Notices by Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop), page 5

"At its core, the FBI is a political force that primarily targets the left, ignoring or outright aiding the right". - #FOIA expert Ryan Shapiro at #AaronSwartzDay

Watch live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-PQjP-XRo

Inevitably, there'll be folks arguing that they have to "re-engage" with people on X or other far-right sites because libs are out of touch with people and need to rebuild a majority.

This is a nonsensical argument, and it cedes the Overton window of discourse (and, crucially, all controls on speech) to the far right.

The 2024 election had a ~65% turnout. The real opportunities to engage are with folks who feel the political system has failed them, not with right-wing Twitter trolls.

Many people have been saying this for a while. Universities, it's well past time to get off X:

https://blog.edtechie.net/higher-ed/universities-need-to-leave-x/

Dark days ahead. Hold on to each other. ❤️

We (@freedomofpress) are hiring a full-time Senior IT/Infrastructure Engineer based in #NewYork. You'll lead IT/infrastructure needs for our small #Brooklyn office and our remote workers, and help with general infra maintenance tasks.

If you're based in NY, or willing to relocate from within the US, please consider applying:

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Salary range $105-$130K commensurate with experience, with generous benefits including 401(k) match.

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"Harris/Trump locked in tight race in <swing state>" barely qualifies as journalism.

Cover Trump's corruption, incompetence, malice and lawbreaking. Cover the many schemes to undermine democracy. Cover the lack of credible pathway to peace in Gaza or Ukraine from either party.

Horse race stories are the laziest, dumbest forms of coverage; it effectively renders many news sites useless.

It's really okay to stop sharing screenshots from X dot com. That website is weird

@rbos

Interesting, thanks for pointing that out.

Yeah, for a space that's fundamentally about providing safety, selective federation towards only safe instances may be the only option, but I agree it would be interesting to explore.

I do think they missed an opportunity to call it the Trevorverse.

I quite like this graphic Terre des Hommes Germany (@tdh, a humanitarian organization focused on children's rights) made as part of their #twittermigration.

It's straightforward: we're leaving X because of hate speech & misinformation; you can find us on Threads and Mastodon.

Suggestions for anyone creating similar graphics:
- Include the handles in the graphic (some users will only share the graphic)
- Describe Mastodon/fediverse as "social media that belongs to the public" or similar.

Huh, that was an incredibly educational video about vocal fry. Well played, Dr. Geoff Lindsey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU

One nice thing I have to sometimes remind myself on the fediverse --

If I see more posts by someone, it's not because an algorithm is trying to optimize my engagement, it's because they happen to be around and active while I am.

Which honestly makes me feel more connected. :)

What happens when China builds an #LLM? DeepSeek just released v2 of its model, which is open source.

I tried it on deepseek.com. Ask it about Tiananmen square, and the chatbot self-censors its answer while it is generating (that presumably is limited to their deployment). On variations not caught by the filter, it refuses -- and replies in Chinese:

"The content of your question is not in line with the core values of socialism, nor is it in line with China's laws, regulations and policies."

@dangerzone is an open source app that uses container sandboxes to create a "virtual photocopy" of a document.

This is to protect journalists and others from malware & trackers that might be implanted in documents sent to them by someone pretending to be a confidential source.

We (@freedomofpress) are hiring a software developer on a 6 month contract to work on the project. Remote, $70/hour, >=3 years of Python dev experience.

More info here:
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#GetFediHired #Python

Are you a front-end dev who's looking for a time-bound gig doing mission-driven work?

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Side note, I'll continue to do these shoutouts for folks leaving X and would appreciate if folks reading them could refrain from "better late than never" or other snarky comments. It's rare, but it happened a couple of times in the past. :-)

It's going to still take a long while to get folks to migrate fully off X (inertia is a thing), and warm welcomes/congrats for everyone who makes the complete switch are appreciated.

Congratulations to the Leibniz Strategy Forum on Open Science for leaving X and making the fediverse its primary social media platform. If you are into #openscience, #opendata and #openaccess, give them a follow:
@leibnizopenscience

@renchap @Gargron

It would be good to know if this behavior of "Limit" at the server-level is considered a bug by the project:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26301

That'll probably factor into whether servers want to limit or suspend #Threads.

I'm working on a spreadsheet to monitor which organizations, celebrities and other major accounts have truly made the exit from X, and where they're going.

I'm not tracking dual-posters, or people who've said they'll quit but actually haven't.

As this list fills up, I hope it'll make it easier for others to do the same.

https://bit.ly/eXit (redirects to Google Spreadsheet)

If you'd like to help & get edit access, send me a private mention. Or just reply with any additions!

@tchambers ^ Tagging you in case I'm duplicating any of your efforts in this area.

@kev

I think one big argument is that Threads already allows accounts other instances would get limited or suspended over. So size basically gives them cover for bad moderation.

That's why I voted in favor of "limit" on our server, which is I think generally a good remedy against poorly moderated large servers.