MrQuindazzi @mrquindazzi@qoto.org
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance wheel of the social machinery.... I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich: it prevents being poor.”
—Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Report of Horace Mann as Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1848
Joined Nov 2022
MrQuindazzi
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Researchers have estimated that if we still had a federal assault weapons ban, we would see 70% fewer mass shooting deaths.
S-E-V-E-N-T-Y PERCENT.
Reinstating it should be a no-brainer.
MrQuindazzi
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If the elite political press corps gave on whit about the truth, they'd be shouting about how one side is pretty much lying all the time about huge things, and the other isn't. https://presswatchers.org/2022/10/replace-fact-checking-with-credibility-meters/ Instead:
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RT @froomkin
This, from Ashley Parker (who blocks me) is what's wrong with American political journalism. I would like to see WaPo management publicly renounce this:
htt…
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1595080062281211904
MrQuindazzi
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RT @nytimes@twitter.com
The suspect in the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi embraced Gamergate and far-right conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and QAnon. His own words — taken from his online writings, which were removed after the attack — help fill out a picture of his life. https://nyti.ms/3tIKsFl
MrQuindazzi
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If I were a national Democratic leader, I would say something about the fact that hateful Republican rhetoric is causing a wave of hate crimes.
MrQuindazzi
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I would not blame the stochastic terrorism on "hate" or "division." I would use the words "Republican Party."
@shannonrwatts
I am a great admirer of yours
Closet analog I can see is John McAffee
After changing his name to Howard Hughes. Because he can. RT @StableGeniusLib@twitter.com We are only a few months away from seeing a disheveled E...
MrQuindazzi
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After changing his name to Howard Hughes. Because he can.
RT @StableGeniusLib@twitter.com
We are only a few months away from seeing a disheveled Elon Musk wandering around the Bay Area offering to draw blue check marks on people with a sharpie for $8
Can't really bring myself to log into Twitter.
MrQuindazzi
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One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.
That there are systemic traps that trap worker in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.
He's not even an engineer, his claims to the contrary.
MrQuindazzi
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Going forward, all tweets advocating two spaces after a period will result in temporarily losing verified account privileges.
MrQuindazzi
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University professor; writer; speaker. #Design, #UX, #IT, #communication, #publicPolicy, #agriculture, #NaturalResources, #economics
Home: #greaterSeattle via #Geòrgia, #Virginia and #Pennsylvania (with a summer in #Oslo and two in #DC)
Politics: #VoteBlue
Soapboxes:
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#DisInfo
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Next: thread of #Mastodon #tips as part of #twittermigration
MrQuindazzi
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I've spent over 15 years building a Twitter network of real value to me.
The changes are actively hostile, destructive, & undermine the premise of the entire system. They take away my investment. Your investment too.
Of *course* the user base is angry.
(good 🧵 from @mmasnick)
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RT @mmasnick
@davekarpf But, instead of taking that fairly straightforward path, which really might have gone over well (I keep noting I'd sign up for Blue if…
https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1588789384878657537
MrQuindazzi
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p.s. By the way, a lot of the servers on https://joinmastodon.org/servers say "get on waitlist" but this phrasing is misleading.
A lot of these servers don't have a waitlist at all and will accept you pretty quickly, within a few hours in some cases. It's just the server admin is screening out spammers by switching on the "why do you want to join?" form, because spambots find this form harder to cope with.
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance wheel of the social machinery.... I mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich: it prevents being poor.”
—Horace Mann, Twelfth Annual Report of Horace Mann as Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1848
Joined Nov 2022
