
Remember that opinions you see on Twitter do not represent public opinion.
This paper shows people only post on Twitter when their minds are strongly made up, but many people are more neutral. This makes Twitter βa bad place to look for opinion change at the individual level.β


The Ukraine war is now a true proxy war. Russia has become an Iranian proxy.

Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien

"I accept the new employment terms offered to me on Friday, in which I am 'not expected to work' until January 4. I've booked a vacation until that date. If you'd like to continue employing me after then, pay for my vacation now & we can renegotiate my contract terms in January."

Casey Newton @CaseyNewton

Like I always say with content moderation, every social media site owner who is βpro free speechβ meets their line eventually.
For 4chan, it was anime child porn. For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror. For Elon, it was people making fun of him.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Celebrities such as comedian Kathy Griffin and βMad Menβ star Rich Sommer have already have their accounts removed for changing their usernames and photos to match Elon Muskβs.


"Furthermore, parody shouldnβt be stripped of constitutional protection just because itβs not clearly labeled as parody." --Supreme Court Amicus Brief of The Babylon Bee, October 28, 2022





Ya knowβ¦ you _could_ say that changing your display name and avatar to a certain someone is done byβ¦
(β’_β’)
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β¦ setting your parody bit

A reminder that it's very bad to let your country forget how to make things.

ChrisO @ChrisO_wiki