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Nov. 13th, 2022 04:32 pmWhat a wild week.
I was pretty worried about the midterms, but this seems like quite a good showing for the Dems. Really quite remarkable for any party to hold their own against many US voters' tendency to behave like an inane pendulum as long as there are visible problems in the world (voters who are not likely to take lower inflation or long-term investment as a positive, or to look at the spectacular inflation-fighting results achieved by populist conservatives in places like the UK before deciding to support those who would try the same plan here). Dems held the Senate! Probably still not holding the House, but amazing it's even in question, and it will at least be entertaining to see the Republicans try to hold together a majority that requires the cooperation of the House GOP's most unhinged. (Hunter Biden still might want to clear his schedule. He can ask Fmr. Sec. Clinton for tips.)
Also, the Elon "The Muskrat" Musk era has begun at Twitter with characteristic (of both) hilarity and chaos. As befitting their branding, the business plan seems very... winged. The Verge's Welcom to hell, Elon is a pretty good take on the subject. Also Noah Smith's summary of Twitter's problems. Twitter is a jumper-cable of a site, a weird nexus whose unique popularity and whose extreme facilitation of the social interaction of the pile-on makes it a high-voltage connection between the most mainstream and the most online. (As uniquely epitomized by actual internet troll and actual President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, at least before he got perma-banned from Twitter and at least temp-banned from the Presidency.) Probably Twitter the service will continue to stumble on much as before for a good while. But who knows! Social media sites don't go anywhere until they do, and you definitely can create problems with enough "move fast and break" plus suddenly cutting half your staff. So Musk does seem to be making a go at the tech bankruptcy speedrun. Find me on Mastodon at some point probably.
* Unfortunately, .suite is not actually one of the zillion new vanity TLDs, depriving the world of the perfect Mastondon server name. :-(
I was pretty worried about the midterms, but this seems like quite a good showing for the Dems. Really quite remarkable for any party to hold their own against many US voters' tendency to behave like an inane pendulum as long as there are visible problems in the world (voters who are not likely to take lower inflation or long-term investment as a positive, or to look at the spectacular inflation-fighting results achieved by populist conservatives in places like the UK before deciding to support those who would try the same plan here). Dems held the Senate! Probably still not holding the House, but amazing it's even in question, and it will at least be entertaining to see the Republicans try to hold together a majority that requires the cooperation of the House GOP's most unhinged. (Hunter Biden still might want to clear his schedule. He can ask Fmr. Sec. Clinton for tips.)
Also, the Elon "The Muskrat" Musk era has begun at Twitter with characteristic (of both) hilarity and chaos. As befitting their branding, the business plan seems very... winged. The Verge's Welcom to hell, Elon is a pretty good take on the subject. Also Noah Smith's summary of Twitter's problems. Twitter is a jumper-cable of a site, a weird nexus whose unique popularity and whose extreme facilitation of the social interaction of the pile-on makes it a high-voltage connection between the most mainstream and the most online. (As uniquely epitomized by actual internet troll and actual President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, at least before he got perma-banned from Twitter and at least temp-banned from the Presidency.) Probably Twitter the service will continue to stumble on much as before for a good while. But who knows! Social media sites don't go anywhere until they do, and you definitely can create problems with enough "move fast and break" plus suddenly cutting half your staff. So Musk does seem to be making a go at the tech bankruptcy speedrun. Find me on Mastodon at some point probably.
* Unfortunately, .suite is not actually one of the zillion new vanity TLDs, depriving the world of the perfect Mastondon server name. :-(
