Louis Couture 🏳️‍🌈 @louiscouture@qoto.org

It's like there's a tweet for everything he does. I love this.

Hey #FOSS people, I have a friend who is a reserch statistician who uses proprietary #statistics tools at their institution. Is there some resource I could point them about robust alternatives?

#Twitter

Elder Scrolls

Journalists, I am begging you:

Organize.

Tap your networks, figure out what collective action you are going to take against Musk, and then do it.

He may not realize it, but his platform lives & dies by your participation.

You may be under attack, but you have the cards.

@louiscouture Ils ne pourront JAMAIS avoir Mastodon à cause de sa structure décentralisée 🙏🙏🙏

How it started: How it's going:

Anyone can create an account on the Fediverse, then send a post.

Now does that mean you're entitled to an audience?

No!

Freedom of speech exists on the Fediverse -- and so does freedom of association.

Elon Musk and Autism/Aspergers

I certainly don't speak for all autistic people or for the autism community in general, but as an autistic person and someone who knows many autistic people who are kind, compassionate, honest, and decent human beings, I feel compelled to make this statement:

Elon Musk is an egotistical narcissistic megalomaniac who is out of touch with reality, power hungry, entitled, privileged, corrupt little man but nothing he does or thinks or says is because of autism.

If anyone is writing about him, or reporting on him, or making any attempt to analyze what is going on in that head of his, please keep autism out of the equation.

Does he actually have Aspergers, like he claims? Who knows. He says he does but clearly he lies. A lot. I don't know him well enough nor am I qualified to make that assessment.

Ultimately though, it doesn't matter. Autistic people can be evil too. It just means that autism isn't the reason.

So please do myself and all of the autistic people I know and any who agree with this statement a favour and leave autism out of the discussion.

Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy a platform in order to ban journalists for saying things he doesn't like.

Don't ever let these cowards get away with claiming they support free speech.

I am just so happy about the gay/interracial marriage bill.

The idea that there are people who want to stop other people from getting married will never cease to bewilder me.

(Yes, I know about various sorts of religious marriage. But this is about civil marriage.)

Well done, New Yorker.