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#Grassroots activists must keep in mind that Twitter is increasingly a place where disinformation and lies thrive, and that starts at the top:
techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twit…
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Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for training and fine-tuning Grok, visit nitter.cf/settings/grok_settings and uncheck the checkbox.
ALT This is a screenshot of the "Data sharing" section in the X privacy settings. You can see the text that says Allow your posts as well as your interactions, inputs, and results with Grok to be used for training and fine tuning."
"Twitter is paying some users to tweet — starting with Elon’s far-right buddies" washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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If this is not a death spiral, what is?
Twitter could soon be subject to involuntary bankruptcy—that could be in @elonmusk’s financial interest, shedding billions in debt — but the chaos won't restore the site to its former usability 🤡😂 puck.news/the-elon-twitter-d…
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"Subtract Twitter’s owner and its amphetaminic product strategy and you’re left with a story that’s both less sympathetic and less novel."
--> Musk is a clown, Zuck is a jerk, and it's about time to quit both of these cartoon villains' platforms, but:
nymag.com/intelligencer/2023…
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Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group news.mongabay.com/2023/07/di…
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REVEALED: #COP28 president Sultan Al-Jaber's oil firm @ADNOCGroup says it wants "maximum energy, minimum emissions."
We calculate it will produce oil and gas that will emit 11.3 BILLION tonnes of CO2 by 2050... independent.co.uk/climate-ch…
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No use whinging about it, @elonmusk. You ignored every warning. You bought a flawed but functioning platform, stripped the safeguards and created a miserable experience for everyone except fascists, deniers and the troll farms hired by destructive industries. What did you expect?
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When #ecocide becomes an international crime, those responsible for mass damage + destruction of #ecosystems will face legal action/jail-time.
Join the growing global movement for #EcocideLaw TODAY(!):
stopecocide.earth/act-now
#StopEcocide
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📢Episode 2 of 'The Last Seed' film: 'The Corporate Capture of African Agriculture'.
AGRA's flawed model, neo-colonialism & eroding #seedsovereignty exposed. Witness how corporate interests threaten traditional farming, jeopardizing #foodsovereignty. 👇
bit.ly/3rfyXHh
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⚠️📢Criminalización de 11 defensoras del territorio resistiendo la privatización de tierras y aguas, #Querétaro #México
📷Vocer@s de la Madre Tierra
ejatlas.org/conflict/detenci…
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"Trading gas is no different to trading Russian oil, every drop of which means more bloodshed".
@OlegUstenko slams #bigoil companies for trading in vast amounts of liquified gas from #Russia 🇷🇺 following our latest investigation. gwitness.org/44jXGZk
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Use your creativity to demand India's @narendramodi stop selling weapons to #Myanmar junta!
💣💥 India's Bharat Electronics, Sandeep Metalcraft & Yantra have been shipping weapons to military junta. @RapporteurUn says India's arms exports since coup attempt at least USD $51M.
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♀️ Indigenous women have long been at the frontlines of environmental conflict, in close contact with paramilitaries, traffickers, and resource extraction workers. According to the study, they also defy patriarchal gender expectations.
🗞️ @grist bit.ly/46fneZv
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The looming presence of Wagner criminals, nuclear weapons & Russian troops is an existential threat to the people of #Belarus. These forces must be fully withdrawn. The West should impose stronger sanctions on Lukashenka's regime while supporting Belarusians fighting for freedom.
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🎥 Activist Vanessa Nakate @vanessa_vash gave a strong message at the #NewGlobalFinancingPact Summit in Paris, about how financing more #FossilFuel developments would deprive people and the planet of clean air.
No more empty promises. Greener energy must be prioritised for all.
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Hi. Waves. It has come to my attention that some economists are going around saying 3 degrees warming is optimal. This is :
1) Genocidal. IPCC WG2 says that 2 degrees is already beyond adaptation FFS. 3 degrees is mass death for sure.
2) Extremely bad science ...
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Activists tried to stop this military vehicle from entering the annual CANSEC arms show in Ottawa last month. What do we know about the "Mission Master" autonomous vehicle and the transnational weapons company Rheinmetall that manufactures it? pbicanada.org/2023/06/29/rhe… #StopCANSEC
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It's a new and deadly strategy for shutting down protest. Corporations have realised that any political opponent can be named on an injunction. Once you're named, you can become liable for its costs. So they can beggar you for disagreeing with them.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
A Twitter video playback feature copied from TikTok served up violent videos & misinformation, which is 'on brand' these days for this platform
@elonmusk encouraged users to try it & brought attention to the platform’s algorithmic shortcomings LOL 🤡😂
nbcnews.com/tech/social-medi…
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