Thomas Westgard

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This quote by Carl Sagan hangs in my office. #science
@notfunnyelle @feditips Mastodon is like walking into a quiet house after leaving a dance club. It’s not bad but the relative quiet feels like an affront
Thou shalt stop posting thy Tweets on Mastodon and just quit Twitter already!! FFS you’re making content for a fascist billionaire creep.
You don't have to agree with en vogue views of gender to insist that trans folks be allowed to live their lives the way they want to and with dignity and safety.

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

Senior members of Twitter's trust and safety team were aware of the list [of leftist accounts to mass report] and the false reporting campaign against Loder — which is a violation of Twitter's policies against platform manipulation — and had plans to address it.
However, key members of the team have now quit or were fired including executives Vijaya Gadde and Yoel Roth. https://www.businessinsider.com/left-wing-activists-banned-from-twitter-after-false-report-2022-11?r=US&IR=T
Left-wing activists banned from Twitter after false-report campaign

One of the users targeted told Insider they had found evidence of a coordinated campaign to get them banned from Twitter.

Business Insider
@s3nnacherib @Aecernist what you’re describing is identical to Karl Popper’s paradox of tolerance, I think. You’re just applying the paradox to a specific field whereas he spoke more broadly.

#success #twittermigration #twitterexodus #Mastodon #inspiration

"Imagine if we measured success by the amount of safety that people felt in our presence."

RT @[email protected]

🚨Time for a JMP thread 🚨 #EconTwitter

Gifts+loans from friends+family play an often unobserved informal insurance role, esp. during unemployment. I ask how much informal unemp insurance (UI) people get on P2P apps (e.g. Venmo) and the extent that public UI crowds it out.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/realkylecoombs/status/1594723742688616449

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“🚨Time for a JMP thread 🚨 #EconTwitter Gifts+loans from friends+family play an often unobserved informal insurance role, esp. during unemployment. I ask how much informal unemp insurance (UI) people get on P2P apps (e.g. Venmo) and the extent that public UI crowds it out.”

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