Aaron Parecki

TBH ChatGPT is now part of my kids' bedtime ritual. They take turns coming up with prompts and ChatGPT will hallucinate a story, which daddy reads aloud dramatically. Maybe it's not a sophisticated tale but it's a pretty fantastic and personal experience.

I think this answers my larger question about whether social media is a platform for free expression, or whether it's a media publication. No one would bat an eye if NYT denied Elon Musk editorial privileges at their newspaper. So Twitter is Musk's newspaper now

I don’t know what happened here but if @elonmusk doesn’t fix this within the hour with an explanation by morning, I’ll be on Capitol Hill tomorrow demanding that he be hauled in front of Congress.

It is now apparently impossible to post a link to Mastodon dot social for unclear reasons except … no doubt … freedom of speech absolutism. You get this message.

Progress!

Check out Portland's bikeway network evolve from pre-1980 to 2022.

Thanks to Roger Geller at @PBOTinfo for these graphics (and for making so many of these projects happen!).

Very appropriate that this was my last post

Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.

Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.

The last two stories @drewharwell wrote before Twitter suddenly suspended him.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/drew-harwell/

Elon Musk, whom I have blocked, is now liking my tweets.

I’m sure that bodes well.

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means

all of these suspensions just occurred only within the last hour. Elon is currently rapidly purging all of his biggest critics and competition from this platform

Free speech absolutist Elon Musk is now suspending journalists on Twitter who he doesn’t think are covering him appropriately. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/15/thursday-night-purge-elon-musks-twitter-bans-tons-of-high-profile-journalists/

Musk banning journalists for reporting on his banning of the account that published public information about his jet is reason #666 to get the fuck off this platform.

Journalists yesterday: mastodon is confusing and tooting is silly.
Journalists tomorrow: mastodon is fun and I'll tell you why I always believed in it.

Twitter just banned a wave of prominent journalists with no explanation https://tcrn.ch/3BHiHkC

Also this account is super interesting. https://mastodon.social/@Elonjet