Kyle Kashuv, a Jewish 17 year old senior at Stoneman Douglas, was threatened by a man named Christopher Suprun, a twitter verified account, with a “horsewhipping.”
Well say when sonny.
I aint hugging Nazis.
I'm horsewhipping them…whether it's you, SKing, or any of the other jackasses who think you can spread your racism, xenophobia, and fear in MY country.
— thechrissuprun.bsky.social 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@TheChrisSuprun) November 30, 2018
He also mentions a “SKing.” We are not certain who that it however the most prominent person on twitter with those initials is Shaun King, a writer for Glenn Greenwald’s “The Intercept.”
Kyle has tweeted with Chelsea Clinton and has met with many people who aren’t Conservative in an effort to promote bipartisan politics and good faith, non violent behavior in America.
.@ChelseaClinton Would love to meet with you while I am in NYC this week. Can we make that happen? Would love to discuss ways to mend the American divide.
People may not remember, but @chelseaClinton was the first politician to agree to a meeting. I will never forget her kindness to me and really appreciate it.
Her gesture here is something everyone should take note to. This is something we can all agree on 🙏🇺🇸 https://t.co/avCIR5oUmN
The tweet of Christopher Suprun was reported to Twitter and we await a response.
Threatening a “horsewhipping” is precisely how racist plantation owners in the antebellum south threatened their slaves and kept order with slaves who learned to read and had their own ideas on slavery and being horsewhipped.
Twitter has acknowledged receipt of the report.
Kyle was involved in an interesting discussion with William Legate when Mr. Suprun intervened to threaten him.
NO! My grandfather blew up Nazis from a B17. Im tired of having to accept right wing extremism as a "legitimate viewpoint."#ThanksNoThanks I'm done with Nazis who attack, threaten, harrass, or bully. Their time is over. We are not scared. It's their time to be scared.#Resist
— thechrissuprun.bsky.social 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@TheChrisSuprun) November 30, 2018
Your grandfather sounds like a great man. It’s a shame you didn’t follow in his footsteps. https://t.co/cECPrICSNz
I'm horsewhipping them…whether it's you, SKing, or any of the other jackasses who think you can spread your racism, xenophobia, and fear in MY country.
Twitter also has a very well documented (and longstanding) problem with violence and threats of violence on their platform despite ostensible rules prohibiting advocacy of violence.
It is hard to believe that “horsewhipping” a Jewish kid doesn’t glorify and incite violence against other Jews as “horsewhipping” has a long history and is symbolic of the racist South however Twitter lacks transparency and their decisions are often, at best, bizarre.
Have argued this before but Twitter needs to be more transparent on this stuff — doesn't matter what party. Either these things have precedent (and ppl then deserve to know) or they don't and its arbitrary (and people deserve to know that, too).
Kyle Kashuv is simply NOT a Nazi. Threats to abuse others under clearly false pretenses should not be tolerated by Twitter.
If Jack Dorsey feels threats of “horsewhipping” is OK we’d all like to know who he thinks it’s ok to have horsewhipped.
Mr. Supran is also a verified account. If verified accoutns have rights and privileges other twitter customers (the hoi polloi) lack, Jack should make that policy clear to us all as well.
After leaving the room to let Taylor stew, Michael returned, removed his jacket and rolled his chair closer to Taylor. Using information gleaned from the interview, he now had to go for the confession.
“At this point, they need to move in,” said the instructor, Supervisory Special Agent Christopher J. Zisi. “Invade their comfort zone. Let them smell the chili you had for lunch. They can’t think straight.”
Mr. Zisi talks a little bit about his time in the FBI on his social media but is circumspect about his time which is expected of a man committed to his duty & mission and not seeking the limelight for what he does.
America needs more people like Christopher Zisi in the FBI and anywhere, quite frankly.
Mr. Comey has been subpoenaed by the House to testify.
Happy Thanksgiving. Got a subpoena from House Republicans. I’m still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions. But I will resist a “closed door” thing because I’ve seen enough of their selective leaking and distortion. Let’s have a hearing and invite everyone to see.
House Republicans can ask me anything they want but I want the American people to watch, so let’s have a public hearing. Truth is best served by transparency. Let me know when is convenient.
Mr. Zisi is a 25 year veteran of the FBI. He has a law degree from Tulane and handled & white collar crime in the North East. He has worked overseas. He is a former FBI supervisor and trained recruits at Quantico.
Hah! Wait until you see my review tomorrow, it cuts right to FBI relations with local partners. I think Director Freeh made great strides in these relations and Mueller and Comey destroyed them again
Mobile Strike is a darwinian base builder and combat game promoted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and developed by Machine Zone subsidiary, Epic War, LLC.
The game is overrun by pack loaders and griefers and we cannot recommend any purchases made in application until the developer takes steps to curb the rampant abuse.
One state in particular, state 635 HOCA, is run by an alliance thqat itself exploits the game and other legitimate consumers with a known pack loader selling in game to players in their alliance.
His full customer list is unknown, however the Alliance leader and current Head of State plainly is aware that the “pack loading” is occuring and ignores it.
The game is basically a cash grab. Rather than deal with the fraud and abuse the developer opens new “states” with players drawn into new areas and segregated away from the older states.
As states develop and grow the pack loaders and griefers proliferate and gradually the states are driven to low population and then the developer opens news states.
The developer doesn’t go back and balance combat or deal with the corruption in the old states, that is left to the players.
However the combat is unbalanced by people who purchase from hackers, ie “pack loaders” who sell deeply discounted hacked in game upgrades.
Machine Zone is based on Palo Alto, CA, so we are unsure how long this corruption will last if it comes to the attention of regulators, but for now we recommend no one play nor make purchases in Mobile Strike.
The in game corruption, combined with rampant abuse of players with inadequate safety and privacy safeguards makes this game unsafe at any speed.
We contacted Mobilke Strike via email and received this response:
(Game of War is by same developer and same engine as Mobile Strike. The game has the same issues and this player who made this pack loader video plays both games.)
Mobile Strike is a smart phone game available on Apple and Google and promoted by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The game, a basic base builder wargame with limited combat options damages itself with an out of control gold purchasing (in Application) economy and powerful guild alliances that seem to be maximum level that simply grief lower level guilds.
While you seemingly can partake in individual combat without coming to the notice of the larger guilds, once you join a small group of players players from these MASSIVE guilds teleport to scout (untracable teleports) and attack you.
If you try to put up a fight, more and more player teleport in, and simply swamp you. They can position right on top of you with ready reinforcements and willingness to attack guilds with players (a self imposed rule by one game is level 14 or above is ok to attack) with massively powered guild members attacking targets they are 8, 10 or more levels higher than.
How large are these guilds?
Apparently of 300 players or more in a super Guild Alliance that rules the individual “state” (with state to state warfare possible) through massive expenditures of time (simply clicking what you buy actually takes time) and money (the game quickly pushes $99.00 purchases to level up.)
The ads flash on the main screen and are promoted every time you log in or the smart phone wakes up from sleep mode.
This is one such example.
The game starts off relatively slow, and with a $4.99 and a $19.99 purchase seems fun as you gain small but material advantages over local bases and can win combat missions.
But the game is swamped with $99.00 package offers, billion and trillion point sales (when you are being give in game 300 point “gifts” by the system) and continuous advertising to purchase those packages to get “legendary” equipment and necessary to compete upgrades.
The game sells 5,000 day “speed up” packages (otherwise you wait 5,000 days for one simple upgrade in a game with thousands up upgrade possibilities) so you can see how purchasing packages is necessary to even play the game at a sufficient level to even advance.
What does a mega guild alliance look like?
One such alliance is in state 635. (The game uses s (state), y, z locations) The alliance of B#R, B#R2 & A99* rules the state.
Located just southwest of what is the “state capital” the guild alliance “hive” is massive.
The location of the guild “hive” is S: 635 X: 252 Y: 470
Their leader, Big Bears, is located just south of the state control point easily reached by app by pressing the state capital button.
After about 2 weeks in game, and a $4.99 and $19.99 purchase I am seeing waits in the 30 days that necessitate use of a “speed up” item to complete construction otherwise that upgrade takes up 1 of the 2 slots I have available for those types of upgrades (research) for those number of days.
If not, don’t expect to take part in much beyond local small solo combat and building your own base at slower and slower rates until you realize the game only wants your cash, and not for you to have fun.
How to solve the griefer problem? Teleport griefers that are a certain percentage of power above their targets out of the state.
First offense: The guilds griefer gets a warning.
Second offense: Griefer gets teleported out of state with no return.
Third offense: Griefer and Guilds officers are teleported out of state with no return.
Fourth offense: Guild alliance teleported to random states, broken up, with no return and no ability to reform.
Pick appropriate targets and have fun. Don’t grief noobs because you can.
I realize that selling gold in game became necessary because farmers in MMO’s figured out how to farm and sell gold out of game for their own profit.
However this game has gone completely the opposite way with it, and it destroys the playability at fun at sufficient level when noobs would want to join guilds to have small competitive wars with other like sized and powered guilds.
It’s fun for a bit, but purchases are necessary. If you like base builders and have oodles of cash, give it a try.
This is my first ever JOTY with 2 winners. (Actually first ever JOTY, but hey.)
And I had to pick 2. Both cover interests near and dear to my heart.
Kristen, who is a great journalist, covers abuse on twitter, covered Milo fairly (which is basically unheard of and yes he is a provocateur and troll, no he’s not a Nazi) and the strange and wondrous world of science, ethical concerns and all.
I would like to explain my background a bit.
Although living in Fresno, I have had the great luck to be able to spend a LOT of time in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. As a tech journalist, much of what Kristen covers originates in and around the Bay Area.
The schools I attended (well funded magnet schools) took frequent field trips to the central coast and San Francisco/Bay Area.
We also frequented the Bay Area in Cub Scout and Boy Scouts trips.
My Dad is a retired Claims Manager. As a kid he would take marketing trips disguised as family vacations to the Bay Area where a great many insurance companies are headquartered. (If you want to talk about gentrification since 1970’s, that preference is a great place to start.)
My sister, loved Esprit and shopping, and I loved comic books. The comic book shops seemed to be in places in San Francisco where not many tourists went. Besides the usual touristy places you’d expect, I have seen and experienced much of San Francisco.
Other than places I’ve actually lived and grandparents homes I’ve spent more time in the Bay Area than anywhere else. The Central Coast (Cambria/Pismo is a close second to SF.)
When Ms. Brown talks about seismic vulnerabilities I know exactly what she’s talking about due to my own profession, and having been dragged out (I kinda didn’t have that much fun) on claims with my Dad since I was very young.
I worked fires (dummy end of the measuring stick), car accidents (dodging cars while diagramming accident scenes is always fun) and worked the Coalinga earthquake. Yep, I at 10 or 11 (?) worked earthquake claims.
My dad enjoyed working claims better than being in management. He didn’t keep a full case load, but he worked overflow and a few accounts he enjoyed.
He kept the juicy account, working the Curry account when The Curry Company had the concessions contract in Yosemite.
As a kid in Fresno, I attended diverse schools. I doubt they were perfectly diverse, but they were diverse. I have no idea what “perfectly diverse” is beyond a standard activists state frequently on twitter.
The High School I attended was bussed INTO to desegregate. That is, WHITE KIDS were bussed in from Hoover. Their 9th grade class was bussed into Roosevelt High School in south east Fresno . The 9th graders within my district went to Sequoia.
Faced with such wondrous choices I thought I’d better go where my parents expected and choose Roosevelt. It was a surprise in 9th grade when I thought I’d see my friends from the home district and they were nowhere to be found.
As a sophomore, Roosevelt opened the School of the Performing Arts, and the kids from Hoover were no longer bussed down. I assume that desegregation from Hoover no longer necessary because a lot of kids district wide were bussed in to Roosevelt, and many were white.
Lots of my friends are pictured here. I went to Easterby with Shaun Lopez and Matt Denny, and Shaun played little league with me and tennis. He was number 1 varsity and I, 2.
(Yes we made a fake chess club that met in the Science building where we played logic games and screwed around mostly. We had awesome bathing beauties. The scam worked)
Since you made the yearbook, we'll count it as a real club. Belated detention rescinded. pic.twitter.com/ZxKMX9LVMG
I also would like to encourage Kristen to do more video. Video is The Future™ and Kristen claims to be “From The Future” or some such on Gizmodo.
Tim Pool, @timcast did an astonishing piece on the water shortage of East Porterville and the CA drought in general.
My Great Grandfather immigrated to Tulare County in the Dust Bowl. I have tons of family in Tulare County and the Central Valley.
(My great grandfather left my teenaged grandmother in Missouri with relatives, she got married and went to Idaho.)
(Yes I have a diverse family)
My ex wifes family is in Porterville.
My ex father in law is a former enlisted Marine who was stationed in Taiwan.
Returning to the US he owned a 7 -11 in San Jose, but sold that operation and moved back to Porterville (home) to be a Psyche Tech at Porterville Developmental Center. He rose to Program Manager then acting Director of Porterville Developmental Center. My ex mother in law is deceased, however she worked as a Psyche Tech as well.
My ex wife is a Psyche Tech, her new husband is a Psyche Tech and my daughter works at Porterville Developmental Center as a student assistant as she studies to become a teacher.
Tim Poole also covered the devastation in the Midwest.
When I see Jack Dorsey accept CEO of the Year from the Thurgood Marshall Fund I can only laugh, or cry.
Jack Dorsey is the King of fake news and abuse.
He has also damaged race relations in politics immeasurably through polarization pushed on twitter’s platform with his tacit endorsement (and quite frankly open endorsement with open promotion of #blacklivesmatter.)
Bob Chipman, AKA @The_moviebob is simply the same overt hatred my Great Grandpa felt when he settled in Tulare County and walked miles each day to Tagus Ranch to work.
I reported the tweet and received the following response.
My mom’s dad, my Grandpa also was a Dust Bowl immigrant, however was nearly worked to death by a farmer in Salinas.
He went to Idaho. He worked New Deal construction for Morrison Knudsen. The same company that built the Golden Gate Bridge, I believe.
My dads parents were also in Idaho, and my parents met at Idaho State University. When my dad graduated he volunteered for the US Navy, went to OCS and was sent to the Vietnam War where he served on the USS Reeves in the Sea of Japan as a LT(jg).
My parents were lucky enough to live off base in Japan for years and tour a bit of Asia.
In all my life I have never felt such overt hatred as that leveled at me on Twitter daily by so called tolerant people.
Anyone that says something contrary to the approved opinion of Randi Lee Harper, Brianna Wu or the activists Jack Dorsey is set upon by a mob that they lead.
(1 of I don’t know how many. The whole thread isn’t presented here.)
I however am not helpless, nor intimidated by empowered abusers with the ear of Twitter .
I know Jack Dorsey did as much to elect Donald Trump as any person alive. I will leave that to historians to figure out how. I have said enough on the matter that anyone can figure it out.
Jack Dorsey endangers members of my family & has contributed to making race relations as bad as at any time in my lifetime. I can only relate it to 1968 & the Days of Rage where the most supported people in CA are rioting at a great college because they now feel violence is acceptable.
Women’s 1988-’89 Tennis Team — This team had only four players — Story Hurst, Chrissy Kulbeth, Michelle McGuire and Michelle Caskey — yet it won the Central Valley Conference championship in 1988 and then again 1989 with the addition of only two players, Vicki Esquivel and Christy Heint.
Ken Hurst — Hurst was the men and women’s varsity head coach at PC from 1982 through 1999. After 10 years of coaching at PC, his teams had won two thirds of all their matches. Even in Hurst’s last years of coaching at PC, the tennis programs thrived in every match with intense competitors to slay the big dragons.
Thank you for being you, and all that you do. I appreciate your journalism and professionalism.
Now Twitter wants to hold a market captive, while lowering the visibility of the tweets.
No one knows if anyone reads anything they tweet, even when their followers have chosen to follow them and see tweets.
Twitter hides a significant amount of data that Facebook releases.
I have NO idea how twitter advertisers can reasonably calculate a ROI on twitter unless very large corporate advertisers are given access to data that smaller advertisers are not given through “Twitter Ads” within the twitter ap itself.
Jack Dorsey is designing a bubble that stops conversation, and for potential advertisers this is NOT a good thing.
Now Jack Dorsey has instituted Safety rules which:
Collapsing potentially abusive or low-quality Tweets:
Our team has also been working on identifying and collapsing potentially abusive and low-quality replies so the most relevant conversations are brought forward. These Tweet replies will still be accessible to those who seek them out. You can expect to see this change rolling out in the coming weeks.
We consider twitter’s algorithm, if tweets to companies people are customers of are suppressed, to violate the spirit and intent of that law, if not the letter of the law.
What use is being able to tweet a company you are a customer of if Jack Dorsey *winki *wink suppresses your speech with an unexplained algorithm.
OF COURSE BUSINESS CONSIDERS BAD REVIEWS “LOW QUALITY.” That’s why we need a LAW in the first place.
Essentially Twitter has failed to adequately handle abuse, and now is suppressing conversations of many people in far to wide a net.
Jack Dorsey thinks his opinion of what is good content is superior to consumers who can choose to mute, block or not follow at all.
And Jack Dorsey glaringly fails to address actual terrorists operating on twitter in large numbers. Terrorists his OWN SAFETY CONSULTANT has propagated.
@randileeharper thank you for this! Read it, passed on to team, and we're on it and want to fix!
I'm seeing less and I'm spreading less so I just may switch to gab. Twitter is getting pathetic with its shadowbanning/throttling. https://t.co/6oeFLECXM2
The Arts & Sciences are profoundly important to a decent education however arts and science have been decimated in public schools.
Indeed, the US is no longer the number one place to receive an education according to one study, having slipped to 16 in the share of degree attainment of young adults according to the Washington Post.
President Trump plans to cut the budget for arts, planning to adopt the Heritage Foundation’s “skinny budget” according to report byFortune Magazine.
This would be a travesty at a time when educational attainment and science and math scores are slipping.
Music and the arts teach critical thinking and are intrinsically linked to math and science due to the critical thinking skills that music & arts teaches and requires.
The education Fresno Unified School District provided to my friends and I was topnotch, 2 magnet schools, Holland Project TALENT (now Bullard) and Roosevelt High School.
I can only tell you that our school did very well in Academic Decathalon, finishing second in CA my Senior year (my friends from junior high and high school were core of team, coached by legendary Dave Sischo) and of course anyone probably knows Audra has won the most Tony’sever.
To gut funding for the Arts & Sciences damages the funding for Roosevelt High School Performing Arts programs. Roosevelt is an inner city school (yup) which was actually bussed INTO my freshman year for desegregation.
I have been lucky to have talked to 2 Medal of Honor winners in my lifetime. Greg “Pappy” Boyington (who lived in Sunnyside behind a friends house) and General Chuck Yeager.
I only know General Yeager through twitter, however the joy I experience in talking to General Yeager is matched by the music in a symphony.
No music. No NASA. No Magic Carpet Rides. Simple as that.
I would remiss to point out that NASA is as unconstitutional as the National Endowment of the Arts, if we are going to get technical.
Quite frankly I think federal funding through Dept of Education should be used to balance out inequities between funding levels in school districts and to ensure that arts and sciences are taught at a high level as a priority.
That, and make sure kids aren’t hungry so they can learn.
Ask not what @shervin can do for you! Ask what you can do for @Shervin.
Kind of a bit different than the immortal words of President Kennedy, but I found Billionaire Boys Club @Shervin isn’t exactly an open and outgoing fellow on twitter.
The 5th Estate is now born. Social media as a new power in world affairs.
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