If you're on Xitter, I don't know what to tell you. Except, get off.
Has no one made the standard "how to move to Mastodon and take all your twitter followers with you" yet? If they have I havent' seen it, but that's the missing link here.
Mastodon is not a one to one replacement for Twitter and doesn’t intend to be. Mastodon is nothing like what many (or even most) people who use twitter want.
Mastodon has a lot of issues that it is still working out that make it a worse experience than pre-musk Twitter.
If I understand esims correctly, they are like a copyright license to use the hardware you already have on your phone to connect to the internet. Shouldn’t the data companies just allow unrestricted access to people in war zones anyway? This is like people donating coupons to buy food that is already there.
It’s not quite that simple. Your phone has the hardware to connect to a mobile network, but a SIM, wherever eSIM or physical, has the password to get on to the particular provider’s network. My phone had the hardware to connect to Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T, but the SIM gives it the password to get on to T-Mobile.
Most notably you need to have an internet connection to download an eSIM - so even if the carrier gave them away for free you would need someone with a working phone to help setup the eSIMs.
I had no idea this was a thing. How awful. We have a family member in a short-term rehabilitation facility right now and it’s extremely chaotic there, lots of turnover. I wonder if they are using these apps, which would add to the chaos. Definitely something to ask about if you have an older family member who will need assisted living or a skilled nursing facility…as if those decisions aren’t hard enough.
Unfortunately, twitter was basically “the journalist’s social media” so they keep writing about it even if most of their readers don’t give a rat’s tail
The Markup found that news aggregators and commentators like Ohlala often omit information that would give the news cultural or historical context, and, in Ohlala’s case, her content is repackaged from right-wing organizations.
I just checked out a few of her videos and can confirm she was spewing right-wing talking points. Older Vietnamese who went through the Vietnam War, like my parents, often gravitate towards conservative news sources even before YouTube channels like these blew up. It's extremely frustrating trying to talk current events with them now.
However I read many reactions : “don’t take your phone with you” This is a common issue in a lot of activist place to don’t ask ourselves why people are acting like this ? before telling them to stop. They may have good reasons, and in a case of protests, there is.
Filming the cops : I don’t know in the US, but in a lot of countries, cops are less violent when they know someone is filming them. This may help people harmed by the police, in giving them evidence, or helping mobilization in the futur. After mass arrestation, it could be hard to know how as been arrested or not; some legal support hotline ask this kind of evidence for this reasons. Of course this some sensitive material, and need to be secured too. For example, the cops may target you if you are filming them.
Calling the legal support hotline : Some of them ask to be called just after arrestation or cops actions, to make a precise report. You could call them when someone you know have been attacked or kidnapped by the police.
Call medial support : I don’t know how the emergency number is linked with the repressive force in the US, but in a lot of country, it’s not. Even if it’s rare, it could be a vital issue.
All this actions are important and individuals should compare the risks they take in taking them and what we lost in not acting like that. Of course this risks have to be documented; with flyers at the start of a protests for example.
I would recommend to mutualise actions to decentralize risks. Make a team with one or two people with burned phone and dedicated camera (paid by everyone); let your other phones at home. Stay (at least) by pair, and keep in eye someone with a phone.
They may be better plan of actions, but we couldn’t just let down cop watch ant street medic just for the illusion of individual safety. Such thing simply do not exist
imagine not being a gigachad bringing your nintendo 3ds, that actually has a physical switch to disable wireless communication and can record videos and take pictures that totally don’t look like they’re from 2011
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