paul lukasiak

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paul lukasiakNov 29, 2022
Micah LeeNov 29, 2022

Elon Musk appears to have out-sourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform’s right-wing extremists https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/

This last week, at the request of right-wing extremists and in response to platform manipulation, Twitter has banned the accounts of @chadloder, @VPS_Reports, @CrimethInc, and @efjbgc.

This article, written by me and @robertmackey, quotes heavily from Mastodon, and embeds a Mastodon post

Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk

Elon Musk appears to have outsourced decisions about who to ban from Twitter to the platform’s right-wing extremists, like Andy Ngo.

The Intercept
paul lukasiakNov 28, 2022
Deborah PearlsteinNov 28, 2022
"Twitter’s radically reduced anti-#propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content in China that researchers said was aimed at reducing the flow of news about stunning widespread protests.... For hours, anyone searching for posts from those cities and using the Chinese names for the locations would see pages...of useless tweets instead of information about the daring protests as they escalated to include calls for Communist Party leaders to resign." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/twitter-china-spam-protests/
Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests

Links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from Chinese cities where rallies escalated.

The Washington Post
paul lukasiakNov 27, 2022

Does anyone know what is going on with the non-political corners of Twitter?

Are people who only tweet about their cats, and follow other cat tweeters, being bombarded with tweets promoting Elon Musk, for instance?

paul lukasiakNov 27, 2022
Jelani CobbNov 27, 2022

Why I Quit Elon Musk’s Twitter

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-i-quit-elon-musks-twitter

Why I Quit Elon Musk’s Twitter

Jelani Cobb writes about his recent decision to quit Elon Musk’s Twitter, a social-media platform that once represented the new frontier of digital democracy.

The New Yorker
paul lukasiakNov 27, 2022
Jelani CobbNov 27, 2022

The arguments for remaining on twitter to “fight” remind me of the gambling adage that the house always wins. “Fighting” there is like gambling and thinking you’ll eventually beat the house. But even if you win $10,000 at the slot machine it’s because it’s in the casino’s bigger interests to give you $10,000.

A viral post from a progressive helps prop up an increasingly reactionary company. @jeffjarvis

paul lukasiakNov 27, 2022
David AtkinsNov 23, 2022

Elon is your typical far-right hatemonger spreading racist and homophobic conspiracy theories, who thinks Catturd and Tim Pool are citizen journalist truth tellers on the side of the "people" while real journalists are liars.

He's lighting $44B on fire under that delusion.

paul lukasiakNov 27, 2022
David AtkinsNov 26, 2022
A big part of the freakout you're seeing from Elon and the rest of the rightwing crowd is that they just ran a whole campaign against the "woke mind virus" and LGBTQ people in an electoral environment that should have favored them heavily--and they lost. /1
paul lukasiakNov 26, 2022
Chase TM Anderson, 💖🦄🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️Nov 26, 2022
Normalize Black people coming to this app being safe to speak their minds. What we bring up might abut internal discomfort and biases that you might hold. That is not the minoritized person’s responsibility, though, to educate you, coddle you, to do the work for you. It is your responsibility to not create yet another space where Black people are marginalized or silenced.
I’ve been calculated about bringing this up and now is the time.💖✊🏽
#Black #BlackPride #Minoritized #Responsibility #unity
Show threadpaul lukasiakNov 25, 2022

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EIther way, Garland cannot continue to serve as AG -- either he is grossly incompetent, or corrupt.

Smith, of course, needs to go as well ---

Is Sally Yates available for the AG job?

Show threadpaul lukasiakNov 25, 2022

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So now, not only do the Republicans get to claim "political bias" every time there is a development in the Trump case, they'll also get to accuse the Dems of hypocrisy for supporting Jack Smith. And because that hypocrisy charge is justified, "average americans" will be more receptive to the "politically motivated investigation" charge.

Either Garland KNEW about Smith's wife, and deliberately sabotagued the investigation by appointing Smith, or he failed to vet Smith fully.