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Jack is one of the only folks willing to speak a hard truth: a site that answers one censorship demand inevitably finds itself facing millions. It will never be free.
Censorship might help your business, but it hurts society. The moderation problem requires a different answer. twitter.com/jack/status/16…
1152
"The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools **for us** to manage the public conversation, versus building tools **for the people using Twitter** to easily manage it for themselves." twitter.com/jack/status/16…
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"Governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this." twitter.com/jack/status/16…
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I'm significantly more sympathetic to @elonmusk's concern about crazy people showing up at the door than the average person because, well, look at my life, but c'mon, man.
You're a public figure in a position of power in a world where even normal people are constantly tracked.
1157
Do you feel safer? twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
1158
Adults are at times farther from comprehending the world than children. Children have yet to educated, but remain open to learning, while adults have often been 𝘮𝘪𝘴-educated, and so jealously guard the granite of their preconception from being cracked by a contrary truth.
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I take payment in Bitcoin. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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This thread is a remarkable case study on how the FBI overcame a major tech company's resistance to running favors for the Feds by basically running an influence operation against key staffers—and paying to rent others—until they had the censorship crew eating out of their hands. twitter.com/shellenberger/…
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Do you think other major internet companies are secretly aiding the US military's psychological operations?
Reporters (and Congress, and governments around the world) should be *all over* Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit for answers. Where there's smoke, there's fire. twitter.com/lhfang/status/…
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I agree with @MartaBelcher. twitter.com/BlockchainAssn…
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The worst people in politics from both parties have teamed up to demand Congress rubber-stamp a 4,155-page blank check—many times the length of the Bible.
A check for $1,700,000,000,000 of your money.
And they want it stamped before anyone can actually read it.
Sounds legit.
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@anshelsag On the off-chance you were genuinely misled by some garbage headline, I am in fact still an American citizen. As it turns out, you can collect citizenships like Pokemon cards.
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So now that we know who it wasn't, anyone care to venture a guess as to who it was?
"The explosions may never be definitively attributed" sounds a bit like the groundwork being laid to let an "ally" off the hook for dynamiting Europe's energy policy. twitter.com/John_Hudson/st…
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I'm surprised the Stable Diffusion / ChatGPT / Generative AI projects haven't come hard for (at least instrumental) music, yet. If they can cop Caravaggio, surely they can remix chiptunes.
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“Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept? That these datasets will not be kept?”
Got a lot of flak for that on April 9th, 2020.
vice.com/en/article/bvg… twitter.com/AP/status/1606…
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I talked about this back in early 2020 and was dismissed as paranoid—as is our tradition when someone points to the predictable outcome of a dangerous but popular new trend. Stopping this will be harder, now.
You can watch the original interview here:
youtube.com/watch?v=yMMoEJ… twitter.com/AP/status/1606…
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The hardest work was done by @bunniestudios. In the end, we freely published our research in an academic journal (you can read here: tjoe.org/pub/direct-rad…) so anybody from the mobile industry (and the third-party gadget ecosystem) could adopt and commercialize the techniques. twitter.com/SamRoseAuthor/…
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. The only solution is taking platforms out of the moderation game. The content-layer of the internet should be moved to neutral protocols.
*You* should be the one who decides what you can read. Not a company. Not a government. twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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