herid @herid@qoto.org

Musk’s rebranded Twitter is offering extremely hefty discounts to advertisers while simultaneously threatening them that if they don’t spend at least $1k on ads in the next 30 days their brand will lose its checkmark and they won’t police impersonation https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-rebranded-twitter-cuts-ad-prices-d2615d8f

“Watching as professional crybabies like Ben Shapiro tried to get people to boycott “Barbie” because one of the actresses in the film (Hari Nef, who played Doctor Barbie) is trans, and seeing that has absolutely no effect on the film’s success demonstrates that the Bud Light and Target controversies and capitulations only became big deals because Bud Light and Target responded to the outrage as though it were genuine.”

#Barbie

https://www.readtpa.com/p/barbenheimer-takes-on-the-online

Remember that abysmal attempt at creating a fake paper detector that #Science magazine trumpeted? The one that just looked to see if you used your institutional email address, had international collaborators, and were (not) affiliated with a hospital?

The one that instantiated the authors biases and then they turned around and used as evidence for those biases?

Science has just published the letter that Brandon Ogbunugafor and I wrote.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7104

OMG who did this? I am crying

#Heineken, #SbarroPizza, #TGIFridays, and #WeWork said they would leave russia in response to its brutal war against #Ukraine

#Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and a team of investigators updated its findings on which companies are continuing to do business.

"These companies are breaking their promises. They are functioning as wartime profiteers," he told CNN. "It's beyond disappointing. It's shameful and unethical."

Read more here 📎 https://www.yahoo.com/news/heineken-sbarro-pizza-tgi-fridays-220918004.html

#StandWithUkraine

1/ Stacks of cash were among the many items found and photographed (and allegedly stolen) by Russian security forces searching Yevgeny Prigozhin's house. He has been responsible for disbursing vast amounts of 'black cash' to relatives of dead Wagner troops. ⬇️

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Elina Svitolina says war in her homeland has made her mentally stronger after she reached a surprise #Wimbledon semi-final.

Just three months after returning to the tour, having had a baby in October, she beat top seed Iga Swiatek 7-5 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 in the last eight.

She said she was glad to "bring a little happiness" to Ukrainians and that war had altered her perspective

Read more here 📎 https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/66169864

#Ukraine #SlavaUkraine
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine

Sooooo… I’m seeing my book being printed. 😍😍😍

Can hydrogen powered plants turn steel production 'green'?

The production of steel today still means the release of a lot of climate-damaging CO2. Globally, the steel industry is responsible for a 6 percent of Co2 emissions. The aim is to change this as quickly as possible. In the future, hydrogen could replace coal, which is currently used to melt steel.

#hydrogen #greenhydrogen #greenenergy #cleanenergy #climate #climatechange #environment #steel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_HhV8JRmBg

The latest on #Ukraine from the Institute for the Study of War, including an update on the Battle of Bakhmut.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-10-2023

To hear from the people directly afflicted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, follow our newsletter at:
http://counteroffensive.news

Tuesday was the hottest day on record at 17.18°C global average, breaking the previous global temperature record of 17.01°C set on ... *checks notes* ... Monday.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

When I started on Mastodon, people would advise me to “only Boost posts.” Since there’s no algorithm that places a value on Favorites, “only Boosts have value.”

I disagree completely.

When people Favorite my posts, they unwittingly introduce themselves to me. I have discovered some very interesting people that I may not have if they didn’t Favorite my posts.

Keep ‘em coming. It’s nice to meet you.

#feditips #mastodon #favorite

"The Evangelical right in #Canada is looking at this gutting of civil rights in the United States as a road map."

#cdnpoli #conservatives #onpoli #topoli #poilievre @waytowichneil

Good morning, readers: Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. But, last night the city endured its first air raid in 12 days. As Ukrainians deal with the 493rd day of war, some turn to escapism in the form of tabletop role-playing games. http://counteroffensive.news

Notwithstanding the angst of some politicians or analysts about developments in the Ukrainian offensives, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are making steady, if not rapid, progress. It is much too early to judge the Ukrainian 2023 offensives a success or failure just yet.

My latest assessment of the Ukrainian offensives at Futura Doctrina.

#Ukraine #military #strategy #leadership

https://mickryan.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-ukrainian-offensives

Well hello again….

I like how Twitter is now The Producers in that its owner is actively trying to sabotage it and also there are Nazis

I'm a lapsed #mastodon user who started off here after the first #twittermigration and yes, I gravitated back to #Twitter, and I'm sorry but my friends were and still are over there. And many #mastodon users, especially the early users and the migrators who were able to transition over without much hassle might criticise those of us who started with good intentions, but it's not through lack of trying.

I've had my Twitter account since 2007, I started it at my workplace after a training session about Web 2.0 and Twitter. Do you remember when we were all super excited about the prospect of an interactive internet where we could interact with webpages? Social media was in its infancy, the world hadn't completely lost their mind.

Since then I've had my account and made lots of friends, I have taken so much value from the content, so many connections. And then #Elon happened. I will never delete my Twitter account, and like many fellow Twitterers when it calms down and feels a bit more 'normal' I slip back into old habits.

But when Elon rises his head and makes a change it brings it back the fact it is turning into some dystopian billionaire hellhole whilst he tries to coax us to pay him money. And we start to grieve what we lost. Grief is a difficult and gnarly emotion, and I would speculate many Twitterers that do care, are in denial.

Be nice to us. We are trying to migrate but it's hard. It will be hard, it's like giving up smoking. Some find it easy, others less so. If the restrictions ARE temporary, some might go back. Others might finally stick, but beyond perceived loyalty, for many it is a process.