Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference The confessions of a concerned bird.

Here is an article from a former Twitter employee about the AI bots used to interfere in the US elections. My brain is nauseous.
open.substack.com/pub/theconce...

Ukrainian hackers take credit for hacking Russian ISP that wiped out servers and caused internet outages | TechCrunch The Russian ISP blamed the Ukrainian hackers for causing a "complete failure" across its internet infrastructure.

The web is very dark in Russia today.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/u...

US Supreme Court rebuffs Meta bid to avoid advertisers' lawsuit The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a multi-billion dollar class action by advertisers that accused the Facebook and Instagram parent company of overcharging them by inflating the number of people their ads might reach.

"the plaintiffs faulted Meta for focusing on the number of social media accounts, not the lower number of actual people, and said it fraudulently overestimated potential viewers by as much as 400%."
Did you pay for ads on Facebook or Instagram since Aug. 15, 2014?

www.reuters.com/technology/u...

Here's to hoping that 2025 will be better.

Everything is about to change | Our 2025 Social Media Predictions YouTube video by Loomly

Loomly claims they do not have a crystal ball yet put together some predictions for 2025 social media trends.
youtu.be/8QGCLlo6qvY?...

If social media was a horse race...

Sound up!

Here is the complete saga of password reset pain.
The worst-case scenario is when someone in another country, using only a fictional first name, asks for a scan of a legal ID. Meta seems to think this is acceptable. I do not.

Raindrop.io — All in One Bookmark Manager For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff

That does look handy. I love raindrop.io - use it all the time.

Cross stich art is so much nicer than the sexist rhymes to remember the color codes.

Ohm Sweet Ohm cross stitch from Adafruit. A cross-stitch kit that's also a resistor chart! Not only is this kit fun to make (and good for beginner stitchers), when it's all done it functions as a handy resistor reference chart.

Ohm Sweet Ohm resistor color code reference cross stitch.

#crossstitch #electronics #kraftwerk

Thanks. I sometimes take photos of trees that I like.

Good morning!

At WordCamp US 2023, there was a private group event at the Museum of Natural History. One of the other WordPress people was having a tough time understanding the exhibits that showed how layers of the earth are different ages. They had been raised to believe that the earth was created in 7 days.

another version of "popular" is: Oh no! we still have a huge pallet full of these things that no one will want in January!!📦

Glad to be out of the birdcage.