Languishing In Twitter Jail And Pondering Algorithms Run Wild

Last Thursday Twitter's algorithms busted me and suspended my account for what they read as a hateful tweet. My latest email from Twitter says their staff has reviewed my case and confirms that I am a hater. Hmm - I can feel myself getting radicalized!

As background, I was engaged in a bit of back-and-forth about the Vietnamese cop who was busted for entering the Capitol Rotunda during the January 6 debacle. He initially lied to the FBI investigators about his involvement, then said he only entered the Rotunda to admire the art. Not a strong story!

As to my hate-filled rant, here it is (I'm blanking out the other folks in the exchange.):

 

 

Yeah, a steaming bow of oatmeal, but I was blocked from Twitter within seconds of hitting "Reply" so their algorithms clearly saw something they didn't like. Maybe their algorithms think I'm expressing my support for white supremacy? I don't know and Twitter won't say.

Twitter Justice is interesting, I have learned. I was offered a choice of (a) delete the Tweet and take a 12 hour time-out, with a permanent mark in my file as a hater; or (b) appeal. By appealing, I lost all Twitter access in that account, including my list of followers or any ability to DM them.

Five days later, I received an email about my appeal saying that

"Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision."

So now I know! Does their support team include humans? That I do not know. I am intrigued to see their Reader-run tool, "Birdbrain". NO! That's not it. "Birdbath"? Birdwatch! But their algo system has real shortcomings, IMHO.

 

ERRATA:

The first takedown notice explained my situation and choices:

 

And their follow-up on my appeal said this:

Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision.

You will not be able to access Twitter through your account due to violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically our rules around:

Violating our rules against hateful conduct

In order to restore account functionality, you can resolve the violations by logging into your account and completing the on-screen instructions.

Thanks,

Twitter

Gotta figure out my next move. Aggrieved blogging seems likely.

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Comments

[henry]

Gee. And you both hate Trump. Imagine that. The @jack crocodile didn’t save you for last.

[rse]

Welcome to our epistemically secure society to Build Back Better.

[rse]

I went back to Revel's book The Flight from Truth to mull over some of what is being admitted in webinars and recent papers and the implications of it.

He had the best phrase of how most people go through life--'hearsay culture'. We are supposed to simply accept the hearsay that there was an insurrection at the capitol, it was a 'free and fair election' last November, and it was White Supremacists running around in C'ville with those tiki torches staging a photo op.

Inadmissible in court, but now we want to run our society calling out anyone unwilling to rely on hearsay as a 'conspiracy theorist'.

[Narciso]

Why do i call it samizdat,

[GUS]

You got in bed with these motherfuckers Tom M.

[Jim Eagle]

F**k Twaddle. It is not a mature form of communication. I prefer to not be limited to 160 characters or whatever the limit per Twaddle is now. I very seldom ever Twaddle but do have it so I can read referenced Twats.

It's another imposed linguistic limitation on society and culture.

[Dave (in MA)]

Gets a little peek at the side he's thrown in with.

[GUS]

He's not very bright. But he is OH SO GRACIOUS.

[Dave (in MA)]

Back in the Summer there was a COVID article with some bogus info circulating around, and the article contained the words "frequency" and "oxygen", so people were noticing that any tweet containing both of those words was slapped with a warning that you should get the facts about COVID. I posted "What's the oxygen frequency, Kenneth? @DanRather" and got the warning.

[Dave (in MA)]

rse, I think it was Pinandpuller who came up with
6uild 6ack 6etter yesterday.

[henry]

@w7voa

Federal judge blocks @POTUS deportation freeze nationwide following legal challenge by #Texas.

[anonamom]

There is not much that matches the satisfaction of the Left devouring its own, is there???

[Dave (in MA)]

Nose Ring Stalin's words got truncated up top, so here's the text. I was wondering why it didn't make sense. (Don't answer! Woke Millennial-English grammar tension is a thing.)

Our support team has determined that a violation did take place, and therefore we will not overturn our decision.

You will not be able to access Twitter through your account due to violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically our rules around:
Violating our rules against hateful conduct
In order to restore account functionality, you can resolve the violations by logging into your account and completing the on-screen instructions.

[Dave (in MA)]

It's OK when they do it.

ah, media & lefties will suddenly love presidential trolling of outlets perceived to be antagonistic https://t.co/ORa9scPHTk

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 26, 2021

[jimmyk]

“It's OK when they do it.”

Rand Paul takes it to the Dems along similar lines. Why aren’t all non-RINO Rs doing this?

"No Democrat will honestly ask whether Bernie Sanders incited the shooter that nearly killed Steve Scalise."

"No Democrat will ask whether Maxine Waters incited violence when she literally told her supporters" to confront Trump officials in public.

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1354132364528660481

[Neo]

Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred, from the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the movement against apartheid and for women’s suffrage, Malm argues that the strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence has been the only route for revolutionary change. In a braided narrative that moves from the forests of Germany and the streets of London to the deserts of Iraq, Malm offers us an incisive discussion of the politics and ethics of pacifism and violence, democracy and social change, strategy and tactics, and a movement compelled by both the heart and the mind. Here is how we fight in a world on fire.
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline

[Tom Bowler]

We need Parler back online, TM. And we need to abandon Twitter. Close to impossible since it's the only game in town right now, and in spite of its hostility it is still a great source of real news.

Do you have as many Twitter followers as JOM visitors? Whatever became of Sitemeter?

[Dave (in MA)]

I made this for use elsewhere, but I might as well share it.

[Neo]

Starting in Feb, WhatsApp will begin sharing all kinds of data with Facebook. They just killed their best feature - privacy.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22226792/whatsapp-privacy-policy-response-signal-telegram-controversy-clarification

[Neo]

https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1354150952362790916
So apparently, the center of the legal world has shifted from Hawaii to Texas.

[Tom Bowler]

The information war rages. This via Instapundit:

When Amazon rejected my documentary What Killed Michael Brown? from its platform last October, I was stunned by the rejection letter’s finality. The film had failed to meet Amazon’s “content quality expectations,” was “not eligible for publishing,” and there could be no “resubmission of this title and this decision may not be appealed.” After rereading the letter several times, I was left with the eerie feeling that I had done something immoral for which I deserved to be ashamed. Fortunately the film was written, presented, and narrated by my father Shelby Steele whose years as an acclaimed author and op-ed writer for the Wall Street Journal had made him a public intellectual. When I told the writers at the Journal what had happened, they responded with several critical articles, and Amazon promptly reversed its decision and agreed to host my film on their platform, where it remains to this day.

https://quillette.com/2021/01/23/the-battle-for-moral-authority/

[Jane]

Sorry TM, but that’s what the democrats decided is best for our society. So you have 2 choices: acceptance or fighting back.

I do have one/two questions left: are the Biden folks all complying? And does Twitter publish (yes they are a publisher) any discussion not in complete Biden agreement?

[Jane]

Perfect Dave!

[Dave (in MA)]

Cancel culture hits the lady who was once the intended victim of the astronautrix in a diaper.

The post-Trump fallout in publishing is a small story but with potentially big implications https://t.co/K5jSSErgMA

— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) January 26, 2021

[henry]

Meanwhile in the WI Senate debate:

@maciverwisc

.@SenChrisLarson says Republicans shouldn't terminate @GovEvers' emergency order because there aren't any special interest groups are asking them to. #WIright

[Jim Eagle]

Just a little experience as an exercise in OpEding:

The thing about those XL jobs lost is not the immediate total but the domino effect. The project would have required trained fitters, operators (side booms, trenchers, etc) and especially welders. So, now we will have a back-fill only deficit of trained and experienced skilled workers. And, just coding will not help.

My experience in engineering, construction included training and certifying skilled crafts. Where will they be when we need them? Just because we don't have a plethora of power plant construction or new pipelines doesn't mean there will no more. When we finally choke the electric grid (which is near BTW)who will step up to expand it and build new power. Electricity by solar, wind or farts is not going to save expansion.

So, if Xiden all of sudden says, "hey we need more power", where does it think it will come from? To build a combined cycle plant is maybe 2 years now. A baseload coal fired plant (as if) is 3-4 years. A big Nuke? Fagetaboutit.

Where is our national energy policy to fire up Slo Joes build and buy America/

The Chinese are laughing at us and mostly because we can plan beyond a 24 hour news cycle.

[clarice]

As I predicted--the good ship Biden hits the shoals right out of the launch :
https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-judge-blocks-biden-deportation-freeze-nationwide-after-texas-ag-challenge_3672601.html

TM, live by the tweet, die by the vultures.

[Jim Eagle]

...we can't plan...

[GUS]

Don't worry JACK, most of those funemployed will still be able to afford OLIVE GARDEN.
That's what these fascists think of us.

[henry]

One way to steal the 2022 election, and keep Pelosi’s undead corpse in control... we just heard the plan. (Evers faces reelection then too).

@maciverwisc

.@SenChrisLarson says COVID crisis will continue for another year. #WIright

[henry]

Shemp is on the case... we are doomed with Xiden having pen and phone.

@thenewsoncnbc

Exploring reparations for Black Americans is “needed and necessary in order for many, many individuals who have been harmed as a result of strict structural barriers to be made whole,” NAACP CEO and President Derrick Johnson says. cnb.cx/3ck94Nb

[Marlene]

Good afternoon! I've been on the lanai all afternoon reading. :) I came inside and turned the TV on Newsmax just in time to see Kamala receiving her second Covid shot. She's wearing TWO masks!

[henry]

The five that voted against Sen Paul better impeach Obama for starting Muh Russia. (They won’t. Nor will they be named).

@jaketapper

55-45 vote against Rand Paul's motion that the impeachment is unconstitutional because Trump is no longer in office. Senate Minority Leader McConnell voted with Paul.

[henry]

Here they are. Not a surprise.

@igorbobic

Only 5 GOP senators voted NOT to dismiss the impeachment trial:

Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and Toomey

[henry]

This would be an interesting list.

@maciverwisc

Sen. Janis Ringhand (D-Evansville) just read off a long list of special interest groups who don't want @GovEvers' public health emergency to end. #WIright

[Marlene]

Collins??!!! Say it ain't so! *runs to fainting couch*

[GUS]

all dead enders. all Trash.

Has anyone met any of these Senator and found them to be really really groovy

[CCGirl]

Looks like twitter uses the “have you stopped beating your wife” strategy.

Speaking of people not up on the facts, here are a few things that I read and heard this week - and it’s only Tuesday.

Article in the Cape Cod Times - front page top of the fold - regarding Cape seniors upset at the slow distribution of the vaccine. A woman is quoted, and she is upset because her friends in FL, TX, and some other states are nearly ready for their second dose. The writer then does a decent job describing the path the Baker admin is taking. That path has been discussed here, and it’s not what the Trump admin had recommended. In the end she quotes the same woman saying that Trump has favorite states and states that he hates, and that why she’s not getting the vaccine yet. Huh?

Customer in the store yesterday - who last week commented to me, “Yeah, Trump is gone!” I replied, “Let’s see what happens.” (This was at the post office while minding my own business) - stated that he thought he should get a shot, and clearly the feds aren’t effectively managing the roll-out. We informed him it was Baker’s plan that was messed up, and each state sets it’s own plan. He was bs when he heard criminals were ahead of him. This man has more money than God, but few brain cells.

Another customer yesterday said he had a fight with his neighbor about Trump. He likes Trump. I told him neighbor buys a lot here but is a complete lefty who told me the Cape Cod Times (owned by the NY Times) is too conservative, so don’t worry about it. Then he said a man living around the corner has a Thin Blue Line flag hanging, and has cameras. A woman known to that man stopped walking her dogs to put an anonymous note on his house, “That flag won’t protect you.” Apparently he found her email address and send a clip of her posting the note as well as a photo of his LTC. Yikes!

People are angry, and many are completely mis-informed. And it’s only been six days! I’ll just keep trying to get the facts out there.

[Old Lurker]

So. 250 years after Founding the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave...it is those sissies in Holland who object to locking down, coming up on a year, we the sheeple because of a flu bug.

Lucianne: "Netherlands rocked by worst civil unrest in years as anti-lockdown rioters wreak havoc across country"

[Jim Eagle]

Biden the fraud Presidency by the numbers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyFi8yhz0Z8&feature=share

If you can poke holes in the math, feel free.

[Jim Eagle]

CH,

You're the BBall guy. What do you think of this:)

https://populist.press/supporters-are-calling-for-lebron-to-run-for-us-senator-in-ohio/

[Dave (in MA)]

Just remember: getting rid of Trump was going to restore class and decorum to Washington.

Did she just... say that? pic.twitter.com/1Zz9MQx7KK

— Caleb Hull (I'm With the CCP Don't Ban Me) (@CalebJHull) January 26, 2021

[anonamom]

Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and Toomey

SOOOO predictable.

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_-B3eQb1bs

[MissMarple2]

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/opposition-impeaching-trump-growing-among-senate-republicans

What happened? Did they finally get around to talking to their constituents? Did the checks from China not clear?

[Jim Eagle]

Since Lyle has decided to take a sabbatical or whatever, I will post tonight's dinner:

Moroccan chicken thighs in tangine with lemons, olives and figs over broad noodles. Best I can do!

[Melinda]

Chili.

[CCGirl]

Horrors! I know the difference between “it’s” and “its!” Not sure how that apostrophe snuck in there.

Lost my iphone today. I seriously pondered whether I would replace it if lost for good. Daughter found it in a box of Christmas stuff in the basement. I had moved some boxes, I guess it fell out of my coat pocket. 🙄

No surprise re the five losers. I bet we all could have predicted how they would vote.

[CCGirl]

Some kind of chicken breast recipe with roasted whole onions and salad. I’ve never cooked whole onions. Best start now as I read they need time in the oven. It’s snowing and cold here, so happy to run the oven for two hours.

[Jim Eagle]

Rand Paul demonstrates why he is the only true patriot in the Senate:

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1354167149103702018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1354167149103702018%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ace.mu.nu%2F

[MissMarple2]

Jack is Back,

That "by the numbers"" video was most informative.

As far as your post on Xiden, energu, and the time it takes to construct a power plant, I will quote my long-time pal Carlos Osweda/Thomas Wictor:

"Nobody knows how anything works!!"

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

But some of us do now how things work! And that is why the internet needs to be challanged everyday.

[Jim Eagle]

More brain-dead Bidenesque stupidit or actually someone else pulling the levers. So, where are East Side Jewish democrat loyalist? Feel screwed again?

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/01/biden-puts-anti-israel-bds-activist-charge-nsc-daniel-greenfield/

[clarice]

https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2021/01/26/mcconnell-warns-dems-will-go-scorched-earth-asses-nuke-filibuster/

[Captain Hate]

Lebron running for Senate would be really dumb considering DJT won the state handily.

[henry]

The snow finally stopped... next is the plunge to single digit temps. I can shovel manana, the snow will still be there.

Dinner? Many choices... but red meat as an expression of my patriarchal white privilege... and I should do curry or something that appropriates another culture. Because: 1. It tastes good; 2. I can; 3. I don’t care who claimed this land in the past; 4. I can shoot more meat on my land if I run out.

[Jim Eagle]

If this is true then we are in CW2 territory.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/25/majority-supports-trump-impeachment-462264

[henry]

Clarice, given the 5 above... what does the turtle have to fight back with? He brings a cupcake to a gunfight.

[Captain Hate]

Plus Lebron is...how shall I put this?..not smart.

[Old Lurker]

In addition to imagining life without Facebook and Twitter, I would love to go a few years hearing nothing at all about Polls. Of any sort. About anything.

[MissMarple2]

The military flags displayed during the Trump presidency have been replaced by an American flag and one with the Presidential Seal. Here's a look at President Joe Biden's Oval Office https://t.co/LxdMSyk7xD via @reuterspictures pic.twitter.com/40C3rDWXtd

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 26, 2021

Video at the link. The office looks stark and cold, and if I remember correctly, President Trump also had the American Flag as well as the service flags.

[Old Lurker]

Cap'n "Plus Lebron is...how shall I put this?..not smart."

Surely you do not suggest he would lower the average IQ in Congress?

[henry]

They sure need this Kung Flu scam. Plus imprecise science. But mostly the imprecise science (aka knee jerk political justifications of an antique garden gnome).

@maciverwisc

.@TimCarpenterMKE says Dr. Fauci says the vaccine will not cure #COVID19. Things will only get worse as it mutates. "Science is not precise, but science is our only guide." #WIright

[Another Bob]

Speaking of Twitter, they’ve agreed to supply every Tweet they have to “academic researchers”, free of charge.

[Dave (in MA)]

#38's HOF prospects took a hit.

Some writers asked for the ballots back to remove Schilling 's name after the riots https://t.co/T2Gbu8ytA3

— Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) January 26, 2021

[Melinda]

Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
BIDEN: "One Congressman pointed out-- he used a very color term to say-- wearing a mask, I tell them to 'kiss my ear.' I'm not wearing a mask. Well guess what, not very American."

https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1354190997668954112

Shear Jeanyus.

[Jane]

I’m with you OL.

[Dave (in MA)]

Lyle could run a poll to see who agrees with OL and Jane.

[Narciso]

But of course (bane voice)

https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/26/local-man-who-said-a-fact-was-true-but-false-says-it-is-unnecessary-to-track-bidens-lies/#.YBB_FPJ9EIw.twitter

[Jane]

I read an article by Dennis Prager this morning that explained the entire election to me. Of course I can’t find it. But it’s all about the media. They rule.

How do we fix that?

[henry]

Dave, stop Schilling, but they still want drug dealing gambler Pete Rose in the HOF.

[Narciso]

Quelle surprise

https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/01/26/white-house-florida-should-close-bars-restaurants-and-gyms-stop-covid/4263253001/

[Narciso]

The delta house stunt pshaw

[Dave (in MA)]

This is supposably true,

Jen Psaki just said “for all intensive purposes.” 🤣

— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) January 26, 2021

[Narciso]

Facepalm with an old one

[Narciso]

Remember what i posted on the other thread

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/whos-covid-origin-team-includes-scientist-who-funneled-coronavirus

[Narciso]

Btw they demonetized epoch times

[Narciso]

Lol

https://mobile.twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1354195931118317571

[MissMarple2]

Dave (in MA),

I wouldn't doubt it. This probably comes from reading and hearing stuff that is written from that dictation feature on phones. I have also read "could of" instead of "could have" numerous times.

[Jim Eagle]

Curt Shilling like Pete Rose deserve to be in the HOF based on their BB performances. Not their post-career actions. If not the HOF is devalued.

[Narciso]

Theres probably a chinese word for it

https://justthenews.com/nation/technology/youtube-strips-rising-media-company-epoch-times-ability-monetize-video-content

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

That Clay Travis post is hilarious. Nelinda, it's Chicago Dance teachers doing an interpretive dance to original bad music in solidarity with the teachers' union.

Several people have compared it to SNL's Sprockets! LOL!!

[MissMarple2]

The Bias News
@thebias_news
·
10m
FLASH: Senator Leahy, who will preside over Trump’s impeachment trial, taken taken to the hospital “out of an abundance of caution” after not feeling well this evening in his Capitol office and being examined by the Attending Physician, per spokesperson (ABC News).

[GUS]

Pete Rose was gambling while still a major league player and manager.
He broke MLB rules.

Which MLB rule did CURT SCHILLING break?

The one about having opinions that the fascists want silenced???

[Narciso]

Crimethink gus.

[Jane]

Narc,

That Florida article really pisses me off. We are just fine. No one is getting it. And I refuse to wear a mask!

[clarice]

Gee, too bad about Senator Leahy.

[Narciso]

Its the local fishwrap relating the fauci fillip

[James D.]

Jack is Back (Again)!
Curt Shilling like Pete Rose deserve to be in the HOF based on their BB performances. Not their post-career actions. If not the HOF is devalued.

Rose gambled on baseball while he was a player, gambled on baseball - including his own team’s games - as a manager, and he knew as everyone in baseball does, that gambling is the one death penalty rule, no exceptions.

Heck, back in the 70’s they banned Willie Mays from MLB activities for a couple of years when he worked at a casino after his playing career was over.

Rose stays out, forever.

[henry]

Leary has stolen too much oxygen already. Be a pity if VTs Governor had to replace him with a MAGA person. I’m sure Chuckie would love that.

[Another Bob]

Kelly Anne Conway is accused of posting on Twitter a topless photo of her 16-yo daughter.

[henry]

Now we need the Assembly to get off their butts.

@maciverwisc

Senate votes to terminate @GovEvers' public health emergency, including mask mandate, 18-13. Assembly needs to approve it next. #WIright

[Captain Hate]

To hell with hotdog Pete. He knew the rules and broke 'em anyway. He can be in the Hall of Stats.

[Captain Hate]

Despite all the negative things I've said about Kellyanne Conway, she's the only high exposure sane person in her nuclear family and NFW did she do what she's accused of.

[Another Bob]

My gut says the same Cap’n.

Do a quick goog image search, and this kid shows up in ways that lead one to believe there aren’t just one or two topless shots of her in circulation.

Who knows who had KA’s Twitter password? Maybe the old man did it?

I think it was the kid herself.

[MissMarple2]

Captain Hate,

Her daughter seems to have some mental health problems, according to what I read last night.

[Another Bob]

“Curt Shilling like Pete Rose deserve to be in the HOF based on their BB performances. Not their post-career actions. If not the HOF is devalued.”

Rose bet on and might have tweaked games for gambling reasons.

Schilling dared have a political opinion not shared by the media.

Schilling should go in. Rose, never.

But the committee voted to add nobody this year.

[Melinda]

The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Dr. Fauci Recommends Encasing Your Entire Body In Bubble Wrap To Protect Against Coronavirus buff.ly/3iOt3V9

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1354134511215386625

[Another Bob]

The Senate rejected Rand Paul's motion to declare Trump's impeachment trial unconstitutional. 55-45. The 5 Republicans who voted with Democrats to proceed with the trial will surprise nobody: Collins, Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, and Toomey.

[Melinda]

[snorfle]

[MissMarple2]

Link to Bannon's War Room, each episode today on video, about one hour each.

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/bannons-war-room-682-683/