twitter Twitter now allows "non-toxic slurs" as long as the slurs are not hate speech Thom Dunn

twitter dumpster fire This Chrome extension makes it easy to see who paid for a Twitter blue check Mark Frauenfelder

elon musk Twitter's $8 verification system releases a gusher of brand-damaging impersonators Mark Frauenfelder

politics Kremlin Krazy: Marjorie Taylor Greene tweet is straight from Putin's propaganda playbook Mark Frauenfelder

Technology "Scathing" reviews of AI Pin that's supposed to replace your cellphone Rob Beschizza

twitter Musk told Twitter investors who gave him $13 billion that they wouldn't lose money, say sources Mark Frauenfelder

books Crappy AI knockoff books are already topping the publishing charts Thom Dunn

animation MeatCanyon takes on Mr. Beast's "blindness controversy" in a new video Devin Nealy

twitter Twitter's ad manager volume activity fell 85% in November Mark Frauenfelder

supreme court Literally dumpster fire in Washington, DC Thom Dunn

twitter A requiem for @horse_ebooks Thom Dunn

lincoln project The Lincoln Project turns Trump's disastrous Fox interview into a Seinfeld parody Mark Frauenfelder

elections US election security: still a dumpster fire Cory Doctorow

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security Donald Trump's mail-servers are running Windows 2003 Cory Doctorow

security The democratization of censorship: when anyone can kill as site as effectively as a government can Cory Doctorow

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