A big thing I'm enjoying about Mastodon is the amount of independent and public interest investigative reporting I'm seeing highlighted. It's a nice change from the daily churn of tempest in a teacup outrage that gets promoted elsewhere.
Chris Wyman
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Quite possibly the quietest person you know.
David FolkenflikFriends new and old!
My first Mastodon post.
For the past 5 months, I've worked on a two-part investigation with Floodlight's Miranda Green & Mario Ariza.
The details are pretty bananas. And they get at the grim truth of what flourishes as local news coverage withers.
Part 1:
How power company cash secretly flowed to a half-dozen news sites in Alabama and Florida that assailed their critics
18 USC 2383 is a bfd if Trump is charged and convicted, because that renders him ineligible to hold any office in the US government. The referral is meaningless, but if they hand over significant evidence this could actually matter.
I've heard free as in speech and free as in beer most of my life, but I guess that other place is now free as in your first hit of acid.
Carl T. BergstromI was hoping we'd see a correction but since it hasn't appeared, the latest NY Times story is claiming a 3% case fatality rate for COVID. This is wrong. Three percent CFR is too high even for an entirely naive population and is off by vastly more in the current vaccinated and/or recovered population.
NB: I think the article refers to post-mortem transmission, but COVID has is much more transmissible rate from living individuals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/health/covid-dead-bodies.html
Honestly, the meltdown at the bird site is tediously predictable. I'm more interested in building up the replacements, both from a technology and from a social standpoint. I think the open source foundation here is vital. It's the only way to maintain something that can route around the narcissistic billionaires we're stuck with.
I'm imaging the conversation when the White House finally sets up their own instance, and they explain to very offline Joe Biden he's going to be making his first presidential toot to introduce himself to the fediverse.
Civil libertarian (derogatory). Is that a thing?
Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel. Or in this case, never pick a fight with the industry that specializes in manufacturing consent. If one still needs more evidence Musk's "genius" is overrated at best, I don't know what to say.