Following 193 accounts and with 329 followers I am a relative nobody on Twitter. By controlling who I follow and who I block I can protect myself from the worst of Twitter. By choosing to follow legitimate news sources and people with similar interests, like cycling, my Twitter feed is
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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Greg Iacurci discusses how long COVID is set to cause trillions of dollars of damage to the U.S.’ economy (to say nothing of the toll in human suffering and death). Constance Sommer writes about the difficulty in distinguishing between “brain fog” caused by
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Cold weather blues and other news
So pending Twitter’s possible demise, I have now signed up at Mastodon and at Tribel — I’m not sure either of them can work as easily as Twitter did so we’ll see how it goes. Here are my links to these sites, if you have to find me someday soon:
Continue readingmark a. rayner: The Dumpster Fire that Is Twitter
Stephen Fry just left Twitter, moments before I started writing this. As recently as a few weeks ago, I would have thought this would be… The post The Dumpster Fire that Is Twitter appeared first on mark a. rayner.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Accountability/Cancel Culture, and the Possible End of Twitter
So this might be the end of Twitter. I’m about 1/2 convinced Musk is willing to torch 44 billion dollars just to drive the thing into the ground, for reasons that I’ll give towards the bottom. And if the platform disintegrates I think it will be difficult to replace, for
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – A panel of experts has offered a set of recommendations to deal with the current COVID-19 reality, including a particular focus on the need for whole-of-society action rather than leaving a global pandemic to individual choices. And David Berger highlights how the facts
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mr. Musk Unmasked
Once more, Unlearn16 reveals something important, and her observations I could not disagree with. Yesterday, she pierced the facade perpetrated by the Ford government about the soon-to-be striking school support staff in Ontario. This time, she turns her laser-focus on Elong Musk and his purchase of Twitter. Well-worth the three-minute listen.
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: A Tale of Two Twitters
It is the best of the Internet, it is the worst of the Internet, it is the purveyor of wisdom, it is the purveyor of disinformation, it is the home of knowledge, it is the home of wilful ignorance. Beyond the literary allusion (words inspired by Charles Dickens) there do
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Troll Busted
So I’m hearing tonight that the hateful and cowardly reign of terror of one of Saskatchewan’s most vile troll accounts is finally over. And if it’s true that the person behind NotTammyR is a Lutheran pastor…all I can say is wow. — Tamara Hinz (@hinz_tamara) September 19, 2022 It was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Twitter Censors Reality – Ominous.
Do think that the gender-magic might be a problem now? This corrosive religion demands absolute conformity to its strictures or you will be punished. Women who have *CORRECTLY* pointed out that this is a man have been suspended from twitter for doing so. Truth matters. Freedom of Speech Matters. Female
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Doug Ford Broke Quarantine Law
Liberals might be happy to learn that OPC leader Doug Ford has been privately prosecuted with breaking federal quarantine law. Trial is pending. They may be less excited to learn that Justin Trudeau should face similar prosecution for breaking the same law in the same manner. Another who should be
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andre Picard highlights how the response to COVID-19 has been complicated – if rendered all the more important – by the recognition that people can expect to be reinfected if exposed to it. Lena Sun, Dan Keating and Joel Achenbach discuss how the U.S.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Theatre Of The Absurd
I’m feeling too burnt out these days to put thoughts to words, my ever-constant cynicism about people and politics reaching new levels. Therefore, allow me to post some editorial cartoons that help to capture the absurdity of what we call politics and life. H/t Michael de Adder H/t Graeme MacKay H/t
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Stephanie Desmon interviews Ziyad Al-Aly about the danger COVID-19 poses for the heart – even for people with mild cases which have otherwise seemingly run their course. Megan Ogilvie, May Warren and Kenyon Wallace report on new research showing the avoidable risk that unvaccinated people
Continue readingScripturient: Debunking Poilievre’s Tweets, Part 2
This is a continuation of my debunking of a small sample of Pierre Poilievre’s (aka Skippy’s) 2022 tweets. His tweets are presented in italics; my responses follow in roman text. See if you can spot in his words 1) His lack of knowledge about the subject; 2) Blatant lies; 3)
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Pierre Poilievre — aka Skippy — tweets a lot. A lot. Not quite in the Donald-Trump-tweeting-on-the-toilet range, but close. And he often repeat-tweets his angry, bumper-sticker slogans that are little more than libertarian micro rages. They are big on emotion but empty on substance. no details, facts, or anything even
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – William Haseltine writes about the long-lasting and severe cognitive effects of long COVID, while Danny Altmann discusses the urgency of developing effective treatment given the reality that vaccines do little to prevent it. Katherine Wu warns that the U.S. is rapidly losing any
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Critic of UCP COVID response has Twitter account suspended after complaining fake account used his name and image
IMPORTANT NOTE: I’m pleased to report Dr. Joe Vipond’s Twitter account was restored to him 21 minutes after this post was published. I’m not taking credit. I rather imagine it was all the tweets Twitter received yesterday and this morning. DJC Calgary Emergency Room physician Joe Vipond, who has been
Continue readingIn This Corner: A cautionary tale about Twitter
Last week, I got a notice from Twitter that I was ‘celebrating’ 12 years on the social media platform. What an accomplishment. Here are my Twitter stats after 12 years. As of March 2021, I have sent out 3,475 tweets. I am following 50 accounts, one of whom claims to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Trump Tries Coup, Fails, Gets Twitter Ban Finally
It took almost 2 days following the attack on the US Capital by GOP terrorists, but Twitter banned the ring leader Trump from their platform, after first only giving a 12 hour suspension. After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have
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