CTO/Product. Author-Opting In. Traveler; foodie; cyclist; Chicagoan (and occasionally AZ). Also, Lotus Notes edbrill@techhub.social and on Post
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Yes. Me too. To call it out, yeah Yoel was the head of a critical team at Twitter, but the fact that he is Jewish and gay makes him an extra special target for hate. I’ve experienced passive antisemitism for my work, I can’t stan a platform using one of us as a bogeyman
12 Dec 2022
OK, folks, this Yoel Roth imbroglio, of all things, has effectively been the last straw for me. I'm going to be significantly decreasing my twitter usage and migrating my Litigation Disaster Tours over to Mastodon (mastodon.sdf.org/@AkivaMCohe…). I'll post links to them here when I do.
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The @TheSineadBurke I am a @TheNewSchool parent writing about yesterday’s commencement. My student has followed you and your strong message about inclusivity, and was looking forward to your speech.
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Instead we were made to relive generational trauma not just from the students, but an outside speaker. You can be sure it is an experience we will never forget. #neveragain
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The silence is deafening. No humble brag about speaking at a prestigious university commencement on any of your socials @TheSineadBurke . Maybe the icy reception led to regret? Certainly two weeks later, it doesn’t look like platforming protestors was a good decision.
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Occam’s razor: read some right wing tweets. there are a ton of now “verified” Twitter blue replies. How can this many people see value in a $100/yr blue check mark???
Here’s an example account that to me, looks like an Elon stan bot. It’s a game ….x.com/brxx777?s=21&t=DQZamyx…
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24 Dec 2022
JUST IN: Judge Thompson rules against @KariLake, finding no intentional misconduct by @maricopacounty.
@katiehobbs will be sworn in as governor of Arizona.
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As I said two days ago, the soft ban of mastodon links was a trial balloon testing the anti trust waters. This - this is anathema… against everything the internet has stood for in the 38 years since I was first on Usenet. I’m out. Facebook Instagram mastodon post = edbrill
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Ed Brill retweeted
17 Dec 2022
If you’re like me, you’re asking yourself whether you’re in an abusive relationship with Twitter. You invested time and creativity. You met cool people. But now you feel used by a narcissistic jerk who values other jerks more than he values you. It just feels like he’s ruined it.
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It’s so weird watching a bunch of maga come on this platform and
1) demand “free speech”
2) demand censorship of the topics that the right wing anger machine has them spun up about
I think platforms have a responsibility to manage content. But can’t do #2 and #1 simultaneously
13 Dec 2022
I have no interest in any ideas from the former CEO that allowed child exploitation to thrive on his watch.
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Ed Brill retweeted
11 Dec 2022
The anti-Fauci stuff comes from the same emotional place as the Hunter Biden fantasies: the desperate hunt for a scapegoat for Trump's 2020 defeat to absolves Trump and his supporters of responsibility for their own mistakes and crimes.
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30 tweets to say “this is a private platform and after internal debate, they decided to kick him off.” I thought there was all this government interference and conspiracy in the Twitter files???
12 Dec 2022
THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE.
THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER.
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I've never been on a social media platform that turned into a dying mall before. Picking at a lukewarm cinnabon while watching some weirdo set up a church in an old Forever 21.
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