Anabelthe1st @Anabelthe1st@qoto.org

Remarkable how many "genius billionaires" turn out to be frauds:

Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos)

Adam Neumann (WeWork)

Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX)

In just a few days, Musk has made Twitter a complete dumpster fire. This Tweet from a "verified" account (which are no longer actually verified in any way) has been up since yesterday afternoon.

Guess what day it is!
#wakandaforever #blackmastodon #blackpanther2

Live footage from Twitter.

"The entire $16 billion fortune of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now been wiped out, one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-11/sam-bankman-fried-s-assets-go-from-16-billion-to-zero-after-ftx-collapse

To everyone, like me, who is new here on Mastodon -- I swear, I feel like I'm in Canada, escaping Gilead -- here are two posts by the primary developer of the platform (and owner of the non-profit that holds the trademarks etc) explaining that you should ignore people lecturing you about what you should and shouldn't post here. I now consider this issue settled, and will no longer respond to these folks. Time to embrace Mastodon! Thank you for welcoming us.

Jon Cryer (yes that Jon Cryer aka Duckie from Pretty in Pink, 2 and a Half Men etc) is matching donations for Sen Warnock over at #birdsite It's legit! (Not sure if he's doing it here too)
@mrjoncryer

https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/1590738260212748290?t=SS2TrM2srXooflvCenCMDA&s=19

#RaphaelWarnock #SenatorWarnock #USSenate #GArunoff #USPolitics

It's WAY worse than you already think it is on Twitter. Please read this thread. Be safe.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1590746170438975488?s=20&t=I_d9Q7em6KleID8FqhPjhA

Well, I’m slowly getting a little more confident and paddling out deeper into the Mastosphere. Trousers now rolled up to the knees and the water not feeling as cold…

4. Prediction-based coverage comes at a high cost because it crowds out the coverage that voters actually need.

To make an informed decision, voters need to know the practical impact of voting for each candidate.

https://popular.info/p/political-media-is-broken

1. Political media is broken

Major outlets spent weeks PREDICTING there would be a "red wave" and EXPLAINING its causes

It was all based on polls, which are unreliable

This kind of coverage is not just pointless, it's harmful

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https://popular.info/p/political-media-is-broken

I'm really liking the 500-character limit here.

It just gives more space, when you need it, to chat in a conversational manner and expand upon some ideas.

Of course I've been trained up by The Other Place to be very pithy and cutting when I need to... but I'm rather enjoying the ability here to just stretch out my legs a little more comfortably on these mini-blogs. It feels nice.

Gonna be fun to watch the Alien vs Predator primary battle of Trump v DeSantis that will inevitably end in both vomiting up whatever's left of the other.

Drop your favorite Dad joke.

Every vote really, really, really does count.

Also too: the Boebert thing is not at all a done deal.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-colorado-us-house-district-3.html

I took a relatively large step (for me) and self-published my poetry, on my web site, with a link from the front page. #Poetry is personal and always feels like people won’t appreciate that piece of you; but I think my poems are quite good to be honest. I’m proud of them and I think they’ve got some universality and make you think.

So I present to you the most recent, which drove me to do this (because I like it, and hope you do too): “To Build a Fire.” #PoetryCommunity https://www.trisweb.com/poetry/mine/tobuildafire.html

@freemo @SteveZissou

You have set up an extraordinary server. And an ecosystem that can enable people to do and write good science on #fediverse
Qoto.org is like #arxiv of fediverse.

I feel like Neo walking into the Matrix for the first time. No, Dorothy landing in Oz. No, wait. Charlie walking into Wonka, Inc., only without all the arbitrary rules. HI! #introduction

White Evangelicals voted for a pathological lying, woman beating adulteress, who neglects his own family, and pressures women into abortions, over the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church.