Is Trumpism a Poison to the System?

Special guest: Anil Dash. A little about last week’s U.S. midterm elections, and a lot about what’s going on at Twitter under Elon Musk.

Sponsored by:

• Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code talkshow for 10% off your first order.
• Trade Coffee: Incredible coffee delivered fresh from the best roasters in the nation.
• Kolide: The cross-platform endpoint security solution for teams that value privacy and transparency.

Links:

• “Twitter Tumult” — me, on what’s going on at Twitter.
• Twitter Is Going Great — A rundown of everything during Twitter’s saga under Elon Musk.
• Fedifinder — “Search Twitter names, bios, locations, URLs, and pinned Tweets for fediverse handles and URLs.” Nifty tool for anyone moving from Twitter to Mastodon or just trying Mastodon out.
• Fediverse of Madness — a collection of Glitch apps related to the fediverse.
• Glitch.
• The Obama Foundation Democracy Forum.
• Anil’s prescient Twitter prediction from back in April.
• Anil’s blog.
• Dahlia Lithwick, SCOTUS columnist extraordinaire.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.