YabosMcGee @YabosMcGee@qoto.org

So for over a week now Elon Musk's circle of friends have been going on and on insisting that Bob Lee's killer was obviously an unhoused individual and blaming the city for not jailing more people.

Now, it turns out that the guy who killed him was another tech exec who knew him, and they were originally in a car together.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made-san-francisco/

I guess it shouldn't surprise me that another of the "Twitter Files" authors is similarly clueless. Shellenberger highlights two stories that he claims are in conflict. They are not. The first one is about *government* censorship. The 2nd one highlights the use of bots creating calls for violence, and twitter's inability to respond.

It is funny cause its true

#ACAB

This is the funniest part of that WSJ editorial trying to defend Justice Thomas.

Yes, in fact, it was "somehow disreputable." We could argue about why, or we could take it from Justice Thomas himself: he illegally concealed it precisely because he knew it was "disreputable."

Taibbi, who is in regular contact with Musk, was told Substack is being punished because of “a dispute over the new Substack Notes platform”

Taibbi was “given the option of posting articles to Twitter instead”

I know we all don't have the same tastes, but here is a random sampling of people who show up in my feed a lot whose posts make me smile, think, giggle, or that I otherwise appreciate and enjoy:

@anildash
@mmasnick
@pauliehedron
@alaric
@BennettTomlin
@DataDrivenMD
@donni
@donmelton
@TexasObserver
@danluu
@molly0xfff
@w7voa

#FuckOffFriday #FediFriday #FediFridays

This tweet from Substack, which does not contain any links to Substack, is being restricted by @elonmusk@twitter.com and Twitter.

Twitter is not allowing anyone to reply, like, or retweet the message.

So Musk is not only suppressing speech, he's also suppressing discussion of his tactics

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-arrested-new-york-1234703410/

I had hoped by now that the media would have begun to divorce Twitter. Instead, some journalists are doubling down.

Some thoughts on why:

https://www.platformer.news/p/why-journalists-cant-quit-twitter

Lol. From an @alaric thread, I was just reminded of this thing that absolutely did not age well from the CEO of a website who charges $400/year for insights "you won't find anywhere else."

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

“We should be careful when creating new intelligent life,” says man with ten kids who hate him.

You know a grand jury would indicate a ham sandwich

😰

People explaining The #StreisandEffect to the guy that coined the term is the funniest thing to happen all week.

@mmasnick, I tip my hat to you, sir, for the easy stride you took in dealing with this.

#Mastodon #Elon #Twitter #JournalismPurge

Toot Post 🔗 : https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick/109521067778012965

🔗: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

NYT's statement:

"Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action."

Statement from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee: