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Here is a link to the location of Elon's jet. It's all public information. But you can't post this link on Twitter. Because Elon doesn't want you to.

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a

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RT @faizsays
Musk cited the jet-tracking account as proof of his commitment to free speech

"My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane"

It's now appended with a community note explaining that the account has been banned

washingtonpost.com/technology/
twitter.com/faizsays/status/16

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If you’ve ever wondered what the difference is between a seal and a sea lion then HAVE I GOT THE CHART FOR YOU.

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RT @conradhackett
Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy.

Source: oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016

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Here's a Moon phase you can never see from Earth: It's a crescent of the lunar farside, viewed from the Orion capsule aboard Artemis I. flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore #Orion #astronomy

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RT @conradhackett
Beautiful illustration of where people are (and are not) concentrated
by @undertheraedar

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OH: "Nobody has spent more on a dead bird this Thanksgiving than Elon Musk."

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In case you don’t believe the same equations govern #motion in the #atmosphere and the #ocean.

Video by Tristan Heth in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

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@elonmusk@twitter.com Musk says that "freedom of speech is a bedrock of a strong democracy and must take precedence," and, as a result, he would support Ron DeSantis for president in 2024.

There is no current elected official that is more hostile to freedom of speech than Ron DeSantis.

Full stop.

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Now Musk is saying if Apple and Google block Twitter on their app stores, presumably for failure to moderate hate speech and for safety, he will just create a new phone.

So it’s going well, right?

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Musk has used "Vox, populi, Vox Dei" to justify reinstating Trump on #Twiiter. But the quote is from a letter from Alcuin to the Emporer Charlemagne urging him to resist such ideas, "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." Which translates as "And do not listen to those who keep saying, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God', because the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."

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Still chuckling at all the Muskovites who would reply snidely with “$8” to every post on Twitter.
How’s that going by the way?

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Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”

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"Netflix labels Ancient Apocalypse a docuseries. IMDB calls it a documentary. It’s neither. It’s an eight-part conspiracy theory that weaponises dramatic rhetoric against scholars."

My piece in The Conversation arguing for real #archaeology, not #pseudoarcheology

theconversation.com/with-netfl

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