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  • What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter?

    Well, he is kinda following a random message he got from an unknown person:

    The three texts were sent on April 4, 2022. In the nearly 18 months since then, many of the decisions Musk made after he bought Twitter appear to have closely followed that road map, up to and including his ongoing attacks against the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit organization founded by Jewish Americans to counter discrimination.

    The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

    Seems he’s killing it to get cheers and adulation from the far right.



  • Unverified reports of ‘40 babies beheaded’ in Israel-Hamas war inflame social media - NBC News

    Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor of Middle East studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar who studies misinformation, told NBC News that he found that the source of the “40 babies beheaded” allegations largely stemmed from a viral Israeli news broadcast clip that did not specifically refer to the allegation.

    Nicole Zedeck, a correspondent for the privately owned Israeli news outlet i24NEWS, said in the video that Israeli soldiers told her they’d found “babies, their heads cut off.” The video has been viewed more than 11 million times on X, according to its view counter. In another tweet, Zedeck wrote that soldiers told her they believe “40 babies/children were killed.”

    “Somehow those two bits of information were connected, the story became ‘40 babies were beheaded,’ and in the British press today, about six or seven newspapers had it on their front pages,” Jones said.

    An IDF spokesperson, Doron Spielman, told NBC News on Tuesday that he could not confirm i24NEWS’s report.



  • I thought it looked familiar! Isn’t that a church or something?

    Quickly googled:

    The “I-4 Eyesore” is the nickname for the Majesty Building, an 18-story building in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The building has been under construction since 2001 and is still uncompleted. The building’s proximity to Interstate 4 and its towering appearance led to the nickname. The building was built by a Christian broadcasting company and was designed to serve the business and ministry needs of Central Florida.





  • That’s my experience, I framed houses for a few years after college and the architects thought they were gifts from God. Engineers were mostly cool, though. Most of them would understand “Your design is dumb and here’s why. We’re gonna have to change it” and they’d usually learn from it.

    My best day on a job site was watching the architect wearing zero safety gear walk right into a temporary support for a wall. It was fantastic.





  • microphone900@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlI like the web app more.
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    11 months ago

    There’s a one time $20 fee to remove ads. There’s also a thing for increased functionality that’s separate and includes removing ads using a monthly or an annual subscription option, and there’s also a lifetime option. I opted for the lifetime one at $100 because I figure I’ll be using it for a few years, I’m happy to support the dev, and I really want all the bells and whistles.


  • I got close being a framer from 2012-2016. 6 12s in construction was pretty fulfilling and I really liked working with my hands even if the pay was crap. Now I’m an office drone and it’s just okay doing a regular 40 for waaay more pay and benefits. I keep doing it because now I have the space to do and buy the stuff I want and not feel economic pressures like I used to.

    Sometimes I miss the blue collar job, though. I’m glad I did it but I’m even more glad I made the career change.