Twitter was a massive innovation when it started up because it was the
first killer app for the smartphone. The original limit of 140 characters
in a tweet came from when accounts still had data caps. It was of great use
during the Arab Spring and as a grassroots tool when officials in
I deleted my Twitter account not long after Musk took over. I don’t miss it
at all. There are people on Threads and BlueSky who do nothing except
complain they aren’t Twitter clones (for instance, Threads deemphasizes
political posts). I’m glad none of the social networks do what Twitter did.
A few days old, but a Federal district judge in California told Mary, "pay
up!"
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/cher-wins-lawsuit-sonny-bonos-widow-royalty-payments-rcna154648
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Moi, October 15th 2021(!):
The iconic stars' divorce papers, as is wont to happen in a
Bill Carter takes us back to 1989, when CBS was promoting Pat Sajak as the
new face of late night, the man who would go down easy with viewers if and
when Carson retired--if not for that meddling Arsenio and that Dog Pound
(on many of the same CBS stations at 12:37):
Subject to clearcut rules announced last month; it would logically follow,
after Elon opened the platform to NSFW communities back in late March...
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/x-twitter-porn-policy-update-1236023536/
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*Welp, guess I can't report those users any mo'...*
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