YabosMcGee @YabosMcGee@qoto.org

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Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

A story in 3 acts
#twitter #musk #elon #twittermigration #twitterexodus #tech #technology #news

Having #Elon run a communications plattform is like having 12.000 mice in a trenchcoat run a cheese shop.

Running up the score on Twitter before I too am banned.

After a week using only this letterpress-type-case-inspired keyboard, I doubled my WPM from 10 to 20!

...but I'm still switching back to my good old Model M now.

Are Elon's antics impacting the resale value of Teslas? Used car sale prices have been dropping, but looking at other luxury brands, Teslas seem to be dropping... by a lot more.

Elon is really an ideal test subject for my theory of the IIED-proof plaintiff, whereby it is impossible to demonstrate that conduct is outrageous as pertains to them, based on how they act towards others, and that their baseline emotional Divorced Guy distress level is so high that any additional distress is de minimis.

1. The criminal and civil charges filed against @SBF_FTX@twitter.com allege that his tens of millions in political donations was a central component of his crimes and misconduct.

We contacted the 98 campaigns and 24 PACs that received money from SBF, FTX and other FTX execs

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How it started, how it's going, etc. etc.

Small scoop that I'm breaking here first. InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to
build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the
private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than
80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum.
Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members
through the InfraGard portal online -- using a new account under the assumed
identity of a financial industry CEO that was vetted by the FBI itself.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/fbis-vetted-info-sharing-network-infragard-hacked/

So, yeah, not only may Twitter be screwed, but Musk himself may be in somewhat more trouble than people have realized...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/elon-musk-has-deep-regrets/ar-AA1581Tx?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=af5132c879b5419789e63e04fa7eb365

This article, yet again, suggests that Elon's Twitter is in for a world of hurt. He's slashing the legal team, including his main legal advisor, just as he's deliberately taking on that much more liability, deliberately trying to not pay money he owes... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html

Rome falls slowly, then all at once:

NYT: "To cut costs, Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or any of its global offices for weeks, three people close to the company said. Twitter has also refused to pay a $197,725 bill for private charter flights made the week of Mr. Musk’s takeover, according to a copy of a lawsuit filed in New Hampshire District Court and obtained by The New York Times."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html

There are a lot of people on Twitter who fashion themselves as champions of free expression but they seem pretty uninterested in my report about a systematic attack on academic freedom in Florida

https://popular.info/p/how-to-ban-3600-books-from-school

The toughest thing about proving white collar crime, as I've learned from @Popehat is proving intent. I'd imagine that suspects having a groupchat called "Wirefraud" must make prosecutors positively *giddy*. (ht: @annmlipton ) https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/ftx-s-inner-circle-had-a-secret-chat-group-called-wirefraud-20221213-p5c5sx

I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.

SBF no longer in self custody

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