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Twitter is broken. Thanks, Elon...
About six months ago, Elon Musk bought your favorite neighborhood bar. Then he fired veteran bouncers and bartenders, tried to stiff the landlord and at least one vendor, and demanded that regulars pay a cover charge. He has frequently struggled to serve his customers, yet he has penalized them for mentioning the competition. He has tamped down the revelry in general, really — a lot of conversation at his watering hole has been drowned out by Musk’s own never-ending stage act, which consists mainly of him yelling dad jokes at customers through a bullhorn. Pour one out for Twitter, then. I had been open to Musk’s purchase of the social network, but half a year in, it has been an unmitigated disaster. Musk moved fast and broke nearly everything — the speed and totality with which he has ruined the site has been almost impressive. By Musk’s own reckoning, the company is now worth less than half of what he paid for it. It has lost many large advertisers, most of its employees and, with them, much of its functionality.
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@jeffjarvis Not that I know of, but there should be. Ghost is very much an alternative to Substack (a better one IMO). Much better web support. Super intuitive, Medium-like authoring interface. You get a ton from Ghost out of the box. And Ghost is a mission-driven nonprofit run by a foundation. It’s also cheaper, though not free. If you have a paid newsletter on Substack, you really ought to look at Ghost.

—@pilhofer

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Setting up a new #WordPress blog to be an archive of all of my tweets (since I shut down my #Twitter account a few months ago). Found the WP-CLI command line interface for WordPress and the twitter-archive-to-wp plug-in that allows me to do this far easier and faster than I’d have been able to do it manually. This is pretty nifty. (Also fun to watch when using a retro terminal emulator.)

—@djwudi

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans: (@LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com) (Universeodon Social Media)
Fun fact: during early development the gonads of the human fetus remain undifferentiated; that is, all fetal genitalia are the same and are phenotypically female. - So, if biological sex can't be changed, - And if life starts at conception, - Then all men are trans. Sorry, Republican men. You made the rules.
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BRB, working on ideas for Narnia Porn (the next New Management book will take a fire axe to C. S. Lewis).

Also working out the life cycle of Resurrection Beasts like Aslan. Don’t let him molt out of his lion instar and enter the final fertile phase of his life cycle! After he mates with Tash the Inexorable and she eats his head, she’ll lay a clutch of god-eggs. When they hatch the larvae eat their host species before they chew their way out of that universe and go looking for more nutrients …

—@cstross

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A Firehose of Insanity and The Republican Cycle of Radicalization by Teri KanefieldTeri Kanefield

There was an explosion of news this week with a theme: The increasing radicalization of the Republican Party. First, we have the abortion pill mifepristone debacle in which a federal judge in Texas attempted to outlaw mifepristone for the entire nation. Here’s the timeline (I find that a bullet point timeline is the best tool …

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