Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.
"Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic - Fast Company
For years, the company’s zeal for free speech blinded it to safety concerns. Now it’s scrambling to make up for lost time.
Twitter’s Pre-Musk Plans Mirrored Elon’s Vision—Until He Abandoned, Trashed Or Ignored Them
Today, the new book by NY Times reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, comes out. If you’re at all interested in what went down, I can’t recommend it …
The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter
The common forum that Elon Musk destroyed will never be replaced—and that’s okay.
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
How Mastodon was prepared for Elon Musk’s Twitter to fail.
The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter - The Atlan…
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The Divine Teachings of ‘Fucking the Text Man for Texts’
Nearly five years after the original tweet, it's become an undying meme that tears at the complicated fabric of modern desire
I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy
The last few days on Twitter have been, well, chaotic, I guess? Beyond the blocking of the ElonJet account, followed by the blocking of the @JoinMastodon account, then the blocking of journalists a…
Yishan on Twitter / X
I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter.So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out)(long 🧵)— Yishan (@yishan) April 15, 2022
Trump Lost the Shutdown, But At Least God Made Him President, and He’s Building That Wall
In the days since his shutdown humiliation, Trump has holed up watching cable news and tweeting his alternative reality.
How we built Twitter Lite
A Tweet Before Dying
The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.
> The Mozilla Foundation isn't holding back its disdain for Big Tech leaders. > Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do. AT Protocol and the broader open social web is one of the ways we take back power from Big Tech. (If you see me out in these New York City streets, let me know.)
Business Insider
Mozilla's new ad campaign skewers tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk bit.ly/4xBAuDZ
People are misunderstanding what happened here. They mostly did not go back to twitter. They went to linkedin or substack or threads nowhere and so interesting technical conversations simply didn't happen that could have.
Ryan Moulton
Lots of people tried to reconstruct the ML/AI/stats community over here. 90% of them left because the random abuse they got for just posting ordinary research results was too much. bsky.app/profile/jwherrman.bsky.social…
