jeez i didn’t realize all mastodon links were banned lol what a friggin jabroni
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Charlie Warzel
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from back in april, the day he floated buying twitter looool newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6
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this is maybe the most perfect moment i’ve experienced on this stupid website
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subscribe to this it may be your last chance
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Hey @cwarzel, tweet about our project noguiltypleasures.com one more time before you get banned for pointing out billionaires suck ass.
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the only people who give him the time of day anymore are reactionaries so that's who he will try to appeal to.
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anyhow: this is the pattern: a thin-skinned spoiled child whose only real desire is to be at the top of every possible social and economic hierarchy and revered like Edison. And when he doesn't get that, he lashes out.
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this part is beside the point but it's also ever more proof that has absolutely no clue how his own platform works. no worse strategy for the 'own the libs crowd' than banning the people they see as 'the opposition'
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banning people who report on you is the weakest shit imaginable.
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Ryan Mac of The New York Times (@rmac18) has also been banned.
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if the whole fusion thing doesn't work out maybe we can harness charismatic celebrities getting drunk together for content as a means of alternative power twitter.com/KBSpangler/sta…
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just chefs kiss stuff that my feed is full of ads suggesting i buy stock in the owner of this website’s other company
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the old guard of twitter did NOT do a great job with this stuff either, mind you. i wrote like 70 stories over 3 years about how bad a job they did. but at the very least they had, like, object permanence and wanted to at least be *seen* as knowing how to do their jobs.
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that's why talking about this stuff is ...worthless! it's like if you had a 7 year old making policy. you'd be like...that rule is bad! but you don't think about the implications bc the person is 7 and they will just change their minds and pretend whatever happened didn't happen
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i imagine the broad nature of this policy theoretically renders the site unusable...except they won't enforce it because i don't think they have the staff to and bc it's ridiculous. anyhow...again the real rule is that one guy will decide based on whim what happens here
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So any photo that includes another person in it that hasn't given "express authorization" (written? oral?) is now technically banned on the platform. Pretty wild. Any exceptions are on a case by case basis.
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know it's always basically just been like this with consolidated control /ownership of big social comms platforms but musk owning twitter is the purest extension of it—so much so that there is no pretense of 'connecting the world' it's just an insecure dude's house party we're at
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like, it feels not worth thinking hard about anything that happens on this website anymore because the website is just an extension of a dude now - doesn't mean it's not important but like...why should there be any debate? it's just one guy who wants to run it for his amusement
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i very much get why having these content moderation conversations is still very important but it almost feels worthless to point out the hypocrisy. elon's going to act on whim, not policy and use the platform to further his own goals/image above all else. that's twitter now.
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It has not, to my knowledge, been said better than this.
Nicely done.
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Opening statement at @SenateBanking hearing earlier today. Good luck to the players still at the table. youtube.com/watch?v=tPbboH
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it makes sense but it’s also just so ugh that these accounts were all just preserved in amber and just snap back into your feed (in my case bc i followed a lot of cretins for work in like 2017)
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love when twitter reinstates a banned account and shit like this just rockets back into your feed (even though i unfollowed *everyone* a few months ago)
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if the whole fusion thing doesn't work out maybe we can harness charismatic celebrities getting drunk together for content as a means of alternative power
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This is one of the most wholesome things I've seen. Lizzo is 100% Dignified Lady at the beginning and the two of them are literally howling with laughter by the end.
youtube.com/watch?v=bbeenv
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I've been really fascinated by the work of who really rang the alarm bells on FTX and very well may have accelerated the whole collapse. When I found out he's a doc who does crypto investigations in his spare time I decided to call him up!
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tough beat for quickbooks
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FTX USED QUICKBOOKS FOR THEIR ACCOUNTING. 
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I always read Glenn Greenwald's feed because of the ever-changing range of topics covered and elevation of different points of view
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Every one of these outlets - The Atlantic, The New Yorker, HuffPost, Vice, Vox, CNN, Daily Beast, NBC, NYT tech reporters, Brooklyn-based liberal digital outlets - write the same shit every day, with the same trite ideas, no dissent, just worthless platitudinous liberal shit.
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there is somebody who tweets about this a lot and i am sorry i can't remember...but the gist is that basically throughout history everyone used to be always constantly fucked up and not being like totally fucked up all the time is a reasonably new thing
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PSA: you can once again change your display name on here (if yours was regrettably locked in a stale joke like mine)
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in which interviews (yes, block is his real surname), who diagramed the flow of FTT as a giant circle well before everyone else
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decent timing on this one i guess
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I've been really fascinated by the work of @MikeBurgersburg who really rang the alarm bells on FTX and very well may have accelerated the whole collapse. When I found out he's a doc who does crypto investigations in his spare time I decided to call him up! theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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and i think...for a lot of people who don't follow anything related to crypto...this is a nice succinct criticism from somebody who has been down the rabbit holes theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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I think his work — tracing blockchain transactions but then coming up against big black boxes where money in centralized exchanges can't be traced — shows the lie at the heart of this ecosystem
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I've been really fascinated by the work of who really rang the alarm bells on FTX and very well may have accelerated the whole collapse. When I found out he's a doc who does crypto investigations in his spare time I decided to call him up!
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twitter still doesn't have a comms/press team, right?
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I blogged on a Sunday but only because it must be done for the future of civilization, without which nothing matters
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I blogged on a Sunday but only because it must be done for the future of civilization, without which nothing matters
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"As right-wing troll memes go, it is Dad-level, 4chan–Clark Griswold stuff, which is to say it’s desperate engagement bait in the hopes of attracting kudos from the only influencers who give Musk the time of day anymore: right-wing shock jocks."
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If you judge a person by their actions then Elon Musk is a right-wing activist theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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Grant Wahl’s reporting from Qatar has been essential, including taking the government to task for its homophobia and horrific working conditions. Now he is dead, suddenly, in Qatar at the age of 48. Read his recent work here: grantwahl.substack.com/p/world-cup-da
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NPR can confirm the death of longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl). He died today in Doha, Qatar while covering the Argentina-Netherlands World Cup quarterfinal. Story to come.
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This is terrible terrible news. Grant was a fantastic journalist. We must know what happened.
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NPR can confirm the death of longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl). He died today in Doha, Qatar while covering the Argentina-Netherlands World Cup quarterfinal. Story to come.
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