juan @jolvera@mas.pub

One of the most influential rap songs of all time (Ether) contained a homophobic slur. The rapper (Nas) took a lot of criticism for this decades later. So he now performs the song without the slur, and re-released the track without it.👍🏿

Lizzo released a track with an ableist slur. She took heat for this on Twitter too. She apologized, and re-cut the song without the slur.👍🏿

Conversations about what a person said, are valid.

You don't get "cancelled" for mis-speaking. It's the doubling down.

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

Hi there #fediverse, we're Chron 👋

For #followfriday, here's some of our team that's made it over to #mastodon 👇

➡️ Editorial Director @matthewkitchen
➡️ Managing Editor @kpjose
➡️ Senior Editor @notadoctorcarson
➡️ Sports Editor @criswell_sports
➡️ Sports Reporter @mshap2
➡️ Food Editor @emmabalter
➡️ Audience Editor @SarahDPearce
➡️ Trending News Reporter @arianagarcia
➡️ Trending News Reporter @michaelmurney
➡️ Metro Reporter @kennedysession

#introduction #news #journalists #journalism

This might not be the most uplifting "2022 wrapped" list - but we hope it helps teams prioritising #accessibility in 2023 to find and fix the most critical accessibility issues we found over hundreds of accessibility reviews in 2022.

Here's to a more #inclusive 2023! Stay safe and merry holidays 🎉

https://intopia.digital/articles/top-5-critical-accessibility-issues-in-2022/

Interesting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541

I took a few minutes to write up some notes on how Mastodon is different from Twitter for some friends: https://johnresig.com/blog/twitter-mastodon/ Maybe this can be useful to you all, as well? (Although I suspect that if you're already on Mastodon it's a bit preaching-to-the-choir.) I'm excited to become more active in this community!

Mastodon is a gateway.

https://andy-bell.co.uk/mastodon-is-a-gateway/

So, the European Union has set up its own Mastodon instance, EU Voice, as an official channel/platform for all its many institutions - what a great initiative https://social.network.europa.eu/about
#TwitterMigration #europe #Diplomacy #Transparency

Never got much traction on Twitter, so here goes on Mastodon: anyone who can speak English fluently, but also knows some #Greek, able to narrate an audio book? As itʼs a manʼs story in the first person, a voice identifying as male is preferred. Paid gig.

#audiobook #narration #Ελληνικά

#introduction

Hello! 👋

We are a non-profit international community where since 1994 our Members, staff and the public design and develop standards for the underlying protocols of the web.

Our focus: interoperability, security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization.

With your help and our proven standards process based on fairness, openness, royalty-free, we make the Web work, for everyone.

We regularly publish highlights from our many work groups.

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/highlights/

So blogs are dead, yeah? Check out ooh.directory, a growing index of blogs about all kinds of things, by @philgyford

https://ooh.directory/

Oh, I love this: @OohDirectory, a curated *and categorized* directory of hundreds of blogs.

https://ooh.directory/

#weblogs #blogs #IndieWeb

I've created a small, incomplete, list of instances with moderators of color.

The list and suggestions became to much to keep up on my own, so here is a Google document, https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pTmSMpq8lMYyYlHT25DgTmdMmE6ysUyRHGiq-E4XdQ/edit?usp=sharingp

Here's how to move accounts and take your followers with you https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #FediTips #TwitterMigration #MastoAdmin

📝 New post: It takes one person to knock down a silo. https://daverupert.com/2022/11/silos/

as sad as i am about the rapid destruction of twitter, the (re)surge in blogs and newsletters has been lovely

back to the #indieweb!

The Financial Times has set up a Mastodon instance for Alphaville writers and readers (currently invite-only, although there’s a link to sign up).

It will be interesting to see different orgs’ approach to this: community-driven vs employees-only, top-down control vs peer-to-peer connections. A lot of different possibilities are in play. https://www.ft.com/content/4daa7f1a-9825-4804-aed3-aa4365b16d3b

We're hiring for six positions on the editorial side of Scientific American right now: opinion editor, health editor, science reporter, copy editor, multimedia editor and engagement editor. The first five are listed and the sixth should be posted soon. You can see those openings plus some business and engineering jobs here. Thanks for considering these jobs yourself or recommending them to others! https://careers.springernature.com/search/?createNewAlert=false&q=&optionsFacetsDD_country=US&optionsFacetsDD_location=&optionsFacetsDD_customfield1=Scientific+American&optionsFacetsDD_customfield2=&optionsFacetsDD_customfield3=