Austerity, Brexit, Covid Lockdown Parties, PPE Scandal, Raw Sewage in UK Waterways & Coastal Areas, Economic Crash, Record Inflation, Record Interest Rates, Cost of Living Crisis, Pensions Decimated, Mortgage Rises, NHS in Crisis, Schools Crumbling, Housing Crisis...
No offence, but 2 years ago this fella (Jeremy Corbyn's ex economic advisor) got laughed off #Xitter when advocating MMT.
It was all great & well explaining this complex economic theory to the average lay-person, but when several preeminent Economists populated the discussion, he ran & hid, & refused to defend his claims.
I get the sense that lots of people on #xitter feel like it was the first real public forum. where you could engage with public officials and journalists and subject matter experts. there was no algo. it was pure and important. they want that but don't trust that anywhere else can provide it. so they stay. not realizing that we are that done even better. or really could be if they all showed up. so I still think we will win cause the demand is there but it's damn frustrating. #SocialWeb
There was some hint (or maybe I misinterpreted) of some follow-up for the #EUVoice and #EUVideo pilot.
Nothing concrete mentioned and no further official announcement. Maybe @EDPS could provide more insight if this is indeed the case?
Meanwhile it is HIGHLY ironic that @vonderleyen is a #Xitter mirror operated by Federico Leva in Finland together with numerous other unofficial bridges. Frequently confused with official accounts.
It's just so basic but someday we won't have websites littered with icons for #Xitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube etc. It will just be a fedi icon next to the email icon. Or at least that's the dream. #SocialWeb
I've been browsing the "For You" algo on #threads to try to find people to ask to turn on #fediverse sharing, and it's a nightmare. I don't know if they are bots or real people, but they post the dumbest shit. I don't follow anyone there so the algo probably has no idea what to give me. Perhaps nicer than #xitter but I'm not going to check.
Tech bros are presented in this NYT story as semi-idealists hoping to build a new kind of city.
I call BS. This looks like nothing more than old-fashioned land speculation, and it's obviously turning a massive profit for the billionaires involved.
Musk is a distraction @dangillmor. it's time Andressen is given the ProPublica treatment for being the one investor whose name comes up over & over again with everything that is wrong with tech.
when you look at Andressen-Horowitz's "home runs", you'll start to see something in the milk ain't clean with how they built a tech oligopoly thru valuations.
btw: A/H is one of Musk's #Xitter coup backers. and Andressen, who can't shut the fuck up, is behind Musk's free speech #BigLie.
i am now more convinced than ever after seeing the shitshow that is #Bluesky's joke of an API, that it is Dorsey's plausible deniability if anybody decides to RICO Musk over #Xitter
it's obvious they both want to make it seem that Dorsey was not an active participant in Musk's hostile takeover and eventual re-privatization of birdchan.
12-year-old Rimas from Gaza sells homemade "ka'ak" to afford her heart disease medication amid the hard conditions resulting from the Israeli occupation's horrific war on Gaza.
t.me/pal_Online9 @palestine
Jewish students participating in pro-Palestine protests on their campuses would have valuable things to say about the alleged "rising antisemitism" at their schools. But the media is ignoring them.
Every caller who repeats the Manufactured Narrative™️ about protesters' #Antisemitism is reminded that many of them are #Jewish & the #GOP has been normalizing #antisemetic memes on #Xitter for some time
I also 🙏🏼🙏🏼 blessings on #BernieSanders ,who is flexing against this #Genocide on every platform & daring anyone to call him #SelfHating
Whenever I read a news article that includes something like:
"The traffic accident has now been cleared, according to a police department post on X," I think it sounds as ridiculous as ""The traffic accident has now been cleared, according to a police department post on Truth Social."
It's unbelievable to me how these organizations can continue to believe they sound legit on X. If you want me to trust your info, use a real platform, not a Nazi cosplay forum.
It feels like @zuck is fucking with me. By rolling out federation, #threads becomes THE place for journalists to leave #xitter for. So of course #meta is doing everything possible to discourage conversation about the news there. It will never be the place for community without group functionality, and it won't serve influencers when people can avoid ads and algos but keep their social graph. #AttentionDemocracy
„Warum gebt ihr Faschisten schon wieder eine Bühne? Es geht doch laufend schief. Ihr seid denen nicht gewachsen. Ihr fragt nicht nach, lasst sie ihren politischen Giftmüll auf prominenten Sendeplatz ins Land rotzen & nickt nur dazu. Faschisten brauchen keine Bühne, sondern Contra.“