Clay Shirky
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Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence and Educational Technology, NYU
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Old Twitter is being destroyed, and its epitaph is this bullshit rationale from
@elonmusk
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“That which matches the law” isn’t a thing — the 1st Amendment *does not specify* an ideal environment for speech. It’s designed to let different groups adopt different norms. 🧵
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.
I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
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"When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
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Seeing my timeline during the convention last night made me despair. We've brought fact-checkers to a culture war. Time to get serious.
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My favorite part of Manhattanhenge is one thousand people just deciding that 42nd Street is a pedestrian mall.
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Trump IS the voice of angry whites. He wasn't on stage because he has unusual views. He was on stage because he has the usual ones, loudly.
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I want to say something to my liberal white friends: Trump talked a lot of shit last night, but not one word of "I am your voice!" was a lie
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The hardest illusion to give up is the majority illusion, where we confuse our neighborhood with the world.
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The liberal cause has been saved by African-Americans, who are populous and disciplined and consistent enough voters to overcome white rage.
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He is the voice of people who hear 'hard-working' as a synonym for 'white.' He is the voice of people who think black lives matter less.
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Elections are a harsh corrective to thinking everyone agrees with you. Winning isn't about policy, or passion. It's about headcount.
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Trump has promised 40% of the country what they've always wanted: a racist welfare state. If he persuades 1 additional voter in 10, he wins.
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He is the voice of people who think legal & cultural privileges for white conservative Protestants are God's plan, not a bias to be overcome
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He is the voice of whites who want their neighbors deported if they speak Spanish. He is the voice of whites terrorized by seeing a hijab.
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So, believe this: Trump could win. We can help stop him, but that means giving up on a lot of comfortable illusions.
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During the speech, a lot of white liberals in my timeline - people like me - were reacting in disbelief. We can't afford disbelief, not now.
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Yes, yes, Clinton's not as liberal as we'd like, but minorities never get the luxury of demanding a perfect candidate. Just give.
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I'm a Democrat and a Clinton supporter. I just gave $100 to help re-open Trump's NC office. You should too.
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Trump can win, if he concentrates on white fear. Thats how you get white evangelicals to pick a libertine agnostic over a liberal Christian.
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@ashleyfeinberg
I thought you meant the Blue Check for a hot sec, then realized it will be fact-checking that gets nuked
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White liberals should know headcount is against us. In our communities, we're a comfortable majority. In the US, we're a permanent minority.
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I was at a wedding tonight where the groom's first vow to the bride was 'I will believe you.' The cultural change in the way men relate to women is slow and unevenly distributed, but it is also real.
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But I can remind other white people, as an insider, that the amount of white rage available for political use in America remains enormous.
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Talk with pro-Trump relatives, because they won't listen to people who aren't white. (Statistically, they won't know any they care about.)
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Donate to fight voter suppression.
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Most whites vote /against/ Democratic presidential candidates, and have done in every election since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964
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I'm a white guy, so I'm an imperfect vehicle for this message. Follow
@docrocktex26
and
@jbouie
, who serve hot coffee on this stuff all day
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Trump can win, if he can whip up white rage unchallenged, if enough women vote for him, and if Red states suppress black and Hispanic votes.
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So what's a white liberal to do? First, realize we are a minority, and we have to campaign like one. Donate to the campaign, for starters.
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In November, call voters, or better, get to a swing state and knock on doors. Get to poorer communities and drive people to the polls.
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Meanwhile, California's high-margin vote for Clinton will be wasted, because the election hinges on Ohio and Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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When Democrats committed to reducing whites' ability to lord it over blacks, it cost the party the white vote for two generations. So far.
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Liberals cluster, in cities and in states. My home state, Missouri, has gone from purple to red because enough liberals left.
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Unlike President Obama's campaigns, though, whites can't coast on minority Get Out The Vote work in 2016, not with VoterID laws in 33 states
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Co-sign. I was there at the same time Kavanaugh was, and when my wife told me he'd been in a frat that was notorious for drinking and shitty behavior, I said "Oh, the Dekes?" I haven't thought of DKE in 30 years, and I knew exactly who fit that description
Okay, here's something to which I can bring firsthand knowledge: This, from Kavanaugh, is a lie. The amount of egregious misconduct that was explained and excused away by alcohol at Yale in the early '80s was endless. This was tolerated. And he knows it.
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Sometimes I imagine how long it would take 2016 me to explain a headline to 1996 me. This one clocks in at ~90 mins.
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In MD, one person in four is black. In Baltimore, one person in two is black. At Sanders' rally, one person is black
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Me: "What should I do for my birthday?" My 9 y.o. daughter: "Have some nerds over and talk about the internet. Like always."
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GOP mystified that a racist Islamophope who mocks the disabled also regards women as objects. I mean, that's just bad luck, right?
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There's no such thing as a protest vote
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Cobbled together, not nearly enough entries yet, but an attempt to capture some of this madness in a jar.
Shoutout to
@molly0xFFF
for her timeline code.
This is a joint project of a handful of reprobates in the
@TodayinTabs
community
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Who needs a third party when the existing two parties have become powerless to stop insurgencies from within?
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I'm going to try explaining the Spectre attack with an analogy: Imagine a bank with safe deposit boxes. Every client has an ID card, and can request the contents of various boxes, which they can then take out of the vault.
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I started writing about both parties becoming host bodies for 3rd party candidates. Instead of an essay, it turned into 50 tweets. Here goes
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"The argument that Corbyn is unelectable is being made by 3 candidates who can’t even win an election against Corbyn"
http://t.co/tbf4m2xYaN
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Five students in my daughter's 5th grade group did class biographies on Steve Jobs. She did hers on
@SteveWoz
(niak)
#myworkhereisdone
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Joi could have resigned without allowing a lot of his students and friends to stake their reputations on defending him, but the one common thread in Joi's dealings with Epstein is that he has only done the right thing after he's been caught.
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Imagining a mostly-white path to the Democratic nomination was never a good idea. Let's hope we're witnessing the last time anyone tries it.
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I’ve been part of a lot of things that have died — usenet, MUDs, so many mailing lists — but this is the only one I’ve been on that was murdered while it was healthy.
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I put the tweetstorm "Social media turning both parties into host bodies for 3rd party candidates" on Storify:
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Here's what sure liberal victory plus low voter turnout looks like: it looks like Brexit. It looks like the FARC peace deal.
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Amazing web panel shows you what permissions you've granted FB, Twitter, Google, etc.
http://t.co/WyDQB98C
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This, from Propane Jane back in February, is the core Democratic thesis for the general election.
@docrocktex26
The lesson of Obama in 08 and 12 is that women and people of color finally have the numbers and power to beat White rage at the ballot box.
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Nicholas Negroponte, of the Media Lab, on Jeffrey Epstein. This is unbelievable. I wish this were unbelievable. This is believable.
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This essay, from two decades ago, is the single most important thing anyone has ever written about micropayments.
Why very small payments are hard: "it's important to distinguish between technological and mental transaction costs", and the latter are usually more important.
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The Sanders' campaign has become like Portland -- a wonderful, progressive place that is so pale it simply doesn't look like America.
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The glory of the Democratic party in 2016 is that it looks like America ca. 2046. They've figured out how run in the country we're becoming.
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There is some poetic justice watching
@elonmusk
fuck up on here.
He’s turned Tesla’s brand from ‘cool *and* sustainable’ to ‘self-driving MAGA hat’ and shown investors he’s reckless enough to incinerate billions of their dollars to pwn a chat client where his feelings got hurt.
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Micropayments plus an Instant Refund option: This is the first interesting micropayments idea I've seen in 15 years
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After FB and Twitter, people often ask "What's the next big thing?" I used to say "I don't know." Now I say "Github."
http://t.co/Wu7pDJ0e
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Social media is breaking the political 'Overton Window' -- the ability of elites to determine the outside edges of acceptable conversation.
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I think this, on Trump voters, is the best thing
@Chirs_Arnade
has written about his travels around the country.
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Inefficient products are re-labeled rarified and sold to elites: calligraphy, horse-back riding, tube amps, vinyl...
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A vote is a choice to join a power-seeking coalition. It is not a personal affirmation of a coherent ideology. It is not a moral choice.
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The nightmare starts when partisans say "This candidate is so uniquely awful, we should suspend democratic norms and attack, just this once"
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If you read only one essay on algorithms and culture this week, make it this one: The Materiality of Algorithms
http://t.co/Ho8OydUK
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Github is "so disruptive it created a cultural divide between the previous generation of open source and the next."
http://t.co/yihhXTVD
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I've come to think the core problem of daily journalism is that the deadline doesn't care if you understand the story.
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If I could assign one reading to print media people, explaining why ad money isn't coming back, it would be this:
http://t.co/T7ASC1Xo
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And all a 3rd party vote can say is "Whatever everybody else decides is OK with me." It's a refusal of political engagement altogether.
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@doctorow
Phones are not thin because customers want thin phones. Phones are thin because that is one of the few bits of phone engineering left that is both expensive and hard to copy. Think of thinness as a physical watermark. An expensive, inconvenient misfeature of a watermark.
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Senator Sanders' campaign holds a lesson for future political movements: National. Liberal. White. Pick two.
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I -- completely wrongly -- believed Epstein's death would be a giant, deflating punch to investigations of those around him. It's amazing and heartening to me that some of the journalistic energy that would have gone into his trial is instead being focused on his associates.
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This is code for gutting moderation so butthurt white dudes can use the N-word and Nazis can 'just ask questions' about Teh Jews, but go off
Widespread verification will democratize journalism & empower the voice of the people
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My next book will be 'Wikipedia Brown', about a boy detective who solves crimes by getting his friends to do all the work.
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@priya_ebooks
Joe Chamie, who was Chief demographer of the UN, went to Japan to figure out why the birth rate was falling, and one young woman told him "I'd like to have a baby, but to have a baby I'd have to marry a baby."
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The belief that the First Amendment ensures freedom to harangue others in private spaces is mainly held by white men.
We’re so accustomed to deference, in all arenas of American society, it’s easy to believe that *not* deferring to us should be illegal, maybe unconstitutional.
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Here's one difference: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer vs. John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
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There is no solution to this problem, which has been happening since the 80s: we'd like online groups to be large, good, and cheap to police, and we can create systems that meet those goals, but only two at a time.
Once you hit a certain scale (probably varies) things pretty much just fall apart and the format of group instant messaging starts to lose its value. We looked at all the “we made our own slack which is better” competitors. This problem hasn’t been solved by anyone yet, imo
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I just saw I got a blue check again, because
@elonmusk
is a sad, thirsty clown.
The few times I've posted on here since he bought Twitter have been to dunk on his awful management of this place.
I want no part of his bullshit. Off to figure out how to get rid of the check.
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Sometimes poor whites will vote down aid for poor people, since it threatens the one bit of social status they have: Better off than blacks
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ROLLING JUBILEE
#Occupy
is buying, then erasing distressed debt. Here's how:
http://t.co/PdDI6N6G
(I have never loved
#ows
more than today.)
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When thinking about women and sex, the right doesn't care about consent, they only care about purity.
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Musk isn’t inviting racists and Nazis back on Twitter because of any desire to 'match the law'.
He’s doing those things because he approves of racists and Nazis, and sexists and transphobes.
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Start here.
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
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@jayrosen_nyu
@kstigerlily
@JRubinBlogger
@chucktodd
I just had the most interesting political conversation with my son, who asked, in the sort of wonder a teenager can have about the workings of the adult world, how the WH could have let Wolff get that much access with that little oversight.
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It's possible to help the RNC recover from an unfair attempt to damage them, then try to beat them fairly. Both things are worth protecting.
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Trump in public, a year before he ran. Republicans just now starting to worry are implicitly saying this was fine.
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
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Laptop got stolen. I use GDocs/Dropbox, so the only painful data loss was *printer drivers.* It's the 21st century, but not in Printer Land.
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White liberals should be *really wary* about holding any conviction that requires us to close our ears when black people are talking.
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Five Twitter Blue checks are really Golden checks, entitling you a chance to be CEO. The alt text of golden checks will read
Greetings to you, the lucky finder of this Golden Check, from Mr Elon Musk! I shake you warmly by the hand! I do invite you to come to my factory and be
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