Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Economist says without Brexit we ‘wouldn’t be talking about an austerity budget this week’
"The need for tax rises and spending cuts wouldn't be there if Brexit hadn't reduced the economy's potential output so much." https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-economics/economist-says-without-brexit-we-wouldnt-be-talking-about-an-austerity-budget-this-week-338789/#lahcjpktmw4f0tmx0jq

It seems very clear at this point that similar to some current political figures, Mr. Musk has surrounded himself with a group of yaysayers not willing or able to keep him and his ideas in check. I really hope (but secretly doubt it) that this is enough to completely destroy the public image of him as a technical and business genius (any maybe take the whole "billionaire genius" trope with him).

It's definitely worth investing in some short term popcorn reserves.

Seen a couple of people asking about whitelist-only federation. It’s already a Mastodon option but it‘s not well documented and it needs to be set via an environment variable. Search “limited federation mode” in the docs:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/

I am not going to invoke his name, but i was thinking as I rode through rain this morning that beyond the risk of Twitter dying a quick and idiotic death, the other major risk for many of us is that - if what he’s doing their actually works - a whole generation of tech company CEOs will have an example they can latch on to for running a tech company like a Victorian workhouse; the small progresses we’ve made on reducing workplace toxicity and unreasonable working practises are on the line.

It's cool how the government have run the country into the dirt and then they get to go on speaking tours or piss about on reality TV whilst people queue up at food banks and die waiting in ambulances and live like Victorian peasants, shivering and hungry. What a great system.