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6 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I regret to inform you the following books have been canceled. Please purchase many copies before they are removed from Walden Books for being too good.

It is imperative you buy these books to get back at the dangerous hall monitors and censors who personally murdered Dr. Seuss.
Here's a beautiful book by my friend @TessaJeanMiller, about living a normal life in a body that doesn't want that.

It was canceled for being too well written. The censorship police must have taken it away, as it was not available at the JFK Hudson News.
amazon.com/What-Doesnt-Ki…
I also recommend you pick up @katieengelhart's deeply researched and heartrending book on the right to die before the liberal gestapo raise the prices at Barnes & Noble, effectively canceling it.

amazon.com/Inevitable-Dis…
It is also imperative you read "Dark Passage" by David Goodis. Is this book a 60-year-old noir about a guy who gets facial reconstruction surgery to evade murder charges? Yes. Is it a "good" book? Probably not.

Did I enjoy it? Yes, therefore canceled.

amazon.com/Dark-Passage-D…

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3 Mar
A lot of people are asking me about QAnon and extremist-related threats tomorrow.

Nobody knows what will happen, but here's what we do know: There is considerably less public organization and open threats on the Capitol than there was in the run-up to 1/6. It's not comparable.
This is the kind of thing that was at the top of pro-Trump forums on 1/5. They were openly advocating for Civil War. QAnon people were talking about a hostile takeover because they thought they were the first step of a military coup that'd eventually be abetted by the military.
QAnon people, especially ones who were just in it to watch the season finale of their little story, do not want to be mixed up with something they now know could lead to direct violence.

So they're claiming talk of an attack on 3/4 is a false flag. They're pushing the date back.
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4 Feb
A quick story about bloodlust, QAnon and Facebook:

There's a picture going Facebook right now that refers to the 10 Days of Darkness.

Some Q people believe Trump is still in power and has been secretly executing the Deep State for the last 10 days in front of the White House.
The viral QAnon picture shows the new security fencing around the White House, then places a real picture of gallows that kinda-sorta look like the same infrastructure.

I'm not going to zoom in on the gallows, because that's a real hanging.
The QAnon people used a photo from a Kuwaiti execution in 2013.

They stole these images to claim this is the Deep State being hanged by Donald Trump's secret government in front of the White House, which has QAnon people ecstatic.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…
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25 Jan
So @BrandyZadrozny and I got a peek under the hood of Twitter's new crowdsourced fact-checking forum. Some quick takeaways:

1 - They're trying to recapture the magic of Wikipedia, where a community emerged and protected the integrity of the site.
nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
Twitter says their trials were promising, but it was a much smaller portion of people than the open internet, cordoned off from passerby trolls.

A slow rollout could help build a community and norms, and cut off bad actors. Not a guarantee, but it's possible.
The big thing I'm worried about with Birdwatch? Brigading.

Say one extremist forum REALLY hates one true tweet by a specific user. They all sign up en masse and drown out good info.

As this rolls out to more people, I didn't see defense against that.
nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
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25 Jan
NEW from me + @brandyzadrozny:

Twitter is launching a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature called Birdwatch.

It's their new effort to fight disinformation on the platform, and it feels a lot like Reddit and Wikipedia.
nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
Birdwatch will, at first, be a separate place where users can discuss tweets that might contain disinfo on the platform.

The results will be cordoned off from Twitter to start, but that may change down the line.

nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
Pretty much anybody can apply to be part of the trial for Twitter's new Birdwatch community, which they hope to roll out to more users if it works.

It won't just be fact-checkers and high-profile accounts, but you need to use a real email address.
nbcnews.com/tech/social-me…
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19 Jan
NEW from me:

Increasingly militant 'Parler refugees' and anxious QAnon adherents prep for doomsday

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
QAnon followers largely believe tomorrow will be The Storm, or the mass execution of Democrats as Donald Trump becomes permanent president. They're buying ham radios and warning loved ones.

It's tearing families apart. I talked to one of them.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
Since the Capitol insurrection and Parler shutdown, white supremacists on Telegram have been sharing guides on how to radicalize "normie" Trump supporters.

Extremists call them "Parler refugees," and they're being redpilled in record time.

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
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17 Jan
Over the last few years, I kept in touch with some QAnon supporters through DMs, checking in on them to see if they'd ever come out of it when their next doomsday came and went.

They'd typically first message me calling me a Satanic pedophile. I'd ignore it and ask questions.
Usually they would draw hard lines. A big one was D5, which everyone thought would be mass arrests on December 5th two years ago. Didn't happen, didn't matter.

It's about belief, anticipation, an advent calendar. One day soon, their problems would be fixed.
I would check in the week after the failed doomsdays. They'd point to a Q post like scripture, and say some ridiculous event proved it was still happening. An earthquake somewhere, a service interruption on GMail.

I learned something: these people don't want to be humiliated.
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