herid @herid@qoto.org

New post at terribleminds --

THE BIRD SITE IS FUCKED

"Twitter right now is a live camera feed watching a highway in an ice storm — you tune in and watch car crash after car crash, the constant shriek of metal, the spinning out of vehicles, carfires burning effulgent in the whiteout blizzard, and when you get a clear moment, when you squint, you realize every last one of those burning cars is a fucking Tesla."

https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2022/12/16/the-bird-site-is-fucked/

Good piece on the importance of upgrading local transmission lines. This is the unsexy, (and expensive) work that has to get done if the U.S. is going to meaningfully reduce emissions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/opinion/solar-wind-electricity.html

1/ Mobilised Russians on the front line in Ukraine report that they are being sent no food and undrinkable water, have no medical supplies, their commanders are absent, and they are having to make 30 km journeys, likely on foot, to resupply themselves using their own money. ⬇️

This type of pointless banning moves the Overton Window.

If tomorrow Musk says “it was only temporary” a bunch of newsrooms will just carry on as normal having “won” the argument.

Woah. Watching Twitter abuse our research by putting warnings on links to Mastodon.

In a study led by Ben Kaiser at Princeton, we tested the effect of interstitial warnings on user behavior.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/warnings-work-combating-misinformation-without-deplatforming

"If repeated Covid infections are damaging the immune system in a manner that makes other infectious pathogens cause more severe disease, and we have zero plan to stop people - stop kids - getting infected over and over again, then we are in deep, deep trouble." @brownecfm

#Covid #Kids #WearAMaskForMe
#CovidISNotOver
#MaskUp #Mitigate

Great new study on energy use by income in the UK. High-income people have a lot more responsibility for CO2 and CO2 cuts but nowhere near as much as claims commonly thrown around - the income of the top 10% is ~15x the bottom 10% but energy use "only" <3x
https://www.carbonbrief.org/richest-people-in-uk-use-more-energy-flying-than-poorest-do-overall/

Twitter is now banning all Mastodon links under the guise of "potentially harmful". Yeah potentially harmful to Elon's wallet. Free speech? HAHAHA 🤣 Elon Musk is a thin skinned fascist.
#TwitterImplosion #twittermigration #Twitter #ElonMusk

No warning. I report on Elon Musk and other topics for The Washington Post and will keep doing so because free speech and transparency are important for the world.

In the last few days I ... wrote about Elon Musk. I posted links to publicly available, legally acquired data as well as links to Mastodon, which also now is banned on Twitter.

Elon Musk is free to ban whoever he wants from Twitter, just like people are free to take their speech somewhere else.

Billionaires have too much power

Watching my friends who are journalists be suspended by Elon is outrageous. This is the type of behavior we see from third world dictators silencing their critics. It’s clear there was no violation of Twitter’s rules and this is just petty revenge for having the gall to criticize Elon.