"This digital feudalism is cloaked in the language of care and safety. The owners of these walled gardens insist that they are benevolent patriarchs who have built fortresses to defend us from external threats, but inevitably they are revealed as warlords who have built prisons to keep us from escaping from them"
By @pluralistic on this fantastic essay about #socialMedia and #walledGardens
Dear bobble heads, THE IRS AUDITS ONLY POORER PEOPLE CUZ IT’S THE ONLY AUDITS THEY CAN DO WITH LESS AGENTS NOW THAN IN 1954. THE MILLIONAIRES ARE RIPPING YOU OFF AND TELLING YOU IT’S THE ‘IMMIGRANTS’ OR ‘THOSE PEOPLE’.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SkinnerPm/status/1606118814877245441
Imagine you are a Black man with a wife and 2 kids living in the Bronx. You and your wife both earn minimum wage. You've never been arrested, never committed a crime, don't do drugs, never been in a gang.
One day, you're arrested and falsely accused of a crime. You're sent to Rikers. There is definitive proof that you were somewhere else at the time of the crime. DA says they're going to charge you. You can't afford bail, or an attorney.
You'll be in jail for up to *2 years* prior to trial.
History made: 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈Scotland becomes the first constituent country of the UK to adopt a system of ‘self-ID’ and the reversal of the medicalisation of gender recognition.
👏 ✅ PASSES
Seriously tho, they're gonna boot so many accounts, and such a large fraction of them are not going to return, it's gonna put rocket fuel under all the other platforms.
Other than actually pulling the plug on the servers, I'm not sure I could come up with a faster way for Twitter to end itself than annihilating the content creators' ability to use that platform and link out to any other sites.
And to do it all in one go! lmaooooo
Jorge
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Rob McDowall
Pwnallthethings