Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@social.cleverlibre.org

Why is Google pushing an ad for a #typosquatter to the top of its search results for "humble bundle"?

Fake site presents a convincing login screen, presumably aimed at stealing creds of registered Humble Bundle users.

oh no

got my 2022 Finder Unwrapped, here's just the Renamed section

There are so many (so so so many!) things I could have included here, but it seems notable that not only is Elon Musk jumping around the content moderation learning curve... he doesn't actually seem to be learning anything. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/01/elon-musk-continues-along-the-content-moderation-learning-curve-but-doesnt-seem-to-be-learning-a-damn-thing/

It's not enough to squat a Mastodon handle that you never use.

It's not enough to automatically repost your Twitter timeline.

You have a chance to be part of something new. Something important. To shape it in the right way.

With all of us.

Breathe life into *this* community and *this* network by posting here, creating here, connecting here.

Be here now.

Why is it that whenever lawmakers have to confront corporate greed, they roll over and penalize workers who are most immediately harmed by it?

@doxy_cycling I am such a knucklehead! #adventofcode is "an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like." It is run by Eric Wastl and you can find more information at https://adventofcode.com/.

It is extremely well done. Puzzles get more complex over the month. Many will post solutions and thought processes so I've found it's a nice way to learn too!

Refuse

Hive Social got popped already. Warning: do not use Hive Social: We found a number of critical vulnerabilities, which we confidentially reported to the company. After multiple attempts to contact the company we finally reached them by phone and they...
https://jwz.org/b/yj7B

The City of #Denver is planning to conduct sweeps (forced displacement) of people experiencing #homelessness tomorrow despite snow and sub-freezing temperatures. Sweeps in normal weather are cruel & harmful. Forced displacement, where police dispose of tents, sleeping bags, clothes, IDs, & meds in the middle of a #winterweatheradvisory is cruel, inhumane, and unnecessary. This is state sponsored violence led by Michael Hancock, mayor.

How decades of tax cuts (mostly to further enrich the wealthiest among us) have helped to bake inequity into our society: https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/taxes/unequal-burden/how-four-decades-of-tax-cuts-fueled-inequality/

By Jim Steele, one of the great journalists of our era...

Well, I did it. I left Twitter. Crushed at what Elon Musk is doing to the site. Posting an "88" meme did it for me.

I stopped posting on Twitter a week ago because I don’t want to help a nazi sympathizing billionaire man-baby with his website. Feels good to not be doing that. Can I get an amen?

PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet. As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web. tl;dr avoid Hive and Post. If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can...
https://jwz.org/b/yj62

As right-wing extremists are re-platformed everywhere from Twitter to Mar-a-Lago, it’s more important than ever that we hold our journalists, researchers, & others to high standards of accountability when it comes to reporting on extremism and extremists. We need journalists who will tell us the truth, not stake out a position in the middle of two unequal sides. I keep coming back to this quote about reporting on the weather, but it was missing something — so I modified it to make it complete.

Please enjoy this AI-generated portrayal of Krampus and Santa Claus in a passionate, manly embrace. This is the energy we need to carry us into the holidays.