Kashmir HillAfter the report about the Girl Scout mom getting booted from Radio City Music Hall, I spent the last two days reporting out the use of facial recognition technology by the Madison Square Garden empire to keep hundreds of lawyers that work for firms that have sued it from attending concerts, sporting events and shows. It is a radical use of the technology by a private company and I am truly shocked by how forthright MSG is about its real-world block list. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html
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Jay RosenWhat the so-called “Twitter Files” actually reveal.
“It isn’t Twitter’s fault that so much conservative discourse in the Trump era is so deeply, fundamentally dishonest.”
This is one of the best cut-through-the-noise pieces I have read in months. Seriously. It's that good.
Chris TrottierLike it or not, it should no longer be assumed that "volunteers" are running your instances.
The Mask Group, which now runs three large instances "has raised over US$50 million from private and institutional backers"—their words not mine.
Dan GillmorIn other news, a Supreme Court justice -- who vowed revenge on the Democrats who opposed his nomination -- was hobnobbing at a party organized by right-wing activists. A number of people with business before the court were there. https://popular.info/p/kavanaugh-parties-with-the-far-right
In a world where Big Journalism did its job, this would be a huge scandal.
But the attitude is, well, what do you expect?
Kavanaugh parties with the far right
Matt Schlapp is a far-right operative who wears many hats. He is chairman of the American Conservative Union (ACU), one of the nation's most powerful right-wing advocacy organizations. Schlapp also runs the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) events, large gatherings featuring
Phil ShapiroFellow library workers -- please pass around word about @libraryland.social - a Mastodon instance set up for public librarians, academic librarians, school librarians, archivists and other library workers to share ideas, inspirations, questions, announcements and the like. If you're looking for a new home to move to after landing at mastodon.social -- that might be your new home.
John AravosisSince Elon Musk just accused former Twitter CEO @[email protected] Dorsey of being soft on child sex trafficking, I thought it important to share this article showing that it was Elon who cut Twitter’s child sexual exploitation team.
Joanne FreemanGermany arrested people allegedly planning to overthrow the government
Warnock won
Zelensky is Time’s Person of the Year
A powerful reminder that democracy is a process, not an endpoint. It must be defended. It can—must—be bolstered and improved. It can only be won through hard work. And only we can do that work.
#DefendDemocracy #democracy #politics #Warnock22 #germany #zelensky
Tucker TeagueIf you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.