L Murphy @lmurphy@social.coop
Never let the Trump supporters & the GOP, acting in bad faith, forget this is a resounding victory for Biden, both in millions of voters & in electoral votes.
We know you're lying to save your butts & we're watching you!
It's DANGEROUS for progressives to dismiss Trump voters as delusional. They want Trump to pull off a coup. Over $200 million has flowed into Trump's campaign funds *AFTER* the election. They'll say all sorts of things to rationalize why Trump really won. They might even rationalize their actions to themselves, not realizing this is what they're doing.
They seek to delegitimize Biden's presidency & obstruct him for 4 years.
Not delusional. Really: radicalized racists who support Trump's coup by throwing away the minority votes in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detriot. It's no coincidence these cities have brown people majorities in 4 swing states of GA, PA, WI, MI. Racists believe brown people dont *really* have the right to vote. It's okay to throw out their votes. They're not real people. Trump isnt stealing because this is the will of the racists who cant stand that minorities outnumber & outvote them.
I'm finding tootstream to be confusing because there are so many tooters and so many topics.
How to organize the incoming 'streams' better so that their context is evident? Right now there are so many toots lacking context, & so most of them are meaningless white noise. It's frustrating for me not to understand so many of the conversations.
Maybe this tech platform is not good for me. I need threaded, fully formed contextual conversations, not short, flat, all jumbled together utterances.
"See, it's like this: When we buy stuff from major corporations, we transfer money (and therefore power) out of our local communities, and in to the pockets of CEOs and shareholders. When we make stuff, or buy stuff from our communties, that wealth (and power) stays within our communities."
ajroach42.com/diy-media/
Need help writing #Firefox #extension #addon.I would like to #filter #DuckDuckgo's & maybe other's Search Engine Results Page. Been using uBlock Origin to prevent certain sites from opening, but I'd really like for them to not show up on the serp to begin with. I can code, but my js, css, and dom skills are rusty. Finding the right selectors...Also, I dont use node or web-ext (yet, willing to learn if needed) Goal is for blocked sites list to persist. Found Moz dev github examples overwheming
I wasn't aware that John Kerry has special skills or experience with #climate which would make him the top pick in #BidenCabinet Any good articles I could read about his previous efforts and successes with this?
#safeharbor #december8
18 days to go
November 19th 2020: "Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House as he escalates attempts to overturn election results" https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/19/wayne-county-rescind-certifying-election/
Yup, GOP President Trump wants to overturn the will of the voters, who have spoken clearly and said Joe Biden is their choice. This is not what democracy looks like.
Today, Wired ran my op-ed about Facebook's war on Ad Observatory, an NYU project that enlists users to gather the ads FB serves so researchers and accountability journalists can measure how FB is living up to its promises on paid disinfo.
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-is-going-after-its-critics-in-the-name-of-privacy/
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I'm so tolerant, I tell myself
They're the ones that are different
The world is just like me
Rude awakening
The world is just like them
Intolerant
Of other.
Anyone different cast out
Undeserving of care or acceptance
I accept them. Or so I thought
Where are the people like me?
Have we disappeared?
I'm still here.
Waiting for the world
to start turning on its axis again
Forward progress will resume
inevitably
With or without me
With or without them
With or without you
What prevents a set of instances from becoming next powerful social network? The software is freely available from github.Anyone can run an instance.A company can start an instance, do something to attract most people to it over time.Once readership is captured, it's a bubble most want to join.Popularity propels it above the others.It's a feedback loop.Eg, nothing to stop next Zuckerberg from setting up a Mastodon farm on the Internet in direct competition w/ fediverse, leads to its extinction.
Daily disinformation floods social nets
Repeated and retweeted ad nauseam
Election nightmares, waking in sweats
Quarter mil dead, no requiem
And on the note of media making things out to be worse than they really are, here's FAIR's Dave Lindorff on how the media made the protests in Philadelphia last week out to be exactly that. https://fair.org/home/it-may-not-be-sunny-in-philadelphia-but-the-towns-not-burning-either/
#introduction Just joined social.coop
New to Mastodon, instances, fediverse.
Not new to internet.
Where is the map that says "You are here?" Thanks
