Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Musk’s rebranded Twitter is offering extremely hefty discounts to advertisers while simultaneously threatening them that if they don’t spend at least $1k on ads in the next 30 days their brand will lose its checkmark and they won’t police impersonation https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-rebranded-twitter-cuts-ad-prices-d2615d8f

"Megaconstellations of satellites are ruining the night sky for everyone"

Great presentation, with lots of data but easy to follow, by Prof. Sam Lawler, @sundogplanets.

My comments:
The hubris of Megaconstellations of Satellites, like #starlink didn't just happen, because someone created cheap rockets; the FCC licensed it, and will continue to do so in the future. And now others follow this example, because the money involved is big.

An all too familiar new hockey stick:

Transgender Patients Sue Hospital For Giving Records To Tennessee’s Attorney General https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-transgender-clinic-tennessee_n_64c0372fe4b0df86321215fe?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

We thought we were doing the right thing!

https://t.co/EStsVu145O

Harold, how are you doing today?

(Please do not respond to poll unless you are my next-door neighbor Harold Jenkinson, but please boost to make sure Harold sees this.)

catquarium

@zleap on this kind of representation, C and H bond to C are implied but not shown.
Yes, you should add an H to every C which has not explicitly 4 bonds (All bases are concerned)

@zleap @rolle
Yes, this is something that I have quite a few times pointed out that I have noticed is very different in the discourse here than corporate-owned social media sites. Here people solve disagreements with discussion.
The difference I noticed here is the lack of trolls. What happens on the corporate sites, and I mention ownership specifically because they are the ones who encouraged this, is that real discussion gets muted by mobs, who silence reason with regurgitated misinformation.

#CSAM #Mastodon
A poster here on this instance who I follow and very much value, had a small post about a CSAM report done by Stanford. It was pretty shocking.

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network

Texas prisons raise prices 50% for fucking water for the people locked up in their unairconditioned state prisons as the heat wave continues and it hits over 100°.

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues

For anyone who hasn't read about it yet, the Anti-Meta Pact is an agreement authored by Vanta Black on the beach.city instance, which many instances have been signing, promising *not* to federate with any Fediverse instances hosted by Meta / Facebook. (see https://fedipact.online/)

Doing the best I can with the 4 options I'm permitted...

Poll 3: How do you feel toward the Anti-Meta Pact, and what best describes your gender?

#Facebook #federation #defederation

(boosts welcome)

I think there's good in Twitter rebranding itself. Finally nobody cares about the name and when people get used to it getting irrelevant, it's okay to move on to some Mastodon instance with a weird name. #X #TwitterX

What's really happening on Mars

@tess We are not without options on how to move forward here. In Dana's thread wakame @wakame suggests an approach: https://tech.lgbt/@wakame/110776075653587845

Other good ideas are out there, but we need to get out out in front of this issue.

Just… wow. #ProLifeMyAss

Via @emptywheel:

10-year old girl who had been raped had to leave OH to abort her rapist's fetus.

Brit Hume says the law refusing a 10 year old to bear her rapists fetus is not about women's health.

Brit Hume:

"Reproductive services," my ass. This is about #abortion, which is about avoiding reproduction. It is about the taking of a human life, despite the parade of euphemisms used to cover that fact: "women's health," "reproductive care," "reproductive autonomy"

A huge welcome to the #Newcomers - we hope you like it here! Follow (and unfollow) liberally, and you can use and follow #hashtags of things you're interested in - this helps people find and engage with others with similar interests. Use favourite to acknowledge you liked a post, use boost if you want to share the post with your followers, and use bookmark to keep an eye on a thread. Replying to yourself or others creates a thread. Holler if you need any help! #Newbie #HowTo

Created a website for trauma-informed design in the digital space
#design #principles #traumainformed

https://all-inclusive.vercel.app/index.html

I'm writing a piece about the negative impacts of data centers on local communities. I am aware of what is happening in Uruguay and Chile. Are there any good examples out there of community impact and community action against data centers?