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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Timeline— Biden’s New Media: a few months ago I made a timeline of the Biden Administration’s efforts to both ban TikTok and use TikTok influencers as political messengers. Figured it’s relevant now. https://wiki.fromjason.xyz/Entries/Timeline%E2%80%94+Biden's+New+Media
Mastodon FeedChrisPirillo ("Chris Pirillo") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So we have Meta working with Republicans, and Republicans working with Democrats to ban the app.
Outside of a tantrum in 2020, Trump had no power to do anything. It's only now that he won that he's making moves.
We were sold out for corporate interests.
And that's why I think Meta will somehow take control of TikTok. It looks like Zuck has been able to get in Trump's good graces.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
FCC workers resigned and went to work for Targeted Victory, the company that Meta hired to run smear campaigns against TikTok.
Dems knew this and said nothing.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/30/fccs-carr-once-again-heads-to-the-fainting-couch-over-tiktok/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The first piece of legislation came in 2023.
The RESTRICT Act was bipartisan from the start.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
FTC chairman Brendan Carr started the offical process in 2022, months after private negotiations between Biden and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew fell apart.
Trump start calling for the ban during his 2020 election campaign because people on TikTok organized and reserved all the tickets to one of his rallies. Remember him crying like a baby over it?
The ban process started two full years after Trump was out of office.
https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/carr-letter-apple-and-google.pdf
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Before we all jump on the "Trump started this [tiktok ban]" rhetoric, consider the subtext.
We're basically saying that what?
That the dems caved to Trump when Biden signed the ban into law? To Meta when Zuck lobbied for the ban? That Trump listens to his constituents and changes his mind when they ask?
The funniest part is, it wasn't Trump that got it banned. It was a consorted and bipartisan effort from Dems, GOP and Meta.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@tammymakesthings [waves hello]
Mastodon Feedmolly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
Mastodon FeedInternetEh@dads.cool ("Sid🇵🇸") wrote:
Incredible things happening in China
Mastodon Feed@jef So this was a performative suicide attempt. Can you get a 5150 hold for a corporation? Corporations being people and all.
Mastodon FeedMissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Breaking: Matt Gaetz will attend Trump’s inauguration as Washington DC temperatures are now expected to be under 18.
Mastodon Feedubik@fedi.turbofish.cc ("pedro 🍉") wrote:
Stolen from Bluesky
Mastodon FeedSynchro@phpc.social ("Marcus Bointon") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Our masters are squirrels with short attention spans.
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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
Cartoon by Tom Chitty for The New Yorker.
➡️ https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-16th-great-power
#cartoon #power #spiderman #politics #BigTech #war #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #oligarchs #UnitedStates #billionaires
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
estherschindler@newsie.social ("Esther Schindler") wrote:
QOTD: "If a book told you something when you were 15, it will tell you again when you're 50, though you may understand it so differently that it seems that you're reading a whole new book." --Ursula K. Le Guin
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eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Trump suggests turning TikTok into a state-owned platform:
"Therefore, my initial thought is a joint venture between the current owners and/or new owners whereby the U.S. gets a 50% ownership in a joint venture set up between the U.S. and whichever purchase we so choose." https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/113855616848696050
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jgordon@appdot.net ("John Gordon") wrote:
Return of the Usurper: “should be viewed roughly like the British march on Washington during the War of 1812”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/a-contrarian-take-on-volume-one-of
The greatest failure of American governance since the internment of Japanese-Americans.
“It's important to bear the Supreme Court's culpability in mind as we prepare to defend our democracy”
And the GOP.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I recognize that cow!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/19/an-homage/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
theogrin@chaosfem.tw ("Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊") wrote:
In the Terry Pratchett book 'Going Postal', the golem Mr. Pump expresses to Moist Von Lipwig that he's functionally killed about 2.3 people through his actions. Moist protests that he's never laid a hand on anyone, and in turn, the golem responds:
"No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”
Nobody really sums up some of the cruelties forced on us by one another quite like Mr. Pratchett did.
Mastodon FeedIn #RustLang cargo-deb, I automatically fix some build configuration to make pkg-config work when cross-compiling, make debug symbols compressed and installed externally. I could also help build man pages, bash completions, etc.
That starts looking like a build system.
If I extracted the build tweaks into a separate tool, would you use it?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Let the looting begin!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/19/crime-is-legal-now/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Eepy.
Mastodon Feedmagicalgirlsabrina ("Sabrina Ryan") wrote:
Y’all got any more of them TikToks
Mastodon Feedjon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:
Mastodon FeedMostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:
Mastodon FeedCask has gained support for #Java virtual threads. This unblocks the “just block” way of doing things (which, to be honest, has its appeal in simplicity)
https://com-lihaoyi.github.io/cask/#running-cask-with-virtual-threads
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tsturm@famichiki.jp ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:
OK, this was kinda fun: This site tries to guess your native language based on reading an English paragraph. Didn't have to guess very hard to detect my German accent. 100% German with some potential Russian or French flavors.
