ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

#Crypto lending platform #BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 #bankruptcy protection. Here's their statement: https://blockfi.com/November28-ClientUpdate
And the Chapter 11 petition itself. Over 100 million #creditors, of which the top 3 are Blockfi's trustee, #FTX and the #SEC. https://restructuring.ra.kroll.com/blockfi/Home-DownloadPDF?id1=MTM1MjMyOQ==&id2=-1

There are people on this platform who want no politics.
We didn’t move over from Twitter to talk about kittens everyday.
We needed a place to carry on our work. To carry on fighting injustice, racism, misogyny, antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ hate. Because these things are important no matter what platform we are using. That was the whole point of our #twittermigration
We don’t have the privilege to be quiet.

@lightweight Ugh. Thanks. I guess.

Did you hear about the MS Office 365 data leak back in September, due to a misconfigured server? We had a new wave of phishing emails weeks afterwards. They were copies of old emails from our employees. Boss freaked out. The solution proposed by our IT vendor: filter the phishing emails coming in. 🤦‍♀️

I've been pointing out for more than a year that phishing emails have increased since our switch from a self-hosted mail server. I'm being ignored. 🤷‍♀️

@dudleysaunders @atzanteol "disinformation" as a category is protected speech. So removing 230 wouldn't change anything on that front... OTHER THAN making it MORE DIFFICULT for websites to remove disinfo because of the risk of liability associated with *knowledge*. Without 230 the incentive is for sites to stop looking at their own websites and to take a hands off approach.

You've been lied to about what 230 does.

The Netherlands now gets 40% of all its electricity from renewables (12-month moving average)! That share doubled within 3 years.
Graph: @BM_Visser on the birdsite.

If you want Mastodon to succeed, instead of posting bad things about Twitter on Mastodon, post good things about Mastodon on Twitter.
#mastodon #riptwitter

I love how we threw billions at making AI that can drive, realized AI can’t drive a car, then asked ourselves “okay, let’s see what other important decisions we can leave to AI”.

There is an effort underway to reframe work that attempts to address harmful disinformation — even work specifically aimed at mitigating malign foreign disinformation — as "censorship". If we accept that frame, we will enable the dismantling of the very nascent defenses that we've built over the past ~6 years, as our society has begun to realize the vulnerabilities that emerge from the intersection of technology, human behavior, and influence operations.

Well, one thing is clear: Mastodon is as effective at obliterating my productivity as Twitter ever was.

(But I don't feel anywhere close as dirty and shame-filled)

@sean ye is a trash person, who is having a severe manic episode. Institutionalization is a best case way to deplatform him.

Other methods will be variously less than ethical.

The folks who have used his psychosis to their benefit are villains.

“I’m going to stay and fight”

No you’re not. It isn’t a battleground. It is owned by one man who will do what he likes as long as he can and he’s able to continue to do so because you are creating statistics he is using to sell ad space and make it look like the platform is more active than ever.

You are enabling him, even with your “fighting.” Wake up. That’s what he wants. It HELPS him. You’re literally working for the man free of charge. #birdsite #twitter #TwitterMigration

@StevenBeschloss 🤔 kinda think Biden Union busting is going to have bigger impacts that folks aren’t paying attention too and outside the U.S. Ukraine seems a little more important than either Kanye or hunter’s laptop
But here we are I guess with Elon directing our media just like Trump did

Elon Musk pushing Hunter Biden’s laptop as the world’s biggest story succeeded in distracting people for a minute from Kanye West’s despicable Hitler praising which succeeded for a few minutes from the focus on Trump’s theft of government documents and his incitement of insurrection.

Thank you, @potus.