Spaceman Spiff

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Here’s a list of ActivityPub services that are not Twitter-like, along with a description of what each service does:

There’s a lot more stuff, so let me know what I may have missed.

Pixelfed - Decentralized social media

Learn more about Pixelfed, the free and open-source decentralized photo sharing social media platform

Pixelfed

When you watch Musk openly perform Nazi salutes, support Nazi-adjacent political movements, spread Nazi conspiracy theories, and provide a platform for Nazi rhetoric, it's time to state the obvious: this man is a Nazi.

https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-nazi/

This Man is a Nazi.

If it walks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi, there is a good chance it's Elon Musk.

The Index.

We suppose the media and their owners have different goals and want the non-wealthy to stay uninformed and to keep supporting fascism and oligarchies.

And our job is to keep spreading the truth, however difficult it may be during the next 4 years.

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥

The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?

🗳️ Voting is now open: https://forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

#tech #techwontsaveus #siliconvalley

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote. That will give me time to tabulate the results and get everything ready for the next round. Results will be public in each round, except for the final one: on Friday, December 13 the winner will be announced live on our end-of-year livestream for Patreon supporters — with a public announcement across our social media channels to follow soon after. This round ends at 9pm ET. You don't have to vote in every match if you don't want to. Let the voting begin! A couple notes: Yes, we're using Google Forms. It's not a ploy to collect your email address, as the little icon below this should indicate. I turned that option off. We're using it for two reasons: Twitter's user base has splintered so using its polls isn’t a good option (not to mention not wanting to do any more than necessary on the Musk platform) and because every other option was just prohibitively expensive for some year-end fun. If you don’t like it, don’t play. Enjoy!

Google Docs
@CindyWeinstein A powerful piece!
“…Princeton economists Anne Case & Angus Deaton, who won the 2015 Nobel prize for economics…published a study 4 years ago…that concluded the US health industry is killing staggering numbers of patients while making Americans poorer. ‘The 🇺🇸 healthcare system…under political protection, redistributes income upwards to hospitals, physicians, device-makers, & pharmaceutical companies while delivering among the worst health outcomes of any rich country,’ they wrote.”

#Healthcare as suffering: “We sat in the hospital for 3 days b/c #UnitedHealthcare refused to approve the transfer via ambulance from the hospital where we live to another state. & at that point, I was ready to just get in my car & take her [1-year old baby with a giant brain tumor] there myself. But UHC told us if we left the hospital by our own will, & it wasn’t via ambulance, they were not going to cover her @ the next hospital we went to,” she said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/brian-thompson-killing-healthcare-industry

#Medicine

Brian Thompson’s killing inspired rage – against the healthcare industry

Thousands of Americans go bankrupt, lose their homes or die every year due to medical insurer practices

The Guardian

Insurance Company CEOs in meetings right now:

CEO: what should we do to prevent me from being shot next?

Employee: Stop denying so many claims.

Employee: Lower premiums.

Employee: Treat our clients like human beings.

CEO: Bodyguards it is.

My only issue with Biden pardoning Hunter is if he stops there.

Biden should commute the death penalty for the 40 Americans on federal death row, cancel all student debt via EO & force Trump to revive them, & protect abortion nationwide via EO. Get bold. Take action. Slow down MAGA fascism! Fight!

Under #Trump, #EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including #cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.

#News #Science #Environment #Health #Government

(Published Sept. 2024) https://propub.li/3Zx4ljp

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.

Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response.

ProPublica