kemuri 🦀 @kemuri@qoto.org

I don't have the energy to argue with the people who tell me that by linking to ElonJet's Mastodon account, I am supporting stalking because I don't think they are arguing in good faith. They are weirdly unconcerned with stalking, harassment, or threats to people who don't own private jets, such as the gay former Twitter employee Elon falsely claimed supported pedophilia last week.

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

Thinking back to this part of my "Federation is still the Worst of All Worlds" note...

"Without building consent and resistance into the protocol and infrastructure, we’re just forcing most users to pick a new dictator for their data without any real basis for that choice.

This last bit is very important."

I'd definitely write it differently now, my priors were weighted towards soft censorship and mass surveillance and did not factor in a billionaire deliberately burning the whole thing down.

An entrance to NYC's Central Park will serve as a permanent acknowledgement of the five teenagers who were wrongfully convicted in 1989 of the brutal assault of a jogger (the so-called "Central Park Five"). Entrances the Central Park perimeter have historically been named for the varied groups the park serves, e.g.., "Engineers' Gate". "Artists' Gate", etc. Now there will also be a Gate of the Exonerated, at the northeast corner of the park.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/arts/design/central-park-five-gate.html

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l - move left and right
j and k - move down and up
η and λ - move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ - translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ - moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 - switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ - supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ - challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q - exit

Me three weeks ago: man, it's great so many tech folks are here, but it's gonna be a nightmare to get (non-tech) journos over here too, and they drive so much of the discussion value on Twitter

Today: lmao, well

here's a fun bit of trivia: more Mastodon posts were clustered to Techmeme's top stories tonight than ever before https://www.techmeme.com/221216/h0050

Starting in 15 minutes!!!! 🚀🚀🚀

https://vt.social/@lina/109516166109149277

🕒 Dec 16th at 15:00 JST / 6:00 UTC
▶️ https://youtu.be/ceW6N6oBiws

Just a heads-up to all #Vtubers in vt.social, you can’t post vt.social links anymore on the bird-app. I was able to do that in the desktop version but not on mobile, will test again once I’m back.

@LunaFoxgirlVT congrats, the instance is notable enough to be blocked on birdsite!

h抜きにしてみましたｗ

RTできる人はしていただけると喜びます

https://twitter.com/nagoya_mk/status/1603615941383688192

I guess I'd be pissed off too if I spent all that money for a private jet and then found out it didn't actually make me invisible.

Holy crap, the space went *poof*

@mmasnick given that the links to it are showing up as "Details not available" now instead of just "this Space has ended", I'm assuming he did

So... I kept getting removed from the Space, and after Elon left it was just reporters discussing and not much to report... but now the Space is dead... even though people were still talking...

So now we have to wonder, did Elon just pull the plug on the space?

Elon claims that linking to ElonJet is "ban evasion." Which is... quite a ridiculous interpretation of "ban evasion."

Listening to the Twitter Space where Musk buddy Jason Calacanis is defending the removal of journalist accounts (to many of the journalists who were removed, who somehow can still join the space).

And he's RAGING about personal danger, and insisting this is something totally new (it's not).

Um. Also this was the same debate about Jan 6 / Trump decision. That Musk & friends mocked & insisted was unfair.