I’m a bit surprised by how little wailing and gnashing of teeth I’ve seen as a result of the change of ownership at Twitter. Several accounts that made noise about leaving the platform if Musk closed the deal are still there. (No, I won’t link to them.)
Musk has fired key executives from the old regime and has locked Twitter developers out of the company’s code base—which is now being reviewed by engineers from Tesla.
The Babylon Bee has been released from the gulag.
It’s now possible to tweet the following without an adverse response from Twitter “Safety”—
Learn to code.
Men can’t get pregnant.
The 2020 election results were suspicious.
I can’t yet say that everything is proceeding as I have foreseen, these changes are exactly in line with what I expected.
Who know? I might even see my personal account (@hogewash) restored. It was suspended because of a false complaint of targeted harassment from Brett Kimberlin.
Stay tuned.
Popcorn intensifies!
Of course they’re still there. Sure, there have been a bunch of new Mastadon instances on the fediverse that will either be gone or dead in about 2 months, but they’re addicts and Twitter is their crackhouse. They can’t quit without medical intervention.