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3 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
A noted A.I. ethicist was abruptly let go from Google last night, after previously threatening privately to resign. My story: onezero.medium.com/noted-a-i-ethi…
"Your life gets worse when you start advocating for underrepresented people." Read the 🔥 internal memo from ousted Google A.I. ethicist @timnitGebru on how the company silenced its own marginalized voices even while giving them awards. onezero.medium.com/read-the-email…
Gebru's email to a pair of internal Google listservs was first reported by @CaseyNewton and you can read the full text here: platformer.news/p/the-witherin…
This might sound like a crazy idea, but if tech execs are truly concerned about "speculation and misunderstanding on social media" when a major story breaks, they could try not completely ignoring the professional reporters who've spent all day trying to reach them for comment.

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17 Nov
In the Senate hearing just now, @jack says Twitter realized it was wrong to lock the NY Post's account over the Biden story tweet, but couldn't unlock it without the Post deleting the tweet because "we did not have a practice around overturning prior enforcement actions.”
Without implying any defense of the NY Post, the ability to overturn a mistaken enforcement decision seems like.... a practice that Twitter probably should have had prior to October 2020.
What are the chances both FB and Twitter have secret backchannels with U.S. intel sources, and that's why they both arrived at the same conclusion on the NY Post story so quickly and why neither will explain how?
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4 Nov
Is this a premature claim of election victory? Image
That was fast @Twitter. ImageImage
To clarify, Twitter has flagged and hidden the tweet in which Trump claimed "they are trying to STEAL the Election" as potential election misinformation. Trump's "big WIN!" tweet so far has not been flagged under Twitter's policy on premature claims of victory. Image
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4 Nov
The disconnect I keep coming back to is the one between the Trump that the news media has reported on for 4 years, and the Trump that 60+ million Americans just voted for. They aren't the same person. Those voters for the most part simply do not believe what we write or say.
I think all the media criticism about the need for NYT, CNN etc. to call Trump’s lies and racism for what they are was correct on its own merits. But the idea that the word choices of NYT, CNN etc. have any real *impact* on Trump or the GOP seems a bit deluded at this point, no?
To clarify, as some replies have noted, the issue obviously is not just that Trump voters don't believe the MSM, but that they hardly consume it at all, bc a right-wing media apparatus exists to serve them a very different set of facts and to reinforce their mistrust of the news.
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4 Nov
Everyone's hating on the needles right now, but as analytical tools they should be judged on their stability & alignment w/ ultimate results, not the mood they put people in at a given time. So far, they appear to have been ahead of the curve on Florida and Georgia...
The NYT needles have consistently given Trump a slim lead in NC, while all the cable news channels show Biden leading in early returns and have made vague noises about "encouraging signs" for Biden there.

If Trump wins NC, the needles were ahead of the curve and thus useful.
If and only if Biden goes on to win one of Florida, Georgia, or North Carolina, it will be fair to criticize the NYT needles as having been premature and misleading in their predictions. The needles swung all three toward Trump significantly before any cable news pundits did.
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19 Sep
I see people already throwing in the towel and treating it as a foregone conclusion that the GOP will commit an act of monstrously blatant hypocrisy by filling RBG’s seat before the election.

That’s cowardly. They may do it, but treating it as expected is a form of surrender.
“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ginsburg said just days before she died.

How would she feel to see her own allies out here on Twitter declaring the fight over before it has started? With her body still warm?
There was never any doubt Trump & McConnell would *try* to fill the seat. They made that clear long ago. The question is whether the media/dems/public clear the path by framing it as the obvious move, or harder by treating every GOP vote to confirm as the travesty it would be.
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15 Sep
~cranky old man tweet~

Bank of America has been "experiencing longer-than-usual hold times" of 2+ hours to talk to a human about how they screwed up our account for at least 3 solid weeks.

How is a company like this still in business, let alone the 2nd-largest bank in America?
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Two hours on hold with Bank if America. Thirty minutes on the phone trying to solve the screwup. And finally...

They dropped the call. They’re not allowed to take my number for a callback. So I have to start over with another two hours on hold and a new service rep. Amazing.
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