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White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon #Musk ’s Grokipedia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-far-right-racist

> World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from #Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

ProPublica

@ProPublica@newsie.social · 2 days ago

After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to The Texas Newsroom.

All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
https://www.propublica.org/article/greg-abbott-releases-elon-musk-emails-redacted?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #ElonMusk #Musk #Journalism #Email #GregAbbott

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@snow@snowfan.it · 3 days ago

#Mastodon, il social network decentralizzato che ha sfidato #X durante il caos dell'era #Musk, sta affrontando la sua più grande trasformazione dalla nascita. Il suo creatore e volto pubblico, Eugen Rochko, ha annunciato che lascerà il ruolo di CEO come parte di una profonda ristrutturazione che vedrà l'organizzazione trasformarsi in un ente #non-profit.

L'obiettivo di questa transizione è rendere Mastodon un'istituzione duratura e indipendente, slegata dal destino di un singolo leader e, soprattutto, a prova di miliardario. Rochko ha sottolineato come piattaforme come X, Threads e Facebook siano controllate da individui immensamente ricchi che possono influenzare il dibattito pubblico, mentre Mastodon, con la sua nuova natura non-profit (con sede legale in via di definizione in Belgio), vuole garantire un'alternativa libera da queste influenze.

https://www.hdblog.it/mercato/articoli/n638780/masotodn-ceo-dimissioni-riorganizzazione/

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@snow@snowfan.it · 3 days ago

https://www.hdblog.it/mercato/articoli/n638780/masotodn-ceo-dimissioni-riorganizzazione/

Δρομογράφος

@dromografos@social.dromografos.report · 4 days ago

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon #Musk ’s Grokipedia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/grokipedia-elon-musk-far-right-racist

> World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from #Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

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Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 6 days ago

"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm engineered for this purpose, and that 'an algorithmic bias must be decided by senior people at the channel'" -- George Monbiot

Anyone still on X is deliberately supporting #Fascism.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich

the Guardian

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 6 days ago

Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again. Yep, More Pieces Are Falling Off / @popularmechanics

｢ Late last month, Tesla voluntarily recalled 6,197 Cybertrucks, claiming that the use of an incorrect surface primer increased the risk for the available off-road lightbar to fall off. As you might imagine, if a lightbar becomes unattached, it essentially becomes a projectile headed towards those in a Cybertruck’s vicinity ｣

#cybertruck #recall #musk

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 6 days ago

Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again. Yep, More Pieces Are Falling Off / @popularmechanics

#cybertruck #recall #musk

Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 6 days ago

Anyone still on X is deliberately supporting #Fascism.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich

the Guardian

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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@KrajciTom@universeodon.com · last week

Saying goodbye to comet A6 Lemmon. It's getting very low, and clouds are increasing in southern New Mexico.

It was a remarkable run of many clear nights.

This is a single exposure on a fixed tripod.

There's a blurred silhouette of a power line, and satellite trails in this image. They belong in the frame because this is the world we have created. It's getting increasingly difficult to escape to pristine nature.

Perhaps the phrase 'pristine nature' is now an oxymoron?

When is the first No Kings General Strike?

We all need to help with community building and boosting civic engagement. These activities have atrophied for decades, and it shows.

#NewMexico #Comet #Photography #Astrophotography #Technology #Astronomy #Science #Nature #Politics #USpol #Fascism #MAGA #ClimateChange #Trump #Musk #Anthropocene