Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

Seriously, how hard would it be to hack the remote guidance on those Iranian drones? I mean we're talking about Ukrainians here.

I'm still reading tw!tt3r, but I have a filter that hides all tweets fro anyone with a blue check. So all I see is the people and institutions who won't pay, and the people with less than a million or so followers. It's kind of different.

Perhaps the most accurate prediction in "2001: A Space Odyssey" is when Bowman and Poole are watching the same streaming video on their respective tablets (in portrait orientation) while eating dinner.

In looking for a self-hosted online notebook I've just settled on #TiddlyWiki. Fully self-contained*, remarkably feature rich, no database of any kind (!!!!) and it's been supported by its original author and a sizeable community since 2004.

But it's tough to get past the fact that the basic element is called a Tiddler. Not an Item, a Note, or an Article. A "Tiddler". God the British are silly sometimes.

* If you're hosting it on the web and you want changes to be saved to the server you do have a little bit of work to do, but it's pretty simple on most platforms.

A person who uses "literally" to refer to something they're making up on the spot is certain to be confusing other fantasies with fact as well.

Fox has an oppo file on Tucker Carlson in case he decides to start dishing about the network. It contains dirt like

• Secretly sorts his recycling
• Has a signed photo of Greta Thunberg
• Once went to a Black Lives Matter rally

Hey, Fox's loss is RT's gain

Revealed after 7 years: thing that was bloody obvious at the time!

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/boris-johnson-reaction-brexit-vote/

It's #4, so I'm honor bound to tell you it's Shepherd's Pie.

Cry havoc! And watch everyone run for cover because they think you're going to let slip the dogs of war.

Then, after a few moments when they timidly peep out from behind the sofa, be right up in their face and say, "bow wow."

To kids who've never actually seen a trolley, I can only imagine it's a device for running people over to make some kind of point.

The irony of the precept that we should respect the beliefs of others is that pretty much nobody actually believes it.

The moment anyone says it, it's the work of a few seconds to remind them of a belief held by billions which they themselves do not respect and don't think anyone else should either.

I genuinely think Elon worked out that large numbers of people were repulsed by the paid-only blue check population and that ways to ignore/hide them entirely were right on the horizon. So he started giving back blue checks to people and orgs of his own choosing to prevent that.

And of course in the process, turned the blue check into exactly what he originally complained it was: a badge of privilege for a selected elite rather than a relatively even-handed to way protect users at risk of impersonation. Which latter purpose he never even acknowledged.

As Captain Kirk so famously said, "If you believe in forever, Mr. Spock.... then life... is just a one-night stand. And if. There's. A rock. And roll. Heaven, Mr. Spock... then you know. They've got a hell of a band."

Now Elon is farting around with restoring blue checks to big news organizations like CNN, very possibly to frustrate people developing apps and filters to block blue check tweets, a thing which has been trending...,

Is it defamation if someone claims you had paid sex with Stormy Daniels when in reality she sneaked out after without paying?

Is faking a blue check on Mastodon even worse than buying one on Twitter?

I think data entry routines should include a feature such that if they detect that you're typing gibberish, tests it against a few obvious keyboard transpositions on the supposition that you might be touch typing with your hands in the wrong place, and if the result makes sense, just silently convert it without bothering you about it.

If you have uBlock Origin, this filter is effective at hiding blue-check tweets and not grey-check ones. (Only tested on Chrome for Mac)

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