As long as they can go from their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned offices, to their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned limos, to their taxpayer-funded air-conditioned mansions, they’re good.

If you run out of items to view on Lemmy, you can always go out and, like, engage with family, or hobbies, or grass-touching…

Thanks, Elon. This is why we can’t have good science.

Adding, I found an option in my Mastodon client to hide boosts from my time line. Which solves my original problem. 🙂

Ahhh. See, I didn’t realize the “@news” I was following on Mastodon was actually a Lemmy group. I though it was specific to Mastodon, and expected it would be a news repeater/aggregator. Didn’t know it would also include all responses to the news posts.

It goes with a larger confusion on my part about how Mastodon works, I guess.

Lemmy is like every social medium since the dawn of time: a cross-section of humanity… the good, the bad, and the ugly.

That site only lists Lemmy instances and communities, with several filtering options. It’s not a search engine for Lemmy content.

I have to wonder whether Musk knew Meta had the trademark, and intentionally used it in order to rile them up.

… Nah, that would require actual planning on his part.

And completely ignored the crowdsourced contributions in favor of the Most. Generic. Logo. Ever.

I mean, if you look at it and squint hard, it kind of looks like a bird in flight with its wings spread? But hardly immediately recognizable, much less iconic.

I want to know, what are “tweets” and “tweeting” going to be relabeled as?

I can just see conversations like:

“Dude, did you see the latest X from Eminem?” “Yeah, I re-X’d it to all my buds!”

I remember how, years ago, an AI was asked to write a script for a Batman comic book, given a bunch of real comic issues as its learning input. The resulting script was horribly stilted, and hilarious to read. It was popular enough that an artist turned it into an actual comic book.

Today’s AIs have come a long way.

Edit: just out of curiosity, I asked ChatGPT to “write a Batman comic book script, with The Joker as the villain”. That’s it. No other input.

What came out was far less stilted than the one mentioned above, but bare-bones, extremely generic, and boring. The real Batman writers have little to fear at the moment.