Greg Spradlin @spradlig@social.cleverlibre.org

Your Twitter/X account is a microphone connected to a mixer controlled by a fascist. You can speak all you want. The fascist controls your volume and can mute you whenever he wants. And you might not even know you’ve been muted because you can still hear yourself in your headphones.

It’s not called resistance when your volume knob is in someone else’s hand.

#twitter #x #algorithmicTimeline #elonMusk #fascism

It's appalling that journalists and their news organizations never stand back in self-reflection to ask why the public is ill-informed on a topic when it is the supposed job of news to inform them. Why is the public ill-informed about the economy? It ain't Biden's fault, folks.

Framing authority George Lakoff @georgelakoff yesterday quoted the brilliant Eric Blair's @protecttruth article:

Twitter is being used by a billionaire to shift public opinion. Time to go elsewhere >>> https://deepnarrative.substack.com/p/twitter-is-being-used-by-a-billionaire

"Twitter is now a danger to American democracy. The only effective solution now is to move to new platforms. There are other social media platforms... we can build them up to support honest debate and provide some replacements to Twitter."

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#twittermigration

I’ve been extremely disappointed but not surprised that so many brands continue to spend money advertising on a site that then pays a portion of that money out to anti-semites, hate mongers and accused sex traffickers like Andrew Tate.

Apple who is glad to take a moral stand against ads is now happy to literally put money in the pockets of virulent anti-semites to sell products. So much for those high ethical standards around human rights, I guess.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/betteridge-apple-twitter

The work day after a teach-in opposing arming campus #police, the GW provost tells professors to speak only through official channels. A year ago, he defended employing Justice Thomas as an adjunct because "we steadfastly support the robust exchange of ideas.” But he would like #faculty opponents of putting more guns on campus to kindly keep quiet unless we’re asked to speak. #teaching

BIG WIN: New York's Governor Kathy Hochul just announced they will be sending free N95/KN95 masks and #COVID tests to schools.

Thank you to COVID Advocacy NY and all the groups and advocates who have been pushing. Keep going: We need a free mask and test program for all New Yorkers!

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/academic-year-begins-governor-hochul-makes-covid-19-tests-and-masks-available-schools-keep-new

Our next meeting is Thurs., Sep. 14 at 4662 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Port Orange. Doors open 6:30 p.m., meeting begins at 7:00. The guest speaker is community activist Terri Sharp.

#portorange #ponceinlet #wilburbythesea #volusiacounty #volusiademocrats #floridademocrats
#voteblue #gotv #takebackfl #takebackflorida #activism #inclusion #freedom

Non-paywalled New York Times article on indictment of t***p and cronies in Fulton County, GA for election interference:

https://tinyurl.com/bdzmb7rr
#trumpisacriminal #january6 #fascism

There is no reason that Hunter Biden should be the lede of 3 articles at the top of the NYT page. I wish I could say it was unbelievable, but it's not.

I keep thinking about how Google invested, keeps investing, billions of dollars in tools that functionally do little more than generate an unlimited supply of statistically plausible text completely disconnected from any that there's such a thing as truth or veracity or verifiability, and I have to imagine the search team just screaming into their pillows every night knowing it's going to destroy the company and everything it ever claimed to stand for.

Remember the New York Times’ obsession with Hillary Clinton’s e-mails during the 2016 election season? It turned out to be a giant nothing burger. This time, NYT is determined to make Hunter Biden a thing. Today and yesterday, they have published at least THREE articles (one by Peter Baker 😟) about Hunter. There is no indication that President Biden did anything wrong.

Judge Cannon Blows Off Concerns about Walt Nauta's Conflicted Representation

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/07/judge-cannon-blows-off-concerns-about-walt-nautas-conflicted-representation/

I'm pleased to share that today I start a new 6 month part-time position as a Research Fellow in Music Technology at Sheffield University's Department of Computer Science.

I'll be continuing my work on Sonic Pi - taking it into an exciting new direction. Stay tuned for updates!

Hey. I was banned from types.pl for having interviewed at the NSA 13 years ago, when I was 20 years old. I'm grateful for a new home on mathstodon.

I am very unhappy with anyone who is going after the types.pl moderators personally for this and not just respectfully discussing the situation, and I'm personally extremely sorry if my Tweet inspired any of those actions. If I see this at all I will be escalating to SIGPLAN CARES.

In a recent post I mentioned working with the department of defense as faculty. I mean that in two capacities: (1) receiving DARPA grants for verification work, and (2) organizing a workshop through the department of defense on the security risks of generative AI for code. I am always public about this with students, and I always ask students before funding them on DARPA grants, making it clear I will source funding elsewhere if the student strongly opposes defense funding. This is the kind of thing I wanted to discuss after seeing Oppenheimer; I'm a bit bummed that instead I got banned for a post about something that happened 13 years ago, when I was not in the PL community at all, and basically lived under a rock with respect to everything except math, Dance Dance Revolution, and competitive running.

Anyways, hi, please help me rebuild my friend network here.