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  • Organisations use things like Twitter to broadcast news as push notifications to a large audience of subscribers. This is something that they're going to want to keep doing, and is only one aspect of social media. On its own, I don't see this ability as being damaging. They're basically just using Twitter as a more efficient mailing list. Things only get bad when opaque AIs start ranking shit and publishing to non-subscribers.

    ActivityPub does provide a really good way to reproduce this ability. It is a good solution.

    Bluesky is just another Twitter, subject to all of the same drawbacks. The only difference between the two of them is four years.

  • "Tear down all wind turbines" alone ought to be enough to permanently DQ anybody from any position of authority. The fact that the AfD are doing so well in spite of this, in a country that I had previously considered to be full of well-educated rational people, leaves me with little hope for humanity.

  • Leave Twitter and go where?

    With this question unanswered, the sentiment is not very powerful.

    Worse, if the answer is "go to Bluesky" or some other institution with a trust structure identical to Twitter, the sentiment is totally meaningless.

  • IDK, Syria has been a huge setback for the CCP. Also, there is a growing wave of Chinese divestment among businesses everywhere, and the CCP is losing influence in Canada and Europe. There is a growing will to break their addiction to cheap Chinese manufacturing. Canada in particular hates the CCP, for the illegal police stations and for the kidnapping and ransom of the Michaels.

    Surveys in most countries around the world rank the CCP pretty poorly in terms of public perception. (See for example https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/09/more-people-view-the-us-positively-than-china-across-35-surveyed-countries/ ) If this is the CCP winning, I do wonder what losing would look like.