Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@lauren
Starlink could not exist without the US government. The US funded most of the research upon which Starlink's depends, it is a primary customer, it sponsors Starlink's use of space in international regulatory forums, etc. While Starlink is technically a private company, it is very much a product of our government.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

It is reasonable to demand that Starlink not oppose US government goals and policies.

🚨 IMPORTANT 🚨

Be aware: mastodon.lol is shutting down.

If you're on that instance, migrate your account RIGHT NOW!

NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts.

Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more, and more.

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

From @zoeschiffer and me.

Reddit has been hacked.

Attackers gained access to:

* internal documents
* code
* some internal business systems.

Reddit believes, at the moment, that users' passwords and accounts are safe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/10y427y/we_had_a_security_incident_heres_what_we_know/

The anti-vax movement is in large part a pandemic of statistics illiteracy.

There is no middle ground when it comes to Russia's continuing atrocities against Ukraine. By cutting off a Starlink capability that Ukraine was already depending upon, Musk is acting against the interests of the United States which is actively supporting Ukraine financially and militarily. This has the effect of directly supporting our adversary Russia and Putin. The United States should move with all possible speed to legally end, suspend, and/or not renew any and all business relationships with Musk and any of his companies, as quickly as practicable.

are those my only two choices?

Missouri votes against banning children from carrying guns in public - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/09/missouri-rejects-ban-children-carrying-guns-in-public and yet #murica wonders why it has vastly more gun deaths (and gun suicides) than anywhere else on the planet...

Missed hearing about the Twitter outage because I was on @ethanz’s podcast answering questions about why I moved to Mastodon 😹

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64577731.amp

Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-trump-twitter-files-collusion-biden-censorship-1234675969/ Twitter kept entire database of GOP requests to censor posts

Horrendous. An all-white supermajority in Mississippi's legislature just voted to create a special police force and judicial system for white people in Jackson, MS, bringing Jim Crow back around full circle. Apparently, Mississippi's white #Republicans don't want to be arrested, investigated or judged by black people and want to be unaccountable to the voting of the local citizenry.

This is Trump's America.

https://mississippitoday.org/2023/02/07/jackson-court-system-house-bill-1020/

Friends don't let friends report relative risks without reporting the absolute risk as well https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/magazine/menopause-hot-flashes-hormone-therapy.html

Ok but real talk if you’re back on mastadon tonight because #twitter is basically a few pieces of wire held together with electrical tape… maybe stay a while!

I’ve been spending a bit more time here lately, and as a woman who has seen some SHIT on the old bird site, things here have been a lot more pleasant. And a lot less violent and scary.

So far!

Don’t make me eat my words!

#womenintech #twitterdown