So, we are going through another round of justifications for staying on Twitter. "Everyone who is anyone is still there. My posts don't help Elon, who I hate. Plus, Mastodon is icky." Really, it comes down to contributing your intellectual property to Twitter, a private corporation, owned by Elon Musk for free. Recent actions show he views all that content as his proprietary data for him to manipulate and monetize however he sees fit. If you are cool with that, go right ahead.

#twittermigration

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I'm musing upon the complete absurdity of a well known novelist of UK origin, read by hundreds of millions of people, creator of a vast movie franchise, who rolls in wealth and power, fancying her self to be persecuted in ways akin to witches from centuries ago.

Wealth and privilege are the truest form of hallucinogenic agents.

That so many support her in her delusion is evidence enough that the media and the public have never stopped their sycophantic adoration of the wealthy and powerful.

This is unsurprising to anyone who's been paying any attention at all, but it's a good deep dive and apparently the full leaked archive is also available. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/anti-trans-transgender-health-care-ban-legislation-bill-minors-children-lgbtq/

Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes #VisionScience #CognitivePsychology #CognitiveScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #StupidMemes #ThanksForPointingOutHashtagsInComments

Me on #TuckerCarlson lying about his support for #Trump. Carlson lies all the time...but I think his hate is still sincere. You can be a liar and a #fascist. It's quite common, in fact. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tucker-carlson-donald-trump-hate-lawsuit-b2296681.html

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He’s treating user security like a marketing tactic https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-sms-2fa-twitter-blue/

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I wrote this several years ago

Concern Over Republican Embrace of the Ayn Rand Poison
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not only does it turn out that #socialmedia platforms are biased *in favor* of the far-right, rather than against it https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/report-january-6-investigators-confirm-social-media-platforms-bent-their #fascism #Twitter #Jan6 #January6thReport

2/2 but far-right grifters are *still* claiming that #Twitter is biased against them, now saying that their king #ElonMusk is "shadow-banning" them.

Shadow-banning has always been mostly a conspiracy theory, but the fact that someone can tweet about their tweets being "invisible" and quickly get 376K views on it makes that incredibly clear.

#fascism #socialmedia #shadowbanning https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/10fwdx5/it_feels_like_it_was_an_hour_ago_cat_poopy_pants/

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Apparently mastodon.lol is shutting down.

Looks like Elon and Trump both fit Chrissy Teigen's category.

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Elon is going to make the bird site unusable. Just make your account here and settle in. You won’t be sorry.

UPDATE: Fiverr says it’s stopping all advertising on Twitter after the CCDH found many examples of advertiser content running next to hateful, misogynistic tweets and conspiracy theories from far right influencers https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/09/twitter-ads-revenue-suspended-account/ #twitter #twittermigration #technology #elonmusk

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Well, since Twitter seems to be determined to die and I'm apparently determined to have placeholders on virtually every replacement...

Uh, hello world. I have NO idea what I'm doing on here yet.

Ads from major brands are running alongside hateful content and dangerous conspiracy theories from far right Twitter influencers https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/09/twitter-ads-revenue-suspended-account/