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Technology journalist // Buy my new book EXTREMELY ONLINE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF FAME, INFLUENCE, AND POWER ON THE INTERNET via the link below!

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~ * personal news * ~ My first book, EXTREMELY ONLINE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF FAME, INFLUENCE, AND POWER ON THE INTERNET is officially available for preorder!! Please use this link, it will be out this fall from @simonschuster <3 amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS

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Kesha has won a major court battle in her ongoing legal fight against Dr. Luke. New York’s top appeals court ruled that Dr. Luke is legally a public figure, which will make his claim that Kesha intentionally “defamed” him with malice extremely difficult to prove.

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Twitter told me an account that I reported called IHateNWords (you can guess what it actually said) didn't violate their policies. I'm also sure it's a giant coincidence that all of these "accidental" suspensions are from people with large platforms critical of Musk.

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I increasingly view unwillingness to mitigate very obvious harm as failure to adapt. We have been in wildfire smoke hell here for a month. Nobody wears a respirator. These are mostly people who would never decide to chain-smoke. Who would never let their babies chain-smoke. /1

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Twitter has suspended the accounts of Aaron Greenspan and his org Plainsite, which posted various legal filings free of charge. It's unclear why. Greenspan is a frequent critic of Musk and has engaged him in various legal fights.

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chancehooray daily

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we’re not safe, I’m not safe, nothing here is safe

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You can’t get account support on here anymore unless you pay for twitter blue lol. Masterful work Mr. Musk! Users and brands both will love this!

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Twitter just explicitly condoning hate speech at this point

Tweets with N word

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Researchers identify type of long COVID with persistent inflammation About 60% of #LongCOVID patients had signs of persistent inflammation, including elevated neutrophil activation, while recovered and uninfected participants did not ow.ly/Tg5S50ONshq #COVID19

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Thinking about the behavior-as-biomass metaphor from

& Ryan Milner. How a “bottom strata” of unethical behavior online has weight that supports “apex” behavior (physically violent or illegal). With this Pimeyes stuff like… what are we doing

The Internet Doesn't Need Civility, It Needs Ethics

The civility debate sidesteps how false assumptions about harm online, coupled with the affordances of digital media, encourage toxicity

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N95/N99/P100 wearer

is it fearmongering to inform people of the dangers of alcohol, smoking, & drugs? paranoia to wear seatbelts? germaphobic to wash your hands? why is it fearmongering to tell people how bad covid is? germaphobic to wear masks when covid is airborne? paranoid to avoid it?

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"The idea that we can learn to live with infectious disease is untenable. People figured that out hundreds of years ago. It’s a very, to be honest, childish way to approach a public health crisis because nobody wants to admit they were wrong." 20/

Arijit Chakravarty on COVID policy: “The unilateral declaration of an end of war is called surren...

An expert in the modeling of public health policies and outcomes, Chakravarty traces the collapse of COVID mitigation to a series of deliberate decisions made in the early stages of the pandemic.

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"You could pretty much use the “living with COVID” public health playbook to argue for a full return to the old normal, as it were, if your idea of old in that sentence is the 15th century." 19/

Arijit Chakravarty on COVID policy: “The unilateral declaration of an end of war is called surren...

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"We’ve lost the ability to manage disease in any meaningful way. If we say, “COVID is something we just have to live with,” why not say that about leprosy? Why not say that about the plague? Why not say that about rabies?" 18/

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From Pt. 2, which focuses on the broader assault on public health: "A fake reality was created when they said it doesn’t spread in schools, it doesn’t spread on planes, it doesn’t spread in hospitals, because the contact tracing program was broken." 16/

Arijit Chakravarty on COVID policy: “The unilateral declaration of an end of war is called surren...

An expert in the modeling of public health policies and outcomes, Chakravarty traces the collapse of COVID mitigation to a series of deliberate decisions made in the early stages of the pandemic.

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"Not only is the pandemic not over, but by creating the impression that the pandemic is over in the face of rampant viral spread and continuing rapid viral evolution, we are essentially sticking our chin out and asking the virus to do its worst." 15/

Arijit Chakravarty on ending of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: “A disaster … The virus...

The CEO of Fractal Therapeutics discusses the false construct of “hubrid immunity” and the growing danger of new variants as SARS-CoV-2 is allowed to infect the world’s population without any...

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"we still have shockingly high rates of transmission, shockingly high death totals, and we have NO plan. And if something worse happens, we will react to it... If I was generous about defining our global public health “strategy,” that’s our strategy." 14/

Arijit Chakravarty on ending of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: “A disaster … The virus...

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"Much has been said about how T-cells will save us... and it really isn’t true... If anything, COVID eats T-cells for breakfast. What we really need is to protect our T-cells from COVID." 5/

Arijit Chakravarty on ending of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: “A disaster … The virus...

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"It went from this thing that was impossible to being very rare to being “mild” and beneficial. And none of those things are true... There are 1,000s of papers on the long-term consequences of infection and reinfection with Covid." 4/

Arijit Chakravarty on ending of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: “A disaster … The virus...

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I urge everyone to read this 2-part interview that

@BenjaminMateus7

did with

. It is a devastating indictment of the global pandemic response and the reversal of centuries of struggle to develop public health. A🧵of some key quotes. 1/

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Charlie Kirk: "I'm going through my refrigerator and I'm starting to ask the question: Was this ketchup bottle woke? Is this mustard? I mean, literally."

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One of the only things #LongCovid patients can do to expedite the possibility of real treatment is to go through the often unbecoming experience of sharing how harrowing our condition is— in hopes it might increase public urgency. That’s why we share. We just want to get better.

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Lmfao. Social globalization to the max tiktok.com/t/ZT8147oWy/

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Vinay Prasad, who, again, edited his own Wikipedia page to include his middle school grades, has found a new line: "Masking [when your city is covered in smoke] is a mental illness." A man driven completely insane by contrarianism... what no sense of interiority does to a mf.

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I know all diet culture stuff is bad, but this ad that Hulu keeps feeding me seems uniquely bad, like its literally saying to avoid joy and new experiences??? wtf? this is the most depressing thing ive seen set to 'where is my mind' since The Leftovers

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I'm always shocked that more people don't know about Brittany Dawn, the influencer who pivoted from fitness to Christianity after being called out for allegedly scamming customers, then got sued by the state of Texas for deceptive business practices. let's dig in. 🧵

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1 in 25 risk of long COVID even when triple vaxxed. Omicron not less likely to cause long COVID than Delta among those boosted. We cannot say that reinfection with future variants will be less of a risk. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati pic.twitter.com/vQH6wcPRNf ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati

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tl;dr: * Past infection with Omicron does not prevent long COVID on reinfection. In fact, reinfections are worse for long COVID. * Vaccines provide some, but not strong, protection against long COVID. Thus, * "Vax and relax" or "I've already had it" are not valid.

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im lace. | read my pinned pls !!!

YOU CAN GET COVID OUTDOORS ! i know our government is literally lying to us right now but you can get covid outside. well ventilated or not. & even with air filters—you need effective ones, people should still mask and/or test negative on a pcr. the cheapest is masking.

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You can tell the they actually see her as a woman by how upset they are that she went topless.

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The symptoms can come unpredictably, either immediately or delayed for a day. For her, that's the hardest part of MECFS and long covid - not knowing when or how sick she'll become if she tries to be herself #longcovid #MECFS

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Kyle here - we wanted to share this (Dianna writes me notes when talking is too hard). When she says she "cant do something" it means there's often an energy or symptom cost to trying. For the last 5 months, tiny amounts of activity trigger awful symptoms. #longcovid #MECFS

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If you'd like me on ur podcast & it isn't a well known/national pod, include stats about your show and listenership for the PR people. If ur a YouTuber, TikToker, newsletter writer, have a big IG account, or any other content creator who wants to cover, email the addy above!!

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"The advertising dollars that once underwrote ambitious mass journalism are now stuffing the pockets of technology billionaires. We’re all — even those of us willing and able to pay for quality journalism — the poorer for it."

Opinion | The Tragic Decline of ‘Free’ News

We are entering an era of media haves and have-nots.

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Biggest misconceptions I see about #LongCovid are that it’s super rare (lowest estimate I’ve ever seen is 5%, for mild/vaxed); that it can’t happen on a reinfection (it can); & that you’ll be able to get effective treatments if you get it (still no real protocol, few specialists)

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Read these links of just a handful of the thousands of studies that show Covid's irreparable harm to the body (yes even if ur fully vaxxed)

panaccindex.info

What COVID Does To The Body

An Incomplete and Growing Resource

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Decorum Disassembly - mas.to/@decorummanager

@DecorumManager

The myth of U.S. lockdowns is perpetuated for a few reasons - Lockdowns are preventable, viruses not so much. Blaming lockdowns restores a sense of control - ALL safety measures were retroactively deemed “lockdowns” & unrepeatable. Masks are now characterized as “lockdowns”.

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I know the Reddit blackout is sort of a punchline on Twitter, but it's basically made Google worthless. Last night, I tried to look up why an actor was replaced on a show I'm watching and all the results were Reddit threads and all of the subreddits were private.

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8,300 subreddits (!!) pledged to go dark or read-only in a 48 blackout protesting reddit's API pricing, which will be prohibitively expensive for many of the indie developers running third-party apps techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/red

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Some *personal news* as they say. Michelle Micone and I have teamed up to lead AI strategy, product, and content for the

! We’ve got so many interesting projects in the works, can’t wait to share them soon.

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"Immersion exists on a mental and physical spectrum. And since so much of modern life is polluted with distractions, it’s no wonder that we’re motivated to seek out its complete opposite."

Dirt: Too much, too soon

Rethinking immersion.

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