Cognitive dissonance in #USpol

At later stages in the platform #enshittification cycle, human moderation and oversight is sacrificed, sometimes under pretext of automation. This soon reveals (or facilitates) the racism, sexism, #ableism and other flaws resident in the platform, with real consequences for users. @themarkup reports on Violet Elliot, an advocate for better dwarfism representation, whose popular TikTok account was banned for being "underage" - which, of course, she is not. https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/02/10/every-day-that-i-dont-get-my-tiktok-account-back-is-an-opportunity-thats-lost

BiblioUnderground feels like something out of a @pluralistic novel: a public librarian, Molly Riportella, turns discarded library books into camouflaged safety kits, complete with burner phones and safety resources - to help people "check out of bad situations" like domestic violence. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/02/01/why-is-this-westwood-librarian-hiding-phones-in-library-books/ [photo by Molly Riportella CC BY-NC-SA 4.0]