"For many social media users, Black Twitter is the first way they hear of stories involving police brutality. In fact, I have found that hashtags have replaced breaking news headlines for some Black Twitter users," Deion Scott Hawkins writes.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/29638/black-twitters-expected-demise-would-make-it-harder-to-publicize-police-brutality-discuss-racism

Stop trying to make "the only ethical choice is to leave Twitter" happen unless you've made the choice to not listen to the Black communities who have explained why it's still important for many.

Yes, the owner is clearly, at a minimum, openly friendly with fascists. Now wait until you hear about the everyday lives of Black Americans in predominantly White communities and workplaces.

Make your choice but do not proclaim it to be "the only" reasonable choice.

#BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon

If you want to shut down AI art, tell it to draw Disney characters in Disney styles.

Might not work, but Disney lawyers vs. Silicon Valley lawyers is a fight where someone you despise loses either way.

Someone just mentioned the differences between #Twitter and #Google regarding user data. Yes, indeed.

I've worked inside #Google twice. Their explicit rules, approvals, logging and "need to know" requirements for access to user data are most impressive. Anyone even attempting to access user data inappropriately is fired and marched out the door by security. This is part of why I have a great deal of trust in Google, and consider Elon's #Twitter to be utterly untrustworthy and totally beneath contempt.

“When it comes to the Karuk Tribe, we have a constitution, and our sovereignty is embedded in that constitution,” says Bill Tripp.

“But when the federal government and agencies work with Tribes, they look at us more like an NGO with a couple of special privileges.”

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/tribe-and-partners-light-up-a-forest-to-restore-landscape-in-california/