ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

Cathay Williams was the first African-American woman to enlist in the army. She became a Buffalo Soldier, by disguising herself as a man. She called herself William Cathay and was deemed fit for duty. When she was wounded and sickened from diabetes and could no longer work she applied for disability. The doctor found her out and she was denied disability...because she was a woman.

@shoq most on Musk timeline are Musk fanboys. I'm unsure on how many bots and trolls from other govt.

Now that the man I had dinner with is passed out from carb overload, I'm stepping up to my soapbox:

Sorry, but the ACA fixed very little and was never meant to be an endgame. People are still going bankrupt from medical debt. Many people still can't afford to go to the doctor, even with insurance, due to outrageous deductibles.

Medical care is still a privilege in the US and not the right that it should be. We tend to fight for things, make a little progress, then move on.

Keep fighting.

at this rate, @mmasnick may become twitter CEO by default since it appears he's the only one rational enough to give it life saving advice.

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Elon Musk Claims He’s Not Worried About The FTC; He Should Be
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/26/elon-musk-claims-hes-not-worried-about-the-ftc-he-should-be/

It honestly still blows my mind today that Santa isn’t Asian. I remember seeing him during in the internment camps, and dude was def Japanese.

For more of my story, catch me live and on stage in London Jan-Apr in Allegiance:
https://AllegianceMusical.com

People/Society: How are you cynical & positive at the same time?
Me: How does nature operate? With adapting to unexpected conditions, when conditions are through no fault of their own.
People/Society: How do you keep believing anything you do, will make any difference?
Me: I never know. All I know is, I gotta try to do something & that means a lot. We've saved hundreds of hectares in past. I can't give up.
People/society: Why?
Me: I don't break lifetime promises. This is the hill I'll die on.

A wild story with copyright and academic publishing implications: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

The folks of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are in real trouble. We can help.

https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/thousands-trapped-on-pine-ridge-burn-clothes-for-warmth-in-wake-of-storm/article_94206351-fe7c-5c97-8370-83be18af81a8.html

Friends Of Pine Ridge and First Families Now are providing supplies and heating to the affected families.

If you can afford it, you can donate here:
https://www.1stfamiliesnow.org/donate

And for everyone who boosts this post, I'll add another dollar to my next donation. So, uh, go wild.

This year:
Nobody freezes.
Nobody starves.
Nobody goes it alone.

If you move service every time the one you use gets breached, you'll only ever end up using a service that doesn't notify you of breaches. Whether you move or stay should be based on how they handle a breach, not the fact they had one.

Donate to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation families.
#StormElliott #PineRidge #NativeAmerica #NativeAmericans
https://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/organizations/organizations-firstfamiliesnow/

Twitter was a shithole before Elon Musk. Twitter is a shithole during Elon Musk. And Twitter will be shithole after Elon Musk.

The goal of the fediverse has not been (nor should it be) to recreate some version or other of a shithole.

It can be (and is) so much more.

#fediverse #twitter #elonMusk #mastodon

Ubuntu's owner, Canonical, to go public (see cite below). apparently not to raise money, so why? so shareholders can get money out? but then it can be purchased by another company.

So much of the open world, depends on ubuntu....

What do you think?

"The head of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, claims it recorded a profit of US$175 million (A$237.7 million) in 2021 and is likely to undertake an IPO in 2023."

https://itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/canonical-may-go-public-in-2023,-claims-us$175m-profit-last-year.html

Parents sacrificing their children’s health to the false god of Republican ideology. A special place in hell for these parents.

“Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/

no regrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/style/twitter-elon-musk-sasha-solomon.html

There are many people on Mastodon who are good and smart and cool and who genuinely care about marginalized communities. There are also many of those same people who, for whatever reason, don't add #AltText (aka "captions") to the images they post.

Let's change that!

It's easier to do than it seems, and there are tools like @PleaseCaption that will remind you. Plus more people will get to enjoy your posts and some users will only boost image posts that include alt text.

he tweeted this and got a search ban within 20 minutes. his name doesn't even appear in the search listings if you type his username. he has 1.2 million followers

Separating out my Mastodon instances... https://www.mguhlin.org/2022/12/differentiating-between-mastodon.html

@AriCohn “I said ‘Jew-ish’, not ‘Jewish’” would once have been career-ending, because once we all pretended that candidate virtues mattered, but now it’s acknowledged openly that voters do not care about intelligence, honesty, or competence, just party affiliation, and there’s no reason to resign, no matter how many gaffes you make, because the people who vote for you don’t care, and the people who don’t vote for you don’t matter.

If the House of Representatives' new Republican majority doesn't toss George Santos -- epic liar and right-wing extremist -- out on his ear, it will be right on brand.