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Yeah probably - I just wasn't aware of anything too high-profile or calamitous
DCMA requests went unanswered for several days, leading many to post full movies in 2-minute sections.
Yeah I mentioned content moderation
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> actual science I'm not sure what you mean by this. Many quality studies are A/B tests. A/B just refers to the two IV states you're testing, which you're then observing a DV - sales, engagement, errors, etc. A/B tests can be double blinded (don't tell the error monitoring people which results are from a trial), and have high number of samples, far beyond even most pharmaceutical trials. They can also be really crapp…
Advertisers and marketers use the equations but measure contemporary trends. Science is more “what’s true if humans didn’t exist.” Marketing is more “what widget generates more revenue?”
This isn’t true. Science is ultimately the scientific method — make a hypothesis, test a change, observe the results, repeat. It’s an algorithm for learning and broadly gaining information about reality. It can equally be applied to things having to do with humans and things not having to do with humans.
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#103TLDR: this post is entirely to calm advertisers, it can be boiled down to "don't worry, we still prioritize brand safety like before". It does have this gem in it: "What has changed, however, is our approach to experimentation. As you’ve seen over the past several weeks, Twitter is embracing public testing. We believe that this open and transparent approach to innovation is healthy, as it enables us to move faster an…
It's just referencing the fact that the new Twitter is more open and transparent. I can't believe how many people are spinning this as a bad thing. We heard almost nothing from Parag and little from Jack when he was running it and experiments were opaque from the outside. Now we're hearing from the CEO and employees like George Hotz about what they are doing and planning, and they're involving the community, asking f…
> previous Twitter wasn't as transparent as it is now
Reinstating accounts on the basis of a poll, on a platform you have spent months railing for having too many bots, is a good example of CYA transparency.
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Remember way back before the era of social media mob justice, when there was this concept of 'forgiveness'? At least some of the banned deserve a second chance. Those who were total monsters will probably be quickly re-banned. Others have found their own echo chambers elsewhere and won't even bother coming back.
Elon is pretty clearly unbanning violent right-wing extremists while banning rule-following accounts on the left, sometimes transparently at the direction of the right wingers. Why do you insist on pretending anything else?
Speaking of "pretending", that is false on both counts.
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Its certainly a town square, just because you have your own little tavern/forum doesn't mean the town square isn't the town square.
It isn't a town square - a town square is public. Twitter is a private organization. In this case, Twitter is the tavern. The Internet is the town square.
Is Facebook the town dilapidated mall full of geezers getting their daily walks?
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#106I don't know why anyone would take seriously anything Twitter says, beyond acknowledging they said it.
Everything is currently a moving target, and subject to their owner's whims.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elon is pretty clearly unbanning violent right-wing extremists while banning rule-following accounts on the left, sometimes transparently at the direction of the right wingers. Why do you insist on pretending anything else?
Speaking of "pretending", that is false on both counts.
excellent argument, you sure changed my mind
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#108TLDR: this post is entirely to calm advertisers, it can be boiled down to "don't worry, we still prioritize brand safety like before". It does have this gem in it: "What has changed, however, is our approach to experimentation. As you’ve seen over the past several weeks, Twitter is embracing public testing. We believe that this open and transparent approach to innovation is healthy, as it enables us to move faster an…
the marketing team writes a Grown Up , Adult blog post to try to look normal, then commander Elon will come out tomorrow high fiving more nazis [1] and banning more non-nazi accounts for supposedly belonging to "antifa" and saying things he doesn't personally like [2].
This is the same "trapped enabler" pattern we saw with Trump in the early days, with his staff constantly coming out to try to paper over whatever horrible thing he did. They had no shame, and neither does the Twitter staff that wrote this blog post.
[1] https://archive.ph/xYeYY - TPM article without paywall
[2] https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
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#109TLDR: this post is entirely to calm advertisers, it can be boiled down to "don't worry, we still prioritize brand safety like before". It does have this gem in it: "What has changed, however, is our approach to experimentation. As you’ve seen over the past several weeks, Twitter is embracing public testing. We believe that this open and transparent approach to innovation is healthy, as it enables us to move faster an…
It's only weird, if you attempt to parse it with a straight face. This is some B-grade best-effort spin on what has been uncontrolled chaos with predictably awful effects. The only thing keeping Twitter rolling is the majority percentage of the casual niche user in non-political and non-technical niches, who haven't been paying attention to the chaos; and who by virtue of being casual users are not notably surprised…
Twitter has never been more fun, useful, and engaging for me.
I signed up for an account after years of refusing to do so after elon took over
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#110> First, none of our policies have changed
uh