@sarahgilbert WOW!
@sarahgilbert frightening. #FOSS provides transparency. super happy so many of us are here on mastodon.
@amerika While I agree, its still in the direction of my desires. That is we understand the system's we use to interact with society.
social platforms.
power grids.
other infrastructure.
should all be open and transparent and shared among earths denizens.
one step toward ending tyranny IMO.
@amerika thats fucken cool. I sure hope that would be the ultimate.
@rbreich lets start with banks, microsoft, apple, google. They have all be anti compentative dozens of times
We need to either regulate or bust up corporations (like Ticketmaster) that corner markets. But to do so, we must get big money out of politics.
When monopoly power is combined with political clout, the public gets taken for a ride. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-hurt-when-monopolies-crash-and?fbclid=IwAR27eDk6eSC2ej0egKw7h0ALjkOsBcF5OUu-H_tBDQnYmHvBXla6HAeF5ok
Chicago’s skyline takes the crown
I shot this a while back on an aerial flight. The fact that the shadows were almost perfectly perpendicular to the lakefront (part of the shoreline anyway) was pure luck. But when I flipped the photo, it turned into a much more dramatic image
#Chicago #Photogrpahy #Architecture #monochromatic #skyline #lakemichigan
@KimCrayton1 I am pretty sure that #musk did alot of "earning" when it comes to research, time devotion and engineering of technology that progresses humanity in good for everyone ways. he doesnt make weapons. those weapons industries while they earned, did it destructively. I left twitter when they censored #Trump not because I like him(I really dislike trump) but because I am a true liberal in the words of voltair and martin luther "I may not agree with a word you say but I would defend to the death your right to say it" I cannot accept some hoity group thinking they know whats best for me (right or left or some other elite entitled group) without engaging in dialog. I can read what trump says and disagree and debate. If your worry is people are different in ways that scare you.. welcome to nature and the universe.
@KimCrayton1 Maybe they will come to mastadon and I can listen to them regardless of agreeing with them so I can debate with the ideas I disagree and better elaborate on ones with which I do.
I never realized #musk
was a white supremacist.
My personal feelings for censoring is give me the tools to pick what I do and do not listen to if some large group of people dictate what I get to see.. its WRONG!
Ok, it's been 3-weeks since I've joined Mastodon and here's my take away so far:
1. White folx prioritizing their fuckin feeling OVER their IMPACT of their racist behavior
2. I'm thankful that I was strategic in joining the instance I'm on because, due to their efforts, they've DEMONSTRATED their INTENT to prioritize voices like mine
3. As a Black women, there's no truly safe space for us
For comparison just @FSF thanks to #RMS 's conference in Brno, Czechia in MUNI with the help of free software advocates were able to basically replace proprietary software in education institutions state-wide and all that for next to free.
@amerika @Nonilex @wjmaggos that is the utter truth..
I am with dr martin luther and voltair on this quote.
"I may not agree with what you say but I would defend to the death your right to say it"
I find a ton or radical stuff distasteful but I like to know whats going on and I try to empathize to how they become that way.
I am not scared to listen to shit I disagree with and radical vernaculars cause I am in control of my own thoughts.
@Nonilex
https://fediblock.neocities.org/
These are instructions how you can block content you might not want to see. Welcome to the fedirvese where people can make up their own minds. I personally as a traditional liberal (not the new corporate oxymoron form) like to see everything except spam and make up my own mind.
I took all the domains from https://fediblock.neocities.org/ block list and put it in a csv file that can be imported so you can block all hateful instances.
Download it [here](https://anonfiles.com/0088mcF8y8/blocked_domains_csv)
### How to import
- go to settings
- click on import & export
- click on import
- under import select domain blocking list
- then select the csv file you downloaded
- click upload
**Boom** a friendly mastodon & fediverse experience
I'm a freedom loving, human loving, nature loving, concerned citizen.