#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

As a former director for civic integrity at Twitter, I’ve been disturbed for some time about what Elon Musk is doing with his private global platform.

Today, I took the step of leaving Twitter, completely.

Why?
Here’s my last tweet:
https://mem.ai/p/e83QTrTPntGEmmZYQUEc

I must confess, I am not seeing the reason for quite such a "the sky is falling" reaction to Threads starting to interop with Mastodon. I have friends there, and I would like to read their stuff (and have them read my stuff) without subjecting my eyeballs to the Threads UI, or contributing ad views to the house of Zuck. I'd also like to gently encourage them to migrate to Mastodon in the future, which seems a lot more likely to happen if they can still see all the stuff they care about that's currently locked inside the Threads walled garden.

Inside any Big Tech firm, there will be people arguing for and against open platforms and protocol interoperability. We're not helping the people trying to open things up if we attack the outcome when they make progress.

The European Union has become an ATM for autocrats.

My Daily Brief today…

📰 English: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2024/03/18?story=paragraph-7878

📰 Français: https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2024/03/18/lue-recompense-la-repression

🔊 Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2024/03/18/eu-rewards-repression

Empty lands: How #archaeological tropes, from "social collapse" to "abandonment" perpetuate (settler) #colonialism.

A view from the U.S. Southwest - and beyond, by N. C. Laluk and J. Aguilar:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/indigenous-people-archaeology via @SAPIENS_org

"The ABC is shutting down almost all of its official accounts on #Twitter – now known as X under Elon Musk’s ownership – citing “toxic interactions”, cost and better interaction with ABC content on other social media platforms."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/abc-australia-leaves-twitter-x-elon-musk