DecaturNature @DecaturNature@social.cleverlibre.org

Why US tech journalists have such a hard time recognising #Mastodon & the concept it is based on as the next step in advancement seems to stem from something deeply rooted in US culture, something #SiliconValley is built on: Tech Hero Worship. They need someone to idolise, a captain at the helm, a saviour. They need & want a Steve Jobs, a Larry Page, #Bezos, and follow & enable the next best: #ElonMusk, #ElizabethHolmes, #SBF, the list is endless.

You can't interview a Github repo.

Noticed that since I write about so many different topics (#climate, #China, #Tibet, #Uyghurs, #HumanRights, #sustainability, #coops, #Japan, #SEAsia, #politics), often from an intersectional perspective...

I don't get mentioned on lists of "#journalists covering X"

I guess it's not a bad thing, but I've noticed that, often, reporting in silos is, IMO, a disservice to readers because it deprives them of important context.

📖 „Hope is the Last to Die” by Halina Birenbaum

Halina Birenbaum survived Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück & Neustadt-Glewe camps. Her autobiography describes an adolescent journey through the horrors of the Holocaust.

https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Last-Die-Halina-Birenbaum-ebook/dp/B09FRFFN41/

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Majdanek #Ravensbrück #autobiography #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #memoirs #kindle #ebook #books #bookstadon #hope #teenager #woman #Birenbaum @bookstodon

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Well then….Not sure who - if anyone - will read this, but I’ve just arrived here as a part of the great #TwitterMigration of 2022….I’m a comic artist, so very soon I’ll start sharing my work. anyhow, um….. 👋

#introductions >> Just got exiled by Mr. Musk, not for revealing the coordinates of his jet, but for merely linking to an aircraft tracker site generally. I'm a political journalist and columnist based in #Connecticut and #TheBerkshires

THIS IS VERY INTERESTING: “12 Ways to Reduce Cars In Cities” that have ALREADY WORKED, ranked by effectiveness, identified from nearly 800 research papers. Via @TheConversationUS. What do you think, Tweeps? In my experience, what works and doesn’t depends A LOT on the context and details of the specific case studies…

https://theconversation.com/12-best-ways-to-get-cars-out-of-cities-ranked-by-new-research-180642

#cities #urbanism #CarFree #cars @TheConversationUK

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests

One point I do want to make clear: Twitter is Elon Musk's website. He paid all that money and can ban whoever he wants. It's his right, just like it's our right to point out when he's spreading bad information and contradicting himself.

6/#

"From #UKnowUrBlackWhen to #BlackLivesMatter, how a loose online network became a pop culture juggernaut, an engine of #socialjustice, and a lens into the future," says Wired senior writer Jason Parham for a 3-part series on #BlackTwitter.

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackFriday

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-oral-history-part-i-coming-together/

Self-proclaimed free speech champ #ElonMusk is now banning the #Twitter accounts of the journalists who covered him. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/elon-musk-twitter-journalists-banned-1234648351/

Here is a list of journalists to follow on Mastodon. Added to frequently.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview

#journalism #journalists #infosec #techie #womenintech #reporters #follow

I volunteer to write the next chapter of THE TWITTER FILES on how the decision was made to deactivate the accounts of a bunch of journalists that reported on Musk

Just send me all the internal communications.

My email is in my bio.

When someone is not honest, thin-skinned, lacks empathy, and is completely self-interested, the wise course is to distance oneself from his reach. This is especially true where he regularly disposes of or betrays people who annoy or impede him in his personal life. Don’t psychoanalyze. Don’t ogle at the hypocrisy. Just get away.

The private jet tracking account @elonjet being banned from Twitter reminds me of Christian Fuchs' alternative, socialist concept of privacy:

"Whereas today we mainly find surveillance of the poor and of citizens who are not capital owners, a socialist privacy concept focuses on surveillance of capital and the rich in order to increase transparency"

Fuchs, "Towards an alternative concept of privacy" Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 2011