Most of the most popular RSS communities are free. I like some of them that are paywalled and a little way down the list, like [email protected] and [email protected], but most of the top ones are free. One of the really nice things about one community per source is that you know which ones to subscribe to and which ones you'd have to pay for that you can block.
If you don't know the New York Times has a paywall, and you click on a link to them, that's a learning experience for you at this point. I think some of the griping about paywalls is just entitled. It's okay if people made content for you and they want to get paid. At the same time, I'm not trying to spam people who don't want paywall content. If I can make a quality-of-life improvement for people who don't want to get burned by paywalls on random links from places they've never heard of, then fine.
I also want to give shout-outs to some feeds that are way, way down and trying to charge money for very high quality stuff:
High value art has been a vehicle for tax evasion and money laundering for quite some time.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/business/art-money-laundering-sanctions-senate/index.html
Changing what we're doing to be less catastrophic isn't what we're into. We like assigning some scientists to make some miraculous solution, so we can keep doing the catastrophe, and then doubling down on how much of it we're doing if they succeed.
It would be stupid to consider a clearly deranged man for a cabinet position, or advertise to the voters your willingness to do such a thing.
If you showed up to say this isn’t the way to get support for Gaza, you might be right. But then again, what have you done?
If you showed up to say how dare they inconvenience these people for one morning just because there’s a holocaust happening, go fuck yourself.
They clearly know it, but they clearly have lawyers that are wise enough to see that lawsuits are one of the few things Musk can still generate. Otherwise they could have written a much shorter article:
Alp Toker, director of Netblocks, said the social media platform's explanation of how the issue was fixed "isn't particularly consistent" with a DDoS attack. "Given Elon Musk's claim that X had to limit the number of live listeners to mitigate the issue, we can infer that the outage correlated to the number of live listeners," said Mr Toker. "Limiting the number of legitimate users isn't an ordinary mitigation for DDoS attacks and wouldn't usually help... so Mr Musk's own statement suggests that the platform might have been struggling with overall listener capacity."
https://www.google.com/search?q=elon+musk+firing+twitter+engineers
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