ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

😮 😆 🤣

If it's now against the rules to promote other social networks on Twitter, that means Jack Dorsey can't promote Bluesky on Twitter!

Screenshot is relevant.

Democracy Dies on the Net https://democracyparadox.com/2022/11/28/democracy-dies-on-the-net/ via @demparadox

This just hurts my soul. Microsoft basically hid a Black cemetery on land they got for free after tax breaks and then allowed for the desecration of the graves. The county and newspaper aren’t off the hook either. Same with the consultants and archeologists. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia

Okay, so holy crap: earlier today @permagriculture recommended this browser extension for Mastodon, and IT IS A GAME CHANGER: https://github.com/lartsch/FediAct#installation

One of the more annoying things on Mastodon is if you end up on a page on a different server.

This solves that!

It's fantastic.

I know that some people hate browser extensions, but if you're cool with them, check it out.

CNN, WaPo, NYT journalists' accounts were restored. The Intercept and independent journalists were not. We've gotten the worst of it all: the criticism of being the “mainstream media” but without the backing or protection of being the “mainstream media.”

12 hours into the appendectomy the surgeon sobbed as he pulled the 75th appendix out of the clown. There was no end in sight.

For shame, @NBCNews. @oneunderscore__ is a stellar reporter on the most dangerous beat this side of Ukraine's battlefields and this is how you support him? He is right. This shows how you have not learned to cover malign, insane men with power. For shame.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nbc-suspends-reporter-ben-collins-for-criticizing-elon-musk?source=twitter&via=desktop

Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.

"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."

https://tomlehrersongs.com/

Ten Years Later, The EU #OrphanWorks Directive Is Officially A Failure – Just As The Copyright Industry Intended - https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-officially-a-failure-just-as-the-copyright-industry-intended/ further proof that #copyright is broken and that governments have no intention of fixing it...

My mastadon link at my pinned tweet on Twitter is now warning anyone who clicks on it that the sight may be “unsafe.”
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.

Definitely not driving anywhere today – this is our only road to the outside world. The #dogs, #IdąPsięta, don't seem to care. But they should be careful – the only way to get to the vet if something happened would be to airlift them.

Now imagine if Mastodon didn’t exist and this was happening.…

Aren’t we lucky that some guy in Germany decided to spend his own time, money, and effort to build it?

Hopefully we’ll get lucky again…

Or, you know, maybe we can finally consider supporting tech that’s in the common good from the common purse. And fund organisations and long-term development, not just ad-hoc academic “projects” that get abandoned the moment the money is gone.

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

#funding #tech #eu #commons

FRIENDS: We are MeidasTouch, the unapologetically pro-democracy organization many of you know from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.

With the chaos at Twitter, we want to build our platform here on Mastodon to make sure we can continue to spread our message.

Can you please BOOST this post, FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same?

Elon being Elon is familiar -- so familiar that it's no longer even particularly grotesque. But Elon fans tying themselves in knots trying to explain how WELL ACTUALLY all of this is PERFECTLY CONSISTENT with free speech absolutism he promised . . . . well, that's showing some new lows in groveling and abasement.

Another satisfied #elonmusk customer! #CustomerService #twitter

Twitter is banning reporters who are reporting on reporters being banned from Twitter. Free Speech Absolutism is going swimmingly.

#BlackFriday. Happy Black Friday from an old Freedom Rider.

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news