@EastIDNews' latest installment of Feel Good Friday honoring a 70-year-old school custodian who was described to them as "the nicest nicest nicest person you will ever meet". 💐
Odeko the cat who lives in Japan is obsessed with snuggling one of the kids in the family. 😹
1. A few hours ago Cloudflare dropped Kiwi Farms after previously saying they would not. cbsnews.com/news/cloudflar…
Cloudflare's message when you try to go to kiwifarms.net claims this is "Due to an imminent and emergency threat to human life...", however…
2. … Kiwi Farms founder/owner Joshua Moon posted to Telegram that “If there is any threat to life on the site, I have received no communication from any law enforcement.”
“This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and, given Cloudflare's role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with.”
1. Student journalists reported news. Principal tried to censor + sanction advisor.
“The courts have been very clear that students working in student media are not school employees, or agents of the school in any way,” he said. “They're students telling stories, providing news.”
3. Four months after publication "school principal Armen Petrossian emailed a threat of disciplinary action to Chavira if she didn’t remove the librarian’s name by the next day."
The Pearl Post declined to remove the librarian's name and got help from @SPLC.
I'm in a really weird corner of the Internet and it's really defying expectations. I shouldn't be surprised because I've spent time here before but this is something else. 🤯
People should read more primary sources as much as possible.
Also, much respect to people who meet their trolls where they are and engage with them human to human instead of shitposter to shitposter. This takes so much courage but seems surprisingly effective when people are genuine.
I don't even want to engage with other people's trolls and try to just stick with a rule of no engagement these days.
Facing total strangers who you owe absolutely nothing to and being vulnerable in their midst on their turf is something I've never seen before.
1. Down another tangent rabbit hole tonight and thinking about credibility.
2. In any incident there are minimum of 3 sides to the story.
Assuming 2 parties, they each tell the story through their lens and then I’ll call the third side “reality”, which can't always be ascertained by observers.
3. There are always some facts which may or may not be provable but there’s also people’s motives and perceptions which can’t always be proved. So determining what “reality” is, isn’t always straightforward.
1. A pawn shop owner TikToker in Minnesota is claiming to have stumbled across a scrapbook of photos from the Nanjing Massacre. He claims the photographer "was present for the Rape of Nanking & he took about 30 photographs that are unknown to history that are worse than ...
3. Evan Kail/Pawn Man's video is going viral on Twitter thanks to this Twitter account. Believing the photos show what he incompetently and irresponsibly claims they show doesn't make them legit. archive.ph/vwnHo
1. Damn, Shaun King has moved on from threatening black activists to threatening two journalists at the NY Post for their coverage of questions about his/his PAC's finances.
3. For some reason King didn't go after the journalist at The Washington Free Beacon who broke the most recent story revealing that King’s PAC appears to have paid $40,650 for his dog Marz (now returned) nor their Post colleague for coverage of WFB story.