Andy Hieb

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

@rogbennett Emergency pod?

[Michael McKean @MJMcKean]

We knew this was coming. Doesn't make it easier. RIP, Peter my friend.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

We need to fix the internet, not the tech giants. The problem isn't just that Zuck is really bad at being the unelected pope-emperor of the digital lives of 3,000,000,000 people - it's that the job of "pope-emperor of 3,000,000,000 people" should be abolished.

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[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

Absolutely disgusting abdication of duties by #SCOTUS re Texas

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

Congratulations!

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Today, we celebrate 25 years of Democracy Now! with highlights from our coverage over the years, including from our very first show on Feb. 19, 1996. Here's how it all began.

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

Was recently turned on to this great list of privacy-respecting alternatives to common surveillance software/services: https://t.co/hUKQbkVi8C

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

My barista pretty much the best

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

The rendition of your body begins quite simply with your phone.

- Zuboff

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

Need a phone that doesn't constantly surveil me

@Puri_sm how's it going?

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

Thread

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

The best Bernie memes I saw

[Ashley K. @AshleyKSmalls]

“This could’ve been an email”

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

@evan_greer i have appreciated your voice and perspective these last few days - thank you

[Shoshana Zuboff @shoshanazuboff]

Facebook and Twitter are profoundly culpable. A future at their mercy is intolerable. They must permanently end Trump’s access to the global info bloodstream. Jan 20 is not enough. They don’t have to love democracy, just cravenly respond to new political winds. @FBoversight 2/3

[Jazz at Lincoln Center @jazzdotorg]

Happy Birthday to #MaxRoach who was born on this day in 1925!

"Max Roach was a consummate artist, forever evolving while working on new concepts. His bands spanned over fifty years and changed the way we hear music." - Jerome Jennings (@Romey216)

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

💯

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

@TrevorFSmith No, they can't be given that much credit. It's when public perception has shifted far enough that it's less profitable to platform the fascists - the market risks now outweigh the benefits

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

"We desperately need omnibus privacy legislation that stops companies like Facebook from harvesting people’s data and using it to micro-target hate and lies directly into the minds of people most susceptible to them."

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

The echo chamber is the thing. Again, we've all been talking about it for a while but we're realizing the insane, brutal, tribal power of it now.

And *it will get worse* if we don't redouble our efforts to stop it.

[Paul McLeod @pdmcleod]

This is exactly the wrong takeaway. This isn't about mental illness. It's about a massive online echo chamber with the power to convince all kinds of people from all walks of life to reject basic tenets of reality.

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

Commercial/surveillance social media platforms deserve much harsher criticism and need our ongoing concerted efforts to demand more fundamental change
https://t.co/slJ4NraHKx

PS: remember Mastodon? Check it out for an open/non-surveillance alternative https://t.co/v7eEJ266Wi

[Andy Hieb @AndyHieb]

Twitter, Facebook, et al are just as much rats fleeing the ship as Chao and DeVos. There's no principled stand or substantive fix here, just a cynical response to market sentiment