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Brandon (@bdowney@cybervillains.com) (The Lair of the CyberVillains)
Keep coming back to this story. Now that he's fired someone for telling him the truth, maybe it should work like this:

Engineers: "Well Elon, we have a *new* ranking system, and only the most discerning people can see likes from the lurkers. You can tell it's a marvel because they're invisible! The Emperor's New Code!"

"They're awfully quiet in public though..."

"They're the lurkers sir. They support your invisible ranking!"

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
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A good new week everybody. I hope Saturday's been good to you. This morning my phone apparently decided to turn itself off or something because it got a full charge last night but it's been dead as a doornail all day and won't turn on. Watch even shows it as disconnected although some notifications just randomly showed up a few minutes ago. Hopefully I get this sorted.

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MrBeast’s blindness video puts systemic ableism on display (techcrunch.com)
Recently, megastar creator MrBeast posted a video to his YouTube in which he spotlights numerous blind and visually impaired people who have undergone a surgical procedure that “cures” their blindness. As of this writing, the video has been viewed more than 76 million times, and the responses have been visceral in both praise and contempt. For […]