Category Archives: TWEET!!!

Twitter’s Grok Really Is Three Elon Musks in a Trench Coat

Posted on July 15, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

On Bluesky, every time Grok, Twitter’s LLM, has a bigot eruption I usually POAST something like “Grok is just three Elon Musks in a trench coat.” It turns out I was right! (boldface mine): The newest AI model from xAI … Continue reading →

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The Last Week Has Demonstrated the Futility of Trying to ‘Win Twitter’

Posted on December 31, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

While going down the rabbit hole of online kerfuffles can lead to madness (and none of us deserve having to know who Laura Loomer is), the last week of right wing cannibalism over immigration policy* should put to rest the … Continue reading →

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Twitter/X, Bluesky, and the Metrics

Posted on December 3, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Horrible band name. Anyway, there are still discussions over whether Bluesky is an ‘echo chamber’*, but what most of those have missed is the quality of the Twitter/X experience. There are no metrics to assess how often a cnversation gets … Continue reading →

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Some Quick Thoughts on Bluesky’s Supposed Echo Chamber

Posted on November 25, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

In no particular order, and not an all-inclusive list: How about some stories about all the women who recently joined Bluesky and describe how they don’t get rape threats on the site from MAGA C.H.U.D.s? I bet if you told … Continue reading →

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A Brief Post about Bluesky and ‘People of the Day’

Posted on November 15, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the nice things about Bluesky (and I write this as an ‘Elder’-lol) is the ‘Bluesky block.’ When you block someone, their asinine comments in threads disappear, and they can never see your posts or interact with you*. Likewise, … Continue reading →

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Twitter Is Nothing but a Hellhole at This Point

Posted on November 1, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Charlie Warzel describes setting up a new account on Xitter (boldface mine): There are three major components to this tool. The first is that X exposes its users to right-wing political content frequently, whether they want it or not. To … Continue reading →

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The Second Thing I Like about Bluesky

Posted on April 30, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s the absence of the algorithm. On Xitter, to the extent possible, I never used the algorithm. When shitbird Elon Musk decided to switch people back to the algorithm feed, I could always figure out that I needed to switch … Continue reading →

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One of the Two Things I Like about Bluesky

Posted on April 29, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s the ‘hard’ blocking (boldface mine): I want to talk about one other technical aspect of Bluesky which I think is a real differentiator, and also helped me evolve my thinking about how I want to be online generally, which … Continue reading →

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It’s About Ethics in Footnoting

Posted on January 9, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Wall Street short seller Bill Ackman learned the hard way, after pushing hard for the resignation of former Harvard president Claudine Gay due to plagiarism, that one has to be careful about such things, as last week, Business Insider had … Continue reading →

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Some More Thoughts on ‘Winning Twitter’

Posted on July 10, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, some asshole with a blog wrote: But maybe if there isn’t One Social Media App to Bind Them All, we won’t have to fight for Twitter. What I mean is ‘winning on Twitter’ is (was?) critical because it … Continue reading →

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