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.

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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.

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