Checking Prior Assumptions

John Gruber, “X Once Again Marks the Spot”: If you have stayed away, or even just mostly away, from X for years and then come back, people just say things like “Hey, glad you’re back!” On the other networks, especially Mastodon, they tell you you’re “feeding Nazis” — by going to the platform where Tim Cook posts Pikachu videos. These people have either lost their minds or refuse to check their prior assumptions. Okay, you know, I wasn’t sure if I was going to write about this, but since I was linked to with the word refuse in that paragraph: let’s check my prior assumptions! That was a link to “If Your New People Are on X, Maybe Your New People Suck,” in which I spelled out those assumptions pretty explicitly: But the bar that hung the big FASCISTS WELCOME banner out a few years ago hasn’t changed management; the banner is now a permanent sign. So it’s not unreasonable to assume that most AI supporters on X, are, at the least, comfortable with soaking in an authoritarian-flavored…