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taylorlorenz

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Technology columnist at The Washington Post. Previously tech reporter at The New York Times and The Atlantic News and opinions about #technology, #internetculture, #media, #news, #tech, #twitter #journalist

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The Verge is such a great website, and the design on their features (especially this one) blows me away. https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk

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This Verge package on Twitter is so fantastic and beautifully designed, it's a must read https://www.theverge.com/c/23972308/twitter-x-death-tweets-history-elon-musk

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After Elon Musk and other far-right influencers falsely suggested a South Carolina hospital was giving hormone treatments to transgender four-year-olds, political pressure by state officials forced the hospital to shutter their entire trans youth program despite care remaining legal in the state. https://www.propublica.org/article/musc-medical-university-south-carolina-trans-healthcare-emails

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Sports Illustrated has been making up fake AI authors, claiming they are real, then deleting them when asked and offering no formal comment, editorial note, or other response.

They’ve also been publishing AI generated content by people who don’t exist with zero disclosure https://futurism.com/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers

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“The problem is, there’s a certain type of pedantry that has followed the internet through its various forms, especially in more technical channels, and it often creates a negative experience because it seems to be driven by ideology or disdain for people who don’t think the same way.” https://tedium.co/2023/11/21/mastodon-reply-guy-problem/

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Curious to hear if others on here are experiencing what’s described in this piece. I enjoy most of the replies I get on here (though I never have time to respond to most of them, I like reading them)

I do think Mastodon could use more safety/audience limiting tools though, like what Ernie describes. Esp for larger-ish accounts on here who get a lot of replies, it would be nice to limit conversations on some posts. I would also love a real DM inbox on Mastodon! but that might be a pipe dream 😅

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A book publisher is trying to get the National Book Awards to prevent any authors from saying statements about Gaza. They list "Free Palestine" as an example of "hate speech" https://zibbyowens.substack.com/p/why-zibby-media-pulled-out-of-the

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Accounts who have posted tweets critical of Elon Musk are getting slapped with search suggestion shadowbans.

It's just Musk's latest effort to crack down on free expression on Twitter/X https://www.dailydot.com/debug/elon-musk-shadowban/

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Ok grandpa let’s get you to bed

Musk saying cis is a slur

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This is what TV makeup looks like up close but u all aren’t ready to have that conversation

Screenshot of me looking great on TV

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People have been trying to use Threads to follow the news about the war in Israel, and Meta is still wholesale blocking searches on dozens of words, downranking journalism, and does not seem to want news on its platform at all

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Post Twitter I find myself visiting the homepages of websites more and it’s something I really like now as part of my morning routine. I constantly find stories I probably would have never seen on social

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I totally disagree w/ this piece. Trigger warnings simply provide context on pieces of information so ppl can knowingly opt in to consuming it

Saying TWs are making ppl soft (as this piece argues) is like saying rating some movies as “R” is making everyone more scared, or saying parental advisory stickers made ppl unable to endure cursing.

Curious to hear ppl’s thoughts https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/trigger-warnings-feminism-teen-girls-mental-health/674759/

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San Franciscans Are Having Sex in Robotaxis https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cruise-debauchery/

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Things seem to be going just as Musk planned over on Twitter

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