zx3 @zx3@driveinsaturday.org

First they came for Black and native people, but I didn't care, because that's how it's always been and anyway we've come so far, haven't we.

Then they came for the immigrants, but I didn't care, because those people cause a lot of problems and they're unclean and strange.

Then they came for the sex workers, but I didn't care, because it's their own fault to work that job and I mustn't be associated with that kind of people.

Then they came for the homeless, but I didn't care, because I like my cities clean and they could just get a job, really what's so hard about that.

Then they came for the pregnant, but I didn't care, because men like me can always get their girlfriends an abortion if needed.

Then they came for the trans people, but I didn't care, because frankly they're sort of weird and just a fad and we're just indulging them and their wacko doctors.

Then they came for the permanently disabled, but I didn't care, because I was in good health and they should just stay at home or eat healthier.

Then they came for the journalists, and I wrote an op-ed titled “first they came for the journalists”.

— liberal journalists

Edit: for the love of whatever, please stop sending follow requests. At this point I've got around 100 piled up and I will not get through them all, ever.

Edit (14/03/2023): Did away with the all-lowercase and capitalised properly.

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On this day, in 1890, Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him. He was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies.
Each country has many versions of its history and we continue to rewrite it. It’s often the history as written by the winners. In short: today’s version of history could soon be history too.
#History #SittingBull #OTD #OnThisDay

Pro-Elon trolls are joining the #TwitterMigration so here's your regular reminder to block and report them immediately. If a server continuously fails to take action against abuse, block that server and demand your instance admin do the same.

Here, we're the content moderation. I've got major respect for the folks who built this place because, while the rest of us were complaining over on the #birdsite, they were successfully de-federating Gab.

Let's continue this proud #Fediverse tradition.

Journalists, I am begging you:

Organize.

Tap your networks, figure out what collective action you are going to take against Musk, and then do it.

He may not realize it, but his platform lives & dies by your participation.

You may be under attack, but you have the cards.

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

Today, Twitter suspended It's Going Down (@igd_news), a longtime anarchist and anti-fascist news source that had never previously run afoul of the Twitter rules. At the time of their suspension, they had 108,000 followers.

Elon Musk was lying through his teeth when he said he believes in free speech. He bought Twitter in order to suppress the voices of those who seek an egalitarian society. Since taking over the platform, he has reinstated avowed neo-Nazis and taken guidance from those who explicitly support fascism as he targets journalists and activists.

More background:

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

You can follow IGD on Mastodon here:

https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news

AI art cannot be used ethically in the age of capitalism and gross violations of art workers' rights.

Instead of typing another prompt, commission an artist. Support human creativity while it's still unregulated.

#art #ai #NoToAiArt #artists

anti-paywall link to WP article: https://archive.ph/6w1v4

"HOUSTON — Employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their Texas driver’s license and other department records during the past two years."

every single article about the fusion breakthrough is like "... and this is the first big step towards privatization and commercialization, where private business can generate profit!" said with the most gleeful of tones.

unequivocally, every single aspect of fusion power should be public domain. and the generators themselves should be nationalized and unionized in-perpetuity.

we should be treating this like the invention of fire or agriculture. to hell with energy companies.

The world is awash in a poisonous tide: the irrational, the hateful, the greedy, the venal. I vow to push against it, in my words and in my actions, in my thoughts and in my deeds. As long as some of us are willing to fight, as long as we stand together, this tide can be turned.

As praxis, calling yourself “anti-woke” would signal to everyone that you’re not humane, that you’re willing to use violence to force people to conform to your worldview, and force people to assimilate into a culture that dehumanises them.

To be anti-woke is to be authoritarian. As for me, there’s only one way to respond to that: Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.

To be anti-woke is to be wilfully ignorant. The response to virtuous behaviour shouldn’t amount to bigotry.

It was appropriate to punch Nazis in 1941, and it's still appropriate in 2022.

Just remembering how Jack Kirby was inundated by threats and complaints from Nazi sympathizers after the publication in 1941 of his famous cover showing Captain America punching Adolph Hitler.

No reason.