Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

Physicists clock the speed of light at 9,460,730,472,580.8 km/yr (fast!), yet light from the bright stars we see in #space still takes an extraordinarily long time to reach us.

NASA’s Webb telescope has provided a glimpse back more than 13 billion years in time, nearly to the beginning ✨

Posted a good bye and signed off of Twitter.

For me, it came down to the ethics of who we surround ourselves as we interact. I benefit from these conversations and I believe my community does too. Individuals should not have to suffer to take part in them. We need inclusive & safe spaces to discuss science, free from hate. On the bird site, hate mongering is coming from the top. That's it - nope out.

Honestly, I appreciate the opportunity to reset and rethink of what we want this to be. And I'm excited to build up an inclusive community here with all of you!

One of the bf’s newish employees told him today that Elon Musk and Ron DeathSantis are teaming up to abolish mRNA technology used in Covid vaccines. People in this red village suck but they assume everybody is red so they just talk and talk. Now. I hear some weird stuff pretty much daily and I have to put it here because there is no where else to put it.

Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council

Meanwhile, a former top Twitter official fled his home amid attacks following Musk tweets

The email arrived less than an hour before the council was expecting to meet with Twitter executives to discuss recent developments.

Dozens of civil rights leaders, academics and advocates from around the world had volunteered their time for years to help improve safety on the platform.

washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/12/musk-twitter-harass-yoel-roth/

Dave Chappelle used to be one of my favorites. “Killin them softly” is genius.

But sometime after he aligned with TERFs and before he condoned antisemitism on SNL, I had to let him go

The people that just paid $300+ to see him – only to get made fun of because they aren’t as rich as he and Elon… why do they continue to give that man their money?

Serious question.

An abandoned laboratory of an inventor who made a life-saving medical breakthrough
Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/golaski-labs

A coffee mug left behind in the abandoned Homer Research Labs, a top-secret facility that tested Bethlehem Steel's metal
Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/homer-research-laboratories

#art #industry #abandoned #photography

They failed so hard that they’re still crying about it two years later. But even if they found what they pretend they did, it would even be nearly as corrupt as the sitting president of the United States charging $200,000 for a membership to his house. https://twitter.com/mattzeitlin/status/1602391570325856256

Elon is playing 4D chess with Twitter. He’s just really, really, really bad at it.

“Musk says Twitter character limit will increase to 4,000”

Good thing the CEO knows how his microblogging platform works.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3771542-musk-says-twitter-character-account-will-increase-to-4000/

I like people who take a knee to protest injustice, rather than those who want to shred the Constitution.

"If you haven't heard of the independent state legislature theory, congratulations. You lead a happier life than I do. Not just because it represents a terrifying power grab by federal judicial supremacists, but also because it has a day-ruining bad name."
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/an-elite-power-grab-dressed-in-academic-robes/

After Elon posted a tweet predicting the end of the pandemic by April 2020, 1 million plus people died in the US. Would you trust this person to be a good judge of rigorous science?

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #Twitter #TwitterMigration

When billionaires like Musk, Bezos, or Zuckerberg justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.

About the #Fauci hate & anti-vax stuff,

It is essential to the libertarian/oligarch project to discredit the idea that government can make people's lives better. Even public health.

As more people reject govt/democracy, privatization & oligarch/corporate rule gets easier.

For more on this -- the anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-public-health propaganda is organized and funded.

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/

#Musk #Fauci #oligarchs #libertarians #democracy #antivax

@flexghost I wouldn't even pay fifty cents for a White Claw.

$17 for a white claw? Hi.

Fuck. You.

Go sports ball!

Someone just mentioned the differences between #Twitter and #Google regarding user data. Yes, indeed.

I've worked inside #Google twice. Their explicit rules, approvals, logging and "need to know" requirements for access to user data are most impressive. Anyone even attempting to access user data inappropriately is fired and marched out the door by security. This is part of why I have a great deal of trust in Google, and consider Elon's #Twitter to be utterly untrustworthy and totally beneath contempt.

Update: white nationalists in attendance are calling for a total war

…to zero consequences

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/12/11/white-nationalists-other-republicans-brace-total-war