Link. This is worth a read. The cohesion of a community is going to be monetized. Standard protocols and data freedom are answer. ActivityPub/Mastodon are right.

Link. “Chinese-owned internet services should be banned in the United States, and TikTok exemplifies why. Just ban it.”

Link. Undetected sure to incompetent oppo research and death of local journalism.

Link. “overwhelming evidence of just how far Trump’s star has fallen”. It’s bad luck to say he’s done. But he’s done. Except in the alternate history novels.

“That woman fucked her way to every podium she’s ever stood behind and hats off to her” is pure Jedeed.

Link. St Paul’s skyways are a preview of the end of man. (Fun to tour and photograph.)

Link. Post-pregnancy comeback but unresolved thrill issues. Not only woman to do this. There are stronger riders but few are this mad.

Link. Reminds me of the time between Gopher and the WWW. Many experiments in hypertext, many roads explored. The #ActivityPub powered #Fediverse is the place to watch today. Twitter is the dead past.

Link. I have met eternal travelers. Members of a fascinating and ephemeral culture.

Link. “And then you’re going to be taken care of.” Good summary of the new details. The Trump insurrection was a serious project.

Link. Lots of natural experiments in macroeconomics. “Basic Keynesian macroeconomic intuition still looks pretty good in the 2020s, just as it did in the 2010s.”

Link. Corruption.

Link. May have fled prosecution in Brazil. “Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santos’s campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name “

Link. Trump playing cards was such a dumb move even the craven sense weakness.

Link. “simple control for boosts that enables me to see my home timeline with or without boosts”. I want option to also show only root posts.

Link. Government made very bad investment decisions.

Link. Caveat: I am following Musk’s Twitter Files ravings from a distance and only scanned this article. Sharing it because I think it’s a good reference to have at hand.

Link. 1990s style semantic markup automation with human readable structured descriptions.

Link. He’d been good about making each small step seem possibly undirected.

Link. Alcohol is abused widely.

Link. I’d expected this ever since Asimov’s Solaris, but it became true so gradually it went unremarked. “Internet America is the place where our myths become dogma.”

Link. Musk aimed his minions at them. Because they hurt his feelings.

Link. Way beyond recent courts.

Link. For at least two weeks. Already 31.9K Followers. I’m amazed I didn’t know.

Link. I’ll go to Ventura in Feb 23 or so.

Link. Their statement translated: “everybody did bad sh*t but we got caught and we will maybe stop some”

Link. China only has pooled PCR testing and that doesn’t work at high positivity. Idiot leaders supremely confident in their talent rule Russia and China; happily our current idiot savant only rules Twitter.

Link. A useful ref.

Link. “amyloid-beta plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau” in dolphins dying of stranding. It’s been often said only humans get AD.

Link. Since Musk banned it I went looking for what it was. I think popular with Only Fan market.

Link. “higher-dimensional geometry is just nasty” by which he means 10^100^100 dimensions and how does anyone writer about this?!

Link. China is justly upset. But they are likewise hypocrites.

Link. This piece has the goods.

Link. We don’t know yet.

Link. I sincerely don’t think they need to know. There’s nothing to be done except to die. Enjoy it while you got it.

Link. They though they were the heroes. The reason why Trump’s people implicated themselves. (He’s not that dumb.)

Link. Some instances have API disabled due to abuse potential. The chattiness is a design challenge.

Link. Noteworthy only because Gruber was once optimistic about Musk Twitter. Tesla P/E has a long way to fall.

Link. Mullenweg is the anti-Musk.

Link. In depth investigation of how Russia walked into a catastrophe. Partly made by Russia and especially by Ukraine.

Link. “you can edit posts — something Twitter could not be bothered to implement. Mastodon also allows you to opt-out of search engine indexing.”

Link. “The answer, as so often with these things, is “both.””

Link. This is what WaPo and NYT should do – their own server. Can also follow via RSS.

Link. I’m hoping to implement IFTTT version today.

Link. I saw it in 70s and was nostalgic even then.

Link. Bipartisan but is an admission markets can fail so GOP sensitive.

Link. Remember Republican war on Science?

Link. “A giant “fuck you” to Musk, to his party, to everyone but the people in on the joke.…. but MAGA knows that Trump is a silly man. They love it.“

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Link. People who stay are empowering Musk