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katzenberger 🇺🇦<p>If you want people to sign your <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/petitions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petitions</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/OpenLetters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenLetters</span></a>:</p><p>Please, now, finally, really, absolutely understand that <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/captchas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>captchas</span></a> do not even achieve what you think they will, they just make your petition less accessible. Avoid these participation killers, they are nothing but harmful to your good cause. </p><p>I just gave up on yet another petition, after <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.de/tags/reCaptcha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reCaptcha</span></a> prompted me for the fourth time to click on this, click on that.</p><p>Don't shoot yourself in the foot.</p><p>If you agree, please boost.</p>
U.S. Politics in Real Time<p>House Republicans Descend Into a Flame War of Open Letters and Obscene Tweets</p><p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/house-republicans-descend-into-a-flame-war-of-open-letters-and-obscene-tweets/?utm_source=flipboard" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2023/</span><span class="invisible">10/house-republicans-descend-into-a-flame-war-of-open-letters-and-obscene-tweets/?utm_source=flipboard</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/HouseRepublicansFlameWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseRepublicansFlameWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OpenLetters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenLetters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ObsceneTweets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObsceneTweets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PoliticalConflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalConflict</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SocialMediaBattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMediaBattle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PartisanRift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PartisanRift</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
Q.E.Dan<p>We call on corporations to immediately pause for at least 6 months the development of companies more powerful than <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tesla</span></a>. Companies should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/longtermism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>longtermism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/openletters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openletters</span></a></p>
Peter Butler<p>Big thank you to everyone who helped draft or support this letter to the New York Times about its absolutely terrible coverage of trans people (and similar failures of the past).</p><p><a href="https://nytletter.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nytletter.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Prejudice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prejudice</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NewYorkTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkTimes</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalists</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OpenLetters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenLetters</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bigotry</span></a></p>