His fans say Elon is playing 5D chess. I think he's playing 1D dominoes against himself and losing.
By Phil Rees
His fans say Elon is playing 5D chess. I think he's playing 1D dominoes against himself and losing.
It's not even New Year yet and I'm already thinking of doing things with a purpose. Now all I have to do is come up with a purpose.
My aim with Mastodon is to turn off the Home column. I follow a lot of people with a lot of interests. To listen to them all at once is deafening. I'm going to add them to lists instead and pay attention with more focus to lists and hashtags.
Really liking the WriteFreely interface. I have it on a link on my favourites bar. One click and I'm in and writing. Nothing to configure. Not messing about with metadata and SEO. Nothing getting in the way of my popping in a few notes. Just straight into typing. No distraction. Nice.
Think I've found a decent Minetest workflow for the tiny games I want to build.
I took a peek at Twitter. Elon was waiving a pirate flag while his QTs were mobbed by K-Pop stars and RIPTwitter was trending.
Closed tab.
The thing I've noticed about Mastodon is that without an algorithm I'm seeing more of myself. I'm not distracted by news and trends. I'm just rediscovering my own interests and getting more time to follow them.
Nice transition between block based programming like Scratch and actual code. You build web pages and programs by dragging and dropping blocks but still get to see the code that you're writing and the results it produces.
In 2018 Elon Musk tweeted:
And today:
Elon's vision has remained consistent. He wants to destroy journalism and replace it with citizen apophenia, encouraging his followers to do their own research and find patterns that simply aren't there.
Twitter's official Twitter account, @twitter, hasn't posted since the 13th of October. It's remained silent through the whole of the upheaval. It's terse profile text poses the question:
The answer is simple.
Pravda.
“There is only one thing in life worse than being tweeted about, and that is not being tooted about.” – Fake Oscar Wilde