From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:10:59 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/18/2026 8:27 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:48:49 -0000 (UTC), Tara    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Feb 18, 2026 at 10:34:49?AM EST, "Noah Sombrero"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:07:27 +0000, Julian    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Twitter ? or X if you must ? is essential for bypassing traditional   
   >>>>> institutions   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> At the time of writing, the British Government is apparently preparing   
   >>>>> legislation that many expect will lead to Twitter, formally known as   
   >>>>> ?X?, being blocked. Officially this is because the platform?s in-built   
   >>>>> AI language model allows users to manipulate images of third parties so   
   >>>>> it appears that they are wearing nothing but lingerie. Yet critics,   
   >>>>> including the US government,  regard it as a thinly-disguised attempt to   
   >>>>> censor a primary forum of opposition. Either way, millions of people   
   >>>>> across the country are now faced with the horrifying ? and, for many,   
   >>>>> unprecedented ? prospect of actually having to do their jobs in order to   
   >>>>> stave off boredom.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Stave off boredom.  There is something to that.  Naked people always   
   >>>> were a tititlation.   
   >>>   
   >>> everything will be abused (or used) in some way if given enough freedom. I   
   use   
   >>> X to (once in a while) read what people I am interested in say what they   
   have   
   >>> to say. And I've never seen a naked person on X. Maybe because I'm not   
   >>> interested in seeing a naked person on X.   
   >>   
   >> Understood.  You are discerning.  Many others are not.  And it is the   
   >> others that drive the enterprise.   
   >>   
   >And, you would know this how?   
   > >   
   >   
   >> The whole thing falls apart for me when I consider that there is no   
   >> truth requirement, and no way for you or even x to really know that   
   >> people are who they say they are.  Why leave yourself open to that?   
   >>   
   >Why would their name matter? You appropriated your handle impersonating   
   >an immigrant guy nodding off under a snow bank. LOL   
      
   Actually there is a story behind that.  It relates to a time in the   
   late 80's/early 90's when I ran a BBS.  I called it Noah's Kitchen and   
   I was the sysop, noah sombrero.  Noah's kitchen had to be a magical   
   place because it was where all of god's creatures got fed without   
   consuming any.   
      
   >> Do you imagine that important, interesting people are busy?   
   > >   
   >Get real. These people get paid to post their views online.   
      
   And these important, intelligent people are short of cash?  Can't   
   think of any better way to pick up a few bucks?   
      
   More likely, they pay somebody else to do that.  Or the accounts are   
   simply fake.   
      
   > > That they might not get a lot out of spending time entertaining us   
   > > with their twits?>   
   >Using X to see people naked requires a search, Senor.   
   >   
   >Otherwise, you read your feed - your favorite tweeters. It's all about   
   >bias confirmation.   
      
   How did you get so truthy?  Not that you don't traffic in such   
   confirmations.   
      
   >   
   >>>>   
   >>>> But you think x has some other use.  It is a primary forum of   
   >>>> opposition.  Which would be good if only such opposition could be   
   >>>> true.  But a toxic mix of naked people and lies?  What possible use is   
   >>>> that, other than rescuing people from boredom?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> For the large majority of the population however, the idea of banning   
   >>>>> the social media site is a complete non-issue. Supposedly, around 40 per   
   >>>>> cent of British adults access the platform monthly, but this figure   
   >>>>> seems implausibly high. Most prefer one or more of either Facebook,   
   >>>>> Instagram or TikTok. Since it was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022, Twitter   
   >>>>> must have seemed to those who don?t use it to have been nothing but   
   >>>>> trouble. Those still relying on the BBC or the papers for their news   
   >>>>> have been drip-fed continuous stories about ?misinformation? and online   
   >>>>> abuse.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> What the broadcasters and the newspapers won?t tell their viewers and   
   >>>>> readers, however, is that their reporters, producers, editors and   
   >>>>> directors positively live on the site...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://thecritic.co.uk/why-twitter-matters/   
   --   
   Noah Sombrero mustachioed villain   
   Don't get political with me young man   
   or I'll tie you to a railroad track and   
   <<>> to <<>>   
   Who dares to talk to El Sombrero?   
   dares: Ned   
   does not dare: Julian  shrinks in horror and warns others away   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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