Notices by Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks), page 12

Why didn't he make it better?

Income and impact are mutually exclusive, but one is better than none.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor...

@dcc@annihilation.social
Getting a database error when I try to upgrade missey.
I have to look up / figure out how to fix the index it's whining about.

My misskey is having issues I'm hoping I can fix it, but if I can't you can follow me at my new mitra instance is at @gabriel@fedi.libresolutions.network

Letting your apex predator smurf the local meta is toxic for low-tier builds

@hidden@cawfee.club
Are you implying women didn't also fall in love with Jesus? 🤨
@meso@the.asbestos.cafe

Full immersion

David Knight has some pointed words about the alleged infowars raid.Alex Jones Fake Melodramatic Fundraising Grift David Knight
Jones said that he spotted "guards looking at me weird" at the entrance of the Infowars building and believed that his company was going to be shut down.
"I went with my instinct[...]and discovered this plan to shut us down," he said, after mentioning he questioned the guards about what was happening on Friday night.
What guards? The only guards at IW are PAID by AJ
What did he discover?
Will he give us the source & details or engage in theatrics to fundraise
Alex is the sole source and everyone from alt-right media to DrudgeReport are reporting it.
I'll believe it when there's news source OTHER than AlexJones — who lied to you about everything in 2020, from pandemic, "sugar water" vaccine, Pieczneik's Trump "sting of blockchain watermark ballots", Stop the Steal, to J6
There's NO independent verification of shutdown
There's no news of new court proceedings
NO charges published SINCE FRIDAY
I'm calling pure BS grift
He's gone for years now after the judgment and not paid a penny, refused the settlement offer of $85M over 10 years (Alex pays himself $30M a year) last fall
The only bankruptcy news that's been reported is that his bankruptcy lawyer wants out
There's NO pictures of anything happening at the studio.
Feds "trying" to shut him down?
To paraphrase Yoda, the Feds "try" not. They "do" or "do not".

@sun@shitposter.world
Pretty soon they'll start blaming it on those terrible misinformation spreaders.

@sun@shitposter.world
I can't wait 'till they start reporting on the fediverse and assume that everyone with a bot tag is a bot and anyone that doesn't can't be a bot.

This article has a pretty blatant admission that "russian bots spreading misinfo" was always a lie. But it was an effective lie to normalize the escalation of online censorship.In the second study published Thursday, a multi-university group reached the rather shocking conclusion that 2,107 registered U.S. voters accounted for spreading 80% of the “fake news” (which term they adopt) during the 2020 election.Yet these were no state-sponsored plants or bot farms. “Supersharers’ massive volume did not seem automated but was rather generated through manual and persistent retweeting,” the researchers wrote. (Co-author Nir Grinberg clarified to me that “we cannot be 100% sure that supersharers are not sock puppets, but from using state-of-the-art bot detection tools, analyzing temporal patterns and app use they do not seem automated.”)

The way it argues that free speech shouldn't exist at all is staggering, but it gets even better.They compared the supersharers to two other sets of users: a random sampling and the heaviest sharers of non-fake political news. They found that these fake newsmongers tend to fit a particular demographic: older, women, white and overwhelmingly Republican.Supersharers were only 60% female compared with the panel’s even split, and significantly but not wildly more likely to be white compared with the already largely white group at large. But they skewed way older (58 on average versus 41 all-inclusive), and some 65% Republican, compared with about 28% in the Twitter population then.
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As Baribi-Bartov et al. darkly conclude, “These findings highlight a vulnerability of social media for democracy, where a small group of people distort the political reality for many.So they're basically admitting that the full weight of state and corporate propaganda can't compete with middle aged women exercising their free speech. The author is clearly not opposed to a small group of people having influence, he's just mad it's not his paymasters.

The Ashley Madison leak but for us fat people

RE: https://toot.cafe/users/chartier/statuses/112526878886378948

All these shopping apps are going to become extortion apps pretty soon.Upgrade your plan to DiscreetPlus or we'll email your purchases to your family and neighbors!

Don't you just LOVE cryptocurrency integration with Mastercard®️ :soy2:

@sun@shitposter.world
But I still have a nagging feeling that I should!

Hope, faith, and love are precious and powerful

Make no mistake, this is why they want internet censorship.
It was never about 'helping people feel safe' it was always about being able to go 'mask off' and force compliance.
Nikki is a fierce advocate for ending online anonymity

Horrifying.There is no defence whatsoever for this behaviour. There is no adjective to describe our revulsion.
It is the epitome of why the US empire is over.
It has no place in the 21st century and beyond.
Sirius Report

UK passes "national service" measure.
People who don't want to support war sign up to do the voluntary service hours in the community.
Then the only 'accredited' service hours are at places directly supporting the war effort. Slots are limited.
Your "fellow dissenter" shows up at your door "Sorry, you have to go to the front lines, you chose this."