The "Verified By Walt" List
@DoctorDNS @WalterShaub @NatlSecCnslrs @miblogestublog @LeahLitman @leahmcelrath @laseletzky @marcelias @marcidale @emptywheel @markhertling @MattGertz @maxkennerly @michelle @mikemadrid @Mimirocah1 @mirandayaver @molliekatzen @mollyjongfast @MollyMcKew @NellSco @schwellenbach @GottaLaff @noahshachtman @normornstein @owillis @pkrugman @pogowatchdog @qjurecic @TheRaDR @rabbijill @randimayemsinger @rjgianfortune @samueloakford @sarahposner @scottmstedman @shannonrwatts
https://journa.host/@scottmstedman/109363873191080451
Get back to me when I can open my email app and scroll through the complete contents of each email on a single page without having to click into or expand anything. And keep each email to around 500 characters, with a link to further information should it be required.
US pol, Hunter Biden conspiracy theories
What that Report Purportedly Authenticating the "Hunter Biden" "Laptop" Really Said
What the analysis of @matthew_d_green and Jake Williams showed.
#USPol
"But then why do people do the dirty work at all?..."
"Because they are done together.... And other reasons. You know, life on Anarres isn't rich, as it is here. In the little communities there isn't very much entertainment, and there is a lot of work to be done. So, if you work at a mechanical loom mostly, every tenthday it's pleasant to go outside and lay a pipe or plow a field, with a different group of people. ... And then there is challenge. Here you think that the incentive to work is finances, need for money or desire for profit, but where there's no money the real motives are clearer, maybe. People like to do things. They like to do them well. People take the dangerous, hard jobs because they take pride in doing them, they can egoize, we call it-show off?-to the weaker ones. Hey, look, little boys, see how strong I am! You know? A person likes to do what he is good at doing...."
Since we can't RT the way we've been used to, trying an embed. Her thread is a good encapsulation of why I am also still on the bird app. She and others in the reply speak of it in the past tense, but it's not gone yet. I just hope that something evolves that will provide us with the same sort of public square experience.
It just occurred to me that across the 4,000 #Mastodon servers each with their #MastoAdmin plus their moderator teams... we have more content moderators tracking reports and complaints than Twitter does.
For the folks who keep asking about how we're going to scale, we're on it.
I often think of that Obama (yes, yes, I know) Nobel speech where he talked about his theory on how things get better.
“Let us focus,” he said, “on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions.”
People change slowly, but their behavior can be shaped by the institutions and systems in which they operate. Improve the institutions, and you make it more likely that the agregate of human behavior will improve, too.
For technologists, myself included, it is often tempting to think of making things better by improving the software. With social media, this looks like reducing the likelihood of virality, adding "friction" to certain behaviors.
There is a limit, however, to the impact of these sorts of decisions. All the design in the world won't prevent people from being awful to each other.
The evolution of institutions must be matched with an improvement of ourselves, to make a better world.
RT @tbonier@twitter.com
The images of students around the country waiting in long lines to vote today are both inspiring and infuriating. There is no excuse for making people wait for hours to cast a ballot.
Welcome all you journalists covering the climate beat!
@ahiatt (coveringclimatenow.org)
@AmandaSchrepf (Science Et Vie)
@AnneENConnor (freelance)
@craigawelch (NatGeo)
@davelevitan (grid.news)
@guacamayan (REDD Intelligence)
@ianlivingston (WaPo)
@izzieramirez (Vox)
@jtemple (MIT Tech Rev)
@kmk (CBC Montreal)
@LelaNargi (freelance)
@lorinc (Spacing, Globe&Mail)
@MikeDiGirolamo (Mongabay)
@nitishpahwa (Slate)
@ThinInk (Lighthouse Reports)
@voooos (Science Mag)
Pissed off progressive who votes, owns a pitchfork and isn't gardening this year.. Jai Ma, motherfuckers.