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· 18 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 8 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Trump’s Defenders Get Orwell Backwards by Sonny Bunch (thebulwark.com)

The president is more like Big Brother than Twitter ever can be.

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Twitter Kept Entire ‘Database’ of Republican Requests to Censor Posts (rollingstone.com)

Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down

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· 18 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 8 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

The Ideology of Hang-Ups by Aaron Ross Powell (Aaron Ross Powell)

The central flaw of the social conservative project is confusing one's own lifestyle preferences for universal truths about how everyone ought to live.

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· 17 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 8 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Sarah Glassmeyer (@sglassmeyer@law.builders) (Law.Builders)

It's really weird that when "free speech absolutists" reach for an example of risky speech, it's never speaking truth to power but rather finding ways to continue to punch down on marginalized communities without consequence.

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· 17 Shevat 5783 (Wednesday 8 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Jordan B. Peterson, Live In Concert by Justin Ling (Bug-eyed and Shameless)

The good doctor talks Genesis, Exodus, genocide, WEF, civics, and the theory of everything.

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· 17 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 7 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Lessons from Ilhan Omar’s Removal from the Foreign Affairs Committee by

Nathan Guttman (momentmag.com)

The vote was further proof that the question isn’t where to draw the line between criticism of Israel and antisemitism. It’s all about politics.

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· 16 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 7 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Welp the Twitter app is definitely going to start heading down the shitter because the head of product engineering for the app has left the building. https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#more-key-senior-engineers-leave-twitter

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· 16 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 7 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

What the Fork Do You People WANT?!? by Jonathan V. Last (Bulwark+)

Inside the mind of the American voter.

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· 16 Shevat 5783 (Tuesday 7 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

I completely understand why some people might want to use something like 11labs to preserve the voice of a deceased loved-one for their own use, but did anyone check with Tunehead's family, for instance, to find out if they're OK with his being reduced to a voice print for mass consumption? That struck me as disturbing in a way I'm having trouble defining and I knew him for years. And it demonstrates why we need to be having robust ethics discussions around this kind of technology.