I'm a recovering academic: step 8 of the 12 step program. Retired (emeritus) faculty in operations management and supply chain. Tech nerd. Former small tech business owner. I love anything to do with systems ... any kind of system.
Ponzi scheme? 🤔
Twitter will start paying creators... if they pay Twitter first!
Elon Musk says that Twitter will share revenue with content creators *only if* they subscribe $8/month to Twitter Blue.
In other words, Twitter gets paid when they recruit enough suckers...err, "downline distributors".
This sounds a lot like Amway!
Or worse -- one of those shady crypto schemes!
From Luke O'Brien:
Twitter just restored the account of lead Stop the Steal architect Ali Alexander, who used this platform to organize an anti-democratic movement to overthrow American democracy.
Alexander is a violence-endorsing far-right fanatic and serial ToS violator. https://twitter.com/lukeobrien/status/1612480421417177088
George Santos' fun first day in Congress:
"For long stretches of time, no one sat directly next to him. His nearest seatmates were the squirming children of members-elect. Santos alternated between staring at his phone and glancing quickly around the chamber, the proverbial school cafeteria. He yawned a lot. He scratched his chin, his cheek, his lips. He fidgeted. He wiped his left index finger around the rim of his right nostril."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/03/george-santos-first-day-in-congress/
Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."
Conservatives. Is that what they are?
John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:
"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."
Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"
Is MAGA conservative?
Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?
I am confused about where one can look for any policy decision in the Fediverse. If there's no centre of gravity for policy, the next best decision criteria is usually somewhere in the economics.
@Aphrodite I suspect you right about the liberal reaction. I was trying to say that in my post.
As for the F150 owners, I may be biased by the years (35 up to last year) that I lived in Alabama and Georgia. If it doesn't have 4x4 and Abrams tank towing capability it isn't any sort of real man's vehicle. Pure MAGA.
Maybe F150 drivers are different elsewhere and my perspective is too parochial.
What happens when your blog post is shared on Mastodon?
Plus some tips to help it survive.
https://odd.blog/2023/01/02/the-mastodon-onslaught-on-your-blog/
I thought you might have designed this especially for procrastinators like me.
It's never the wrong time to look at my wobbly clock http://wobble-clock.glitch.me/
Poll: How many parked domains do you have without any project attached (you are just paying renewal fees)? Please boost it so that wider dev/IT community can vote it. TIA.
