Antone Johnson

@antone
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General counsel to startups & emerging growth companies (EC/VC) deepest in consumer Internet, mobile, SaaS & related infrastructure. Former eHarmony VP/GC & MySpace OG. Battle-scarred trust/safety veteran of online communities. Gravely concerned citizen, policy wonk, wag, prolific commentator. Obamacrat. Pro #NAFO expansion. 🇺🇦 SV native with one foot in LA.
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Antone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
Show threadJacob T. LevyDec 14, 2022

@brendannyhan "One important skill of the commentator, pundit, or columnist is to illuminate the world by drawing out similarities between apparently disparate events, phenomena, or ideas. This helps the reader see new things, and to see old things in new ways.

"So for my next trick I will pull out of my hat the very original comparison of people who tried to overthrow the constitutional order with college students who specify their pronouns."

Show threadAntone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
@Popehat @[email protected] @That_AC @[email protected] @AriCohn @ThinkingSapien Stealing “never darken my digital doorstep again” for future use 🤣
Antone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
@Popehat @ThinkingSapien @[email protected] @That_AC @AriCohn @[email protected] Indeed, artisanal mocking may be an endangered species. See, e.g., #ChatGPT:
Antone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
Toomas Hendrik IlvesDec 14, 2022

After the arrests in the US and Estonia yesterday of the FSB shipping contraband technology, a good backgrounder on the larger issue on Russian tech smuggling to skirt sanctions.

https://www.ft.com/content/6c01e84b-5333-4024-aaf1-521cf1207eb4

Russia’s wartime economy: learning to live without imports

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldĘĽs leading global business publication

Financial Times
Antone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
Quinta JurecicDec 13, 2022
utterly vile https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/
Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, left his home after criticism from Musk unleashed a torrent of online harassment.

The Washington Post
Antone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
Ken WhiteDec 13, 2022
Deeply concerned that I'm in an echo chamber now where nobody will scream GROOMER at me or tell me to take my meds or explain how ACTUALLY the FBI orchestrated 1/6
Show threadAntone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
@marklemley The reckless idiocy and soulless depravity described in that NYT piece is unfathomable. Then again, he did just defame the former head of T&S as a pedophile with the foreseeable result that Roth was driven from his home in fear for his life, so I guess it’s all relative.
Antone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
Show threadKen WhiteDec 14, 2022
@marklemley Deleting all tweets, set the account to private, no more posting. Done with it.
Show threadAntone JohnsonDec 14, 2022

@Popehat @marklemley Same. I had used Semiphemeral to wipe about 90% of my tweets after downloading an archive. Time to nuke the rest.

Given the infosec nightmare there even pre-QElon, I deleted all API connections to apps (which was a PITA after 13 years of experimenting with them), DMs, and my phone number.

Antone JohnsonDec 14, 2022
Mark A LemleyDec 13, 2022

I'm officially done with Twitter. I won't delete my account, hoping against hope the company can somehow shake MusQ, but I will not be participating.

Join me on Mastodon. @marklemley

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html

Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs

Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.

The New York Times