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Black Medal of Honor recipient deleted from Pentagon website, then restored Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Nixon in 1970 for actions during the Vietnam War.

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So, Bluesky Has An Extortion Problem An apparent extortion scheme lit up Bluesky the other night. It raises some important questions about whether Bluesky is up to the task of moderation.

This is troubling:
tedium.co/2024/12/17/b...

What’s your source that tax high earnings “solved insolvency“?

www.ssa.gov/oact/solvenc...

Transgender Activists Question the Movement’s Confrontational Approach (Gift Article) Facing diminishing public support, some activists say all-or-nothing tactics are not working. “We have to make it OK for someone to change their minds.”

After confrontation and vilification has failed, try being nice.

From the article:

… as painful as Mr. Trump’s election may be for transgender people, their movement should see the benefit in treating skeptics less like enemies and more like future allies.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...

Sorry, please excuse me but I didn’t know about your kidney disease. Thank you for explaining.

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Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X Social media giant’s Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges

No doubt the EU’s interest in Bluesky was piqued by the explosive growth in user accounts that now rivals Meta’s Threads:

mashable.com/article/blue...

Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X on.ft.com/3CHwYRQ

Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU Social media platform that has grown in exodus from Elon Musk’s X is accused of not declaring user numbers

The EU is also taking notice:

Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU on.ft.com/4g0Hxhe

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo

Presumably you are referring to this September 22nd article in the Financial Times:

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue on.ft.com/3CGjmGD

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo

Is Bluesky an echo chamber for progressives?

With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue on.ft.com/3CGjmGD

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.

The nerdiest book of my life arrived today.

Thank you Marcin Wichary and @glennf.bsky.social