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rob's avatar

you of all people should know that the algorithm disdains sarcasm.

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Alexandros Marinos's avatar

We should tar and feather it, too.

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Jen Downey's avatar

I wonder what would have happened if you'd said "feather and tar".

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SpinnyKlaus Dr. Boom 🚁's avatar

Next time he should try "far and teather" or perhaps "fart and tether"

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NCmom's avatar

And biology. You can still be suspended - permanently - for saying a human adult with a penis is a man..............

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Modern Discontent's avatar

Not just the algorithm, but everyone! It seems like sarcasm is lost on many these days...

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John Smith's avatar

Maybe "tar and feather" has to be replaced with a positive algorithm version that doesn't trigger the censors. "Decorate and sprinkle."

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Damien McKenna's avatar

Decorate with some sticky substance, maybe tar, and then sprinkle with something that’ll be silly yet annoying - how about feathers? ;-)

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SCA's avatar

Well, cheer up. Jacinta Ardern just resigned. Tide is turning. Of course, where it heads next is anyone's guess. But maybe it will take all the humorless and over-literal-minded with it.

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Laura Noncomplier's avatar

Yes, pure joy at her resignation

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Victoria's avatar

madness is endemic. how can we help??

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Dave's avatar

That's hilarious because like 90% of twitter is (figuratively) tarring and feathering someone. You can do it to your heart's content. You just can't say it out loud, I guess.

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Alexandros Marinos's avatar

Nailed it.

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Green Leap Forward's avatar

Elon missed a few in the layoffs.

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Chompp's avatar

Haha, I got a 12-hour suspension for the same phrase! I don't think anyone has actually been tarred and feathered since the 1700s, bit twits at Twitter maybe don't know history and think it is an immediate threat.

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G.H.A.'s avatar

Of all the tweets you've posted, this is the one that got you suspended?!😂

And toward Pierre Kory! 😂😂😂

May the reinstatement be swift!

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Alexandros Marinos's avatar

I know, right?

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Gary Sharpe's avatar

Some folks with right brain hemisphere damage read metaphor and irony quite literally, as these are parts of language that are mediated by the right brain hemisphere's way of attending to the world, and hence this taking irony as literal by the algorithm is another sign of Dr Iain McGilchrist's warning that the west has become a left-hemisphere over-activated world, and most of society is behaving as if they had a right hemisphere stroke...

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Ashmedai's avatar

You'd think the algorithm should at least be smart enough to figure out that if the target of the alleged harassment is not aggrieved, it is obviously not harassment

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SCA's avatar

We living breathing types ain't replaceable.

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Fla Mom's avatar

Detected by AI or mob-reported by leftists with equal brain power. Best wishes; the appeal process has been glacial, for me: suspended in May 2021, for offering a calm, factual professional medical opinion.

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Chad Tuttle's avatar

Came here because I noticed you'd been missing from my feed. What an incredibly dumb situation. Sarcasm going illegal was not on my bingo card. Guess I'll go catch up on your Substack now...

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Modern Discontent's avatar

Maybe tar and feather was too old-school for the algorithm to comprehend? 🤷‍♂️

I generally view grant money with a tiny bit of skepticism. I think everything with that FTX stuff and the RECOVER trials warrant serious consideration, but if we look at every study and consider if it was funded by Gates, Zuckerberg, NIH, or any big person really then we'd be left hardly with any studies that would meet this criteria. It's unfortunately a consequence of how most science is funded, although there really should be more impartial funding if it can be made possible.

Because of that it seems more important to engage with studies to see if there's something strange about them, which may indicate something may be occurring.

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NE - Naked Emperor Newsletter's avatar

Medieval twitter algorithms switched on - check! Don't mention throwing rotten fruit at people whilst in the stocks or you'll be in big trouble!

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Carlton Weber's avatar

There is a not so well-known literary device called APOPHASIS.

We should NEVER call @AngyCardio an unmitigated ignorant idiot, NEVER. Even though it is true, she is protected by some get-out-of-idiotspeak-jail-free card that protects idiots.

Go straight to Twitter jail, do NOT pass Go, do NOT challenge her collect $1m from Steve Kirsch...

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Rick (from Texas)'s avatar

how many eye rolls-worthy is that infraction? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 ..looks like a 10 out of 10!

Btw, I am still permanently suspended for saying the vax was killing people...enter another eye roll here.

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