1051
The entire point of advertisers is to carry out watering-hole attacks on human attention. If you keep enough attention, they're always going to be there -- right behind the tall grass.
1052
Anybody at Twitter who cares about what advertisers think should not be working at Twitter. Twitter lives or dies based on a single metric: is the most important conversation in the world happening here?
Make it fun and make it matter. That's how you win.
1053
Asking people to pay $8/month to read tweets by NGOs and Hillary Clinton is only going to shrink the user base, because there's no audience for boring. It's short-term revenue at the cost of network itself.
1054
"Twitter will still have a free tier."
Yeah, but if pay-to-win accounts are prioritized for visibility, as Elon suggested, you're going to be drowned in tweets by the lethally boring blob that will expense annual Twitter Blue subs via line items in institutional budgets.
1055
There are ways to make this app print money, and ways to kill it, @elonmusk. Put people over ads and you'll get both, but "ads over people leads to neither."
1056
It's time to talk about shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. It was always a mistake, a costly artifact of the hysteric post-9/11 authoritarianism that left us no more safe, but much less free.
Its plan to become the Speech Police is the final straw.
Shut it down. twitter.com/ACLU/status/15…
1057
Once you wake up to the idea that the world has been patterned, intentionally or unintentionally, in ways you don’t agree with, you can begin to change it.
edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/conspiracy-p…
1058
Skepticism is a virtue, cynicism is a vice.
1059
biden stumbling last night through a line about "DARK FORCES THAT THIRST FOR POWER" indicates that the white house is still letting the speechwriter responsible for that deranged red-stage debacle touch the teleprompter. shows a real commitment to 0% unemployment, honestly.
1060
Genuine sympathy for Biden looking at this line on the teleprompter and being like "I'm sorry, what? 'The dark forces that thirst for power?' I thought we fired that speechwriter." twitter.com/DailyCaller/st…
1061
I've never understood the political fear of Libertarians.
"Sure, they're not in power now, but someday they might take over and... uh, leave you alone, I guess, since that's kind of their whole deal."
It's like being afraid of cats.
1062
If they changed their mascot from a porcupine to a cat, they'd probably win the White House just on marketing.
1063
This is our first in-person hackathon since the Before Times. Come and make a difference with us! twitter.com/SecureDrop/sta…
1064
This is not true. I've never endorsed this--I haven't even used it. I can't recall publicly endorsing *any* VPN. twitter.com/gate_io/status…
1065
I use GrapheneOS every day. twitter.com/Schwubdiwub1/s…
1066
@gate_io @inversebrah put them in the blender
1068
One well-adjusted gentleman articulates our extremely healthy political culture regarding whistleblowers who reveal unconstitutional activities on the part of government.
Didn't even have to pay Elon $8 for the blue-tick.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/s… twitter.com/NateBell4AR/st…
1070
@CL207 it's all fun and games until NSA gives the IRS a corkboard of ct pfps, a big chart showing the movements of every phone number that repeatedly intersected with the locations of whale ct parties (CO-TRAVELER), and a manila folder labeled "dms and discord"
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
1072
Thanks, I'll pass. twitter.com/NSA_CSDirector…
1073
The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983.
1074
The entire thing is much longer, but *entirely* worth the watch. The government sued Snepp in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled intelligence workers had to submit any statement for censorship, even those unrelated to secrets.
youtube.com/watch?v=UwerBZ…
1075
Hat tip to @BankerWeimar, whose ongoing "Do you think the CIA still does this?" memes sent me looking for old interviews of all the former employees the CIA sued into silence.
twitter.com/BankerWeimar/s…
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