As we watch Elon Musk slide into rightwing radicalization in real time, Iβm reminded of this 1941 piece by Dorothy Thompson.
βWho goes Nazi?β
In short: it is the people who love money and status and power that are at risk.
Those who resist the urge are the people who have a solid family life; a job they love for the work, not the money; a moral framework based on pluralism and equal access to opportunity.
Worth a read. #nazi #Twitter #liberal
βIβm going to stay and fightβ
No youβre not. It isnβt a battleground. It is owned by one man who will do what he likes as long as he can and heβs able to continue to do so because you are creating statistics he is using to sell ad space and make it look like the platform is more active than ever.
You are enabling him, even with your βfighting.β Wake up. Thatβs what he wants. It HELPS him. Youβre literally working for the man free of charge. #birdsite #twitter #TwitterMigration
Hi Mastodon! My name is Kennedy Sessions and I am a Metro Reporter for @Chron. I cover all things #Houston and #Texas including #Transportation, #Politics, and interesting things happening around town. In my free time, I like to hang out with my friends and family, travel as much as I can, and read my worries away. #introduction #introductionpost
My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.
We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.
Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!
Download it here:
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Instead of #writing my #book I wrote about #notwriting my book. I have a #substack where I chip away at what is between me and other words by making more #words. Please subscribe it's totally free! #scholar #research @litstudies
I called my substack Professor Tompkins Is Out of Order because someone I find really stupid once said that to me in a meeting and it was too funny not to steal and put to work.
https://outoforder.substack.com/p/words-become-sentences-become-paragraphs
Please welcome @EdTechMason to #Mastodon !! @edutooters #Edutooter - https://mastodon.education/@EdTechMason
Politics, edu, life
@albinanigans, this thread seems relevant to an educational webinar I just came across: Dr Thomas Philip notes that education is inherently political, and as teachers lead the many microinteractions in the classroom they βcan ask themselves: Who benefits? Who is marginalized? and What are the implications for who students become and who we become as a society?β Those are important Qs linking politics to life more generally. https://digitalpromise.org/2022/11/29/learning-relationships-and-power-attending-to-each-moment-of-teaching-as-pedagogical-possibility-toward-equity/ #edu #edutooter
Like the mastodon, I inhabit a place of extinction. TaΓnofuturism is about refusing the colonial narrative that the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean have vanished. A universe can be spoken into being. My fiction is words that are worlds & futures of TaΓno flourishing. Journey to the archipelagos of the nightsea with my short story, "Somnambulist", published by @ReckoningMag
https://reckoning.press/somnambulist/
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#fantasy
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There are people on this platform who want no politics.
We didnβt move over from Twitter to talk about kittens everyday.
We needed a place to carry on our work. To carry on fighting injustice, racism, misogyny, antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ hate. Because these things are important no matter what platform we are using. That was the whole point of our #twittermigration
We donβt have the privilege to be quiet.
Hi everyone! I just migrated from another server, so I guess Iβm due another #introduction ! Iβm a #PhD candidate in #Medieval History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. I study the queens of Portugal, so you can expect lots of #queenship and #academicchatter from. I have a baby #kitten and a crazy passion for #books and #tea !
Just joined Substack to host my blogβ¦for free use only. Any thoughts about whether this is wise? Or not? https://mguhlin.substack.com/p/switching-blog-platforms #BlogHosting #Blog #Free
@edutooters our book is out and needs a journal review! Please let us know if you can review #50teachertips
#Google Messages is getting end-to-end encrypted RCS group chats / The company is making good on its promise that all the (non-SMS) messages you send will be end-to-end encrypted. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/2/23490072/rcs-end-to-end-encryption-group-chats-messages-android-google-imessage #Android #Encryption
Love this great resource! Magic Eraser
https://brenhamtechdaily.blogspot.com/2022/12/fab-find-friday-magic-eraser-is-free.html
I am starting my own 14 Days of Create-mas!
I hope you enjoy it!
#edutooer #edutoot #edtech #tlchat https://www.tech4schoollibrarians.com/it-is-beginning-to-look-like-create-mas/
Google Sheets Advent Calendar
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#EduTooter #GoogleEDU #EdTech
I love to read, learn, and write about it. "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." -Epictetus #Quotes #Stoic #mastodon
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