And of course I'm like a wild horse But there's no other way I could be Water & feed are not tools that I need For the thing that I've chosen to be In my soul My blood & my bones I have wrapped your cold bodies around me The face on you The smell of you Will always be with me Each of these my 3 babies I was not willing to leave Though I tried, I blasphemed & denied I know they will be returned to me ... No longer mad like a horse I'm still wild but not lost From the thing that I've chosen to be
After her powerful rendition of Marley's anti-white supremacist "War" on SNL, #SineadOConnor warned of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse of children, tearing up a photo of the Pope.
Lorne Michaels turned off the "applause" sign. Madonna mocked her by tearing up a photo of Joey Buttafuoco. NBC banned her. But #SineadWasRight
In 2021, she had no regrets. "I'm not sorry I did it...But it was very traumatizing. It was open season on treating me like a crazy b-tch."
The Republican party is a dead-end for anyone who is not a fascist.
They. have. picked. their. lane.
You can't wish it away and if you are still trying to, you are clearly far more attached to your own identity as a Republican or as a "bipartisan type guy," than to your country being a democracy.
Weeks after Japan "stepped into its post-pandemic phase" in May & left anti-infection measures like masks up to "individual choice," the #COVID positivity rate in Okinawa has been over 50% for at least a week.
Hospital staff are turning sick & dying people away, including children from at least one children's hospital.
Doctors in Japan say the medical system is collapsing.
"The goal was to build a decentralized social network protocol that could eventually hook into Twitter — making it interoperable with other networks unrelated to the company...#Bluesky was set up as an independent entity producing nonproprietary open-source work — even as it was funded by Twitter"
Serving Musk's Twitter as a client remains a goal. Jack remains.
"[Q]:Dorsey is on your board and helped dream this all up....Has there been a change with his involvement in Bluesky? Graber: Nope..."
"Bluesky was launched under Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s leadership back in 2019, & its initial manager was Parag Agrawal, then Twitter’s CTO and later Dorsey’s replacement."
It took Jack 2 years to "hand select" someone he wanted to put in charge of Twitter's #Bluesky project. That was Jay Graber, a cryptocurrency developer.
"Bluesky was formally organized as a public benefit LLC led by software engineer Jay Graber in late 2021, and as of April, it had received $13 million from Twitter."
Here's where Jack's longstanding "moral flexibility" towards anti-Semites & fascists comes in. He never watned to ban/moderate them.
"Dorsey imagined decentralization as a way to sidestep increasingly bitter content moderation debates among law- & policy-makers. Decentralized social networking protocols like ActivityPub (which powers Mastodon) already existed, and to the extent #Bluesky has a unique vision, it reflects ideas like Dorsey’s love of “algorithmic choice”
Dorsey will be happy with one arm of #Bluesky being used by his advisor Ali Alexander to plan the next armed Proud Boys/GOP attack on the Capitol building - and the other arm being used by you to fruitlessly bemoan SCOTUS corruption & the New Jim Crow voting restrictions, & what he & Musk undoubtedly delight, behind closed doors, in referring to as "woke nonsense." The $ & power asymmetry makes this work for the GOP.
No content moderation means no pesky Congressional hearings for him & Musk.
There's a lot of misinformation circulating that obscures or softens Jack Dorsey's relationship to #Bluesky, Bluesky to Twitter, &/or Dorsey to Musk/Twitter.
On Dec 11, 2019, Dorsey announced on Twitter that he'd started Bluesky as part of Twitter, to serve Twitter, & funded by Twitter $, "to develop an open & decentralized standard for social media." (One already existed. Clearly the goal was one he controlled.)
"The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this [Bluesky] standard."
M.A. Intellectual History, Duke U.B.A. History, Reed CollegeYale Law School '04History: interwar fascism & political anti-semitism; French colonization of North Africa; legal historyLitigation: appellate, environmental justice, civil rightsMom for climate action#StandOnEveryCorner OGLifelong progressive volunteer for Democratic PartyWarren Democratshe/her/sirsearchable#CovidIsNotOver #PASC #PNW #Lawstodon #PTSD