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Musk claiming that a lot more people are engaging on Twitter is like me claiming that a lot more people are stopping by to look at my new house after I set it on fire.

Yoel Roth has now quit Twitter. Platform will be dead by Thanksgiving.

"Musk’s new legal department is also apparently asking engineers to “self-certify” compliance with FTC rules and other privacy laws."

If you know people working at Twitter, you need to tell them to resign rather than do this. That company is asking you to absorb the institution's liability, and the muskrat will fuck you without hesitation if you allow the possibility of that happening to exist.

@taylorlorenz It feels somehow cosy reading this from a distance, rather than on twitter itself. Like being inside, warm & dry, watching the rain lashing the window outside

Interesting thought by @riskybusiness on his latest podcast: what would happen if someone like Google set up their own Mastodon instance, and it became like the Gmail of Mastodon.

I recognize that a lot of people who have been around would have concerns, but... it's the kind of thing that could happen.

We never did a proper #introduction, did we? 😲

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They're beginning to figure out the mathematics of rogue waves: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mathematicians-may-soon-be-able-to-predict-enormous-rogue-waves

Why do I bring up *your* personal data in the context of a potential Twitter paywall?

Because Elon Musk has made blatant what has, until now, been hush-hush: that everything you contribute to Big Social is valuable.

It's not just your tweets, but also:

1. The time you spend on site
2. Your search queries
3. Your social sentiment
4. Your interests
5. Your contacts and relationships

You put in the work, gave Twitter that data—and now they're going to monetize all of it to the very last drop.

I little bit prouder today of my institution. MIT is hosting its own #mastodon server

mastodon.mit.edu

See you there soon

"How could this happen to the guarantor of democracy?" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/world/us-international-democracy.html

A lot of snarky people on #Twitter are mocking people migrating to mastodon, which I find funny because I remember when Twitter first came out and it was mocked heavily until people got famous and built entire careers from it. Then of course it became *Very Important*. Entire books written on how to conquer it! (To be clear though, I don’t really want that arc for mastodon, because I think we need a change from the old model…)

I just wrote about Elon Musk and Twitter

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/11/elon-musk-twitter-mastodon