Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@peertube is the Fediverse's video sharing network. You can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts from Mastodon.

For example, you can follow @theatticdwellers and when they publish a new video it will appear in your Mastodon feed. If you like one of their posts, that will show as a thumbs up on PeerTube, and if you reply to a post it will show as a comment under the video on PeerTube.

More info about all of this (and also how to publish your own videos) at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse/

This was a really interesting discussion.

I say 2026.

I think that federation offers an opportunity for Chinese networks to engage with the outside world without tearing down the Great Firewall.

And it maintains the locus of control domestically. Data, user accounts, etc. all stay on servers inside China.

For censorship, there's a natural chokepoint with ActivityPub at the inbox. Everything comes through there; an opportunity for filtering.

It seems really advantageous to Chinese networks.

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 3083

That makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

🙌🙌🙌🙌

Snoop Dogg Cancels Hollywood Bowl
Shows In Solidarity With Strikes – Billboard
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/snoop-dogg-cancels-hollywood-bowl-shows-solidarity-strikes-1235378957/

Wow, this quote from Walter Issacson's upcoming bio of Elon isn't just bad writing, it's vomit-inducing. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/25/elon-musk-everything-app-twitter-x?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Minnesota Sociology is hiring an assistant prof in population studies!

Focused on population and environment (some, but defeasible, preference for candidates who could also teach grad migration)

It's a great place to work & I'll gladly answer questions

https://hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&SiteId=1&FOCUS=Applicant&JobOpeningId=356679&PostingSeq=1&

I should also say that it doesn't matter which way information flowed.

It doesn't matter if an enslaved person gets a Ph.D. in astrophysics from their work. If it comes from forced labour, it is toxic and valueless.

There is no benefit that is not absolutely corrupted by its enforcement through slavery.

The Kolektiva raid reminds us that it’s important to stand with your users in the #fediverse too.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their

I just read the Department of Justice’s letter to Jim Jordan, the current Chair of the House Judiciary Committee and a complete idiot. Usually to see a grown man get spanked this hard you have to put in your credit card number.

Customer left instructions telling Amazon delivery driver he's welcome to take a dip in their pool. Challenge accepted.

How can a president who violated his oath to uphold the Constitution, incite a violent murderous coup & plot to overthrow a presidential election to install his dictatorship even be allowed to run for office? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-2024-january-6_n_64bfd558e4b038c60ccbc4d7 #trumpforlifeinprison #TrumpTraitorToDemocracy Trump's 2024 Rivals Say He Should Get A Pass For Jan. 6 Insurrection
The top 2024 #GOPTraitorsToDemocracy candidates are loath to criticize #TraitorTrump over attempted overthrow of democracy #trumpcrimesyndicate

Via ACLU:

BREAKING: With more than 700,000 signatures submitted, the #Ohio Secretary of State announced that a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom has enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this fall.

We have a right to #abortion care and we will vote for it.

Mass #dieoff of #penguins off the coast of #Uruguay... "Nearly 2,000 dead penguins were found in ten days on the eastern coasts of Uruguay. The cause of this carnage, which remains unexplained, does not seem to be avian flu, local authorities said....90% are young specimens that arrive without fat reserves and with an empty stomach." #oceans #marine https://www.rtbf.be/article/pres-de-2000-manchots-retrouves-morts-en-10-jours-sur-les-cotes-de-luruguay-11231147

Boom: Ohio just confirmed there WILL be a constitutional amendment on the ballot this November to codify abortion rights.

Huge victory for abortion rights organizers, and a potential game changer for reproductive rights in Ohio.

There is a but, though (1/2). https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/25/will-ohio-abortion-rights-measure-make-the-november-ballot/70437268007/

This is why, for all its flaws, we have tenure in #Academia.

Tenure is meant to protect freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of knowledge.

It is meant to be an institutionalised system to protect democratic debate and to speak, without fear, in the public interest.

Tenure is the hill.

@academicchatter @academicsunite

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

RFK Jr also lies about Polio vaccines.
#vaccines #antivaxxers

https://open.substack.com/pub/pauloffit/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-should-stop-talking?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lsj6

Study: COVID deaths fell 84% in UK cancer patients after vaccine rollout https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-covid-deaths-fell-84-uk-cancer-patients-after-vaccine-rollout