Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

https://www.europesays.com/1787472/ Task Force created in Africa to counter terror fears from Iran and jihadi groups #Conflicts #Iran

When you watch Musk openly perform Nazi salutes, support Nazi-adjacent political movements, spread Nazi conspiracy theories, and provide a platform for Nazi rhetoric, it's time to state the obvious: this man is a Nazi.

https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-nazi/

Donald Trump, far from being optimistic and bringing Americans together, is threatening the deportation of up to 12 million people. He has made moves to stop asylum, which is an international right. He has suspended the Refugee Resettlement Program for people to get shelter from repression.

He has effectively slashed efforts to deal with climate change. He has pulled out the US from the World Health Organization.

#Zelensky at #Davos: "At least 200,000” troops needed to oversee any deal ending #Russia invasion

European states must take collective steps for defense amid the Russian threat: “Europe must establish itself as a strong, global player, as an indispensable player"

#Ukraine #UkraineWar

Academics: stop being coy about #SciHub and start treating it like basic research infrastructure. If you dont include it in your syllabus already as a normal way to access research, you should start. No more winks and nods, just link directly to it and accept no criticism for doing so from the researchers that necessitate its continued existence by their publishing practices

https://mastodon.social/@eff/111075817148342123

A friend of mine is looking for one/two freelancers for the following

- Writing #unittests in #python
- Basic #pqsql dB optimization.

Ideally from #Europe. If you are one or know one, please DM me.

#getfedihired

This MUST be stopped. #PickASide

https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs/113870930624785469

Bishop Budde said: "There are gay and lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families.

"The people who pick our farms and clean our office buildings, who labour in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals - they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation," she said.

"But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals."

Today, #Trump demanded her apology.

Anyone who goes through my post history, knows I work for Meta (Facebook).

I am "Consumer Content Administrative Manager". My primary duties include content appeals, account appeals, account reviews, and some peer review.

It is no surprise that my job depends on people using Facebook. Today, I am going to suggest, you not do so. I can make that suggestion because we have a user base of billions, and I know most people would keep using Facebook even if the Devil ran the company. People are strange.

But if you feel you can truly live without Facebook, do so. Internally, things are changing, and not for the better. You should especially consider leaving Meta if you are a minority, woman, LGBTQ+, trans, or identify as progressive, politically. If facts matter to you, and misinformation is something you do not want to be subject toward, you should especially consider leaving, Facebook.

You have no privacy from Meta, while using Meta. None. I do not care if you believe you disabled a "feature" or "opt out" of something. You only seem to have done so. And even if you're going to continue to use Meta, uninstall the app (all of them). We collect data on you, even when you're not using the app.

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Threads

Severn-class lifeboat launched from Lochinver, Highland at 06:57 - https://rnli.org/Lochinver

US throws out policies limiting arrests of migrants at sensitive locations like schools, churches
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-sensitive-locations-trump-ab0d2d2652e9df696f14410ebb52a1fc?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-AssociatedPress

Deleting #Facebook is intentionally difficult; those wanting to delete will find that they are led through a maze of menu options. This webpage has a link that will take you directly to the deletion page if you are logged into your Facebook account on a PC. Perhaps the best thing you can do is post this link to your Facebook account a week before deleting it to help others learn about this fast and easy shortcut.

https://deletefacebook.com/

even better - don't add share buttons to your site at all fuck "share on facebook" and all the other widgets that just track your users on the web. real website users will copy the url.

RE: https://floss.social/users/AdamBishop/statuses/113865791365844284

As we welcome new people to the #fediverse we need to help teach them (and ourselves) that this is a public forum (mostly) and that private conversations are better protected by tools such as #Signal. I'd say this is especially true for people fleeing #Facebook who are used to the illusion of privacy based on the audience controls on that platform.

Yow, just ran across video of Elon’s Nazi Salute episode and no, he wasn't caught in an unfortunate position, he Sieg Heil’ed to the front of the stage and then turned 180° and Sieg Heil’ed the lucky people in that direction. It was explicitly Nazi and any news organization that doesn’t describe it as such is committing severe malpractice.