Carl Sullivan
Carl Sullivan  ·  last week
I joined Twitter in 2008, making 7,500 posts through the years. I deactivated my X account today.

I greatly curtailed my usage of the platform since November 2023, when my employer @Flipboard pulled back from engagement. And I haven't posted since April but kept it open for work reasons (to monitor news, etc.).

Why today? The U.S. election made clear how many of my fellow Americans live entirely in "alternative facts" ecosystems. I no longer wish to participate in such a platform — so rife with unchecked misinformation and disinformation ... basically an outrage machine where the algorithm rewards lies and conspiracy theories.

If you're still on X, why?

I screenshot my profile for posterity. And here's also Flipboard's 2023 announcement.

#Goodbye#X#Twitter#SocialMedia#Mastodon#MastodonMigration#Misinformation#Facts

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
Somebody seems to have instructed #Trump that he was supposed to have been spiritually transformed by the attempt on his life, so he delivered the opening segment of his address in a dreary monotone, the Trump version of pious solemnity. After that prologue, the speech meandered along bizarre byways to pointless destinations. A few mins before midnight ET, Trump pronounced a heavy “to conclude”—& then kept going….

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy#ReproductiveRights#VotingRights#ClimateChange

Nonilex
Nonilex  ·  4 months ago
…#Trump demonstrated in Milwaukee that President Joe #Biden is not the only national politician diminished by the years. Trump too is dwindling into himself, even more isolated from such #facts about the external world as elapsed time & audience impatience.

Formless & digressive as it was, the speech did have one major theme—a theme that underscores why & how the #Democrats should be winning this race.

#BidenHarris2024 #democracy#ReproductiveRights#VotingRights#ClimateChange