Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.
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look, i used Twitter as a news platform way before most people even imagined it could be used as such.
i was reporting on-the-ground, posting pics & videos with my Blackberry by 2008. i created a lot of what's now considered conventional reporting.
that’s why thousands of reporters and news orgs followed me. i was the journalists’ journalist.
and it’s why i later found out, thanks to Edward Snowden, i had been targeted by techbros. because am a nobody (to them) that people trust.
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@blogdiva
Keep up the good work...
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look, i used Twitter as a news platform way before most people even imagined it could be used as such.
i was reporting on-the-ground, posting pics & videos with my Blackberry by 2008. i created a lot of what's now considered conventional reporting.
that’s why thousands of reporters and news orgs followed me. i was the journalists’ journalist.
and it’s why i later found out, thanks to Edward Snowden, i had been targeted by techbros. because am a nobody (to them) that people trust.
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@blogdiva He seems like a smart guy, but he was such a breathless gee-whiz booster of AI and I burned out and unfollowed. I'm glad I'm following you.
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RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148
Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.
jfc.
look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.
you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?
ME.
i was in the top 5 of most influential accounts during the #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallStreet
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love ur work (how do ppl donate to u?)
im one person, but 'lukewarm to politics' is not how id describe the feed i curate & the ppl i invite to my page icl. also ibsr i dont think journalists are so monolithic that id say i want all flavors swarming fedi. like, the writing i wanna (& do) see is by individuals sharing their lives & interactions w systems n ppl & what theyve heard from community (literally u on all counts), not from non-grassroots orgs w ott editorials, clickbait headlines & the bad half of radical flanking
echo chambers is kinda wild when the echo is listen to ppl, have empathy & do better icl.
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look, i used Twitter as a news platform way before most people even imagined it could be used as such.
i was reporting on-the-ground, posting pics & videos with my Blackberry by 2008. i created a lot of what's now considered conventional reporting.
that’s why thousands of reporters and news orgs followed me. i was the journalists’ journalist.
and it’s why i later found out, thanks to Edward Snowden, i had been targeted by techbros. because am a nobody (to them) that people trust.
🧵…
there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.
BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.
BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.
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RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148
Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.
jfc.
look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.
you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?
ME.
i was in the top 5 of most influential accounts during the #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallStreet
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@blogdiva I noticed attendance go down when people started feeling they couldn't speak freely, because of the fascists scanning all the social media. It's the same everywhere. I saw someone post on Substack they were there because they thought it was a slightly safer site from big tech. They were rethinking their position.
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there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.
BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.
BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.
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@blogdiva It’s pretty hilarious how he has all this energy to step up for AI journalists, but I didn’t see him anywhere when Black folks were getting harassed off the fedi for years.
Especially considering he has direct contact and influence with the Masto team. -
there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.
BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.
BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.
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@blogdiva I sincerely hope he isn’t actually given much time of day by the “mastodon core team”.
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RE: https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352522288234148
Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.
jfc.
look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.
you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?
ME.
i was in the top 5 of most influential accounts during the #ArabSpring & #OccupyWallStreet
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@blogdiva "lukewarm to politics" is an observation that is amazing in its nonspecificity and uselessness
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there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116352800579635299if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.
BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.
BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.
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this post though… OMG… don't even know how to begin with this:
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116358195717244835the tell is in his use of “AI JOURNALISM”. that’s just the cherry on top of the shit sundae Jenson is tryna sell as “the echo chamber”.
in Scott Jenson’s world, people who reject #AIslop are also racists who won’t boost his one Black, “AIfluencer” friend Dare.
nobody is buying Dare’s efforts to selling #AIslop as inevitable because there is nothing to buy.
IT’S ALL HYPE & PROPAGANDA
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@blogdiva It’s pretty hilarious how he has all this energy to step up for AI journalists, but I didn’t see him anywhere when Black folks were getting harassed off the fedi for years.
Especially considering he has direct contact and influence with the Masto team.@are0h @blogdiva Scott only joined the Mastodon team in I think late 2024. AFAIK he was one of the driving forces behind involving Black users in the co-design of Mastodon's quote post feature, but you'd have to ask him (or someone who was involved, @mekkaokereke I believe?) for the details.
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@are0h @blogdiva Scott only joined the Mastodon team in I think late 2024. AFAIK he was one of the driving forces behind involving Black users in the co-design of Mastodon's quote post feature, but you'd have to ask him (or someone who was involved, @mekkaokereke I believe?) for the details.
@julian @blogdiva @mekkaokereke Ha, nah. I’m good. I am all to familiar with white men trying to tokenize Black folks to look ‘progressive.’
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this post though… OMG… don't even know how to begin with this:
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116358195717244835the tell is in his use of “AI JOURNALISM”. that’s just the cherry on top of the shit sundae Jenson is tryna sell as “the echo chamber”.
in Scott Jenson’s world, people who reject #AIslop are also racists who won’t boost his one Black, “AIfluencer” friend Dare.
nobody is buying Dare’s efforts to selling #AIslop as inevitable because there is nothing to buy.
IT’S ALL HYPE & PROPAGANDA
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@blogdiva Should I click or should I keep my blood pressure down?
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this post though… OMG… don't even know how to begin with this:
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116358195717244835the tell is in his use of “AI JOURNALISM”. that’s just the cherry on top of the shit sundae Jenson is tryna sell as “the echo chamber”.
in Scott Jenson’s world, people who reject #AIslop are also racists who won’t boost his one Black, “AIfluencer” friend Dare.
nobody is buying Dare’s efforts to selling #AIslop as inevitable because there is nothing to buy.
IT’S ALL HYPE & PROPAGANDA
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@blogdiva His post gave me vibes of pickup negging to be honest.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (@onepict@chaos.social)
Content warning: Main character, AI
chaos.social (chaos.social)
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this post though… OMG… don't even know how to begin with this:
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116358195717244835the tell is in his use of “AI JOURNALISM”. that’s just the cherry on top of the shit sundae Jenson is tryna sell as “the echo chamber”.
in Scott Jenson’s world, people who reject #AIslop are also racists who won’t boost his one Black, “AIfluencer” friend Dare.
nobody is buying Dare’s efforts to selling #AIslop as inevitable because there is nothing to buy.
IT’S ALL HYPE & PROPAGANDA
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LET SET ASIDE THAT:
1. Dare uses images of headlines and refuses to add #AltTxt to them, antagonizing one of the biggest trends native to the #fediverse
2. Dare also refuses to link to the articles from whence he snatches said headlines, breaking one of the most basic of web usability conventions.
Obasanjo spends an inordinate amount of time selling the inevitability of #AIslop. he even boasted about firing half his staff and forcing the survivors to slop themselves into relevancy
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LET SET ASIDE THAT:
1. Dare uses images of headlines and refuses to add #AltTxt to them, antagonizing one of the biggest trends native to the #fediverse
2. Dare also refuses to link to the articles from whence he snatches said headlines, breaking one of the most basic of web usability conventions.
Obasanjo spends an inordinate amount of time selling the inevitability of #AIslop. he even boasted about firing half his staff and forcing the survivors to slop themselves into relevancy
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i don’t know about y’all but who takes seriously a Naijaman selling the inevitability of #tech #fascism and #colonialism?
and now i have to wonder: is Dare’s account meant to be an engagement bot onhere?
because it doesn't make any sense at all to say there are no Black people on the #fediverse because it is averse to “engagement bots”. it does make sense though if you are using digital #Blackface like that “soul” singer on Youtube.
which brings me to the phenomenon of #BlackTwitter
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this post though… OMG… don't even know how to begin with this:
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/116358195717244835the tell is in his use of “AI JOURNALISM”. that’s just the cherry on top of the shit sundae Jenson is tryna sell as “the echo chamber”.
in Scott Jenson’s world, people who reject #AIslop are also racists who won’t boost his one Black, “AIfluencer” friend Dare.
nobody is buying Dare’s efforts to selling #AIslop as inevitable because there is nothing to buy.
IT’S ALL HYPE & PROPAGANDA
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@blogdiva Oh, my. Scott is actually, seriously doing "first they came for the AI bros".
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i don’t know about y’all but who takes seriously a Naijaman selling the inevitability of #tech #fascism and #colonialism?
and now i have to wonder: is Dare’s account meant to be an engagement bot onhere?
because it doesn't make any sense at all to say there are no Black people on the #fediverse because it is averse to “engagement bots”. it does make sense though if you are using digital #Blackface like that “soul” singer on Youtube.
which brings me to the phenomenon of #BlackTwitter
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THERE ARE TWO BLACKTWITTERS
1. the organic growth, virality and stickiness that grew from the handful of Black folks who joined the platform on 2007 during SXSW. it literally happened after a panel on BIPOC people on the web that @anildash and I were part of
2. the “engagement network” of bots that Jack Dorsey called #BlackTwitter, so he could sell premium access to the API to spammers and purveyors of corporate stalkerware.
in other words 🧵…
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THERE ARE TWO BLACKTWITTERS
1. the organic growth, virality and stickiness that grew from the handful of Black folks who joined the platform on 2007 during SXSW. it literally happened after a panel on BIPOC people on the web that @anildash and I were part of
2. the “engagement network” of bots that Jack Dorsey called #BlackTwitter, so he could sell premium access to the API to spammers and purveyors of corporate stalkerware.
in other words 🧵…
Dorsey saw the phenomenon of Black Twitter, saw the network effect of nobodies like me, and went about to replicating it with a whole batallion of #blackface bots that he then sold as the power of Twitter’s network effect and virality.
it doesn’t necessarily mean he was selling access to his made up Blacktwitter. it does mean that premium access to the API, bought the possibility of building your own "blacktwitter".
THIS IS WHY MUSK TOOK THE PLATFORM PRIVATE WITH DORSEY’S BLESSING
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THERE ARE TWO BLACKTWITTERS
1. the organic growth, virality and stickiness that grew from the handful of Black folks who joined the platform on 2007 during SXSW. it literally happened after a panel on BIPOC people on the web that @anildash and I were part of
2. the “engagement network” of bots that Jack Dorsey called #BlackTwitter, so he could sell premium access to the API to spammers and purveyors of corporate stalkerware.
in other words 🧵…
@blogdiva omg i have no idea who scott is but by your first post of the thread seems worthy for me to block them. Thank you for your efforts, Liza
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Dorsey saw the phenomenon of Black Twitter, saw the network effect of nobodies like me, and went about to replicating it with a whole batallion of #blackface bots that he then sold as the power of Twitter’s network effect and virality.
it doesn’t necessarily mean he was selling access to his made up Blacktwitter. it does mean that premium access to the API, bought the possibility of building your own "blacktwitter".
THIS IS WHY MUSK TOOK THE PLATFORM PRIVATE WITH DORSEY’S BLESSING
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@blogdiva thanks for this thread! i knew some parts but i do learn others.
