This is a good distinction… the difference between “is there a big lever they can pull to steal the election” and “would they pull it” is important and we have to focus on the former. The latter is obviously a given.

It would be God’s cruelest joke if David Attenborough himself doesn’t have an internal monologue.

☝️This is also the best version of this hack if you are running out the door to evacuate and don’t have time to wait for something to freeze.

Evergreen…

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@mostlymuppet.bsky.social I am pleased to report Bluesky has arrived.

The whole network got a $900 million talking-to from Dominion and now they seem mostly to understand that they should at least briefly caveat the most obvious ones.

True friendship is knowing 3 grafs in that your friend would love the article, but reading to the end before you send it to make sure it’s a worthwhile read. Well, true friendship and well-managed ADHD, I guess.

“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say a racism on hellsite and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a racism on Bluesky”

But there will come a day—maybe it’s already here—when network effects and the overwhelmingly high signal:noise ratio are the primary drivers of new users with all kinds of different opinions, and I expect the “echo chamber” smear will be even less credible by the hour.