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The BEMA Podcast

309: On Social Media (Bonus Episode)

The BEMA Podcast

BEMA Discipleship

Hermeneutics, Religion & Spirituality, Scripture, Jewish Context, Biblical, Judaism, Bible, Christianity

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings address the Twitter-sized elephant in the room, talk about how each of them use social media, and consider ways all of us can engage this part of our world in a healthy way.

BEMA Poll/Survey (valid through 26 April 2023)

“Twitter suspends @ElonJet plane-tracking bot after Musk pledged to leave it up” — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

“Elon Musk offloads another $3.6 billion of Tesla stock” — Dave Lee, Financial Times/Ars Technica

“One More for the ‘Everything Is Going Just Fine at Twitter’ File” — John Gruber, Daring Fireball

“Musk brings back Twitter Blue with new features to prevent impersonation” — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica

“On the Prevalence of Hate Speech on Twitter” — John Gruber, Daring Fireball

“Goodbye, Twitter” — Ken White, Substack

Brent’s Tweet on Sabbath

“Platformer: Twitter Considering Making Personalized Ads and Location Sharing Mandatory” — John Gruber, Daring Fireball

Thought of the Day: The Social Dilemma — Marty Solomon, YouTube

Brent’s Tweet on Playback Controls

Tweet Thread on Infinite Scrolling

BEMA 2: Knowing When to Say “Enough”

Thought of the Day: Social Media Beatitudes — Marty Solomon, YouTube

Thought of the Day: Disagreement — Marty Solomon, YouTube

BEMA on Facebook

BEMA on Twitter

Marty on Instagram

Brent on Instagram

Brent’s Mastodon Invite Link

THINGS THAT TRANSPIRED BETWEEN RECORDING AND PUBLISHING

Elon’s Poll for Leadership of Twitter

Brent’s Tweet Commenting on How This Episode Quickly Became Outdated

Dave Lee’s Tweet on Linking to Mastodon

Aaron Levie’s Tweet on External Linking Policy

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Baimal podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today, we

0:12.7

are addressing the Twitter-sized elephant in the room, talking about how we each use

0:16.9

social media and considering ways all of us can engage this part of our world in a healthy

0:22.0

way.

0:23.0

Yeah.

0:24.0

This is a bonus episode again. I love bonus content.

0:26.4

Yeah.

0:27.4

So much fun.

0:28.4

We don't do a lot of, like, record it and then release it. And even this is, like,

0:32.7

our turnaround time is several days, which is pretty long for timely types of newsy podcasts.

0:40.8

But we're usually a good two or three months out when we record this. Today we're recording

0:45.5

for just a few days away.

0:46.9

Well, and speaking of bonus episodes and when this is being released, which is Monday,

0:52.9

that's the same way.

0:54.0

Things like that, and we've never done this before either, but we are, we're putting

0:59.6

out a poll, a little survey, that we would like you to participate in. The link will be

1:05.5

in the show notes. And we, you know, we mentioned a few episodes ago on our Tohu Vavo,

1:13.8

who episode, that we have a brainstorming, planning retreat coming up in the first of

1:22.1

the year, we're thinking about different types of content that we can do, different formats,

1:28.7

different mediums. But we know we have a lot of podcast listeners who apparently like podcasts

1:34.7

because you're listening to a podcast. And so we want to do more podcast content. And

1:40.0

how do we structure that? And we've had a lot of internal debate as to whether that

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