Varun

extremely offline.

[Varun @VarunAmbrose]

Hey @outreach_io , is the time shown before I send a scheduled email the time it will send from my time zone or the time my prospect will receive it in their time zone?

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Twitter has been instrumental in A LOT of liberation movements worldwide. It makes sense that it might be in the world’s richest man’s financial interest to destroy it. Just saying.

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Great news everyone, "America's Crime Crisis" (trademark Fox News) is over!

All it took was Election Day eliminating the perceived political benefit of talking about crime all the time, go figure. https://t.co/0Ofdxgpdcu

[Varun @VarunAmbrose]

To all the workers at @Tesla, @SpaceX, and other related companies...

Now is probably a good time to push for the positive changes you want to see. Now is the time to strike, so to speak.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

The question we should be asking isn’t what Elon’s actions mean for Twitter, but what they mean for geopolitics. Good night.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Silicon Valley execs have no plan here. They’re busy hawking imaginary internet money and a fantasy world through a headset nobody wants.

If this place dies, there’s no place for centralized protest or citizen reporting of events. They abandoned the public good years ago.

[ahmet alp balkan @ahmetb]

Past few weeks have been a mix of Stanford prison experiment, Squid Game, Prisoner’s Dilemma and Hunger Games.

It will be studied in social psychology classes and business schools for years to come.

[Varun @VarunAmbrose]

Need more of this all over. With strikes. And joining a union.

[Varun @VarunAmbrose]

I join others who feel there are far more sinister reasons for the destruction of Twitter than the sole work of an idiotic billionaire.

[Varun @VarunAmbrose]

There are current and future astronauts looking at how Elon is destroying Twitter and thinking,

"There's no way in hell I'm getting on that rocket".

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

I remember the old saying, “Better to be thought a fool than to buy Twitter and remove all doubt.”

[Varun @VarunAmbrose]

That being said, shout out to all the good folks who worked at Twitter and made it what it is. I wish y'all the best.

[Varun @VarunAmbrose]

Stuff I won't miss about Twitter (or any other social site that has been infected with the following):
1. 99% of influencers.
2. 🧵s & "Here are [x] free websites/sources" lists. Esp those that butcher really good books for tweets.
3. The idiotic status game of follower count.

[Varun @VarunAmbrose]

Stuff I wish I did on Twitter (and will do on all social sites from now on):
1. Ruthlessly separate signal from noise. Wear out that mute button.
2. Have a reason and plan for logging in & connecting with people. Don't waste precious time scrolling.

[Min Jin Lee @minjinlee11]

Right now, there are brave folks striking at Harper Collins, NYU, the New School, and the UC System. Yes, I support them. What folks want are livable wages. No one wants to strike. Folks strike because there is strength in unity, and because they have tried all else.

[Lauren Kaori Gurley @LaurenKGurley]

BREAKING: 97% of the University of California's 48,000 academic workers have just voted authorize a strike.

This was largest strike authorization vote ever taken by academic workers in the US, and would be the largest strike so far of 2022.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

GOP operatives pushing the Big Lie recruited *thousands* of poll workers in Michigan.

And they didn’t stop there.

Republicans have spent millions recruiting partisan poll workers who could sabotage elections across the entire country.

Why isn't this a bigger story?

[☭ @sleepisocialist]

The Twitter disaster has really clarified the uselessness of billionaires. These freaks need to be taxed out of existence so we can actually do something productive with those billions of dollars instead of flushing it down the toilet for fun.