Losing Twitter as a community will be hard. But, our community is a manageable size. One way to preserve it is to have prominent members advocating for & actively using an alternative.
I suggest Micro.blog! Manton is an active member of the Apple ecosystem.
Both professionally and personally, Twitter has meant a lot to me over the past 13 years.
But if this is how this guy plans to run the service – and all signs are poin...
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"text": "Both professionally and personally, Twitter has meant a lot to me over the past 13 years.\n\nBut if this is how this guy plans to run the service \u2013 and all signs are pointing to it \u2013 it's going to be the end of the road for me. \n\nSigh.\n\nbloomberg.com/news/articles/\u2026",
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Shouldn’t be surprised that Adam “Tailwind” W. is excited about Elon buying Twitter. Ironic though that he blocked me. Guess he didn’t like my free speech. 😏
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"text": "Shouldn\u2019t be surprised that Adam \u201cTailwind\u201d W. is excited about Elon buying Twitter. Ironic though that he blocked me. Guess he didn\u2019t like my free speech. \ud83d\ude0f"
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👏👏👏
If Twitter changes its rules to make it “OK” to post hate speech, then the people who are targets of that speech along with their allies will pack up and leave…which ironically results in less “free speech” on the platform in totality:
jaredwhite.com/links/20220426…
The "free speech" argument is toxic garbage that horrible people use to justify being horrible people.
"Free speech" means you don't go to jail for being an asshole, it ...
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"text": "The \"free speech\" argument is toxic garbage that horrible people use to justify being horrible people. \n\"Free speech\" means you don't go to jail for being an asshole, it doesn't mean others have to put up with you. If you're going to put up with assholes, I'm not interested."
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"User Defined Functions" is one of the most interesting area of research/experimentation in the wider WebAssembly ecosystem today:
blog.suborbital.dev/what-are-user-…
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Smithsonian Magazine: Hubble Space Telescope's 35th Anniversary Photo Features Dramatic Galaxy Cluster.
As many of you know gravity as a concept fascinates me.
In honor of Hubble's 35th birthday check put these five galaxies doi…lnkd.in/eXxCqrgDlnkd.in/es_SWv9P
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"text": "Smithsonian Magazine: Hubble Space Telescope's 35th Anniversary Photo Features Dramatic Galaxy Cluster.\n\nAs many of you know gravity as a concept fascinates me.\n\nIn honor of Hubble's 35th birthday check put these five galaxies doi\u2026lnkd.in/eXxCqrgD lnkd.in/es_SWv9P",
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I’m learning about #wasm extensibility in my role as a technical writer @SuborbitalDev and thought y’all should know that when I picture code being compiled to a Wasm...
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"text": "can't unhear it now \ud83d\ude2c"
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"text": "I\u2019m learning about #wasm extensibility in my role as a technical writer @SuborbitalDev and thought y\u2019all should know that when I picture code being compiled to a Wasm binary the compiler is going \u201cHockety pockety wockety wack/shrink in size, very small\u2026\u201d youtu.be/Tb75RjpvBIk",
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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1519201106953654272\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>The \u201cfree speech\u201d argument is toxic garbage that horrible people use to justify being horrible people.</p>\n\n<p>\u201cFree speech\u201d means you don\u2019t go to jail for being an asshole, it doesn\u2019t mean others have to put up with you. If you\u2019re going to put up with assholes, I\u2019m not interested.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This excellent tweet by <a href=\"https://twitter.com/marcan42\">Hector Martin</a> sums up the bewildering lack of understanding many people\u2014including the (likely) new owner of <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/twitter\">#Twitter</a>, Elon Musk!\u2014seem to have around the moderation of online speech.</p>\n\n<p>Obviously I don\u2019t want government goons arriving on your doorstep to haul you away if you\u2019re just spouting off racist / homophobic / transphobic / misogynistic (etc.) garbage. <strong>You certainly have the right to be a trash human.</strong> <em>However</em>, you do <em>not</em> have the right to invade an online space <em>I\u2019ve</em> chosen to participate in which purports to follow specific moderation rules. Twitter has been such a space as an <strong>independent company</strong> running an <strong>independent service</strong> on the web. If you don\u2019t like it, well guess what? <strong>Run your own space!</strong> No one\u2019s stopping you.</p>\n\n<p>If Twitter is going to change its rules to make it \u201cOK\u201d to post hate speech on its service, then the people who are targets of that speech along with their allies will pack up and leave\u2026which ironically results in less \u201cfree speech\u201d on the platform in totality. \u201cLet everyone express themselves freely in the public square\u201d \u2026and eventually you will find that the only people left in that square are the trolls.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Good luck with that.</strong></p>",
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It’s funny how every alien planet on tv when I was a kid looked like Vasquez Rocks and every alien planet in the last couple decades looks like British Columbia.
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"text": "Dw i ddim yn hoffi gewithio mewn swyddfa.\ntranslation: I do not like working in an office.\n#PandemicWelsh \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f",
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BREAKING: #Canes Football lands transfer portal DL Darrell Jackson (Maryland) over UF and FSU. Jackson is a 6’6” 300lb+ DL with outstanding measurables. Jackson is no...
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Fun stat: over on my Mastodon-compatible server we saw a 2x increase in federated social media activity yesterday over the day before. We are on track to see a similar increase today over yesterday. Fully expect it to die down but interesting nonetheless.
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