@sandwich yeah...my issue is similar, but these days I haven't been doing much outside of watching pro wrestling and attending events. There's virtually no pro wrestling discussion here.
In the 3 months that I've been on Threads, I've already gotten 700+ followers that all mostly talk pro wrestling. Also, since they're not as hostile to AI, I've managed to get about 500k views on my posts over those 3 months.
I've gotten a few hate replies, but it's nothing like if I post AI stuff here.
Also, people were complaining about Meta's lack of moderation but from my experience, every time I see hate or vitriol from someone, even if its not moderated, it's severely called out and shat on by the wider community.
It really feels like a corporate Fedi over there, but more diverse and less close minded people.
Sorry, slight rant.
But this isn't a story about – let's say – Dr Upton's collection of garden gnomes; in such a case, we'd be happy to indulge his chosen pronouns. It is coverage of an employment tribunal, a specialist court held before a judge. People's livelihoods are at stake here.
In court stories, accuracy matters above all else (as I and many other journalists before me have found out to our cost) and so we believe the most accurate way of describing Dr Upton is as a man, albeit one who is choosing to live as a woman.
This has provoked a good deal of response from readers, mostly from people praising our stance. To quote from one email from the dozens we have received: "Other news outlets are confusing everyone into thinking Upton is a 'woman who thinks she's a man', or has had a sex change or something, when in reality he is a man who tells everyone he's a woman called Beth. Your accuracy and truthfulness is refreshing."
Others are not happy, to put it mildly, and we have been told that at least one complaint will be lodged with the Independent Press Standards Organisation. We await to see what IPSO may or may not decide about our approach.
After the election I thought I'd be spending some time trying to convince leftists not to get drawn into liberal actions that would treat them as disposable and be directed towards restoration of what got us here.
In actuality, there's no need, because liberals aren't doing anything.
when you read an excellent science-focussed interview on the COVID-19 pandemic, but it's by a Trotzkyist organisation :blobblocraccoon: But there are also a couple of really good texts by anarchists, and maybe I should help distributing them here.
In this vain I make a shoutout to @MediaActivist, who wrote an excellent analysis, which I boost with much more delight than only subtooting Trotzkyists :molotov:
Online version: https://www.mediaactivist.com/recovering-from-shock/
Zine version: https://archive.org/details/@mediaactivist
@sim A guy I contracted for wrote an article about "outsourcing yourself", about his theory that it makes sense to move here.
If you live small enough, living in HK is cheap compared to Stockholm, New York or San Francisco. Everything except the rent is cheaper. But those places are far easier places to find someone who has a programmer mindset and who knows a language other than Java, Python and JavaScript. So maybe find them there and move them here.
In the end though, that guy moved to New York. For the kind of product he was building, I think he had an easier time finding investors there. Here it's pretty much all fintech, and he was more fin-adjacent.
@tokyo_0 but that hasn’t at all been my experience watching SO MUCH debate around threads happening on my feeds here.
In fact, I’ve see so many posts emphatically saying it was NOT about technological risk.
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