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7 Jul, 5 tweets, 3 min read
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.@jkosseff's & @mmasnick's heads right now:
.@mmasnick: "This is the former President of the US arguing that private companies violated HIS 1st Amendment rights by conspiring with the government HE LED AT THE TIME to deplatform him. I cannot stress how absolutely laughably stupid this is." techdirt.com/articles/20210…
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7 Jul
Newspaper could and should have started Nextdoor. They left a huge gap into which this startup grew to $4.3b.
Neighborhood social network Nextdoor is going public axios.com/neighborhood-s…
Here's the Nextdoor deck. It is in one third of American homes. Or more properly put, one third of American homes are in it.
Years ago, I tried to broker a connection with a newspaper company & Nextdoor. It fizzled. Nextdoor didn't need the paper.
s28.q4cdn.com/517578190/file…
Interesting that Nextdoor tries to portray itself as the un-social-network, just like Google keeps saying: Stop calling us a platform. We're not all the same. It's a case of social cooties.
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29 Jun
New, packed Accenture report on the state of the newspaper business.🧵
Headline to me: Growth in search advertising came from new advertisers (e.g., small biz), directories, trade -- NOT from other media. That is, not from newspapers & magazines.
newsmedia-analysis.com/wp-content/upl… 1/
So newspapers whining that Google stole their advertising (as if God ever gave it to them) and owes them recompense? Not so much. 2/
In the period 2004-2018, newspaper revenue fell from a high of $60b to $27b, a drop of more than half. 3/
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28 Jun
So The New York Times writes a screed under the headline, "The Abolition of Privacy." A 🧵
They complain about the institutions killing privacy and about citizens too easily acquiescing. 1/
The Times intones: "People who may in charity be supposed to be sane, and to have some reasonable conception of their right to their own privacy, surrender themselves in apparently helplessness...." 2/
The Times declares that this is "a very unpleasant and discouraging incident in our recent social history, and one for which our people generally should be heartily ashamed." 3/
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26 Jun
The reborn UFO mania is driving me insane.
It is a symptom of human hubris that we think we must be able to explain everything we see, and if we cannot, then the source must be sinister or other-worldly.
Welcome back to the pre-Enlightenment. 1/nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/…
As I wrote here, with help by @dweinberger & Alex Rosenberg, we face a crisis of cognition, of a failure of our our powers of explanation regarding neuroscience & machine learning/AI: that which we cannot predict or understand must be of malign origin. 2/
medium.com/whither-news/a…
I'd've hoped journalism might be a torch-bearer for enlightenment, evidence, & exploration. But, no. UFOs are circulation-bait. Especially Fox "News" but also all mass media are falling prone to the supermarket-tabloid sensationalism of the UFO story. video.foxnews.com/v/6261064511001 3/
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6 Jun
German broadcaster SWR has created an Instagram account paralleling the life of Nazi resistance heroine Sophie Scholl in real time:

instagram.com/ichbinsophiesc…
Here's the behind-the-scenes story of #ichbinsophiescholl -- all auf Deutsch, I'm afraid.
swr.de/unternehmen/ic…
.@DIEZEIT raises questions about this social-media docudrama, just like those in any other medium. zeit.de/2021/23/ichbin…
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4 Jun
Facebook's Trump decision: suspended for 2 years. Best of it is that they will then consult outside experts and consider his behavior and conditions at the time before deciding whether to reinstate.
about.fb.com/news/2021/06/f…
Now the hard question is: How does Facebook apply this to other authoritarians?
Facebook says in response to Oversight Board that it will implement fully this recommendation: "Facebook should suspend the accounts of high government officials, such as heads of state, if their posts repeatedly pose a risk of harm."
transparency.fb.com/oversight/over…
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