herid @herid@qoto.org

Elon Musk lost $13 billion in 24 hours on Thursday, and he’s still the world’s second richest person

Don't tell me billionaires can't afford a wealth tax.

according to Elon’s simps, you’re a ‘cheapskate’ unless you give the richest man in the world money every month for an emoji

TO RECAP:
Elon is giving Twitter blue for free to celebrities who don’t want it and are frantically changing their names to remove it. Oh and he’s also verifying dead celebrities against their will who just want to rest in peace.

Australian comedian "Dame Edna" was extremely popular in Canada. Rest in peace Barry Humphries and thank you for the years of laughter.

As unbearable as Donald Trump is, he's such an outlier, I know nothing like him in real life. Ron DeSantis, on the other hand, has an uncanny ability to resonate with every kind of total asshole I've ever known.

How long as a society are we going to endure living like this?

Liberals: It would be nice to let some refugees into our country.

Republicans: WHY DON'T YOU LET THEM ALL STAY AT YOUR HOUSE THEN

Liberals: It's a humanitarian crisis and-

Republicans: iF YoU'rE sO NiCe LeT ThE 60 mIlLiOn ReFuGeEs sLeEp iN yOuR bEd AnD cOoK tHeM aLL DinNeR

Snapchat is very popular among teenagers. Now it comes with a chatbot that claims to be your friend!

If you tell it you're a teenager and you're going to throw a party, it tells you how to mask the smells of alcohol and dope. If you tell it you have to write an essay for school, it writes one for you. If you tell it your parents want to delete Snapchat from your phone, it'll suggest moving the app to a device they don't know about.

That, at least, is the experience of this Washington Post reporter, Geoffrey Fowler:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/14/snapchat-myai/

NEW: The #Ontario Science Centre site is jointly leased by the City and Toronto & Region Conservation Authority to the province for $1 per year until 2064.
👉​ Under the terms of the lease on the ravine land on which the Science Centre sits, Doug Ford and his regime can bulldoze the building but it must be replaced with another #OntarioScience Centre.
..unless Ford changes the rules..

#VoteTO #topoli #dofo #onpoli

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/04/20/resistance-to-fords-ontario-place-science-centre-plan-gains-ground.html

Verification was vital “because it meant that if you as a person reporting on something, or you just as a user, shared something from someone with a blue check mark, you could be sure it was from who they said they were"
- EFF’s Katharine Trendacosta https://www.ktvu.com/news/high-profile-celebrities-news-organizations-and-the-white-house-say-they-wont-pay-for-twitter-verification

The web browser is 30 years old today - NCSA Mosaic 1.0 released April 22, 1993

I'm reviewed #Spoutible before, and it was less than glowing.

But they have something right now that is missing from #Mastodon. A way for the legacy blue checkers on Twitter to transfer their precious blue check.

The process is much simpler that what a normal person would have to do on Mastodon. (What's a rel attribute? I have to own a website?)

The people that had these blue checks were highly followed. Where they go, so goes their fans. Even if it's to an unsecure mess with no native app.

Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now

The company used "visibility filtering rules" in order to curtail propaganda and misinformation. Under Elon Musk, those guidelines have been discarded.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/21/1171193551/twitter-once-muzzled-russian-and-chinese-state-propaganda-thats-over-now

#national #world #npr #press #media #independent #news #usa
#free #freedom #freedomOfSpeech

I swear to God, we live in the absolutely stupidest timeline