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30 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Twitter's complete abdication to protect us from trolling an bots is why Amazon is able to use it to bully and harass us and stock it with fake users to try and influence its workers' union vote. theguardian.com/technology/202…
A properly managed community wouldn't have fake accounts cropping up like a toxic algae bloom. A properly designed community wouldn't allow a PR strategy based in generating anger and outrage.
Twitter is a toxic place because the c-suite of Twitter wants it to be.
The grift is just so obvious.
It is completely within Twitter’s control to disable bot creation like this. That they don’t must be because they simply don’t want to.

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Derek Powazek Profile picture
1 Apr
Listening to today's episode of The Daily and it's SO CLEAR how this unionization drive at Amazon could have been avoided if they'd treated their employees like people instead of cogs in a machine.
nytimes.com/2021/04/01/pod…
If you track your people BY THE SECOND and you DO NOT COMMUNICATE THE RULES, it's going to make them CRAZY. This is so obvious it hurts.
It reminds me of a startup I worked at (name omitted) where I wound up in a middle management role (again) because the CEO was so bad at being a human, he built a software tracking system to monitor a specific employee because that was easier for him than having ONE CONVERSATION.
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28 Jan
Today is #HolocaustRemembranceDay and I've been thinking about what to say all day.
I am who and what and where I am because of the Holocaust. In so many ways.
I was born in the US, but my dad was born in Austria in a Displaced Persons Camp. He was there because his parents fled their tiny town of Dobre, Poland, before the real killing started.
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27 Jan
Honestly still coming to the realization that America's longstanding hatred of "communism" is really a hatred of all communal behavior, aka people coming together in solidarity, aka actual real politically-active community.

America hates community.
And America teaches Americans to be suspicious of any kind of community-based thinking. When you talk about "what would be good for the community," people look at you like you're crazy or naive or dangerous.
Honestly can you think of an American story about a group of people coming together to do ANYTHING besides win a war or a game? Can you think of a story about a community coming together to just, like, make sure everyone is okay?
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10 Jan
All the words are meaningless. They just want power and will do anything to get it. Ignore the words. Watch the actions.
They said “blue lives matter” and then beat and killed a cop. They said they were defending democracy while preventing an election certification. Now they say “we have to unify” while supporting insurrectionists.

None of their words matter. Look at what they DO.
This is the thing that took me the longest to learn because I like words, and I usually believe people when they talk.

But these insurrectionists only use words as cover. It’s just a whoosh of static to distract while they plan their next bloody battle.
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10 Jan
There are multiple overlapping problems, but you cannot separate the power of tech companies from our current mess. They’re accelerants.
Of course white supremacy existed before the internet. That’s a bullshit argument. No one is saying tech companies invented white supremacy. We’re saying they nurtured it, spread it, and accelerated it, because the CEOs can’t admit their role in spreading it.
Trump is a vile invention of America, making use of every aspect of our culture to bring out the devils in our nature. All he does is exploit our weaknesses using every opportunity. Social media was one of those exploits. I don’t believe he would have become president without it.
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9 Jan
I’m hearing a lot of pundits talk about the Trump bans as if they’re some new policy. They’re not. Facebook and Twitter have long had rules against the incitement of violence. The only thing that changed is they started enforcing them.
If you want to play pundit and say that they should be focusing on all their other problems, fine. Yes they should. But don’t you dare overlook how important this is.
When the social media companies have policies that they do not enforce, it shows every troll in the world that they don’t have to follow the rules either. That ended yesterday for the biggest troll in history.
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