Notices by Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦 (kegill@mastodon.social), page 3

@NeonPurpleStar

I was not defending the author. See my comment about the need for peer review. It would have flunked, I think.

I looked up his background to get an idea of his experience and worldview. Coddled.

@barney @TheConversationUS

@NeonPurpleStar @barney

First, @TheConversationUS isn’t a “media outlet.” It’s a forum for public scholarship, which is not slanted politically.

This essay, however, should have been peer-reviewed.

Second, Daniel Klinghard is at the College of the Holy Cross. A small (3k), private, Jesuit, four-year liberal arts college in Worcester, MA. Old.

His PhD: Brandeis University (also in MA, also private).

Lived experience: “outside the mainstream.”

NPR goes where NO traditional media have gone: they counted and rebuted 162 of Trump’s lies and distortions from last week’s stenographic media event.

Kudos!

#USPolitics

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference

Well argued.

“It began as it always begins, with a lie – in this case, the lie that the wicked stabbing attack on a children’s dance party in Southport, which left three little girls dead, was the work of a Muslim migrant who had come to Britain on a small boat. I say “always” because this kind of lie has been told for the best part of a thousand years.”

Jonathan Freedland
@guardian

#ukPolitics
#elonMusk
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/09/uk-far-right-riots-elon-musk-x?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Harris Campaign: Donald Trump’s Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference

Read the amazingly cheeky fact-check from the campaign. They have damn good writers!

#USPolitics
https://themoderatevoice.com/harris-campaign-donald-trumps-very-good-very-normal-press-conference/

𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸

Read that again. I did!

From Australia’s ABC News: China will “meet its end-of-2030 target by the end of this month — or 6.5 years early.” Their storage: pumped hydro and battery.

#climateChange

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640

This is #journalisticMalpractice

Judge clarifies: a jury found #Trump raped E. Jean Carroll

He bragged about grabbing women by the p*ssy, FCS.

CNN has joined Trump whitewashing with abandon. WTH? A WOMAN wrote this 💩?!?!?

1. DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE
#TimothySnyder

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

“There are still companies in Florida that will offer homeowners insurance at a premium despite the threat of climate change but there are no church insurers willing to take on the risk that is Bruxy Cavey’s old haunt.”

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/canadian-megachurch-halts-services

Via https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1808850686936814014 (2/2)

Did you know there's "sexual abuse" insurance for churches?

That makes my skin crawl.

~~~

Canadian megachurch halts services after insurers pull sex abuse coverage

******
See the Church email
https://us8.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=3c4d56c1d635f336d8656e9dd&id=3354e3061c
******

“That’s the actual I-shit-you-not situation going down at The Meeting House, one of the largest and most influential churches in Ontario…

”The church was led by Bruxy Cavey… [who] will soon go on trial on three separate charges [of sexual assault]… (1/2)

Trump’s plane sat next to the Russian embassy staff plane Friday and Saturday in an “isolated area” at Dulles (IAD).

Reporting by @penguinsix on the birdsite

UPDATE: Facebook took this down as SPAM.

#politics
#ignoredNews

https://twitter.com/penguinsix/status/1806740535685664847?s=46&t=P6Dj5eZQ3WC5LhY9qqf1xQ

There’s a cancellation movement.
I joined it.

The @nytimes editorial board has pissed me off one time too many.

#politics
#journalisticMalpractice

Time to cancel @washingtonpost subscription.

New executive editor (breaking news) is ex-WSJ and will run the paper thru November. His replacement is from The Telegraph.

New publisher (late 2023) is ex-WSJ (Rupert Murdoch/FOX) and UK Telegraph (which has endorsed the Conservative Party in every UK general election since 1945).

This is how Bezos joins Wall Street billionaires who are endorsing Trump.

#politics
#media #MSM #ConservativeMedia

https://themoderatevoice.com/tell-jeff-bezos-nope-and-cancel-your-wapost-subscription/

Twelve anonymous New York citizens found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony counts: falsifying business records with the intent to illegally affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Not Joe Biden. Not Alvin Bragg. Not Juan Merchan.

Twelve citizens.

#TrumpIsGuilty

https://themoderatevoice.com/trump-found-guilty-republicans-abandon-rule-of-law/

Delicious timing. The NDA on #TheApprentice has expired and producer Bill Pruitt confesses.

As #TrumpIsGuilty tries “to persuade Americans to elect him again, in part thanks to the myth we created, I can finally tell you what making Trump into what he is today looked like from my side. Most days were revealing. Some still haunt me, two decades later.”

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

The @WSJ headline implies students were manipulated by outsiders

It’s disinformation. Columbia University students ACTIVELY sought advice, researched prior protests.

Better:
Before launching protest, Columbia students consulted with external groups, researched historical university responses

FROM THE STORY, 4th graph:
“We took notes from our elders, engaged in dialogue with them and analyzed how the university responded to previous protests.”

#journalisticMalpractice

@ct_bergstrom

I just learned about child care workers in Oregon being bound by non-compete agreements. (h/t @ogi)

Modern day capitalism is acting more and more like feudal lords.

🤞 for Alabama Mercedes plant employees.

TIL that Stalin had concentration camps before WWII began. In the first four months of 1930, he forcibly removed 113,637 from Soviet Ukraine. He made them slaves.

Freezing freight cars. Frostbite. As did Hitler, Stalin made them build new villages, farms. Stalin deported 1.7 million people to Siberia, Kazakhstan and European Russia; 300,000 were from #Ukraine. #Context.

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder
https://a.co/02JPoix

Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants.

@froomkin reports on Publisher A.G. Sulzberger’s talk at Oxford on Monday.

“The speech — the annual Reuters Memorial Lecture – was framed as a response to critics but never honestly engaged with their most serious and urgent concerns. Instead, Sulzberger built straw men and blew them down, from start to finish.”

https://presswatchers.org/2024/03/why-is-new-york-times-campaign-coverage-so-bad-because-thats-what-the-publisher-wants/

@mmasnick @digiphile

Thanks, guys!

@mmasnick
Mike, does this mean BlueSky instances are or are not integratabtle with Mastodon space?

Why not work to improve/modify a W3C effort (Activity Pub, h/t @pluralistic) rather than develop yet another protocol (if I skimmed this accurately)?

Why can’t this stuff be as interoperable as SMTP?

@alex
@digiphile, you might be interested, too
Besides, y’all should meet if you haven’t 😂😂😂
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