Since most of my casual writing has been here instead of my personal site, I expect that personal blogs and RSS will replace Twitter for most of my use. I suspect that LinkedIn will probably become more used and useful. And maybe micro.blog will, too?


Twitter will not be unusable on closing, but it will start going downhill when TFG lets You Know Who back on this platform and spiral quickly when key personnel leave the company, especially if new management deprioritizes trust and safety work in the name of “free speech”.


Second, import Tweets into… TBD. I suspect that there is an easy way to do this Wordpress? (Also, Wordpress is overkill for running a personal blog, but because it’s free and highly flexible, there don’t seem to be many other, good and simpler options)


First, download an archive of your Twitter data from twitter.com/settings/downl…


While I’m still skeptical that the deal will close, I think we’re dangerously close to TFG actually owning this hellsite. While I don’t think it will become a total dumpster fire on day 1, I don’t expect that this will be a pleasant experience. So, planning an exit strategy


Here’s the text of the Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for US Signals Intelligence Activities to support the development of Safe Harbor 3.0/Privacy Shield 2.0/EU-US Data Privacy Framework 1.0: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…


Maybe if we stop trying to control the pandemic, it will just go away twitter.com/Alexander_Tin/…


@robinberjon “The customer says there’s another 3 tabs in the Excel spreadsheet that need to be filled out”


Privacy should primarily be a product design objective, with documentation as an outcome. Instead, privacy programs spend far too much time checking boxes in spreadsheets to complete surveys so that other privacy programs downstream can check boxes. twitter.com/robinberjon/st…


Bad Sisters doesn’t seem to have as much buzz as it should, but it is indeed very good. twitter.com/amandarykoff/s…


Seems like there’s really only one thing that will actually moot the need for a trial… you know, actually closing the deal before the trial twitter.com/chancery_daily…


Offering to do this before Chancery Court tells him to. Conpleting the original deal is the right result for Twitter shareholders, but the wrong result for Twitter users, and the worst result for litigation disaster tourists. twitter.com/verge/status/1…


Matter 1.0 is launching and should simplify using smart home devices from what are now different ecosystems, but will never completely remove the need to have a Raspberry Pi running Homebridge twitter.com/jp2e/status/15…


The Colorado Attorney General released draft rules for the implementation of the Colorado Privacy Act. There’s a lot to unpack here. dora.state.co.us/pls/real/SB121…


The 3 Body Problem Problem. twitter.com/russellbrandom…


@2AvSagas Mazel tov!



Insert joke here about the royal shiva


How much of Netchoice was outsourced to GPT-3?


This decision in NetChoice uses a lot of words to say mostly gibberish, basically saying that state law can compel platforms to carry speech because…? There’s a coherent common-sense approach to treating lower layers of the network as common carriers. This is something else. twitter.com/AriCohn/status…