Chris Pepper, https://tilde.zone/@reppep

Editing the Internet, one page at a time.

[UC Merced @ucmerced]

UC Merced’s Brandi McKuin found that covering California's water canals with solar panels could save as much as about 63 billion gallons of water a year. @TurlockID is now piloting a first-in-the-nation project to test the idea. https://t.co/XhZ09aVICT via @UofCalifornia

[Chris Pepper, https://tilde.zone/@reppep @reppep]

Straw, camel, back. Quitting all my Twitter clients. Appreciating wooly mammoths now!

[Winter @deenafaywinter]

When Amara Strande was just 16, a 15-pound tumor was found embedded in her liver. Nearly the size of a volleyball. She was one of many students at Tartan High School in Oakdale who got cancer. Students joked about the water fountains, saying, “Don’t drink the 3M cancer water.” 🧵

[John Gruber @gruber]

Accounts suspended today, apparently for criticizing Elon Musk or Twitter or who knows why:

@joinmastodon
@KeithOlbermann
@RMac18: NY Times reporter on Twitter beat
@drewharwell: WaPo reporter on Twitter beat
@atrupar: Indie journalist
@donie: Elon’s jet-tracker

Free speech!

[JDLand @JDLand]

Perhaps a good night for mass RTing of this.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Reporters who cover Twitter at the NYT, CNN and WaPo, along with a few others, have seen their accounts on Twitter suspended tonight. Appears to be either a purge of tech journos who report on Musk, or a gambit by Musk to create buzz. or both

[Kontra @counternotions]

Wooden credit card, cup made from used coffee grounds…looking for "sustainability" in all the wrong places. This dilettantism of designer induced myopia will kill us all.

↓

[Mike Silverman @msilverman]

The same reason the German government wanted a list of all the Jews in Germany in the 1930s. You don’t need to be an elite detective to solve this mystery.

[Raph Koster @raphkoster]

@jack Way too many people think that mute and block are adequate. They are nowhere near enough. Trivial example where mute and block don't work: slander.

A life can be utterly ruined by allegations flying and plugging your ears and going lalala doesn't stop it from happening.

5/

[Raph Koster @raphkoster]

Re @jack 's post here: https://t.co/CFZS10zpbg

As someone who has run online communities for nearly 30 years, principle 2 just doesn't work. Period.

Further, the reason why is evident in the real world.

/1

[Jesse Lehrich @JesseLehrich]

#TSLA is now down 60% – $700 billion – since the day Elmo began his Twitter takeover.

[Casey Newton @CaseyNewton]

NEW: Twitter has a plan to force you to opt in to personalized ads to continue using this app. @ZoeSchiffer and me in @platformer:

https://t.co/RcAzH9loFe

[Icona @iconawrites]

I want a Hallmark movie about a woman who dumps her bigoted small-town boyfriend, moves to a big city, lands a dream job and discovers the magic of Christmas by living in community with people of different creeds and cultures.

[Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18]

Elon Musk's Twitter is:

-No longer paying rent at any of its offices
-Reconsidering whether to pay employees severance
-Not working with lawyer Alex Spiro
-Getting legal help from SpaceX

Latest w/ @MikeIsaac, @kateconger, @nytmike

https://t.co/KVisOKN2Nv

[Cabel Sasser @cabel]

absolutely not surprised that dumbillionaire will freak out about the idea of twitter having proper moderation tools (TWITTER FILES!!1) but then, two seconds later, will happily use those same tools when he needs them

(@elonjet uses public data to track his personal jet)

[Morten Øverbye  @morten]

Elon Musk tweeted he would vote for a Republican Congress, he wants Trump back on Twitter, and supports DeSantis. He derides liberals and journalists, cuddles alt-right trolls and conspiracy theories. Where he stands politically remains unclear to The New York Times.