Not bailing ... yet

Sounds like the folks at Twitter Corporate have just been given 44 billion reasons to let Elon Musk buy them out:
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I've been on Twitter for quite a while (my first tweet was on June 11, 2010), ever since the folks I knew via the Shadow Unit fandom started playing the Fallen London / Echo Bazaar online game (which used Twitter as its login platform). I'm not planning on leaving Twitter any time soon, especially as $44b is a lot of cash. On the other hand, I did put in a request for my current Twitter archive, just in case ...

Local COVID-19 updates

( Wall-o-text, covering 3 days of case data )

Deaths up compared to Friday, which is bad. Still too many cases, and in an unhappy trend, today's 5,443 cases are the highest three-day report since February 7. (Yes, the average is down compared to Friday, but weekend reporting has been wonky for this entire pandemic.) Hospitalizations are up as well, which is very discouraging. Seven-day averages for cases and hospitalizations are also up; those for deaths and percent-positive are down. Last week, I was sort of hopeful that maybe we'd hit the peak of this surge; today, I'm rather less so. (Especially with the town's case counts jumping up into the thirties again.)

The town of Acton's current Google Data Studio dashboard is showing 31 active and 3,024 cumulative cases as of April 24. In the most recent "newsflash style update" at 7PM on December 21, 2021, the town reported 1538 cumulative cases with 89 individuals in isolation, 1417 recovered and 32 fatalities.