2024.04.18: Smoke Up, Kids

Linkdump

Paying for Twitter

• Elon Musk confirms that X will charge new users a temporary fee (9to5mac.com)
• What Is Twitter Blue, and Is It Worth $3 a Month? (howtogeek.com)
• Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession | WIRED
• Voat – Wikipedia
• Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users – The Verge
• What is Instagram Threads, and How Do You Use It? (howtogeek.com)
• Mastodon (social network) – Wikipedia
• What is Discord? Everything You Need to Know About the App | Digital Trends
• Snapchat – Wikipedia

UK Smoking Ban

• MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009 – BBC News
• New Zealand’s new government scraps world-leading smoking ban to fund tax cuts | CNN
• Plain tobacco packaging ‘may cut smokers by 300,000 in UK’ – BBC News
• People React To DUI Laws(1980s News Report) (youtube.com)
• Texas drinking age goes up | 1986 (youtube.com)

Free Stars

• FREE STARS: Children of Infinity by Pistol Shrimp — Kickstarter
• Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters on Steam (steampowered.com)
• Star Control II – Wikipedia