| pronouns | she/her they/them |
| likes | capitalism's agonizing demise at its own hands |
| currently | drunk on power from these labels |
By the way, my content moderation is set to hide political hate groups.
I got a racist message anyway.
Clearly, moderation by algorithm isn’t working.
This picture is going to be printed in history books as a turning-point for transgender people in the US. The open question is, which direction will the turn be in?
I don't know, and I don't have ideas for what I can do, but we are on the cusp of big, scary changes that will affect everyone, not just trans people, not just minorities.
If you were waiting for a call to action, here it is. They just banned her from the MT House using the rules of decorum. What better metaphor for where we are?
HEY this is a new platform so I guess I can just... repost old art for any people who haven't seen it before! Or you've seen it before but don't care about seeing it again because you are ✨nice✨
Here are all four screen printed posters I've done for the Fifty-Nine Parks series, available here: https://59parks.net/collections/all/posters
This from @mmasnick is so spot on:
“your reputation when you refuse to moderate is not ‘the grand enabler of free speech.’ Because it’s the internet itself that is the grand enabler of free speech. When you’re a private centralized company and you don’t deal with hateful content on your site, you’re the Nazi bar.”
The Reopening That Wasn’t: As Government Employees Work From Home, People Find Services Curtailed
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Everything from pandemic policies to security concerns is causing agencies to reduce in-person services, including licenses and permits.
The difference between Substack and my Fediverse servers is that Substack has a fiduciary duty to shareholders to generate profit.
I do not.
Imagine if people asked the silly “How do you make money?” question about other hobbies.
“You play chess. How do you make money from it?”
“You eat cheese. How do you make money from it?”
“You own a cat. How do you make money from it?”
Maybe I do these things for their own sake—because they give me joy.
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“But Elon Musk could buy all 23,000 Fediverse servers and do the same thing here!”
I assure you that my servers are not up for sale. And from speaking to numerous other admins, they won’t be selling either.
You see, for the same reason people play basketball because it’s fun—not because they want a $50 million NBA contract—many of us run and operate Fediverse servers.
But it’s amazing that some people can’t imagine doing things without a profit motive.
Some folks might be thinking, “Unlike the Fediverse, Substack gives writers an opportunity to get paid.”
Not so fast.
When @TexasObserver was nearly shut down because they lacked funding for operations, they turned to the Fediverse for help.
Within 48 hours, we helped them raise $250,000 in funding—and now that 70-year-old newspaper still lives.
As a result, 17 journalists still have their jobs.
Chris Trottier
taedryn 🏳️⚧️
Claire Hummel
Jeff Byrnes
Pineapple 🍍
ProPublica