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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 21:01:09 JST Aral Balkan

   “So it’s over for you, Elon Musk. You are a public failure of a man. You’ll still be rich, but you no longer matter. That’s all you really wanted out of this, wasn’t it? You bought Twitter because you thought that owning it would make you the most special person in the whole wide world, only to reveal yourself as an unremarkable shithead with no good ideas … Go fuck yourself, Elon. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear?”

   https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/elon-musk-nyt-interview-18524602.php

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:19:30 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Steerpike

     @Steerpike I hear you.

     We do two things:

     - Regulate the shit out of them (but how when we’re institutionally corrupt?)

     - Fund and build ethical alternatives to their evil bullshit.

     (The latter is what we’re trying to do with the Small Web. https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/)

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     Steerpike (steerpike@gardenstate.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:19:31 JST Steerpike

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     @aral But there are still plenty of other white supremacists in Silicon Valley and VCs willing to launder their reputations. I don't know how people fight that, and honestly I'm falling into despair because of that.

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     Jody (jodmentum@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:41:20 JST Jody

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     @aral Earth enters the chat room….👀

     Polychrome :blabcat: likes this.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:41:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Cory Moll

     @corymoll Yep

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     Cory Moll (corymoll@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 00:41:23 JST Cory Moll

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     @aral There’s a moral and ethical judgement call that needs to be made for staying on Twitter/X. If you and friends are at a restaurant but the owner comes out and starts saying offensive things about certain populations and you’re part of one of those populations, you’d leave right? But your friends are all “eh it doesn’t bother me, m; the foods good. I don’t see what anyone complains about here.” At some point, you have to decide what’s more valuable to you as an individual.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 18:34:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • scientist

     @scientist Was never on it.

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     scientist (scientist@eu.mastodon.green)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 18:34:05 JST scientist

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     @aral

     Let me get this clear, is this your way of telling Elon that he's been taken off of your Christmas card list?