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Ok, I guess itâs officially an enthusiastic gesture then. And Musk would love to be known for his enthusiasm, right? So can we make this the picture of him we use for everything? Every single thing from news stories to wikipedia to books about our time, so everyone can forever be reminded what an enthusiastic guy he is, right beside some of those other fellas who made rockets and aimed for the Moon (but sometimes hit London)?
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âAll sides should give graceâ What the actual fuck, ADL? When have you ever seen the fascists give one iota of grace? Fuck offâŠ
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Yeah, I dunno. Mildly criticize Netanyahu, and the ADL will call you antisemitic and demand an apology. Literally and unambiguously give a Nazi saluteâŠtwiceâŠand hey, it was just an awkward gesture.
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They have to know they are on the menu, right? Surely they are not that shortsighted.
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Maybe weâre jumping to conclusions. Maybe itâs only an apartheid salute.
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âThe leopards arenât going to eat our faces, right? Right?!?â
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Iâve got an enthusiastic gesture for Musk.
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âbut musk never stood by palestine!â â ADL Logic
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This one?
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Your honor, this man is clearly a nazi.
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Duh, If you brought nazism to this discussion it is because you ran out of facts.
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You are right.I pronounce you not guilt as Godwinâs Law.
I apologize for my broken English
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Maybe it was just a martial art moveâŠ
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My wife went to her xitter account, which she keeps for her business and found a new âGrokâ button. When she pushed it, it said she is a baker and ardent advocate of healthcare practices like masking and vaccines. She also freely criticizes political leaders. Her favorite quote is âWould you just shit up, man!â by Joe Biden. I want to puke. This is a target on my wife. Fucking nazi bastards.
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âMove fast and break thingsâ is getting way more micromanage-y these days.
For those who run a business and kinda hafta have a social media account, itâs going to be even more of a tightrope walk every day.
Cory Doctorow had a useful piece but in it he does identify the captured-audience-cost-of-leaving thing:
Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us wish we could leave them; and even those of us whoâve escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.
Itâs lazy and easy to think that our friends who are stuck on legacy platforms run by Zuckerberg and Musk lack the self-discipline to wean themselves off of these services, or lack the perspective to understand why itâs so urgent to get away from them, or that their âhacked dopamine loopsâ have addicted them to the zuckermusk algorithms. But if you actually listen to the people whoâve stayed behind, youâll learn that the main reason our friends stay on legacy platforms is that they care about the other people there more than they hate Zuck or Musk.
They rely on them because theyâre in a rare-disease support group with you; or they all coordinate their kidsâ little league carpools there; or thatâs where they stay in touch with family and friends they left behind when they emigrated; or theyâre customers or the audience for creative labor.
All those people might want to leave, too, but itâs really hard to agree on where to go, when to go, and how to re-establish your groups when you get somewhere else. Economists call this the âcollective action problem.â This problem creates âswitching costsâ - a lot of stuff youâll have to live without if you switch from legacy platforms to new ones. The collective action problem is hard to solve and the switching costs are very high:
How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms â Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Thatâs why people stay behind - not because they lack perspective, or self-discipline, or because their dopamine loops have been hacked by evil techbro sorcerers who used Big Data to fashion historyâs first functional mind-control ray. They are locked in by real, material things.
Big Tech critics who attribute usersâ moral failings or platformsâ technical prowess to the legacy platformsâ âstickinessâ are their own worst enemies. These critics have correctly identified that legacy platforms are a serious problem, but have totally failed to understand the nature of that problem or how to fix it. Thankfully, more and more critics are coming to understand that lock-in is the root of the problem, and that anti-lock-in measures like interoperability can address it.
But thereâs another major gap in the mainstream critique of social media. Critics of zuckermuskian media claim those services are so terrible because theyâre for-profit entities, capitalist enterprises hitched to the logic of extraction and profit above all else. The problem with this claim is that it doesnât explain the changes to these services. After all, the reason so many of us got on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram is because they used to be a lot of fun. They were useful. They were even great at times.
When tech critics fail to ask why good services turn bad, that failure is just as severe as the failure to ask why people stay when the services rot.
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Last week, I endorsed a project called Free Our Feeds, whose goals include hacking some fire exits into Bluesky by force majeure - that is, independently standing up an alternative Bluesky server that people can retreat to if Bluesky management changes, or has a change of heart:âŠ
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