Trying to figure out how to live, or just trying to live. Not sure which yet. https://teapawt.net/t.co/nQJjXwbNrh 🐘https://teapawt.net/t.co/9ofdP7JFNb
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Jason Martens retweeted
Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa says social media has “come in and used free speech to stifle free speech.”
#Colbert
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Retweet if you were part of one of those tiny first 4 bars.
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I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.
Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is a joke, as evidenced by the author's responses:
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This is terrible. There is a day left for the world leaders at #COP27 to do the right thing and make sure he is on a plane to the UK now. I have all the leverage they need. iIt’s a choice.
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This holiday season Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, & Facebook fires 11K workers—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳
A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers. Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.
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PRESS RELEASE - Statment Regarding New Allegations of Serious Berkeley Police Department Misconduct
ALT STATEMENT FROM VICE-CHAIR MIZELL* OF THE BERKELEY POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD* CALLING ON THE BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL TO DELAY THE CONFIRMATION OF INTERIM CHIEF LOUIS UNTIL A FULL INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGATIONS OF SEVERE BERKELEY POLICE MISCONDUCT Berkeley, CA: I have become aware of allegations of severe misconduct within the Berkeley Police Department. These allegations come from a former BPD officer. Currently, Interim Chief Jennifer Louis, who served as a Captain during the period of the alleged misconduct, is scheduled to be confirmed as the Permanent Chief of Police at a Berkeley City Council meeting tomorrow at 6 PM. The alleged misconduct includes text messages from Downtown Task Force/Bike Unit group chats with racist and anti-homeless statements and texts describing patterns of unlawful police practices. These include the establishment of arrest quotas, profiling, and rewards/punishments for arrest numbers.
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a friend's post about mastodon is really resonating w/ me this morning and is a good reason why I don't think the service is likely to gain a broad base of support: the decision to use it isn't based on UX, but rather, ideology cohost.org/tef/post/298638-s…
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It was bond-villain-level arrogance to allow the author of the Big Short to follow you around while you did major financial crimes. teapawt.net/janicemin/status/15918…
Michael Lewis' next book is about Sam Bankman-Fried. Email from CAA confirms he has been embedded with him for last 6 months; note below was first sent to potential buyers for filmed rights. Scoop @TheAnkler
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Elon Musk seems very determined to teach people that billionaires aren't any smarter than anyone else, that concentrations of wealth are bad for society and democracy, and that if millions of people band together we can kick billionaires' asses.
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it is demoralizing to know that you are a website's product but really energizing to know that you can be a really terrible product
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Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.
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But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Check Mark was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, a master Check Mark was forged in secret to control all others. And into this Check Mark he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
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You know you have lost your way when you are arguing for the greatest expansion of state surveillance and militarized police in modern history as the way to *avoid fascism.* Many of these pundits have no conception of how power works, and no understanding of social movements.
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Voters, not legislators, not a governor or president, voters expanded #Medicaid in South Dakota today.
When we take healthcare to the ballot we can win.
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This is an important moment and point that the corporate media will ignore. When voters are presented with an earnest, highly competent, fun, funny, and transparent campaign about the waste, fraud, and abuse in police budgets, they overwhelmingly respond.
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hot dogs being cooked in a coffee pot is the linkedin content i’m here for
how far the mighty tech company perks have fallen
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Things are getting ugly. Last week Twitter let go half the company. Now FB is planning to cut thousands of jobs. For yrs we were told that tech workers don't need a union. It's never too late to organize w/your co-workers and fight back. Our DMs are open.
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Like I always say with content moderation, every social media site owner who is “pro free speech” meets their line eventually.
For 4chan, it was anime child porn. For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror. For Elon, it was people making fun of him.
