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Imagine being so hated people are willing to go back to the billionaire who sold their data to fucking Steve Bannon and the Mercers.
Agree with this piece on IG’s Threads and why it can never truly replicate the magic Twitter once had https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-wont-be-fun-but-it-will-give-brands-a-home-away-from-twitter/?guccounter=1
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I think defederating Threads is a huge missed opportunity for Mastodon to grow.

Imagine interacting with their users and letting them know that: you scroll posts without ads, your timeline is in chronological order, your client doesn’t spy on you, you only see what you want and no other content is pushed to your timeline, etc…

if I was a Threads users, I would move to Mastodon as soon as I find out 🙂

License plate readers clock the time and location of your vehicle, which can reveal sensitive information about your life. EFF is tracking police use of this technology. To learn whether your city is using ALPR, visit https://atlasofsurveillance.org.
Atlas of Surveillance

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research

Via @mmasnick: "Twitter’s filing is like a beat-by-beat debunking of the conspiracy theories pushed by the dude who owns Twitter. It’s really quite incredible." https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/
Twitter Admits in Court Filing: Elon Musk Is Simply Wrong About Government Interference At Twitter

It is amazing the degree to which some people will engage in confirmation bias and believe absolute nonsense, even as the facts show the opposite is true. Over the past few months, we’ve gone throu…

Techdirt

Once again, Big Journalism is treating a right-wing extremist as a regular guy.

As @joshtpm explains, Pentagon leaker Teixeira has loudly expressed beliefs that come straight from the extremists' rancid traditions -- almost a reincarnation of Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh.

So why does the Washington Post treat him with absurd deference?

It's terrible journalism, and also business as usual.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/newsletter/no-83-do-we-know-a-far-right-radical-when-we-see-one/sharetoken/Isqdbp5pTJIw

No. 83: Do We Know a Far Right Radical When We See One?

The radical right-wing extremist at the center of the big Pentagon intelligence link has now been identified. But even journalists who should know better struggle to explain who these people are.

TPM – Talking Points Memo

🎊🍾🥳 MASTODON JUST REACHED 11 MILLION REGISTERED ACCOUNTS!!! 🥳🍾🎊

That’s 1 million new accounts created in the past month!

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110198471274726924

As Texas Gov Abbot prepares to pardon a white man & convicted murderer for killing a peaceful BLM protestor—Texas sentences a Black man to 70 years in prison for “spitting at police” to “make an example out of him.”😳

Systemic white supremacy is thriving in the GOP. Horrific.

"The McGonigal story is huge, and the NYT still has a lot of explaining to do...

It was the real "October Surprise" - 2016 deceptions that put #Trump in the White House, fueled by #FBI leaks

Knowing now that a top FBI agent went to work for a billionaire #Putin ally, the #NYTimes need to reveal the truth of these stories."

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© And I thread it 🧵 👇 1/...

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html

The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

The arrest of a high-level FBI agent on Russia-tied corruption charges raises stunning new questions about how Trump really won in 2016.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trump is bored, angry and isolated in his post-presidential twilight, served almost exclusively by sycophants, seeking out adulation from Mar-a-Lago guests, futzing with the music in the dining room, shouting at random employees to bring him Diet Cokes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/18/trump-life-after-presidency/

How Trump jettisoned restraints at Mar-a-Lago and prompted legal peril

The inside story of how Trump transplanted the chaos and norm flouting of his White House into his post-presidential life, leading to a criminal investigation.

The Washington Post