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Attached: 1 image Good morning, here's some schadenfreude arising from Twitter's most right-wing employees cheering Elon Musk's acquisition and then also getting fired. Sorry not sorry, bootlicking bigots. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.html

Really sick of having Republicans crash the economy when they're in power and when they're not in power, they threaten to crash the economy to get things they couldn't pass when they were in power. RT @bpmehlman@twitter.com The debt limit has been raised 78 times since 1960: -49 times under GOP presidents -29 times under DEM presidents Per @NBCNews@twitter.com https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/debt-ceiling-deadline-will-republicans-pass-rcna65710

I get that the GOP likes to pretend that MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is a call for colorblindness (it's not), citing the "content of their character" line, but here's a little secret: If you're the type of person who feels the need to cling to that line, free from context, then the "content of your character" is pretty apparent, and it's not looking good for you.

Attached: 1 video Kier Starmer is all 'lets have a respectful debate' now Iain Anderson from @stonewalluk@mastodon.social wants to reset the debate with anti-trans groups. No, just no. We tried that for years and you're asking trans people to 'debate' people who call us perverts and paedophiles, who mock our dead, who relentlessly attack us and want to remove our rights. Stonewall needs to actually listen to the trans community, we need a fucking voice that isn't 'chaperoned' and is actually representative.

It’s time to dispose of the naïve idea that the difficulty with rape prosecutions is epistemic (“but how do we KNOW it wasn’t consensual!?”) and admit that the real question is whether or not rape is a prerogative of manhood. Tate preaches that it is; seems like the cops agreed.

— Moira Donegan (@MoiraDonegan) January 11, 2023

I have a new painful rule:

If someone doesn’t believe they can cause harm?

They can not create change

— 🗽Sydette Cosmic Dreaded Gorgon 🇬🇾 (@Blackamazon) January 8, 2023

Hey House Democrats, one more reminder: Don’t bail out House Republicans tomorrow. Don’t throw them a lifeline. Don’t team up with a few Republicans to pick some “consensus” Speaker. This is THEIR mess. This is THEIR dysfunction. THEY own it. The American people need to see it.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 2, 2023

Merry Christmas.Twitter APIs have been abused and data is now being sold. Consider your account security. Especially if you are coming from Twitter and maybe… just maybe… don't have the best security practice there. I doubt this is the last we see of these types of events. The data is now being sold online. Twitter data breach: +400m users. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125843

Reminder that if you're feeling lonely today, see this hashtag: ➡️ #JoinIn There are lots of people (myself included) keeping each other company on there, with all kinds of posts from hot chocolate recipes to historical photos to horses covered in tinsel to just general thoughts and chatter. You can use the hashtag however you want, serious or fun, and anyone using the tag is welcoming of replies and discussion so it's a great way of striking up a conversation. See you there! ☃️

The more I see gushing uncritical praise of machine learning, or worse, completely fabricated accounts of what people think goes on inside machine learning models, the more I worry about what seems increasingly like a literacy problem on the part of users. When people don't understand a technology, they just start making things up that sound like they could be true and which fit their existing biases. What's that gonna look like going forward with stuff like LLMs?

Keep seeing criticism of Mastodon saying "it's fundamentally difficult to advertise on" and I'm sat here like "good 👍"

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons. And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

One: perhaps the freedoms you enjoy here are denied to people who look like Brittney, which is why she took a knee.
Two: Brittney and her family have already expressed their gratitude. You do not get to dictate how Black and LGBTQ people feel about their country. https://t.co/7tLhORD3Zy

— Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon (@ksvarnon) December 10, 2022

No the thesis does not argue that but none of Musk’s followers are going to read it anyway. This is the world’s richest man trying to pizzagate his former employee. For what? It’s so so dangerous. https://t.co/NKqwj1v6Fe

— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) December 10, 2022

I’m an American Jew living in America, not an Israeli, and my support for politicians is based on what they’re doing HERE. In the country they’re supposed to be serving. https://t.co/hW1tnd8L1J

— Jessica Price (@Delafina777) December 9, 2022

And there it is. Donald Trump has now officially thrown the Republican Jews who reached out to him under the bus.

This is what was always going to happen.

First he came for the liberal Jews, but the Republican Jews didn’t say anything because they agreed. Now it’s their turn. https://t.co/SWmwqbfNN2

— Elad Nehorai (@EladNehorai) December 9, 2022

"America hating" ok. Quick question. The Confederates hated the United States and passed on that legacy to generations of their descendants. Shouldn't that alone warrant the obliteration of Confederate nostalgia culture? If we are using hatred of America as a basis for something https://t.co/9Bwvr0LwzE

— Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) December 9, 2022

Sure looks like evidence that "Libs of TikTok" got special treatment, put above universal rules by telling moderators to not do their job as normal, but instead to let violations slide and alert higher-ups who would make judgment calls.
Wasn't this supposed to show the opposite? https://t.co/Xb7yNU5r6m

— Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81) December 9, 2022