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The train wreck here lately has been fun to watch, but it seems like that phase is ending.
I've been on Mastodon for the past week: sfba.social/@gregprice
It's hardly perfect, but it's already felt like a much better place to have conversations. I hope to see many of you there!
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
So much for defending free speech.
Latest data reveals that @Twitter complied with *every single* government censorship request - no matter how repressive or arbitrary - since @elonmusk took over.
Compliance rates previously hovered around 50%.
restofworld.org/2023/elon-mu…
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
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.
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
The Nazi take-over of Twitter is going much faster than you realize.
Twitter has suspended probably the first & longest-running blogger, economist Dean Baker. He's co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research & his "Beat the Press" blog started in the 1990s.
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
It has been 5 weeks since @elonmusk took over and the pace of new feature releases has been incredible. Here is a list of all the successful new features. 🧵
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
This man is a liar. Those of you who take him at his word, and especially those who get publicly mad at whoever he claims is victimizing him, are giant suckers—marks—and should stop doing that. Have some self-respect.
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
Re-checked my Twitter latency measurements given there's supposedly been 400msec removed, and the time taken for a timeline refresh from India is basically identical to before
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
Of course, ageism will not be unique to SpaceX. But managing a high-performer out *right after* they have a surgery and miss a few days of work (!!) is cruel enough that it fits into the Musk-kind of management setup. We're seeing similar approaches favoring young ppl at Twitter.
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
As it turns out Sam Bankman-Fried was the fourth biggest donor to the Republican Party.
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
remember when elon musk claimed to be a utopian anarchist and then when cory doctorow called him out he got so mad he said cory doctorow was worthy of contempt and that people who supported unions were bigots
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
Thread: The Chron just published its 1st major analysis on what the data shows are the differences btw the prosecutorial approaches of the new DA, Jenkins, & her predecessor, Boudin. Below, I'll break down what I think they got right, and what they missed. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/b…
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
Still, they publish Jenkins' position, based on her feelings: “Certain crimes... I just don’t feel diversion will prove successful in keeping them out of the system in the future.” Well, I'm sorry you feel that way. It's unscientific and unfortunately causing a lot of harm.
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
A buddy who's interested in end-to-end encryption (E2EE) but hasn't done one of these projects in the very messy place which is the real world happened to ask me this morning about pitfalls which might not be obvious. So here's a partial list in the hopes that it's helpful. 🧵
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
Let’s dig into that. How did this young trans man who was simply living his life & doing his job “support the grooming of children”? The answer: He didn’t. But MAGA (taken over by QAnon) uses “groomer” to describe LGBTQ people & allies. We offend them & they want us to disappear.
@gregprice@sfba.social Greg Price retweeted
🧵Let’s talk about “groomer,” a word totally co-opted by the homo/transphobic MAGA right to slander LGBTQ people & their allies.
Ex A: The reply below to an @HRC tweet about a murdered trans bartender at Club Q: “And yet, he supported the grooming of children. Hard to feel bad.”
