“While Texas prisoners can read Hitler's manifesto, the state banned pioneering Black journalist Ida B. Wells' book 'On Lynchings' because its examination of racist vigilante mobs used 'racial slurs.'" By @keribla:
https://t.co/mFhSoe07FN
“The Director said ‘We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything else is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.’”
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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My son spends most of his life scrolling through funny football videos on TikTok. A couple of weeks ago he got a shock: in amongst the videos of Messi & Ronaldo was this antisemitic meme.
Just got home from a harrowing experience and it's haunting me.... This is a long thread...
This evening I took my mom on an errand, and when we arrived in the parking lot there were four white male police officers surrounding two Black teen girls. 1/16
The Herschel Walker police badge bit is a direct lift from the 1991 @ConanOBrien/@TriumphICDHQ pilot "Lookwell" starring Adam West. Steal from the best.
Check yourself, if you think the presence of smartphones impair cognitive performance. No one ever said that about books. At least not since the 14th Century
Herschel Walker, you said you were valedictorian of your class. You weren’t. You said your company had 800 employees. It had eight. You claimed to own a company that didn’t exist. You said you were in law enforcement — despite your badge — you weren’t.