werner58 @werner58@qoto.org

Orion's solar arrays enter their naruto run configuration in preparation for the perigee raise maneuver to circularize the orbit prior to TLI burn.

Everyone on Twitter right now:

Estragon: Well, shall we go?
Vladimir: Yes, let’s go.
(They do not move)

Automattic is one of the most important companies on the Internet.

They make Tumblr, WooCommerce, Amismet, LongReads, WordPress—among others.

WordPress alone powers ~44% of the world's websites.

More interesting: despite being such a large, dominant company, few people hate Automattic.

Why is this? 🧵

"What's our current heading?"
"Vexed question, sir. Best not to think about it, sir."

That's a Bold Strategy, Cotton (Let's See If It Pays off for Him)

If Twitter Blue provided some access to paywalled links, with reasonable fees going to the writers/publications, THAT would actually be a useful service.

Decided to look at network stats again. There are 1M more people using #Mastodon today than there were on October 27.

In retrospect, these two tweets may have been Elon's most visionary.

CROWLSPACE: Space Based Solar Power vs Earth-based-with-storage – Part 2
https://crowlspace.com/?p=3693

CROWLSPACE: Space Based Solar Power vs Earth-based-with-storage – Part 1
https://crowlspace.com/?p=3672

@LukaszOlejnik I realized over time that whatever you do, you cannot force people to see ideas that they don’t want to see. If people aren’t open to an idea, they will block it in RL and they will block it just as well online regardless of tech. So this really isn’t about controversial ideas, these only ever have a chance if coming from a figure of authority. It’s merely unusual ideas that people will consider if they see them.

Not really sure whether Mastodon does any worse here than Twitter does. The same bubbles that may isolate themselves on Mastodon also became massively isolated communities on Twitter, interacting with the outside world merely when attacking their “enemies” and definitely not absorbing any outside ideas. Which IMO reinforces the point that the problem here is a sociological one, not a technical.