Elon Musk needs his own thread because he's in every damn thing/positive Elon Musk

Well, I'm all migrated over to Bluesky.

I had basically stopped reading Twitter when Tweetdeck was paywalled.

Happily, there's a Tweetdeck clone for Bluesky - https://deck.blue/

 

Seems a lot of people are doing that. Bluesky said they had a million people join just yesterday.

The downside is that since a lot of corporations aren't over there yet, their handles are being taken over by trolls. Bluesky has a way to deal with that, but the corporation has to complain about it first.

Downside, they are having scaling issues right now and, as a result, the site goes down periodically and feeds aren't refreshing.

Oh.. And here's a fun one.. If you subscribe to the US Politics labeler, your feed will automatically screen US politics.

https://bsky.app/profile/uspol.bluesky.bot

 

why would you f********ing do that?

 

Including me, not that I plan to do anything with it. I just read three people's feed the same as I did before I signed up. I just want to make sure I get the spejic name. Still irks me that I'm "spejic1" on YouTube.

 

Guess who else joined Bluesky yesterday?

Elon Musk.

 

I joined today.

 

Found Elon's BigSoccer burner account

 

I joined a year or so ago and I thankfully deleted Twitter off my phone. Once a few more Chelsea accounts get over there I'll most likely deactivate my Twitter.

Quite frankly, I'm reevaluating how I use tech. I had an HTML professor who said she treated her tech the old way, like it was furniture. And while I think smartphones have benefits, I'm trying to cut down on using it.

 

I'm not sure I'm reevaluating the way I use tech, but this comment did kind of resonate with me. I'm at least doing a rethink of my news and opinion consumption practices. Not really cutting down, but definitely making different choices.

 

Certain things I’ll keep using, dating apps if I feel the urge to date again or things like Blue Sky.

Twitter though, just turned into bastion of misery and idiocy since Musk bought it. I’m still a big believer in the internet being a useful resource, but I’m also of the opinion is that it gave every crank and sad sack a microphone they didn’t need.

 

Yes. This is a good way to put it for what I've been doing: what should I be looking at and reading because it's actually a good information resource?

What's gnawing at me is that I no longer feel like there are any good hard news information resources. My old reliables -- the Washington Post and the NYT -- just don't cut it for me any longer. I feel like both of them have just lost their way and I don't have a replacement.

 

Hmm...how about a P&CE dating app?

 

There’s a lot of good small ones at the moment. Bolts is a favorite of mine, 404 Media as well.

 

Ground news. There’s a guy named Isaac Saul who has a service called Tangle. Each issue: what is the right saying about one topic, what is the left saying about it, and what does he think.

The Ground News “Blind Spot finder” is great.

 

Didn’t This American Life just highlight Tangle & Isaac Saul?

 

Yeah, without at least some sort of starting point it's hard to make sense of what people are talking about.

For me it's the grauniad and the BBC, both of which I pay for, (in the license fee for one and a small £2 a month subscription for the other), and that at least gives me some overview of what's happening, even if there are 'issues', shall we say, with both.

The thing is, as I've been reading/watching them both now for decades I've got something of an idea on how their biases impact on their coverage. I also know how their coverage has changed over the years and can recognise the differences.

 

I looked at Ground News but I'm not a 'subscriptions' kinda guy, tbh, unless it's for something like the guardian of which I used to buy the print edition and now get it on t'internet'.

Also I'm intrigued as to how they make a judgement about right or left and, in general, I've never been inclined to substitute someone else's judgement for my own so I'm unlikely to want to start now.

But, yeah.... it's mainly the idea of spending money *shudder*

I have subscribed to the free 'Tangle' newsletter, as much as anything because of this...

https://www.readtangle.com/final-2024-election-post-mortem/

That seems a reasonably accurate summation of what probably happened, although I dare say there will be holes in it which become apparent as time goes on.

 

RFK Jr. looks like a hostage holding up a newspaper instead of a hamburger.

 

Let's get it right.

I wonder if Johnson got a kid's meal?

 

This!

 

McDonald's with cutlery? Do they understand how burgers work?

 

Is that how RFK Jr is going to make America healthy again? Eating that crap?

 

Eating crap made America great.

Native Americans hunted for meat and fish and ate fruit and healthy grains. Where did that get them?