Notices by Yoel Roth (yoyoel@macaw.social)

Since 2020, I’ve been at the epicenter of a wide-reaching campaign to intimidate social media platforms into backing away from their investments in safety and security. It worked.

New from me (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=4tdIbFuKLW42ISeaU4acN26WTieKQcsLEoCyhJt1DC8dcAq9yCnJjyrbKLCEWm2hVWmWh-x94MKiw-I_OrqJ8JIYpDsdvQ4BFioWZ_RXCQ4ftJfFamVymL4ZnoK5RUQIhDdY-ZuJck3JBMeNXn5VYxEZ-tp8__DgJ_29osLV2tNCx4SZkrQrNtAyYPdzMK4asGiGrshlttyZF4arTjYH7ObwQo2-GSiVT3z3QovPSQ8Q4L9ggP7frVv1zKmIi4yukMwCGcqmRYnUy8pmnGPw0wWV3c9FMTUKuc6VM7kGy9gMnz_OUsQCiX8LR3v5Ls40VVkp1tb_c7PD4BiQ6lFP2Aw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I have never in my life felt so seen by a piece of writing. https://nymag.com/strategist/article/led-light-bulbs-investigation.html

LED bulbs are terrible!!! But when you talk to lighting normies about things like color temperature, they look at you like you’re from another planet!

Publicly posting the names and identities of front-line employees involved in content moderation puts them in harm’s way and is a fundamentally unacceptable thing to do.

Shortly after I left Twitter, someone signed me up for a ton of spam under various abusive names. By far the most persistent has been a horoscope site that sends about 10 emails a day — which on balance are actually kind of delightful, as abuse goes:

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