Joseph Simko

27 Followers
101 Following
308 Posts

Antisocial social person. It makes sense in my head. Long haul #trucker. Curious about tech, languages, and travel. #NBA superfan. Supporter of #sexwork

Support your Mastodon Instance! šŸ’µ
https://www.patreon.com/mastodon/posts

NY: White Vet kills mentally ill Black man—GOP makes killer a hero😳

WI: White shooter kills 2 people at BLM rally—GOP makes killer a hero😳

TX: White Vet kills BLM marcher—GOP makes killer a hero😳

DC: Black cop kills white insurrectionist—GOP makes insurrectionist a herošŸ¤”

This is what white supremacy looks like

I don't think the #eurovision tag has been this alive here before šŸ™‚

NPR is the only major journalism org to have shown a spine in dealing with Musk. So he's threatened to give the NPR username to someone else.

Yet even now -- despite Musk's growing contempt for and acts against journalism -- most media organizations and their employees STILL pour their work and some of their advertising money in to his rancid site.

What will it take for journalists to wake the hell up?

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign

Elon Musk threatens to reassign NPR’s #Twitter account to another company if it doesn’t resume tweeting. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign
Visited another ancient city in Kazakhstan. It cost a little under 50 cents to enter the sprawling and beautifully restored archaeological complex which brought 14th century history to life. I almost had the place to myself, on a perfect sunny day.
Musk systematically punishes reporters on Twitter for coverage he doesn’t like. For this reason alone, no journalist should be on Twitter. https://journa.host/@w7voa/110228528322091511
Steve Herman (@[email protected])

"WIRED learned Wednesday afternoon that senior reporter Dell Cameron's Twitter account was permanently suspended after he reported on Matt Walsh's Twitter account being hacked. Neither Dell's story nor his Twitter feed contained hacked materials. We do not believe his account violated Twitter's policy....our attempts to reach Twitter's press office were met with the customary poop emoji. ..." - WIRED Managing Editor, Hemal Jhaveri

Mastodon
I've been disgusted by the lack of professional solidarity among journalists ever since Musk bought Twitter. As Musk bans journalists one-by-one, their colleagues stay on Twitter, tweeting out their work, hoping that they'll survive the next round.
Just got permanently suspended for publishing this story: https://www.wired.com/story/matt-walsh-twitter-hack-doomed
The Hacker Who Hijacked Matt Walsh’s Twitter Was Just ā€˜Bored’

The breach of the right-wing provocateur was simply a way of ā€œstirring up some drama,ā€ the attacker tells WIRED. But the damage could have been much worse.

WIRED
pure Calvinball officiating in this sixers game. I’m getting mad online
You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox