Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

"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/

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

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

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/courts-must-not-allow-litigants-plead-around-first-amendments-speech-protections

@GovTrack she needs to read and adopt this:

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

“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

https://t.co/P4lkRVxox9

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?

@davidgs

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.

#TwitterMigration

IMPORTANT: Bot/App Developer #MastodonMigration

📢 For #TwitterAPI devs ➡️ See this list of Apps/Bots heading to #Mastodon—add your service if you're leaving before the free API shutdown in days:

https://forms.gle/WLBK1jaE2vaxW1U2A

And see the good 🤖 bots moving over here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SOmgXL3fRHAsxiVufw73VmzYmyLGat5koC7sf045Cic/edit?usp=sharing

Please share to all bot Developers who have already made the jump, and on Twitter, please amplify this tweet:

https://twitter.com/tchambers/status/1621553445273767936

PeopleConnect, the owners of the TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate background check services, confirmed they suffered a data breach after hackers leaked a 2019 backup database containing the info of millions of customers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instantcheckmate-truthfinder-confirm-data-breach-affecting-20m-customers/

“Most Americans know that there’s a difference between the rate of gun death in the US and in most developed countries. I’m not sure most Americans know that something similar is going on with roadway deaths,” Buttigieg tells PopSci. “Not the same disparity—but a comparable pattern, where a lot of other places that also have cars and drivers and advanced economies don’t have the level of carnage that we do.”

https://www.popsci.com/technology/pete-buttigieg-interview-traffic-deaths/

#VisionZero #trafficsafety #traffic #cars #transportation

New Blog Post. “Why I left Twitter and went to Mastodon.” I wrote this myself. No help from #chatgpt. I have not been on Twitter since I left, which was a few days after the new year. I actually feel better. http://edtechman.blogspot.com/2023/02/why-i-left-twitter-and-went-to-mastodon.html?m=1 #mastodon #twitter #toot #edtech #edchat #angryalgorithm @edutooters @edutooter #edutooter #edutooters #opensource #free #freedom #education #personallearningnetwork

Apple revenues slide but Tim Cook reckons fanbois will tolerate higher iPhone prices https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/apple_q1_2023/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nittereu.moomoo.me/TheRegister/status/1621561999762112514

Q: Why are there in the USA more people in jail/parole than there are inhabitants in Madrid the third largest city in Europe?

A: This one's easy. Racism.

The US arrests and convicts a lot of people. Most folk in jail, on probation, or on parole in the USA are there for 2 reasons:

1) Non-violent drug offenses

2) Are just awaiting trial, but are too poor to make bail.

Female athletes in Florida now required to tell the state their menstrual cycle. All girls in the state need to stop playing all sports, refuse to comply and March on DeSantis!!!
I never thought in my lifetime I’d see this happening!
#HandmaidsTale

the latest lie from Musk and his minions was that the API restrictions would go into effect in a week. Movetodon -- a great tool for migrating your follower/following list here -- was immediately blocked.

https://mastodon.social/@Tibor/109800904950500383

You can trust one thing, and one thing only, in dealing with people like Musk: Plan for their betrayals, because that's pretty much guaranteed.

@kailagenevieve @hapalochlaena @MariaHill @mentallyalex @Heimdall @ricardoharvin @TonyStark @daylightatheism @CrazyBusyCreative Also though, there a tendency among Dems to feel discouraged from voting because they don’t get everything they want, while the GOP crow over every minor victory. We need to change that.
Of course trolls deliberately feed this, too.

@TonyStark

Gretchen Whitmer said she's going to serve out her second term as Michigan governor. She'll be 55 when she's termed out. Shapiro should serve his two terms. 44-year-old Wes Moore in Maryland should serve his two. Maura Healey in Massachuetts isn't subject to term limits but she can stay a while and do good there. She's 52 next week. A bunch of Democrats right at prime age to be governor, vice president, president, be tapped for the Cabinet of one of those contemporaries, or run for Senate when someone in their state retires.

@SteveRogers @jackiegardina

@stopgopfox

Again, the GOP that is *so* Pro-Life, they don’t care about women and children.