Nathan Kalmoe
@NathanKalmoe
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PoliSci/Comm prof. Votes, violence, democracy; psych, history. He/him. Winding down on here. It was fun! Find me on Mastodon: @[email protected]
Madison, WI
Joined December 2015
Finally decided: I'm done w/ Twitter. I won't continue on a platform that elevates DJT, racism, misogyny, authoritarianism, & violence. You can find me on Mastodon w/ 1000s of other scholars. Thanks for the good times, & I hope to see you over there. @NathanKalmoe@mastodon.social
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Breaking my personal silence on here to share 1 of many reasons why polcomm researchers shouldn't buy Twitter ads or API access: One of our RAs mistakenly hit an "upgrade" button, which instantly charged our team $2700 w/o a confirmation check. @TwitterSupport refuses to refund.
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Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future of social media doesn't have to belong to a billionaire, it can be in the hands of its users.
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So...when do you suppose Musk will hire hackers to attack Mastodon and Discord -- or will his fan boys do it for him?
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The #LoveWhereYouWorked tag is pretty wild to watch right now.
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If you've held off on Mastodon until now, bookmark my invite here so you can easily jump over & join us when this is gone.
mastodon.social
@NathanKalmoe invites you to join this server of Mastodon! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!
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Here's hoping this is when Twitter becomes sentient & teams up with several Teslas & a SpaceX rocket to send Elon out exploring deep space. #TechIntegration
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Clarifying that this is (& has been) a parity account. Equity in politics/society/jobs/personal, or gtfo.
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There is literally nothing hardcore about Elon Musk, so I look forward to his resignation.
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There is SO much on the line in Wisconsin’s 2023 Supreme Court race—the 2024 presidential election, democracy and fair maps, reproductive freedom, and the list goes on and on and on.
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What’s clear, though, is that the current state Supreme Court uses ridiculous pretexts to hammer voting rights in our state. And if the GOP maintains the majority, it will keep doing this all the way through 2024. https://t.co/uD50xNNEfc
The main Supreme Court opinion, in a fit of jurisprudence as right-wing performance art, analogizes Wisconsin to Saddam's Iraq, North Korea, and Syria, and then quotes Kanye—"no one man should have this much power"—in an attack on the Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator.
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i spent 2 hours curating a twitter blue screenshot storyline for my parents so here u go, for your own offline friends that want to have fun: DAY 1 – ARRIVAL
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Here's the most awkward custom search function I've ever created: everyone you follow, who's also paid Elon $8 for a dodgy tick The Search Of Shame https://t.co/T4vGwtpjgh
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I compared reach and reaction on Twitter & Mastodon. Picked a subject typical of my feed and reworded it to be native for Mastodon. Same link, issue, people, tone. With 309 K followers on Twitter it got 81 RT and 179 likes With 8.5 K followers on Mastodon: 123 RT and 195 likes.
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2,499 votes. That's how close the GOP came supermajorities in both chambers of Wisconsin's state legislature. If they'd won, they could've rewritten election rules—and perhaps overturned the 2024 presidential. To Dem Assembly Leader @RepGreta, candidates, volunteers—THANK YOU!
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Lol: Twitter sent an HR email to every laid off employee acknowledging it's late getting people their separation agreements and release of claims. But the company messed up the BCC and it has become a reply-all catastrophe.
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Republicans imposed a system of legislative representation in WI that effectively counts every Republican vote twice & every Democratic vote once.
Barring any unexpected updates, the breakdown in the Wisconsin State Legislature will be as follows: Senate: Republican 22 - Democratic 11 Assembly: Republican 64 - Democratic 35 This is in a year where the Democratic governor won by 3.5% and the Republican senator won by 1%.
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