I get the political urgency for a reboot of the Democratic brand for more media-savvy leadership. But a lot is built around their disastrous defeat in the 2024 elections. There is a danger of generalizing about an anomalous post-covid anti-incumbency year when the defeat was actually fairly narrow.

Both recent SASSY events have been highlights have been wonderful, and for those who couldn’t attend in person, you can still catch the recordings. They’re all very unique store stories. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

In honor of WhatsApp inserting ads into their app, I’m starting a recurring $5 monthly donation to @signal.org

i hate having pronouns in my video game slop now i have no choicr but to support putting all immigrants in labor camps

Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories. It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.

Don't just listen to players. If given the option, they'll optimize the game out of their games, and the story out of their stories. It's our job to filter information and data and feedback into good work, and while we'll sometimes miss it's better than blindly following surveys.

Why bluesky is one of the more trustworthy networks I have right now. Note: this is the browser version, so I can’t confirm the app has no tracking.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

Thinking of the many people afflicted by long #COVID who persevered to make initiatives like this happening. Incredible work that should serve as a beacon to established NIH investigators (assuming the NIH survives the next four years). www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...

Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century

Been on this site all of one weekend and already blocking Nazi apologists. This really is like old Twitter!

Please don't leave disabled people behind in your revolution. Please do not see us as sacrifices for the greater good, or dead weight. Please see our lives as worth saving, too.

Well hey, look at that, protests work

For anyone that, on the off chance, wants to import their #Twitter history to Bluesky and is willing to use a little bit of #Nodejs, here's the package I used to do it for me. Can confirm it works with Windows System Linux too. github.com/marcomaroni-... Happy Importing

Same, Grant. Same.

Migrating over to following as many of the same people I used to follow on Twitter, I encountered a sense of loss that I didn't feel when I stopped using the bird site. Perhaps it just hit me how much history is going to be erased.

http://whatsaspacebar.bsky.app Final farewell to Twitter. This account will be gone shortly.

Heads up to any of you who monetize content on this platform https://x.com/PuppygirlMao/status/1796646255809921229

Been over a year since my last tweet. Have you all been well? No, I’m not planning on coming back, but I thought I’d see how bad the pit has become. Why’s everything so sticky and slow?

I don't know where the time went, but today marks 10 years that I've been on the bird app. After a lot of introspection and thinking over the past few months about what I want for my future, I've also decided today is where I part ways with Twitter. At least for now.

Probably shouldn't have fired one of the best AI teams ever assembled by a single company. Whoops. But sure, go for it man, if it goes as well as Tesla FSD I'm sure it'll kill hundreds of people. https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1630371994607947779

Love the mission and what Thorn does: backs up a lot of the gaming survey work from the team I previously worked with. (But this is still probably the worst Venn diagram I've ever seen) https://twitter.com/thorn/status/1628091639418716167

If only JIRA were so useful https://twitter.com/techdirt/status/1625948119065104388

Apropos of nothing, it's probably worth mentioning that Twitter's significantly reduced engineering force likely means their anti-scraping measures have eroded https://twitter.com/RebekahKTromble/status/1624174474710110209

I can't help but notice that @elonmusk's new TweetDeck - hereafter named "ElonDeck" - in addition to being slower than before makes it much harder to block spam-followers. To block, you have to go to the main Twitter website, which gives them a chance to serve an ad. Brilliant.

If you, too, would support an outstanding faculty member enduring retaliation from @UCLA's Faculty of Ecology for drawing attention to discriminatory practices, or if you would just like to tell Professor* Chilton Eftwith to sod off, consider donating: https://t.co/w3qCmHWkGs https://t.co/oCfFbdATHt

The quality of closed captioning on @NewsHour's youtube broadcasts has declined dramatically in the last month. They used to be very good, so I'm not sure what changed, but it's so bad now even a family member with Alzheimer's disease notices it's clearly wrong. #a11y failure.

I see that the @pragmaticinst content managers have decided @grimalkina's blood pressure is too low

Okay, that's pretty cool and low key horrifying but cool https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1615229929825656835

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1615194151737520128 https://t.co/6MirqHMVOB

Anti-vaxxers with "CAN read and understand a research paper" in their profiles and don't understand what "84% effectiveness" means are, objectively, hilarious https://twitter.com/funnynunn/status/1611729575423406080

While it goes down in flames, I've gotta say that my user relationship with #Twitter has gotten better since deleting the mobile app two months ago. I only use Tweetdeck to view the site now, but I'm convinced its days are numbered. Anyone else changed their bird app behavior?

Well I guess academics HAVE to build their own websites now, because this is what the infinite wisdom of @elonmusk's Twitter shows people when they try to add a linktree URL to their description https://twitter.com/Namatnieks/status/1604567444189765636

I hope @yoyoel takes @elonmusk to court for defamation and threats of violence proportional to the latter's social media reach. This is just grotesque. https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitters-ex-safety-head-yoel-roth-flees-home-after-elon-musks-smear-campaign-report-says?source=twitter&via=mobile

One more trip around the sun in the bag

Definitely something a not-mad person says

Nice work, GA #GeorgiaRunof

This is the T-pose of academic publishing https://twitter.com/jmtfeliciano/status/1597355324008108034

I see Jorts has begun his villain arc By which I mean "begun to shift from decent progressive views to anti-progressive centrism because he couldn't grok that the needs of disabled communities might be more varied and complex than he expected" Bet he'll follow JBP any day now https://t.co/0haT...

Ah, so that's why #Tesla is always years behind schedule on everything it promises to produce https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1594935692303380482

Tell me you don't understand Mastodon w/o telling me you don't understand Mastodon. You can't be "suspended from Mastodon" unless the entire #Fediverse drops you and your host. In this case, Mike got dropped by his host for violating ToS, which explicitly prohibits transphobia. https://t.co/9fw...

CW: anti-trans bigotry In this thread, the former head of Trust and Safety at Twitter tries to excuse his use of a slur against trans people and then gaslight someone about whether or not he apologized for it https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1594087857932492801

He main own #twitter But we will always be the Bird Site

okay fair play https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1591233043075067907

PSA: if you're a mid-level or senior-level data scientist formerly (or currently) with #Twitter looking for a new gig, my DMs are open. Looking to hire for a non-profit with huge impact in the next ~3 weeks. 2-3 hours of interviews before offer. #LoveWhereYouWorked #OneTeam

What a child https://twitter.com/BigTechAlert/status/1589739248261169152

Holy heck that is way higher than estimates I saw even from non-Twitter sources https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1589729107335860225

Thread gives a pretty compelling argument for uninstalling Twitter (let alone other social media apps) https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817

I can fully believe they were this incompetent... But another part of me wonders if this is a fake-out. Those laid off are technically still on the books for WARN compliance - would refusing the "come back" request be used as grounds for immediate termination without severance? https://t.co/eEa...