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I’m slowly dialing back my presence here, and trying out Mastodon. Not ready to pull the plug yet, but expect to soon. If I followed you here and you have your Mastodon on your bio, I’ve hopefully found you already, but come find me at Aleatha@mastodon.online if not.

@jonathankoren And yet you are on Twitter. Just saying. (Do you have an account elsewhere? I’m migrating off.)

I'm really tired of the outrage machine.

@kevinriggle Gonna miss you! I’ll email.

@LeaKissner Pro tip: you can crib off the countless NYT and WaPo articles about you.

Oh no I have to write a resume for the first time since grad school.

I am unfortunately not on my way to @acm_ccs... But please RT - I am looking for motivated postdocs to work on #privacy #web #darkpatterns #GDPR with me!

Reminder to exercise your right to export your data from Twitter. Even if you are planning to stay, now would be a smart time to have backups. There will probably be failwhales coming, you don’t lay that many people off that fast and get stable infra.

The first study to show improvement in long-term outcomes after Paxlovid—including less #LongCovid, deaths, hospitalizations and complications—is a major advance. I've reviewed and contextualized it here erictopol.substack.com/p/paxlovid-and…

Let me summon the ghost of Parler here as well: they were booted off of AWS for *not having an effective abuse management process.* Irrevocably break Twitter's content moderation, and the cloud providers will reduce your bill to $0 for you.

Further, I've spoken with a number of folks over the years who until recently worked at Twitter. I'm not sure who needs to hear it, but these people aren't idiots. They're incredibly smart and capable. They weren't doing economically dumb things.

@LeaKissner Warm wishes to all of you. I’ve only been lucky enough to meet a few, but I’ve been uniformly impressed by the kindness and skill I saw.

I am so fiercely proud of the privacy, security, and IT teams at Twitter. I've seen you do great work and get really good at getting that great work done in the face of enormous challenges. No matter what happens I've been so lucky. Thank you. Just like always, I'm here for you.

[Hey Yishan, you used to run Reddit, ] How do you solve the content moderation problems on Twitter? (Repeated 5x in two days) Okay, here are my thoughts: (1/nnn)

Hugops to all those still holding this platform together. I have tea. I have booze. (I have open headcount.) Bonne courage. This too shall pass.

@djcapelis It’s not the engagement algorithms that are driving me away, it’s the stated commitment (whether he understands or not) to making it a (worse) haven for misinformation, trolls, and nazis. I’ve flipped tables repeatedly on this site anyway, I’m kinda done.

So. Where’s everyone migrating to?

In January 2021, @amazon said it was cutting off donations to the 147 GOP objectors, calling their vote to overturn the election an "unacceptable attempt to undermine a legitimate democratic process" Last month, @amazon donated 17.5K to 9 GOP objectors popular.info/p/amazon-puts-…

"point to the possibility that Tehran has been getting at least some of its drone engines by having operatives systemically literally rip them out of aircraft in foreign countries … more than 130 Rotax 912s and six 914s have been stolen worldwide" thedrive.com/the-war-zone/b…

The three laws of effective decision making: That which is not written down did not happen. That which is not discoverable is not written down. That which is written down in multiple authoritative places that disagree is not written down.