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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @tqbf @Pinboard and

      I think I should see if I can write it longer. I think a lot of people are conflating "I don't like him" with "sloppy opsec" with the key question: who's the arbiter and what's the standard?

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    2.  👻 🎃 Status Quo  🎃 👻‏ @KardOnIce 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @tqbf and

      It's not just "sloppy opsec". He re-published a blog under his real name, with a link to his blog in the book. He intentionally linked his blog identity to his real identity in 2017, doxing himself. Is it really unfair for the NYT to then use this information?

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    3. Watson Ladd‏ @WatsonLadd 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @KardOnIce @zeynep and

      The NY Times regularly reviews books written by people with perfectly transparent pen names. I don't see why it's relevant especially given the professional consequences.

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    4.  👻 🎃 Status Quo  🎃 👻‏ @KardOnIce 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @WatsonLadd @zeynep and

      Then maybe Scott Alexander should have chosen to not dox himself and continue to use a pen name back in 2017? The NYTimes "doxed" JK Rowling's pen name after publicly linking her pen name to her real name, and yet no one had an issue then: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/books/review/the-silkworm-by-j-k-rowling-as-robert-galbraith.html …pic.twitter.com/H9z9bbH2Jl

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    5. Watson Ladd‏ @WatsonLadd 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @KardOnIce @zeynep and

      What does it add to the story vs. the career consequences for his psychotherapy career?

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    6.  👻 🎃 Status Quo  🎃 👻‏ @KardOnIce 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @WatsonLadd @zeynep and

      What does JK Rowling's real name add to a book review about a series of detective novels clearly different from her fiction published under JK Rowling? In fact, JK Rowling did not want to be known as Robert Galbraith at that time.pic.twitter.com/ZdfYbiSMuW

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    7.  👻 🎃 Status Quo  🎃 👻‏ @KardOnIce 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @KardOnIce @WatsonLadd and

      Unlike Rowling however, Scott Alexander published his own name and linked his identities. Any claim that he wants his pseudonym to remain separate from his public identity is therefore nonsensical.

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    8.  👻 🎃 Status Quo  🎃 👻‏ @KardOnIce 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @KardOnIce @WatsonLadd and

      Maybe if Scott Alexander didn't want his psychiatry career to be linked to his pseudonym "Scott Alexander", he shouldn't have published material linking the two.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @KardOnIce @WatsonLadd and

      I'm sorry but this is petty tyranny. You should not have some perfect standard people should adhere to before their pen name gets respect by the outlet that has the power to dominate their Google searches for the rest of their lives.

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    10.  👻 🎃 Status Quo  🎃 👻‏ @KardOnIce 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @WatsonLadd and

      How is this "petty tyranny". If I want to respect a pseudonym, I don't publish material directly stating the two of them are the same. The Grugq is a well known pseudonym and speaks at conferences, but he doesn't publish his name, so people respect the pseudonym.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @KardOnIce @WatsonLadd and

      Almost everyone who does pseudonyms but writes enough has slipups and are potentially de-anonymizable with a varying amount effort. I know this because I sometimes do it for people who think they've hidden their tracks very well (they ask me to). Doesn't remove anyone's rights.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @KardOnIce and

          They petty tyranny is here's a person who says this is my blog name. That's it. We shouldn't be in a position to sit in judgement of the quality of their opsec, lousy or not, and decide that one big corporation can change their rank in other big corporations giant search engine.

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        3. Brandon Downey‏ @bdowney 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @KardOnIce and

          I mean, that is part of the mission of journalism though. Maybe there is a case this guy wasn't newsworthy, or that his cult of rationalists weren't driving opinions in Silicon Valley, but what happened after sure makes it seems like the story made sense.

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        2.  👻 🎃 Status Quo  🎃 👻‏ @KardOnIce 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @WatsonLadd and

          But he published information linking his identities. This isn't a casual slipup. This is in a published and edited book distributed by Springer. This isn't an accidental and deleted comment on a blog.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @KardOnIce @WatsonLadd and

          Again. If you were in his SLC orbit, you could find his name with a bit of effort. It wasn't true the other way: for every random person he met or his patients. A NYT article would change that. That's a lot of power to exercise casually. We'll disagree.

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