Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

this is still the greatest reply I ever got to a tweet on twitter, both funny but also feels true

Pour one out for all of the security practitioners who are going to have to spend the holidays patiently explaining that using a password manager is still good, actually, to people who have glanced at a headline about the latest LastPass breach.

I really struggled with the icing for my gingerbread barn and it accidentally became a gingerbread slaughterhouse.

Heavens no. $15 <billion> out of $1.7 <trillion>

“Pet projects”

“Stuffed”

Leave it to the NYT to make “pork” the story, rather than “we’re here b/c the far right authoritarian party won’t participate in basic governance anymore.”

Once again, journalists are under absolutely no obligation to always use right-wing frames & pejoratives (“entitlements,” “court packing,” “tax relief”). It’s an intentional choice

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/us/politics/congress-earmarks-spending-bill.html

For me at least, getting onto @Mastodon and appreciating the structure of the platform and the tone of conversation has made these other pop-up social networks (Twitter replacements) totally unattractive. No, I don’t want to move up on a wait list by “referring 5 friends”; no, I don’t want to be part of another Jack Dorsey project; no, I don’t want to be part of something with weird completely top-down control. Mastodon broke me for other platforms.

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on #Zuckerberg's "metaverse" scam:
https://doctorow.medium.com/metaverse-means-pivot-to-video-adbe09319038

#metaverse #Meta #exploitation #capitalism

I have rewritten a toot 5 times trying to explain how my lack of income prevents me from enjoying Xmass fully.

But instead of giving you a sob story about my life, I want to tell you this...

If you have someone in your life who is struggling financially, just take them aside and let them know that you love them, and that you understand. Let them know that their value is in who they are, not how much they can buy.

Ask them what you can do to help them have a merry Xmass.

It'll mean a lot.

remember when people had to be told to wash their hands at the beginning of the pandemic? remember how many people threw a whole fit at that?

what a time.

You’re not supposed to put a Qtip all the way into your ear because that’s where the reset button is

This is what fascist propaganda looks like.

I've been on Mastodon for about a month. I'm following about 15% as many people as I did on Twitter and I have just a little under 10% of the numbers of followers than I did on Twitter, but engagement here is about the same and the replies are much less likely to be spammy, abusive, and/or deranged.

To all the #journalists out there on #Mastodon, I pose the same question. ~ "Given #Musk’s track record, reporters should put little stock in what he says. Instead, the press continues to chart and publish nearly every bold utterance he makes and every tweet... Why does the press keep falling for this circus act?" ~ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/21/elon-musk-twitter-press-00074881 ~ #ElonMusk #Twitter #SocialMedia

Incredibly, I think yesterday's version of the Twitter Files finally revealed something interesting! Though it's not clear that those releasing them understood why or what it was. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/finally-an-interesting-twitter-files-that-appears-to-reveal-sketchy-government-behavior/

Why do we call them “central banks” and not “apex creditors”?

J6C suggests that Bill Stepien saw Rudy replacing his own role as campaign manager.

A good way to avoid an indictment!

"Stepien described his interaction with Giuliani as an intentional “self-demotion,” with Stepien stepping aside once it became clear that President Trump intended to spread falsehoods."

Very good piece by @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/19/i-speak-fluent-new-social-media-ceo-whos-in-over-their-head-let-me-translate-the-last-few-days-of-twitter-policy/ #twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #tech #technews #technology #journalist

For anyone wondering, I'm still unable to access Twitter until I delete this tweet, which is factual journalism that doesn't even break the location rule Twitter enacted a few days ago. The account isn't marked as suspended anymore, but I can't use it or see tweets from people I follow. Using Mastodon exclusively for now and actually really enjoying it.

There were three men came out of the West
Three kings both great and high
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon must die.

They took a tank and ran him down
With bullets in his head
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon was dead

But when the Spring came kindly on
And showers began to fall
John Mastodon got up again
And did surprise them all...