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Twitter is a hate speech platform now.
I don't mean to say it's a general social media platform on which hate speech is tolerated, it was always that. I mean it's a platform that is run for the explicit purpose of hate speech, on which chatting about TV shows is tolerated.
ALT elon musk tweeting that "the words cis or cisgender are considered slurs on this platform"
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Deeply disturbing that billionaire and owner of X, Elon Musk, is promoting the AfD.
Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland/AfD) is a far-right political party in Germany, & widely regarded as antisemitic, Islamophobic, & racist.
bridge.georgetown.edu/resear…
Andrew retweeted
So Streeting has gone and made the blockers ban for under-18s permanent. I'm writing to my Labour MP to attempt to lobby for change and take ideology out of it (or at least to show resistance). If you'd like to join me in signing the letter, please do so chrisn.xyz/open-letter-to-lu…
Musk is reportedly donating like $180 million to the Trump campaign before the election.
theguardian.com/technology/a…
Today I'm launching the latest game in the #CellTower cinematic universe: #Celtix
It's a daily puzzle game about making Celtic knots — enjoy!
And remember, if you start today then nobody can ever get a better streak than you.
andrewt.net/puzzles/celtix/
so apparently ios users will see this link, which goes to "netflitwitter dot com" appear as netflix, because some absolute galaxy brain made it replace "twitter" with "x" in urls, so now you can't trust links on here even as much as you used to be able to
netflitwitter.com/
Don't let "violations of its terms of service" make it sound like some policy issue. This is a man who declared bankruptcy as a hack to avoid paying the settlement he owes to parents that he baselessly accused of making up the school shooting where their children died.
Elon Musk on Saturday unbanned the X account belonging to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, ending his five-year exile from the platform over his repeated violations of its terms of service.
trib.al/FprT4PB
This is an absolutely terrifying tweet. This government, which apparently thinks it literally *is* the UK, is so set on this completely pointless Rwanda scheme that it's openly declaring itself to be above the law; that the only reason it ever obeyed the law was *patience*.
what an excellent website you are reading this on right now
Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins reinstated on X bbc.in/3Ms3UQn
oh look it's the billionaire who owns this website inventing weird conspiracy theories about wikipedia because either he doesn't understand how websites work or he has an ideological opposition to free knowledge or, most likely, both
my god this website is an absolute trash fire
Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money?
It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone!
So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know …
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable non-profit, providing free access to Wikipedia.
While a text & English-only copy of Wikipedia is about 51GB, adding all media + supported languages brings it to 428TB.
In 2022 Wikimedia had $154M in revenue with $145M in expenses.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…
wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualre…
here he is pedalling white supremacist conspiracy theories. i kind of want to say something snarky, but what is there to say here? this is just pretty clearly extremely racist and dangerous and it's terrifying that this guy controls such a huge platform
xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/171791…
Cell Tower was down for an hour or so this afternoon due to a "catastrophic power failure" at the hosting company. The issue isn't fixed yet but it does seem like the site is back up now, so if you have a streak going then now's your chance to extend it.
andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tow…
The character limit on Twitter
Means that limericks are now permitted.
So now, three years hence,
This tweet makes no sense,
And "Moments" sucks. Not that I'm bitter. xitter.cf/Andrew_Taylor/status/5…
𝕩 is now not only profiting from hatred but directly paying people to do it, this account made fun of a trans kid's suicide and 𝕩 gave them $4,500. fuck this website.
dailydot.com/news/twitter-mo…
Andrew retweeted
They should’ve done this with Captain Tom too
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Andrew retweeted
My transgendered cousin took his own life because of the hate he encountered from others 😔
The inquest into his death returned an open verdict as no one was directly responsible. Deaths such as his begin with language such as this 😔 – at Felixstowe, England
ALT My transgendered cousin in happier times 💝
'We shouldn't be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can't. A man is a man and a woman is a woman', says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
trib.al/YKanzN3
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