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Love it. I was wondering the other day when we'd see a return to "simple" games like pool. Can you imagine the graphics power of today's games applied to "just" pool? Instead of 1000 things exploding, you could have a true ambient scene that was ever-changing and create different locales etc. Someday?

Reek knows what he did.

February, 2019:

Michael Cohen, the man who infamously said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump, has raised the spectre of political chaos and even violence if the man he once served failed to win re-election in 2020, telling Congress he feared there would never be a “peaceful transition of power”.

John Eastman: John Eastman

Eastman devised and promoted a six-step plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn Joe Biden’s victory while presiding over the Electoral College certification on January 6, 2021. He also urged Georgia state lawmakers to appoint fake GOP electors to replace the legitimate slate of Democratic electors.

A bipartisan array of legal scholars have said Eastman’s schemes were unconstitutional.

Eastman also was referenced, though not explicitly by name, as an unindicted co-conspirator in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal election subversion case against Trump.

Scott Hall: Scott Hall mugshot
Irony alert: "Scott Hall, who works as a bail bondsman in Atlanta,"

The Fulton County grand jury indictment accuses Hall of conspiring to unlawfully access voter data and ballot counting machines at the Coffee County election office on January 7, 2021. Hall is facing seven charges, including the racketeering count that’s central to Willis’ prosecution, as well as several charges stemming from the Coffee County allegations.

He spent hours inside a restricted area of the Coffee County election office when voting systems were breached in January 2021. The breach was connected to efforts by pro-Trump conspiracy theorists to find voter fraud. Hall was captured on surveillance video at the office, on the day of the breach. He testified before the grand jury in the Fulton County case and acknowledged that he gained access to a voting machine.

Still was ajc for me - here's nbc: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-indictment-arrest-live-updates-rcna100650

The iron law of Trump Supporters is that Everyone Gets Shit On. No Exceptions.

It's such a bizarre cult. They don't even know what they're doing.

arguable.

Fascism has arrived waving a flag and a bible. As the legends foretold.

Reddit did some things right, somehow. Through good decisions made by people who were probably let go later, or whatever they hashed out a workable structure for a theoretically infinite number of topics to be held and, to some extent, managed. That's good.

The bad of course is the corporate nature of it which we're seeing in all it's glory as they do all they can to goose the monetization ahead of the IPO so the executives, etc. etc.

I think Lemmy/kbin's real test is yet to come when people who don't normally post their actual thoughts (as opposed to hot takes, recycled memes, or other "easy" content like simple reactions) step out to do that - hopefully. The "test" is that they should be comfortable and happy to do it, and the userbase's test is to let them without reacting in a kind of 'default reddit' mode.

Anybody who was on a BBS or a message board or usenet or used/uses RSS or has a "home base" of a small community knows what that's like. We see it in little pockets here and there - sometimes as a new, non-reddit type of post, sometimes as a reaction against a typical reddit-type of post (who's spamming random? whatever.) But it's fun to anticipate and whenever it happens that users feel lemmy/kbin have hit their stride it will certainly be different from whatever reddit is now. How, we don't know yet. But it's set up such that it has a really good chance to be good.

They're still running Windows. It's a bad idea.

Money and the fact that C-suite still has no f%! clue about technology. They can tweet now. yay.

Note that this does not apply to Microsoft. Like, at all. :)

Seriously, they screwed themselves with bad decisons.

Make use of your blocks early, folks

The problem was, and is, that Twitter was always a private for-profit company whose business model was tracking users and mining their private data. Yes, it could do good things, and in the hands of some of those opressive regimes it could do some bad things and in between it was built to do some skeezy things because that was how they attracted the venture capital.

Not to mention it was never innovative in what it was offering, there were and are many different avenues to connect people (that is the fundamental feature of the internet) it just created a platform that became popular for various reasons. Earthquake victims and rescuers, anti-government protestors and so on could always use Signal or another app for talking to each other - and should.

One of the real impacts of the cancer of Twitter came when journalists reached a critical mass and decided if something was tweeted about it counted as a primary source and they could write an article about it without having to get out of their chair. It was always lazy journalism and often totally irresponsible journalism and it's no coincidence that the apex of Twitter journalism was the rise of an orange demented sociopathic rapist. All of which was part of the promise of a service that sold views and news by secret algorithm and cash.

Are you suggesting a Murdoch-owned press might have printed something misleading?!?!

Agree with the point that Fox News tapped that audience, disagree that removing them wouldn't help.

Media literacy must be included as part of primary education. How do we know things? How do we find out things? What does it mean to "create a podcast"? etc.

Shocked! Yes shocked I am to find corruption has been going on in these oil contracts.

When I entered the journalism program at the University of Texas in 2010, I was instructed by one of the first professors I ever had to start a Twitter account. This was during the glorious dawn of the Web 2.0 revolution—an era of unbridled Obama-era optimism—and as the media made its digitized transition, conventional wisdom said that reporters needed to develop their own bespoke personal brands. Ever since that day, I’ve consistently correlated success with the fluctuating number in my follower count.

Wow. First of all, who starts college in 2010?! Let me tie an onion to my belt before we go further. Okay, secondly, that a professor required them to have a Twitter account is hilarious and makes perfect sense. What most people don't know is "journalism" as is taught in University of Texas and other broadminded institutions of higher learning, is essentially public relations. How to talk like a newscaster. How to write like an advertiser. Why all those studies that television is bad for people are bunk. Etc. Anyway, that's where our author is coming from.

I think that’s why Elon’s reign of terror has been so bitterly ironic: Everything we’ve been taught about Twitter—and, frankly, social media in general—has proven to be an enormous lie.

Well . . . yeah. Poor kid, never even had the chance to see what a sucker deal Twitter was from the outset.

I’m not sure what the curriculum for the University of Texas’ journalism program is today, but I doubt a compulsory X account is still mandated.

I wouldn't be too sure. The journalism program at UT is probably the same as it was in the 80s. In many ways, quite literally.

So what does this mean for the countless people who bought the hype? Who ground away at their Twitter accounts—triangulating pockets of virality until their followers doubled and tripled—putting the almighty bird at the center of their professional and personal aspirations? After all of their years stoking the algorithm, they’re the ones left holding the bag.

Aye, there's the rub. What does it mean for people who bought the hype? Who found out it's a bunch of flaming bullshit? After pouring years into feeding their lives into it?

So as far as the article goes: Pros - well written. Cons - some people never knew twitter was bullshit? What? Ugh.

But there's an interesting implied question - what do Trump people do when they find out everything the guy's ever said is utter bullshit? Well, we know they don't do anything. Sometimes they double-down. But that's part and parcel of modern republiQanism. What do ostensible liberals do when they discover something they believed in is bullshit? Like Twitter?

Indeed.

Doooooooooooommm!!!