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* I seem to have survived my outings without getting the plague! I am still masking at the grocery story and other places for a few reasons. A slower tapering off of masking rather than 100 -> 0 is better.
Also the teen at the convenience store who came at me waving his arms like I am was going to run and hide from his bare face instead got my stubborn east coast butt holding my ground and glowering. Me masking makes it less awkward for people who have to, and hopefully anyone wanting to be shitty to a masked person will try it with me. He then had to walk the long way 'round because I make a very effective brick wall at times.
* Elon Musk has offered to buy twitter for 'free speech' reasons, which is... no, Elon taking twitter private is not going to improve free speech. Them no longer being publicly traded would mean they don't have to disclose as much information and become a black box. Anyone buying any of Elon's rhetoric is dumb. But twitter functions like nothing else. It's basically what people use in place of an RSS reader. It's where we get updates about stuff. I have no intention of going to Mastodon for many, many reasons but it also does 0% of what most people use it for. Mastodon is a Discord competitor, not Twitter.
Twitter: Can track news, build clout, follow direct updates from bands / celebs / politicians / writers
Mastodon: None of that
There are 5 twitter accounts I really want to follow. Without those, twitter is just a weather alert system for me. If even 2 leave, I'll probably leave the platform.
I think most people don't get how huge a difference public versus private is in terms of disclosure and oversight... or they don't care because 'triggering the libs' or they are one of those people who idolize Elon Musk and just can't let go. A lot of people saying 'free speech' aren't engaging in good faith dialogue.
Also, despite all the headlines, this isn't a hostile take-over. People can vibrate about this being a hostile take-over all they want, but a buy-out offer isn't a hostile take-over.
So many semi-legit news places are calling it a hostile take over that I actually looked up the definition to make sure I wasn't crazy even though I know what is and isn't a hostile take-over. But, what even are standards for reporting anymore?
But, maybe the board will turn down the offer? One can hope.
Also, Elon floated making a competeter site before he bought his 9% to lower the price. Floating a buy-out raises the price which would mean he can now sell for a lot more. If all of this is just stock manipulation I would be 0% surprised.
If the upshot of all of this is that he makes about a half mill off of stock manipulation and then has to pay a fine that is 1% of what he earned for illegal trading practices I will be so unsurprised I might fall asleep.
* Ugh, twitter may be terrible but the thought of this happening to it still makes me super grumpy. But also part of why he's doing this and why people are cackling is the thought of people like me having a sad over it. I'm just going to sit here blast MC Frontalot's I Don't Love You Anymore, Internet until I feel better.
Also the teen at the convenience store who came at me waving his arms like I am was going to run and hide from his bare face instead got my stubborn east coast butt holding my ground and glowering. Me masking makes it less awkward for people who have to, and hopefully anyone wanting to be shitty to a masked person will try it with me. He then had to walk the long way 'round because I make a very effective brick wall at times.
* Elon Musk has offered to buy twitter for 'free speech' reasons, which is... no, Elon taking twitter private is not going to improve free speech. Them no longer being publicly traded would mean they don't have to disclose as much information and become a black box. Anyone buying any of Elon's rhetoric is dumb. But twitter functions like nothing else. It's basically what people use in place of an RSS reader. It's where we get updates about stuff. I have no intention of going to Mastodon for many, many reasons but it also does 0% of what most people use it for. Mastodon is a Discord competitor, not Twitter.
Twitter: Can track news, build clout, follow direct updates from bands / celebs / politicians / writers
Mastodon: None of that
There are 5 twitter accounts I really want to follow. Without those, twitter is just a weather alert system for me. If even 2 leave, I'll probably leave the platform.
I think most people don't get how huge a difference public versus private is in terms of disclosure and oversight... or they don't care because 'triggering the libs' or they are one of those people who idolize Elon Musk and just can't let go. A lot of people saying 'free speech' aren't engaging in good faith dialogue.
Also, despite all the headlines, this isn't a hostile take-over. People can vibrate about this being a hostile take-over all they want, but a buy-out offer isn't a hostile take-over.
So many semi-legit news places are calling it a hostile take over that I actually looked up the definition to make sure I wasn't crazy even though I know what is and isn't a hostile take-over. But, what even are standards for reporting anymore?
But, maybe the board will turn down the offer? One can hope.
Also, Elon floated making a competeter site before he bought his 9% to lower the price. Floating a buy-out raises the price which would mean he can now sell for a lot more. If all of this is just stock manipulation I would be 0% surprised.
If the upshot of all of this is that he makes about a half mill off of stock manipulation and then has to pay a fine that is 1% of what he earned for illegal trading practices I will be so unsurprised I might fall asleep.
* Ugh, twitter may be terrible but the thought of this happening to it still makes me super grumpy. But also part of why he's doing this and why people are cackling is the thought of people like me having a sad over it. I'm just going to sit here blast MC Frontalot's I Don't Love You Anymore, Internet until I feel better.
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Date: 2022-04-15 04:37 am (UTC)From:Ugh, I don't have much of a horse in the twitter race, but I hate everything about Musk and his proposed buy-out. All of it.
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Date: 2022-04-15 05:53 am (UTC)From:I also don't like thinking about the fact that leaving twitter would be really disruptive to me because of some of the carefully curated news/opinion sources I have there.
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Date: 2022-04-16 03:23 am (UTC)From:Twitter may largely be a cesspool, but it IS genuinely the best resource for some things, especially real-time updates on things.
And you're right - there are a bunch of less-popular social media sites out there that are billed as alternatives... but none of them are actually alternatives to *twitter.*
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Date: 2022-04-16 04:07 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2022-04-17 02:30 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2022-04-17 04:12 am (UTC)From:Also, I can navigate to the content I want easier than on pretty much any other modern social media site.