It's easy to see how Twitter's anti-woke obsession drove away key user segments in a matter of months, and made the business not viable. It's harder to see how newspapers have done the same exact thing to themselves, slowly, over 50 years, as the demographics of who buys news, has changed beneath their feet.

If your business depends on everyone paying a monthly fee, to hear rich white men lie about and harm them... I don't know how to tell you this, but that business is not long for this world.