DSmith_Tucson @DSmith_Tucson@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com

Starting to see publications setting up instances on their own domains. Among them:

@TexasObserver

@TucsonSentinel #journalist #journalism

#news #newspapers

This new Ringo song/music video is giving me so much joy at the end of a week when very little was giving me joy. https://youtube.com/watch?v=-mz7ZMGCr9U&feature=share

Each attack is meant to inspire the next:

“Far-right extremist groups [celebrated the Club Q] killings in blogs & chatrooms. On one channel used by neo-Nazi groups, postings showered praise on the gunman and called for more killings of gays & lesbians…”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/20/colorado-springs-shooter-suspect/

This is pretty much the dynamic I would have expected re Musk and Trump's Twitter account—Musk wants the attention that comes from reactivating DJT; DJT doesn't want to give him the satisfaction; now EM is just posting memes like a weird little kid tugging at the hem of DJT's jacket https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594470952187805696

Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isn’t born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.

As many have pointed out, Twitter serves as today’s “digital news wire” and recreating that is essential to a competitor platform’s success. Only if news organizations migrate to Mastodon (even if they keep posting on Twitter) will the platform truly grow.

Your Twitter handle can be registered by anyone 30 days after deactivation. If impersonation is in your threat model, lock your account and park it.

don’t deactivate or delete your twitter account unless you’re happy for someone else to get your username and perhaps post “as you” after the grace period, or sooner — with sinkboy who knows

Here’s an interesting fact: Trump’s Twitter account just came back online and it has only 2.8 million followers. If memory serves, this is down from more than 80 million when the account was suspended. What explains the more than 90 percent decrease? Is it that a huge number of his followers left? That they were purged in bot purges? That they were fake to begin with with?

The guy who complained about bots on the platform used a poll knowing full well that bots would vote to reinstate 45.

And we know what a stickler Trump is when it comes to following federal regulations and ensuring shareholders’ rights are upheld

The Awesome and Powerful Musk has decreed -- after floating a meaningless "poll" guaranteed to come out the way he wished -- that Trump will return to Twitter.

Silver lining: It'll burn the sucker investors in Trump's laughable "media" company.

Colorado’s 8th congressional district was expected to lean Republican but went blue by fewer than 2,000 votes. Far outstripping that margin was a left Libertarian metalhead who netted a surprising 4% of the vote: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-heavy-metal-candidate-dan-ward-screwed-up-a-tight-midterms-race-in-colorado-for-the-gop