Free speech absolutism wins again.

There are a couple of weeks before the deadline to submit abstracts for the Mormon Social Science Association’s sessions at the 2024 meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, so I’ve been filling some nooks and crannies of my busy work week by looking at some Twitter data. Last year, I published with my colleague Amy Chapman a qualitative look at the #DezNat Twitter hashtag, which blends Mormon orthodoxy with far-right and anti-feminist thinking.

Musk’s pettiness knows no bounds.

I was already fed up with Twitter before election season started. C’mon, Musk. Gift link.

I don’t get what’s missing from a world without generative AI—and examples like this don’t make me any more convinced.

Musk ne s’intéresse à la liberté d’expression que quand il peut en profiter.

Kind of hilarious, actually, but in the depressing way that most Twitter news is these days.

Is this the same feature Elon says will be sufficient for keeping Alex Jones in check?

This… this is even worse than just giving him an account back. Ugh.

Musk keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper.