NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef2654… Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people. A thread:

Björkus 'No time_t to Die' Dorkus i'm so tired of "we need to get the power out of the hands of the corporations! Aah ooh this thing one guy made with 10^-9 of the budget is only 70% as good and i might have to learn 2 new words, how dare the peasants expect me to use this"

twitter isn't intuitive. i once wrote a fabulously popular post like 5000 words long explaining how the fuck even basic stuff like reply visibility works. you just learned it because you /had/ to because everyone was here, and you don't /have/ to learn mastodon

This research is actually quite sinister? It conflates MPs being called a “disgrace” and a “liar” - some MPs are both! - with, say, racist or sexist abuse. We should fear the conflation of pointed scrutiny with bigotry - because it threatens democracy.

This is the AI that supposedly measures "toxicity in tweets." It literally didn't work on racist tweets sent to me, but did flag a compliment as 90.29% likely to be toxic.

I hate Twitter threads 🧵 with big windups but I'm making an rare exception to dunk on Elon Musk: So for background, I wrote my dissertation about Twitter networks during the 2016 election. I created widely used open source software to collect and analyze Twitter data. 1/4

In my reporting on clean energy misinformation I've seen one argument over and over. Wind turbines kill birds. While this is true, it misses an important piece of context: Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x more birds per GWh than wind turbines do. 🧵

My notifications are getting swamped by NFT spam by bots. Surely others have the same issue? Incidentally this started shortly after The Idiot took charge.

The entirety of Musk’s feed now is him interacting with right wing trolls, often antisemitic and racist accounts, validating each conspiracy theory they toss out about how all the algos were never “used on liberals”

If anyone still hesitates to call these people fascists, just look at what they actually say.

„Klima-Kriminelle“ sind übrigens nicht die Protestierenden sondern ganz andere. Und ja, die müssten eigentlich längst vor Gericht stehen. Gut, dass da durch die Proteste endlich mal drauf aufmerksam gemacht wird. Daher: volle Zustimmung.

Manuel Ostermann Was Sie hier treiben, kann man inzwischen getrost als Diffamierungen einordnen. Für das, was Sie unterstellen, gibt es keine Beweise. So wie Sie sich hier als Hetzer, Ankläger, Zeuge und Richter aufspielen wollen, sind Sie eine Schaden für den Polizeidienst.

And we keep science twitter going why, exactly?

For those asking in good faith - To get on a plane/Eurostar to the UK, people from most countries (from all poor countries & those that produce refugees, like Syria, Sudan, Iran, etc.) you need a visa. No visa, no getting on. The UK govt does not issue visas to asylum seekers.

This is going a lot faster than expected. Oh well. You can still follow me on: 🔹https://mastodon​.social/@[email protected] 🔹github.com/klmr

Hey Elon Musk tell me why this isn’t real-time doxxing? Fox News has a drone flying over people and reporting their exact location “right now.” Is that why you’re saying wow? Because you’re stunned at the violation of your policy?

Here's Brandon Sanderson doing an incredible thing and going to bat for indie authors like me and my friends. We've lamented Audible's low royalties forever, but their market dominance meant we had little choice in it. This is like the President of Fantasy taking our side.