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

If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending

Dr. Simone Gold, a convicted U.S. Capitol insurrectionist and ringleader of a network of right-wing health-care providers that have made millions selling so-called alternatives to vaccines, has offered to help Elon Musk assemble a team of doctors to fact-check medical information on Twitter.

More from @micahflee https://theintercept.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-twitter-covid-vaccine-simone-gold/

It's time for the US Federal government to exit Twitter. It cannot publish on a censorship/disinformation channel.

Feasible.

RT twitter.com/@falcennial: whomever tweeted "fragile narcissist buys criticism factory" I want u to know I remember these words and laugh every day https://twitter.com/falcennial/status/1593579376565956608

The irony though of building one of the biggest cybersecurity Twitter accounts in history and having my final post blocked and flagged as malicious. 🤷🏻‍♀️🍸💀

Fascists need to silence dissent or else they cannot thrive. Only their ideas may be permitted in the discourse. Nothing else. Journalism does not fit into their authoritarian fantasies.

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

having to post links to mastodon on twitter using unicode equivalents. omg, I freely admit to being grumpy at how much of a timesuck gawping at the musk twitter trainwreck has been, but this ... this is amazing.

i'm not even mad

A “legacy bug” has been found on Twitter Spaces so the feature has apparently been deactivated on the platform. Bug was discovered right after about 40,000 people were on a Space, including many who were critical of Musk. Incredibly convenient!

A little #ElonMusk meme I created for #Twitter. I’m getting a lot of use out of it lately. 🤣
#TwitterPurge #AssassinationCoordinates #StreisandEffect

Good blog post in the privacy and national security (that's US national security) concerns of TikTok, by @malwaretech, who decided to have a look whether the app actually asks for location permissions https://malwaretech.com/opinions/tiktok-is-a-national-security-risk.html

The sooner that Musk's Twitter goes out of business, the better for freedom of expression, the open web, and most of all democracy. He and his company are a clear and present danger.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/14/twitters-big-ad-plan-violate-both-ftc-consent-decree-california-privacy-law-to-force-users-to-hand-over-info-for-ad-targeting/

Handy Glossary

NON-CHOICE: Being gay.
CHOICE: Joining a church that hates gay people.
NON-GROOMER: A drag queen.
GROOMER: A priest or youth pastor.
NON-INDOCTRINATION OF CHILDREN: Reading them stories.
INDOCTRINATION OF CHILDREN: Reading them stories and telling them God wrote them.

In 1933, Nazis led torchlit mob into the square and looted the library of the adjoining -Universitat. 40,000 people cheered as they burned over 20,000 books by mainly Jewish, communist, liberal and social-critical authors. Many years later, a panel of glass was set into the ground to mark the spot. It’s a window. Leaning over you can look into a room below. The room is white, lined from floor to ceiling with plain shelves—an empty library. The sort of world we’d live in if the fanatics had won.

In the past 24 hours, Ukrainians have been been blocked from signing up for Twitter using their phone numbers and using 2FA and accounts tracking Russian oligarchs' jets have been suspended.

What happens on Twitter can seem like a sideshow, but Elon Musk's actions are a direct threat to democracy.

@hacks4pancakes just won the lifetime achievement award at SANS!

I’d like to live in a country where they arrest the president when he attempts to overthrow the government.