For tech-inclined people who may be looking into how to get their twitter archives into a functional thing (rather than the basic, unreadable/unusable archive twitter provides), here's this Tech Crunch round up of tools.
(don't ask me, I don't understand technology)
Entitled and unhinged.
#ElonMusk #ElonSucks #Xitter #TwitterDemise #AntiSemitism #HateSpeech
I am having a lot of thoughts about IBM pulling ads from twitter over Nazi promotion on the site. (via @engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ibm-suspends-advertising-on-x-after-its-ads-were-placed-next-to-pro-nazi-content-234332820.html
(for those who don't know: there's a whole IBM and the Holocaust aricle in Wikipedia; please note that the Electronic Frontier Foundation is tracking how TODAY IBM backs similar actions in other countries (South Africa for one)-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust)
X/Twitter, on Monday became the first online platform to be fined under Australia’s Online Safety Act, receiving a $610,500 penalty after failing to answer questions about how it was tackling child sexual abuse material.
Why are people still on that platform?
@Eve He's counting on people thinking, "what's a dollar?", then getting so hooked (or dependent) on the platform, he'll be able to just hike the prices at will, with or without warning.
And he may be right for a small percentage of users, but as he's also killed the platform's utility for most people, it won't ever be enough to matter as profit.
Then again, the clear aim by whoever pulls his strings is the destruction of twitter, and that's already done.
Many people who are remaining on twitter still get most of their news from there; the fact that the coordinated campaigns of misinformation now go unchecked is not just eroding trust in news media, it will likely result in real world harm and violence, as it stokes Islamophobia, antisemitism, and general hatred of "the other".
“It's now almost impossible to tell what's a fact, what's a rumor, what's a conspiracy theory, and what's trolling,” Rothschild said. “Musk's changes haven't just made X useless during a time of crisis. They've made it actively worse."
And this is the companion piece: why has Elon Musk worked so hard at destroying Twitter?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490
Goodness gracious.
Now links don't show a headline, just an image from the link.
The entire fuck.
This is the aspect of #TwitterDemise that hurts the most: it killed the networks that the most marginalized people relied on for survival--the crowdfunding, the mutual aid, the community organizing.
And this was not an unforeseen side effect, it was part of what they were looking for when destroying twitter, because profit is their blood, but cruelty is the point, always.
(also, what Cass said)
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