Morgan Schweers

Coder, husband to Melissa, dad to Corwin & Richard. I am large I contain multitudes. He/him/his. Now on Mastodon @[email protected] and @[email protected]

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

Welp. That’s about it then folks.

I wish you all well. Find me on Mastadon: @cypherfox @mas.to or @cypherfox @counter.social

Any Mastadon link is blocked by Twitter which…tells you all you need to know about how bad it’s gotten. Remove spaces:

https://mas. to/@cypherfox

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@rebexxxxa I’m sorry; an otherwise context-free tweet, “Emu girl is a milkshake duck.” is the most terminally online thing I may have ever read.

The layers of context you need to peel back, or just…KNOW…make it a perfect parfait of perpetual internet addiction.

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@Popehat @elaina_mei38 Apophasis for the win! 🤣

Congrats, though!

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@terrencetalbot Weird place to reach out to you, but is there any chance you still have the rights to The Hit List and would be willing to share the source and build process? It would be 100% personal use; the bugs are making it impossible to use on modern macOS and I miss it. :(

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

"the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness"

Democracy works when practiced thoughtfully.

Demagogues rile up the madness of crowds… The first task of would-be politicians is to resist demagoguery.

It’s better to lose to a thoughtful crowd than win a mad one.

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@NeolithicSheep In ‘90 through ‘92 there were a half-dozen furry homes in Silicon Valley that encouraged folks to come out, crash on the floor, or in spare (or not!) bedrooms & taught furs tech skills. Sysadmin mainly, but QA and coding, network management & more. It was friends helping friends.

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@BoozyBadger @questauthority Nah, it’s coming up on STFUF, and I don’t have time to confess it all before then, so… 🤷🤣🫡

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

🫡💙

https://t.co/fEboLlPjb2 aka @[email protected]

I prefer https://t.co/T1EtKIM06n but it’s not part of the federation.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

I'm sorry but if you are unreliable, I do NOT think you should be a narrator. Conveying trustworthy information is LITERALLY your job. If you are tragically lacking in self-knowledge or blinded by your own unwitting biases, maybe you are not the right person to tell the story

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

inspired by real events please enjoy this one page RPG called "I do not want a mastodon" in which you are given a mastodon you do not want by well meaning people who do not understand that you do not want a mastodon

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@Popehat …and as part of the terms of service, she has to take her earbuds off and hear him out.

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@RMFifthCircuit This is going to be taught in business schools as an example of how awfully a takeover can go, when the new owner fundamentally doesn’t understand the business.

Also, how badly poorly thought-out hastily implemented features can go.

Just…very educational lessons all around. 🤣

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@RMFifthCircuit Hey now! Just @ me next time! 🤣

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

My kids found an old eBay ViewMaster from eBay’s annual report one year. The elder kid called it ‘VR for old people’ and the other called it ‘like power point’, where you press the lever to switch slides.

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

I created @ cypherfox on https://t.co/MsXs5PGkme as a backup. Not leaving yet, but this place & it’s new management isn’t doing so well.

#CounterSocial (CoSo) has problems but I appreciate the focus on fighting disinformation & trolling, and none of the other options impress me.

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@questauthority I follow you on https://t.co/pXmrnpVQiK. So far I’m liking it more; not a big user base yet though.

[Pimp Master Broda @PimpMasterYoda1]

BREAKING: Elon Musk called for a meeting with Twitter workers and displayed a document with a list of rules to protect free speech on the platform. This document was quickly leaked online showing the 34 rules.

To see this leaked document look up "Elon Musk Rule 34" on Google.

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

I don’t… I can’t even…

“So this is how liberty dies…with thunderous applause.”

There is no context in this speech, even beyond this snippet, that makes this any better, at least according to the news sources I’ve been able to search. This is a horrifying naked power grab. 😔

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Tim Michels: "Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I'm elected governor."

He’s saying the quiet part out loud.

[Morgan Schweers @cyberfox]

@cal_gif @GuyFieri This disturbs me in ways I can’t properly elucidate… 🤣😮🤣

Cc: @GuyFieri