Bankruptcy can only happen if Musk lets it go bankrupt. Otherwise it'll just be a steady drain on his finances, good money after bad. Aka, further weakening his ownership stakes in his existing companies. He's down to owning just over 13% of Tesla.
In Mastodon, crypto nuts tend to collect in crypto-themed servers, and you can block a whole server with a single click.
Can't think of any way to do something like that here, though.
"Move fast and expose yourself to insane amounts of legal liability" ;)
I still see replies in the feed (on the website, not an app, at least). And like the fact :)
I hope you understand that by creating content over there, you help keep people visiting that site to see that content.
People need to stop interacting with that site. Cut the cord. Stop making content that benefits Elon.
I couldn't disagree more. By tweeting, she helps keep her followers on Twitter.
People leave Twitter when their followers leave. They're not sticking around for a ghost town where they'll just get harassed by white supremacists.
By creating content over there, you help keep your followers over there. You and people like you are the very reason they're staying there.
Stop feeding the cycle.
How to critically analyze information found on the internet seriously needs to be a class in schools.
I can't think of any subject that's more important in our modern world. Literally none.
Which do you think makes an AOC follower more likely to stay at Twitter:
1) Her updates show up in their feed
2) Her updates don't show up in their feed
?
This isn't complicated. People stay there because there's *content they want*. Eliminate that content and they leave.
Since we're calling posts skeets, here's Icelandic words starting with the sound skeet (spelled "skรญt" in Icelandic, meaning "shit"):
Skรญtkalt = shitcold = frigid
Skรญthรฆll = shitheel = jerk
Skรญtsama = shit-don't-care = indifferent
Skรญtugur = shitty = dirty
Skรญt meรฐ รพaรฐ! = shit with that! = F that!
The quantity of all types of discussions over here grows exponentially with time, incl. whatever ones you'd find interesting (don't know what your topics are). What matters is that people stop making content for The Other Place, and thus luring people to stay in that hostile environment to read it.
๐งช๐ฑ๐งต-= Aroids: Or, Why Your Houseplants are SO HOT! =-
1/ Aroids (family Araceae) are well known due to their dramatic tropical aesthetic - from houseplants like Philodendron & Monstera to the monstrous Titan arum (Amorphophallus) "corpse flower".
But when they bloom, something interesting happens!
2/ Before we get into flowers, though, let's dive into Monstera - that famous "swiss cheese plant". First off, in wild they get big. REALLY big. They use aerial roots (the drier the soil, the more they'll make - protip!**) to clamber up trees.
** The same trick applies to banyans / strangler figs!
3/ Contrary to the old hypothesis, the fenestrations (leaf holes) seem to have nothing to do with wind. Rather, as shade-tolerant plants searching for rare light flecks (shining through tiny gaps in the canopy), they mean that the plant can make a larger leaf for the same amount of energy.
4/ The name Monstera *deliciosa* hints at their other property, their tasty fruit (sort of like guanabana or tropical fruit salad). With dangerous, stinging amounts of oxalic acid when unripe, you have to wait for it to ripen from one end to the other (the scales fall off) - a bite or two per day.
5/ But to get there, you need flowers. And here's where aroids are weird: aroid flowers are *thermogenic*. At great energy cost, they give off heat, to vaporize their aromatic insect attractants (often beetles), draw them in for a while, & warm them in the morning for efficient flying.
6/ I mean, let's not mince words: these plants literally get hot when they're receptive for sex.
(Little extra ๐งช here!)
7/ Now, when I say "flower", the proper word would be "inflorescence"; they contain a outer spathe, which is actually a modified leaf, and an inner spadix, which contains numerous flowers, sometimes male above and female below, and generally protogynous: female receptive before male.
My experience with "curated blocklists" is that they usually turn into cliques at best, tools of revenge by the curators at the worst. Indeed, often I've seen them "turn on their own" when there's an issue that divides the community using it, and half the community ends up on its own blocklist.
Yeah. I can't believe anyone would actually do this, but here we are...
Any reason they're on the list? Nah, who needs one.
Any way to appeal? Nah, who needs that?
Just blindly trust the curator who you don't know and block anyone they ever disliked for any reason... ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Because some rando you don't know decided to add them, with no justification needed or given.
Seriously.
Can you explain what the feed actually... does? I mean, something between your one-sentence description, and "read the code"?
May it never end, and may he continue to sink more good money after bad.
Okay, that's much clearer. Sadly not what I was looking for (something that sorts my following content based on how much I interact with people and how much of their stuff I've seen recently, so good friends who post rarely don't get buried), but good to know!
Can the feeds not know what they've displayed to you, though? That's what I mean by "seen".
Really, even some simple round-robin thing where it just cycles through the people you follow and shows their most recent post, one per person, then next most recent, etc, would be better than the current.
Better would be if it also did a priority queue, adjusting follows' priority based on how often the user interacts with them, and also priority-sorted that user's posts based on like / share count.
But best would be if it remembered what it's put on your feed & deprioritized repeats.
In Icelandic, describing a baby as a major asshole (mikiรฐ rassgat) is a term of endearment.
It's weird how people freak out over the possibility that water might not be 100% clean, but happily rebreathe air that's been in other peoples' lungs in densely packed rooms with zero purification without a second thought, despite most despite most western diseases being airborne.
This one was surely rigged, but still funny. :)
Or in the writing style of Ben Shapiro's terrible novel: "Baby shoes for sale, never worn, because the baby died - the baby is dead, so there was no need for the shoes - the dead baby doesn't need shoes any more, so they're for sale."
In some other dimension, there was an Elon who reacted to discovery that his eldest child was trans by launching a startup that hired a ton of medical researchers to work on fertility treatments for trans people.
But the one in OUR reality....
Why do people keep inserting the word "white"? Like, the country he's complained the most about having low birth rates is Korea.
** Unless they work at one of his companies, wherein they shouldn't be taking parental leave or really have a life outside of work.
I find it funny that in the article, Grimes can't define "woke" either. ;)
Since when do people worried about white replacement want Koreans to have more children?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. A meaningful percentage of people will look at this graph and be concerned. That doesn't mean "racism" (even though many racists are *also* concerned for racist reasons)
Forgot the graph.
And note that a lot of the projections seems like serious wishful thinking, that trends in the US and Europe are just going to reverse. Whereas downward trends in most of the world are much more certain, as fertility drops as poverty declines and education improves.
If you're a person who thinks that the world is overpopulated, you probably think, "great".
If you're a techno-utopian who thinks tech makes for a better future, then you probably see that as a darker future, where the rate of innovation declines and labour has to take care of an aging population.
The thing is, he has tons of women working for him. But his companies aren't very friendly for making time for parental leave.
Basically, "having more kids" is something for people who aren't working for him to do.
@28delayslater.bsky.social This means you!!! ;)
Has he made statements about that? I've been tuning him out for about half a year now, but used to follow him extremely closely.
I wouldn't be surprised if he gets there *eventually* at the rate he's radicalizing, but it wasn't there in the past.