Ben Murray 🟦

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Autodidact; Crafter of Odd Smells & Sentence Fragments. Never Sarcastic. (He/Him/His)

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

"It's not about what you love, it's about how you love it." - @wilw https://t.co/S9s4LCR3wx

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@RockwoodSupt Thank you Tamara! The community appreciates your efforts!

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@southgrace427 @hwinkler4real While it is obvious and established by your own words that, you are at best, a bot: Are you trying to both advocate for vaccines, while also using vaccines as an excuse to also advicate for racism AND harm to other people you have never met?

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@BradArnoldWX The free version has features that save me time, reducing the apps & websites i switch between for specific data. I subscribed to premium, but absolutely recommend the free tier for both Wx enthusiasts AND beginners. I still also use RadarScope Pro, and they are a great match!

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

If anyone can help, Grace UMC in St. Louis is in need of some items and volunteers to help those affected by yesterday's tornado. https://t.co/6c5QlxSSrC https://t.co/oilxTyk4XY

@ryanhallyall @TheYallSquad @YALLITSCHAN

[Laura Burkhardt @LauraAnnSTL]

I’m hearing that there are swarms of men across Missouri who organized & walked out of their church this morning when their Priest/Pastor began to give their final pitch against Amendment 3, which when passed, will restore abortion rights.
Thank you to each of these men. #YesOn3

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@BrandSanderson this is a brilliant idea, right???

#IHopeThisIsJustPhotoshopped

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@elonmusk Because you don’t think people not from America are people? (Get a mirror)

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@Hermit_Eremital @prideforMO And I hope you realized how awful you sound condemning part of the English language language that you literally used multiple times while (attempting) to do so. Dunning-Krueger is strong in you.

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@Hermit_Eremital @prideforMO You used pronouns in your comment, so I assume you are definitely a “pronoun person” too.

(Whatever the F that is supposed to mean. Go back to be elementary school, you may learn what you missed the first time.)

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@TheEdVerse Thank you Ed. You are a good guy, and appreciated. We all mess up, but you have shown more empathy and have than most people, and I respect that.

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@SarahUnsicker Take a close look at how many people are defending you (shown in the photo) - and let that sink in before you keep making this worse.

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@SarahUnsicker

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I had this exchange with Elon here on Twitter over a year ago and we are still having the same conversation so I guess…let’s do this.

Fortune 500 companies aren’t overly moral actors. They make decisions based on whether they think they will make more or less money.

Advertisers are not leaving Twitter because they are trying to make a statement or achieve some goal (which would be a boycott). They are leaving Twitter because they aren’t sure whether advertising on the platform is delivering negative or positive value, and why spend a bunch of money doing something that might actually be /hurting/ you.

The reason it might be hurting them is fuzzier. But, in my opinion, it’s not mostly to do with their ads showing up next to bigoted content. I think it’s that this platform is increasingly all about one guy in a lot of people’s minds. That one guy is both the most influential power use of the platform, and the owner of the platform.

And that guy has trained everyone to expect that he is going to say increasingly inflammatory and unhinged stuff.

That means employees and customers of those companies (who /are/ moral actors) don’t get good vibes from the company they like advertising with a company they don’t like. This is a symptom of the culture war that Elon Musk desperately wants to inflame because he is stuck inside of a really tight “you are always right” feedback loop of fans and friends who feel incapable of questioning him.

He has attained a kind of moral certainty that he is fighting a war against an existential threat to humanity. That inevitably results in either an intervention of good friends or a complete crash (often times a violent one). But that’s when the person isn’t the richest person in the world. I don’t know what happens when it’s the richest person in the world, but I’m trying not to watch it like it’s a train wreck, because, just like with train wrecks, real people are getting hurt.

That moral certainty is allowing him to do things that are very clearly bad for the economics of the platform (but good for keeping people talking about Elon Musk, which (as a person who has fallen into that trap before) is important to keep an eye on as an underlying motivation for all of this behavior.)

It is not at all surprising that large advertisers, who advertise specifically to ensure their brands are perceived positively, are leaving (at least for the moment) a platform whose biggest brand ambassador is tweeting Great Replacement theories and Pizzagate memes.

It is not an attempt to change Twitter or Elon’s behavior. It is an effort to not lose money.

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

@elonmusk Go fuck yourself @elonmusk. You aren’t fooling anyone, just posting to get more fanboys to say the quiet part out loud for you.

[Ben Murray 🟦 @Cache22]

I think this one takes 1st place for "Clippy" memes.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

“So I see you’re planning a coup!”

[Mercedes Mackay @MercedesMackay_]

If you can, please help @STLFoodbank this holiday season! ❤️

The need is only growing and donations are low.

Financial donations are preferred. Give the gift of giving ✨

https://t.co/Uzb6Sqc3yb

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

BREAKING: President Biden just announced the U.S. is ready to “take our own steps” & impose sanctions like issuing visa bans on Israeli settlers who are attacking & killing innocent Palestinians. This is a major shift in policy & is absolutely necessary. This is good.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Not being able to see actual URLs on Twitter is not only unhinged, it’s potentially dangerous

[Laura Burkhardt @LauraAnnSTL]

FABULOUS coverage of crime in Seattle by Fox News. Just fantastic. Hard-hitting, award-winning, fanfuckingtastick. 👏🏻👏🏻��🏻

[Dr. Suggs; Director of Educational Equity & Access @EEA4Rockwood]

I’m so proud of @MsWalshawsWorld ! She was selected as the Inspiring Secretary for the month of September for @rockwoodschools. She is amazing and I’m so blessed to work side by side with her.