J-F Morissette

Environnementaliste convaincu, chercheur, scientifique. Amateur de plein-air, de culture, de voyages.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@Garmin @AmsterdamNurse It doesn’t sync to Strava since yesterday, or with a long delay.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@tobi @DeeDub8 Now denying science Tobi? I used to admire you. No need to follow Elon on a dark path.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

America, not matter what you think, you are part of the world and bullying and quitting cooperating with your friends and allies will help no one. And negating climate change and science will not make those unreal. Hope you will heal soon. In the meantime, I will be elsewhere.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it. I’m now posting at https://t.co/0iVBaQEKGy.

Since Elon Musk bought this site, he has transformed it from one on which millions could converse as equals into his personal megaphone. Now the world’s richest man uses it to wage his class war, transferring blame for the ills of capitalism onto vulnerable minorities, boosting the grimmest and most antisocial accounts while suppressing the humane voices with whom he disagrees.

He has used X not only to subvert the election for the US presidency, but to create a role for himself in US politics which, though he has never stood for election and would not be eligible, grants him immense power over the citizens of that nation. This site has been used as a tool to help replace democracy with oligarchy.

Musk claimed, on purchasing the platform, to be a “free speech absolutist”. He is in fact a prolific censor, suspending dissenting accounts and using lawsuits to shut down free speech, while employing an algorithm to increase the reach of his own posts 1,000-fold. He cannot abide a level playing field.

He has permitted or encouraged the growth of a ghost army of bots and trolls to degrade the experience of all who disagree with him. Their task is not just to abuse opponents but, perhaps more importantly, to drown intelligent conversation with a tsunami of stupidity. They respond to data with denial, expertise with execration, insight with insult, humour with hatred and thinking with thuggery. They suck the meaning out of everything. The stupidity trends in one direction: in the service of economic power. It is a weapon used to suppress the possibility of a better world.

Many years ago, when I lived in Brazil, I learnt that the military dictatorship had actively sought to suppress educational levels in schools, as it saw a well-informed population as a political threat. A confused, distracted and ignorant population is easy to manipulate. Now this counter-educational model is being rolled out worldwide, and Elon Musk is its primary sponsor.

I stayed here long after I first considered leaving, as I believed it was wrong to cede the ground to an oligarch and his minions. But I came to see that those of us who do not subscribe to Musk’s grim project are being used as groundbait: stimulating the feeding frenzy of 15-minute, 24-hour hate that now powers this platform. We can no longer build anything of value here. Brute force – the unmediated power of money – has beaten humanity, intelligence, humour and democracy.

On Bluesky I can be the person I want to be, a better person than I am on X, where it is almost impossible not to get dragged into the mud. I feel I can be understood because I am not confronting a deliberate effort to misunderstand me. So I can speak more quietly.

There is no guarantee that Bluesky will not also one day be monetised by its owners or captured by self-serving billionaires. But for now it remains a place in which interesting and enjoyable conversations can be had, kindness can be shown to strangers and a better world can be imagined. I hope to see you there.

[Le Devoir @LeDevoir]

Comment évoluent les #GES du Québec? https://t.co/F4Uof6z5vr

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

Elon Musk is an horrible human being. That’s the tweet.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk But I don’t think that Elon want this. They just want chaos and puppet representatives that will submit to the emperor.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk Huge bill are not good, no matter what is in because it is impossible to understand them. I give you that. But it should mean split them, not throw everything…a lot of people will suffer because Elon think he’s saving your country but acting more and more like a total egomaniac

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk I have been following you for long but I come less and less on this platform.

Representative democracy is not about asking anyone which disagree to leave and to behave like this.

This government doesn’t care about anyone but themselves and theirs friends.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk I must admit that your country has a way of thinking that is a mystery to me. But go, go live the experiment full size, I wish you (Americans, not you) will be able to navigate through this era without too many scars. But you are in for a hell of a ride. Good luck.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk Precisely, you are a rare person I follow who is clearly at a different location on the political spectrum than I am. I benefit from reading your usually interesting thoughts. I would have expected you to show some skepticism about Musk who is really playing the oligarch.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk Oh come on. You used to be more « rational ». You’ve drunk Trump and Musk cool-aid too. Let’s agree to disagree.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk You really feel like the richest man in the world, a guy who is lacking empathy above everything else, represent the people? Maybe those guys are using the people but they don’t really care. They seem more about destroying the state than improving its efficiency .

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@shaneparrish @harleyf The problem for me is that those guys are not really about efficiency but seem much more ideological about destroying the state,a concept in which they do not believe.Everything cannot be achieved through the market.If only they would question expanses without wanting to destroy

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk We are not interested.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

A government of oligarchs that will exist to solely serve the interests of oligarchs while distracting working people with culture wars. Foreign corporations & persons can loot & pollute the US and bypass regs that protect the health of Americans as long as they got lots of cash.

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@rationalwalk It doesn’t help when one party takes people for granted and the other one doesn’t believe in the state itself and does everything it can to encourage people to distrust institutions…

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@Tesla I can’t remember an exciting update in recent years. My 2019 Tesla is not getting a lot of love honestly…

[J-F Morissette @jeffmori7]

@nachkari As a starting point, stop tearing down bike lanes 😉