Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

Singer Josephine Baker was the toast of Paris. She was a spy for the French Resistance during WWII & secured passports for Jewish citizens fleeing Nazi territory.

Her marriage to a Jewish businessman drew the attn. of Hermann Göring, who poisoned her. Members of the Fr. Resistance rescued her; she recovered.

She was awarded the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre & the Rosette of the Resistance. In 2021, she was inducted into Panthéon, France's hallowed tomb of heroes. #BlackFriday

Let’s show off some more retro stuff, it’s a bit more #retrogaming focused and if you’ve seen some of my previous toots you can probably guess the content. Next toots will be unlisted so follow the :thread:

Want to celebrate your favorite justice's birthday? Good luck being able to look up that information online if Congress rams this unconstitutional bill through their must-pass end-of-term legislation.

(Note: I used a silly example, but this bill is really deeply problematic in ways beyond it. It would chill, if not outright forbid, public oversight and discussion of the judiciary generally, and be the camel's nose for many more unconstitutional incursions on speech.)

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/15/congress-is-about-to-make-this-post-telling-you-when-to-celebrate-scotus-justice-birthdays-illegal/

Buckley got the ball rolling and it continued through Reagan’s “Morning in America” and Limbaugh’s “The Way Things Ought to Be” and the Tea Party’s “Take America Back” and Trump’s “Make America Great Again.”

It’s all about stopping The Other in the service of an idealized past.

Musk has cancelled Santa Claus

😂 😂 😂

Yes, this is the real RedTRaccoon.

Remember this profile picture? That was me when I was anonymous on Twitter.

If you followed me then, I would love for you to follow me again.

After diverting millions in TANF welfare funds to sports celebrities like Brett Favre and Ted DiBiase, Mississippi left $47 million in federal assistance for low-income families with children unspent in 2020.

Missisisppi has a 19.4% poverty rate.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29742/mississippi-left-47-million-in-aid-to-poor-families-unspent-prompting-calls-for-reform

Please help me get my followers up, folks.

Elon Musk and Autism/Aspergers

I certainly don't speak for all autistic people or for the autism community in general, but as an autistic person and someone who knows many autistic people who are kind, compassionate, honest, and decent human beings, I feel compelled to make this statement:

Elon Musk is an egotistical narcissistic megalomaniac who is out of touch with reality, power hungry, entitled, privileged, corrupt little man but nothing he does or thinks or says is because of autism.

If anyone is writing about him, or reporting on him, or making any attempt to analyze what is going on in that head of his, please keep autism out of the equation.

Does he actually have Aspergers, like he claims? Who knows. He says he does but clearly he lies. A lot. I don't know him well enough nor am I qualified to make that assessment.

Ultimately though, it doesn't matter. Autistic people can be evil too. It just means that autism isn't the reason.

So please do myself and all of the autistic people I know and any who agree with this statement a favour and leave autism out of the discussion.

#StarTrek

Just signed up for Mastodon. Hope it doesn’t become a dumpster fire like twitter. This feels like that movie where the humans have to go find another planet suitable for life after messing things up on earth.

Today for #FollowFriday, we'll start by shouting out @TucsonSentinel and @restofworld, two other publications that created their own Mastodon instances. We think this is a great model for other outlets (and also #nonprofit orgs) to follow, creating authenticity and allowing full control over what we post.

#Journalism #media

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

Things just seem so crazy today.
I mean, can you imagine say in the 1930s if the richest automobile executive in America was also a media owner who used his platform to encourage anti-Semitism and allied himself with a foreign dictator waging a territory-expansion war in Europe?

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests