ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

@soatok yeah last I checked mfers don’t shoot up gay bars for fun, so sorry if I come of rude by saying, it is a hate crime and any “cautionary wording” sounds like a down play of events, it sincerely pisses me off if I say changed my tv channel to Fox News, their downplaying it, same goes for CNN, MSNBC, because they are all using the same language, they’ve all fallen into the hands of the reactionary right, the Washington Post, NPR, etc have all posted articles legitimatizing transphobic and homophobic lies, and to be honest, we need to hold all of them accountable.

"Jin Jiyan Azadî remember? Turkish war planes are bombing the city of Kobane, which is home to this slogan, home to a revolution that brought an end to ISIS, home to a people that wants to live in dignity & peace. But the world just watches Turkey drop her bombs over Kurds, again."

https://twitter.com/rosaburc/status/1594101143759724544?s=20&t=j0n34Uz8_axlHD2ysSTV4g

I’m always taken aback by the number of True Believers and Charlatans there are in #highered. People looking to buy magic beans and those willing to sell the beans- like, there’s no secret sauce to #education. It’s hard and slow and expensive and there’s no cheating that without serious compromises.
And, I should point out, #tech doesn’t change this basic fact. There’s no product or service that you can buy that takes the place of decent #pedagogy and expertise.

#book recommendation:

Calling Bullshit, by @ct_bergstrom and #jevinwest (https://www.callingbullshit.org/)

From my point of view, this is perhaps the most underrated topic in #education today. The ability to extract valuable #information and truth out of fake news, propaganda, lobbyism and misleading advertisement is not only critical to personal development, but to the survival of #democracy itself. This bocomes today more visible than ever.
Bergstrom and West give insight into the mechanisms of manipulation and deception using data and provide a valuable toolset to dissect infoation and data to, well ... call bullshit. This is accompanied by lots of examples and additional material.
This stuff needs to be tought in school already.

#Twitter
#TwitterMigration
#twitterdown
#twitterexodus
#twitterrefugees

A recent Salon article lists 5 potential problems during a mass migration from Twitter to Mastodon:

https://www.salon.com/2022/11/17/how-mastodon-works--and-why-the-federated-network-wont-be-the-new-twitter_partner/

Despite the silly headline (we would hope it doesn't become a new Twitter) would anyone be interested in commenting on any or all of these 5?

" 1. ... finding a server to join on Mastodon can be hard, especially when a flood of people trying to find servers leads to the creation of waitlists, and the rules and values of the people running a server aren't always easy to find.

2. ... there are significant financial and technical challenges with maintaining servers that grow with the number of members and their activity. After the honeymoon is over, Mastodon users should be prepared for membership fees, NPR-style fundraising campaigns or podcast-style promotional ads to cover server hosting costs that can go into the hundreds of dollars per month per server.

3. ... despite calls for newspapers, universities and governments to host their own servers, there are complicated legal and professional questions that could severely limit public institutions' abilities to moderate their "dorms" effectively. Professional societies with their own methods of verification and established codes of conduct and ethics may be better equipped to host and moderate Mastodon servers than other types of institutions.

4. ... the current "nuclear option" of servers entirely cutting ties with other servers leaves little room for repairing relations and reengagement. Once the tie between two servers is severed, it would be difficult to renew it. This situation could drive destabilizing user migrations and reinforce polarizing echo chambers.

5. ... there are tensions between longtime Mastodon users and newcomers around content warnings, hashtags, post visibility, accessibility and tone that are different from what was popular on Twitter."

People don't realize that Reddit *used* to be open source. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

Honestly, I wish all the cultists crying about Hunter Biden and his laptop recognized the billionaire oligarchs are laughing their way to the bank, pleased by the noisy distractions so they can stay focused on consolidating their power and wealth without disturbance. Musk’s use of a bogus poll to let the Malignant One back on Twitter makes the point.

@jkosseff The idea of running my own Mastodon server was directly related to knowing Section 230 exists. Without Section 230, I would probably not have done this.

the engineering layoffs/firings/resignations at twitter really have produced some incredible dumb guy tweets (via https://twitter.com/dxnielvaughn/status/1594003033767436288/photo/1) #infosec

Here are the details, re-upping.

https://signorile.substack.com/p/the-christian-nationalist-plan-to