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

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.

Yeah, it's not like there is any major news about the Ukraine right now that millions of people are searching for. ;)

Are they searching for it or Tweeter is force feeding it to them?

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.

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