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"There's no such thing as a system being secure, only being secure against a particular adversary."

• jmnicolas 5y ago
  My adversary is Big tech trying to control what I see, buy, experience, even think. I started to Tweet about a week ago. Most of my tweets get no traction, but if I speak about Ukraine suddenly I get a lot of views. To me it's the proof that Tweeter is controlling what we're thinking about.
  • ChrisClark 5y ago
    Yeah, it's not like there is any major news about the Ukraine right now that millions of people are searching for. ;)
    • jmnicolas 5y ago
      Are they searching for it or Tweeter is force feeding it to them?
      • southerntofu 5y ago
        For sure more people (and bots) are searching for it. It's also quite possible some people following you (or the people who retweet you) are more interested about this hot topic: you could probably write a dozen tweet about monads and not get any interest, then post a single tweet about Julian Assange or Kim Kardashian and suddenly feel like the entire planet is talking to you. It's quite possible the Twitter algorithms are being nasty (i'm personally strongly against AI deciding what to show and how to order it in a timeline), but it's definitely not the only factor at play.