ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)

The group of people who are trying to divide the fediverse seem to have reached a new low.. They have a tool that lists how many instances block a particular instance, but it is highly manipulative.

For starters it is hand curated.. so they exclude blocks against their own instances and only includes instances they actually dislike.

Worse yet they curate a list ordered by "most blocked".. problem is they use the number of instances that block. They game the system by having large number of single-user instances. So instances in the top 50 may only be blocked by a few hundred people but still appear as if the blocks are significant....

This is why we need transparency, its why we need the https://UFoI.org

#mastoadmin #fediblock @ufoi #UFoI

“Elon Musk blamed a Twitter account for a stalker. Police see no link.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/

“A confrontation between a member of Elon Musk’s security team and an alleged stalker that Musk blamed on a Twitter account that tracked his jet took place at a gas station 26 miles from LAX and 23 hours after the @ElonJet@twitter.com account had last located the jet”

Tried #ungrading this semester. Amazed by level of student work and by their honest and authentic assessments

I saw this post from @BlackAzizAnansi that Mastodon remains an overwhelmingly white space and I can't refute that, but I'm angry that it is this way. My experience in tech is that there's no shortage of black talent or black voices, there's a shortage of black opportunity and space due to racism. I see that reflected here. I feel like if we want a #blackmastodon then we can't be passive about this, we have to be intentionally inclusive, intentionally anti-racist. It's not enough to just support.

Twitter users: Gosh I'm really tired of using a website that's run by a single corrupt rich person

Mastodon users: Hey, come on over. We're a federated system, so each server is run by a different group or pers-

Twitter users: No that's too hard let me try Post

The #K12 #EdTech Safety Benchmark report: https://internetsafetylabs.org/resources/reports/2022-k12-edtech-safety-benchmark-national-findings-part-1/
"28% of apps were Non-Education Specific...effectively providing no limits or guardrails for children"
"Nearly all apps (96%) share children’s personal information with third parties,
78% of the time with advertising and monetization entities, typically without
the knowledge or consent of the users or the schools"
#EduTooters @edutooters @edutooter

A morality play in three acts.

#Twitter

Introducing primary source analysis and helping students break down political cartoons (the internal pages are below the comment section - I'm working on that part of the layout) - https://bluecerealeducation.com/primary-sources-text-political-cartoons #history #education #teachers #edutooter #PoliticalCartoons #PrimarySources

Do you agree with this perspective on ChatGPT? Citation in GoogleDoc link. https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1rBDP4WsMqv8bIw6tK6-SZ0sDh0_OcperWMcabn5II9Y/mobilebasic #education #edtech @edutooter @edutooters

My Teaching Philosophy (because what could be a better use of bandwidth than one more person telling you how to feel about public education?) - https://bluecerealeducation.com/my-teaching-philosophy-0 #teachers #education #pedagogy @edutooters #edutooter

Dear @elonmusk@twitter.com

I would like to report @Telsa@twitter.com for this clear violation of Twitter rules.

These rules are very important and made by you, our benevolent leader.

I trust you will be suspending this account shortly.

All the best.

-- Judd

@jack@twitter.com It's important to realize that this social network is in the process of being destroyed not just because of @elonmusk@twitter.com but because of the Twitter board which agreed to sell it to him and people like @jack@twitter.com, who encouraged them

Y'all know Elno and other narcissist are extremely insecure people.

They coerce, bully, threaten, abuse because they are weak not smart people.

So much for freedom of speech on Twitter.

I am not Musk's lackey.

I will not change the way I tweet every day in order to comply with rules he makes up in the morning.

Make whatever rules you want.

Ban me if you want.

I will not comply.

I really think we need to reject the term "content creator."

That phrase is used by people who aim to Monetize™ us without needing to care about what it is we create. A "content creator" is there to make the stuff that attracts people so they can be fed advertising.

Call us what we are. Artists. Essayists. Film makers. Authors. Photographers. And so many others. We are creators, yes, but what we create has so much value beyond filling otherwise empty space on a website.

#MakeArtNotContent