We all need to draw lines, and that was a hard line for me. Concerns before, and a hard No at that point. Frankly it disappoints me that many people, including tech folk I respect, are still on X / Twitter -- because I read it as, no line has been crossed for them. They in turn often speak about being apolitical, or wanting to stay out of the issues: ie there are definitely different views on it.
To me this is disappointing, because at this point in 2025 (re Musk, DOGE, Grok, etc) remaining on X is a political (implicitly supportive of the platform and its people) action. It doesn't matter what the apolitical intent is: things have progressed so far that inaction is a statement itself.
So my only feeling is that NOS should have quit X long ago.
mvdwoord•2mo ago
A Nazi salute you say? When was that again? I did nazi it. Never mind me implicitly nazi'ing around..
Everybody should do and go about as they please, but we are apparently watching two completely different movies here.
vintagedave•2mo ago
We all need to draw lines, and that was a hard line for me. Concerns before, and a hard No at that point. Frankly it disappoints me that many people, including tech folk I respect, are still on X / Twitter -- because I read it as, no line has been crossed for them. They in turn often speak about being apolitical, or wanting to stay out of the issues: ie there are definitely different views on it.
To me this is disappointing, because at this point in 2025 (re Musk, DOGE, Grok, etc) remaining on X is a political (implicitly supportive of the platform and its people) action. It doesn't matter what the apolitical intent is: things have progressed so far that inaction is a statement itself.
So my only feeling is that NOS should have quit X long ago.
mvdwoord•2mo ago
Everybody should do and go about as they please, but we are apparently watching two completely different movies here.