Let's talk about a PSA, the weather, Twitter, and a lack of PSAs....
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Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
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Let's talk about a PSA, the weather, Twitter, and a lack of PSAs....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet People, Lidsboo again. So today we are going to do a little |
| 0:06.8 | public service announcement about the potential lack of future public service |
| 0:11.7 | announcements. |
| 0:13.0 | So, Elon has decided that one of his main goals, one of the things that he has set out to do with Twitter is Reddit of bots. |
| 0:28.1 | Automated tweeting. This is something that he's very opposed to. |
| 0:34.0 | It appears that he has been successful, but with the wrong stuff. |
| 0:41.0 | The National Weather Service has Twitter accounts and these |
| 0:48.1 | Twitter accounts use an automated system to tweet out know, life saving information about tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, stuff like that. |
| 0:59.0 | It appears that they are being severely hindered now due to changes on Twitter. This is one of those topics where you want people to get the |
| 1:19.0 | information as soon as possible, you know, because it could save their life. |
| 1:27.0 | It might be worth reminding Elon that if the people don't make it they won't be scrolling. |
| 1:37.0 | This same problem when it comes to cutting off access to this particular feature. |
| 1:45.0 | This is also going to impact things that are important for a lot of people, but a little bit less severe than not knowing your house is going to be destroyed. |
| 1:56.7 | If you live in a major metropolitan area and you get your updates on public transportation, |
| 2:02.1 | service delays, stuff like that via Twitter |
| 2:04.3 | not anymore it doesn't look like they will be able to do that anymore. There are undoubtedly private entities that are going to have issues as well, but again, that |
| 2:21.4 | seems a little less important than the National Weather Service not being able to get information to people. |
| 2:30.0 | I would imagine that, you access or giving them free access or something like that if |
| 2:38.6 | Musk has decided he wants to charge for the ability to use bots, which would of course be my guess, that if he was |
| 2:47.0 | to give it to him for free, he could probably get a tax break for it. I mean, that, maybe that would help incentivize you know helping to save |
| 2:57.9 | people's lives. But at this moment there are a number of public services that are complaining that they are being hindered when it comes to their attempts to get information out to the public |
| 3:15.4 | in a timely fashion. The National Weather Service, I know Bart has said something about it, |
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