The #OmnibusBill passed & I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank ALL the amazing staffers in the US Congress. I have had the opportunity to get to know them these last 5 1/2 years. Thank YOU for pouring your blood, sweat & tears into your job. WE appreciate you!🙏
Elon totally not caring at all about Mastodon
@jpanzer He's definitely insecure about people leaving for an alternative.
Also that putdown of his is predictably childish.
Comcast Xfinity customers report their accounts being hacked in widespread attacks that bypass two-factor authentication. These compromised accounts are then used to reset passwords for other services, such as the Coinbase and Gemini crypto exchanges.
So, I'm finding out the hard way that if you start a new Mastodon server, nobody can find you.
This is a shameless request for some boosts so some of the bigger instances see me.
#mastodon #twittermigration #mastodonserver #findme #helpimtrappedinawell #imlonely
Zero percent surprised, but needed to be exposed regardless: How NYU's emergency rooms prioritize VIPs and the rich https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/health/nyu-langone-emergency-room-vip.html
@rerutled JFC. The head of MSG sounds similar to Elon in thinness of skin.
The owner of Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and other NY venues uses facial recognition to identify people he excludes from his venues - including lawyers he doesn't like.
Unbelievable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html
I’m an author and journalist, hopeful about the #TwitterMigration.
I write about science and technology and their cultural effects. My books include Chaos, The Information, and Time Travel, as well as biographies of Richard Feynman and Isaac Newton.
I’m working on a history of the telephone.
#Introduction #authors #science #technology #Feynman #Newton #TimeTravel #Chaos #telephone
CALLING BLACK BRITISH CHILDREN'S AUTHORS!
Mark Zuckerberg apparently likes deepfake portrayals of himself.
But when a deepfake of Zuckerberg was posted on Instagram, Meta deleted it.
When caught, Meta said the deletion was done by "accident"—but I have my doubts.
https://gizmodo.com/meta-instagram-deep-fakes-antitrust-zuckerberg-1849916864
Spain: Gender identity bill passes parliament https://www.dw.com/en/spain-gender-identity-bill-passes-parliament/a-64191566
Scotland just squeezed ahead of them!
Curaleaf tried to tell me that I'm violating copyright laws by posting these documents.
Pentagon Papers, 1971, clearly gives me the right to publish this. And there will be more documents. https://www.forensicnews.co/roman-abramovich-secretly-funded-worlds-largest-marijuana-company/
Incredibly satisfying read. Fuck all these assholes who crowned themselves the Savers of Society without asking any of the rest of us what we wanted even once https://ez.substack.com/p/moving-fast-and-breaking-things
RT @jacobin@twitter.com
NYC mayor Eric Adams is demanding city libraries to cut their budgets by $13.6 million by the end of fiscal year 2023, and another $20.5 million over the next 3 fiscal years. This will be devastating for the services and operations of the library system.
https://jacobin.com/2022/12/eric-adams-new-york-public-library-budget-cuts-austerity/
@chadloder I am not in the least bit surprised that Musk's Twitter doesn't know what "bullshit complaint from far-right assholes" is. or for that matter what a "malicious right-wing mass flagging campaign" is.
@drewharwell @micahflee
Meta, defederation, thinking, decisionmaking?
So it's looking like mastodon.world banned a marginalised person in need of help who was asking for funds, and is only now responding to other admins saying "wow that's an extremely bad look" and taking defederation
and I'm on the defed side of things. It's a hard yikes situation.
Mathematics Ph.D. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or anything else.
Akkoma: @ML2