"...they starts with thinking about people as things…” - Terry Pratchett, via Granny Weatherwax, in the novel Carpe Jugulum.

Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter. | Notre journalisme est impartial et indépendant. Prétendre le contraire est faux. C’est pourquoi nous suspendons nos activités sur @Twitter.

I truly like this take on Barry

Montana banned TikTok before banning child marriage and preventing children from carrying guns.

"The Memphis Police Department is introducing an eight-officer unit that will arrest unaccompanied minors that sell food, play loud music, are 'inappropriately dressed' or dancing in the street in Downtown Memphis" @LucasFinton https://t.co/qKcD0HBRgB

Black, Indigenous, environmental and abolitionist activists have come together to block a training facility that they say will militarize police and endanger the community.

13) The likely sequencing will be like LeBron: first, give up the check and not pay. But as the experience degrades and impersonation abounds, creators will start to wonder why they’d contribute content to a platform and company that holds them in such contempt.

7) But again, the Media Team spent all their time and resources supporting the people who - and the data undeniably proved this - support the platform. We knew where our bread was buttered. Twitter didn’t exist without these creators sending tweets. Now…

3) We verified those people so that any user could know they were interacting with a real account; part of the fun of twitter is the real time dialogue with thought leaders (that then flows to others in the replies who get to share their thoughts and ideas).

Three days ago, a 15-yr old boy had an anxiety attack in the school bathroom to hide from his bullies and struggling grades. His “guidance” counselor pulled him into a room alone and told him to power thru and stop saying he was suicidal for attention even tho he was crying so

“I think we have to advocate for ourselves to be visible in those spaces. We have to let them know, ‘We’ve always been gamers, but y’all have ignored us.’” —@KishonnaGray Read more on gender equity in the world of video games: https://t.co/MQRSIe6wHV #WomensHistoryMonth

@JoeReynolds2020 @TheValuesVoter Ruby Bridges was 6 years old when she desegregated her school

My latest: On the Nashville horror and the social media battlefield we endure after every mass child murder -- made even more toxic than usual by the grotesque response to the identity of the shooter. https://t.co/em4ByvfxsZ

@SimonWDC Using personal or curated public lists can be a form of verification. Likewise, a public list of imposters is something Musk will never make easy to double check.

Twitter in a breaking shooting or disaster is always a minefield, but Twitter without verified local news outlets/reporters, police/fire departments, and politicians is going to be catastrophic

in what universe is this fair to people who can suffer consequences for being impersonated? a lie travels half way around the world before truth even gets out the door.

well this is going to be fun…

Giving a talk tomorrow on social neuroscience and why adoption is bullshit. Ok, that’s not exactly the title, but that’s the gist. This is what happens if you invite me to participate in a philosophy of neuroscience workshop, just sayin.