Notices by Noelle :verified: (noellemitchell@mstdn.social), page 2

Looks like Bluesky is still #1 and ahead of Threads for free app downloads in Brazil 😃 Threads is at #2

#app #tech #Bluesky #Threads #Meta #SocialMedia #Brazil

https://app.sensortower.com/top-charts?os=ios&device=iphone&country=BR&category=0&date=2024-09-02

I've actually been getting some reading done lately! I've been reading quite a bit of... fiction. 😅

Turns out the nonfiction I read is pretty depressing, so I'm not making much progress on it. I guess history and climate change are depressing topics. Who would have guessed. 😆

#fiction #bookstodon #reading #nonfiction #books #history #ClimateChange

I wonder how many people will be leaving Twitter/X because of Elon Musk's interview with Trump. Hopefully a lot of people.

#Trump #ElonMusk #Twitter #X #USpol #politics #DeleteTwitter

Every day I feel more and more grateful I deleted my Twitter account two years ago. What a mess it's become over there.

#Twitter #ElonMusk #SocialMedia

I started looking into Project 2025 so I could be more informed about it and...wow. This is really bad, absolutely horrible. They want to get rid of anything that benefits citizens and protects children and workers.

#Project2025 #politics #Fascism #USpol #media #press #USA #workersRights #democracy #2024Election

Link to full article: https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

– Bertrand Russell, Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940.

#quotes #reading #politics #SCOTUS #USpol #BertrandRussell #writers #Fascism

"The new deaths bring the total reported so far by various countries to 577, according to an AFP tally."

"The pilgrimage is increasingly affected by climate change, according to a Saudi study published last month that said temperatures in the area where rituals are performed were rising 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.72 degrees Fahrenheit) each decade."

This is really sad 😔

#news #climateChange #environment #heatwave #weather #climateCrisis #press #SaudiArabia

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saudi-arabia-hajj-egyptian-jordanian-pilgrims-die-mecca/

Noam Chomsky’s wife says reports of famed linguist’s death are false

"Earlier Tuesday, Chomsky was trending on X as false reports of his death abounded. Jacobin and The New Statesman published obituaries for Chomsky, though the former changed its headline from “We Remember Noam Chomsky” to “Let’s Celebrate Noam Chomsky.”"

Of course it was on X/Twitter. I don't know why anyone uses that platform anymore.

#X #Twitter #news #NoamChomsky #media #press #SocialMedia

https://apnews.com/article/noam-chomsky-alive-not-dead-5b7a1b23b8731ca311e1ec38cdc3c119

Getting tired of how US centric the internet and the news is...and I'm an American. I want to hear about what's going on in other countries, not just what's going on here. 😒

#USA #news #internet

In the mood for some fiction. Nonfiction has been too depressing lately for me to read. There's enough depressing things going on in the world right now, I don't need to add to it by reading about history and politics. 😆

#fiction #nonfiction #books #reading #bookstodon #history #politics

It’s 2024. Elon Musk Rules X. And the Political World Is Still Addicted.

"Two years after words like Mastodon, BlueSky, Post and Threads became rallying cries and users declared war on the blue check, those who made Twitter what it was in the days before Musk have returned to using X."

"Last year, Democratic candidates spent more than a million bucks on Twitter ads, The Washington Post reported."

#politics #X #twitter #tech #ElonMusk #democrat #news #media #press #USA

https://www.notus.org/media/elon-musk-x-politics-addicted-twitter

Instagram confirms test of ‘unskippable’ ads

"Instagram confirmed it’s testing unskippable ads after screenshots of the feature began circulating across social media."

"“We’re always testing formats that can drive value for advertisers,” a Meta company spokesperson told TechCrunch."

Looks like it's time for people to move over to #Pixelfed :pixelfed:

#Instagram #meta #tech #news #press #media #SocialMedia

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/03/instagram-confirms-test-of-unskippable-ads/

Every time I #write a new #blog post I remember how much I love #writing :blobcatlove: :blobhappy:

I feel the best when I spend almost no time on the Internet or social media, which is what I did today 😁 :blobcathappy:

#SocialMedia #internet #life

Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

"However, it remains unclear what exactly happens when users opt out. Commenters on Hacker News slammed Slack for failing to explain whether opting out deletes data from the models or "what exactly does the customer support rep do on their end to opt you out.""

#news #AI #Slack #business #media #press #tech

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/

Apparently I love reading books about technology companies lol.

I'm still reading Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter by Zoë Schiffer and I just started reading Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin.

So yeah...I sense a theme here. 😅😆

#books #tech #reading #facebook #google #amazon #nonfiction

Lol Elon is claiming that 1.7 million people are joining X every day 🤣🤣🤣 I highly doubt the number is that high

#ElonMusk #Twitter #X #SocialMedia #tech

https://mastodon.social/@TodayInTwitter/112121428225795436

I can't believe people are still using Twitter. I don't miss being on there at all.

#SocialMedia #Twitter #X #ElonMusk

I have a blog again! Going to use this blog for sharing my thoughts and writing about books I read. Excited to be blogging again!

#books #blog #writing #WordPress #blogger

https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2024/03/15/back-for-the-third-time/

I'm not going to be connecting my WordPress.com blog to the fediverse this time because I feel like it made everything confusing having a Mastodon account *and* a blog on the fediverse. 😅 :fediverse: :mastodon:

#blog #fediverse #mastodon