Chris Trottier
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Alan Martello
@alanmartello
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Retired engineer who thinks we should be nice to each other, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, and provide refuge to those escaping persecution. #fountainpens
A lot of folks are like, "Entertainers need a social graph to get hired!"
That's still available on Twitter if you want it đ
But consider: maybe *some* social media doesn't always have to be used to flog your act or product or whatever thing you're selling.
Maybe you can use *some* social media to instead interact with genuine humans instead of an abstract "audience".
Look at the loss of an accurate social graph as a different kind of opportunity.
Max Boot'If someone referred to their research as "innovative," or "game-changing," ... they would be more likely to get funding than if someone accurately depicted it as an important, but incremental step toward better knowledge.' @[email protected] https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-secret-genius
đŚđ: https://twitter.com/MatthewBlott/status/1599005208822001664
skye it/its đłď¸ââ§ď¸honestly the reason I am leaving twitter (as it is a process that's my finished yet) isn't that Elon took over, or that it has started openly catering to nazis rather than covering that fact with fig leaves...
it's that finally a critical mass of people with sufficiently diverse backgrounds was moving to a place I like better.
that's it. I haven't enjoyed my time on twitter for years. it has been bad and dangerous for marginalised people this whole time.
it's just that people were there.
Conrad Hackett 
A decade ago, this image went mega-viral on Google+. In the ensuing years, it has been adapted and reused thousands of times.
@cra1g created this instantly viral image and tells the story of its evolution here:
https://medium.com/@CRA1G/the-evolution-of-an-accidental-meme-ddc4e139e0e4
@sociology @politicalscience
Jay RosenPolitico put it this way:
"The former president and the person that polls show is still the most likely GOP presidential nominee in 2024, today on Truth Social called for the suspension of the Constitution."
This poses a problem for journalists who would cover the 2024 election. By what logic can that coverage proceed?
Neutrality makes sense only within a constitutional order that his candidacy is trying to upend. "Just report the news" pretends this will be a normal campaign.
NPR: 100 years ago, 'Carol of the Bells' came to America â from Ukraine https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1140441596/100-years-ago-carol-of-the-bells-came-to-america-from-ukraine
Mississippi Free Pressthe U.S. Supreme Court overturned Flowersâ sixth conviction, with Justice Kavanaugh citing a ârelentless, determined effort to rid the jury of black individualsâ that âstrongly suggests the State wanted as few black jurors as possible.
For anyone using Metatext - those arrows next to âLoad Moreâ in the timeline switch direction based on the direction you last scrolled the timeline. Itâs really clever but wasnât intuitive to me. I probably could have saved myself a ton of time by reading some documentation or FAQ somewhere.
Trolls, themselves, don't tend to believe in listening to everyone.
They're certainly not looking for debate.
To them, a discussion is not even about uncovering a truth orâmore unsubtlelyâbeing right or wrong.
It's about winning or losing.
From a troll's perspective, all interactions are a game with a desired outcome: winning.
In order to deal effectively with trolls, you can't even let them play their game.