Will Murphy 🌹 @datatitian@social.coop

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@datatitian

I love my pinned columns. Here's a link to an explainer for the #MastoNoobs 🙂

https://mastodon.social/@BernieOrVest/103155705774613779

@JamieSeagull

@datatitian I think I need to make friends before I make groups, lol

@vanecx Ah, I set up a test event and I already disagree with their federation model! They are creating permanent human-tied users on each Mobilizon instance that own or attend events, whereas my vision creates actors for each new event and people can RSVP from their pre-existing fediverse accounts.

That is to say: we are doing very different things federation-wise!

I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io

The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars.

Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070

I've been asked in multiple interviews in the last six months about how we can prevent private or semi private social media from becoming a place where people are radicalized. The only honest answer I can give is that I'm not opposed to radicalization per se. I'm opposed to right wing radicalization and I'm also opposed to the status quo and centrist incrementalist notions of justice and progress. I think we need more spaces online and offline for left radicalization.

What it's like to be a worker for Amazon's Mechanical Turk, identified by paying such workers to describe their experiences using the platform itself. https://gizmodo.com/horror-stories-from-inside-amazons-mechanical-turk-1840878041

Do brace yourself for some rough stuff.

For the people in the back:

If you can't accept living at the bottom of the hierarchy in the system you seek to create, you do not deserve to create it.

The Untold Story of Transgender Asylum Seekers in ICE Detention at Cibola - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/593554/trans-asylum-seeker/

Ice Shards in Lake Michigan.

Via, Reddit.

TRANS MEN: TESTOSTERONE IS NOT BIRTH CONTROL.
I'm seeing an alarming number of boys and young men entering our online spaces scared and confused because they might be pregnant. Due to testosterone stopping their menstrual cycle, they believed it was impossible for them to get pregnant — thus they were not as cautious and safe as they otherwise would have been while with their partner.

**If you have not had a hysterectomy, you can potentially get pregnant while on testosterone.**

There are trans men several years on T who will report abruptly having their cycle again after not having one for 1-3 years. It's possible. Improbable, but possible.

You need to continue practicing safe sex even while on T.