Apple's resistance to USB-C has always been about money, not its customers' convenience. Money as in paying absurdly high fees for proprietary technology -- including the Lightning tax it charges to third-party sellers.
USB-C is a win for customers. Period. (It will also make the iPhone even more popular.)
nostr:npub1eg0f4m4g30e3d8f9j5q4nyxjn0ly3yljrg50g2k8w7srd2jagx9qfjcnr6 That's absurd on its face. If journalists move elsewhere, people who follow the news will move with them.
If every sector that has a Twitter presence left the place, and helped current followers migrate with them, the only people staying at the deadbird site would be the ones who want to be part of the extremists' club.
nostr:npub1g57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52sgky839 It's a good idea. The risk is becoming a one-off with insufficient followup.
While I believe the fediverse is the best way forward for social media, and hope Twitter emigrants will choose a truly decentralized future, the immediate goal should be to make the deadbird site irrelevant for everyone who wants a refuge from the rancid extremism that Musk is promoting there.
Let's welcome the people who come here -- and help them make the move.
Here's a compendium of Elon Musk's gross exaggerations, broken promises and outright lies.
Crappy production values, but since journalists have consistently declined to pull it together, you won't find a better way way to view the depth and breadth of his pervasive deceit.
nostr:npub1lrvmc88ck63qpt734w85t5pnxchncvam0p9k9mueuezqz0grkn6s8jtth9 When was the last time calling somebody "liar", even when factual, was an effective political strategy?
To me, Ramaswamy is more offensive as being a cheap little fuzznuts knockoff of Trump. It's so cringe when you see kids trying to mimic "adult" behavior.
nostr:npub14pn3lgyypdp3dykxydl83wv9ray72sfajygggudpgy8mmdhc629qlarag6 Using accurate language, not cute workarounds, is effective journalistic strategy.
Our best-pal south Asian ally, India's increasingly dictatorial government, is killing the free press. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66155796
The NY Times headline writers are apparently prohibited from calling extremist liars what they are.
nostr:npub1nu968lpe4mqdkjzurvz00e70yfdyqypay2q2xrr2ae9h4eljxcjqykl6r5 It doesn't take much brainpower to get journalists to fall into line, anyway.
Really not looking forward to next week's publication of a major hagiography -- sorry, I meant biography -- of Elon Musk.
nostr:npub1uce098umwhdd5ghr3aalrtv75jza7kxu5r2cqpmr2deaxs5g8x3qlus8xn In this (rare) case, the Times beat AP to the punch on this story with a much deeper piece several weeks ago.
nostr:npub1pj99uphr55trehexp936wxz7gde3jt9npxwdhcdvavk0858e95vqznu8px Here's your logic:
Biden -- far and away more progressive than the left expected -- hasn't done everything the left wanted.
The left's response should therefore be to put Trump back in the White House to punish the Democrats?
Arizona State Cronkite School is looking for a spring term Visiting Professor of Visual Journalism: https://apply.interfolio.com/130802
(Note: The spring term is the best-weather time of the year (January-April) in Phoenix.
nostr:npub1pj99uphr55trehexp936wxz7gde3jt9npxwdhcdvavk0858e95vqznu8px Do you prefer Trump to Biden, yes or no? Supporting a third-party candidate is a yes.
BTW what are the answers, as you see them, to your questions?
nostr:npub1pj99uphr55trehexp936wxz7gde3jt9npxwdhcdvavk0858e95vqznu8px You may not like the choices, but at least acknowledge the consequences of putting Trump back in the White House.
I believe Politico understands perfectly well that "No Labels" is a spoiler operation designed to put Trump back in the White House. But like other willfully blind journalism organizations, it treats the group as "centrist" with honest motivations.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/trump-donor-no-labels-adviser-00113395
It's likely that some supporters do honestly believe they're helping to improve politics. But they are the Jill Stein voters of 2024 and should be called out as such.
nostr:npub1uuv6l4yjuldd48c44nundasjz4jd6w5psmeqqt4j5nprpeyls2aquqzpxv I finally got them to send an RSA 2Fa dongle, which is better than nothing but an extra thing to carry around.