Facebook has 3 billion users. X has 540 million, according to Musk last month. I don't think X gets to claim the title of "the effective global address book".

Utterly shameful, disgusting, and despicable. I am ashamed by my leaders.

Stunning

The web was a very different place 20 years ago youtu.be/NL6CDFn2i3I?si…

In einem Rechtsstaat dürfen nicht alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger unter Generalverdacht gestellt werden. Die jetzigen Entscheidungen des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts sind für uns ein klarer Auftrag, die Vorratsdatenspeicherung nun zügig aus dem Gesetz zu streichen. BM Marco Buschmann:

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has withdrawn his personal assurance that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not be arrested if he attends next year’s G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro ⤵️ aje.io/hpufl5

Any mutuals want Bluesky invites? I have four. First four to DM me get them.

Apple’s AI-voidance is very Apple—and probably the right strategy fortune.com/2023/09/13/app…

Can’t believe I missed the first anniversary of the greatest moment of the royal funeral malarkey - BBC subtitle writers getting confused by Mark Drakeford reading from the Bible in Welsh

Very excited about X's incoming paywall because it will trigger my definitive break with the platform. See you on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/davidm… and Mastodon mastodon.social/@superglaze

Got a couple more Bluesky invites to share if you want them - it really seems to be taking off as X declines

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Even for Cape Town, this is Weather

meanwhile I'm retiring a perfectly good phone this week because google is no longer updating a pixel launched in late 2020. I'm pissed off man 404media.co/big-tech-lobby…

Humans win the first big AI labor dispute fortune.com/2023/09/27/wri…

White House privacy advisors just dropped a new surveillance report. Its contents should alarm Big Tech—and Americans in general fortune.com/2023/09/28/pcl…

OK, that’s enough. I will leave my Twitter account dormant rather than closing it, in the hope that new management comes around someday, but I’m out for now - find me on Bluesky and Mastodon: bsky.app/profile/superg… mastodon.social/@superglaze theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…