Oh good, so on top of the unexpected chaos, the expected chaos is also still happening.

This doesn’t surprise me at all. So much of the current Twitter chaos is predictable.

What an absolute mess this whole thing has been.

They’re so obvious as to almost not be worth pointing out, but two points: First, this is why making verification a paid feature is dumb; and second, penalizing parody because your business model is dumb is not what free speech absolutism looks like.

Choosing not to do business with someone isn’t an assault on free speech—it’s the very definition of the marketplace of ideas.

Oh no. This can’t be good.

We need to do more work to divorce free speech from content moderation. The world without content moderation would be a much worse world, and we don’t want to live in it. Sure, social media platforms are too powerful, but this is not the answer.

This is a gross idea for a TV show, and I’m glad people are pushing back against it.

What a story. I knew how awful the TSA could be to passengers, but I never knew how bad it also was for its own employees.

Sad news. I had the livestream up and was hoping to watch the launch before going into the office today.

Lots of directions to go with this one, but “based” is the red pill red flag for me. Lee is (unsurprisingly) borrowing the language of the far right.

Musk continues his trolling. This is a dumb proposal, and Twitter shouldn’t accept it.

Ugh, Pearson. Why do we keep thinking about ways to make digital textbooks worse than physical ones?

Best line: “Musk seemed to relish the ability to make wishful product plans about free speech and corporate independence more than he wanted to develop a coherent business plan for Twitter.”

I remember the first Floppotron, and 3.0 continues to be delightful. I may have to show this in class next year.

Very, very interesting read on how the purported objectivity of big data is influencing how (conservative) judges use corpus linguistics.

I hope it will be the last. End it while it’s still good.

This article may make its way into a chapter I’m writing on how assumptions about education shape our understanding of what appropriate data collection looks like. As Audrey Watters has written, this kind of thing is very much edtech, and we need to be critical about how we deploy it. Even if it did work, I’m not sure the surveillance would be worth it. If it doesn’t work, all the more reason to be skeptical.

Lots of interesting ideas in this interview. I particularly like libraries running Mastodon instances.

Let’s do the same in the U.S., please.

Content moderation is (sometimes) a good thing.

The quotes in here underline how often ‘free speech’ is used to mean ‘problematic right-wing talking points.’

Not excited about this, but the good news is that I’ve already been thinking about revamping my web presence, and this is a push to do something about it.

Bad faith edits were the main reason why I’ve never jumped on the “edit button” train, so I think this is a good way to handle this.

Nooooo thank you. Don’t like this about Grammarly, don’t like this about Word, won’t like this about Google Docs. I am very skeptical of giving algorithms authority over style.