Dan Frakes Instagram Also amazing how quickly these bot replies about “contacting this or that person to get unlocked” are unleashed anytime people mention Instagram accounts being hacked.

Between this, firing people who miss unplanned deadlines, and Musk personally promoting tweets by conspiracy theorists, sounds like Twitter is in good hands. “Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification” theverge.com/2022/10/30/234…

Update: Apparently I was just one of the “early” folks affected by this issue, which is being fixed: nytimes.com/2022/10/31/tec…

Ted Landau Dan Frakes I would prefer $20 a month for no tracking, ad free and a checkmark. That is value to me….

“The country’s election infrastructure isn’t designed to stand up to one of its two major parties turning against it.” propublica.org/article/north-…

just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole website which will happen...the day before a national election.

One of my all-time macOS keyboard shortcuts: Save as PDF. @MacSparky explains how to set it up macsparky.com/blog/2022/11/s…

I have the feeling my map is becoming for the US elections what's the Mariah Carey's song "All I want for Christmas is you" has become for the holiday season...

A+ tweet.

PSA: Some nice discounts on Mac apps this week apps.apple.com/us/story/id165…

Seeing more x-rated stuff in my timeline and searches the past few days than I have in the entire decade before. Feature or bug of the Elon era?

FYI, View on Mac for the full list.

“He’s not only a star on the pitch, he’s a star off it too. Richarlison donated oxygen cylinders to the Amazon city of Manaus when its healthcare system buckled during the pandemic.” theguardian.com/football/2022/…

It just keeps getting “better”… “Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.” transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/cov…

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