Rob Herman @sitnaltax@schelling.pt

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

Up until very recently, if there was something important going on anywhere in the world, it was virtually certain to be in my Twitter feed. Not just RTs of media reports, but discussion, etc. That just doesn't seem to be true any more over there. And it's not here yet.

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JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: I just sssstopped in to wish you all a merry terfmassss
King:
Poe:
Barker:
Koontz:
Rowling: alssso a happy terfannukah
Rowling: a kwazy terfzaa
Rowling: tip top tert
Rowling: and a ssssolemn and dignified terfadann

Seen: "AI Safetyism apparently means not just classic AI alignment but running the AI on the Hays Code to make it as inoffensive to every possible person ever."

I never thought leopards would eat MY face, sobbed the man who sold his company to the leopard

The new Twitter policies re: linking to other social media platforms are designed to do two things: to make it harder for you to export your social graph and to make a rule so broad that it can be used as an excuse to ban just about any account.

Strange to walk away from
Twitter after ten years, but getting some new members of the Inner Hive is really raising my spirits. Thank you so much
(btw bit.ly/TeamDancingBug)

the newest escalation is not just blocking links to known mastodon instances, but making it illegal to link to or DISCLOSE YOUR USERNAME on mastodon, facebook, instagram, and several other sites. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

John Mastodon didn’t die for this.

"Hey can you send me that file"
"Sure here's my email address"

Elon Musk seeing the @ to another platform:

Ironically, the Great Banning is the first time that Mastodon has felt like it's fulfilling the role for me that Twitter once did—a place to keep up-to-date on a fast-moving event, where everyone is talking about the same thing

We would like to remind everyone that none of Torment Nexus products are *covert* surveillance devices.

ChatGPT sure is touchy about prepositions