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@jilliancyork

this platform was once great. I built a career off it. now it's run by an overgrown baby.

AuthorBerlinlinktr.ee/jilliancyorkJoined February 2008

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Somehow, I missed this from February: Twitter reversed a 2017 ban on Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas' account. Abbas was known for documenting torture/human rights abuse in Egypt, & the ban was widely seen as unfair. Good backrounder from

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: eff.org/deeplinks/2018

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Wael Abbas

@waelabbas

Feb 15

Tweeting again for the first time since Twitter suspended my account mysteriously back in 2017, thank you all for your solidarity.

jillian

@jilliancyork

Apr 6

And don't get me wrong, it's not like our teachers didn't try to suppress any political discussion or impose their views on us.

I graduated in 2000 - Rage Against the Machine was popular, we had Columbine and the WTO protests but yeah for sure man.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez

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Apr 4

It really feels like Millennials were the last people who got a largely apolitical high school experience. I don’t remember anything political, just a bubble of blissful ignorance. “Jackass” and Blink-182 were popular. The main concern was asking out your crush. twitter.com/PicturesFoIder…

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Lol. New Berlin city govt says it’s considering an Olympic bid. Increasingly quirky local paper immediately speculates that they’ll go for the next available slot. Berlin ‘36. Has a ring. twitter.com/berlinerzeitun

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Sasha Costanza-Chock is @schock@mastodon.lol

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Apr 4

Now class, can anyone tell me why this might be a bad idea?

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Remember a year ago when cryptocurrency was still seen as the next big thing and not the trash it is?

Dogecoin's price surged 30% on Monday as Elon Musk changed the Twitter app logo from a blue bird to a Shiba Inu dog, while he simultaneously faces a $258 billion class-action lawsuit alleging he promoted the cryptocurrency as part of a pyramid scheme.

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Dogecoin price spikes after Elon Musk changes Twitter logo to the Shiba Inu dog

Elon Musk is currently facing a $258 billion class-action federal lawsuit accusing him of engaging in a pyramid scheme for voicing his support for Dogecoin in several tweets.

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Apr 4

Just to be clear, M*skrat will never get a dollar from me.

+1 for Night Shift

You can tell someone at Twitter is toggling buttons around; my verified label changed designations within an hour today.

To be able to watch

“The Imprisonment of Julian Assange” on YouTube you now have to log in and get through two warnings.

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Laila Al-Arian

@LailaAlarian

Mar 24

YouTube has age-restricted our film “The Imprisonment of Julian Assange,” presumably because of the “Collateral Murder” footage of a US helicopter attack that killed at least a dozen Iraqis. It’s still available to steam but viewers now need to sign in: youtu.be/76In01TZyjw

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jillian

@jilliancyork

Mar 31

Since none of us will be paying for Muskification (right?), could someone come up with a third-party method of verifying people on Twitter so I can still use this platform professionally?

jillian

@jilliancyork

Mar 31

Aww, it's my last day of notability on this here hellsite.

jillian

@jilliancyork

Mar 30

You delay our visas and leave us stuck here during the winter, fail to provide affordable housing, and yet you're shocked that you have a worker shortage?

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DW Politics

@dw_politics

Mar 29

A shortage of skilled workers has become a major headache for Germany. The government is now scrambling to find a solution and admits it should have started looking for one sooner.

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The best use case for AI is imagining Snoop Dogg in the cast of Seinfeld.

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Once again, I'm begging folks to send calendar invites the moment you've decided on a meeting time.

jillian

@jilliancyork

Mar 28

all set now, thanks everyone! glad #researchtwitter still works!

Dear academic Twitter, can someone please oh please access this paper for me? jstor.org/stable/24572662

Read to the end for some truly unhinged online behavior

We saw Alaa. He’s well, and looks very cool and handsome in the prison blues. This is such a waste. #FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll

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This is an insanely short sentence for a transphobic murder

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DW News

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Mar 22

In Germany, a court has handed down a five-year jail sentence to a 20-year-old assailant who beat a transgender man to death at a Gay Pride event. trib.al/lizhv4U

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jillian

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Mar 23

When I go myself for a bit, I buy things from retailers, often outside the US, that I would have to pay customs/tax on in Germany like BlackMilk and my favorite lingerie stores. One time I brought 40 oz jars of Lawry's.

And Trader Joe's spices, but I'm fully saturated with those at the moment. Our spice cabinet probably has 100 jars/containers in it.

Over the years, my answer to "I'm going to the US, can I bring you back anything?" has progressed from shit like Takis and hot sauce (you can get both here now) to specialized skin cream and my favorite deodorant.

Exciting new book from my friend and teammate

@doctorow

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues

@doctorow

Mar 22

*Red Team Blues* is my next novel, a #PostCyberpunk anti-finance finance #thriller; it's a major title for my publishers @TorBooks and @HoZ_Books, and it's swept the trade press with starred reviews all 'round. Despite all that, #Audible will not sell the #audiobook. 1/

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A graphic showing a phone playing the Red Team Blues audiobok, along with a quote from Booklist, 'Jam-packed with cutting-edge ideas about cybersecurity and crypto. Another winner from an sf wizard.'

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Not only was Twitter a subject of research, it was also a facilitator of knowledge creation,

@jilliancyork

writes in The Information Opinion. That may all be in the past now.

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Twitter Used to Make Us Smarter

A handful ofmonths into Twitter’s new management and it’s clear an era has ended. For the site’s power users, which include academics, journalists and lawmakers, the sudden changes in the social...

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, on the loss of Twitter as a research tool, is now live, with quotes from

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Twitter Used to Make Us Smarter

jillian

@jilliancyork

Mar 21

I am more distraught than I ought to be over losing my DuoLingo streak.

jillian

@jilliancyork

Mar 20

Who's been to Almaty?

jillian

@jilliancyork

Mar 16

Seriously though, who's next on my bingo card?

Just popping back to celebrate the downfall of Harris and Singal. Like, pretty excited to see these idiots walk away in shame.

The First Amendment concerns of a TikTok ban should be front-and-center. The US government would be taking the extraordinary and rather unprecedented step of banning one of the most popular platforms for their citizens’ free expression. Americans will be poorer for it.