ABrockwell @aebrockwell@qoto.org

I was sceptical before, but after seeing his management skills in action, I think allowing Elon to oversee the migration of Earth’s wealthiest elites to Mars is a great idea.

At this point i don't care about SpaceX or it's launches anymore.. Elon ruined that

My dislike against him is stronger than my love for rockets..

And that says something.. cause i freaking love rockets and space🚀 ❤️

Frost on an oak leaf in the early morning sun

Meta will allow political ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen.

YouTube will no longer remove videos making similar claims.

Monetizing lies has become a big business in America. It’s one of the core challenges to democracy.

It's great to see that Apple, IBM, the European Commission and probably others are pulling ads from Xhitter, but holy hell, why were they STILL advertising there??

#Twitter

Joe Biden gave a press conference after his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. He was knowledgeable, calm, articulate, and presidential. That’s what we need in the White House. Not a bloviating miscreant, not a malignant narcissist, not a would-be despot who wants to round up his political enemies and destroy our democracy.

Lichens and moss in a rock crevice.

#lichen #LichenSubscribe #mosstodon #moss

When my WaPo annual subscription ends, it is no more. I will not support any large media company. For me, it's all nonprofit and independent media from now on.

Paywall removed. #GiftArtlcle

Opinion A wasteland: Political coverage ignores the threat to democracy

https://wapo.st/3QU6Ck2

Incredible that such a statement needs to be said, and even more incredible that journalists saying risk the repercussions to their careers.
https://www.protect-journalists.com/

I don’t want an AI created playlist.

I don’t want an AI curated recommendation.

I want music chosen by a human person who speaks and loves music with every fibre of their being. Music that I might love. That I might hate. That isn’t safely predicted by the sum of everything I have liked before.

I want the imperfections goddammit.

I fucking live for them.

Trump knows what he’s doing when he calls his enemies “vermin” in his speeches and online. He’s dehumanizing them. This has happened to my community twice in my lifetime: once during World War II, and again during the pandemic. It is so dangerous, and Trump knows it. He’s preparing his base to do things that you can’t do to other humans, only to subhumans. Be warned. Be vigilant.

Forbes: How to cover Trump.

NYT: How not to.

Generic political dysfunction and not one chamber of Congress being controlled by a party whose members call each other "whores" and whine to the press that they're "ungovernable."

The story mentions "the ouster of the House Speaker" but the word "Republican" does not appear anywhere in the text.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/10/moodys-credit-rating-deficit/

#gopindisarray #gop

I think we need to scale down, get the basic stuff right, and stop worrying about getting 2 million followers on Instagram. Let’s start with a thousand people who are willing to chip in a couple of bucks and see where that gets us.

@ernie is talking about journalists, but could just as easily be talking about musicians, or actors, or novelists, or programmers, or just about any of us working class folk.

https://tedium.co/2023/11/09/digital-media-downsizing-jezebel-vice-tumblr/

If it walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then the genetically modified cucumber project was a great success.

“Human progress isn't measured by industry, it's measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege. The boy who died on the river, that boy's value is your value. That's what defines an age. That's what defines a species.” 

— Twelfth Doctor, Thin Ice

Trump is already talking about using the Insurrection Act on his first day in office, if he is reelected, to put down any civil protests. I can’t stress this enough. No matter what you think of Biden, his age, his policies, he is no dictator. He believes in democracy. We cannot let Trump anywhere near the White House again.

From focus on the 'soft voice' of extremist #MikeJohnson to soft-selling #Trump's dictatorial plans to calling killing civilians 'a crater,' something's very wrong with the #media today

It's called cowardice

From Gaza City to Capitol Hill, a cowed media is chronicling the death of democracy in a passive voice

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html#loaded

Big Tech’s “attention rents” by @pluralistic
“In the theory of Surveillance Capitalism, the algorithm was invented to make advertisers richer, and then went on to pervert the news (by incentivizing “clickbait”) and finally destroyed our politics when its persuasive powers were hijacked by Steve Bannon, Cambridge Analytica, and QAnon grifters to turn millions of vulnerable people into swivel-eyed loons, racists and conspiratorialists.”

#bigTech #politics

https://doctorow.medium.com/big-techs-attention-rents-fe97ba3fad90