The content economy on X
After Elon Musk acquired Twitter/X, he started monetizing it. There are two types of monetization schemes: 1) subscribers, which work the same way as every other platform (monthly sub, some…
Circumvent the Twitter/X embedding blockade of Substack links
I thought this was general knowledge by now, but I still see quite a bit Substacks that are still suffering from this dumb Elon suppression move. Here's the problem: Such…
Should you get off Twitbookgram?
You might be familiar with stuff like this: How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness, The Economist, 2018 Looking over the chart a bit, we find…
Scoring my 2020 predictions
I wanted to wait until all the US election stuff resolves, but seems like this will take a while for the last few questions, so let's proceed for now. As…
Twitter intensifies their censorship: amren.com blacklisted
Twitter has generally been somewhat less censorious than other platforms, my impression. However, perhaps emboldened by the Victory of 2020, they apparently have implemented a domain block for amren.com. It…
Goals for 2020
Recently I read some studies in human resource management that goal setting is good for getting shit done. E.g.: Locke, E. A., Shaw, K. N., Saari, L. M., & Latham,…
Medium censors Coronavirus post
I hate censorship, so here I provide backups. Note that Twitter censors linking to the archive.ph archived version, giving users a false error message. https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1241734643948359680 Twitter apparently auto-throttles tweets that…
Useful Twitter extensions for Firefox
I often share material on Twitter when I find something interesting. This is the primary purpose of Twitter for me: share and find interesting links. Right now, the process is…