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The notion that every street in a city grid must be open to cars is just absurd to me. Its such an extreme position to take that no less than 100% of roads be allowed for cars. What we really need are pedestrian only corridors where one can travel on foot and not be constantly dodging traffic. Theme parks manage this and their entire business is to extract revenue from a captured audience. If it was bad for business we wouldn’t have spaces predicated on this model. #Urbanism
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Elon Musk has been directing subordinates to comb through Twitter's Slack and make lists of people making fun of him or his plans for firing. They've also been monitoring employee's tweets. Latest w/ @kateconger and @MikeIsaac)
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Another question regarding the Fediverse: "Would politicians, press, higher learning, celebrities actually ever be bothered to self-host an instance and pay someone to maintain it?"
Again, Automattic answers that question.
What do all those institutions use for their websites? Self-hosted WordPress sites.
Who runs it? Someone they pay.
Self-hosting and maintenance can not only be normalized -- people would probably be happy to do it.
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#GroupM (the largest twitter ad spender) telling clients that ads on #twitter are high risk now, that rounds out the 3 largest #ad agencies telling their clients not to spend on Twitter.
#elon #birdsite #fail
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Here’s your homework for the day, in order of priority:
🤳Turn on multifactor authentication now. Use an app.
📴Disconnect 3rd party apps
📚Download your archive
🗃Share contact info with key connections
💡Create alternate channels for comms:
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If you’re interested in the lunacy at Twitter, then @platformer is the only place to go. Today’s newsletter documents how Musk ignores his own staff, shaming and firing them in public, has frozen all deployment and how advertisers won’t reengage until he reverses his changes.
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NEW: Days before the launch of paid verification, Twitter’s trust & safety team sent Elon Musk a 7-page list of risks and recommendations on how the feature could be abused. But Musk refused to adopt any change that would delay the launch. We got the docs: https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-only-trusts-elon
