Fantastic article (book chapter) bringing together multiple issues: political, social, media, and technological:
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Larry's old (but still maintained for testing purposes) Minifeed site. Please go to Sangerfeed.org for my latest.
We need a 100% common data formatting standard for social media. It should be in the form of RSS; it is possible to extend #RSS. Already done? Does anyone know of an RSS extension that makes RSS suitable for use to express social media data?
The Senate portion of an impeachment trial has the purpose of removing the president from office. Since President Trump is no longer in office, he can’t be removed.
The Senate is free to pass a resolution condemning the previous president.
If you’ve had trouble accessing my microblog in the last 24 hours (getting a 302 error) it’s because I’m struggling with SSL/cert/htaccess issues. It *is* up and running:
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(the s in https is important)
The Decentralizers Forum is going well. I need help from a #WordPress guru to help remove the headers from the forum and fix issues associated with putting it on decentralizers.org.
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There isn’t nearly enough panic around here. I want to see some panic now! Don’t you know this is a crisis?
Bloomberg says climate change has the potential to kill everybody. Establishment Republicans—what are you gonna do? Read:
Bloomberg: ‘Climate change has the potential to kill everybody,’ worse than pandemic ‘long-term’ | Just The News t.co/adVzDESJQg
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) January 22, 2021
Nothing screams “the Swamp” more than two extra Dem senators from the new state of D.C., which isn’t even a whole city.
Chuck Schumer intones that, soon, the Senate will have a trial in which they will decide whether Pres. Trump “incited the erection…against the United States.”
What a farce.
WATCH: Chuck Schumer accuses Donald Trump of inciting an "erection" pic.twitter.com/IQqKmAYG8e
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 22, 2021
startthis.org now has a working certificate, so can be accessed via http
Twitter funding a decentralized protocol for social media—it’s asking the proverbial fox to guard the henhouse. Next he’ll fund a free speech nonprofit, I guess.
I’ll pass.
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Twitter is now blocking some Antifa accounts. Does this signal a new ideological fairness in Twitter censorship? No: Antifa recently attacked Democratic Party offices.
Trust in the news media has hit all-time lows, according to an Edelman poll reported by the Daily Caller [link]. More people distrust the media (46%) than ever before. Republicans of course trust it much less Democrats.
Liberals now reading this, who scoff at the very idea of the persecution of Christians in the 21st century: I want you to pay close attention, that you are indeed scoffing at that idea, because soon you won’t be scoffing anymore. Remember.
If claims in a new lawsuit, Doe v. Twitter [link] are true, Twitter refused to remove an explicit video of a 13-year-old sex trafficking victim. The video got over 167,000 views. Why is this not a criminal case? I’d like to know.
Horrible.
I don’t think about whether or not I’m racist.
No serious person accuses me of being racist.
I try to love all people. I am commanded to do so. People fascinate me.
I am bored by the MSM’s concern over fake racism, and by conservatives’ replies.