MediaActivist

MediaActivist, 13 days ago to random

Cholera! I refer to it a lot in this piece. https://www.mediaactivist.com/recovering-from-shock/

MediaActivist, 14 days ago to random

I've been working on this for quite some time, and now here it is at last - my latest piece, on how the shock of the pandemic, and its mishandling, has for too long been exploited by right-wing interests: https://www.mediaactivist.com/recovering-from-shock/ #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #AntiFascism

MediaActivist, 18 days ago to random

"Following his speech, a BBC News presenter apologised after she accused Farage of using 'customary inflammatory language.' Geeta Guru-murthy made the comment after a clip of Farage speaking at the Dover event was shown on the news channel, before later apologising and saying this 'didn’t meet the BBC’s editorial standards on impartiality.' Live on air, Guru-murthy said: 'Earlier today we heard live from Nigel Farage, speaking at that election event we just saw. When we came away from his live speech, I used language to describe it which didn’t meet the BBC’s editorial standards on impartiality. I’d like to apologise to Farage and viewers for this.' In a post on X, Farage tagged the presenter and asked: 'What happened to impartiality?'' https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/28/uk-moving-to-sectarian-politics-with-women-excluded-from-inner-cities-says-nigel-farage

MediaActivist, 18 days ago to Signal

"A lot of times we see these disinformation campaigns targeted at vulnerable communities in order to force them onto a less secure option and then subject them to surveillance and social control and other forms of harm that come from that type of weaponized information asymmetry...Telegram is a social media platform with DMs. Signal is a private communication service." Superb stuff, as usual, from Signal's Meredith Whittaker @Mer__edith https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/24/signals-meredith-whittaker-on-the-telegram-security-clash-and-the-edge-lords-at-openai/?guccounter=1 #Signal

MediaActivist, 19 days ago to Signal

"There are two major benefits to using Signal. First, the messages are end-to-end encrypted, which means that Signal (the company) does not have access to them. Only you and the person on the other end can access the messages. This makes Signal different from texting and social media. Second, while you need a phone number to make an account, following a recent update, it is now possible to withhold your phone number from the people you message. This is very important for those who prefer to remain anonymous, because your phone number can be used to connect your messages to you." https://crimethinc.com/2024/05/27/the-sunbird-how-to-start-an-announcements-only-thread-on-signal-and-how-organizers-in-austin-used-one-to-coordinate-solidarity-with-palestine #Signal @Mer__edith

MediaActivist, 20 days ago to art

Anyone got any knowledge of good printers particularly suitable for high-quality printing things like cards, pin badge art, posters, etc? Thanks in advance! #art #printing #AskFedi

MediaActivist, 20 days ago to random

I just backed The Covid Sanity Handbook: Staying Safe in an Unsafe World from the awesome @violetblue of the invaluable Pandemic Roundup: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/violetblue/the-covid-sanity-handbook?ref=thanks-copy

MediaActivist, 21 days ago to random

Families of Uvalde school shooting victims sue Microsoft, Meta and gunmaker https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/25/families-of-uvalde-school-shooting-victims-sue-microsoft-meta-and-gunmaker

MediaActivist, 22 days ago to random

Also, anyone not familiar with the red Tory known as Sir Keir Starmer - a man who very clearly believes in nothing at all besides power - I'd recommend reading up on Jean Charles de Menezes, or Ian Tomlinson, or The Labour Files, or his Labour leadership campaign pledges. You know, I can despise a Tory, but at least they tell me they're a Tory. But one who leads a "democratic socialist" party, while purging democratic socialists from that party, and promoting the same policies as regular Tories? That's somehow so sickeningly worse. It's sinister, cynical, underhanded, and it's all based on an attempt to shift Labour to the right, which ultimately (as Danny Dorling has explained well) shifts the Tories further to the far right. It isn't going to be pretty. It'll be downright ugly, right from the very moment Sir Keir Starmer and his cronies celebrate their victory standing over the defeated democratic socialists, laughing at the smeared, hounded and ousted Corbynistas and declaring "We did it. We destroyed them. And we won." Well, fuck them. But never forgive them. And never forget them. Oh, no. Remember them, and oppose them wherever they are found. For they will never be a friend or an ally to you - unless, perhaps, you happen to own property or business, of course.

MediaActivist, 26 days ago to LGBTQ

Hey folx, can I ask a favour? For a while now I've been volunteering, and more recently working, for @EDEN_F_P and since 2013 they have done soo much incredible work for and with the #LGBTQ+ community, including E.D.E.N. Digital, and Transforming Cinema - film festival championing transgender, gender nonconforming, non-binary, and genderqueer voices, as well as loads more important work using the powerful medium of film. Will you welcome them into the Fediverse, and maybe give them a follow? Thanks! #TransRights @FediFollows

MediaActivist, 29 days ago to FF

It's been a while since I did a #FollowFriday so here goes! @radicalresilience @ophiocephalic @Loukas @noondlyt @beadsland @aral @jalcine @crowgirl @az @catnash and way too many more awesome folks I'm surely forgetting, but there's always next time! #FF

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to random

A great piece on Freedom News this morning, on the mix of centrist and fascist politics for a scared state in crisis: "In Europe, the established political parties have been double-dipping into the hot sauce of nationalism to spice up a bland political process that has been numbed by neoliberalism. The vote for centrist parties is collapsing so racism and authoritarianism have become the main meal for a culture war diet." https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/05/13/the-triumph-of-beige/

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to DeGoogle

Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government https://www.404media.co/google-delists-sites-providing-diy-hormone-therapy-at-behest-of-uk-government/ #deGoogle #Google #TransRights #LGBTQ

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to disability

"Given the past history of how this government hands out contracts to accredited providers, their friends down the boozer can start ordering their super yacht catalogues now — while the rest of us can continue with our suicide watch over friends and family, affected by previous austerity programmes under the guise of welfare reforms which have cost the lives of over a hundred and twenty thousand people. The government has a struggle on its hands (along with the blood) if it expects to enact these changes before it’s ran out of power. That doesn’t mean it can’t. Or that a potential incoming Labour government wouldn’t pick up this particularly poisonous chalice..." https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/05/10/disability-cuts-work-isnt-the-pull-sunak-thinks-it-is/ #disability #PIP #Tories #LabourTorySameOldStory

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to Israel

"They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either." https://theintercept.com/2024/05/08/american-democracy-israel-us-arabs/ #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #StopGenocide

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to journalism

Reporters Without Borders condemns Israel’s Al Jazeera shutdown: The French-based organisation said it “strongly condemns freedom-threatening legislation that censors a TV network for its coverage of the war in Gaza” https://aje.io/bzs7sx?update=2881381 #media #journalism #RSF #ReportersWithoutBorders #AlJazeera #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to Palestine

“Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza https://theintercept.com/2024/04/26/deconstructed-gaza-doctor-medical-mission/ #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #StopGenocide

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to ghost

Ghost is considering joining the Fediverse! That's right. The nonprofit company is contemplating federating Ghost over ActivityPub. Here's Ghost's survey asking users about their usage of ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon and how they expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost (many of my followers here will have better insight into this than myself, so please do submit your feedback; it's a very short form and the impact could be great!): https://tally.so/r/m67X4P #Ghost #ActivityPub #Fediverse

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to random

Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/cops-can-force-suspect-to-unlock-phone-with-thumbprint-us-court-rules/

MediaActivist, 1 month ago to random

The Supreme Court abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter

MediaActivist, 2 months ago to random

"The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing; it’s utterly collapsing." Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/

MediaActivist, 2 months ago to Podcast

Hi #podcasters! What do you find the best service to be for podcast episode distribution, transcription, and hosting more than one podcast? Spreaker got rid of their lower tier and my budget can't stretch to much more than $10 a month. And Buzzsprout block my VPN so they're now out haha. If you're a #podcaster I'd love to know what you use (sorry, Castopod wasn't for me). #podcast #podcasts #podcasting #AskFedi

MediaActivist, 2 months ago to random

Something else I have changed over the years of media activism too: accessibility. And I'm still not there yet. Transcribing podcast episodes, subtitling videos...it's all way fucking easier than it's ever been to do -- and consider this me calling my own ass out publicly to do way better in the coming months.

MediaActivist, 2 months ago to meta

Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat https://gizmodo.com/project-ghostbusters-facebook-meta-wiretap-snapchat-1851366093 #Meta #Facebook #Snapchat

MediaActivist, 2 months ago to twitter

Fewer people using Elon Musk’s X as it struggles to keep users https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer-people-using-elon-musks-x-struggles-keep-users-rcna144115 #Twitter #ElonMusk #fascism