Just got done listening to @npub1j6xz...re8c give a book talk about The Digital Closet. It's a deep critique of the underlying technologies of content moderation used by #Google and #Meta. Such important work! the book is free to read, too!
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The Digital Closet
In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by suppressing everything that is not, forcing LGBTQI...
Hey, folks from what was once called Twitter! My fedi tip is: follow hashtags. You can search for hashtags of interest and then follow them just like you can follow any account. Your timeline will fill up quickly if you do that, and then you can start to follow interesting people in the timeline. For example, some of the hashtags I follow include #blackmastodon, #mutualaid, and #canpoli, among others. I've found that I can get news just as fast here as folks on #X. #fediTips
Latest FOSS Academic post: Hey, Journalists: X is now Truth Social. Start treating it that way.
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Hey, journalists, it
 In which I argue that, if they cannot leave X, journalists need to treat it like Truth Social. Dip in, copy what you gotta copy, and get out. [replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog] #journalism #FOSSacademic
lol at the post-election coverage that suggests Trump won in spite of "rhetoric that many Americans found repulsive" umm... they found it enticing, actually. by definition
the billionaire newspaper/market/pharma owners figured out which way the wind is blowing, didn't they