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There's a theory that it's a bunch of bans for anyone critical lately of Bill Ackman - see https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1744724937313837177 https://twitt

There's a theory that it's a bunch of bans for anyone critical lately of Bill Ackman - see https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1744724937313837177 https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1744724937313837177

badrequest 3y ago
what a great platform for free speech when you can get banned for angering a billionaire
mobiuscog 3y ago
I was going to ask who Ackman was (yeah, I don't keep up with the twitterati) and I find he's someone who fits with Elon very well: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/03/bill-ackman-billionaire-attacks-claudine-gay-harvard-twitter-x https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/03/bill-ackma...
rsynnott 3y ago
Bill Ackman?! Who on earth cares enough about _Bill Ackman_ to white-knight him with Twitter bans? Up until you mentioned him I'd completely forgotten he even existed.
- drcongo 3y ago
  Elon Musk
- greenie_beans 3y ago
  he's trending because of the harvard plagiarism stuff, he was one of the annoying ppl on twitter about it. but apparently ackman's wife plagiarized too? idk the facts, just the headlines, i choose to ignore all that stuff bc culture war makes for bad political action
  - atticora 3y ago
    Ackman went after Gay for permitting Harvard antisemitism, which didn't get her removed. Others went after her for plagiarism, which led to her resignation. So other others went after Ackman's wife for plagiarism as a way to hurt the others. Ackman declared that family was out of bounds and that he will retaliate by doing a plagiarism review of the whole MIT faculty and the journalists who went after his wife. If this conflagration continues ... it may have a positive effect on reducing plagiarism. But since LLMs can easily reword text, the plagiarism wars are more about the past than the future. Because now the plagiarism of concepts rather than phrases is cheap and easy and far less detectable. Perhaps plagiarism review can move to detection of shared sequences of concepts rather than words.
    - greenie_beans 3y ago
      oh wait do people really think gay's resignation is about plagiarism? (this is why i try to avoid culture war stuff)

badrequest 3y ago

what a great platform for free speech when you can get banned for angering a billionaire

mobiuscog 3y ago

I was going to ask who Ackman was (yeah, I don't keep up with the twitterati) and I find he's someone who fits with Elon very well: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/03/bill-ackman-billionaire-attacks-claudine-gay-harvard-twitter-x https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/03/bill-ackma...

rsynnott 3y ago

Bill Ackman?! Who on earth cares enough about _Bill Ackman_ to white-knight him with Twitter bans? Up until you mentioned him I'd completely forgotten he even existed.

drcongo 3y ago
Elon Musk
greenie_beans 3y ago
he's trending because of the harvard plagiarism stuff, he was one of the annoying ppl on twitter about it. but apparently ackman's wife plagiarized too? idk the facts, just the headlines, i choose to ignore all that stuff bc culture war makes for bad political action
- atticora 3y ago
  Ackman went after Gay for permitting Harvard antisemitism, which didn't get her removed. Others went after her for plagiarism, which led to her resignation. So other others went after Ackman's wife for plagiarism as a way to hurt the others. Ackman declared that family was out of bounds and that he will retaliate by doing a plagiarism review of the whole MIT faculty and the journalists who went after his wife. If this conflagration continues ... it may have a positive effect on reducing plagiarism. But since LLMs can easily reword text, the plagiarism wars are more about the past than the future. Because now the plagiarism of concepts rather than phrases is cheap and easy and far less detectable. Perhaps plagiarism review can move to detection of shared sequences of concepts rather than words.
  - greenie_beans 3y ago
    oh wait do people really think gay's resignation is about plagiarism? (this is why i try to avoid culture war stuff)