A lot of people I know shared posts about the Yandex datacenter bombing resulting in a decrease in Russian misinformation/disinformation bot activity, sometimes with charts. Let this be a reminder every one of us could be fooled by a story that we really want to be true.

Yep. Also everybody wants to blame Russian propaganda more than good old-fashioned US-based propaganda (or Germany-based propaganda when it comes from AfD) ... Anyhow it *is* possible to win against the propaganda. Hungary earlier this year, the US in 2018 / 2020 / 2022 ... lots of examples!

As is so often the case, if it's exactly what we want to hear ... it's quite possibly not true. Oh well.

Agreed and agreed

And, this also relates to the recent spate of white people going back to Xitter with weaksauce excuses like "it's gotten better".

It’s a politics of white reconciliation premised on anti-Blackness.

Remember when Tiffany was the lead fundraiser during the last election and didn’t even get an interview? I do. She made it anyway and I’m excited to serve a 4 year term with her 🩷💙

i like it!

A moratorium on this BS till we figure out how to make it work for ALL our communities....is labor justice. is economic justice. is environmental justice. is climate justice. is...justice.

Agreed although I did update the lengthy footnote mocking Gruber in “Should the fediverse welcome its new surveillance capitalism overlords?”

An incredibly well sourced thread about what’s going on in India right now. A comprehensive account!

Hmmm what's the word for a political system that revolves around the merger of state and corporate power? I was just on an election-defense-related call where the organizer said that posts linking to the event got hidden on Threads. Good times.

Fortunately it's not like Mark F---ing Zuckerberg would side with the fascist candidate here in the US ... ok sure, he did in 2016 and in the run-up to Jan 6 and in 2024, but I'm sure this time will be different.

I've been thinking all week about the Brazil election result and this so I'm posting it again...

David Brooks contributed to this current fascist moment in the U.S. I don't know why people still give him a platform to spew his nonsense.