The goal was to attract Twitter refugees. No ads helps sell the “greener pastures” the users were looking for.

Once those users are comfortable, Threads can do whatever it wants. They know how much it took to get Twitter users to leave Twitter.

People acting like Meta launched Threads out of the kindness of Zuck’s heart are dumb as fuck. Threads has the same goal as Facebook: to make money selling your eyeballs to advertisers and your metadata to data brokers.

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If you don’t like weird billionaires running the show and pushing political misinformation, don’t use Facebook.

Threads was awash in bullshit “hacked at the tabulation level” election conspiracy theories following the election. It may not be MAGA, but it’s still making people stupid.

Meta even has Project 2025 people on staff helping run Threads: https://www.intomore.com/the-internet/why-did-meta-just-hire-this-ron-desantis-approved-project-2025-alum/

Stop using social media run by billionaires of you’re tired of getting fucked over by the ruling class.

The frustrating part of all of this is that it is true that puberty blockers aren’t approved by the FDA for delaying puberty for gender affirming treatments, but it is used anyway as an off-label use. Criticism of off-label uses of pharmaceuticals is a perfectly valid concern to have.

But if you actually had this concern in good faith, you would be putting pressure on the FDA to investigate this use of puberty blockers directly and make a call or whether or not this is an approved use. You would be demanding that the FDA fill in the gaps in their knowledge, and only allow this use of puberty blockers if there was no harm found.

Going straight to the legislature and banning it outright is underhanded as shit. The only reason to do that is because you know that the FDA has no reason to disapprove of this use, and you want to medically oppress trans people regardless of what the science actually says.

It’s transphobic bullshit, and anyone telling you that their concern is the safety and welfare of children is lying to you, because if that were true they would act like it.

considering he can just lock anybody who opposes him up

He cannot. He says he can and will, but he has absolutely no legal authority to order people’s arrest or imprisonment.

“Relationship ended with Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg is my best friend now.”

This is a picture of Tehran’s upper class youth from the 70’s, and it is often posted as if it were everyday life in Iran.

Spoiler: The rich in Iran can still do whatever they want.

First Windows install/run:

1. Protracted install with DRM.
2. Download NIC drivers on another PC and put them in a flash drive.
3. Install NIC drivers on the new PC.
4. Install most other drivers with Windows Update.
5. Hunt down other missing drivers from manufacturer websites, some don’t have installers and need to be installed via device manager.
6. Change Windows settings so that the OS isn’t constantly nagging you with ads for Microsoft products and services.
7. Download software you use individually from different websites and install them one at a time, each with their own unique installer. Force the OS to respect your defaults as best you can.
8. Never fully have control over your own computer, because Daddy Microsoft says so.

First Linux install/run:

1. Express install.
2. Hardware just works.
3. Run updater.
4. Install software quickly from store(s) - with a script if you want to.
5. The computer is yours.

“Look, I don’t know what an engine is, or a transmission for that matter, but it’s the manufacturer’s fault I don’t know how to drive this car”

Immunizing Trump as an individual from prosecution related to acts performed as President, while deeply problematic, will not prevent legal challengs his EO’s. Striking down a president’s EO is completely different than convicting a president with a crime.

This is extremely funny given that he just resigned from Congress effective immediately.

Mad TV did it better: https://youtu.be/UjAZnGeBcgg?si=LYu39QT2rsDGWXMB

The bridge is necessary because BlueSky and Mastodon cannot federate, and they never will be able to. ActivityPub and ATProto are different protocols.

Yeah, they need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps. If they wanted to retire, they should have saved enough dollars to afford dignity in old age.

Trump is literally filling his cabinet with people he things will “trigger the libs”. It’s honestly quite beautiful watching him set himself of for complete and utter failure. This was always the state of right-wing politics, now the brainrot has full control over the Government.

Like last time, I think the only campaign promise he’ll be able to keep will be cutting taxes for the rich. Outside of that, this admin is going to be a complete chaotic disaster.

This is absolutely the wrong person for the job (if you’re Trump). This is basically good news.

Gaetz has literally no demonstrable experience as an attorney that would help him in this role. He got his license to practice law in 2008 and has periodically worked at Keefe Anchors & Gordon where he only practiced real estate, employment, property insurance, and contract law and later lost his law license because he forgot to pay his dues (while in office, where having that kind of credential could be valuable). KAG (now AnchorsGordon) appears to mostly have employed him as a political tool, not as a legitimate attorney that represented their clients directly. There are few if any legal documents with his name on them, so he very likely did very little actual legal work during his employment there.

Since then over 400 alumni of his Alma Mater have described him as “unfit to write or determine the law”.

This is a position you want a competent and experienced attorney serving your administration. Gaetz may be a yes-man for Trump, but this is a massive strategic mistake for him and his goals. Trump’s proposals so far are absolutely guaranteed to be challenged by the courts if he moves on them, and Gaetz is going to be literally the worst possible representative you could choose to try to defend your admin in that scenario.

Literally zero chance that Musk ever federates X. He went through so much trouble just to ruin the API, you think he’s gonna implement ActivityPub?

We live in hell