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Better late than never...
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RT @ElectrekCo
Australia officially launches its offshore wind industry https://electrek.co/2022/12/19/australia-officially-launches-offshore-wind-industry/ by @michelle0728
https://twitter.com/ElectrekCo/status/1604921178598113296

Via @thenation: “While the online exercise of democracy may come to unseat Musk himself, it’s decidedly not the case that the apps that monitor our identities as we trade jokes and pet videos have produced a surge in social democracy” — Good stuff from @chrislehmann https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-twitter/

this right here is why the Elon Jet account is important

this information about Elon Musk, the man whose entire career is made off the idea that he's going to save the world from climate catastrophe

and this is how he rolls so he can get to a World Cup game:

4 members of Congress referred to DOJ as of now. Keep it coming!

Let's hope DOJ acts swiftly!!

Attention flock: Please let all your Mastodonian friends know that the deity formerly known as TheTweetOfGod has switched universes, moved here, and brought his wit, wisdom, and unceasing need for more followers with him.

It's big that the 1/6 report is set to refer charges of seditious conspiracy and/or insurrection against Trump. Some dismiss this as "theater." But it will alert the public that DOJ *should* be seriously investigating him for 1/6-related crimes. That matters.

New piece from me:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/19/jan-6-committee-final-report-insurrection-charges-trump/

Also, I love Ruby Freeman.

She's a national treasure, and the harassment she's suffered is a national shame.

Ruby Freeman is a true hero.

#January6thComittee

Free link to watch the Jan 6 committee hearings: https://youtu.be/6PmgLK0JqFM

After almost three years, despite having seen most of it many times now, the on-the-ground footage from the January 6th riot has lost none of its impact on me. Watching it is still a gut punch, every time.

All I want for Christmas is the arrest of Donald Trump!

In 1933, there were 500,000 Jewish people in Germany, of a total population of 67 M. That's a bit less than 0.75 percent.

Today there are an estimated 1.6 M adults in the US that identify as transgender: about 0.5 percent of US adults.

It doesn't take a large group to serve as targets for fascist hatred and violence.

A small minority can play that role just fine.

#fascism #USpol #trans #murdoch cc @parkermolloy https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/germany-jewish-population-in-1933

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/

I cannot repeat this enough right now.

Musk has given journalism, and the news business a once in a generation gift.

Don't squander it.

Take control and ownership of your audiences in a way that only federated social media like Mastodon affords.

Do the two-step:

Step 1: Get onto Mastodon.

Step 2: Launch your own server to go with your website.

#news
#journalism

*golf clap* heckuva job Elon. Vox populi, vox dei!

“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.” -- Musk

So Jason Calacanis wants the job but Elon (correctly) notes he can't do it. Some other people could do it, but aren't interested. Maybe Elon really will hand it over to https://twitter.com/dril!

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/lorenz-added-list-journalists-banned-twitter-95502482

The longer it takes to indict, the more it empowers the authoritarians.

Michelson and Morley knew what they were looking for and how to measure it; it just wasn’t there. But faced with this null result, which Michelson and Morley continued to refine, physicists still clung to the idea of an aether. How else could you have waves?

Here is a page from "Lessons in Physics," a textbook written by Lothrop Higgins in 1903 – over 15 years after the Michelson-Morley experiment! – that presents the aether as a matter-of-fact.

For anyone wondering, I'm still unable to access Twitter until I delete this tweet, which is factual journalism that doesn't even break the location rule Twitter enacted a few days ago. The account isn't marked as suspended anymore, but I can't use it or see tweets from people I follow. Using Mastodon exclusively for now and actually really enjoying it.