Oh look, Elon Musk is trying standup comedy

It’s a scary time for Asia Twitter - users aren’t just worried about the power Elon Musk could give trolls, they’re worried about the power he could give their governments From China to Thailand, dissidents fear Musk’s Twitter reign | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1…

Holy shit

So that’s Twitter Ireland and India nearly gone

Twitter has slept on a massive business model - the General Electric approach - since at least 2008 GE sold electricity, but quickly realized they could sell a lot more electricity if there were a lot more appliances electricity:data :: appliances: apps reliant on Twitter data

This should have implications across all levels but it won’t. At state levels, this means Republican Governors should have Democratic state congress while Democratic Governors should have Republican state congress and so on down the line. See is anything gets done that way.

WTF?

More news from Twitter today: Elon Musk and David Sacks have both discussed putting all of Twitter behind a paywall eventually, Platformer has learned platformer.news/p/musk-discuss…

as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days

Why is Twitter not showing me all the pizza from Overheard in the Newsroom? I gotta go to the account to see them.

Naomi Nix There's no such thing as a "nice" layoff but worth noting Zuck addressed his staff directly, took responsibility, offered 16+ weeks' severance, immigration help, & a chance to speak w/ someone directly. Twitter's layoff memo was unsigned and offered close to the legal minimum.

Congress will soon welcome its first Gen Z lawmaker: Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a 25-year-old community organizer elected to Florida’s 10th Congressional District. #Election2022 vox.com/policy-and-pol…

An inscription on the side of an ancient ivory comb that contains advice for combatting head lice is the oldest readable sentence written using the alphabet newscientist.com/article/234622…

Twitter’s new Official verified tag looks horrible

Apple is sending “Hey” from Siri to GitHub Tip @techmeme

According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night. An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”