Notices by AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)

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The breakdown of needs I still have for this month:

$300 for rent due next Monday
$300 for cable TV/Internet bill due now
$100 for wireless/mobile phone bill due now
$100 for purchasing Thanksgiving food

All donations and boosts welcomed and appreciated.

https://youpay.me/AnthonyJKenn629
https://cash.app/AnthonyJK6319
https://venmo.com/u/AnthonyJK6319
https://paypal.me/anthonyjkenn
https://ko-fi.com/anthonyjkenn38399

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One more scan code I missed:

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Links:

https://youpay.me/AnthonyJKenn629
https://cash.app/AnthonyJK6319
https://venmo.com/u/AnthonyJK6319
https://paypal.me/anthonyjkenn
https://ko-fi.com/anthonyjkenn38399

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Update: A generous moot was kind enough to break me off a NICE $300 donation today, which did a lot to eat up a sizeable portion of the bills I had. Thank you, "C"!!!

Still have a good way to go before I am clear; still have major utility bills and rent to pay, plus food for today and Thanksgiving.

Final goal remains $1,200 for next week; $600 needed ASAP, if not right now.

Thanks, keep helping!

My favorite subplot to the Trump cabinet appointments is the fact that he can subvert the checks and balances in our system by just appointing a pederast to Attorney General when the Senate is out of session and literally NOBODY in the mainstream is saying "holy shit this is a bad system and our checks and balances are a lie."

It's amazing how when it would benefit regular people the rules are ironclad and unbeatable but whenever it would help rich fascists the rules don't really exist at all

TDOR boosts appreciated!!! :boostRequest:

oh, yeah, and while i'm at it, allies with the means should definitely check the #TransCrowdFund and #MutualAid hashtags to help out trans people who're struggling!

this is a tangible way in which you can reduce the number of trans people we have to mourn. we are a demographic that is especially known for being consistently poor as fuck

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Welp....still haven't received any donations in a week; the utility bills and other key critical bills are piling up and drowning me, I have still no food for today or for Thanksgiving week, rent comes due AGAIN on Monday, and my doctor is pestering me about my blood pressure again.

Hate it when it goes down like this.

If anyone can help me with this, please do.

$0/$1,200 by Thanksgiving.

2. Who curates the list and what are the criteria?

Packs floating around without any accountability should not be tolerated. The creator of the pack should stay attached to it via a recourse address, and be responsible for curing any problems that may come up. The criteria they employed in selecting the members of the pack should be clearly specified when announcing the pack and again in any directory along with the recourse address.

5/n

1. Opt-In vs. Opt-Out vs. Tough Luck

This is a tough one. Clearly Opt-In is safest, but would it be such an impediment that it would kill the feature before it can even get going? Opt-Out seems to be a minimum requirement and it is the technique that #FollowPacks has adopted. Tough Luck should simple not be OK.

Would suggest when a pack is published, and again in any directory, users should be advised that they can ask to be removed and given a clear means to request removal.

4/n

So what are the concerns? And shout out to @thenexusofprivacy for flagging some of these:

1. Opt-In vs. Opt-Out vs. Tough Luck
2. Who curates the list and what are the criteria?
3. If the pack includes bridged accounts to Threads and/or Bluesky does following it expose users data to these companies?
4. Can the pack list be used as a vector for abuse?
5. Can packs themselves include 'hidden' toxic accounts so people are fooled into following them.

3/n

#FollowPack #StarterPack

First the positives. People really like them. Particularly due to the absence of an algorithm (thankfully!), packs help newcomers get going and veterans find people in they may have missed. So all good, right?

Not so fast. Like any new thing that has promise, there is also the need to be careful. Dynamite is a wonderful tool for road building, but...

One of the good things about Mastodon is we try to be deliberate about dangers, and this an area we should pay attention.

2/n

Starter Packs, Follow Packs and all that...

So, let's talk about #StarterPacks, or as this account has implement in a kind of Mastodon fiddly way #FollowPacks (https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113498826844243920) Directory here >>> @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com

Apparently, there are a number of other efforts here that promise to make a cleaner more integrated solution for following groups of accounts.

What are some lessons learned so far and what should we be thinking about?

1/n

Democrats are terrified of losing Republican votes they were never going to get in the first place.

to paraphrase malcolm x, If you're not careful, MSNBC will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

again:

largely invisible, pro-capitalist framing --across legacy media, liberal cable news, and liberal podcasting-- is a major reason we do not understand ourselves, or share a simple story about how we got here and we get out

i don't know how we go about centralizing and amplifying left populist framing in this situation, but its what we need to do

its easier for the right to coalesce around a common narrative because capitalism is so compatible with fascism. we're fractured and don't share fundamental narratives on the left, because would-be coalition members get invisible pro-capital political frames from MSNBC and legacy media. these invisible frames, i think, are one of the primary reasons the Dems have been able to lead us off a cliff.

at this point i feel like i can pretty accurately predict someone's politics based on their media diet (including youtube and socials). its an indictment on how little we talk politics irl with people outside our own worldviews, and how deeply we absorb political frames from our intimate, personal relationship with screens

@majorlinux @seachanger That’s the same thing mainstream liberals/Democrats have been saying quite loudly since well before MSNBC even existed.

@seachanger I saw a video from them saying that Democrats need to abandon progressive politics.

Now they're saying the quiet part out loud.

@PedestrianError @majorlinux @seachanger Now with greater volume, frequency, and by more mouthpieces.