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If I had wanted a Truth Social account, I would have made a Truth Social account. If *anyone* had wanted a Truth Social account, the trolls wouldn't have tried to buy an audience. He didn't buy me though: I'm out. He didn't buy you either: don't let him convince you that he did
The party will move somewhere else. The very very short history of our collective experiment with social media is littered with dead platforms you barely remember that were The Big important Thing at the time
Day 2 of our "Drawing with Machines" #PlotterTwitter workshop at @AndersonRanch near Aspen, and there's already lovely #generativeArt works in progress by @digitalcoleman, @iso_hedron, @hturan and many others
I had water in a box in Menemsha and did not get eaten by a shark #betterplanet
This #WorldRefugeeDay is a reminder that seeking asylum is a right, regardless of the country of origin.
Everyone has the right to seek safety.
With 100 million people displaced, there is no excuse for inaction.
Stand #WithRefugees @RESCUEorg
This, so much this whenever I see something in the news that I know anything about
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“With trust in government at an all-time low, it is crucial that the Administration and Congress work together to improve how the public interacts and receives services from the federal government.”
—Chair @GerryConnolly on @POTUS' EO to cut red tape
thehill.com/homenews/adminis…
Everyone keeps talking about covid becoming endemic, but as I listen to the conversation, it’s becoming more & more clear to me that very few of you know what “endemic” means.
So here’s a thread on how pandemics end.
We are proud to publicly announce the MIT Graduate Student Union! MIT grad student-workers are unionizing to create a healthy and fair working and learning environment for all, by giving us a voice in the decisions that affect us. (1/4) #MITGSU
Re last RT, we now know that both Google and Apple do this - women who complain of harassment are steered to the therapy provided (ostensibly) as a benefit, then they later use the content of those sessions to discredit them.
It's so massively unethical I almost can't believe it
Among Skyrim players, you'll occasionally see this tip: if you see a wild fox, follow it and you'll be led to treasure.
Sometime shortly after shipping, we saw this going around online, and an informal investigation started. Who made foxes do this?!
Because I like exterminating any residual shreds of faith in humanity, I looked through the overwhelmingly hostile comments on a YouTube video by a doctor debunking some covid misinformation tonight. I noticed an interesting parallel to some “election theft” disinfo.
THINK LIKE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST: evaluating news stories edition
No one is immune to sensational headlines but epidemiologists are trained to automatically ask a few useful questions that help us spot the forest for the trees.
"I will not choose Google over my partner."
Google execs can decide to move to New Zealand w/their partners to "see how [they] like it," but we're told to be back in the office, even if it means ending relationships—completely unequal & unfair.
cnet.com/news/googles-hypocr…
When people ask me about my "AI in 20 years" predictions (a popular journalistic inquiry!) my only response is that I doubt the necessary infrastructure will function/be available to support AI--as we define it now--in 20 years...
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