Notices by Maria Bustillos (maria@thelife.boats)

Let's change the way journalism works, and who it works for. Support @flaminghydra

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Bonjour, the polls

in France

were WRONG

just sayin

Everyone should just clear the decks and understand how the Internet Archive began, so we can protect libraries

Watch this short video!! Read and share.

https://flaminghydra.com/issue-97/#the-internet-archive-is-a-library

Fascists are secretly and illegally removing books from school libraries

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2024/05/uncovering-the-cover-up-how-republican-pennridge-school-board-directors-secretly-banned-books/

A Palestinian writer we love (wrote a few times for Popula) is looking to relocate from Gaza with his young family.

Please help if you can, and boost widely:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/family-desperate-to-flee-gaza

Jonathan M. Katz shares the story of how he exposed Katie Britt's lies on his TikTok

A free @flaminghydra post:

https://flaminghydra.com/there-should-be-newspapers-that-we-work-at-where-we-do-this/

#journalism
#media
#pressfreedom

It's so shocking that Trader Joe's turns out to be evil, it used to be this goofy little place to buy wine and cheese

My mom died on J6 and now this time of year just tosses my psyche like a whole salad of grief

FLAMING HYDRA: a publishing cooperative of 60 writers and artists, coming soon.

Check out our Holiday PREVIEW SPECTACULAR, featuring HYDRA members @tomscocca, Diana Moskovitz and Leila Brillson

It's real real good

flaminghydra.com/preview/

Adam Gopnik, Karl Popper, David Foster Wallace, etc.

New from me at Popula

https://popula.com/2023/12/10/professor-pop/

#opensociety #democracy #freedom #paradox

whatever this guy wants, the opposite should be done immediately and with great force

@dangoodin

We're making a cooperatively-owned publishing platform for journalists here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thebrickhouse/flaming-hydra-60-brilliant-writers-and-artists-join-forces

Without gerrymandering and voter suppression, without right-wing thumbs on the media scales and right-wing-boosting algorithms at Facebook, Google and Twitter, courtesy of Musk, Zuckerberg, Murdoch, Mercer, et al., the US (and likely the UK) would have progressive, climate-focused egalitarian pro-democracy government

In a fair contest, the far right would be long gone. They feel power slipping away, so they're cheating more furiously than ever before.

Are you interested in LIBRARIES and digital ownership rights?? YES.

Here's the audio and transcript of a recent panel I was in at the Copyright Society

#libraries #digitalhumanities #books #internetarchive #internet

https://velocityofcontentpodcast.com/transcripts/a-look-at-hachette-v-internet-archive/

My whole political position right now is, don't kill innocents. Don't kill children.

Don't kill them!! not with assault rifles, not in retaliation, not with bombs, not with lousy public health policy.

Do not kill them, just do not do it! Can we all just get behind this one thing.

@glennf

When #Twitter shuts down or is acquired, much will change... it's early days yet. Twitter took years to evolve.

Do the world's #journalists want just one place to meet and compare notes? Yes, I think

#Mastodon is the best fit for me by a mile, I love it here (again, *so far*, long road ahead)

People like the freewheeling intimacy of Bluesky (where I just got on) but there are fewer than 100K users atm and we know that that won't scale.

@shoq

lolllolin

(I know!!! I have found it easier with some to compare it to e.g. Napster, if they ever used that, where people with different computers were sharing all the things)

Would love to hear more tips on this from others.

The purpose of Substack is

1. to make investors money and

2. keep journalists siloed, fragmented and controllable

@oscar

Many of my colleagues have moved to Ghost, but I don't think the problem can be solved at all effectively without a powerful move toward distributed (community, cooperative, etc) forms of ownership for publishing platforms

What do you think @davidrussellmoore ??

@oscar @davidrussellmoore

Ah sorry I thought you were a publisher!

#Mastodon IS THE PLACE.

Everyone can help build it into a space to connect, a zillion times better than any other social media platform has ever been... because it's owned by everyone, for everyone, and is NOT for making money, it's for human connection.

Talk, boost, engage, follow, share, participate!!!