Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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“…for everyone else, #Twitter’s [API] decision discourages playing with the service. It also encourages switching to alternatives — Cheap Bots Done Quick, for instance, has a Mastodon equivalent called Cheap Bots Toot Sweet. ‘It just seems like a tax on innovation,’ says O’Malley.
So next week, Twitter users might wake up to a feed that’s suddenly a lot less fun — and Twitter might have decimated one of its platform’s finest arts.”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582982/twitter-api-free-access-cutoff-bot-developers-shutdown
I have real mixed feelsing about this. On the one hand, they are turning the #christofascist trick of doing horrible things under the cover of religious freedom against them, by doing something good that these right-wing nutcases find objectionable. On the other hand, for anyone even mildly indoctrinated in #Christianity, using the services of anything with "Satanic" in the name is going to bring back all those sermons about how the devil is a deceiver and evil and wants to take you to hell with him (although if you know what the scriptures say in their original languages that's quite impossible, because they say the devil and the fallen angels are confined to their own place which is not inhabited by humans). Even if they can mentally believe those sermons were all nonsense, it's hard to just cast aside beliefs that were deeply ingrained into them from the time they were young. And if they haven't completely given up on their religion (they may be an #exvangelical but not an #exChristian) they're not going to want to go within a country mile of that organization. To me it's just unfortunate that the people behind this, who are probably very lovely people, chose to use the name of satan for their group. I get why they did it, because it's a big middle finger to the #christofascists and other bible thumpers that have caused so many of us so much grief, but in this context it's still unfortunate because a lot of women who they could help will be inclined to avoid them just due to the name.
That said I have been thinking ever since Roe v. Wade was repealed that "freedom of religion" might be an effective workaround for some of these christofascist laws. I remember readin about a church in the southwest (can't recall the name, sorry) that is allowed to use a hallucinogen (that is otherwise illegal to posess) in their sacred rituals because of their religion. I've said before that if you want put books in libraries that are banned by oppressive laws, make them part of a religious canon and then if anyone objects to them being in a library just say sure, you can remove those as long as you also remove all your Bibles and Christian apologetics, and all the other crap religious books including those (ghost-)written by megachurch preachers and other snake-oil salesmen. It would be kind of a win whatever choice was taken, though you would hope they'd decide to allow all the books to stay.
And for the win??? The Satanic Temple!! LOVE LOVE LOVE these guys! https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/614438376/the-satanic-temple-launches-religious-...
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No Immunity For Cops Who Shot Man Multiple Times, Then Searched His House For Evidence Of ‘Assaulting An Officer’ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/03/no-immunity-for-cops-who-shot-man-multiple-times-then-searched-his-house-for-evidence-of-assaulting-an-officer/
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Woof there is nothing quite so toxic as Instagram comments where Christians can pretend to be persecuted.
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RT @Esqueer_
Ron DeSantis has filed a complaint against the Orlando Philharmonic and stripped its liquor license for hosting "A Drag Queen Christmas." They claim it was a felony violation. They are weaponizing the state to eliminate queer existence.
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Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/jupiter-12-new-moons-rcna69131
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As long as the code behind "smart" home devices is proprietary, these companies are free to spy on us as much as they like. Help us fight back: tell your friends about free software and urge then to join the FSF! Support #FreeSoftware. https://fsf.org
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Welp, somebody just spun up a new subreddit for ChatGPT to answer legal questions:
r/ChatGPT_LegalAdviceUS.
My first thought: it can’t possibly be worse than r/legaladvice. Guess we’ll find out!
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As a Jew, I am much safer in the America that sent Ilhan Omar to Congress than I am in the America that sent Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/03/ilhan-omar-removal-republicans-antisemitism
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"After more than two years, we still don’t know, and haven’t really asked, what toxic brew of retrograde thinking was responsible for this epic failure. So why should we believe it won’t happen again?"
#jan6 #whitesupremacists #uspoliitics #policereform
The story no one wants to touch: Why the Capitol Police enabled 1/6 - Press Watch https://presswatchers.org/2023/01/the-story-no-one-wants-to-touch-why-the-capitol-police-enabled-1-6/
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Oklahoma: State Superintendent Fires Attorney Who Supported Trans Students - Hard to relate to this kind of homophobia and political authoritarianism. MAGA Republicans are a menace. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/02/03/oklahoma-state-superintendent-fires-attorney-who-supported-trans-students/ via @dianeravitch #Education #Politics
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Courts Must Not Allow Litigants to Plead Around The First Amendment’s Speech Protections
Meritless defamation lawsuits can deter legal speech by forcing people to spend time and money fighting them. That is why courts must diligently protect people’s First Amendment rights by quickly dismissing claims that target people’s protected opinions.
#1stamendment #firstamendment
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Give Cherokee Nation a Seat in Congress: The tribe has renewed their push to get a delegate in the House of Representatives and the law is on their side.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170368/cherokee-nation-hoskin-delegate-congress
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“So now we know who’s been handing out those AR-15 pins republicans have been wearing on the House floor. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R - NRA), who said the January 6th attack on the Capitol was a “normal tourist visit.” 🤦♂️ The GOP is a terrorist organization.”
Scary Larry
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It’s well past time for the College Board to have competition. How have they avoided a suit for being a monopoly all these years?
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Japanese users reported #TwitterAPI-accessed accounts being frozen a day ago. Twitter disabled Movetodon's access about 8 hours ago.
You don't have until next week.
The casualty is not the FediVerse. The casualty is the people who relied upon free-of-charge #Twitter, directly or indirectly, for everything from authentication to robot-posted pictures of possums. They've lost all of that.
They were always the product, not the customer, of course.
