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I see Elon Musk is buying Twitter 🐦

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I see Elon Musk is buying Twitter 🐦

I haven’t tweeted in a year and a half because I’m much too vulgar and hang out with the wrong kind of folk on the Twitter. Plus I suffer from a bad case of foot in mouth disease and I have a big shots job so I stay away. Gotta make that money to spend it on gasoline and all the toys.

I still do Facebook but I’ve blocked all of the politicians and news reporters so all I see is posts about wildlife, farming, big jacked up trucks, off grid shit, hunting and fishing and non controversial shit like that. I kind of like the taste of diesel smoke, silage and hay. I did get blocked from stupid off grid group for criticizing one of those luxury cabins, pointing out that nobody lives that way – most of life is lived in the mud and muck – things are rusty and broken. After all, my heroes all smell a little like cow shit and burn their own trash.

But what can I say, I’m a vulgur SOB. 🤬

NPR

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How social media can skew views of Ukraine war : NPR

Images from satellites are shaping our understanding of this conflict like never before. They have spied Russian bases and cataloged the destruction caused by Russia's brutal attacks on Ukrainian cities.

But satellites can't do it all.

Mostly for shits and giggles, 💩 🤣 I wanted to subscribe to the Joe Rogan podcast only to found out it’s not available using most normal podcasting applications — he no longer provides an RSS feed that you can use in your normal podcasting app of choice, mine being Podcast Addict

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Mostly for shits and giggles, 💩 🤣 I wanted to subscribe to the Joe Rogan podcast only to found out it’s not available using most normal podcasting applications — he no longer provides an RSS feed that you can use in your normal podcasting app of choice, mine being Podcast Addict. 🎧 I am a big advocate for open platforms, and I’m not going to install yet another app on my phone — Spotify, so I said forget it.

Probably the same ol’ drably from a conservative whining about stupid COVID-19 conspiracy theories.

I already have enough that from the podcasts I currently subscribe to, so I think I can pass on that. Yes, I’m talking about James Howard Kunstler. That said, I do like to hear alternative views and viewpoints on issues of concern today, but it seems like somethings in this world are just dumb.

Apparently I’ve been over sharing Snoopy on the Facebook 🐶 💣 

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Apparently I’ve been over sharing Snoopy on the Facebook 🐶 💣 

And have stumbled upon the creepiness of the Facebook algorithms, now trying to serve me fringe religious Snoopy memes to feed my interest in Snoopy. I’ve just been sharing a lot of Snoopy because I hate how political Facebook has become and I’d rather see more light hearted happy memes than all the hatred and politics that dominate Facebook these days. 

Facebook’s Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous” Groups and People

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Facebook’s Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous” Groups and People

To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.

The restrictions appear to trace back to 2012, when in the face of growing alarm in Congress and the United Nations about online terrorist recruiting, Facebook added to its Community Standards a ban on “organizations with a record of terrorist or violent criminal activity.” This modest rule has since ballooned into what’s known as the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, a sweeping set of restrictions on what Facebook’s nearly 3 billion users can say about an enormous and ever-growing roster of entities deemed beyond the pale.

In recent years, the policy has been used at a more rapid clip, including against the president of the United States, and taken on almost totemic power at the social network, trotted out to reassure the public whenever paroxysms of violence, from genocide in Myanmar to riots on Capitol Hill, are linked to Facebook. Most recently, following a damning series of Wall Street Journal articles showing the company knew it facilitated myriad offline harms, a Facebook vice president cited the policy as evidence of the company’s diligence in an internal memo obtained by the New York Times.