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   whetstone (whetstone@romancelandia.club)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 16:38:20 JST whetstone

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   • Carl T. Bergstrom

   @ct_bergstrom Your decision is perfectly justifiable, even though it will be a loss. I second the suggestion of using archive.org on threads like the one you mention, the ones that feel like important historical work to you.

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     Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 16:38:22 JST Carl T. Bergstrom

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     I feel as though some of my threads over there are an legitimate if minor part of the scientific record — for example, the thread that laid out, 24 hours after the IHME model was first posted, why it would fail, and the follow-up three weeks later using its daily predictions and updates to validate that assessment.

     I hate to simply vaporize these.

     Anyway, it was a good run and I just figured I ought to note my decision here.

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     Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 16:38:23 JST Carl T. Bergstrom

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     Twitter has been an amazingly valuable platform for scientists over the years, and it was integral to coordinate global scientific activity during the early part of the COVID pandemic.

     Sadly, we live in a world where one malignantly narcissistic billionaire can destroy all of that for lulz and the adulation of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

     I've locked my account and will be deleting the content as I figure out the right way to do it.

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     Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 16:38:24 JST Carl T. Bergstrom

     Today was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

     This morning Elon Musk tweeted that his pronouns were prosecute/Fauci.

     You can’t study evolutionary biology under the roof of the Discovery Institute and you can’t have meaningful and productive scientific collaboration on a platform run by right-wing troll who denies science when its results are inconvenient to him and just simply to hear his audience cheer.