Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

I love the thread style in #Woolly by @mttvll. A.W.E.S.O.M.E! 🤩

The Ticketmaster hearing in Congress was a sham. The people Ticketmaster abuses with monopoly practices are telling the simple truth.

But the core truth is that Congress passed laws allowing this rogue company -- and countless other rogue companies in other industries -- to create and abuse monopolies and cartels.

And Congress has refused to lift a finger to fix any of what it enabled.

Will it now?

@natasha514b @almostheretical

👋 Natasha, thanks for responding! There are plenty of more liberal religious left protestant denominations that are doing great work, IMO. #Exvangelical would be someone who has left the more conservative right wing #evangelical denominations. Some become much more progressive #Christians, me included. Some become intense athiests and everything between.

There's even a group https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/

There are newly coined phrases and podcasts that naturally popped up because so many people have and/or are going through the same thing. I imagine that the rise in #ChristianNationalism has caused other people to leave their churches to avoid it as well. It has been very polarizing in some evangelical churches and denominations.

The only thing to fear isn't fear itself.
It's idiots.
You should definitely fear idiots.

“This is the U.S. adopting a Chinese attitude toward the internet: We’re going to block things we don’t want you to see because everything’s a national security threat,” said Milton Mueller, a Georgia Institute of Technology professor and co-founder of the Internet Governance Project. “It’s really a dangerous attitude — not just for American values of free expression but for this whole idea of an open and interconnected internet.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/20/tiktok-bans-states-colleges/

"We’d like to tell you that our new 'undesirable' status doesn’t worry us," Meduza said in a statement. "But that would be untrue. We are afraid. We fear for our readers and for those who have collaborated with Meduza over many years. We fear for our loved ones and our friends." https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/01/26/if-it-s-a-fight-they-want-it-s-a-fight-they-ll-get

TIL there's an open source prosthetic leg initiative by the University of Michigan.

Awesome.

https://opensourceleg.com/

#OSL #OpenSourceLeg #OpenSource #Prosthetic #Michigan #UMich

I have been writing that #elonmusk's #Twitter has become anti-#science and anti-#democracy months ago.

Slowly, the #mainstream media is catching up.

Here is a #bloomberg article painting a pretty clear picture of an #autocrat in power trying to subvert whatever #democratic #safeguards were left at Twitter:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

Best for Twitter to be regulated out of existence. Need #DSA and #EU to do so.

@stopgopfox

We also need to ask what makes these places “elite”, since they have track record of producing amoral regressionist extremists who want to drag us back to the 1790s but with more Christian fascism.

Canonical Announces General Availability of Ubuntu Pro, Free for Up to 5 PCs

https://9to5linux.com/canonical-announces-general-availability-of-ubuntu-pro-free-for-up-to-5-pcs

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://9to5linux.com/canonical-announces-general-availability-of-ubuntu-pro-free-for-up-to-5-pcs

#linux #ubuntu #unix

precisely me

How to write a dystopian novel:
Write about what already happens to marginalized folks, but let it happen to white people

Digital media is about to become such an AI hellscape, we are truly unprepared https://www.wsj.com/articles/buzzfeed-to-use-chatgpt-creator-openai-to-help-create-some-of-its-content-11674752660?st=no257w59nssvx9f&reflink=article_copyURL_share

#MSG probed over use of #facialrecognition to eject lawyers from show venues

The operator of Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall is being probed by New York's attorney general over the company's use of facial recognition technology to identify and exclude lawyers from events. AG Letitia James' office said the policy may violate civil rights laws

#nysag #radiocity

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1912764

NEW: Republicans are embracing a Trumpist policy wonk’s strategy to make the debt-ceiling fight all about social justice, critical race theory and gender theory -- and definitely not about Social Security. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/debt-ceiling-woke-social-security-medicare-maga-1234669344/

NEW: California state bar regulators announced they've filed a disciplinary case against Trump lawyer John Eastman re: 2020, and will seek to disbar him. More to come.

Announcement: https://www.calbar.ca.gov/About-Us/News/News-Releases/attorney-john-eastman-charged-with-multiple-disciplinary-counts-by-the-state-bar-of-california

Doc: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r7njR7NGuKxw/v0