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Oh I can’t wait to see what I will do

@mmasnick Thanks for the warning!

@mmasnick Does copyright expiration really depend on local time? That sounds weird. But if not, when exactly did it expire?

Btw, when you finish the game, it gives you social sharing info that you can copy and paste here. For example:

I won #ModeratorMayhem on Round 8

Promoted to moderator manager!
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Total reviews: 158

Safety: ⚖️
Speech: 📣

Achievements: 🥉3️⃣🤖⚽5️⃣🥈8️⃣🗓

Play: https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/

@mmasnick both my husband and I are huge Kevin Smith fans...we watch his movies, buy his books and we used to see him often when we lived in Vancouver, he was always receptive to waves and comments as we passed him by. He is a good guy.

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Thank you. I know someone who will appreciate this #RoleModel.

@mmasnick Kevin Smith is a … controversial figure in many ways, but personally, I think “kind” is an excellent descriptor

@mmasnick first of many, I hope

again, Twitter only succeeded because journalists paid attention to it and signal boosted everything off of it relentlessly on broadcast news. Without that signal boost, there is no spreading of Twitter. The user base is actually quite small.

@mmasnick https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/109649285685971495

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Taibbi is learning the hard way that sometimes the enemy of your enemy turns out to be your enemy.

"Wait! You're telling me that life has three dimensions? More??"

@mmasnick - What!? Taibbi isn't Musk's habibi anymore?

@mmasnick The lines between reality and absurdity, fact and fiction, and good and evil, get finer every day for these people. I worry about the day when the convergence is complete. I'm calling it societal enshittification :)

@mmasnick MT is such a disappointment. He has list all credibility.

@mmasnick I mean I get that there's a pipeline between "lauded figure" -> "exposure as a sexual harasser/predator" -> "conservative for pay" but I don't get how he could be as incompetent and incapable in that interview, unless the books he wrote, had VERY VERY VERY good editors...

It was a pleasure to watch.

Actually when I think about #MSNBC on air talent, it's just so much better than any other "news" network. They are all there because of their brilliance and tenacity, instead of their looks or charisma.

I start every day with #JoyReid highlights, #RachelMaddow if she was on, and #AriMelber and #ChrisHayes and #StephanieRuhle they're all amazing in their own ways...

@mmasnick @scafaria @nedraggett Hi Vince, any plans for a Safari extension?

@mmasnick @scafaria I wrote a small client-side script that scanned the Follows page to retrieve @darth's 4,000 follows. It took a lot of scrolling tbh. It makes me appreciate Mastodon's account portability all the more.

@mmasnick @scafaria When I try that link, I get an error message: "An unhandled error has occurred." I'm sure it's a work in progress. Will keep checking back.

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There was a time I thought Musk was going to try to convert Twitter to a blockchain. I always assumed he was dumb enough to think it could work.

Related to that was a belief he would issue his own crypto token viaTwitter.

@mmasnick I think the broken retweet and doge thing are only happening when one opens a pinned list tab instead of the home tab. i think

@mmasnick Also, in regards to my jacked up Following feed, if I hover over it, it says that people I follow, follow it. Which is what I get on my For You feed? WTF!

So, as @chancerydaily points out, legacy blue checks who don't want the blue checks are currently stuck with the blue checks and Musk is implying they may be paying.

And the only way to hide the blue check is if you actually do pay, where you will soon get an option to hide the fact that you pay.

This truly is the dumbest timeline.

@caseynewton @zoeschiffer fwiw, it looks like the main criteria for many of these is basically "does Elon like interacting with them"

@mmasnick will be satisfied when the value is negative and has liabilities that will reduce his net worth even further.

@mmasnick yeah, this is hilarious. and he's still valuing it at 4x any comps, which is rich even in tech world

@mmasnick random factoid: Erin Woo, who shares the byline, is a recent Stanford grad and former Editor-in-Chief at The Stanford Daily: https://stanforddaily.com/author/erin-woo/

@mmasnick I'm actually kind of a jerk.

@mmasnick not me! I'm a dirty old mean man... and I eat children! ;)

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You can consider me a twofer. My (differently named) bird site account follows you but I rarely access the site.
Ethical problem: How do you unfollow someone on the bird site without making them think your account was a now-deleted bot or that bird site management is manipulating their followers?

@mmasnick Does anybody use #Twitter?

@mmasnick and most of those are likely real people compared to other places >.>

@mmasnick @gray I can only assume a higher number of bot followers on the other site too

@mmasnick excellent 😄

@mmasnick that's absolute gold

@mmasnick @Gargron I don't care if it's 42 cents. Look who's getting the money. Pass.

@mmasnick LoL

@mmasnick “what work have you been doing?” - trying to resolve IT issues so I can do my job.

@mmasnick Short attention-span theatre totally tracks with his psychological profile. If you want to understand of the dark side of the #narcissist #psychology of #ElonMusk, I spent months studying him so you don't have to. https://samray.substack.com/p/the-grooming-of-elon-musk-a-psychological-cc8

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Does that average include all the erisian popes?

Guess I'm asking on my own behalf.

@mmasnick AI?

@mmasnick @dooordah Is there an “above average” Pope in the United States? What does he make?

@mmasnick Not consistent with empirical evidence of Jeremy Clarkson being one massive dick.

@mmasnick let's see it replicated 🤔

@mmasnick 🤣🚗

@mmasnick love you Mike ❤️

@mmasnick my observation is they come here to dump content then get upset when it gets no traction. They don’t follow anyone so they don’t see anything interesting. They don’t get the way this works. If they followed people they’d have higher engagement and more interesting content. On Twitter follow ratio mattered to the algorithm. Here it doesn’t.

@mmasnick #inpo #matodon #sona #Janseke

@mmasnick At the end of the day, people just need something that works and can handle the traffic of a major social media platform. Ninety-nine percent don't care whether it is a centralized or open platform.

@mmasnick very good point

@mmasnick I think it comes down to decentralized is just confusing. Mastodon has a huge learning curve where Twitter just made sense for a long time.