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  1. solarbird @[email protected] ·

    we are back up but I’ve been picking up the pieces

    HEY TEAM WE’RE BACK

    actually got power back yesterday but while a bomb cyclone is not a real bomb it can make a real mess just the same

    I’ve got a lot of catch-up to do but we’re getting there. Kinda had to move some network and UPS bits around after coming back up and some parts honestly I’m not sure why. But everything’s behaving today so I think we’re good.

    How’s your Friday been?

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  2. solarbird @[email protected] ·

    Fascism Watch for 1 July 2024: Let’s go through some tech bullshit, shall we?

    Not just Twitter this time, though I assure you, there is plenty of Twitter. But let’s start with my favourite article of the last few weeks: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again. I love this article and I love it very much. It is distilled catharsis. Enjoy.

    Now to get into some of Elon Musk’s Twitter fascism before moving on to other items:

    Well, that was a lot. Let’s see what else we have.

    Ah, this one’s good: Research finds pattern of YouTube recommending right-leaning, Christian videos. It does that to me, too. It really wants people to find fash content. I wonder if it’s related to the politics that lead to Tech Company Hit With DOJ Fine After Racist ‘Whites Only’ Job Posting and Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under right-wing pressure. I’m pretty fucking sure it is.

    Here’s the least surprising thing ever: Someone managed to get Gab’s AI’s setup prompt. It is, naturally, everything you’d expect out of a fascist site.

    Meanwhile, Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers – Meta allegedly tried to discredit university researchers in Brazil who had flagged fraudulent adverts on the social network’s ad platform. Fundamentally, Meta doesn’t like people saying things about it that it doesn’t like, and will absolutely throw its weight at people. See also A local news site was critical of Facebook—then Meta banned all their links.

    If you’re wondering, the story that pissed them off was When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet’s future.

    Clearly, Google was fine with it: U.K. forces Google to remove websites selling gender-affirming medications. TERF Island is go go go.

    Finally, to come back aground and close with more general news – stuff that isn’t actually directly fash / far-right / fundamentalist related, but is still tech bullshit:

    We’ll close on some better news, from CheckMyAds: Google’s breaking down, but we need to keep our eye on the ball. They’re doing some good work. You might give them a looking-over, maybe sign up. I did.

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  3. solarbird @[email protected] ·

    and that’s it, i’m out (of twitter)

    I’ve made a scene at the party and posted my angry goodbye to Twitter.

    —–

    Well, this is it.

    I’m done. Most of you aren’t. If you’ve decided to stay, you’ve decided you’re okay with drinking in a Nazi bar, and you’ll stay until you can’t.

    You’ve also given Elon’s advertisers the green light. They know they can stay, too. Which is what he wanted.

    —–

    I mean, if the owner tweeting Hitler memes while banning lefties and onboarding nazis who call for genocide and mass rape of women doesn’t do it, nothing will. Least of all trifles like worker barracks.

    That’s not “fine.” I’m not going to tell you that’s fine, because it’s not.

    —–

    If you don’t have some kind of transition plan telling followers, “I’m leaving in N days, go follow me here,” then what you’re doing is telling Elon _this is okay_. Not that you _like_ it, but that… you can live with it.

    —–

    And, once again, your queer and Jewish and BIPOC friends have to figure out how to live with _that_.

    —–

    You’re not “fighting back.” Sorry. That’s bullshit.

    It was viable before, if barely. I stayed this long to use my tiny voice to shove the algorithm around, just that little bit. With mentions, with tags, with lots of @ usage – something very few people actually did.

    —–

    But the new owner loves the fash and is weaponising the place, using confidential data, private files, disinformation – and if you think he _won’t_ slam the algorithm around, you’re out of your goddamn mind. Shaping it is not an option when the owner locks in the outcome.

    —–

    All you do by staying is tell Elon his plan is working.

    You’re telling advertisers they still have your eyes. That you won’t leave. That they can safely advertise next to nazis, because they’re also advertising to you. You’ll still be here.

    —–

    You’re saying that you’ll sit at the table with Nazis. On the other side, sure… but at the table. That it’s… acceptable. That it’s _tolerable_ in civil society.

    Push comes to shove, you’ll live with it, as long as the food’s good enough. And clearly, it is.

    —–

    I’m not surprised. Most of you kept eating those damned chicken sandwiches too. But that doesn’t make it okay.

    Your queer and Jewish and BIPOC friends are not okay. We’re really not.

    But Elon and his fash friends – _they’re_ okay.

    —–

    After all, this is what the fascists want. It’s what the Russians want too – them, and their hate-pushing botnets. In the end, it’s even what Elon wants:

    To normalise fascism.

    And for you to go along.

    —–

    Complaining, maybe. Howling, even. They like that. They like causing pain and generating traffic and this does both, all while normalising fascism.

    And it’s working, because you’re staying here, and helping.

    —–

    And having made my horrible scene at the party – don’t bother replying. Not here, certainly.

    You know where to find me.

    I’m out.

    —– not posted, couldn’t work it in really —–

    (Once upon a time, I’d’ve said fascist twitter was something Elon would accept, rather than what he wants. But now that he’s taking ban orders from Andy Ngo, I think it’s what he wants.)

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