Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Congrats to the winner of the 2023 #SuperBowl: #Rihanna.

@georgetakei A coward and a bully. The quintessential Republican. Looking forward to watching him tank in the 2024 primaries.

Don’t let him do this.

One of the worst jobs in the world must be being a lawyer for Donald Trump, as the latest news makes clear. No less than three of them have appeared before Jack Smith’s grand jury lately, and now Smith intends to prove at least one was part of the crime. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/maga-make-attorneys-get-attorneys?sd=pf

If you're still on #Twitter
you're a part of the problem

@malwaretech

@IrwinFletcher0 @11thJeff I’m glad more and more people are becoming aware of who Elon really is— and it seems to be an exponential increase recently due to the absolutely ridiculous decisions he’s been making

Watch #elonmusk dance around the first question, (why did you buy #Twitter instead of creating your own company?) without explaining that he wanted to purchase human beings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNrlNgXx_U

Please tell me more about the transcendent genius of the guy who has a meltdown in the middle of the night, fires the guy who explains popularity to him, and then changes the rules to make himself the front page of everybody's news.

Seriously. Explain that genius to me. I'm anxious to learn.

#elonmusk #Twitter

@w7voa @tchambers Municipal and federal government services are going to have to take a good serious look at using #Twitter as a broadcast service. They really should start setting up their own Mastodon instances.

#Twitter responds.
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RT @TwitterSupport
Some of our users have posted or sent URLs that were flagged as suspicious in error, which leads to a verification request. Once verified, Likes will be restored, but this process may be delayed.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1626055930985979904

Rep. Ted Lieu quote tweets congressional AP reporter Farnoush Amiri:

Your regular reminder that the Chair of House Judiciary #GOP ignored a bipartisan congressional subpoena.

Amiri (AP):

New: GOP subpoenaed CEOs of largest tech companies on Wednesday.

Notably missing from the list is #Twitter. The new owner, #Tesla founder #ElonMusk, has proven to be more sympathetic to #conservatives than Twitter's previous administration.

#Subpoenas
https://apnews.com/article/technology-us-republican-party-tim-cook-business-sundar-pichai-ce0e00d7ddeff8c08a95a7fbf01080f8

Tweet:
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1626017478307635200

Les tweets de #Musk envoyés par défaut à l'ensemble des utilisateurs de Twitter

Restez bien au chaud sur #Mastodon les amis, #Twitter sent de plus en plus mauvais !

https://www.nextinpact.com/lebrief/71019/les-tweets-musk-envoyes-par-defaut-a-ensemble-utilisateurs-twitter

This man is seriously fucked up in the head. I'm sorry, this level of absurdity is not even remotely funny.

#ElonMusk #Twitter #WTF

@mike The amount of interactions on #Mastodon outweighs #Twitter by far.
It's insane that a few months of Mastodon seems to do more than around 12 years on Twitter.

At least for me that's the case. And I've used hashtags on both...
People just don't find your posts or react to them as much on the birdsite so it feels like a monologue there... unless you're popular already.

On behalf of the Association of Internet Researchers #AoIR, we join the Coalition for Independent Technology Research's call for #Twitter to *not close* their free API access for vital public-interest research & ask policymakers to enshrine this form of access to all big platforms.

https://independenttechresearch.org/letter-twitter-api-access-threatens-public-interest-research/

#introductions

I'm the chair of Comm Studies at American U in Washington, DC.

Stuff I do:

✅ Nonfiction abt culture, law & technology. Next book: THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA #MITPress (Spring 2024)

✅ Fiction. Next book: #scifi novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY #Solaris (2023; written w my sister @rachelcleves)

✅ Music. Mostly bass, jazz/reggae/soul. Latest album: DUNIA & ARAM "BEDFELLOWS" #GMOtheLabel (2022 w my wife the great @dunia) http://duniaandaram.com

@jeff This has always been my original gripe with the design of the Fediverse—that your identity doesn’t belong to you, but rather to the server that vouches for you.

To be fair, that’s how web sites work in general, where domain servers are authoritative. But a cryptographic proof of my identity would be better.

Plus with a public-private key pair, people could end-to-end encrypt their messages to me.

It seems like the majority of medically-recognised #Autistic traits are not autistic traits per se.

They are trauma responses common in autistic people.

I'm "more interested in things than people?" Maybe "things" don't turn hostile on me for unexplained reasons.

I'm dogmatically insistent that nobody can understand my mind but me? Maybe my entire childhood was spent resisting adults telling me they knew my mind better than I did.

This is also why "autistic traits" can seem contradictory. Both "talks about their interests all the time even in inappropriate settings" and "never talks about their interests" can be part of a diagnosis.

Because the latter is a trauma response to having the former shut down.

Is there an untraumatised autistic person?

I actually don't think so. So the map of what autism looks like to clinicians is shaped by our trauma.

And this probably compounds their impression that we're somehow defective, which in turn compounds the attitudes used to break us.

I just wanna be seen as a person.

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Do yourself a favor and reserve 10 minutes today to read this eye opening Oatmeal comic on the psychological "backfire effect”.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe