and other characters.
It’s cute that you think the right just started denying science in 2020, as opposed to 100+ years ago.
…I’m still on Twitter, the groups and people I hang out with are good people, and by and large we are doing a good job at keeping the worst of the trolls at bay.
But Twitter itself is now a toxic dump-fire. Whatever utility it used to have is gone.
G#mergate was bad.
This is g#mergate at entirely new level. They are all grown up. And there is something wrong with their brains.
Swarms. Gish gallop. Disinformation. Open antisemitism. Open death threats. Open racism. Open genocidal transphobia. None of it getting moderated.
Its just appalling.
And the algorithm pushes this stuff. The blue-ticks now dominate people’s threads. And as for the former blue-ticks? I have no way of knowing if I’m reading a real news organization or a real celebrity and the only people I can trust on their now are the people in my immediate circle.
I’d jump to another platform but there is no other platform. Not with the same community. Will stay on the ship I suppose until it sinks.
But the state of it all.
I continue to recommend the addon “eight-dollars”.
…cheers.
Probably won’t use it though. My feed is pretty well curated. I only see the trash if I go looking for it. And I’m pretty debate-proof: the trolls know better than to pick a fight with me after a few rounds.
Latest update: the Musk has now declared that “The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform.” What a horrible, foul, awful stench of a person.
Not to worry, Elmo is a free speech absolutist, so you’ll still be able to use the words even if he thinks they’re slurs, right? Right?
So, Ms. Yaccarino, how’s that new CEO gig working out for ya?
Well, now that Elmo has officially stepped down as CEO, Yaccarino calls the shots, right? Elmo is now nothing more than a sociopathic bully who owns the place! 
“Don’t worry, I gave you all the responsibility, I only kept the power.”
Yes, protesting against actions that kill or seriously hurt people is good in both cases, your inadvertently accurate conflation of white supremacy and dangerous ignorance notwithstanding.
In other words, you got caught in an obvious lie and are now lying to try to avoid taking responsibility for your own words. Must be a day ending in Y.
…what is likely to happen here is that Twitter is so understaffed, and there really isn’t anyone in charge of moderation any more (I’ve reported multiple accounts for antisemitism, racism, transphobia and even death threats the last few weeks and none of them got actioned) that they will simply put a filter in place (like they did with the word “blender” in Twitter search) to auto-censor the word. Which is likely to capture plenty of other words in the process. Hilarity ensues.
Gonna make it hard to talk about SpaceX’s attempts at missions to the moon, what with cis-lunar space and all.
I prefer snarking over entries on that list of “public health professionals”. There are a lot of students, names without any designation of affiliation or education, anonymous supporters and my favorite, “Black female that’s tired, USAF vet”
Undoubtedly there are some who qualify as “public health professionals”. The question is, how many of them are influential leaders in their specialties, and are they outnumbered by genuine leaders in the field(s) of public health?
In general, open letters like these are highly suspect when it comes to indicating meaningful support for a position. The most notorious recent one was the Great Barrington Declaration, in which “medical professionals” urged against lockdowns and disregarded other preventative measures during the early days of the pandemic, claiming that “focused protection” while letting the virus sweep through the population would produce long-term sterilizing herd immunity within three months - an idea that hasn’t worked out so well. 
Whenever people wave open letters in your face, in addition to examining what they propose, take a good hard look at who signed them and ask yourself 1) what percentage of the group they purport to represent supports them, and 2) what do the top experts in the field say?
I seem to recall some such open letters where prominent professionals listed among the signatories turned out not to have actually signed it at all, and were dismayed to find themselves so listed.
It’s the same exact tactic that the Republicans tried to pull when they claimed that the Biden administration had hired thousands and thousands of IRS agents to come steal the middle class’s money.
In reality, they are mostly being hired to administrative positions, many to fill vacancies. And the hiring was supposed to be done slowly over the course of a decade, until it was sabotaged, because Republicans don’t want to make things smoother and more efficient. They only care about protecting their rich puppetmasters.
People like Sam love to pull this shit. It’s not just being imprecise, it’s a complete lie.
Countdown to Musk ordering a blanket geo-block on Australia in five, four, three…
BILLIONAIRE FIGHT!
I imagine…
I’m rooting for the cage.
“Two billionaires enter, one belch leaves.”
Forget the cage, maybe a submersible?