Seth Masket

@smotus
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Political scientist. Author. Amateur cake-decorator.
University of Denver, Center on American Politics.
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Me glancing at Twitter...
My favorite Mastodon toot is the "Stop complaining that it's slow and clunky! It's supposed to be that way! Since when was the internet supposed to be fast?" toot.
I know I shouldn't be window shopping on Twitter but the end times over there are fucking hilarious.
Watching law prof Paul Gowder on the erasure of Black political and legal activism in the conception of the rule of law.
Good, neutral organizations for disseminating information are not money-makers and attempts to make them so almost always end in tragedy and I feel like we’ve known this for some time.
I took a look at the county-level vote for Boebert in 2020 and 2022 within the counties that were in the district in both years. Eagle County stands out because less of that county is now in that district than used to be there. But otherwise this is a very straight line. There was a roughly 5-point shift away from her in basically all counties.
Oh hell yeah I’d go back to federally regulated Twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/10/twitter-security-resignations/
Twitter’s content moderation head quits as departures alarm the FTC

The resignations of three Twitter security executives prompted federal regulators to warn they might step in.

The Washington Post
Ooh maybe it would help if a multi-billionaire bought it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/10/technology/elon-musk-twitter-employees.html
Musk Paints Bleak Picture for Twitter as Executives Depart

In his first communications with Twitter’s staff, the company’s new owner painted a bleak picture as more executives resigned.

The New York Times
This morning on CTV News, Canada
This is going so well.