Philosophy should care about the filthy, excessive and unclean.
Political figures today (…) are committing the verbal equivalent of this public defecation. They are violating traditional, unwritten rules and boundaries that are used to guide public conduct by making outrageous statements that were once taboo.
Is reporting Tweets completely futile?
As what I consider the smallest contribution to making Twitter a less shitty place I sometimes report accounts when they mostly post insults, threats, racism, sexism, hatred and/or violence – in any combination.
Or so I thought. Because this is what you actually get when the Twitter Führerhauptquartier deems your report was justified:
While it says the account violates some of Twitter’s rules, it does not say anything what actually happened, happens or will happen to the account (or the up to five posts i reported).
And when I check the account, it is still there, the owner spewing even more insults, threats, racism, sexism, hatred and/or violence than before – in any combination.
Of course, now the owner even suggests something along the lines of making a list of the reporters so on day X their Neogestapo can sift through it for some reckoning.
Ain’t that great?
So I’m asking you, @jack: is this what is going to happen to my account, too, if I would suggest someone should rape you, torture your family, burn your house down and kill your pets?
Just asking for a fiend.
We’re committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable towards progress.
— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) March 1, 2018
What I Learned Trying To Secure Congressional Campaigns.
There are two foundational questions in campaign security: What do you say to a campaign if you get an hour of their attention? How do you get an hour of their attention?
Washingtion, Def City!
The DC Go-Go Music Culture Continues the Fight to Preserve its Presence in the City’s Fabric.
In the latest demonstration process resulting from the #DontMuteDC campaign that began a few weeks ago, the Go-Go community continues to show the tenacity of it.
Nuclear power is not the answer in a time of climate change.
Every dollar spent on nuclear results in one-fifth the energy one would gain with wind or solar [at the same cost], and nuclear energy takes five to 17 years longer before it becomes available.
Menschenleben retten ist kein Verbrechen.
Seenotrettung: Kapitänin Pia Klemp drohen 20 Jahre Haft.
Relevant: Pia Klemp bei Joko & Klaas Live – 15 Minuten.
They’ve got the knotsledge.
TIL there is a WW2 flak tower in Berlin, too – and it’s public and open for visitors!
Btw why aren’t these three people pixelated? Face recognition bias?
Your syntax highlighter is wrong.
So why is it that we have collectively decided that comments should be almost invisible compared to the code?
Europa. Endlos.