Notices by Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social), page 13

A new investigation exposes the stomach-churning practice that goes into making your bacon https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23817808/pig-farm-investigation-feedback-immunity-feces-intestines #GoVegan #vegan #AnimalRights

Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users https://gizmodo.com/threads-has-lost-more-than-80-of-daily-active-users-1850707329 #Threads #Meta #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg

Elon Musk’s ‘fund your legal bill’ tweet is a brand new level of bullshit - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/22345505/elon-musk-twitter-x-employer-legal-bill-bs #ElonMusk #Twitter #fascism

Google illegally cut contract staffers who worked on AI, alleges union https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/google-illegally-cut-contract-staffers-who-worked-on-ai-alleges-union-123080400113_1.html #Google #Alphabet #AlphabetWorkersUnion #union

@krzysztofdrozdowski No problem! And no idea what happened there - thought I was following you already!

Possibly Floorp!

@krzysztofdrozdowski As a follow-up - I think I've found it! Floorp from Japan! It's based on Firefox, so has containers, but also workspaces, and looks a lot like Vivaldi!

@otfrom It depends. If you're not core to a community or group initiating an event in the first place, that's much less realistic. The old "act locally, think globally" thing, I guess. At the heart of all such events should be inclusion, right there in the first place. We have to check ourselves for ableist behaviour and language, and "if you don't like it then just run it yourself" is entering those realms, as @ciggysmokebringer and @bluejorts have alluded to in responses to my original post.

@otfrom I've had a similar approach to community coaching in the past: come to me with a problem if you have an idea of the solution. Fortunately, in this case, I've joined a radical care group that's starting out, and we're doing just the sort of thing you're suggesting. But these approaches are much harder in bigger preexisting organisations - for example, SolFed or the IWW (even if a branch officer like myself), and literally impossible when it comes to anarchist bookfairs based in, say, Boston, or the Carolinas, since I'm not based there.

Ooh now #Beehaw does seem to encourage a different culture, which seems very promising! All I'd heard about them until now was folks complaining they'd defederated from instances with an influx of users from Reddit. And yet now that makes even more sense in retrospect!

@otfrom Yeah you'd think so, eh!

"For months the Tories have argued that the cost-of-living crisis is the result of a crisis of energy sovereignty caused by the war in Ukraine. In fact, the price of gas had rocketed upwards before the war. There was no shortage of supply, since most of the gas used in the UK is piped from the North Sea." Sunak fiddles while Rhodes burns: https://www.rs21.org.uk/2023/08/05/sunak-fiddles-while-rhodes-burns/ #RishiSunak #billionaires #Tories #CostOfLiving #ClassWar #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GreenEnergy #energy #NorthSea #Greenpeace

@dansup Oh wow. The name alone is absolutely brilliant, for so many reasons. And a fabulous concept in general. Thank you! Keep up the fantastic work!

- The Walgreen's COVID positive rate has never been higher throughout the entire pandemic (although this is based on low test volume). https://www.walgreens.com/healthcare-solutions/covid-19-index

- The CDC's test positivity rate is based on a much larger sample. It has doubled in just two weeks and is still rising. If the current trend continues, we'll have the highest positive rate since last July within ten days. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_select_testpositivity_00

- The CDC reports COVID hospitalizations are up 12% over last week. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_new-admissions-rate-county

@admin Any news on why kolektiva.social isn't properly interacting with firefish.social?

@maegul @freakazoid Yeah, that's a really good point.

@mike I really think you're onto something!

@mike @JoeP That is a really, really good point.

@mike I'm thinking the same.

@JoeP I do wonder about the format - the passive-aggressive downvote culture on posts, the dismissive language and willingness to shit on inoffensive, innocuous, simple opinion-based posts that they don't agree with like it's some sort of sport, even within the rules. And in fairness, that was typical of Reddit, and only seems to have taken over Lemmy in recent weeks.