John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter.

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@jkn
Not taking responsibility is probably key here.
@ianto_jones @hpod16

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@kauer
Geoblocking is indeed not cool.
By the way, where is Oz? I presume it is a real place, not a place of wizardry?
@hpod16

[billclawson@sfba.social]

@hpod16 or was the video a lesson in how to get rich by betraying your principles? Saw most of it. Fascinating that people would by the bullshit so easily.

[brad_rosenheim@climatejustice.social]

@hpod16
I have long thought that Huxley's Soma from A Brave New World, in our world, would be the dopamine addiction to social media. I guess in some ways it is more useful than a simple chemical high because someone like Musk can dial it up situationally.

[benjaminklein@mastodon.nu]

@hpod16 having watched the piece I think his advice is actually we need to do something about this, leaving is not enough. Propaganda hurts you and your society even if you don't read it. X is the factory polluting the water supply, it's not enough to boycott it's products, they need to pay damages and fix it.

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@kauer
Ah, check.
@hpod16

[drain@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 wow, welcome to 3 years ago.

[zbrando@social.vivaldi.net]

@hpod16 I've been on Twitter almost since the beginning and when Musk took over and showed his real face I pulled the plug. No amount of nostalgia and network effect can justify being there IMO. I still use Meta for work related posts but for personal things I'm only here. And maybe one day I will delete even this account and will have a normal life: we can have social media but we don't need it.

[leffe@social.linux.pizza]

@hpod16

Please use content warning for this kind of post. Parts of the video contains pictures of a very disturbed individual. It can cause nightmares.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@leffe that’s fair! I’m sorry you had to see this man on your feed