Russia uses its courts to silence critics, and now prosecutes about 50 espionage cases a year, almost all of which end in a guilty verdict.
Now they are holding an American, my colleague Evan Gershkovich, and have refused to grant bail.
Evan is allowed out of his cell only once a day.
He will not get a public jury trial.
Anyone seeing @notjustbikes 's video on SUVs will be glad to read this article from WIRED:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-loophole-that-supersized-cars/
The journalism industry needs to create a single place to get news headlines from their industry. They never should have let the tech industry run this, for reasons that should now be obvious.
“Mastodon is great. I love it. I love that it’s based on an open protocol, ActivityPub, which is designed to prevent lock-in and thus enshittification.”
@pluralistic gets it and wants to @spreadmastodon!
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads-daa33943ac31
@[email protected] as a Usonian, I can confirm we're a third world country-- or 50 third world countries in a trench coat 😅
At a certain point, there should be a social cost to continuing to use Twitter.
Sooner or later, Twitter should be considered no better than Gab, Truth Social, and 4chan.
We need to start referring to Twitter as “the world’s largest Fascist propaganda farm”.
What are you doing participating on the world’s largest Fascist propaganda farm?
Christopher Mims
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
Dave Winer ☕️
David Slifka
Chris Trottier