@[email protected] Greg Price

Better discussions with @zulip. Communicating through and about code. Secretly still a mathematician. 🏳️‍🌈 Also at

[@[email protected] Greg Price @gnprice]

The train wreck here lately has been fun to watch, but it seems like that phase is ending.

I've been on Mastodon for the past week: https://t.co/ocrBZu6Qf7
It's hardly perfect, but it's already felt like a much better place to have conversations. I hope to see many of you there!

[Pat de Brún @patdebrun]

So much for defending free speech.

Latest data reveals that @Twitter complied with *every single* government censorship request - no matter how repressive or arbitrary - since @elonmusk took over.

Compliance rates previously hovered around 50%.

https://t.co/9L3dugXlro

[akivamcohen.bsky.social @AkivaMCohen]

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

[Paul Rosenberg @PaulHRosenberg]

The Nazi take-over of Twitter is going much faster than you realize.
Twitter has suspended probably the first & longest-running blogger, economist Dean Baker. He's co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research & his "Beat the Press" blog started in the 1990s.

[Eric Frohnhoefer @EricFrohnhoefer]

It has been 5 weeks since @elonmusk took over and the pace of new feature releases has been incredible. Here is a list of all the successful new features. 🧵

[Nicholas Grossman @NGrossman81]

This man is a liar. Those of you who take him at his word, and especially those who get publicly mad at whoever he claims is victimizing him, are giant suckers—marks—and should stop doing that. Have some self-respect.

[Matthew Garrett (@[email protected]) @mjg59]

Re-checked my Twitter latency measurements given there's supposedly been 400msec removed, and the time taken for a timeline refresh from India is basically identical to before

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Of course, ageism will not be unique to SpaceX. But managing a high-performer out *right after* they have a surgery and miss a few days of work (!!) is cruel enough that it fits into the Musk-kind of management setup. We're seeing similar approaches favoring young ppl at Twitter.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

As it turns out Sam Bankman-Fried was the fourth biggest donor to the Republican Party.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

remember when elon musk claimed to be a utopian anarchist and then when cory doctorow called him out he got so mad he said cory doctorow was worthy of contempt and that people who supported unions were bigots

[Peter Calloway @petercalloway]

Thread: The Chron just published its 1st major analysis on what the data shows are the differences btw the prosecutorial approaches of the new DA, Jenkins, & her predecessor, Boudin. Below, I'll break down what I think they got right, and what they missed. https://t.co/i9m6h4oPWy

[Peter Calloway @petercalloway]

Still, they publish Jenkins' position, based on her feelings: “Certain crimes... I just don’t feel diversion will prove successful in keeping them out of the system in the future.” Well, I'm sorry you feel that way. It's unscientific and unfortunately causing a lot of harm.

[Lea Kissner @LeaKissner]

A buddy who's interested in end-to-end encryption (E2EE) but hasn't done one of these projects in the very messy place which is the real world happened to ask me this morning about pitfalls which might not be obvious. So here's a partial list in the hopes that it's helpful. 🧵

[@[email protected] Greg Price @gnprice]

@jamesjansson @wongmjane She explains on Mastodon why she deleted her Twitter account: "Since the takeover, I’ve been getting an increased amount of casual racism and sexual harassments on the bird site".
https://t.co/MVHPdkLevY

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

Let’s dig into that. How did this young trans man who was simply living his life & doing his job “support the grooming of children”? The answer: He didn’t. But MAGA (taken over by QAnon) uses “groomer” to describe LGBTQ people & allies. We offend them & they want us to disappear.

[Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener]

🧵Let’s talk about “groomer,” a word totally co-opted by the homo/transphobic MAGA right to slander LGBTQ people & their allies.

Ex A: The reply below to an @HRC tweet about a murdered trans bartender at Club Q: “And yet, he supported the grooming of children. Hard to feel bad.”

[@[email protected] Greg Price @gnprice]

@cgifford300 @xXCheefBeef69Xx @davekarpf Not recently. It's been that way for at least a year.

(And possibly much longer - I stopped looking there, because at that point it clearly wasn't for the sake of this exchange.)

[@[email protected] Greg Price @gnprice]

@DrawsMiguel Interesting! Can confirm - I knew Quixote was famous but had no idea it was like that.