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Despair is a Goddamn Luxury

joanwestenberg.com · Jan 19

Your daily doomscrolling is a luxury most folks can't afford. The single mother working three jobs doesn't have time for despair. The refugee rebuilding their life doesn't indulge in it. The activist on the ground organizing their community isn't wallowing in it. They're too busy doing the work. ...

Shared by @onepict and 43 others.
GhostOnTheHalfShell (@GhostOnTheHalfShell) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

Barbara Monaco (@Barbramon1) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

divdev (@divdev) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

Samhain Night (@samhainnight) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

Molly Cantrell-Kraig (@mckra1g) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

MOULE :RainbowLogo: (@MOULE) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

Ivey Janette McClelland (@IveyJanette) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

Clare Harris 🍁 (@drclareharris) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

Lenz Grimmer (@lenzgr) · Jan 19
🔁 @Daojoan:

The white rose didn't despair. They stood up to Hitler and paid the ultimate price. MLK, whose Day will be marked alongside the inauguration of a white supremacist grifter, didn't despair - he fought the fuck back.

How do you want to spend your emotional capital?

joanwestenberg.com/despair/

The Great Creator Reset

usermag.co · Jan 18

The TikTok ban isn't just a platform reconfiguration, it will reshape the political leaning of the creator economy and permanently alter whose voices get heard online.

Shared by @ckoerner and 37 others.
Katja Diehl (@SheDrivesMobility) · Jan 18
🔁 @taylorlorenz:

While the majority of news content creators across the social media landscape are conservative men, a recent study found that TikTok is the *only* platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones. usermag.co/p/the-great-creator

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖ (@dgoldsmith) · Jan 19
🔁 @taylorlorenz:

With Meta and X outright embracing right wing ideology, and YouTube becoming increasingly saturated, progressive creators who found a haven on TikTok, now face the near impossible task of rebuilding their communities on platforms that are hostile to their content. Most will fail. usermag.co/p/the-great-creator

Greg Wilson (@gvwilson) · Jan 18
🔁 @taylorlorenz:

While the majority of news content creators across the social media landscape are conservative men, a recent study found that TikTok is the *only* platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones. usermag.co/p/the-great-creator

Horst Albermann 🇪🇺🇩🇪 (@h_albermann) · Jan 18
🔁 @taylorlorenz:

While the majority of news content creators across the social media landscape are conservative men, a recent study found that TikTok is the *only* platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones. usermag.co/p/the-great-creator

divdev (@divdev) · Jan 18
🔁 @taylorlorenz:

The TikTok ban will deplatform thousands of progressive content creators and skew online discourse to the right. It will consolidate media influence within right-leaning platforms like Meta and X. Over time, I believe this reconfiguration will permanently alter the political landscape of the creator economy usermag.co/p/the-great-creator

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Shared by @regendans and 11 others.
Tommi 🤯 (@tommi) · Jan 19
🔁 @rysiek:

In case anyone is confused as to why platforming Jack Dorsey is a problem, go listen to this Tech Won't Save Us episode:
techwontsave.us/episode/228_ja

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

Jan Penfrat (@ilumium) · Jan 19
🔁 @rysiek:

In case anyone is confused as to why platforming Jack Dorsey is a problem, go listen to this Tech Won't Save Us episode:
techwontsave.us/episode/228_ja

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

Ecologia Digital (@josemurilo) · Jan 19
🔁 @rysiek:

In case anyone is confused as to why platforming Jack Dorsey is a problem, go listen to this Tech Won't Save Us episode:
techwontsave.us/episode/228_ja

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

Gik :prami: (@gikiski) · Jan 19
🔁 @rysiek:

In case anyone is confused as to why platforming Jack Dorsey is a problem, go listen to this Tech Won't Save Us episode:
techwontsave.us/episode/228_ja

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

Regendans (@regendans) · Jan 19
🔁 @rysiek:

In case anyone is confused as to why platforming Jack Dorsey is a problem, go listen to this Tech Won't Save Us episode:
techwontsave.us/episode/228_ja

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

Caro S. (@Heidentweet) · Jan 19
🔁 @rysiek:

In case anyone is confused as to why platforming Jack Dorsey is a problem, go listen to this Tech Won't Save Us episode:
techwontsave.us/episode/228_ja

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

James Hawley (@jrhawley) · Jan 19
🔁 @rysiek:

In case anyone is confused as to why platforming Jack Dorsey is a problem, go listen to this Tech Won't Save Us episode:
techwontsave.us/episode/228_ja

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2025

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Demolishing The Billionaire Scam

the-reframe.com · Jan 18

Thoughts on the cusp of a fascist takeover. Know the game, face the worst, imagine the best, embrace the better, play to win.

Shared by @adam and 42 others.
Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖ (@dgoldsmith) · Jan 19
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

I wrote about the coming fascist oligarchy, the billionaire scam upon which it rests, and the nature and purpose of game we need to play in order to become people of opposition. Transforming the national spirit, expanding the scope of possibility. Part 1.

the-reframe.com/demolishing-th

skry (@skry) · Jan 18
🔁 @juliusgoat.bsky.social:

I wrote about the coming fascist oligarchy, the billionaire scam upon which it rests, and the nature and purpose of game we need to play in order to become people of opposition. Transforming the national spirit, expanding the scope of possibility. Part 1. www.the-reframe.com/demolishing-...

Demolishing The Billionaire Sc...

Guido Stevens (@guidostevens) · Jan 19
🔁 @FormerlyStC:

This is it. This is the essay.

This is how we go forward.

@JuliusGoat: “Demolishing the Billionaire Scam”
the-reframe.com/demolishing-th

TL Jordan (@dulcedemon) · Jan 19
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

I wrote about the coming fascist oligarchy, the billionaire scam upon which it rests, and the nature and purpose of game we need to play in order to become people of opposition. Transforming the national spirit, expanding the scope of possibility. Part 1.

the-reframe.com/demolishing-th

Voting is Your POWER (@digyoursoul) · Jan 19
🔁 @juliusgoat.bsky.social:

I wrote about the coming fascist oligarchy, the billionaire scam upon which it rests, and the nature and purpose of game we need to play in order to become people of opposition. Transforming the national spirit, expanding the scope of possibility. Part 1. www.the-reframe.com/demolishing-...

Demolishing The Billionaire Sc...

aprilfollies (@aprilfollies) · Jan 18
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

I wrote about the coming fascist oligarchy, the billionaire scam upon which it rests, and the nature and purpose of game we need to play in order to become people of opposition. Transforming the national spirit, expanding the scope of possibility. Part 1.

the-reframe.com/demolishing-th

Hal 😻 (@connectionist) · Jan 18
🔁 @JuliusGoat:

I wrote about the coming fascist oligarchy, the billionaire scam upon which it rests, and the nature and purpose of game we need to play in order to become people of opposition. Transforming the national spirit, expanding the scope of possibility. Part 1.

the-reframe.com/demolishing-th

O.E. Auran 🕊️❤️⁂ (@odd) · Jan 19
🔁 @FormerlyStC:

This is it. This is the essay.

This is how we go forward.

@JuliusGoat: “Demolishing the Billionaire Scam”
the-reframe.com/demolishing-th

Everyone is asking the wrong questions about TikTok

sfconservancy.org · Jan 19

As we write this, everyone is wondering what will happen with TikTok in the next 48 hours. Social media as a phenomenon was designed to manufacture drama to sell advertising, and in this moment, the meta-drama is bigger than the in-App drama.The danger of pervasive software is clear: powerful ent...

Shared by @conservancy and 10 others.
Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) · Jan 19
Bradley and @karen published their thoughts about the TikTok ban yesterday:

"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/
pettter (@pettter) · Jan 19
🔁 @freeideas:

"FOSS is the best method we have to democratize technology and its algorithms.. users never really know what data is collected about them, ..how the software manipulates that data.. The primary reasons that sites like TikTok are so toxic is inherent in their business model: privacy-unfriendly data gathering to sell targeted advertising.. Transparent technology leads the only way to the truth in our software-controlled world." sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja #tiktok #foss #freedom #sfconservancy #tech

{Insert Pasta Pun} (@risottobias) · Jan 19
🔁 @freeideas:

"FOSS is the best method we have to democratize technology and its algorithms.. users never really know what data is collected about them, ..how the software manipulates that data.. The primary reasons that sites like TikTok are so toxic is inherent in their business model: privacy-unfriendly data gathering to sell targeted advertising.. Transparent technology leads the only way to the truth in our software-controlled world." sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja #tiktok #foss #freedom #sfconservancy #tech

alcinnz (@alcinnz) · Jan 19
🔁 @freeideas:

"FOSS is the best method we have to democratize technology and its algorithms.. users never really know what data is collected about them, ..how the software manipulates that data.. The primary reasons that sites like TikTok are so toxic is inherent in their business model: privacy-unfriendly data gathering to sell targeted advertising.. Transparent technology leads the only way to the truth in our software-controlled world." sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja #tiktok #foss #freedom #sfconservancy #tech

Tech Cyborg (@CyborgHT) · Jan 19
🔁 @Delib:

"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license."

sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja

@conservancy
#tikTok #foss #law #policy #techPolicy

500 Internal Server Error (@bootlegrydia) · Jan 19
🔁 @freeideas:

"FOSS is the best method we have to democratize technology and its algorithms.. users never really know what data is collected about them, ..how the software manipulates that data.. The primary reasons that sites like TikTok are so toxic is inherent in their business model: privacy-unfriendly data gathering to sell targeted advertising.. Transparent technology leads the only way to the truth in our software-controlled world." sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja #tiktok #foss #freedom #sfconservancy #tech

Washington’s TikTok Ban Hypocrisy: Internet Censorship Is Good, Now

theintercept.com · Jan 18

With the Supreme Court approving the TikTok ban, the U.S. is embracing the type of internet authoritarianism it long opposed.

Shared by @liztai and 8 others.
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (@liztai) · Jan 19
🔁 @youranonriots:

With the Supreme Court approving the TikTok ban, the U.S. is embracing the type of internet authoritarianism it long opposed.
#TikTokBan #Nazism
theintercept.com/2025/01/18/ti

Gombang (@gombang) · Jan 18
🔁 @theintercept:

With the Supreme Court approving the TikTok ban, the U.S. is embracing the type of internet authoritarianism it long opposed. theintercept.com/2025/01/18/ti

Police State UK (@PoliceStateUK) · Jan 18
🔁 @theintercept:

With the Supreme Court approving the TikTok ban, the U.S. is embracing the type of internet authoritarianism it long opposed. theintercept.com/2025/01/18/ti

Fou (@foufoutos) · Jan 18
🔁 @theintercept:

With the Supreme Court approving the TikTok ban, the U.S. is embracing the type of internet authoritarianism it long opposed. theintercept.com/2025/01/18/ti

Jon Henshaw (@jon) · Jan 19
🔁 @theintercept:

With the Supreme Court approving the TikTok ban, the U.S. is embracing the type of internet authoritarianism it long opposed. theintercept.com/2025/01/18/ti

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⧖ (@dgoldsmith) · Jan 19
🔁 @theintercept:

With the Supreme Court approving the TikTok ban, the U.S. is embracing the type of internet authoritarianism it long opposed. theintercept.com/2025/01/18/ti

An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off | Stewart Lee

theguardian.com · Jan 19

As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out

Shared by @timo21 and 17 others.
Joachim (@joachim) · Jan 19
🔁 @PoliceStateUK:

"We should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa."

#USPol #Trump #Musk

theguardian.com/media/2025/jan

Timo (@timo21) · Jan 19
🔁 @jeffjarvis:

This is a position of privilege from someone who has platforms can't see the trees for the forest: the people speaking more than the tools they use to speak.
An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off
theguardian.com/media/2025/jan

michael (@proseandpassion) · Jan 19
🔁 @PoliceStateUK:

"We should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa."

#USPol #Trump #Musk

theguardian.com/media/2025/jan

Matti Järvinen (@nemeciii) · Jan 19
🔁 @PoliceStateUK:

"We should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa."

#USPol #Trump #Musk

theguardian.com/media/2025/jan

Aral Balkan (@aral) · Jan 19
🔁 @PoliceStateUK:

"We should now be imposing the same boycotts on Musk’s hideous fascist US that we once did on apartheid South Africa."

#USPol #Trump #Musk

theguardian.com/media/2025/jan

This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies | Sadiq Khan

theguardian.com · Jan 18

Putting pressure on social media companies to tackle hate and misinformation is a start, but there’s more that the centre left can do, writes Sadiq Khan

Shared by @petrichor and 11 others.
Jez 🍞🌹 (@petrichor) · Jan 19
🔁 @glynmoody:

This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies - theguardian.com/commentisfree/ this is one of the biggest challenges facing us; good to see Sir Sadiq is on it... #trump #musk

Cassandrich (@dalias) · Jan 19
🔁 @ChrisMayLA6:

Sadiq Khan on the return of Fascism:

'We should be in no doubt, this is a perilous moment. The spectre of a resurgent fascism haunts the West … To ward off the far-right, we must be unflinching in defence of our democracy & values, and in our determination to enhance the welfare & material conditions of our communities...

progressives around the world should never yield ground to the far-right, nor be afraid to speak truth to power when required'!

#politics

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Chip Butty (@otfrom) · Jan 19
🔁 @ChrisMayLA6:

Sadiq Khan on the return of Fascism:

'We should be in no doubt, this is a perilous moment. The spectre of a resurgent fascism haunts the West … To ward off the far-right, we must be unflinching in defence of our democracy & values, and in our determination to enhance the welfare & material conditions of our communities...

progressives around the world should never yield ground to the far-right, nor be afraid to speak truth to power when required'!

#politics

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

ScienceCommunicator (@ScienceCommunicator) · Jan 19
🔁 @ScienceCommunicator:

This is my three-point plan for standing up to the far right and the billionaire bullies | Sadiq Khan

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

> Putting pressure on social media companies to tackle hate and misinformation is a start, but there’s more that the centre left can do, writes Sadiq Khan

#UK #politics

Shared by @JohnSullivan and 8 others.
eswillwalker (@ELS) · Jan 18
🔁 @wonka:

@ctrl pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/foo: »Facebook, a cancer of a company founded to nonconsenually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads (incredibly, that was Facebook’s least terrible moment. It actually got worse after that)«

@pixelfed

Paul J Wege (@makeratschool) · Jan 18
🔁 @wonka:

@ctrl pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/foo: »Facebook, a cancer of a company founded to nonconsenually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads (incredibly, that was Facebook’s least terrible moment. It actually got worse after that)«

@pixelfed

Court Cantrell will not comply (@courtcan) · Jan 19
🔁 @wonka:

@ctrl pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/foo: »Facebook, a cancer of a company founded to nonconsenually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads (incredibly, that was Facebook’s least terrible moment. It actually got worse after that)«

@pixelfed

Mark Corbett Wilson (@mcorbettwilson) · Jan 18
🔁 @wonka:

@ctrl pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/foo: »Facebook, a cancer of a company founded to nonconsenually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads (incredibly, that was Facebook’s least terrible moment. It actually got worse after that)«

@pixelfed

Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy (@JohnSullivan) · Jan 19
🔁 @wonka:

@ctrl pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/foo: »Facebook, a cancer of a company founded to nonconsenually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads (incredibly, that was Facebook’s least terrible moment. It actually got worse after that)«

@pixelfed

Cruiser (@cruiser) · Jan 19
🔁 @wonka:

@ctrl pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/foo: »Facebook, a cancer of a company founded to nonconsenually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads (incredibly, that was Facebook’s least terrible moment. It actually got worse after that)«

@pixelfed

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