@bascule

I don't use Twitter anymore. You can find me on Mastodon: https://xitter.cf/t.co/DZ2JbWztoi

 Denver, CO
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I'm moving on from Twitter. You can find me on these other platforms: - Blog: tonyarcieri.com - Cohost: cohost.org/bascule - Countersocial: counter.social/@bascule - Mastodon: mas.to/@bascule
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Logging back into Twitter briefly to say: - The "red wave" largely failed - Lauren Boebert may have lost - Bitcoin is crashing What a day. Fuck you, Elon. xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/158963…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk7 Nov 2022
To independent-minded voters: Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.
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Interrupting my otherwise permanent Twitter hiatus to say: Elon Musk's first acts as Twitter's dictator were to spread conspiracy theories and normalize political violence. If these things bother you, WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?! GET THE FUCK OFF independent.co.uk/news/world…

Elon Musk shares lurid conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi hammer attack

Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform – before deleting the post hours later

independent.co.uk
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I'm moving on from Twitter. You can find me on these other platforms: - Blog: tonyarcieri.com - Cohost: cohost.org/bascule - Countersocial: counter.social/@bascule
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For Mastodon fans, you can find me here: cybre.space/@bascule Although I gotta say I strongly dislike Mastodon and probably won't use it much. Federation seems inherently incompatible with content moderation, and the UX is generally awful. We can do better.
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I'm really liking Counter Social not only because it has content moderation, but also integrated bot detection via @BotSentinel, as well as being proactively anti-conspiracy theories.
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Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹 retweeted
Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹@bascule2 Nov 2022
Replying to @timheidecker @elonmusk
I think it's time we had a conversation with @elonmusk about the problem of ongoing death threats being circulated on the Twitter platform. We could call it Death Threat ConversatiOn with Elon, or #DeaThConOnElon
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#DeleteTwitter
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Musk is in charge of Twitter. Kanye the anti-semite is back. Trump will be back Monday. Alex Jones may also be coming back. Fuck this place.
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So basically killing actual free speech on this platform. Time to leave, I guess?
Damon Beres@dlberes28 Oct 2022
Twitter's head of legal, policy, and trust was reportedly among those fired tonight. This piece from @cwarzel explains precisely why cuts to legal + Trust and Safety in particular could be disastrous. theatlantic.com/technology/a…

How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter

There’s more than one way to sink a social network.

theatlantic.com
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Stuff Zoomers (probably) don’t know about
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More stuff Zoomers don’t know about
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Even more stuff Zoomers don’t know about
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Screenshot of Meta's latest closed beta of Horizon Worlds, showcasing an actual internal Meta company VR meeting between Horizon Worlds developers
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Zuck himself has been experimenting with augmented reality (AR) meetings
Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹 retweeted
Ryan Broderick@broderick27 Oct 2022
Zuckerberg’s metaverse is best understood not as a coherent technological project, but as a vague and self-destructive longing for a new shiny internet that is somehow different from one he, personally, broke. We’re watching a man without imagination desperately try to buy some.
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Clean energy transition pathways: solar and wind are our best bets, supplemented by replacing natural gas with P2X (power-to-X e.g. power-to-hydrogen + CCGT) inet.ox.ac.uk/files/energy_t…
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P2X has low efficiency but a property that more than makes up for it: it can be easily stockpiled. Electrolyzer sites, which need a heavy-duty grid connection and already have the tank storage, can run the process in reverse with CCGTs or fuel cells, returning energy to the grid
Remember when that billionaire that everyone hates bought that social media platform everyone loves and then proceeded to run it into the ground? nytimes.com/2005/07/18/busin…

News Corp. to Acquire Owner of MySpace.com (Published 2005)

The acquisition's price is sure to ignite debate about valuations and durability of new media companies because MySpace is only two years old.

nytimes.com
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