Mastodon gives news orgs independent control of their social media platform. The problem heretofore has been getting users to switch, a problem that has been increasingly solved by the aforementioned spates of jackassery. If things keep going the way they have been in recent weeks, news orgs should send Twitter a gift basket as thanks for their independence.

The New York Times can run its own instance with each of their reporters being @nytimes.social, which in theory can’t be spoofed because the they own that domain. News orgs could also independently decide if and how to monetize their respective instances.

I am not entirely surprised that many of the major news sites published guides on Mastodon because, even before the most recent spates of jackassery, I felt like news orgs might find Mastodon appealing specifically because it’s federated.

The thinly weighted and small text used one my company’s reporting dashboard is further evidence of how much text benefits from true 2X resolutions. The text was outright blurry on scaled 4K. On 5K, it’s so crisp that I thought for a beat that the vendor had changed fonts.

I accidentally bought the non-adjustable OXO kettle for a gift. On the one hand, that’s on me. On the other, why the hell does OXO even make a non-adjustable kettle? Non-adjustable kettle are stupid and shouldn’t exist at all, but they especially shouldn’t exist at a premium.