Been trying to keep an open mind about Post but, yeesh, it has a lot of warning signs right out of the gate, and I don't mean beta bugs. Comments run by OpenWeb? Investment by Marc Andreessen? No way to know who is reposting your content? No way to moderate comments on your posts?

It doesn't seem buggy, it seems structurally unsound in ways that will be hard to fix.

https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1596224339355262977
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1596606967195533312

RT @[email protected]

Widespread protests against the zero Covid policy on university campuses and city streets across China. People gathered to mourn the victims who died in a horrifying fire tragedy Thursday and protest the inhuman policy. Don't think I've seen anything like this since 1989.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LiYuan6/status/1596560385871867904

On November 4th the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) released the public version of its report on the security and intelligence activities of Global Affairs Canada (GAC), Canada's foreign affairs department.

The report is available here: https://www.nsicop-cpsnr.ca/reports/rp-2022-11-04/intro-en.html

In following posts, I'll look at what the report says about how GAC works with the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada's SIGINT agency.

#CSE #GAC #NSICOP

Edmonton transit drivers are sharing images of what they are seeing on buses and the LRT on a sometimes daily basis in the hopes it will push the city to hire more transit peace officers.

Harminder Brar has been driving ETS buses for 12 years and says he has never seen the system in such chaos. He describes how he and fellow operators regularly see open drug use and unruly passengers.

Drivers show what working in transit is really like | CTV News https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/edmonton-bus-drivers-share-images-showing-daily-realities-of-working-within-public-transit-system-1.6169957 #yeg #LRT #drugs

If you want to be an #inclusive and #diverse platform, you need to take the feedback of people when they give it to you, and make actual changes.

This platform is difficult to navigate for blind and disabled people. We need better accessibility & design to include them. (I asked.)

This platform also lacks a good way to block/report instances & individuals across the fediverse in any meaningful way, because they show up on other instances.

As discussed before the "fediblocked" feature is fedifucked. It gives a clear hashtag for the trolls, creeps, stalkers, Nazis and racists to find and harass the reporter.

I know each individual instance has public block lists, but there are entire servers full of the most disgusting filth (as with any platform).

Additionally, I'd like to point out that Black, Brown & Indigenous creators on the birdsite and here have expressed concerns about racism, harassment, and their lived experience and then tone policed for not using a CW.

So let's have these hard conversations as members of the Cauliflower Coalition who absolutely dislike feeling uncomfortable.

Sit with your discomfort and imagine a world where your ability to "ignore" or "mute" isn't possible because of how you look, how people perceive you, or because you're disabled (even the invisible ones).

#racism #misogyny #sexism #harassment #reporting #honest #diversity #inclusion #disability #infosec #tech