Invoking the Pikachu defence

At first I thought Riccardo was joking when he posted this screenshot from Daring Fireball. I can only assume “lost their minds” is a watermark: If you have stayed away, or even just mostly away, from X for years and then come back, people just say things like “Hey, glad you’re back! On the other networks, especially Mastodon, they tell you you’re “feeding Nazis” — by going to the platform where Tim Cook posts Pikachu videos. These people have either lost their minds or refuse to check their prior assumptions. (Most of the ones who chime in about it publicly are the lost-their-minds types.) Wait, what? This was a response to a post on Coyote Tracks, which is a wonderful blog and short story archive you should read. Watts responded, and concluded his prior assumptions were spot on. I agree. I didn’t expect the defence of bad people to be so… banal? Your honour, I know the CEO has killed millions, but he throws great parties. With Pikachu! Twitter suspended my account for…