Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

The planet is warming thanks to human activity.
Sea levels are rising.
Ecosystems are collapsing.
Diseases are migrating.
Storms are becoming more extreme.
And a pandemic is still killing thousands every week.

And a *priority* for this new GOP Congress is...*checks notes*...condemning socialism.

#anticapitalist #capitalismkills #excessvalue #stolenvaluestolenlabor

#blackhistorymonth #blm #teachrealhistorynotpropaganda #notpropaganda #history #herstory

New York AG Letitia James will seek sanctions on Donald Trump and his lawyers over falsehoods in fraud suit.

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-civil-case-new-york-rcna68779

Amazing. Facebook apparently believes it gets to set the rules for web scraping: it can gather what it wants about others, but nobody else can gather data about Facebook.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-02/meta-was-scraping-sites-for-years-while-fighting-the-practice?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&leadSource=uverify%20wall

Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more (BuzzFeed News)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-bot-api-changes-killing-fun
http://www.techmeme.com/230202/p45#a230202p45

FTC prescribes GoodRx a $1.5m bill for 'sharing health info' with web giants https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/02/ftc_goodrx_enforcement/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.namazso.eu/TheRegister/status/1621262545091796994

“As veterans, we have sworn an oath to our Constitution — and actually understand it; not like the Oath Keepers, right? We’re the real keepers of that oath.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nazi-hunter-fascism-antifa-veteran-1234672732/

A 22-year-old Black man says he was beaten up three days before Tyre Nichols was attacked by some of the same officers who were with the now-disbanded Scorpion unit. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/memphis-man-says-was-assaulted-scorpion-officers-charged-tyre-nichols-rcna68860

The next time you use any navigation device, software or Google Maps thank Dr. Gladys West. Her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite models that were eventually incorporated into  the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth

Column: The stupid and dishonest idea of raising the Social Security retirement age is back https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-02-02/the-stupid-and-dishonest-idea-of-raising-the-social-security-retirement-age-is-back

Some people will be happy that a Twitter Co-Founder is advising Mastodon. Some people will hate it.

Regardless, the Fediverse isn't about people. It's about ideas.

Twitter Co-Founder @biz has offered to advise the Mastodon team.

@Gargron accepted the offer for help.

Iraq war vet Kris Goldsmith believes “patriot” and “anti-fascist” should be synonymous and he’s turning that belief into action with the new Task Force Butler. The nonprofit’s tagline gets right to the point: “We are American veterans who hunt neo-Nazis.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nazi-hunter-fascism-antifa-veteran-1234672732/

Rep. Nancy Mace has done this performance every week with the media, framing herself as a reasonable center and getting all the press... and then she votes with the rest of them every single time.

Mace did it this week with Omar, on the Foreign Affairs Committee I wonder what next weeks performance will be, and how Our Failed Political Press ™ will fall for her again?

@mmasnick $100 A MONTH for API access?! He needs to just be honest: "I over paid for this toy, pay it off for me!"

Republican attorneys are warning the major pharmacies about the potential legal dangers of dispensing prescription abortion pills.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3adg95/republicans-abortion-pills-cvs
#News #Mifepristone #abortion #abortionpill #texas #ALABAMA #OHIO #Republicans #Walgreens #cvs #pharmacies

Yikes, very scary eye drop disease!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/extremely-drug-resistant-germ-found-in-eye-drops-infects-55-in-12-states-1-dead/

#health

Unreal. Apparently Elon Musk is shutting down Twitter API to stop folks from using tools like this move over to Mastodon. https://www.movetodon.org/

The insecurities Elon is showing is a giveaway to what kind of echochamber he is looking to build and indicative of someone who has no interest in building a free, fair, and just society.

Yet more things to consider when you decide how much you want to engage on that site. #TwitterMigration