Surprised to see few grappling with this reality. Twitter is like state affiliated social media now. What real barriers can remain between anyone's twitter data and a hostile state regime that's promised to abuse it's power to target it's opposition? It's actually horrifying.
And to the extent that Elon believes Twitter was useful in attaining his current position, it doesn't really matter if it's profitable on the balance sheets or not - it's a loss leader.
Honestly, I'd get the F off twitter, because it's now in control of a state actor.
Any barriers, legal or otherwise, that existed between twitter and the state should be assumed gone once the new administration transitions in, especially considering it's an administration that has promised to abuse state power to target it's opposition.
Here's my little folk "wisdom" addendum to your great point:
* Try to replace any judginess you feel, with curiosity
(Easier said than done - but a little humility is a great first step towards getting to that curious state of mind)
Curiosity places understanding something ahead of justifying something. It makes self-interrogation easier and less threatening to the ego. It makes engaging with those who hold differing beliefs more about understanding/exploring, and less like doing battle.
That's my theory anyways, but it could be my bias talking.
Some basic economics 101 reading can set you straight here.
It's a legitimate function of government to craft regulation when there are negative externalities distorting markets.
Sometimes government regulation makes markets more free. Crazy, I know, but please let it sink in.
If it helps: you can think of producers that rely on negative externalities as freeloading evil socialists who redistribute other people's wealth (without consent) to themselves.
> Those who have banked a lot on talking up globalization for the past 20-30 years will get there too. It will just be a slow process of very gradually tweaking their position a little bit every year at the maximum speed they can get away with while making it look like it's just little tweaks and they were never at any point actually wrong.
Is there a list of specific people here, who have aggrieved you so? Who are you even talking about?
Perl was everywhere (on Linux/Unix). Then Python came along an offered enough net benefit over Perl that it really started to displace it, and became the defacto scripting language that you would reach for when creating programs on Linux/Unix.
Ruby has some niceties over python, but doesn't provide enough of a net benefit over it for that same kind of displacement to happen.
One possible reaction to a moral panic is another moral panic and that's exactly where I think we are here.
Cancel-culture panic is a largely anecdote and feelings-driven. There's no real data to show that firings or social consequences for speech are more numerous or more severe or more unjust (or even more "left-wing") today than they have been at any point in the past.
And in many of these anecdotes that seem to drive the discourse, nothing of note actually happens to the person who was "cancelled" - they are the subject of an investigation or social media dust-up for a news cycle. Then life carries on.
It's a media-driven moral panic, more or less. There's a whole cottage industry of media orgs and personalities making lucrative livings by selling cancel-culture moral-panic content to audiences who are addicted to it (e.g. Bari Weiss, Brett Weinstein, etc).
Not that there aren't legitimate free speech issues that we still wrestle with and don't get right or real injustices out there, but it's mostly a bugaboo.
Yea, generally when people feed animals it is harmful to the animal or potentially dangerous for humans in a variety of ways or you turn the animals into pests.
Is there something special about crows where these things aren't so much a factor?
The Witcher 3 story was one of the best game stories out there IMHO, but it gets off to a slow start. That slow start can be VERY slow, if you are doing lots of the side quests to start with.
If you haven't gotten through the 1st act, I'd recommend giving it another try. (After each major act, there's usually a narrated story board scene, where you see how some of the choices you made effect the outcome, for good or bad.)
I'd also recommend ignoring the side quests initially and just progress along the main quest-line. It will move you into the meatier part of the story pretty quickly that way.
(Once the story hooked me, then I wanted to spend more time in the world doing the side quests.)
This is a rational reaction. It's also a great example of the chilling effect on speech, that cancelling can have.
And when the chilling effect is strong enough, it atomizes and isolates individuals, makes them feel powerless, and creates a false sense of consensus around a particular issue.
Domination and coercion over genuine persuasion -- that's the point.
Forget grayscale, E-ink is going color. Early color devices are on the market already. And there are displays in the works that are fast enough to render video.
I'm really looking forward to the future of e-ink displays.
One would hope not, but it makes connecting to less trusted networks much more risky than it needs to be. And I'm sure that's something users will regularly do.
Software updates are infrequent and they certainly aren't pushing out standalone security errata that I've seen.
And to the extent that Elon believes Twitter was useful in attaining his current position, it doesn't really matter if it's profitable on the balance sheets or not - it's a loss leader.