mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

Don't make me tap the sign

I’ve become increasingly convinced that “rel=me” is a better way to verify journalists than publication-specific instances. The time, costs, security issues, employer/employee relationship intricacies, and more make publication-run instances for staffers problematic on various levels. That could change, and I’m sure someone will find a way to do it well. But I currently don’t think that publication-run instances make sense for most newsrooms.

My article on fake news and the American Revolution it out today in The Conversation!

https://theconversation.com/how-fake-foreign-news-fed-political-fervor-and-led-to-the-american-revolution-195170

Just a shocking number of people don’t even know the bivalent boosters •exist•.

Folks, there is a newly forumated booster as of October.

If you got your last before October, you should get a new booster.

It’s available for kids 5 and up.

It’s free.

It will protect you ••much•• better against the newest variants, which are hospitalizing people en masse.

Tell your less-online-than-you family, friends, neighbors. Publicity has been terrible.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-new-covid-wave

I understand naming is one of the most complicated things in IT, but please: if you're creating a new open source a project, check if there's some other, long established free and open source project with the same name first, before writing the announcement.

@heidilifeldman

Major media organizations need to come right out and say that Trump and those who support him represent a threat to democratic, constitutional government, and that as media organization dependent upon the first Amendment, they will not treat Trump in a "neutral" way. They need to declare that from now on, Trump and those who fail to oppose them will be considered enemics of the USA, and the reorting will reflect that.

This by @emptywheel is really helpful. Wheeler shows how "liberal" journalists can end up abetting propaganda that seeks to ratchet up tribalism in the right-wing base. The journalist she focuses on claims to criticize that tribalism, but Wheeler shows how said journalist's methods are themselves harmful because (a) they help magnify the exact rhetoric of incitement; and (b) they *ignore strategies that might help defuse incipient violence*.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/05/trump-is-a-mob-boss-whose-omerta-has-started-to-fail/

#journalism #extremism

@mekkaokereke @lewriley @dave @Bam @thetitanborn It's hard to read this and not flash back to Martin Luther King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail" and his statement that white moderates are more of an obstacle to progress than the hardcore KKK.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm really sorry.

We're hiring! Two positions on our Ethical Web and Data Architectures project (https://ewada.ox.ac.uk/)

Senior Research Associate: a lead designer and developer for the core technical platforms of the EWADA project, including working within our technical team contributing to the Social Linked Data OS (SOLID OS). Anticipating around 60% software development and 40% Research. https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2113-full.html

Research Assistant: #InteractionDesign, #DataGovernance, #AIEthics
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2112-full.html

Hello: has any scientist on here abandoned Twitter for Mastodon entirely? I’m looking to speak to you for a story I’m writing

Today is the anniversary of the assassination of Fred Hampton. One of the awful things about US history, is the very diverged view of the purpose and nature of the Black Panther Party that exists between many Black US citizens and many non-Black ones. In particular, the false meme that Black Panthers "hated all white people."

As an intro, I encourage folk to watch Ryan Coogler's "Judas and the Black Messiah." It's a very well made film.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sSjtGqRXQ9Y