Zoe @ekg@librem.one

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.

When I was six, I asked for a pair of roller skates for Christmas. On Christmas morning, I opened my present to find a single roller skate.

I knew my parents didn’t have a lot of money, so I was still grateful and determined to make it work and I thanked my mom and dad and went outside to play with my roller skate.

I proceeded to “skate” along the curb with the roller skate on my right foot and my sneaker on my left foot and I was honestly having a blast when my mom came outside.

Mom: Uhhh…what are you doing?
Me: I’m roller skating, mom!
Mom: Yeah, but why are you only wearing one of your roller skates?
Me: There are TWO skates?!?

It turns out my mom wrapped the roller skates separately to give me more presents to open, but the other roller skate got buried in the Christmas morning shuffle and nobody noticed because I didn’t say anything about only receiving one roller skate.

Today marks ten years since I lost my mom and, every so often, I remember that day because it was so very her, doing whatever she could with what she had, even if it meant wrapping presents separately to make me feel like I had more.

If your mom is still around, hold her tightly. If she’s gone, remember the good times fondly.

"A sugar replacement called erythritol – used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products – has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero-calorie-sweetener-heart-attack-stroke-wellness/index.html

Today on the first day of Women’s History Month I learned that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%🤯

The "strong 1950s family unit" that the GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.

But maybe that's GOP's goal all along?🤔
#WHM2023

"We can absolutely convert offices to housing. We can do even more if we shorten timelines, simplify the process, and streamline approval. There's no reason we should leave floors and buildings empty indefinitely while the need for new housing is so massive and urgent."

Matt Haney

This hits a little close to the mark...

#hobbies

This is an unconventional but interesting usage of Mesa in X-Plane:

https://developer.x-plane.com/2023/02/addressing-plugin-flickering/

Really cool to see what Zink is enabling.