Some Ways to Connect besides Posting on the Internet

https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/canary-in-the-coal-mine-twitter-and-the-end-of-social-media#some-ways-to-connect-besides-posting-on-the-internet

To conclude the past month of drama about #Twitter, here's a list of suggestions about what we can do to connect with each other besides posting on social media sites.

I just committed an updated version of the Crowd Counting Consortium's dataset and documentation to our GitHub repo that's designed to make it much easier to analyze interactions between protesters and counter-protesters in cases where those occur.

Specifically, the 'macroevent' field we'd been using to identify events linked in various ways is now being used only for this one purpose, the use case that led us to create it in the first place.

#protest #data

https://github.com/nonviolent-action-lab/crowd-counting-consortium

Here is an incomplete list of journalists that Elon Musk has suspended from Twitter today.

He also suspended the Twitter account of Mastodon.

It's Going Down
Aaron Rupar
Donie O’Sullivan (CNN)
Drew Harwell (Washington Post)
Ryan Mac (NY Times)
Matt Binder (Mashable)
Tony Webster (award winning freelancer)
Micah Lee (the Intercept)
Keith Olbermann
Steve Herman

Elon Musk bought Twitter in order to suppress free speech and consolidate control of the spaces in which public discourse takes place, as a means to advance his authoritarian quest for profit and power. It's necessary to oppose him the way we would fight against any aspiring tyrant, any oppressor.

https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/canary-in-the-coal-mine-twitter-and-the-end-of-social-media