No future here, as a serf propping up the plutocrat’s plaything. The Fediverse is what Twitter wanted to be all along. You can find me as @JamesGleick@zirk.us.
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7 Jul 2023
To my friends who dipped a toe in the water at Mastodon and gave up:
Please take another look. It works. Of course it will take time to recreate your network of friends and follows, but with patience it will happen. Then the experience will be better than Twitter ever was.
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James Gleick retweeted
11 Jan 2024
James Gleick on the neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell’s scientific argument for free will go.nybooks.com/48xrtzF
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15 Sep 2023
Now comes the petty tyrant, wielding his tiny whip on behalf of America’s overlords.
[If you’re still on Twitter … what would be the last straw?]
theintercept.com/2023/09/15/…
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7 Jul 2023
To my friends who dipped a toe in the water at Mastodon and gave up:
Please take another look. It works. Of course it will take time to recreate your network of friends and follows, but with patience it will happen. Then the experience will be better than Twitter ever was.
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7 Jul 2023
(Don’t be distracted by Threads. You don’t want the ads, and you don’t want the algorithm choosing what you see.)
Here’s a good starter guide (among many): medium.com/@mastodonmigratio…
Here’s an invite link to the instance I’m on: zirk.us/invite/VPrCmkX4
Hope to see you there.
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3 Apr 2023
My friends, when you’re ready for #Mastodon—even if you think you’ve already tried it—here’s your invitation:
zirk.us/invite/PXNHY85k
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James Gleick retweeted
23 Nov 2022
President Johnson's notes for his remarks to Cabinet today 1963: "I need each of you to tell me what the problems are. . . .I want you to speak frankly, candidly....I want you all to stay on. I need you."
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James Gleick retweeted
22 Nov 2022
Are you on Mastodon? Follow us at mastodon.social/@AuthorsGuil…
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21 Nov 2022
So many of @GreatDismal’s characters are well realized in this adaptation of The Peripheral, but none more indelibly than Alexandra Billings as Inspector Lowbeer. She owns every scene. As the inspector should.
21 Nov 2022
Time to meet the one and only, Inspector Lowbeer.
Stream episode 1-6 of #ThePeripheral, exclusively on @PrimeVideo.
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James Gleick retweeted
21 Nov 2022
“Do they have a plan for what to do if they succeed in diminishing respect for the Justice Department and with it society’s confidence in the rule of law? Not likely.”
Read this and beware the MAGA jihad against the FBI and the Justice Department. . .
latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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The next question is how was this person able to buy and keep guns
20 Nov 2022
In June 2021 the alleged Colorado Springs mass shooter threatened to blow up his mom with a homemade bomb and assorted firearms. He was coaxed out of his home by a SWAT team negotiation unit. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog… via @TPM
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James Gleick retweeted
20 Nov 2022
Attack on LGBTQ , attack on Pelosis, attack on law enforcement, threats against Boston Children's Hospital, intimidation of educators --- all individuals and groups targeted by right-wing media and GOP politicians. Connection is clear to see. Why does the majority tolerate this?
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James Gleick retweeted
20 Nov 2022
.@laurenboebert you have played a major role in elevating anti-LGBT hate rhetoric and anti-trans lies while spending your time in Congress blocking even the most common sense gun safety laws.
You don’t get to “thoughts and prayers” your way out of this. Look inward and change.
20 Nov 2022
The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful.
This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers.
This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly.
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James Gleick retweeted
20 Nov 2022
Reading back through Trump’s now-restored tweets is a useful reminder of broad complicity in the leadup to 1/6 really was.
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20 Nov 2022
In looking for a Twitter replacement, please beware of any service that will 1) depend on ads and 2) use algorithms to decide what posts to boost into your feed. That inevitably creates a poisonous vicious cycle: chasing engagement, encouraging clickbait, provocation, and rage.
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20 Nov 2022
Oh please. “The people.” Your filter bubble of right-wing courtiers and sycophants, you mean.
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James Gleick retweeted
20 Nov 2022
I am the least technical sort of guy, operating on a sense of techno-poetics that has next to nothing to do with actual function.
20 Nov 2022
if the master of cyberspace is still figuring it out, that gives me hope...the sky..the color of a busted TV...etc. Just seeing your name gives me a shred of it.
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James Gleick retweeted
20 Nov 2022
This thread is bang-on -- @mattbinder enunciates exactly what I've been thinking, as I've watched Musk blunder around with Twitter
18 Nov 2022
all the why Elon Musk bought Twitter theories are overthinking it.
it’s simple.
Musk is in a right wing filter bubble. he bought Twitter believing their problems were real & that others felt the same
this is what happens when you have a lot of money & live in fantasy land
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