ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

“If people want to stay on Twitter to debate fascists, more power to them, but there is a danger in conflating Twitter the technology & digital space with Twitter the people. The platform is made up of people. Musk bought Twitter, but he did not buy the communities that exist on the platform” - @hypervisible and @Kishonna

Essential piece (link is to a Wired article titled For Black Folks, Digital Migration Is Nothing New):
https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-social-media/

Not great! Chicago Public Schools has spent $308 million on computers and other technology since March 2020, "But the district does not have a clear, detailed plan for using the new devices to improve instruction or a reliable system to track what technology campuses have and how they use it."

Feels like the kind of environment ed-tech companies/consultants can exploit to work their imaginaries to full (and lucrative) effect.

The story via WBEZ Chicago and Chalkbeat: https://www.wbez.org/stories/cps-spent-308-million-on-school-technology-since-2020-now-what/21f10619-30a6-45ae-b72d-741a0a8b8b82

Before leaving Twitter, consider archiving your Tweets on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/

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• Start by adding your profile and cover photos and a bio.

• Post a hello and a bit about yourself with the hashtag #introduction.

• Don’t approach this site as if it’s #Twitter. Have conversations, follow folks you find interesting and enjoy your time here!

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Billionaires have too much power

FACT: None of the journalists who were suspended did this.

He's lying.

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

So…we’re about to have another influx, I suppose. Get ready for the servers to creak, and please don’t yell at your admins, they’re doing the best they can.

Everyone just be patient and we’ll get through this one, too.

One of my last posts on the other site before it suspended me without notice:

It's almost like the people who have spent the last six years prattling about free speech don't fucking care about (or understand) free speech

What's happening in simulated-bird-land (;-))

In real-bird-land? A Dovekie at Ashbridge's bay, in Toronto

Not sure how much longer I’ll be allowed to be here

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