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Charlie Warzel Profile picture
@cwarzel
Sep 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
it is astounding how low the bar is and how much facebook is botching this
you can trot nick clegg out all you want to talk about 'break glass in case of emergency' election night plans but you either care about curtailing actively incorrect information around voting coming from the *president of the united states* or you don't.
i almost wouldn't care enough to constantly yell about any of this if the company actually didn't give a shit and was just like...'we court power, baby!' but the constant PR exercise of 'we're trying to secure the election' is just so incredibly galling.
anyhow if you work at facebook and think i'm wrong or that the company is actively screwing this up...i'd love to hear from you!

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Mar 17, 2023
This is my effort, through a lot of reporting, to make sense of our current AI moment. My big takeaway is that there's way less agreement and understanding from experts and employees about what's being built and what future they're building toward theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
There is, for example, some uncertainty...from people who build these tools...about the precise way they make inferences
Even some people who are excite and working on these tools and technology aren't totally sure we're ready for what's next. One interesting comparison for generative AI that it shared characteristics with 'invasive species'
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Dec 3, 2022
somewhat beside the point but unless they changed it (its still up on twitter's site) the thread would seem to be breaking the company's own rules by publishing personal email addresses, no? help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p…
i mean i lol bc we're so far past that point that i sound like a nerd screeching about technicalities but idk
lol!
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Dec 2, 2022
Wrote about a strange moment where kanye west is going on right wing media not playing by the dogwhistling game at the same time that Musk is changing the rules of the game, turning twitter into an open sewer. there's a dog-catches-car quality to it theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
it's been very alarming but also rather weird to watch the people who launder and amplify far right messaging to be thrown on their back feet by Ye refusing to back down when they're like, 'well, obviously you're not a nazi!'
Don't think this will chasten anyone and obviously it empowers the most awful people and it's dangerous. but i'm also curious how abandoning the dog whistle and turning places like twitter into Hitler Trending Topic Bonanza works over time with people who don't want to be near it
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Nov 30, 2022
what time is the financial crimes super bowl
this legitimately sounds like a little kid apologizing for like copying some math homework or something
tough beat here for la croix
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Nov 16, 2022
tbh i don't personally care that the guy running for president who did the coup is low energy tonight
guess it was like a failed coup? half coup? attempted coup? i mean whatever - just think his energy level in this moment is probably irrelevant
like, he'll see shit like this & then go off the cuff in for 64 minutes in a few weeks at a higher energy rally about locking up his political enemies and flirt with QAnon. not buying the whole 'his heart isn't in it' thing. his ego is his animating force!
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Nov 11, 2022
wild how this saga is so totally completely predictable while also feeling almost inconceivably absurd. too dumb and on the nose to feel real and also very real lol i just can’t stop thinking about it
i’ve personally felt like a hack just constantly beating the drum of ‘this guy is not smart like you think he is he’s gonna behave like a 9 year old and ruin this place’ bc some tiny part of me still has a hard time conceiving of somebody being this inept. and yet here we are
i guess it’s just that in some ways things are very broken (dude like this can build this cult of personality/amass this wealth /make twitter his vanity project) & other things work logically (if you don’t know what you’re doing/don’t care you’ll run the place into the ground)
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