Blake Leonard

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A software developer with a passion for the powers, rights, and freedoms of users. Developer of dahliaOS, LucidLog, Bodacious, and more. 19 M (he/him) from Raleigh, NC. Cool Tech Enthusiast.

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#HumanRights, US/world news (don't count on this account for original reporting!), #urbanism, and other fun stuff. You can find my tech-themed posts @[email protected].

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via @scalzi:

“Twitter was a place, with people…Musk took a city with thriving neighborhoods and decided to run a fucking interstate through the most interesting parts of it, and the interstate doesn’t actually go anywhere good; it just runs from Bitcoin Town to Fascistburg”

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

Whatever

PragerU is propaganda. It isn't, in any way, an academic organization. It's a YouTube channel that makes lecture-style videos that explicitly promote evangelical Christianity, political disinformation, anti-LGBTQ talking points, Islamophobia, and Anti-Semitism.

Its namesake is conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager. In no way, shape, or form should these videos be in America's classrooms.

https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-prageru/

Factsheet: PragerU - Bridge Initiative

PragerU, short for Prager University, is an American conservative organization that produces content to promote“Judeo-Christian values” to their millions of followers through short, lecture-style videos. Although it is not an academic institution, by using the word “university” in its title PragerU implies that the right-wing messaging they spread is factually correct and expert-driven. A number of PragerU’s videos spread anti-Muslim rhetoric and conspiracy theories. 

Bridge Initiative
The colonial-capitalism that got us into the climate crisis will not save us from it.
#climatecoloniality #climatejustice

Via @jdp23, the Senator behind the STOP CSAM bill, which outlaws many forms of encryption and doesn't actually stop CSAM, read that WaPo article about CSAM on the fediverse and tweeted about it:

https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin/status/1683562063270928384

Senator Dick Durbin on Twitter

““We got more photoDNA hits in a two-day period than we’ve probably had in the entire history of our organization of doing any kind of social media analysis, and it’s not even close.” We need the STOP CSAM Act. https://t.co/OQCokA71mF”

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this profile is a trans safe space (among other things)

RE:
https://ambrosia.moe/notes/9gz2wzeuwl4yawj7
Ahri Boy :transsparkles: (@ahriboy)

Let's boost this post that #transgender people exist 📎

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“Is mastodon like twitter?”

“No, not at all. Mastodon is still a thing.”