Widower Disabled Retired Army Veteran. Former HUMINT Collector. Fan of Cats, History, Geopolitics, Science, Outdoors, Learning & Understanding things in general
Maybe I'll only post reasons to not use this site now... 600 tweet/day read limits? Fuck that!
Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets https://t.co/jMuLnhYegM via @Verge
I think this is it for me & Twitter. One of the reasons I chose Twitter over other *cough*Facebook*cough* social media sites was no acct req'd
Twitter now requires an account to view tweets | TechCrunch https://t.co/mq6g591Wqc
I'm not generally for more conglomeration, but EA is way worse than MS/xBox, so I've been neutral to slightly positive on this one... (I also really can't stand Sony...)
The Microsoft-Activision Case, The FTC Was Defending Sony, Not Consumers
https://t.co/JWkwTfagyK
God bless Gen. Zaluzhny & give him patience & wisdom (esp. dealing w/his 'partners')
Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny, wants shells, planes and patience https://t.co/F8iTJUSe3b
“If you think Republicans are still members of the law-and-order party, you haven’t been paying close attention lately,” writes @fstonenyc. Here is a guide to the party’s new positions on law and order. https://t.co/sWoVyZavEh
“More than 4 million hectares (about 10 million acres) of forests vanished from the tropics in 2022 in places like Brazil and Central Africa, according to the analysis. That’s a Switzerland-size area of forest gone, WRI said.” https://t.co/hNnCXtU42S
Rampant removal of groundwater for drinking and irrigation has altered the distribution of water on Earth enough to shift the planet’s tilt, according to a new study.
The finding underscores the dramatic impact that human activity can have on the planet. https://t.co/OO0ipVZhPw
“The Prigozhin putsch will reverberate for some time to come; it has already shattered illusions about Putin’s grip and even his physical courage. But it should also shatter the illusion that the West can forge a kind of Goldilocks solution to this war.” https://t.co/cUVf2yjTgc
Donald Trump’s team tried to use independent state legislature theory to discard the 2020 election results. Now the Supreme Court has declined to endorse it.
https://t.co/Yyu1qiIrdb
The Supreme Court has rejected the “independent state legislature" theory in a ruling this morning. Last October, @judgeluttig argued that there is no support in the Constitution for this theory—and that implementing it would be disastrous. https://t.co/xCuCokVvSo
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules against giving state legislatures unchecked control over federal elections, ruling against Republicans in North Carolina fighting for a congressional district map that would heavily favor their candidates. https://t.co/bs2k3ypcZd
Germany will deploy 4,000 soldiers permanently to Lithuania in a bid to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank, but only after the Lithuanian government has built the necessary infrastructure to support them, the German defense minister said on Monday.
https://t.co/x4M8mizlZU