Rajiv Patel

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In the end, balance will win. Evidence: Nature
Apple's ultra-fancy AR goggles are probably 2 generations away from anything I'd consider buying, but they do look like a serious technical advance in the field.
Musk is relentlessly making it clear that he wants, and will promote, right-wing extremists on his site. That should be a message to journalists, among others, but they are refusing to hear it. This is incredibly disappointing, even if it's no longer surprising. https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/elon-musk-allows-domestic-extremists
Elon Musk allows domestic extremists back on Twitter, fueling national security concerns

In the past two days, Musk has reinstated the accounts of an anti-semitic accelerationist extremist and a 'Unite the Right' Nazi.

Weaponized

California's "Journalism Preservation Act" is nothing more than a link tax on technology companies, thoroughly dishonest extortion on behalf of a news business that is more and more controlled by financial manipulators who'll profit from their sleaze.

Newsom should veto, but he won't.

If the tech companies stop linking to California journalism, don't blame them.

Teachers pay taxes.
Nurses pay taxes.
Bus drivers pay taxes.
You pay taxes.

The Mormon church is a real estate holding company with a Political Action Committees as a hobby.

Tax them.

Wonder if Neanderthal pundits wrote anxious op-eds about the Coming Sapien Apocalypse?

Honored to have collaborated with
Gloria Walton to showcase how stories told by the frontline communities yield greater impact for social and climate action. Thank you again to the #TIME team. Read the full piece below.

https://time.com/collection/earth-awards-2023/6272882/mark-ruffalo-gloria-walton-storytelling-climate/?fbclid=PAAaaPkujFR9nVwZYYg8rMbB0YTdWncQroMpdJRX4XyYVn5tK-5XvoiXx6eBg

Mark Ruffalo and Gloria Walton on How Storytelling Can Save the Planet

"When community members tell their own stories, they are accurately portrayed not as victims but as the victors and visionaries they are."

Time

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight

Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon

Twitter owner Elon Musk is driving user growth at Mastodon

A chart shows Mastodon user growth as of December 2022 since Elon Musk purchased Twitter in October.

NBC News