Notices by Timnit Gebru (she/her) (timnitgebru@dair-community.social), page 5

Don’t tell me that the person most slated to be her VP running mate is the man who called anti-genocide protestors the kkk.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/01/vice-president-betting-odds-josh-shapiro/74627074007/

Literally setting billions of cash on fire in the hopes of printing money through some “AI magic” while laying people off.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-losing-money-ai

Alex, an Arab trans woman who is also a moderator of our instance, was going through the overwhelmingly abusive things that we've been receiving & noted the number of white trans women accounts that were engaged in such abuse.

But according to @eris who hasn't seen any of the things we see (since they're not a moderator of our instance), Alex is contributing to transphobia because 100% of the abuse is coming from right wing cis men & Alex is engaging in transphobia by describing what she saw.

The report continues

"...In any case the "trans women masquerading as ..." trope is highly offensive and the amount of barely concealed transphobia that followed on from it was almost shocking. I say almost because I am almost immune to it now."

It seems that according to Mastodon, only white queer people exist!

And we have the insufferable brand of "its your moderation that's the problem."

Not its you. Its your supremely white toxic curated community on here that's the problem.

Let me show y'all just how toxic you are.

Someone at lgbtqia.space reported Alex, an Arab trans woman with this to say about her and our instance.

"I find this problematic in the context of wide ranging reports of racist abuse coming from BIPOC folks on Masto and dair-community dot com. It seems that this is an AI centred community with an incredibly laissez-faire attitude to moderating, with a transphobic mod who also tolerates ableist hate towards autistic people at the very least.....

#fediblock yuga.surf.

An instance with 8 users, and one of them reported a Black woman complaining about being called the N word for using a slur.

You know that there are Black people like @Are0h who have been on this platform for a long long time, have been talking about the racism here, and even closed an instance due to intense amounts of racism right?

Are you also going to tell them that its their fault and that they didn't do Mastodon correctly and that's why this happened?

I'd like to see more "lets reflect on what the culture of the community that has been curated on the fediverse is, and how the tooling has enabled that culture," and less "its just about switching instances" or "do this one thing and the racism bug will be fixed."

Except for the #IamANazi type of instances which aren't the main issues I see here, there's a lot of terrible stuff in those large instances." And just defederate" isn't always the answer because many ppl who don't know how to create an instance or even what joining an instance means, are in those large instances. And there are many people in that category I want to hear from.

Y’all can’t keep on making this about “you’re not doing mastodon right or you wouldn’t see these…”

I say that all social media is 4chan in specific contexts that are not English, in our languages that aren’t considered important.

I see that on Mastodon in English. If I posted on twitter and get bombarded N words that are then reported and taken down, that would still be a problem. But listen when we tell you people are more comfortable being blatantly racist here.

@midgephoto All instances should have a zero tolerance policy on racism but if we're in a sea full of racists and our instance gets attacked, the "good white people" of mastodon shouldn't explain it away by saying "oh well you didn't block that one instance" or "you didn't do xxx"

Your assumption that its all on the instance moderators and admins means that you think its absolutely normal to have surges of N words. The only reason it happens is that we haven't blocked the right instance or done the right thing or whatever. There are platforms like Twitter where there is essentially no moderation at this point and people can create as many accounts as they want and I haven't had this level of N word hurled.

There is a particular brand of tone policing and victim blaming on here that is so unbearable. Unbearable.

Y'all are incredibly comfortable being racist on here in a way I haven't seen elsewhere, while lecturing us about how if we tweak this one thing the racism disappears.

I'm spending my time combing through those calling @KimCrayton1 the N word & those who reported her to us for essentially making white people feel bad. The best is the one who reported this post by her: "Good ol’ Mastodon I’ve NEVER been called NIGGER more than I have TODAY"

Find Black women talking about racism offensive huh?

@Seb_Solon @KimCrayton1 lol I blocked a whole bunch of people from that instance and even considered blocking the whole instance so I’m wondering who it’s “well moderated” for? Not Black women.

@dave yes and no quote tweets means they’re more comfortable.

Y’all out here talking about our instance moderation when people talk about racism on Mastodon, wanting to believe that all the racists hang out at IamANazi.social.

Maybe mastodon isn’t the “good people” platform and is filled with racists like everywhere else?

7. Another Seattle based activist says that we need to expose the Eritrean government hosting dinners on behalf of the military (in spite of being sanctioned). He says that we should go on the offensive and raise legal funds to help those who expose their harassment and threats. I totally agree with this. They operate with absolute impunity and openly discuss their plans.

➡ Imagine going through what they did, the human trafficking, deaths, torture, to see the diaspora, from the comfort of their new homes, singing and dancing with (or on behalf of) their murderers and torturers and raising money for wars in which it's the youth who perish.

➡ I want the demonstrations to be peaceful because of what happens to the demonstrators even when they ARE peaceful, let alone if there are riots. In this video, police are beating up someone who is unarmed and walking away.

➡ Secondly, because, just like the lawyer said, any type of destruction of property is used as propaganda by the other side. But I don't blame the frustrated youth. People tried peaceful demonstrations every year outside of these festivals of hate before resorting to riots.