1. Meta/Facebook has a horrific track record on human rights:
- https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview

2. Meta/Facebook is trying to join the Fediverse. We need to defederate them.

3. If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net" (here's how on Mastodon https://fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fediblock-a-server-on-mastodon/)

4. If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net". Your admin is listed on your server website's About page.

Fighting for Nazis to have free speech doesn't make you an exciting intellectual.

It makes you a useful idiot for the Nazis.

The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.

#Threads #Mastodon #Krita #MastoArt #Meta

T-cell engineering therapy (CAR-T) may have cured 15 people with 3 different autoimmune diseases (Lupus, SS, IIM).

In drug-free remission, ~2 years after treatment

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03968-6

Conservatives: America really started going down hill when we let in immigrants.

Native Americans:

Bundle of Holding: Mongoose Traveller (from 2021)

A bundle focusing on the 2020 Second Edition Traveller tabletop science fiction roleplaying game line from Mongoose Publishing.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023MongTrav
#BundleOfHolding