I absolutely adore Cornel West for 2024 Independent nominee -- and agree that his candidacy probably will be enhanced by the :birdsite: People who never left maybe do not understand how difficult it is for people who quit to read or get Twitter users' tweets or anything, tho?
All those floods and weather emergencies in SoCal? I tried searching for NWS Fontana Flood Alert by where my sister-in-law is staying for awhile. Google, Bing, Yahoo -- all want to point me to Twitter. Click. Okay, where exactly are the flash flood emergencies?
Nope, I was told I needed a login. NWS Los Angeles Twitter account has been GATED. By a bleeping Gatekeeper. Same as FB. Is why Lahaina town burned down.
So, I do say "GottaDamn YOU, Elon -- that is not the function or purpose of the Internet of PUBLIC DOMAIN information that my taxdollars already paid for!"
Elon overpaid for Twitter. He's just like 45 in that he loves popularity contest numbers and did/would do ANYTHING to keep getting that narcotic high from feeling "liked" and "popular" on corporate media, same as Instgram users.
Tangential: I'm old enough to remember that 45 was using Twitter to literally terrorize his female opponent in the open the first time he ran BECAUSE she was a WOMAN. That kind of thing was encouraged because Twitter had IPO'd.
I'm not gonna look it up, but vaguely remember Drumpf wanted to pay Twitter to make a custom emoji to diss Hilary for being "corrupt", but Twitter said no (and Facebook said "YES, we will do ANYTHING to enhance and promote your corruption, Drumpf!")
Anyway, just look at history. 45's goons have not stopped ramping up terrorism on women and black ppl and Indigenous to the American tectonic plate ppl since.
Anyway, recommending that y'all PLEASE do make sure that Cornel uses his campaign donations WISELY to build a healthy PUBLIC INTERNET PRESENCE on Mastodon where his wisdom will not be gatekept.
@DeliaChristina can tell him how awesome the "EDIT" button is, eh? (Ecosteader 2012 had that edit button, too) :)
To be clear, this wasn’t advocacy for the notion, just a musing as to something that might happen. I don’t follow Twitter or Threads, at all, so I wouldn’t know.
The biggest question on the table here: How much do we believe in the power of the idea and practice of federation.
I'm optmistic and believe it's entirely possible that the best thing happens: Meta doesn't take over, but the opposite, "federation" infects threads and the like and we win this thing.
(again, I'm a fediverse maximalist, I want it to be the new twitter)
@jrm4 for me, someone who can’t treat my adhd with stimulants, video/audio format for the kind of knowledge and wisdom long kept exclusively in print is an accessibility issue. People in my life trust me with hard questions on complicated topics, and I don’t think I’d be half as able to parse and synthesize this stuff if I was born 20 years earlier.
Love me some Andre 3000, but the first "genuine-contender-for-literally-greatest-rapper-ever-goes-on-to-do-not-rap-but-some-very-artistic-weird-stuff-that-ill-try-to-get-into-but-i-dont-know-about-all-that" would be Jean Grae
I know, so many want the Marvels to be good or popular or whatever, and yeah, maybe there's some sexism going on there too but, real talk, the whole thing MCU thing 100% crapped out when they chose not to recast T'Challa.
Literally the worst movie superhero decision ever; the exact OPPOSITE point of what superhero movies are supposed to be about.
@DryBird227@jrm4 No faulting it in that regard. If memory serves, Steven Yeung also played the main character in a CHEW pilot, which sadly went no further. (I have a soft spot for unstoppable killer cyborg chickens.)
I mean, I'm probably not gonna cop a ticket, but paying money to try to see Lauryn Hill even if she might no-show still makes a hell of a lot more sense than paying money to definitely see, I don't know, just about any top 10 chart rapper after her
it was just yesterday that I was clowning the corniness of Drake and Budden. never thought something would so quickly make me side with Drake
but wow -- the absolute gall of many non-black people (eg. that vulture DJ Vlad ) DEMANDING -- not requesting or suggesting -- but DEMANDING that Drake "do /say something" re the horrors in the middle east