August 5, 2023

Rolling Stone: X, Formerly Twitter, Seizes @Music Handle From Its Longtime User, Who Is ‘Super Pissed’

Rolling Stone: X, Formerly Twitter, Seizes @Music Handle From Its Longtime User, Who Is ‘Super Pissed’. “AS ELON MUSK continues Twitter’s confounding rebrand into ‘X,’ the social media platform has now seized the account handle for @Music, much to the chagrin of the username’s original user. X user Jeremy Vaught shared a message the company had sent him on Thursday, notifying him that the account name he created about a year into Twitter’s existence is no longer his as the handle is now affiliated with X Corp.”

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July 28, 2023

WIRED: They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral

WIRED: They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral . “To be sure, crass and hateful public figures are worthy of ridicule. And we’ve been using the internet to judge strangers for as long as we’ve had the internet. But the common trait shared by much of the most obnoxious content today is that someone chose to elevate a stranger for no reason beyond their own gratification, attracting attention at a scale unimaginable in the days of relics like Hot or Not and People of Wal-Mart.” I have very strong feelings about this based on personal experience but I will spare you.

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April 23, 2023

Business Insider: Twitter is adding verified check marks to the accounts of dead celebrities, making them look like paid Twitter Blue subscribers

Business Insider: Twitter is adding verified check marks to the accounts of dead celebrities, making them look like paid Twitter Blue subscribers. “Kobe Bryant, Norm Macdonald, Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman, and Michael Jackson were among the celebrities who each got a posthumous blue check added to their Twitter accounts as the site began to purge legacy verifications on Thursday, pivoting to only displaying the checks on the profiles who pay for the subscription service.”

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March 20, 2023

Deadline: Twitter Responds To All Email Inquiries From The Press With A Poop Emoji, 51-Year-Old Owner Elon Musk Reports

Deadline: Twitter Responds To All Email Inquiries From The Press With A Poop Emoji, 51-Year-Old Owner Elon Musk Reports. “All inquiries from members of the press directed to Twitter’s official press email now receive the same automatic reply: a poop emoji. Elon Musk, who bought the social media company for $44 billion last year, relayed the update on his own Twitter feed over the weekend.” This is such a stupid waste of pixels I’m ashamed to be typing it. But I want evidence somewhere so that 40 years down the road nobody dismisses this story as apocryphal.

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March 7, 2023

CNN: Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off

CNN: Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off. “Elon Musk publicly scoffed at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been laid off in a recent round of cuts and spoke dismissively of the employee’s disability in a series of tweets Monday night. It’s the latest example of the billionaire openly antagonizing his company’s current and former staffers.”

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September 28, 2021

Daily Beast: Mocking Unvaxxed COVID Victims Is the New Pandemic Blood Sport

Daily Beast: Mocking Unvaxxed COVID Victims Is the New Pandemic Blood Sport. ” The average number of daily coronavirus deaths in America has spiked back above 2,000 and the vast majority involve people who are not vaccinated. On this particular unvaxxed death repository, the newest deaths added are usually very recent, with each case having occurred within the last 48 hours or so. The effect is a relentless parade of dead faces, usually shown in happier moments, arms around loved ones, smiling from beyond the grave. But reveling in this apparently irresistible daily fact of vaccine-era life is not confined to one site. And even as cataloging the death of those without shots risks becoming a major pastime among the enthusiastically masked and vaxxed, health experts say it may be doing more harm than good.”

COVID-19 0
September 10, 2021

NBC News: Tennessee teen talking about grandma who died of Covid heckled by adults at school board meeting

NBC News: Tennessee teen talking about grandma who died of Covid heckled by adults at school board meeting. “Grady Knox, a junior at Central Magnet School, was mocked and shouted down while speaking at a Rutherford County School Board meeting Tuesday night. A clip of the moment made the rounds of social media, showing adults telling the teenage boy to ‘shut up’ as he gave a personal story to relay his views in favor of mask mandates.”

COVID-19 0
August 28, 2021

Red & Black: UGA professor resigns mid-class after student refuses to wear mask

Red & Black: UGA professor resigns mid-class after student refuses to wear mask. “A University of Georgia retiree-rehire professor resigned on Tuesday after one of his students refused to properly wear a mask in an upper division psychology seminar class held at the psychology building. During Irwin Bernstein’s second class of the semester, the student, who was not present on the first day of class, arrived at the 25-person class unmasked and was asked by Bernstein to retrieve one from the advising office. The student was given a spare disposable mask from a peer but did not wear it over her nose.”

COVID-19 0
July 23, 2021

Officials: Hacker stole identities of multiple victims killed in Surfside condo collapse (Local 10)

Local 10: Officials: Hacker stole identities of multiple victims killed in Surfside condo collapse. “Disturbing reports are emerging of a hacker taking advantage of those who were killed in the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside. Officials said the criminal is seeing the victims’ names in the news and then stealing their identities.”

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