I don't give a fuck how Russia is run as long as they stop trying to steal land.

Ah yes that's it. Steal the oil, sell it, and use the proceeds to pay the crew to sabotage Russia and its allies.

We are going to high-road the shit out of them.

As far as I can tell, all real accounts are all hosted on Bluesky's servers. Until that changes, it's centralised, de facto.

Organisations use things like Twitter to broadcast news as push notifications to a large audience of subscribers. This is something that they're going to want to keep doing, and is only one aspect of social media. On its own, I don't see this ability as being damaging. They're basically just using Twitter as a more efficient mailing list. Things only get bad when opaque AIs start ranking shit and publishing to non-subscribers.

ActivityPub does provide a really good way to reproduce this ability. It is a good solution.

Bluesky is just another Twitter, subject to all of the same drawbacks. The only difference between the two of them is four years.

Ай уондер ху бенефитс фром дат? would have been a little awesomer, though, I suppose only readers of cyrillic would appreciate it lol

It's not that the rightful owner doesn't matter. It's that it is hard to quantify on this scale, and it is especially hard to quantify using history.

And yeah, it is in fact more about who I like more. I like the Taiwanese government because the Taiwanese people are in control of it, and I believe in every human's right to choose their own government. I hate the Chinese government for exactly the same reason, along with the fact that they're a bunch of land grabbing imperialist bastards.

K, I don't use all caps a lot, but I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR.

I will not be a slave to history. My defense of Taiwan is entirely based on the here and now.

K I need to qualify that statement somewhat. History is useful for explaining why the world is the way it is today, and serves as a guide into the future, but it is useless as some kind of long term score sheet.

I'm having trouble finding the original op-ed. Could somebody provide a link?

Sir Richard also said British spies were taking “covert action” against Russia to defeat Vladimir Putin and likened intelligence activity today in Ukraine to the “secret war” fought in the Second World War against Nazi Germany.

Well, if anybody can secret-agent their way out of this one, it's the British lol

This was why I was so furious about Elon Mask's blue checkmark debacle. He had a chance to prove that a gigantic part of the internet was a) human and b) non-duplicate. I was really shocked by how badly an apparently smart person fucked it up. Not so smart, it turns out.

As an ex Elon fanboy let me literally honestly try the best I can here...

The best I can come up with is, "Hi. Elon here. Revoking UAW's blue check was just a joke. Get it? Humour! I can humourise with the best of them. Ha. Ha. Ha."