Augie RayI'm not saying we live in the dumbest timeline, but these are all recent headlines.
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Are we in the Twilight Zone?
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Overheard:
"What’s with all the orange smoke?" asked Piglet.
"Oh, that's Trump's ass getting burned by the Rule of Law,” replied Pooh.
BakersRelayAnother sad moment from VA: “Virginia Republican lawmaker Tim Anderson just announced he is suing Barnes and Noble for selling books that promote LGBTQIA+ rights. It is no longer just about banning books in schools - they are now coming for private businesses.”
I’m reminded that before WWII VA had euthanasia laws on the books for the mentally ill and “sexually deviant”. Germany sent people to study them.
Robert ReichMass shootings in the US:
2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647
In the first three weeks of 2023: 39
We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.
Chris TrottierI really hope that progressives turn off the lizard brain response of "TikTok is good because Republicans say it's bad."
No, TikTok is bad.
The enemy of your enemy isn't necessarily your friend.
Is their opposition based on nationalism, racism, and yellow peril? Probably.
Is TikTok still monitoring and tracking teenagers, feeding them unhealthy content based on "relevancy" algorithms, screwing with their mental health? Yes.
All surveillance capitalism should be banned.
The GOP is losing its voters. It gets most of its strength from older voters. But many of them won’t even be around for the next census.
Meanwhile, younger millennials and Gen Z vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats. But rather than adjust and adapt their policies, Republicans have doubled down on extremism.
We know how this ends.
Dan GillmorI don't think journalists (in general) -- and certainly not the organizations they work for -- fully understand the threat Musk represents to the future of free expression and journalism itself.
Begging him to reinstate the banned accounts is pure folly. It is bended-knee supplication to a sociopath who now controls a powerful media company. But the power of his company depends in no small degree on keeping journalists there.
Leave. Now.
Adil Sadik@malwaretech perhaps you'd like to hear some of the conversation that so enraged Elon that he had to delete the entire feature?
https://youtu.be/znFNKlzuTSc
https://youtu.be/znFNKlzuTSc
Elon Musk rage quits Twitter Space call
MeidasTouch 
FRIENDS: We are MeidasTouch, the unapologetically pro-democracy organization many of you know from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.
With the chaos at Twitter, we want to build our platform here on Mastodon to make sure we can continue to spread our message.
Can you please BOOST this post, FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same?
ClearingTheFog 
Social media as people know it today - platforms that seek to use algorithms to drive “engagement” in order to increase profit or revenue - will always, inevitably, amplify the voices of people who know how to manipulate other people, and trigger their basest instincts. And as a result, that model will always amplify and promote pathological behavior in our society.
In other words, a market-driven, algorithm-driven model is bad for society at large. Inevitably.
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