4. With pictures of the CPC's Deputy Leader wearing a camou MAGA hat circulating, Michelle Rempel expresses outrage that Candice Bergen getting more attention than she is.
What I learnt on the Twitter this week:
1. Well I know I learnt a lot more on Twitter this week than Trump did.
2. After Covid numbers skyrocket in Ontario for past four months, Doug Ford says the data modelling suggests he might have to stop his cross-province campaigning soon.
4. With pictures of the CPC's Deputy Leader wearing a camou MAGA hat circulating, Michelle Rempel expresses outrage that Candice Bergen getting more attention than she is.
6. Jason Kenney says he knows he's failed Albertans and that's why he moved up to the Sky Palace to help him see things from the everyday people's perspective.
8. Blogger Karen Bexte travels to DC for insurrection, asks to speak to Canada's manager after he's asked to take a Covid test.
10. After being shut down on every major social media platform, Trump seen at Radio Shack haggling over a CB radio.
13. Ford's Covid Command Table medical expert Dr. Tom Stewart says email about no personal travel during a pandemic went to his spam folder.
15. UCP MLA Devin Dreeshen blocks half of Canada on Twitter. Nine people have ever heard him.
17. Poilievre gets Grade 4 math wrong. Again.
19. Doug says everything's on the table. Except any actual plan of action. Or expertise.
20. Hundreds die at Ontario LTCs. Trudeau to blame. Somehow.
22. Ford says new data modelling is terrifying. Asks Ontarians if they think the data modelling is behind Door #1, #2 or #3?
24. Doug announces on Friday that Ontario is doomed. Says he'll expand on that sometime next week.
Many were seen later in the parking lot yelling "Start the car! Start the car!"
Then I remind myself how frontline healthcare workers must feel these days.
Anyway, be sure you all get outside for at least a good long walk this weekend. It does the spirit good.
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More from Twitter
📱 Over the past 2-3 years, I screenshotted a ton of random tweets about social/product that made me think
Here they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more
(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
Here they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more
(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)
literally have a folder of dozens of my fav screenshotted tweets on consumer social product stuff...and @nikitabier is well represented
— Adam O'Kane \U0001f4ad (@adamokane) February 13, 2021
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
h/t @Mazzeo
The twitter ban on 45 is a victory in some sense for the immediate but a warning in the long term, not on the curtail of free speech but as gesture towards the expansive power commercial tech has on every aspect of our governance and our lives, I don’t quite have the words but-
What I’m trying to get at, is not just that Twitter’s decision allows us to see—in ways that have been obscured—how much control they have over content moderation—
but as @Elinor_Carmi points out “platforms don’t just moderate or filter “content”; they alter what registers to us and our social groups as “social” or as “experience.” https://t.co/GSByAOoDWg changed
I’m worried that the celebration of Twitter’s intervention on fascist rhetoric-however too little and too late- directs us to desire tech companies enforcement of liberal and democratic procedures rather than towards an investigation of
how they’ve developed computational infrastructures which exceed the power of the nation state, are hollowing out our institutions for frictionless (see removing human contact) optimization and are insufficiently described by neoliberalism
What I’m trying to get at, is not just that Twitter’s decision allows us to see—in ways that have been obscured—how much control they have over content moderation—
but as @Elinor_Carmi points out “platforms don’t just moderate or filter “content”; they alter what registers to us and our social groups as “social” or as “experience.” https://t.co/GSByAOoDWg changed
I’m worried that the celebration of Twitter’s intervention on fascist rhetoric-however too little and too late- directs us to desire tech companies enforcement of liberal and democratic procedures rather than towards an investigation of
how they’ve developed computational infrastructures which exceed the power of the nation state, are hollowing out our institutions for frictionless (see removing human contact) optimization and are insufficiently described by neoliberalism