ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

As a security professional, not much scares me. I've seen my personal data stolen numerous times, watched nationstate hackers spray zerodays across the internet, and I'm a shameless user of TikTok. But now you have someone sitting on top of the personal data of several billion users, someone who has a long track record of vindictive harassment, someone who has the ear of the far right, and someone who has just shown us his willingness to weaponize internal company data to score political points. That scares me a lot.

Remember that Times story about how Musk’s politics were complicated? He might not really be “conservative” but might be “independent” or “part of the center”? That was yesterday.

How’s that working out? https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/12/11/elon-musk-tweets-my-pronouns-are-prosecutefauci-heres-the-response/

That's how you get to conclusions like "Elon's Jet twitter account should be visibility restricted, but anti-vaxxers, far-right pundits, and anyone who pays me $8 should not"

There's no philosophical principle behind it beyond the guy in charge setting the rules based on his own interests.

You might disagree that he *shouldn't*, but the corporate and constitutional structure of America means he *can*, and that's what the site has become, and why it's unlikely to correct course in the future.

I’m truly concerned that our country doesn’t take decisive action against those internal forces that are planning for its failure.

Tucker Carlson is not real news, The cost of groceries did not go up 400% or anywhere near it, and other bs cleared up at mediabiasfactcheck latest curated checks, expand their links for more places to find some grounded truths

#education
#factchecking

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/2022/12/11/the-latest-fact-checks-curated-by-media-bias-fact-check-12-11-2022/

2022 Press Freedom Rank
1 Norway
2 Denmark
3 Sweden
11 NZ
14 Switzerland
16 Germany
19 Canada
24 UK
26 France
32 Spain
38 Taiwan
42 US
43 S Korea
58 Italy
71 Japan
86 Israel
110 Brazil
117 Indonesia
119 Qatar
127 Mexico
129 Nigeria
138 UAE
149 Turkey
150 India
155 Russia
168 Egypt
175 China
178 Iran
180 N Korea
https://rsf.org/en/index

What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?

I recently had my iPhone stolen while on a business trip in London and, through the wonders of Find My, have been able to track its journey in the past few weeks. I found it to be a fascinating insight to what appears to be a rather sophisticated phone theft operation and thought I'd share!

Meanwhile -- not to distract from the Twitter nothingburger -- here's some concrete documentation of the fossil fuel industry lying about climate change, lying about their emissions, & lying about their decarb plans. Ho hum, I guess. https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/oversight-committee-releases-new-documents-showing-big-oil-s-greenwashing

Splashdown.

The @NASA_Orion spacecraft successfully completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 12:40pm ET (17:40 UTC) as the final major milestone of the #Artemis I mission. https://go.nasa.gov/3Fl7kzQ
#NASAArtemis #Artemis

@DemocracyMatters
Techbro goes full-on far-right, pandering to a bunch of folks that continue to promote lies.
He will never again regain his mythic status as an innovative genius.
A status he obviously doesn't deserve and never did.

Who else thinks Elon Musk should apologize to Dr. Fauci — right after he apologizes to Paul Pelosi? ✋✋

"Democrats cannot spend the next decade making the same mistakes we made the last several. We cannot continue to sit by while conservatives amass power at the local, state and judicial level in non-coastal America, largely uncontested by our side."
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-real-battlegrounds/

Guess how I just learned about a very blockable instance. While looking for emojo to add! 😡

varishangout[.]net

Their about page also has racist language and implies allowed posting of illistrated child porn 🤮 #fediblock

Friendly reminder that if you really want to stick it to Elon, no longer using Twitter is more effective than anger-scrolling it everyday and padding his metrics.

https://mastodon.social/@alexwinter/109495874952208466

@rozz2022 @ablackcatstail @BarbaraBanfield @dangillmor We ditched AT&T for supporting OANN, switched to Spectrum TV where I can add/delete individual channels like Faux.

The sooner people stop trying to “save Twitter”, the happier they will be. It is now just a private online platform wholly owned by a billionaire who doesn’t care about losing money on it, and is using the platform to empower fascists, authoritarians, white nationalists, anti-LGBT bigots, and antisemites, under a phony veneer of “free speech”. The only reason to go back is to convince your followers to leave and rebuild on this or another platform. #twexit

In case you didn’t realize yet, Twitter is now an app for QAnon run by a fascist.