I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of #Twitter from their Boulder, Colorado office.

The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes...

A thread 🧵

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/

Jordan Neely’s homicide reminded be of this 2012 post so I fished it out of the Internet Archive. It grieves me how much the discussion of how we justify brutality still applies.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/deserves-got-nothing-to-do-with-it

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.

As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons

“The people who blame wokeness for the collapse of a bank do not want you to understand or even think about the political economy of banking in the United States. They want to deflect your attention from the real questions toward a manufactured cultural conflict. And the reason they want to do this is to obscure the extent to which they are complicit in — or responsible for — creating an environment in which banks collapse for lack of appropriate regulation.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/opinion/silicon-valley-bank-republicans-woke.html?unlocked_article_code=0BkJ9fY6f2n4z_-MfbJ_eD7ZVG2bJwYMK6p3obL11z8o_pVDo4cHpIuyzKk-e-2cJLWcd6OzDGUvpVpPQ4FEXxmdv04MxW3AmwGwAKmXt7HdEwzWqesryhUMUd_QwHBuLiWfcgAU4jNe0FYfcNH2nTtoxMKBpCC10wa4QPt_ATReuhAWeQpG-zFy2YOvPUbSJQMrMtnaqFkt7CIVhCng5HMGEsi9SJgPVGvdyfnfDwbK4dBAdppxvyKMovjB22gu-eJW8Bt6FuARVNCt5lb32jmHYtMF-p0WBgDg9InqRlHewF6eL8taGW4Q7NpCrMIHsAnVd4Mvt-TE5hsP6VtC39qLUerXQ-X1z5w&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare