William, thank you. I feel like I'm losing my mind here. To feel like your country has turned on you and to watch so many of your fellow citizens express either glee or apathy for what this country is about to do, has been surreal. And then to see it from the news. I'm at a loss.

@wdlindsy @Beachbum

Exactly. Thank you.

And each group has its own norms, culture, racial makeup, and varying levels of privilege in this country.

Latines have largely accepted this broad term, but it's mostly a US invention.

The only way Americans come to the conclusions that Latinos are more sexist than other Americans is through the depiction of Latinos in American cinema and the news. Because it's definitely not from learning the history.

@wdlindsy @Beachbum

And this is why it's dangerous to scapegoat minorities. Once all the white liberals are sufficiently enraged, all they have to do is simply say "here's a Latino that didn't vote Harris" and the mob follows.

I voted Harris. I've been vocal that I voted Harris. Ive written think pieces on it.

I'll never forget that at the height of Latino scapegoating it was leftist trans women who called it out for what it is, unapologetically, and without caveat.

100% agree.

The term "Latino" has also been turned into short hand for second-class citizen.

There is no meaningful analysis to be had under that umbrella term other than "how non-European white is this country becoming?"

@MisuseCase @jdp23

Calling for the collective punishment of Latinos, under any context is dangerous and racist.

Using sweeping characterizations of "Latino culture" is dangerous and racist.

Indicting an entire group of people whose only connection is the effects of American imperialism is dangerous and racist.

If the only time in four years you've mentioned Latinos was to do one of the above, and not to advocate for immigrant treatment, that's dangerous and racist.

Last night, my friend texted me an image of a campaign mailer. It read "Your Neighbors are watching...Have you voted yet?"

Tonight, I received a text from an unrecognized number with a website address for me to look up my friends' voting records.

I went digging and found a new online campaign by a group called "Did They Vote".

#HarrisWalz2024 #Vote

https://buttondown.com/wetdreamtomato/archive/creepy-website-wants-you-to-spy-on-friends-and/

This might sound out there, but I think Jeff Bezos' recent op-ed wasn't an attempt to quell the revolt by his largely liberal-leaning readership.

It was an appeal to a new demographic— the far right.

There are nods to conservatives peppered all across his open letter.

Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics:

"The demonstration, performed by a group of privacy advocates that gained access to the tool and leaked videos of it to 404 Media and other journalists, shows in the starkest terms yet how Locate X and other tools based on smartphone location data sold to various U.S. government law enforcement agencies, including state entities, could be used to ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/10/23/inside-the-us.html

It's interesting the lengths #Meta goes to explain the risks of the #Fediverse, but does not mention that #Threads posts are indexed by Google, thus part of a web with a greater reach than the collection of #ActivityPub instances.

#IndieWeb

I think postmortem, when we hear the names #Mastodon and perhaps #ActivityPub, we'll see it as one of the greatest fumbles of the web.

It's not (just) the onboarding fiasco. Mastodon servers had something that #Meta could never replicate— real community.

We didn't need the corporate web to validate us. Our presence here could've been a beacon for what the web could be if you took VC money out of the equation. We could've saved people that way.

I don't know if this place ever gets that back.