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A brief respite from editing posts on polemic books to bring you news about the ex-bird site – news about its ex-users , that is. 
The migration from X (formerly known as Twitter) to Mastodon gave researchers a golden opportunity to record data on the collective action problem. Spoilers: it’s pretty good news. 
 
 TOOT TOOT 			 
	
	
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I turned twenty-three this week, so here’s a collection of topics that have nothing to do with that: 
Frustrations over that bloody video, again; 
Books on my radar; 
Working on the blog on-the-go with a new cloud solution (that’s not actually in the cloud) 
 
 happy birthday 			 
	
	
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