Mike Masnick
@mmasnick
I see the "verification" system is going juuuuuuuuuuuust great.
X -Where Twitter goes to die.
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
That’s hilarious. I see Twitter’s descent is continuing on schedule.
People are arguing whether it is real. It isn’t. It’s just anybody can buy a blue check now.
People are arguing whether it is real. It isn’t. It’s just anybody can buy a blue check now.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
And the dark side.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
- Foggy
- Dick Tater
- Posts: 11305
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 8:45 am
- Location: Fogbow HQ
- Occupation: Dick Tater/Space Cadet
- Verified: grumpy ol' geezer
Oh no, that particularly rude Rudy is VERIFIED with a blue checkmark, they're not allowed to lie to me!
That's GOTTA BE the real(ly) rude Rudy!
That's GOTTA BE the real(ly) rude Rudy!
I'm Foggy and I forget if I approved this message.
- RTH10260
- Posts: 17122
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:16 am
- Location: Switzerland, near the Alps
- Verified: ✔️ Eurobot
Open for trolling? Didn't one of our esteemed members say they had their account terminated cause they called out some bimbo? Now is the time to create another account, with or without $8 and do some namecalling
(or was that the doGs of the Facebook?)
(or was that the doGs of the Facebook?)
- busterbunker
- Posts: 293
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 9:46 pm
Elon Musk has no idea what he’s doing with Twitter
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/elo ... atest-News
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/elo ... atest-News
- Tiredretiredlawyer
- Posts: 8124
- Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:07 pm
- Location: Rescue Pets Land
- Occupation: 21st Century Suffragist
- Verified: ✅🐴🐎🦄🌻5000 posts and counting
JJ McNabb moved to Counter Social on November 1.
I'm out. Musk's anti-woke social experiment is both naïve and dangerous. Twitter is just a platform. We the participants make it work and we can leave at any time.
My new home will be on #CounterSocial (aka CoSo.) The cats and I hope to see you there.
counter.social/@jjmacnab
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
I've been on counter.social, it's pretty sparse still, but I'm hoping it will pick up.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
Blue check madness.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
I've wondered this as well. In a way, it makes sense.
Why would the Saudi government invest money in a "free speech" platform, and especially one that's the tool of choice for journalists? The last thing they want is a free press. But if you turn that question upside down, it becomes how much is the Saudi government willing to spend to kill off the tool of choice for journalists? A few $10s of billions probably isn't such big deal for them. Let someone like Musk run Twitter into the ground and kill it off as a tool to spread information.
I'm not sure that there will be a replacement. Maybe there will be, but if so I expect it would be one that governments have a much tighter control over (i.e., blocked just about everywhere except the US).
- Kriselda Gray
- Posts: 3125
- Joined: Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:48 pm
- Location: Asgard
- Occupation: Aspiring Novelist
- Verified: ✅
- Contact:
I'm on Counter.Social, @Kriselda. The display name is EarthboundValkyrie.
- Ben-Prime
- Posts: 3116
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 11:29 pm
- Location: Worldwide Availability
- Occupation: Managing People Who Manage Machines
- Verified: ✅MamaSaysI'mBonaFide
I'm considering Mastodon, but I've been too busy this week to research and choose. I'll use the 3 day weekend with no gaming obligations to do so, I think.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
Mastadon:
I am @FiveAcres@mas.to
mas.to seems to be a good server and mostly keeping up with tsunami of new users.
I am @FiveAcres@mas.to
mas.to seems to be a good server and mostly keeping up with tsunami of new users.
Avatar was a photo I took by Killary Fjord in 2005. Killary Fjord is in Northern Connemara, Ireland.
- Tiredretiredlawyer
- Posts: 8124
- Joined: Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:07 pm
- Location: Rescue Pets Land
- Occupation: 21st Century Suffragist
- Verified: ✅🐴🐎🦄🌻5000 posts and counting
Counter.Social @MarciaBarnes13.
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
- John Thomas8
- Posts: 6223
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:42 pm
- Location: Central NC
- Occupation: Tech Support
In an insignificant but entertaining side show of this Twitter mess, sportsballers and sportsballer media members are getting their nic hijacked and intensely stupid tweets are being made in their names.
Musk is an actual idiot.
Musk is an actual idiot.
-
- Posts: 1091
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:42 pm
- Occupation: Dude
- Verified: ✅
FIFYJohn Thomas8 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 7:23 pm In an insignificant but entertaining side show of this Twitter mess, sportsballers and sportsballer media members are getting their nic hijacked and intensely stupid tweets are being made in their names.
Musk is an actual ox.
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." O. Wilde
- John Thomas8
- Posts: 6223
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:42 pm
- Location: Central NC
- Occupation: Tech Support
- Kriselda Gray
- Posts: 3125
- Joined: Sun Nov 28, 2021 10:48 pm
- Location: Asgard
- Occupation: Aspiring Novelist
- Verified: ✅
- Contact:
I'm also on Mastadon @kriselda@mas.to display name Kriselda
I changed servers. I'm now at @kriselda@pagan.plus. (I reposted this new part later I the thread for anyone who'd already seen this one. Sorry for the mess!)
I changed servers. I'm now at @kriselda@pagan.plus. (I reposted this new part later I the thread for anyone who'd already seen this one. Sorry for the mess!)
- raison de arizona
- Posts: 20219
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:21 am
- Location: Nothing, Arizona
- Occupation: bit twiddler
- Verified: ✔️ he/him/his
https://apple.news/Af-MibnPWRV6INWRqhaxZjQTwitter’s content moderation head quits as departures alarm the FTC
Yoel Roth had become the public face of Twitter’s efforts to reassure users and advertisers the service would not become a ‘free-for-all’
SAN FRANCISCO — Several top executives resigned from Twitter on Thursday, some of whom cited fears over the risks from Elon Musk’s leadership in a stunning exodus that prompted federal regulators to warn they might step in.
One of the most surprising was the company’s head of moderation and safety, Yoel Roth, who had become the public face of the company’s efforts to reassure users and advertisers that Twitter would not descend into a “free-for-all.” On Wednesday, he appeared on a Twitter Spaces public meeting to defend the company to advertisers alongside Musk.
Roth’s was one of a number of resignations including Chief Information Security Officer Lea Kissner, the company’s chief privacy officer and its chief compliance officer, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters. Several other members of the site’s privacy and security unit also had resigned and those remaining were trying to stop a wave of abuse in the company’s expanded paid service, Twitter Blue, according to those people.
The privacy departures prompted a rare warning from the Federal Trade Commission, which has emerged as the government’s top Silicon Valley watchdog. It marked the second time in two days that a federal official has expressed concern about the chaotic developments at the company, coming less than 24 hours after President Biden said Musk’s relationships with other countries deserved scrutiny.
The agency said that it was “tracking the developments at Twitter with deep concern” and that it was prepared to take action to ensure the company was complying with a settlement known as a consent order, which requires Twitter to comply with certain privacy and security requirements because of allegations of past data misuse. Three of the resignations Thursday were by members of a data governance committee established in the FTC deal, according to a former employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
Apple link, but it is WaPo.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
- John Thomas8
- Posts: 6223
- Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:42 pm
- Location: Central NC
- Occupation: Tech Support
Well, when "LeBron James" says he wants a trade (hes doesn't) and "Adam Schefter" (ESPN reporter) is mis-reporting sports "news" (Schefty is pretty accurate), you get an idea that whatever checks that had been in place have been completely removed and the stupid is going to go nuclear.