Tonight seemed like a good time to delete my #twitter profile. All done now. Feels good.
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Daniel Simonds
@djsimonds@ohai.social
mastodon 4.7.2Concerned and engaged citizen. Living in rural western Maine (CD-2). Interested in (& worried about) the rest of the world, too.
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Some things becoming clear:
1) Mastodon is the ‘serious’ platform for folks who don’t mind working at it a bit. De-centralized so can’t be high jacked be an oligarch.
2) Post is the user-friendly, upstart alternative, geared for casual users.
3) Twitter is legacy. Still relevant, but compromised and corrupt.
@Mastodon@mastodon.social
This speaks volumes about both Alito and the WSJ. Both corrupt. Bought, paid for, and unashamed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/21/alito-wsj-propublica-fishing-trip/
I deleted Twitter from my phone a week ago. So far, I’m surprised at how little I’ve missed it.
https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing
Damn. This good. Very, very good.
https://www.salon.com/2023/02/07/eek-a-balloon-how-china-easily-got-to-beclown-themselves/
After spending most of the last 30 years promoting policy designed to concentrate wealth and power, Bill Cohen seems to notice that it had some bad consequences.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-vote.html
@Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online
A reminder about why folks like me remain so frustrated (stuff you probably know):
For many (most?), criminal justice looks like this: 1) police/prosecutor decides someone is criminal. 2) They ruin his/her life. No judge or jury needed. Protection from this requires $ and time. Lots of both.
Watching powerful people evade accountability for obvious crimes carries a special pain for us.