ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

Observing what some are calling "growing pains" with how Mastodon instances moderate minority voices is reinforcing what free speech advocates like @popehat have preach for years - that it is the ability for minorities to share their perspectives even if that is uncomfortable for the majority which is the most important function of free speech.

I am now receiving reports of child abuse materials (CSAM) surfacing on #Twitter as results from ordinary, nonsexual searches, and that efforts to report such materials to Twitter are either being ignored or receive "does not violate our TOS" responses. Horrific if true.

Going into the 2022 midterm elections, Ds controlled 36 state legislative chambers; Rs controlled 62. Now, Ds control 40; Rs 56. (3 remain uncalled.)

It's the first time a prez's party has picked up state leg seats in the 1st-term midterms since *1934*. https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2022:_State_legislatures

Apparently Sam Harris quit the bird site but has anyone seen him around here yet?

What if blue checks and celebrities all go to some unfederated silo, with some fun fonts and a tip jar, only to discover that no cared that they were missing?

That could have a profound impact on our train wreck culture.

Can we cut out the clout chasing?

Influencer culture is what helped destroyed Twitter, and it will destroy the Fediverse if we bring these same habits.

Stop begging for followers. It's gross.

@georgetakei I keep recommending: go to the #Apple #AppStore and go to the #Google #PlayStore and #REPORT the #Twitter app.

At the Play store there is a link for an "inappropriate" app. Click it and fill in the checkbox for "hateful or abusive content".

Let's get the app removed!

(And Numskoel doesn't realize you can read his dying bird with your phone's browser? He thinks he has to make a special phone?????)

Perhaps lost to Musk here is the fact that, if he forces Twitter to essentially become an alt-platform, Trump will have no reason to use it. He’s already on an alt-platform, Truth Social. The usefulness of Twitter to him was that more people were on it and it was easier to access. No reason for Trump to swap back if the only people who read his tweets are those willing to shell out for MuskPhone

On November 25, at the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @CrimethInc Twitter account.

Musk’s goal in acquiring Twitter had nothing to do with “free speech”—it was a partisan move to silence opposition, paving the way for fascist violence.

Please help us circulate our full statement:

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBan

Please follow us on Telegram and Mastodon.

Nick Fuentes is a white nationalist, a Holocaust denier, an opponent of women's suffrage — and Donald Trump's dinner guest this week.

Now Trump says he had no idea who Fuentes was.

When it suits his political interest, the stable genius is happy to be a babbling idiot.

The U.S. Supreme Court justices are the only judges in the country who are not governed by a code of ethics. This needs to change.

Here are three reforms that the Court can make now to shore up its legitimacy: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/supreme-court-ethics-reform

Molly White bravely presented her talk, [Is Web3 bullshit?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGsllEF7w_g), at Web Summit 2022 in front of a crowd with what are likely many people deeply invested in Web3. She calls out the ubiquity of vaporware, the numerous grifts, and the entrenchment power behind the rhetoric while acknowledging the importance of the lofty goals which should inspire technologists.

#Skepticism, #Technology, #Video, #Web3

So Ford wants to add work-hour requirements to Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Assistance Program.

Meanwhile he only ever shows up in the Legislature for 15 minutes before fucking off to his cottage or wherever.

https://pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-wants-to-track-the-performance-of-social-assistance-program-hes-not-tracking-poverty/

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a sledgehammer covered in fake blood to a European Parliament representative after the oligarch's private military company was designated a terrorist organization.

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1595518274129002497?cxt=HHwWgoDUodfataQsAAAA

#war #news #russia #ukraine

Next: Crypto means cryptography, damn it.

We don’t know who leaked the Supreme Court opinions to conservative groups, but one justice certainly doth protest his own innocence Alito too loudly.

Literally the last story on NYT homepage, very bottom left.

Media dropped it quickly when Gosar, MTG spoke at Fuentes' event, and McCarthy didn't punish.

This is presumptive GOP nominee for '24.

Imagine where this would be if it were President Obama. Or Hillary Clinton in '16.

Adventures of a Mathematician:

https://www.ias.edu/ideas/adventures-mathematician

(film now streaming on Amazon Prime)

Photo: Stanislaw Ulam winning at a T-Division poker game at Los Alamos (date unknown). Clockwise from lower left: Unidentified, Carson Mark, Bernd Matthias, Stan Ulam, Foster Evans, George Cowan, Nicholas Metropolis. Courtesy of Francoise Ulam.

I’m loving all the #BlackFriday pics and illustrations here on #BlackMastodon. So much #BlackJoy and #BlackExcellence. I appreciate y’all and the people who lurked, favorited, and boosted toots and accounts.