🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇱Duck Dodgers
My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (we live in interesting times), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Joined Apr 2022
Over at Elon's place, the new proprietor has announced that he'll begin restoring most previously banned accounts starting next week.
He had previously stated he would create a moderation council to make those decisions, but, as Ron Ziegler would say, that statement is no longer operative.
#Twitter #ElonMusk
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/tech/elon-musk-amnesty-poll/index.html
#Twitter continues to bleed advertisers. Volkswagen's brands have halted all paid activities.
#Volkswagen #ElonMusk
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/audi-halts-all-activities-twitter-wirtschaftswoche-2022-11-23/
Interesting fatal Tesla car crash case, in South Korea, where the car is alleged to have accelerated on its own, and a passenger died because it took rescuers 25 minutes to extract him when neither the doors nor seats would work due to battary failure.
#Tesla #ElonMusk #SouthKorea
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-safety-centre-south-korean-trial-over-fiery-fatal-crash-2022-11-20/
America has an oligarch problem. Between 1965 and 2015, the US CEO-to-worker compensation ratio soared from 20 to 312. According to Statista, it was 399 in 2021.
#politics #oligarchs
https://www.statista.com/statistics/261463/ceo-to-worker-compensation-ratio-of-top-firms-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20it%20was%20estimated,key%20industry%20of%20their%20firm.
Twitter's owner has a fake follower problem.
#Twitter #ElonMusk
https://sparktoro.com/fake-followers/elonmusk
Good piece in the NYT on the appointment by DOJ of a Special Counsel in the Trump matters, why one was appointed, and why it should not significantly delay any potential prosecution of the former president.
#Trump #SpecialCounsel #DOJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/us/politics/special-counsel-meaning-trump.html
What could possibly be worse than the current crop of GOP grifters, insurrectionists and nutters elected to Congress?
#politics
Artem Zinchenko, a GRU Russian spy captured by Estonia, in 2017, and traded to Russia in exchange for an Estonian citizen in Russian custody, has defected back to Estonia.
Zinchenko has relatives fighting on the frontlines on behalf of Kyiv against the very masters he once served.
It's like something out of a Robert Ludlum novel.
#Russia #Estonia #Ukraine #Zinchenko
GOP operative Jesse Benton found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump. He had previously been pardoned by Trump for a different campaign finance crime.
#politics #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/17/benton-trump-russian-vasilenko-guilty/
MTG setting priorities for the incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives -- investigating Nancy Pelosi and DOJ over treatment of 1/6 defendants.
#politics #MTG
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/us/politics/republicans-house-majority-mccarthy.html
Almost Twice as Many Republicans Died From COVID Before the Midterms Than Democrats
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vjx8/almost-twice-as-many-republicans-died-from-covid-before-the-midterms-than-democrats
Meanwhile, in NH Libertarian Party World:
#Politics #Uyghurs #LibertarianParty #Twitter
#Twitter manager on Slack discussing rehiring engineers. You'd have to be pretty desperate to go back to work for these guys. The level of callous arrogance is off the chart.
Scott Adams says "I'm out" on backing #Trump. When he's lost the Dilbert guy you know he's got problems.
Crypto Confidence Soars After CEO Defrauds Customers Just Like Real Bank
#crypto #TheOnion
https://www.theonion.com/crypto-confidence-soars-after-ceo-defrauds-customers-ju-1849773647
Some really big names getting verified over at Elon's place.
#Twitter
Multiple #Twitter employees, including chief information security officer, Lea Kissner, and chief privacy officer, Damien Kieran have reportedly resigned "over fears about the company's legal exposure before the Federal Trade Commission."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/10/tech/twitter-executives-resign/index.html
🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇱Duck Dodgers
My social media interests include humor, current affairs, politics (we live in interesting times), history, art, cinema, and technology.
Joined Apr 2022