Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

@freemo @Gargron @trinsec @khird Looks like the Mastodon CEO took the path of least resistance, by doing so he lost integrity. Perhaps it's better to ignore joinmastodon[.]org than to bother being listed on their site? Lacking integrity might mean they sell out in other ways as well, such as allowing government control, increase censorship, etc.

After hearing some feedback,a nd wanting to be fair in my representation, I have change the title of the article. It is now:

# Eugen Rochko, CEO of Mastodon, Caves to Nazi's Agenda

I think we can all agree thats a more faithful title.

https://jeffreyfreeman.me/eugen-rochko-ceo-of-mastodon-found-to-support-nazis-agenda/

Billionaires funded 15% of the midterm elections. They represent 0.0002% of the population. That's a problem. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/billionaires-provided-15-percent-funding-midterms

@freemo I am sorry you’ve had to deal with this situation, but thankful for your efforts. I first heard of QOTO via the official mastodon app, so if I were first joining mastodon today I wouldn’t see this wonderful instance. I hope that Eugen will come to his senses and relist QOTO soon.

Thank you very much for all that you do in helping to run this instance.

🙇🏻

Black folks hear this all the time in the physical & virtual world. “Maybe, you’re not the right fit.” Decentralization isn’t the panacea for our social media woes if places like #Mastodon can’t incorporate #diversity and #inclusion. It will be just another white~dominated space where the far right, white supremos, and other agents of intolerance rule the roost while the good white folks put their heads in the sand and pretend like they’re not the problem.. #BlackTwitter #Inequality

@freemo @Gargron @trinsec @khird wow, the internet really can be a cesspit! It sucks Qoto got embroiled in all this! My (admittedly limited) experience of it has been great. It's a very friendly space.

I have added an addition section to the end of my article

# Eugen Rochko, CEO of Mastodon, Found to Support Nazi’s Agenda

It is four points listening the consequences of Eugen's decision.

https://jeffreyfreeman.me/eugen-rochko-ceo-of-mastodon-found-to-support-nazis-agenda/

Sp I wrote a pretty lengthy blog post entitled:

# Eugen Rochko, CEO of Mastodon, Found to Support Nazi's Agenda

Sadly I wish it was clickbait.

You can all read it here:

https://jeffreyfreeman.me/eugen-rochko-ceo-of-mastodon-found-to-support-nazis-agenda/

It is the pinnacle of the recent drama. I will also be sharing it on twitter, linking the joinmastodon account there. I tried to include most of the evidence in the article. Hopefully this will have some positive result

#fediblock #mastoadmin #mastodon @Gargron @trinsec @khird

Make no mistake: our democracy remains in peril.

The majority of Republicans in the GOP-controlled House are election deniers.

And Moore v Harper, which is headed to the Supreme Court next month, could let extremist state legislatures pick the next president without you.

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.

Doing an interview with the BBC to promote my upcoming musical “Allegiance” in London.
This is my legacy project, the work I am most proud of and am most eager to share with UK audiences. It tells the story of our community, when 120,000 Japanese Americans were put into barbed wire prison camps during WWII because we resembled the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
Allegiance is a celebration of the human spirit over adversity. #NeverForget
For tickets visit: https://allegiancemusical.com

Preprint: New York rats are picking up Delta and Omicron https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517156v1

There is no such thing as a “lone wolf” shooter. The horrific acts of violence against marginalized communities are inextricable from the homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and racism that far-right political leaders stoke every day.

Hi everyone! I'm an #airquality scientist/ #urban #planner based at the University of Colorado Denver. I'm obsessed with #low-cost #sensors. Trying to find a home away from the bird site. Let's see how this works! 🙂

"Piles of compost containing dead chicken parts are expected to be removed soon after the mayor of David City and nearby residents complained that the compost was within the wellhead protection area for the town’s water supply.

But while state officials said the composting operation followed applicable rules...

At least 94 barns holding more than 47,000 chickens each are located within a few miles west of David City"

Less than ideal to pollute your own source of drinking water...

#Water #Pollution #Groundwater

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2022/11/18/compost-piles-containing-dead-chickens-near-david-city-wellfield-to-be-removed/

The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.

Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.

A new drama is unfolding at NASA: Three of its flagship #climate satellites, which have captured an unprecedented two decades of global change, are low on fuel, drifting from their stable orbits.

#NASA is mulling whether to end the missions soon, or to let them run till mid-decade, capturing new diurnal insights into storms and fires. But doing so could delay the launch of its next-gen Earth System Observatory.

It's a tough call. What would you do?

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-drifting-climate-satellites-could-find-new-life-wildfire-and-storm-watchers

GOP is blocking Biden’s student loan cancellation. They celebrated PPP loan cancellation & $2T tax cancellation for billionaires—but freeing working families from predatory loans is unfair? Absurd.

MAGA: Canceling student loans is immoral. This is why we need Govt based on the Bible.

Deuteronomy 15: “At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. This is how: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made.”

MAGA: Not that part of the Bible.