Well now we know how they are going to fund X. This is what you get when you have an Oligarchy.
I have an X account.
I’ve NOT accessed it since early Nov2024, cause of the low signal-to-noise ratio.
I like surfing YT more, cause I can more easily avoid “noise”.
Now, to be fair that NTSB will be using X…
Before I quit accessing X, I’d noted that LOTS of “news” was going to X.
X had information and updated before almost anyone else.
If you want “instant” news, 24/7… X is your best bet.
Just be prepared for a lot of noise.
So, I’m not surprised to see this.
IMO, it’s logical.
ralph
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News yes but for a government agency to only update on X? I could see I will update on X also.
It’s more graft especially when you have the owner working right down the hall. X is a for profit corporation and when a government entity says they will only update on X that means everyone has to belong to X and see their ads. So now X gets more money.
Let’s say Bezo’s was working in the White House and the white house came out with I am only going to update on the Washington Post?
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Does Trad media have a mechanism allowing an entity to upload it’s own "news, updates, or content?
X allows whoever to post content.
This eliminates a couple steps, and some “labor”. And censors.
Community notes can provide additional color.
An entity posts it’s “content” on X.
WAPO or NYT or WSJ or ? grabs the info from there and posts it to their site.
A press release is a press release is a press release.
I’m not having a “knickers in a twist” moment.
ralph
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Nor me, but I am having a Signal to Noise ratio freakout.
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So does bluesky. It allows everything X does. So does threads. There are multiple sites that information can be posted. It’s not like X is new. They could have been posting on there for a long time. So why now when Musk is in the whitehouse.
I am, We have a foreigner in the white house, that was not elected, nor appointed, nor being vetted. One who came into the country illegally. Grabbing onto the payment system of the treasury department, sending out notices to government employees, requesting they take a payout. Now having government agencies posting notices on only X.
Yea I have my knickers in a twist and think that it is weird that other people don’t.
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I would say it is highly abnormal
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We have ascended to a new level, and new definition of what is normal.
Steve
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Here’s my self guide to lower stress:
Can I do something about it?
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Yes. Then do it.
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No. Then don’t knicker about it.
ralph
Some stuff ain’t small… And I have NO control… So don’t sweat it.
@steve203
I’m not sure what gender I’ll be when I get there.
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Sorry Ralph but this is the government and we all have control. That is why you see protests and people calling their congressman. Democracy dies in darkness and with willful disregard.
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X I can access for free. Anyway, that’s what I’m told. I don’t have an account.
I just tried to access the Washington Post. They want money from me. They’re not going to get it.
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I vote. in TX. Tell me again about control?
ralph…
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You have to pay no matter what. You only think X is free. But there are many other “Free” sites as I have mentioned. You don’t think that having a man in the white house, that spent 270 million dollars to have the President elected. Running a department that has not been vetted, nor has he gone through any back ground check, nor stood before the Senate for confirmation. Then having his hands in the Treasury that gives him access to over 6 trillion dollars isn’t weird?
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LOL you could always go house to house to get change. Who cares if the houses are 5 miles apart?
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My favorite mostly unknown R&R band is a Finnish band with the name Abby Normal in Suomi (the isolate language of Finland) it is Eppu Normaali:
One night I had the opportunity to hear them live, but both their own roadie sound man and the sound guy at the (very small rural far north) night club were absent, and so I stepped in to connect their rigs to the built in system, tested, and blessed the levels. Ironically, my favorite song of theirs is pure acoustic, and includes (translated) a wonderful line saying “I love you so much I would put boots on bears for you.” A very nutso, yet totally Finnish sentiment:
We have a world and its winds.
I’m singing to you and you hear it,
And still near you I barely dare to breathe,
Even though I would drink poison and
put shoes on bears for you
Every day and every single night I think about you
Every day and every single night my heart beats
World is beautiful even though I don’t know
Do you know what I need?
I feel like being near you even if I’m far away
That I would tell you, if you were mine, maybe I would.
Every day and every single night I think about you.
Every day and every single night my heart beats.
And when I wake up at night alone shouting your name
I know nothing will be the same.
Every day and every single night.
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When you get old enough, everything you see or hear, reminds you of something else.
Steve
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Weird in the sense it’s never happened before? Yes.
Weird in the sense that it’s a bad idea? We’ll see.
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So am assuming you think it would be ok to give anyone access?
Interesting. Thanks for letting me into your thought process.
I didn’t say that. Some people shouldn’t have access, I’m sure. I don’t have a problem with Musk at this time.
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So why Musk? Is t because he paid 270 million to get Trump elected? Is it because he hasn’t been vetted by the FBI? Is it because he hasn’t gone through a confirmation process?
Would you be ok with Soros having access?
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