With Musk’s call to prosecute Fauci, I’m thinking it’s finally time to step back from Twitter.

twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16

I’m also enjoying Mastodon more.

There are still powerful communities there doing good (URMs; advocacy) and I don’t fault anyone for staying there for that. But I don’t think I can justify my own contributions there, ethically.

How are all of you thinking about this topic?

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@NicoleCRust Musk turns out to be trump lite. I used Twitter both for neuroscience and for politics and culture as well as some other communities. Science seems to be moving over here, though far from completely, but the rest hasn't shown a lot of movement - some left pundits but not so many. So I'm still reading things over there. Musk is disgusting but so far a lot of the good parts of Twitter are intact, and it's info that's still hard to find elsewhere. I guess by providing eyeballs I'm helping him get advertising money. If there was an organized movement to quit i imagine I'd join, that's where the sum of many individuals adds up. But absent that my contribution to his awfulness just seems too infinitesimal to lead me to quit the useful parts. So far, anyhow.

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