Over on the bird site, every post about Musk's blatantly criminal lottery receives a dozen turbochud responses telling us how very stupid we are for reading the statute which clearly states that offering an incentive to register to vote is criminal. 1/
I was trying to tell folk this at the time. The WBA never presented a shred of evidence. But people convinced themselves there must be something in it because the notion that Russia would do this purely to ruin the Olympics for France was beyond their comprehension.
A useful WaPo report on the Russian scheming and corruption behind the manufactured Imane Khelif controversy at the Paris Olympics. A lot of people got played. Some of them, of course, just *wanted* to be played. (Gift link) wapo.st/4hdAvHu
Banned from the Games, Russia wanted to upend the Olympics. Enter Umar Kremlev and the boxing ‘gender controversy.’
Trump could announce that he will create an American Fourth Reich and the turbochuds of the mainstream media would still be tone policing anyone using the 'fascist' word.
I have Bluesky Moderation Service (Brazil) listed in my moderators as 'required in your region'. I am not in Brazil, why is that showing?
I am working on a social media system of my own. For very small groups. This is a screenshot of the current build of Palimpsest, an annotation service for collaboratively editing documents. Unlike a Wiki, there is structure. Alice, Bob and PHB are editing an Internet Draft.
Looks like the bird site had a really bad day yesterday. Most days, I have 15 notifications in the morning. Today it was 3. More important than the number of new signups here is that a lot of dormant accounts have started posting.
At this point, 'debate' on Twitter has become: MAGA-chud: <Some very obvious lie> Me: That is untrue, you are gaslighting MAGA-chud: <More lies to support the first>
Oh, the post button was hidden off the screen on the far right instead of being somewhere I was looking for it... Seems the UI has quite a bit of 'you gotta know to know' still.
So in case you were wondering what is happening on Twitter, well nastier and nastier. And so Facebook have decided to copy. Latest Facebook misfeature is to dump libertarian agitprop into my feed presumably curated by the Zuckwit himself. And you can’t block their ‘personalities’, only snooze them.