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	Podcast:		Blocked and Reported
	Episode:		Episode 141: Jesse’s Jewish Journey And Musk’s Magnificent Mastodon Meltdown
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		01:09:30
	Publish Date:		2022-11-26 18:25:45
	Description:		Jesse Singal returns to his ancestral homeland, only to find it in ruins. (Before that, he was on a trip to Israel.) There is panic in the Twitter streets as Elon Musk takes over and “dismisses” over 90% of the staff, including legendary software engineers Daniel Johnson and Rahul Ligma. Impersonation runs rampant and famous figures are permabanned left and right as Musk’s hasty changes to the verification program end in pandemonium. Certain the site is doomed, the Twelve Tribes of Twitter (including Katie Herzog) set out in search of their fabled home: a previously obscure Twitter clone known as Mastodon. But you know what they say: “out of the frying pan, into the fire…” Links: Musician With Regrets: KLEZMER INCELCORE (Feat. Jesse Forever Single) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TeYfGbisefuZDgLLf99lbhquQMLz0Oum/view It’s insane a Michael Moynihan trip to Israel didn’t end with him narrowly escaping via an airlift off the top of the American Embassy Jesse witnesses Israel’s tragic alcoholism epidemic on his trip: WaPo: “When Eli Lilly’s share price sank 4 percent on Friday — in line with a drop in other health care stocks — many Twitter users credited the fake account” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/14/twitter-fake-eli-lilly/ November 17th: “it seems Musk is concerned that not enough employees are buying into his vision of an“extremely hardcore” Twitter” [sic] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-changes-twitters-remote-work-rules-again-225801061.html Literally the next day: “Twitter sued over Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ work rules” https://www.independent.ie/business/world/twitter-sued-over-elon-musks-hardcore-work-rules-42153638.html Musk has dismissed “half of [Twitter]’s workforce and most of its executive suite” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/musk-s-first-email-to-twitter-staff-ends-remote-work Semafor: “Eventually, there will be an issue that has to be addressed by SREs [...] the other issue is that there is basically no security team left.” https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/11/24/2022/black-friday-edition Musk: “Vox populi, vox dei” An assorted sampling of Musk’s shitposts:
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